Sentences with phrase «poor social mobility»

These 12 areas, identified as social mobility «coldspots» — areas with both poor social mobility and schools that face challenges - will receive a share of # 72 million to boost opportunities for young people in these communities.

Not exact matches

«While we have this image that America is this land of great opportunity, the truth is, the places we're talking about [at the top of the ranking] have high social mobility — meaning if you're born to a relatively poor family, it's not an obstacle, you'll be able to get an education and get ahead.

«As Hispanic Catholics in the U.S achieve upward mobility, they may become a little more conservative on social justice and concern for the poor,» Dillon says, «but currently many of the issues that are especially important to Catholics in Latin America are also very important to Hispanic Catholics in the U.S.»

Sir Peter Lampl, chairman of the Sutton Trust warned: «Any future finance system that deters poorer students from top degree courses because of spiralling costs and freezes on student numbers will be a double blow for social mobility.

«Although well intentioned, the last Government received very little for their money in terms of social mobility and a reduction in the gap between the rich and the poor, and they have further fuelled a culture of benefit dependency in which children grow up seeing parents and grandparents who have never worked as their role models, in which people are better off living apart than living together, and in which there is no incentive to work because of the fear of becoming worse off.

Social mobility is too low, educational outcomes for the poor are all too often well below average and entrepreneurialism is well behind many of our competitors (as Allister Heath reported yesterday).

The poorest children in Wales are being let down by the Welsh Labour Government, Aled Roberts AM has argued today following the publication of the second «State of the nation» report into social mobility and child poverty.

To improve social mobility we must nurture the poorest in society, but nature will always hold some people back, says Philip Collins in The Times (#)

In May 2014, he appeared in a Daily Show segment satirizing how the complaints about the plight of the poorer members of the top 1 % distracts from solutions to social mobility.

These gaps between rich and poor, between the privileged and the disadvantaged, are growing, suggesting that whatever degree of social mobility has existed in the U.S. in the past may now be threatened.

The Social Mobility Commission also stated that they found «high - quality teachers who believe that poor children are capable of making progress are key to ensuring progress».

Sir Kevan Collins, chief executive of the Education Endowment Foundation, said: «Closing the attainment gap between poorer pupils and their classmates is our best shot at improving social mobility.

The document will outline «social mobility conditions» that selective schools must meet which includes more flexible entry tests and setting aside places for children from poorer families.

Jenny Whittle, chairman of the council's grammar schools and social mobility select committee, said: «We can't impose our recommendations, but I really do believe that there is a spirit of co-operation and a real willingness to see more children from poorer backgrounds benefit from a selective education.»

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.

MPs have stated that ministers still need to show how this could improve social mobility and close the gap between rich and poor pupils.

Thus, the case for charter schools today is almost always made in social - justice terms — promoting charters» success in closing achievement gaps, boosting poor kids» chances of upward mobility, and alleviating systemic inequities.

The cross-party committee of MPs, responding to the evidence gathered about plans to increase selective education, said ministers still needed to demonstrate how this would improve social mobility and close the gap between rich and poor pupils.

Teachers must be paid to move to areas with failing schools because poor quality education is England's biggest barrier to social mobility, David Cameron's inequality tsar has said.

They have argued that admission by ability is more likely to promote social mobility, providing an opportunity for bright, poor pupils who do not live in the catchment areas of good schools.

«Children from high - income backgrounds who show signs of low academic ability at age five, are 35 % more likely to become high earners than their poorer peers who show early signs of high ability,» Ms Greening told a Social Mobility Commission event.

Social mobility and the seemingly unbreakable class ceiling for poorer children.

But 2,000 respondents to an Ipsos MORI survey have faith in the capacity of comprehensive schools to enable social mobility, with 47 per cent backing high - quality schools over other educational alternatives, such as lowering tuition fees, to help poor pupils.

«If we want to preserve the promise of equal opportunity and social mobility through education, we need to invest in policies that will make children less poor and boost parents» capacity to support their children's education at home.

`... demonstrable social mobility»: offering a few bursaries, many of which are means - tested, to a small number of «poor» pupils is not «demonstrable social mobility».

Vernon Kay kicked - off proceedings, extolling the virtues of great teachers and the staggering lack of social mobility in the UK which means young people from poorer background have just a one in three chance of getting good GCSEs.

«Closing the attainment gap between poorer pupils and their classmates is our best shot at improving social mobility.

While vouchers were initially billed as a social mobility ticket for minority or disadvantaged students, «universal vouchers» for all families — rich and poor — attending both private and religious schools, are now openly the goal of ALEC and most school voucher proponents.

In a statement, the organisation said it shared the «ambition and passion for social mobility», but warned that experts were «unanimous that an expansion of grammar schools would lead to worse outcomes for the majority of children, especially the poorest».

As Susie Cagle at Pacific Standard notes, «a policy that judges an individual's qualifications based on the qualifications of her social network would reinforce class distinctions and privilege, preventing opportunity and mobility and further marginalizing the poor and debt - ridden.»

During the recovery of the Great Recession, income inequality in the United States accelerated, with 91 % of the gains going to the top 1 % of families.19 Left out of the recovery were African American families who, during the downturn, lost an average of 35 % of their accumulated wealth.20 African American unemployment increased, home ownership decreased, and child poverty deepened to approximately 46 % of children younger than 6 years.21 Because social mobility is lowest for people in the lowest income quartile, half of African American children who are poor as young children will remain poor as adults, approximately twice as many as white adults similarly exposed to poverty as children.22