Sentences with phrase «other disadvantaged children»

In addition, troubled children are likely to attend the same schools as other disadvantaged children.

Not exact matches

We all need encouragement to exercise a new vision of the public good, and to join with others in sacrificial efforts to achieve that good in concrete ways, ranging from providing housing for the homeless to parks for everyone and enriched educational environments for disadvantaged children.

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.

Research shows that young mothers who feel supported by their baby's father adjust better to motherhood and behave more positively towards their children — for whom a good relationship with «my dad» proves protective in face of other disadvantage.

Disadvantaged children are in greater need than other children from ongoing positive relationships with their fathers (Dunn et al 2004).

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.

Overheating can lead your child to have an uncomfortable sleep as well can make them super sweaty and smelly, which is a big disadvantage of other quilted mattress.

Data of the Universities of Nebraska and Pennsylvania show that children who grow in a single - parent family do not feel more disadvantaged than kids from conjugal families, provided that the other parent is actively involved in their upbringing.

This is after taking account other important factors associated with poor child development such as socioeconomic disadvantage, lower maternal age, maternal smoking in pregnancy and fetal growth restriction.

Sharing a nanny also has disadvantages if your child or the other child or children in the arrangement are particularly demanding or have special needs.

Once parents have taught their children these precautions, there are few disadvantages to the use of Razor scooters and other motorized scooters for kids.

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).

«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.

«Over the last decade we have made substantial progress in narrowing the gap between children from disadvantaged backgrounds and the rest - the average achievement for those pupils has risen more sharply than for others,» she claimed.

«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.

Dr Rebecca Lacey, Research Associate in the UCL Department of Epidemiology and Public Health and lead author of the study, said: «Our study suggests that it is not parental divorce or separation per se which increases the risk of later inflammation but that it is other social disadvantages, such as how well the child does in education, which are triggered by having experienced parental divorce which are important.»

Using accountability (as well as school choice and other strategies) to improve matters for disadvantaged children has therefore been, and should remain, a policy focus.

Worse, high - ability children from disadvantaged circumstances typically attend schools with many other disadvantaged youngsters.

Unfortunately, somewhere along the road to the brave new world of charter schools and market incentives, Bloomberg and Klein either forgot, or never comprehended in the first place, that all good education, and, even more so, education for disadvantaged children, starts with systematic and explicit instruction in the basic skills of literacy, numeracy, and other foundational academic subjects.

Critics of school choice are concerned about the degree to which a choice regimen will cause schools to become more racially segregated and the degree to which choice will result in creaming - the phenomenon in which only savvy, involved parents exercise their ability to choose, thereby leaving disadvantaged children concentrated in schools that few others would consider attending.

It is adequate to conclude, from international perspective, that the most disadvantaged schools, especially those serving large proportions of aboriginal children and other children with special needs, should be much better resourced if equity is to be enhanced in Australia.

Because children with an experience of early childhood maltreatment come from more disadvantaged families and neighborhoods, one might expect their academic performance to lag behind that of other children.

But will it erase the huge gaps in early vocabulary development, non-cognitive skill - building, and other essential school readiness tasks between these disadvantaged children and their more advantaged peers?

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.

The rules for Even Start, which is to provide educational and other social services to disadvantaged children and their parents, specifies that participating children must reside in an elementary - school attendance area eligible for Chapter 1 compensatory education.

«Alyssa Chan exemplifies well the qualities that distinguish students and graduates of the International Education Policy Program: a strong commitment to expanding educational opportunity for the most disadvantaged children around the world, an extraordinary ethic of hard work and rigorous pursuit of academic excellence, and an understanding of leadership as service to others,» says Professor Fernando Reimers, director of IEP.

The results are consistent with other studies that show a substantial return (up to 50 percent of a standard deviation on standardized achievement tests) to achievement from observed classroom quality, with greater effects often accruing to children with higher levels of risk and disadvantage.

«There I was, putting into practice my strong belief that if this country could help me overcome the disadvantages that I inherited, then surely it could do more for the many others who had similar hurdles to jump,» says Lafargue, who moved to New York from Jamaica as a child.

For example, children with dyslexia can now use a range of technological solutions to help them read, without being at a disadvantage against other students.

Still others argue that neither curriculum nor pedagogy is the principal reason Catholic schools achieve remarkable success with disadvantaged children.

Without access to certified school media specialists, the children of Millburn will be at a tremendous disadvantage, compared to other students in New Jersey.

Some envision a centralized, uniform system available to all children while others argue we should concentrate on providing high quality programs to economically disadvantaged children.

Yet quality pre-K is especially important for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, who often lack the exposure to literature, reading and numeracy that is common in middle - and upper - income homes: It can help ensure that these kids don't show up to kindergarten already far behind other students.

In other initiatives some headteachers have opted to fund tutoring for disadvantaged students using the pupil premium, which is paid by the government to schools for every child on free meals.

Previous Sutton Trust research has shown that disadvantaged children are much less likely than other pupils to attend grammar schools.

Strategies include: approaches that encourage parents to read and talk with their children at home or to participate in activities in the early years setting; programmes that focus directly on parents themselves, for example, providing training in parenting skills or adult numeracy and literacy support; and more intensive programmes for disadvantaged families or families in crisis, for example, through schools appointing a family liaison that work with parents through either home visits or other targeted approaches.

Our failure in this area has shown itself in, among other things, the academic underachievement of disadvantaged children.

«If the pupil premium turns out to be a token amount of money compared to existing deprivation funding, extra funding on top of a smaller budget, or paid for by cutting other programmes that help the most disadvantaged children then this announcement may turn out to be little more than a gimmick.»

«Obviously, a child considered poor in the United States may be regarded as relatively wealthy in another country,» he wrote, «but the fact that the perceived problem of socio - economic disadvantage among students is so much greater in the United States — and in France too — than the actual backgrounds of students also suggests that what school principals in some countries consider to be social disadvantage would not be considered such in others.»

Head Start — A federally funded child - development program that provides health, educational, nutritional, social and other services to pre-school children from economically disadvantaged families.

«Children from disadvantaged backgrounds will not be as school ready as others for the simple reason if you have not had a meal in the evening, slept in your own bed or had breakfast, that will impact on your ability to learn,» said general secretary Christine Blower.

The answer, according to a rising chorus of educators, academicians and others, is to expand and deepen summer enrichment opportunities for children, focusing first on those in low - income or disadvantaged families.

Title I — using a comprehensive needs assessment process, funding is targeted at meeting the identified needs of children from low - income families and other disadvantaged groups, and for the already identified Priority Schools, supplying additional family and community engagement personnel and specialized training for principals, the first year, and other personnel in the following years based on needs.

I believe ACER has a significant contribution to make to important education debates in the UK and other EU countries, in particular addressing the challenge of under - achievement of disadvantaged children and contributing to the UK government's national plan to improve social mobility through education: Unlocking Talent, Fulfilling Potential.

This confirms that poverty and other conditions associated with being a minority child, not race in and of itself, are responsible for disadvantages in school.

We focus on secondary schools because children of color and students from other historically disadvantaged groups are far more likely than other students to be suspended out of school at this level.

The one exception is Bridge Boston, a small charter school in Dorchester that recruits disadvantaged students through homeless organizations, child welfare programs, and other similar organizations.

The answer — according to a rising chorus of educators, academicians and others — is to expand and deepen summer enrichment opportunities for children at the local level, focusing first on students in low - income or disadvantaged families.

As these and many other disadvantages accumulate, children from lower social classes inevitably have lower average achievement than middle - class children, even with the highest - quality instruction (Rothstein, 2008).

In 2016, 0.7 per cent of disadvantaged White British children went to a grammar, compared with 0.9 per cent of White non-British children, 0.8 per cent of Black children, 2.8 per cent of Indian children, 5.2 per cent of Chinese children, and 1.5 per cent of other Asian children.