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.
Not exact matches
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.»
«Given the limited accessibility
of traditional mental health services for
children — particularly for
children from minority and economically
disadvantaged backgrounds — school - based mental health services are a tremendous vehicle for overcoming barriers to mental health care and meaningfully expanding the
reach of supports and services for so many
children in need.
The figures show only 54 per cent
of children from
disadvantaged families
reach a good level
of development, compared with 72 per cent
of the age group overall.
Simply put, we might have enough
of these teachers to staff a few hundred more No Excuses schools, but not a few thousand more, and certainly not enough to
reach every
disadvantaged child in America.
Through the distribution
of tablet computers loaded with a software package
of literacy apps, Curious Learning is
reaching economically
disadvantaged communities around the world to improve the early reading skills
of young
children.
Here, we lay out how this whole - city approach can look in practice — and what types
of partnerships and programs can give
disadvantaged children the same chance to
reach their academic, professional, and social - emotional potential as more - advantaged peers.
The purpose
of Title I, Part A Improving the Academic Achievement
of the
Disadvantaged is to ensure that all
children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high - quality education and
reach proficiency on challenging state academic achievement standards and assessments.
The Early Start Programme aims to tackle educational
disadvantage by targeting
children who are at risk
of not
reaching their potential within the education system.
It tackles educational
disadvantage by targeting
children between the ages
of 3 and 4 who are at risk
of not
reaching their potential within the school system.
The Home School Community Liaison Scheme is targeted at
children in primary and post-primary schools who are at risk
of dropping out
of school or
of not
reaching their potential in the education system because
of economic or social
disadvantage.
These developments accentuate the need to monitor the well - being
of the most
disadvantaged children, but income inequality also has far -
reaching consequences for society, harming educational attainment, key health outcomes and even economic growth.