Sentences with phrase «of poor children»

But the decline of the neighborhood school can make it harder to address the needs of poor children in a comprehensive way.

Perhaps, he says, it's because we don't yet fully understand what's happening in the lives of poor children.

When we apply these practices to large numbers of poor children with predictably horrific outcomes, it is a crime.

Half of low - income children and 29 percent of poor children live with at least one parent employed full time, year round.

So are policies to increase the quality of teaching in schools serving high concentrations of poor children so they do not enter 9th grade without the skills and behaviors to succeed in high school.

Maybe in the course of a generation, we could double the proportion of poor children making it to a college diploma.

If you want to really make a difference in the public education of poor children of color and their families, you'll hold yourself accountable for both your successes and your failures.

The «failure» of public education is not the fault of the poor children of color who attend underperforming schools, but the failure of government to get integration right.

This debate arises directly from the fact that far too many of our poorest children are not receiving a quality education.

In one recent example she explored a favorite claim of the education reformers, who are fond of saying that their efforts dramatically improve the number of poor children who attend college.

Parents and civic leaders should demand to know whether their district uses funny - money accounting to benefit senior teachers at the expense of poor children.

Nearly six in ten poor adults are women, and more than half of all poor children live in families headed by women.

Black and Latino students tend to be in schools with a substantial majority of poor children, but white and Asian students are typically in middle - class schools.

And if a particular mission — taking care of the poor children in your city — is what you really care about, then you should base your decision on efficacy, not efficiency.

The problem of poor children in school is critical.

Think of the poor children works very well, IMO.

Higher family adversity index scores were associated with higher prevalence of poor child health and health behaviours, with two exceptions.

He acknowledged that trying to put order into the chaos of poor children's lives is difficult at best.

Within the past 6 months, two large federal mandates in education have taken schools in contradictory directions — and both in the name of poor children.

I wonder what becomes of the poor children who can't cut it?

When our volunteers heard of this poor child they immediately took action.

But the slope of the poor children showed quite a large change.

Can we change the odds in significant ways for large numbers of poor children?

More than half (53 percent) of low - income children and 31 percent of poor children live with at least one parent employed full time, throughout the year.

Another key component of the legislation would require elementary schools to serve free breakfast in the classroom in schools with moderate or high concentrations of poor children.

It is possible to imagine fixes to some of the problems: fixing the proportion of poorer children, for example, who get into the schools.

In the coming weeks, hundreds of new leaders will take the helm at agencies responsible for implementing policies that touch the lives of poor children and affect their odds of success in life.

I see the need for strong coursework and applicable experience dealing with the problems of poor children.

The findings showed that, in general, the higher the family adversity index score, the higher the prevalence of poor child health and health behaviours.

Do you have stats for a comparison between performances of poor children at comprehensives in fully comprehensive areas, and poor children at «non-selective» schools in areas where there is 11 - plus and grammars, e.g. Kent?

The figures say progress has been made in chances of poor children doing well at key stage two, in making good development in early years, in doing well at GCSE, and doing as well as richer pupils at school, as well as in adults who failed at school getting GCSEs or A-Levels after 19.

Second, to break the intergenerational cycle of poverty through raising the attainment of poor children so that they will be better off as adults.

Undoubtedly there is a complex interaction between parental separation and other factors that can help increase or decrease the risk of poor child outcomes.

It might make her skeptical of the notion that the richest people in the United States (the backers of charter schools) are suddenly taken with the educational plight of poor children for purely altruistic reasons.

But many of our poorest children don't.

And while having lots of poor children with JIRAs — and the $ 2,000 in taxpayer contributions that come with those accounts — is infinitely better than any wealth - creating tools currently available to poor children, JIRAs will not sit well with many people.

Amato, in his review of 180 recent studies, found that parental contact associated with high parental conflict is seen in cases of poorer child adjustment and coping.

Amato, in his review of 180 recent studies, found that parental contact associated with high parental conflict is seen in cases of poorer child adjustment and coping.

«Early planned birth linked to risk of poor child development.»

In addition to being safe and non-threatening, Bier's film finds time to throw in mentions of cancer and divorce, and images of poor children starving in Africa.

«The School Breakfast Scorecard: 2000,» an annual report released by the Washington - based Food Research and Action Center, found that more than 71,000 schools offered the subsidized breakfasts and that the average number of poor children served daily rose to 6.3 million in 2000, almost double the 3.4 million served in 1990.