Sentences with phrase «performance of disadvantaged children»

The research concludes that there has been a rise in the performance of disadvantaged children in London in comparison to neighbouring cities because of the improvements being made to the capital's schools.

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Sandy Kress played a major role in fashioning the federal accountability law, No Child Left Behind, a landmark piece of legislation that has lifted the test performance of minority and disadvantaged students in the years since its passage.

During Lewis - Carter's four years as principal, she has led these children — disadvantaged by every conventional measure and further handicapped by the hardships of Katrina — to a stunning performance record on state - mandated standardized tests, one that compares favorably with the city's selective - admissions schools.

Similarly, the tracking of students into classrooms based on ability or academic performance may group disadvantaged children with the most disruptive students.

in schools with a high concentration of children with «risk factors,» the academic performance of all children — not just those with disadvantages — was negatively affected.

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.

In this A Word interview, Spellings recalls that before school accountability gained traction in No Child Left Behind, it was all too easy for schools to hide the performances of low - achieving students, many of whom came from disadvantaged homes and minority families.

Title I provides formula grants to states and, in turn, to districts to help disadvantaged children achieve proficiency on challenging academic standards and to improve the performance of low - achieving schools.

Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) is designed to help disadvantaged children meet challenging content and student performance standards.