Sentences with phrase «poor educational attainment»

Thus, childhood aggression is best understood as a risk factor for later maladjustment as it is correlated with many adverse outcomes in adolescence, including conduct problems, substance use, poor educational attainment, and delinquency (Hinshaw et al. 1993; Nagin and Tremblay 1999; Olweus 1979).

Other studies uncovered in WAVE's research programme have shown early child maltreatment contributes to poor educational attainment, reduced career prospects, lack of wealth generation, antisocial behaviour and violence.

Government agencies need to be more innovative, especially when tackling social issues like poor educational attainment, crime, or homelessness.

The OECD also says that the main issues hampering economic growth in the UK are poor educational attainment at secondary level, lack of public infrastructure and rigid planning laws, rather than regulatory obligations, none of which would be directly improved by leaving the EU.

The clear social gradient associated with children's vocabulary, emerging literacy, well - being and behaviour is evident from birth to school entry.1 These trajectories track into adolescence and correspond to poorer educational attainment, income and health across the life course.2 — 10 Neuroimaging research extends the evidence for these suboptimal trajectories, showing that children raised in poverty from infancy are more likely to have delayed brain growth with smaller volumetric size of the regions particularly responsible for executive functioning and language.11 This evidence supports the need for further effort to redress inequities that arise from the impact of adversity during the potential developmental window of opportunity in early childhood.

Not exact matches

While father absence has been associated with a host of negative children's outcomes, including increased risk of dropping out of school and lower educational attainment, poorer physical and mental health, and behavioural problems,36 - 40 higher levels of involvement by nonresident fathers may assuage the negative effects of father absence on children's outcomes.41, 42 Quality of the parents» relationship before divorce, or of the pre-divorce father / child relationship, can also be an important factor: children fare worse following divorce when pre-divorce relationships were good and fare better when pre-divorce relationships were poor, 43,44 suggesting children are sometimes better off without a father if the father's relationship to the child or the mother was not good.

Gaps in academic achievement then limit educational attainment, which perpetuates the cycle of poverty, unemployment, and poor health for a lifetime.

The coalition is expanding its pupil premium, as part of a bid to narrow educational attainment between the richest and poorest in society.

As example; look at educational attainment of education - valuing immigrant communities - while former Soviets or Asians aren't poor (as far as immigrants go), they aren't exactly old WASP money rich.

Or perhaps they help victims of childhood abuse overcome other negative sequelae related to abuse, such as lower educational attainment, lower earnings and poorer mental health.»

If the single - parent family structure adversely affects children's educational outcomes, then the difference in trends across income groups could possibly account for more of the growing gap in educational attainment between rich and poor children than income inequality itself.

Mark Woodruff, Executive of The JJ Charitable Trust says: «Literacy is one of The JJ Charitable Trust's main concerns and for years we have worked with charities to prevent and overcome poor access to literacy that too often sees children and young people fall prey to low educational attainment, low employment chances and even homelessness and prison.

The average educational attainment for the two richest persons is 19 years and the average educational attainment for the two poorest persons is 17.

Aimed at children aged 10 to 17, bMoneywize offers a fun, interactive and innovative way to address low financial literacy, poor numeracy, low educational attainment and engagement with mathematics.

Milburn highlighted that at the current rates of progression it would take 30 years to halve the educational attainment gap between poorer children and their better - off classmates, and over 50 years before the gap in access to university is closed between the areas with the lowest and highest participation rates.

Children whose parents are poor and have low educational attainment tend to have lower test scores.

For instance, data from the U.S. Department of Education's National Household Education Surveys Program reveal that parents who are the least likely to say they moved to their current neighborhood specifically to gain access to the local schools are typically black, poor, have lower levels of educational attainment, or live outside of an urban area.

Malcolm Trobe, acting head of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: «It clearly shows that creating more selective schools will not raise overall educational standards in England and is likely to widen the attainment gap between rich and poor children.

Only about 46 percent of children aged three through six in families below the federal poverty line are enrolled in center - based early childhood programming, compared to 72 percent of children in families above the federal poverty line.1 Poor children are about 25 percent less likely to be ready for school at age five than children who are not poor.2 Once in school, these children lag behind their better - off peers in reading and math, are less likely to be enrolled in college preparatory coursework, less likely to graduate, and over 10 percent more likely to require remediation if they attend a four - year post-secondary institution.3 All of these issues compound one another to create a cycle of low opportunity: children in poverty are less likely to achieve high educational attainment, and low educational attainment leads to lower median weekly earnings and higher rates of unemploymPoor children are about 25 percent less likely to be ready for school at age five than children who are not poor.2 Once in school, these children lag behind their better - off peers in reading and math, are less likely to be enrolled in college preparatory coursework, less likely to graduate, and over 10 percent more likely to require remediation if they attend a four - year post-secondary institution.3 All of these issues compound one another to create a cycle of low opportunity: children in poverty are less likely to achieve high educational attainment, and low educational attainment leads to lower median weekly earnings and higher rates of unemploympoor.2 Once in school, these children lag behind their better - off peers in reading and math, are less likely to be enrolled in college preparatory coursework, less likely to graduate, and over 10 percent more likely to require remediation if they attend a four - year post-secondary institution.3 All of these issues compound one another to create a cycle of low opportunity: children in poverty are less likely to achieve high educational attainment, and low educational attainment leads to lower median weekly earnings and higher rates of unemployment.

«Poverty is highly correlated with poor educational outcomes — with test scores, absenteeism, dropout rates, and every other measure of attainment and achievement.»

Those low expectations contribute to low educational attainment by poor and minority children.

To illustrate the influence wealth and poverty have on educational attainment, 24/7 Wall St. examined the wealthiest and poorest school districts in the country.

Our findings add insight into the pathways linking early childhood adversity to poor adult wellbeing.29 Complementing past work that focused on physical health, 9 our findings provide information about links between ACEs and early childhood outcomes at the intersection of learning, behavior, and health.29 We found that ACEs experienced in early childhood were associated with poor foundational skills, such as language and literacy, that predispose individuals to low educational attainment and adult literacy, both of which are related to poor health.23, 30 — 33 Attention problems, social problems, and aggression were also associated with ACEs and also have the potential to interfere with children's educational experience given known associations between self - regulatory behavior and academic achievement.34, 35 Consistent with the original ACE study and subsequent research, we found that exposure to more ACEs was associated with more adverse outcomes, suggesting a dose — response association.3 — 8 In fact, experiencing ≥ 3 ACEs was associated with below - average performance or problems in every outcome examined.

The vast majority of programs offer services only for mothers deemed at risk either because of their youth, low educational attainment or socioeconomic status, or poor mental health.

Infants were more likely to be rated as having poor self - regulation if they were from a lower - income household; single - parent household; were of black race / ethnicity; or if the mother had lower educational attainment, endorsed poor / fair health, or met criteria for depression at 9 months (data not shown).

Intentional social support is crucial in reducing the risk of poor health and diminished educational attainment for adolescents facing various challenges and risks.

Children living in poverty have lower scores on standardized tests of academic achievement, poorer grades in school, and lower educational attainment.2, 3 These patterns persist into adulthood, ultimately contributing to low wages and income.4, 5 Moreover, increased exposure to poverty in childhood is tied to greater deficits in these domains.6, 7 Despite numerous studies demonstrating the relationship between family resources and children's educational outcomes, little is known about mechanisms underlying the influence of poverty on children's learning and achievement.

Another expert on fatherhood, sociologist Tim Biblarz of the University of Southern California - Los Angeles, says the evidence shows economics plays a significant role in the risk for negative outcomes, such as poorer grades and lower educational attainment, substance abuse or poor social adjustment.

The first 5 years of life are critical for the development of language and cognitive skills.1 By kindergarten entry, steep social gradients in reading and math ability, with successively poorer outcomes for children in families of lower social class, are already apparent.2 — 4 Early cognitive ability is, in turn, predictive of later school performance, educational attainment, and health in adulthood5 — 7 and may serve as a marker for the quality of early brain development and a mechanism for the transmission of future health inequalities.8 Early life represents a time period of most equality and yet, beginning with in utero conditions and extending through early childhood, a wide range of socially stratified risk and protective factors may begin to place children on different trajectories of cognitive development.9, 10

During the prenatal and infant periods, families have been identified on the basis of socioeconomic risk (parental education, income, age8, 11) and / or other family (e.g. maternal depression) or child (e.g. prematurity and low birth weight12) risks; whereas with preschoolers a greater emphasis has been placed on the presence of child disruptive behaviour, delays in language / cognitive impairment and / or more pervasive developmental delays.6 With an increased emphasis on families from lower socioeconomic strata, who typically face multiple types of adversity (e.g. low parental educational attainment and work skills, poor housing, low social support, dangerous neighbourhoods), many parenting programs have incorporated components that provide support for parents» self - care (e.g. depression, birth - control planning), marital functioning and / or economic self - sufficiency (e.g. improving educational, occupational and housing resources).8, 13,14 This trend to broaden the scope of «parenting» programs mirrors recent findings on early predictors of low - income children's social and emotional skills.

Fact:» [C] hildren who grow up in poor or low - income families tend to have lower educational and vocational attainments, are more likely to become teenage parents, and are more likely to become welfare recipients than more affluent children.

While father absence has been associated with a host of negative children's outcomes, including increased risk of dropping out of school and lower educational attainment, poorer physical and mental health, and behavioural problems,36 - 40 higher levels of involvement by nonresident fathers may assuage the negative effects of father absence on children's outcomes.41, 42 Quality of the parents» relationship before divorce, or of the pre-divorce father / child relationship, can also be an important factor: children fare worse following divorce when pre-divorce relationships were good and fare better when pre-divorce relationships were poor, 43,44 suggesting children are sometimes better off without a father if the father's relationship to the child or the mother was not good.