Sentences with phrase «of disadvantaged children»

Title I is designed to help districts and schools with high numbers of disadvantaged children in meeting challenging learning standards by providing additional academic support and opportunities.

Title I funding is allocated based on the number of disadvantaged children residing in their respective jurisdictions.

The fate of the pupil premium — extra money from outside the schools budget aimed at improving the life chances of disadvantaged children — is far from clear.

The lot of disadvantaged children in primary schools has improved — a bit.

But raising the achievement of disadvantaged children need not be the only project reformers undertake.

However it highlighted that there was still a large 18 per cent gap between the proportion of disadvantaged children reaching these levels compared with their peers.

Schools with a high percentage of disadvantaged children and few academically able pupils were more likely to be rated requires improvement.

Research shows that investing in these early years, particularly on behalf of disadvantaged children, produces impressive social and economic returns.

The students recognize how the absence of support services affects the futures of disadvantaged children.

Help us put books in the hands of disadvantaged children.

An after - school literacy programme that employs engaging activities and involves parents is an effective approach to bolster the reading and writing skills of disadvantaged children.

According to repeated evaluations, these three programs do not make a meaningful difference in the lives of disadvantaged children.

Children's health is the foundation of their overall development, and ensuring that they are born healthy is the first step toward increasing the life chances of disadvantaged children.

Half of the bond authority would be allocated to the 100 school districts with the largest number of disadvantaged children, and the other half would be allocated to the states.

Not that choosing to send your son or daughter to a school with lots of disadvantaged children is an easy decision.

Hinds will also announce that 75 projects will share # 25 million from the strategic school improvement fund, which is aimed at improving the education of disadvantaged children through initiatives to boost reading and maths in primary school.

We put in place the first legal clinic in a public school in Chicago, and by doing so we've been able to help many parents of disadvantaged children and others with their legal needs.

«Today, many of the disadvantaged children performing least well in school can be found in leafy suburbs, market towns or seaside resorts,» he said in the speech in London.

Additionally, Northamptonshire is one of the worst - performing local authority areas in the country for the achievement of disadvantaged children at Key Stage 2, and Derby and Nottingham were among the 10 lowest ranking local authority areas nationally for GSCE examinations.

Kozol is a long - time social activist, author of seven award - winning books which focus on the plight of disadvantaged children of our nation.

«For years in public health we have been working on immunizations and other medical interventions to set the course for the health of disadvantaged children, and we have turned the tide,» says the study's lead author Allison Barlow, MPH, PhD, associate director of the Center for American Indian Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

The Home - School Community Liaison Scheme aims to improve co-operation between home, schools and communities to advance the educational interests of disadvantaged children.

«It is very concerning that we are seeing an intake of disadvantaged children concentrated in particular schools.

For example, both Project Upgrade (funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) and Early Reading First (funded by the Department of Education) used rigorous evaluation techniques and found that a properly or narrowly focused early childhood intervention can make a significant improvement in at least some elements of the cognitive development of disadvantaged children.

The share of disadvantaged children at these inner - city schools is several times that of the Blue Ribbon award winners.

She said: «We have to recognise that actually for grammars in terms of disadvantaged children they really do help them close the attainment gap.»

NCLB has led to a narrowing of curriculum, demoralization of teachers, explosion of cheating scandals, reduction of teaching to test - preparation, weakening of public education, and deprivation of the disadvantaged children of a meaningful education experience.

Stockton - on - Tees, for example, had the smallest percentage of disadvantaged children who were school ready in the country in 2015, at just 38 per cent.

Published in the journal Science on May 30, 2014, a study by Professor Heckman, UC Berkeley economist Paul Gertler, and fellow researchers at the University of Chicago, the University of the West Indies, the World Bank and the University of London finds that a high - quality early childhood intervention boosted the earnings of disadvantaged children in Jamaica by 25 %.

Each August the board and its members sponsor a shoe - fitting extravaganza to ensure that hundreds of disadvantaged children have shoes for the new school year.

This reauthorization brought with it some dramatically different strategies for meeting the educational needs of disadvantaged children.

For example, he never revealed that he was the driving force behind the Illinois program Wishes to Santa, which provides Christmas toys to thousands of disadvantaged children.

2.30 pm: Delegates debate a motion calling for the pupil premium to be beefed up and turned into an education credit, which would be more generous and would be available to a wider range of disadvantaged children.

3.51 pm: The Lib Dems have voted in favour of replacing the pupil premium with a beefed - up version called education credit, which would be more generous and would cover a wider group of disadvantaged children.

The guidance document, released Nov. 10, includes sample questions for peer reviewers as they examine a state's ability to assess and disseminate results for populations of disadvantaged children...

The research concludes that there has been a rise in the performance of disadvantaged children in London in comparison to neighbouring cities because of the improvements being made to the capital's schools.

In the late fall of 1964, Shriver asked Dr. Robert Cooke, a pediatrician at Johns Hopkins and the chairman of the Kennedy Foundation's scientific advisory committee, to head a committee whose task would be to make recommendations for a preschool program that would promote the development and school readiness of disadvantaged children.

Teachers can be given better tools to enlist parents» support, and schools can address some critical deficiencies of disadvantaged children, such as the lack of a quiet space for studying.

Another businessman has followed in the footsteps of Eugene Lang, who started the I Have a Dream Foundation in New York City that helps pay for the college expenses of disadvantaged children in Harlem.

This study identified quality of mothers» talk — the diversity of the vocabulary they use — as a key predictor of disadvantaged children's growth in vocabulary use.

Although the changes were intended to hold school officials accountable for the educational experiences of disadvantaged children, Congress left intact a short clause in the main K - 12 education law that, in practice, has failed to ensure that money from the federal Title I program only supplements state and local money, researchers and advocates said at a conference here last week.

Early years - disadvantaged children are 14 percentage points less likely to be school ready at age 5 in coldspots than in hotspots: in 94 areas, under half of disadvantaged children reach a good level of development at age 5