Sentences with phrase «poor kids education»

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Dissatisfied with the results of most organizations helping the urban poor in the mid-1990s, Canada launched an experiment, an effort to reach all the kids in a 24 - block zone of New York City — he called it the Harlem Children's Zone — and give them education, social, and medical help starting at birth.

«That is not only unfair, but it's a policy mistake in that those [low - income] kids would be the ones who would benefit the most,» Marr said, adding that a large body of research has found that extra income for poor families improves their kids» health, education, and career outcomes.

but it does happens mostly in rural area areas or at very poor communities where girls have no education but just work at their homes or farm fields or when families are poor and needed the marriage money to support the rest of kids they have..

«It took a judge seven years and 607 pages,» the Philadelphia Inquirer reported, «to explain why children in New Jersey's poor cities deserve the same basic education as kids in the state's affluent suburbs.»

The typical approach for people who themselves had poor sex education is to pass this on to their own kids.

These are the women who gave Catholic kids an excellent education (back in the day) and are still out in the streets dealing with the poor EVERY SINGLE DAY.

We're seeing a whole bunch of kids get a poor education.»

This is most damaging for the life prospects of high - ability kids from poor families, who have perhaps the best shot at using a strong education to make it to the middle class.

Suburbanites need education reform for the sake of their own children and not just for the poor kids in the big cities.

It might be the most common mistake in education writing and policy analysis today: declaring that a majority of public school students in the U.S. hail from «low income» families — or, even worse, that half of public school kids are «poor.»

«U.S. Students from Educated Families Lag in International Tests: It's not just about kids in poor neighborhoods» will be available at http://educationnext.org/us-students-educated-families-lag-international-tests as of 12:01 AM on Tuesday May 13, and will appear in the Fall 2014 issue of Education Next.

Summer 2010 Education Next The new teachers contract in D.C. will give innovative teachers an opportunity to prove that they can help poor kids -LSB-...]

Because federal and state laws also ignore them, high - ability poor kids are among the most neglected populations in American public education.

«Poor kids almost always get a lesser education, and a test won't solve the problem,» said Monty Neill, executive director of FairTest, a Cambridge, Massachusetts, testing - reform advocacy group.

But I'm also a poor kid from Brooklyn whose parents supported and believed in education — without having any themselves — and who saw strength in the fact that their daughter had the appetite and the fearlessness to get everything she could from every class she attended.

Black said TFA concluded that the challenges were the same in every country — poor kids don't have the same access to education as richer kids — and that TFA could «help shorten the learning curve» for those entrepreneurs.

Our financial and material support to local slum schools increases the chances of the kids from poor families to obtain a solid education and develop skills and knowledge, which allow them to take their future into their own hands.

Hedy Chang, who heads a research project called Attendance Counts, has calculated that children living in homes without enough food missed two days more than better - fed kids, children whose mothers are unemployed missed two more days than those whose moms had jobs, children whose mothers had less than a high - school education missed 1.5 more days, and those whose mothers are in poor health missed two days more.

It exemplifies a successful school turnaround, one of the toughest feats in U.S. education, it exemplifies success in an urban high school attended mainly by poor and minority kids — the other toughest challenge in U.S. education.

«We are plenty in technological resources to enhance our education, yet the lack of equity and amount of resources that kids have in America is amazing,» he said, citing the vast difference between technology use in poor and affluent schools.

It's taken as an article of faith in the education reform community: we're screwing poor kids by giving them less effective teachers than their more affluent peers enjoy.

Her plan is, to put it very mildly indeed, highly controversial — and the PM has already signaled that (a) the new policy will take steps to ensure that poor kids will have a fair shot at a grammar school education and (b) she doesn't intend to impose selective schooling on every community.

State Study Cites Racial, Income Disparities in Special Education The Herald News, April 24, 2012» «Poor kids are being served in special education at relatively high numbers, almost at about twice the rate you would expect in the population in general,» said Thomas Hehir, a Harvard School of Education professor and former director of special education programs for the U.S. Education DepartmenEducation The Herald News, April 24, 2012» «Poor kids are being served in special education at relatively high numbers, almost at about twice the rate you would expect in the population in general,» said Thomas Hehir, a Harvard School of Education professor and former director of special education programs for the U.S. Education Departmeneducation at relatively high numbers, almost at about twice the rate you would expect in the population in general,» said Thomas Hehir, a Harvard School of Education professor and former director of special education programs for the U.S. Education DepartmenEducation professor and former director of special education programs for the U.S. Education Departmeneducation programs for the U.S. Education DepartmenEducation Department.»

The research, carried out by Education Datalab on behalf of the Social Mobility Commission, shows a wide progression gap between post-16 choices made by bright poor kids and their affluent peers.

The school district was very top - down in its approach to education, says Wolters, especially at poor schools like hers where lots of kids struggled on the state standardized tests.

«I am committed to improving education for poor kids, as a former poor kid myself.

There, liberals see better opportunities for poor and minority kids to get to college without exiting the «public education» corral.

The brainchild of President Obama's Secretary of Education, John B. King Jr., the program had attracted interest from 26 school districts across the country that believed kids would be better off in schools that educate rich and poor, and white and minority students, together rather than separately.

«When all kids get the same, rigorous high school curriculum, we know that poor and minority students can more than hold their own in college,» said Education Trust Director Kati Haycock.

«I was not willing to support a federal education law that didn't continue to monitor and oversee the progress that minority kids and disabled kids and poor kids are making,» he said.

«The Prize is a portrait of a titanic struggle over the future of education for the poorest kids, and a cautionary tale for those who care about the shape of America's schools.»

«Poor kids in 2010 were living in worse economic circumstances than poor kids in 1998,» said Reardon, a faculty affiliate of the Stanford Center for Education Policy AnalyPoor kids in 2010 were living in worse economic circumstances than poor kids in 1998,» said Reardon, a faculty affiliate of the Stanford Center for Education Policy Analypoor kids in 1998,» said Reardon, a faculty affiliate of the Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis.

Kevin has come to some conclusions that don't sound all that remarkable at first: That college — or at least postsecondary education — is essential for poor kids to make it into the middle class; and that it's not enough to exhort his students to raise their aspirations, or even prepare them academically.

About 20 years ago, a group of educators launched one of the biggest recent experiments in American education when they started creating charter schools designed for poor, minority kids.

Getting Head Start right — turning it into an effective pre-K program for poor kids — should be the focus of a joint effort from education secretary Duncan and HHS secretary Katherine Sebelius.

We aren't serious about ensuring that poor and minority kids get the education they deserve.

The Pew Report even suggests, on page twenty - five, that 90 percent of poor kids who graduate from college escape poverty as adults, which would seem to be the obvious place to mention the salient fact that our education system is not getting very many poor kids a college education.

Report authors, Prof Peterson, Eric Hanushek at Stanford University and Ludger Woessmann at the University of Munich, wrote in Education Next magazine: «Lacking good information, it has been easy even for sophisticated Americans to be seduced by apologists who would have the public believe the problems are simply those of poor kids in central city schools.»

The fact that just 23 percent of Black seventh - and eighth - graders in seven states took Algebra 1 (as of 2011 - 2012) is one example of how poor and minority kids lose out on college - preparatory education they deserve.

However, Ms. Hoxby's research has shown that «creaming» can't explain the academic success of charter schools given that the typical urban charter student is a poor black or Hispanic kid living in a home with adults who possess below - average education credentials.

As reported yesterday in Dropout Nation, the civil rights collection's data on whether districts are providing comprehensive college - preparatory education to all of its students is flawed because it focuses on proportionality of course participation compared to overall district enrollment; this doesn't fully reveal the extent of how few kids — especially those from poor and minority backgrounds — are not getting the preparation they need to do well in traditional colleges, technical schools, and apprenticeships (and ultimately, in the adult world).

By being more concerned about how accountability supposedly feels to those working in schools than on the demonstrable benefits to the poor and minority kids who deserve high - quality education, Petrilli and others have failed a key tenet of being school reformers.

In other words, throwing money at education for wealthy kids is okay, but not poor kids.

The media have generally been either neutral or supportive of the case, which claims that the tenure, seniority and dismissal statutes enshrined in the state Ed Code hurt the education process in the Golden State, especially for minority and poor kids.

But the fact that the administration has blessed moves by states such as Tennessee, Florida, and Virginia have enacted race - and class - based socioeconomic targets (including the so - called Cut the Gap in Half approach structured by the Education Trust) that define proficiency down as well as damn poor and minority kids to low expectations also proves lie to Duncan's statement.

They wanted to prove that a kind of education many wealthy kids get in private schools could work with poor kids too.

Further evidence of how the Obama administration's waiver gambit is rendering poor and minority kids invisible is clear after one reads through the Education Trust's latest report, which partial reverses its support for the waiver gambit (and largely disavows its troublesome role in helping the administration, as well as Florida, in instilling Plessy v.Ferguson - like accountability targets).

It also made it clear to suburban districts that they could no longer continue to commit educational malpractice against poor and minority children, as well as focused American public education on achieving measurable results instead of damning kids to low expectations.

When the program first passed in 2011, supporters said funding private school tuition would give poor kids in failing schools options to get a better education.

While U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan did his best to spin the administration's efforts as a solution for No Child's supposedly «broken» accountability measures, which he proclaimed, was «misleading» in identifying schools and districts — especially in suburbia — failing to provide high - quality education to poor and minorEducation Arne Duncan did his best to spin the administration's efforts as a solution for No Child's supposedly «broken» accountability measures, which he proclaimed, was «misleading» in identifying schools and districts — especially in suburbia — failing to provide high - quality education to poor and minoreducation to poor and minority kids.