Sentences with phrase «on disadvantaged children»

Summer and expanded learning: Better understanding the impact of high - quality summer learning programs on disadvantaged children, and enriching and expanding the school day in ways that benefit students.

Summer learning: Better understanding the impact of high - quality summer learning programs on disadvantaged children.

Theresa May is apparently fully behind the government's plans to publish a Life Chances Strategy focusing on disadvantaged children.

Not exact matches

«Instead of helping some of the most disadvantaged children in our communities, Christy Clark and the B.C. Liberals spent $ 182 million on a computer mess,» said Michelle Mungall, New Democrat spokesperson for social development.

So, for example, on - site remedial educational services could be provided to disadvantaged children enrolled in private schools, but not their counterparts in religious schools (Aguilar v. Felton [1985]-RRB-.

«The jury is still out on whether being raised by same parents disadvantages children,» explains Marks.

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

There appear to be no studies of children brought up by two male parents, and the few studies purporting to show that children with two lesbian mothers are in no way disadvantaged are typically flawed: they are taken from limited samples, have not followed the children's behaviour through time, and have generally been compiled solely on the lesbian parents» opinions.

It is now more frequently admitted that single parenthood, on the whole, is a disadvantage for raising children.

Dukes built a beautiful Victorian house for the purpose of hosting disadvantaged, intercity children so that they can spend time on the beach.

But preliminary results already show powerful gap - closing effects for Educare students: If disadvantaged children enter Educare before their first birthday, they usually are, by the first day of kindergarten, essentially caught up with the national average on tests of basic knowledge and language comprehension, as well as on measures of noncognitive factors like attachment, initiative, and self - control.

When interventions designed to encourage attachment are done right, the effect on disadvantaged parents and their children can be transformative.

And yet neuroscientists, psychologists, and other researchers have begun to focus on a new and different set of causes for the problems of children who grow up in adversity, and their research is recalibrating how we think about disadvantage and opportunity.

In short, a policy that focussed on supporting fatherhood in the most disadvantaged communities promises children a big return on the state's investment.

«We will however make available information on best practice and «what works» for improving the attainment of disadvantaged pupils and I am clear that a valuable use of the premium would be schools investing in ways to encourage parents, including of course fathers, to engage in the education of their children.»

The children of young parents — who tend to be amongst the most disadvantaged — may benefit particularly from a positive relationship with their father: «When young men do not take on the responsibilities of fatherhood, it has serious consequences for the child's development, the mother's resources and consequent social costs» (ESRC 2002).

FI calls on government to scrap bedroom tax for separated fathers The Fatherhood Institute is calling on the government to make separated fathers exempt from the bedroom tax and take other steps to «draw in» and support disadvantaged dads — who are more likely to lose contact with their children if they separate from the mother, according to new research.

• In the US, Parents Fair Share which worked with only the most disadvantaged non-resident fathers, managed to effect slight increases in the amount of child support paid; and also brought about positive effects on father - child contact where levels had been particularly low (Mincy & Pouncy, 2002)..

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.

Assessing such evidence, Heckman says policymakers intent on closing the achievement gap between affluent and poor children must go beyond classroom interventions and supplement the parenting resources of disadvantaged Americans.

Adult models are not significantly more expensive than kids» models, and their batteries are usually rechargeable and therefore longer lasting; however, adult models do come with a serious disadvantage: children's walkie talkies and adult walkie talkies are programmed with different channels, and children using adult walkie talkies will be able to hear communications on adult CB channels — communications that may include swearing and explicit language.

«Parents who consider stopping with one child are likely to find themselves on the defensive because many people believe that children without siblings are at a disadvantage and are more likely to be selfish and spoiled.

So, although it is certainly true that we should be spending more money on children in disadvantaged neighborhoods, the primary problem is that what we are already spending gets spent in really unhelpful ways, haphazard ways: different programs, different agencies, different levels of government.

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.

From studies on socio - economically disadvantaged children in large urban areas — kids who are so hungry that they eat paint and dirt, and whose homes are crumbling around them, exposing layers of lead paint.

and elaborated on in subsequent posts (e.g.,» A Follow - Up to the Infamous «Cheetos - and - Nach0 - Sauce» Photo «-RRB-, the shame of being seen in line for the federally reimbursable meal can prevent economically disadvantaged children from eating lunch, a problem that's exacerbated when when attractive, for - cash - only, snack - bar items are also made available by schools in so - called «a la carte» lines.

A couple of disadvantages are the children don't have the main one - on - one attention they'd get when they were aware of a parent or gaurdian or nanny.

How Children Succeed is Paul Tough's insightful & highly readable compilation of decades of research on what it is that enables some children to thrive into adulthood while others fall behind (both in economically advantaged and disadvantaged circumsChildren Succeed is Paul Tough's insightful & highly readable compilation of decades of research on what it is that enables some children to thrive into adulthood while others fall behind (both in economically advantaged and disadvantaged circumschildren to thrive into adulthood while others fall behind (both in economically advantaged and disadvantaged circumstances).

Jonathan Rallings of children's charity Barnardo's said: «Today marks a victory for the UK's most disadvantaged children, on which the government should be congratulated,» he said.

Children addressing their immigration claims on their own are at a particular disadvantage as the laws, processes and systems governing their circumstances are profoundly complex.

«The marketisation and privatisation of our great public education service compounds this disadvantage with access to important educational opportunities, for too many children and young people, now on the basis of parents» ability to pay.

Lord Willets also highlighted comments from Sir Michael Wilshaw, the outgoing boss of Ofsted, who launched his own attack on the failure of grammar schools to improve outcomes for disadvantaged children.

«Cutting the roll out of universal free school meals, abolishing one - to - one tuition, pulling the plug on funding for breakfast clubs and other extended services, aborting the school building programme and siphoning off money to allow the pushy and the privileged to set up schools will hit the poorest and most disadvantaged children hardest.

But former Labour welfare minister Frank Field said the money could be better spent on support for disadvantaged children before they reached school age.

«Good policies should be based on good evidence and the data show that children are currently placed at an enormous disadvantage by being forced to keep inappropriate education times», argue the team.

Vast inequities within and between countries mean that the poorest, most disadvantaged women, children, and adolescents often miss out on life - saving health services and experience serious violations of their human rights.

«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.

We need to consider preparing disadvantaged children as early as the preschool level and continuing throughout the high school years in order to complement the college and graduate school programs that focus on increasing minorities in the sciences.

Later, she founded the Global Fund for Children, a nonprofit that funds innovators focused on improving the lives of disadvantaged cChildren, a nonprofit that funds innovators focused on improving the lives of disadvantaged childrenchildren.

By this I mean that we must pay much more attention to what's going on in the lives of children — especially children who are disadvantaged by poverty — that prevents them from taking advantage from even optimized learning environments.

«Extending the entitlement to 30 hours per week for working families is likely to place further strain on quality and access for the most disadvantaged children.

Lawmakers should move beyond Chapter 1's current focus on individual remediation and use the program as a tool to force state and local officials to upgrade the quality of schools that educate disadvantaged children, a panel of Chapter 1 experts has urged.

Kevan Collins, EEF chief executive, said: «We know that effective teaching and parental engagement have a positive impact on educational achievement, particularly for the most disadvantaged children.

Powell has said that selective education «creates barriers for disadvantaged children» and has called on Prime Minister Theresa May to rethink proposals to allow more grammar schools to open.

Children who benefit from free school breakfasts and lunches often miss meals and go hungry once their school closes for the holidays, while the lack of free play schemes and sports activities can have an impact on those from the most disadvantaged backgrounds.»

Some advocate expanding existing programs that target disadvantaged children on the grounds that limited public resources should be directed toward the families and children most in need.

These formulas send some funds on a uniform, per - disadvantaged - child basis, but direct close to half of federal dollars in a way that recognizes high - poverty districts face greater challenges, using weights to allocate per - eligible funds progressively with respect to a district's poverty rate.

«Labor is hosting this national schools» forum to identify and discuss the changes needed to ensure excellence, tackle educational disadvantage and make certain all Australian children leave school with the skills they need to participate in their community and in our changing economy,» she said on Wednesday.

«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.

It neatly captures the heart of the issue: Privileged children come to school on day one with larger stores of knowledge and vocabulary than their disadvantage peers.