Sentences with phrase «of children from poor families»

It seemed particularly effective in improving attachment to school, achievement, and school behavior of children from poor families.

The investigators chose schools for this study that serve substantial proportions of children from poor families who live in high - crime neighborhoods.

The number of children from poor families is rising across the district, and there are more schools with high concentrations of poverty than there were 10 years ago.

Also onboard is Marshall Tuck, former president and chief operating officer of Green Dot Public Schools, which has built a chain of charter schools in the district while organizing a parents» «union» and constantly pushing district officials to take bolder steps to improve the performance of children from poor families.

I want all early years settings to make sure that key information is shared promptly at the point of transition, so that the needs of children from poorer families are known quickly.

Not exact matches

When the child of a desperately poor family is taken in by parents from a wealthy country, the material benefits to that child are significant.

Coming, as they often do, from families with a history of child and wife abuse, alcoholism, promiscuity, poor nutrition, a lack of discipline and low academic achievement, they find adjustment to stricter, often fundamentalist standards difficult.

They all belong in FEMA camps, except their poor abused children, who should be put in foster homes to protect the innocent from the lunacy of their dangerously deluded families.

«You have to remember, he came from a very poor family, and suddenly, when he was 16, still basically a child, he was thrown into the public eye and faced with a lot of pressure,» says his friend Valdano.

And these days, unless children from poor families get a college degree, their economic mobility is severely restricted: Young people who grow up in families in the lowest income quintile (with household income below about $ 21,500) and don't obtain a B.A. now have just a one in two chance of escaping that bottom economic bracket as adults.

I always felt like I'm an idiot because there are no gentle parents in my environment, I'm from Serbia and the education of children here is in a very poor level, not to mention family relationships....

Comparisons between the outcomes of children of married and unmarried parents are then, at least to some extent, comparisons between the outcomes of children from well - off families and children from poorer families.

The children who fared the worst were those who had poor attachments (had fewer feelings of trust) and / or who were taken out of their communities right after the traumatic event, i.e. if they had to evacuate and were separated from their family and community.

In any given year, nine out of 10 children from two - parent families avoid poverty, but one out of two children living in a mother - only family is poor.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

«It is a social tragedy that a majority of children from wealthy families attend college, but only 10 percent of children of poor families attend college,» the governor said.

Cahill says he wants to do more to protect children at Charter Schools, who often come from the poorest families in the state, and says he sees it as «the civil rights issue of our time».

It does this by simply preventing poor people from moving to the UK to live as a family, regardless of how long they've been married and, irrationally, making it even more difficult if they have children.

About 30 % of Britain's children are now classified as poor, of whom two - thirds are from working families

About 67 % of the UK's poor children are from working families.

Among other things, the breakaway group of eight Democratic senators led by Sen. Jeff Klein of the Bronx is calling for early voting, no - excuse absentee voting, dedicating a portion of New York City sales taxes toward MTA repairs, tax relief for many New Yorkers, and protecting health insurance for children from poor families.

At 149 schools in the Bronx, less than one in ten can read or do math at grade level, and these schools disproportionately impact poor children of - color — 96 % of the 65,000 students in these failing schools are of - color, and 95 % come from families near or below the poverty line.

They list the pupil premium for children from poorer families, income tax breaks for those on low incomes, the scrapping of identity cards, progress on civil liberties, the referendum on electoral reform and more.

In a population - based Canadian study of children with epilepsy, each of whom had access to universal health care, those from poor families had the same medical course and remission rate as their wealthier counterparts, but they had a less favorable social outcome as adults.

In Dominican and African American families from poor areas of New York City, living in a neighborhood with dense traffic and industrial facilities increased a child's risk of developing asthma, according to Miller and other Columbia University researchers.

The findings are especially relevant to families with children living in low - income households; these kids are at greater risk of health problems resulting from poor air quality.

In Afghanistan and Pakistan today the Taliban have created thousands of madrassas, where children from poor families with no access to education can receive food and what passes for learning (but what is in fact quite the opposite).

According to NCCP researchers, the number of children in low - income families increased slightly from 42 percent in 2009 to 43 percent in 2015, and the percent of poor children in the U.S. increased by 1 percentage point.

Out of all the children, boys, children from larger families, as well as those with more cognitive, motor or behaviour problems, and poorer parent - infant relationships in infancy, had fewer friends, met them less and were less accepted by them.

Five lucky children, including Charlie (Highmore), a good - hearted boy from a poor family who lives in the shadow of Wonka's extraordinary factory, draw golden tickets from Wonka chocolate bars and win a guided tour of the legendary candy - making facility that no outsider has seen in 15 years.

That children enrolled are usually coming from very poor families and therefore do not have enough money for a minimum of existence such as food, medicines, etc. (not to mention buying of textbooks, and other school material).

Better known as the Coleman Report after its first author, the eminent sociologist James Coleman, the document provided abundant evidence of large gaps in reading and mathematics skills between black children and white children and between children from poor families and those from more affluent families.

Intended to help schools address the attainment gap amongst children from low income families, some of this funding could be used to address the digital divide and ensure pupils who have poor home access are equipped with the resources they need.

• Duke researchers Charles Clotfelter, Helen Ladd, and Jacob Vigdor found that being taught by a sub for 10 days per year has a larger effect on a child's math scores than if he'd changed schools, and about half the size of the difference between students from well - to - do and poor families.

Wanting to see for himself, Mike visits his local elementary school in Takoma Park, Maryland, where «the children of übereducated whites» are in the same classrooms as poor blacks, black middle - class families» and «poor immigrant children from Latin America, Ethiopia, and Eritrea.»

Poor families may approach opportunities, and in particular may secure schooling for their children, in ways that diverge from many research models of educational decision making.

Quality Preschool Benefits Poor and Affluent Kids, Study Finds NBC News, March 28, 2013 «While most previous studies had focused only on kids from underprivileged backgrounds, in the new study Harvard researchers found that regardless of family income children who got a year of quality prekindergarten did better in reading and math than kids who spent the year in daycare, with relatives, or in some other kind of preschool, according to the report which was published in Child Development.»

Furthermore, children from poorer families are five times more likely to die as a result of accidents than those from wealthier backgrounds.

A snapshot survey of a sample of heads, teachers and school support staff who are members of the National Education Union (NEU) reveals the extent to which poverty is damaging the educational opportunities for children from poor families.

Piney Branch Elementary serves an incredibly diverse group of 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders, from the children of übereducated white and black middle - class families, to poor immigrant children from Latin America, Ethiopia, and Eritrea, to low - income African American kids.

State officials have been dragging their feet in implementing a federally mandated set of medical benefits for children from poor and working - poor families, the coalition argues in a suit filed in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia this month.

While public schools in New Orleans educate mainly children from poor families, «several new schools are attracting families who could afford private or parochial school, the same type of families who started leaving the school system 45 years ago,» writes Danielle Dreilinger on nola.com.

At present, 80 per cent of high - achieving children from more affluent backgrounds in Kent attend grammar schools whereas in poorer families, it is only only 57 per cent.

Yet the GEM Report shows that children from the poorest 20 % of families are eight times as likely to be out of school as children from the richest 20 % in lower - middle - income countries.

«Some of the students from poorer families say that with limited resources, they are glad they didn't have a sibling and now they don't want their child to go without.

«In mapping the education journey of children at schools serving low income communities or those from poor families, a school pattern emerges.

It found that in England, poorer children — those from families in the bottom quarter of household incomes — had less than a 10 per cent chance of attending a grammar school, compared with a 40 per cent chance among those from families in the top quarter of household incomes.

According to Teach for America spokesperson Takirra Winfield, the program has three major components: discussions on the «history of inequity in the United States»; teaching recruits to view poor children's families and neighborhoods as «assets» to academic achievement, not liabilities (a concept borrowed from African American educational theorists like Lisa Delpit and Gloria Ladson - Billings); and introducing corps members to classroom management tactics.

In a very large majority of cases, the data used to determine which students are from low - income families at this stage are not the same as the Census data used to identify school - age children in poor families for purposes of calculating allocations to states and LEAs.

They found that during that period, children from both the poorest 10 percent of families and those from the wealthiest 10 percent of families improved in early - reading and - math assessments — but students in poverty made larger improvements.