Sentences with phrase «readiness of disadvantaged children»

In the late fall of 1964, Shriver asked Dr. Robert Cooke, a pediatrician at Johns Hopkins and the chairman of the Kennedy Foundation's scientific advisory committee, to head a committee whose task would be to make recommendations for a preschool program that would promote the development and school readiness of disadvantaged children.

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In addition, ED shall annually award competitive grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements to eligible entities for the purposes of enriching students» academic experience by promoting: (1) arts education for disadvantaged and disabled students, (2) school readiness through the development and dissemination of accessible instructional programing for preschool and elementary school children and their families, and (3) support for high - ability learners and high - ability learning through the Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Program.

Investments aimed at improving the school readiness of economically disadvantaged children are critical.

Murnane and Hoffman conclude that raising high school graduation rates further «will require a set of complementary investments and structural changes in the education system,» and that «investments aimed at improving the school readiness of economically disadvantaged children are critical.»

Broader, BOLDER Approach to Education (BBA) is described as «a national campaign that acknowledges the impact of social and economic disadvantage on schools and students and proposes evidence - based policies to improve schools and remedy conditions that limit many children's readiness to learn.»

Jaime Puccioni, Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany, «Estimating the Differential Impact of Preschool Teachers» Outreach Efforts on Measures of School Readiness for Children from Economically Disadvantaged Backgrounds: The Mediating Role of Parental Involvement»

And Leicester and Blackburn with Darwen — all found in the bottom 10 for school readiness for disadvantaged children in 2015 — make it into the top half of local authorities at KS1 in 2017.

Within the education community, Parents as Teachers (PAT) has gained prominence as a program for promoting child development and school readiness after achieving promising results in Missouri.12 In New Zealand, Scotland, and other countries, recent development of home - visiting efforts have replicated American models, thus indicating that the promise seen in this country with home visiting is envisioned beyond our shores.13, 14 Lisbeth Schorr, in her 1988 book Within Our Reach: Breaking the Cycle of the Disadvantaged, stated: «[Home - visiting] programs that succeed in helping the children and families who live in the shadows are intensive and comprehensive, flexible, and staffed by professionals with the time and skills to establish solid relationships with their clients.

The study has also amplified the potential of community based ECE programmes in boosting school readiness and therefore offers promise in narrowing achievement gaps for children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

More than 200 families in designated disadvantaged areas of Dublin were involved in the trial, with the program aiming to help parents develop skills to help their children in five domains of school readiness:

Office of Head Start Administration for Children and Families Funds agencies that offer Head Start and Early Head Start programs, which provide comprehensive child development services to economically disadvantaged children and families, with a focus on school readiness and parent invoChildren and Families Funds agencies that offer Head Start and Early Head Start programs, which provide comprehensive child development services to economically disadvantaged children and families, with a focus on school readiness and parent invochildren and families, with a focus on school readiness and parent involvement.

Extensive study of two model programs (the High / Scope Perry Preschool Program and the Carolina Abecedarian Study) has shown that high quality early childhood education can have significant and long - term positive effects on school readiness, and are significantly more beneficial to children from disadvantaged families.

This project is a randomized efficacy trial of the KITS Program, an intervention to improve early literacy, prosocial and emotion and behavior regulation domains of school readiness, with children from socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods.