Not exact matches
He has advised the Governments of Canada and Ontario, among others,
on health care
reform and programs to reduce
child poverty.
Since ennobled, he is now shadow minister for welfare
reform and is leading for the Conservatives
on the
Child Poverty Bill, which has its Committee Stage in the Lords next week.
The conference, and the new report, is to aid local authorities in developing their local
child poverty strategies to meet the need generated by social security cuts and
reforms, and to look at the opportunities they have to make progress
on poverty prevention and reduction.
On Smith's watch, the government has been forced into U-turn on a number of hated reforms, including tax credit cuts, Personal Independence Payment cuts and scrapping the measurement of child povert
On Smith's watch, the government has been forced into U-turn
on a number of hated reforms, including tax credit cuts, Personal Independence Payment cuts and scrapping the measurement of child povert
on a number of hated
reforms, including tax credit cuts, Personal Independence Payment cuts and scrapping the measurement of
child poverty.
Child and youth programs tend to be
on the fringe of school
reform discourse; yet, they can be a positive influence
on student learning, particularly in high -
poverty communities.
In an era of widespread disagreement
on education
reform, increased confidence in local control of education, and the absence of a dominant theory
on where
reform goes from here, visionary mayors are emerging as leaders of thought and action in defining a new role for municipalities to play in developing and educating young people, with particular attention to
children living in
poverty.
He has published numerous articles, chapters, and books
on these topics, for example serving as lead author of Transforming Teaching in Math and Science: How Schools and Districts Can Support Change (Teachers College Press, 2003) and as editor of Standards - Based
Reform and the
Poverty Gap: Lessons for No
Child Left Behind (Brookings Institution Press, 2007).
Diane Ravitch believes education
reform should focus
on getting
children out of
poverty, not finding the bad teachers.
Acknowledging connections between the economy,
poverty, health and brain function is not an attempt to «excuse» failing school bureaucracies and classroom teachers; rather, it is a necessary prerequisite for authentic school
reform, which must be based
on a realistic assessment of the whole
child — not just a
child's test scores.
Poverty in particular has been a persistent and overwhelming predictor of poor outcomes
on all measures of
child achievement and wellbeing across the United States, which several decades of school
reform have not been able to change.
As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate
on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data
on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis
on standards
reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include
poverty and social inequity.
In Standards - Based
Reform and the
Poverty Gap: Lessons for No
Child Left Behind, leading scholars in sociology, economics, psychology, and education policy take
on this critical question.
And in an
on - air interview
on WBEZ promoting the series, both reporters conclude school
reform «isn't working» because the correlation between
poverty and outcomes hasn't changed from 2004 to 2014, the decade when No
Child Left Behind took hold in schools nationwide.
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Studies suggest that
reforms or policies that reduce family unemployment in combination with progressive tax and benefit systems may be effective in reducing
child poverty rates.64 Based
on the findings from the current study, and many others, it is likely that reducing the number of
children exposed to
poverty will also have positive public health effects.
Policy debates about
child poverty and welfare
reform, which once focused almost exclusively
on single mothers and their
children, have in recent years begun to train the spotlight
on fathers.
Child health professionals and their professional associations can advocate for policy action on the social determinants that support parents» capacity and ability to care for children.46 We need child health professionals to advocate for more equitable welfare reforms, with the test that they must protect children as the most vulnerable members of our society.2 This will include labour market, tax and transfer polices that aim to lift all families with children out of pov
Child health professionals and their professional associations can advocate for policy action
on the social determinants that support parents» capacity and ability to care for
children.46 We need
child health professionals to advocate for more equitable welfare reforms, with the test that they must protect children as the most vulnerable members of our society.2 This will include labour market, tax and transfer polices that aim to lift all families with children out of pov
child health professionals to advocate for more equitable welfare
reforms, with the test that they must protect
children as the most vulnerable members of our society.2 This will include labour market, tax and transfer polices that aim to lift all families with
children out of
poverty.
As with welfare
reform, rhetoric supporting this law places considerable blame for societal woes
on the parent who is raising
children single - handedly, and in
poverty.