Sentences with phrase «of disadvantaged children at»

«That's why the proportion of disadvantaged children at grammar schools is extremely low, just 2.6 per cent of kids on free school meals,» Powell said.

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

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.

Not exact matches

Children raised in homes that are both unready and unwanting of the responsibilities that come with raising a child, are placed at a disadvantage so severe it is near incomprehensible - particularly if their mother did drugs while pregnant.

Actually, this is another scientist who understands that there isn't a SHRED of proof to indicate that any god exists, and that American kids who are taught creationism will be at a great disadvantage in the future when they try to compete for jobs against children with real educations.

But it makes a point at the expense of already disadvantaged men, women, and children who were counting on that funding for basic necessities.

The great interest of the study arises from the fact that, as the years went by, the researchers noticed that many of the children they had identified as «at high risk» (i.e., children subject to four or more serious disadvantages) were able to lead satisfying and socially productive lives as adults.

But what the research I've described here makes clear is that intervening in the lives of disadvantaged children — by educating them better in school, helping their parents support them better at home, or, ideally, some combination of the two — is the most effective and promising anti-poverty strategy we have.

The building - blocks model is, at present, mostly a theoretical framework, but it gives educators and anyone else concerned with child development a different and valuable lens through which to consider the problems of disadvantaged kids in the classroom.

As I mentioned above, one of the premises I'm working from here is that childhood is a continuum, and if we want to help improve outcomes for disadvantaged children, we need to look for opportunities to intervene in positive ways at many different points along that continuum.

These are essentially questions of public policy, and if real solutions are going to be found to the problems of disadvantaged children, these questions will need to be addressed, in a creative and committed way, by public officials at all levels — by school superintendents, school - board members, mayors, governors, and cabinet secretaries — as well as by individual citizens, community groups, and philanthropists across the country.

One of the disadvantages to breastfeeding from only one side at each feeding is that the breast your child is not nursing on can become over full and painfully engorged.

Tough shows even the most naïve reader how difficult it is to grapple with the question of how to take an entire community of mostly disadvantaged children and mostly undereducated parents without financial resources and transform them — or at least the children as they grow — into fully functioning members of the middle class.

To say that formula fed children are being put at a disadvantage is untrue, my son is doing much better statistically than the majority of children his age who were breastfed.

The Team has a specific focus on ensuring that at least one - third of Chicago Children's Museum annual visitors come from racially diverse, geographically - isolated, and / or economically - disadvantaged communities.

The sample was stratified by country and electoral ward type to over-represent families in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, and wards with a high proportion of disadvantaged and ethnic minority families.19 Electoral wards were defined as ethnic minority (at least 30 % of population «Black» or «Asian», 1991 census), with the remainder defined as disadvantaged (upper quartile Child Poverty Index20) or advantaged (not in upper quartile Child Poverty Index).

Do you think your child will be at a disadvantage if they are not involved in an assortment of activities and sports?

The lead article in the February issue of Journal of Marriage and Family challenges the idea that «fatherless» children are necessarily at a disadvantage or that men provide a different, indispensable set of parenting skills than women.

The governor is expected to increase school aid at a pre agreed upon rate of around 4 %, he's also said he'd like children from disadvantaged homes to have access to all day pre kindergarten.

The governor is expected to increase school aid at a pre agreed upon rate of around four percent, he's also said he'd like children from disadvantaged homes to have access to all day pre-kindergarten.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

«We are mindful of the fact that any child that writes in a dysfunctional centre is at disadvantage.

«Outside of cities with mass transportation, undocumented immigrants are at a serious disadvantage without driver's licenses, making simple tasks like picking up groceries, picking up a child from school or going to work a struggle.»

According to Selorm Adonoo, Head of Communications at the NHIA, «the NHIS as a social protection scheme has a mandate to enroll all identified vulnerable people, and our collaboration with the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection has been very useful in helping us reach out to many of the disadvantaged people in the society and bringing relief to them.»

«School kids living in homeless shelters must contend with unimaginable levels of stress and hardship, and are at a tremendous disadvantage when trying to keep up with their housed peers in class,» said DAVE GIFFEN, Executive Director of the Coalition for the Homeless, the nation's oldest advocacy and direct service organization helping homeless men, women and children.

«We can predict this quite well, beginning at age 3 by assessing a child's history of disadvantage, and particularly their brain health,» Caspi said.

The Department for Education has just published its national plan to improve social mobility in young people; at the heart of their strategy is the ambition to close the language gap that develops between the most and the least disadvantaged children in our society.

The research by leading early learning scientists looked at children from a wide variety of backgrounds, including those from advantaged and disadvantaged families, and those who had suffered brain injury.

«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.

Because of the extra demands of child rearing — weaning or foraging for extra mouths — Big Sur females were at a disadvantage.

Leave no child behind — National averages often conceal extreme inequalities and the severe disadvantage of groups at the bottom of the scale

Still, it's clear that physiological changes in people under extreme stress, including elevated levels of cortisol, put such children at a huge disadvantage in school, he says.

Some children are at risk because of developmental delays or special learning needs; some begin school at a disadvantage because of their limited mastery of English or their socioeconomically impoverished living circumstances; and some, including some Indigenous children, experience multiple forms of disadvantage.

All of this was at the front of my mind as a group of us worked to gather signatures for a new public statement of principles called «America's Disadvantaged Children and the Three - Sector Approach.»

«I have redesigned my seminar on education, policy, and inequality in Latin America this semester to include a section that engages the students in doing case studies of leaders who have succeeded at creating educational opportunities for disadvantaged children,» he says.

All of this comes at the expense of children — particularly the «socio - economically disadvantaged.»

This groundbreaking book illuminates the ways rising inequality is operating through disadvantaged neighborhoods, insecure labor markets and schools to undermine one of the most important goals of public education — the ability of schools to provide children with an equal chance at academic and economic success.

A plan to transfer Head Start programs run by the Chicago public schools to community - based centers has put the popular preschool program for disadvantaged children at the center of an emotional dispute pitting agency against agency and parent against parent.

«Getting rid of school libraries also risks increasing inequalities and further disadvantaging the most deprived children who are less likely to have access to books or computers at home and will have less access to public libraries since so many are closing.»

According to The Telegraph, campaigners believe that thousands of children are at a disadvantage for being left - handed following a lack of action from ministers.

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.

The new curriculum's focus on more intensive ICT lessons for children means that teachers who find technology a challenge are at something of a disadvantage.

Central to the concentration is research on the factors that put children or youth at a disadvantage, and those assets — family, community, or cultural — that support high levels of academic, social, and moral development; healthy individuals; and effective schools.

The key points from each strand are highlighted as follows: Early Identification and support • Early identification of need: health and development review at 2/2.5 years • Support in early years from health professionals: greater capacity from health visiting services • Accessible and high quality early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Tribunal

Mr. Fuller established the Institute for the Transformation of Learning at Marquette University in Milwaukee to help improve educational opportunities for disadvantaged children.

This has been done effectively at local public schools such as PS 396 in the Bronx, where a significant percentage of children have special needs and all of the students could be characterized as economically disadvantaged.

Dr Armstrong said children from disadvantaged backgrounds, or with disabilities such as autism, are most at risk of behaviours that lead to exclusion, poor school attendance or self - withdrawal from school.

We have yet to take sufficient note of a historic development in public education: A critical mass of schools is establishing, with more assurance than ever, that children can achieve at high standards regardless of race or economic disadvantage.

For example, in describing the results of Title I, Jennings concludes, «In a nutshell, the billions of dollars spent on Title I had at best a modest effect on the academic achievement of the disadvantaged students who participated in the program...» On No Child Left Behind (NCLB), he writes, «So it truly was a mixed bag.

Using data from the U.S. Department of Education's ongoing study of 16,000 children who entered kindergarten in 1998, the report from the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington think tank, focuses on what many disadvantaged children are lacking when they arrive at school.