Sentences with phrase «prepare disadvantaged children»

Educators and researchers increasingly recognize that high - quality early childhood programs are an important way to prepare disadvantaged children for later school success.

[94] Head Start and Early Head Start have long led the effort to help prepare disadvantaged children to succeed in school and in life.

Various curricula, however, show promise and, more importantly, indicate that much more can be done to prepare disadvantaged children for school.

We need to consider preparing disadvantaged children as early as the preschool level and continuing throughout the high school years in order to complement the college and graduate school programs that focus on increasing minorities in the sciences.

The Early Childhood Educator Professional Development Program prepares disadvantaged children in low - income areas by working to sharpen the skills of teachers in their communities.

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However, parents must also be prepared to work through the disadvantages of joint child custody, such as:

Research has shown that children from privileged socioeconomic backgrounds are better prepared for achievement when they enter school than children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Professor Richard Murnane, the student - selected faculty speaker, reflected on five decades of education and the five challenges currently facing all educators around the world: make equality a reality for all children; use money so it affects students» daily experience; create schools that prepare children for the future; make school choice work for the most disadvantaged; and create school accountability systems that improve education for all our children.

The civil rights movement and the growing public awareness of our educational system's inequality led to the creation of Head Start, a program aimed at preparing young disadvantaged children for school.

Representative George Miller of California said that despite a proposed $ 80 - million increase for Head Start, which prepares economically disadvantaged children for school, the Administration's 1983 budget package amounts to an «erosion of resources» for the program.

He started Smart Start to better prepare children from disadvantaged families for first grade.

However, they also want society to serve as equal partners in the effort, lifting disadvantaged families out of poverty and closing all the gaps for children so they are as prepared for school as their higher - income peers.

[It] has become generally accepted that preschool programs play an important role in preparing children — both advantaged and disadvantaged — to enter kindergarten.

For example, you can explain how as coordinator you would like to create events to entertain disadvantaged children, or bring in business professionals to help homeless individuals prepare for the work world.

«Preparing for Life offered mentoring for families in a disadvantaged area in Dublin by offering parents high - quality information about parenting and child development,» he said.

There is a reoccurring trend in some early childhood education studies: disadvantaged children who attend preschool arrive at kindergarten more intellectually and emotionally prepared than peers who have had no preschool.

This working paper, prepared for a conference sponsored by the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, reviews evidence about the effectiveness of two strategies to strengthen family relationships and fathers» involvement with their children: fatherhood programs aimed at disadvantaged noncustodial fathers and relationship skills programs for parents who are together.

However, parents must also be prepared to work through the disadvantages of joint child custody, such as: