Sentences with phrase «proportion of poorer children»

It is possible to imagine fixes to some of the problems: fixing the proportion of poorer children, for example, who get into the schools.

The report said: «In the context of creating a fairly funded system, government should also consider the external effects that may combine to compound the effects on pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds, including place poverty (living in neighbourhoods with high proportions of poor children, attending schools serving higher proportions of disadvantaged pupils) gender and ethnicity.»

The same patterns still hold: The United Kingdom has the largest proportion of poor children, by far, followed by the United States, with a higher child poverty rate (but not much higher) than Germany's and Finland's.

The Sutton Trust report, Background to Success, said: «In the context of creating a fairly funded system, government should also consider the external effects that may combine to compound the effects on pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds, including place poverty (living in neighbourhoods with high proportions of poor children, attending schools serving higher proportions of disadvantaged pupils) gender and ethnicity.»

Not exact matches

A gap of at least 18 % in the proportion who seek care for children with pneumonia symptoms, between the poorest and richest people and

It is difficult to determine exactly what proportion of those losses are due to maternal malnutrition, but recent research indicates that 60 percent of deaths of children under age 5 are associated with malnutrition — and children's malnutrition is strongly correlated with mothers» poor nutritional status.17 Problems related to anemia, for example, including cognitive impairment in children and low productivity in adults, cost US$ 5 billion a year in South Asia alone.18 Illness associated with nutrient deficiencies have significantly reduced the productivity of women in less developed countries.19 A recent report from Asia shows that malnutrition reduces human productivity by 10 percent to 15 percent and gross domestic product by 5 percent to 10 percent.20 By improving the nutrition of adolescent girls and women, nations can reduce health care costs, increase intellectual capacity, and improve adult productivity.21

The proportion of U.S. children younger than 18 who are poor is still at its highest levels since the early 1960s, with one in five living...

As Checker himself acknowledges, a sizable proportion of parents — rich, poor, white, black, and Hispanic — would like to choose diverse schools for their children.

I'd love to see charter associations ask OCR to investigate states that don't do enough to provide equitable funding to charter schools serving high proportions of poor and minority children.

I'd love to see charter associations throughout the country file complaints with OCR, asking it to investigate states that don't do enough to provide equitable funding to charter schools serving high proportions of poor and minority children.

We've long understood the primary reason, too: A higher proportion of black and Hispanic children come from poor families.

It is believed the new schools will be required to set aside a defined proportion of places to children from low - income families to tackle evidence showing that poorer pupils fare worse in areas with selective schools.

Overall, Hordaland county is considered representative of Norway with regards to gender and rural / urban residence distribution, and the median household income is also similar to that of the national average.37 In the period 2005 — 2010, the mean proportion of children characterised as being relative poor (see details below) in Hordaland county was slightly lower (7.3 %) than in the country as a whole (8.9 %).

The investigators chose schools for this study that serve substantial proportions of children from poor families who live in high - crime neighborhoods.

Barbara Burns and several colleagues found that only a small proportion of children with behavior problems receives treatment and, in all likelihood, a still smaller proportion receives evidence - based services.32 Therefore, because parents believe that their children's behavior is poor and few practitioners are providing evidence - based methods to help them, the risk of abuse is elevated.

More hours of child care have been related to heightened behaviour problems, beginning at age 2 and extending into early middle childhood.23,25 - 27 In addition, early centre - care experience is associated with more problem behaviours.28 The negative effects of child care hours in the NICHD Study have been found to be more strongly related to externalizing behaviour in early childhood when children received poorer care from their child care providers and when children spent a greater proportion of time with a group of peers that was larger in size than recommended by experts.29

Effective techniques exist for helping parents to get their children to read.36 One parent - child reading programme with 5 year olds reduced the proportion of children in the «very poor» category of reading from 26 % to 14 %.36 Teachers can be taught techniques to reduce disruptive behaviour in the classroom.

Knowledge of mechanisms of change in parent training programs may be particularly important given poor treatment outcomes for a proportion of children, suggesting that distinct mechanisms of change might operate in distinct subgroups of families referred for child conduct problems.

But America has higher proportions of poor and low - income children than other developed nations, and poverty explains more -LSB-...]

But America has higher proportions of poor and low - income children than other developed nations, and poverty explains more differences in parenting practices than family structure.

We find no difference in the proportion of families with poor father - child relationships according to whether the mother or father is the main breadwinner (Figure 4 - F).

However, overall, almost a third were defined as having poor mental health at some point in the first four years of the cohort child's life: 17 % had a brief episode of poor mental health, but a similar proportion (14 %) were found to have been in poorer mental health at more than one survey sweep.

Figures 4 - A and 4 - B show the proportion of children in poor health and with poor health behaviours according to their grouping on the parenting skills index.

This clearly demonstrates a strong association between deprivation and poor psychosocial health at this very young age; the proportion of children with borderline or abnormal scores increased in line with increasing deprivation.

In families with a non-biological resident father figure, the finding that a relatively high proportion of children perceive poor levels of supportiveness suggests that men who find themselves in the position of being a father figure may have particular difficulties in defining their role, both within the family and in relation to the child's non-resident biological father.

Our research has shown that a substantial proportion of children experience a house move in the first five years of their lives, that private renters are particularly likely to move and that house moves are associated with subsequent income poverty and poor maternal mental health.

The proportion of these children who were in poor general health (9 %) was above the proportion in the whole population, but the difference was not statistically significant.

We aimed to 1) establish proportions of children with recurring, persisting, and resolving sleep problems; 2) identify early predictors of later sleep problems; and 3) identify whether persistent or recurrent sleep problems at age 3 to 4 years are associated with comorbidities such as child behavior problems, maternal depression, and poor family functioning.