Sentences with phrase «than disadvantaged children»

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A larger percentage of such births are to children in disadvantaged / poor / broken households, who then often get poorer and less adequate educations than the general population does.

While the conversation lately has been about how many socioeconomically disadvantaged women are having children outside of marriage as well as the rise in choice motherhood, don't be surprised if we start talking instead about how more young couples are finding that it's a much better deal — and a heck of a lot easier — to find someone who'll be a good person to co-parent with than it is finding a soul mate.

Educare, which serves more than 3,000 children at its 21 centers, is intended primarily as a demonstration that even highly disadvantaged children can enter kindergarten ready to learn — but that in order to achieve that goal, they will need early interventions that are intensive (not to mention expensive).

In the same way that the zero - tolerance approach to discipline sends precisely the opposite psychological message to disadvantaged kids than what we now know they need in order to feel motivated and engaged with school, so do many basic elements of traditional American pedagogy work in direct opposition to what the psychological research tells us will help those children succeed.

The few young men who do have children with more than one partner tend to be not among the most powerful in their communities but among the most disadvantaged, including suffering from high levels of depression (Bronte - Tinkew et al, 2009).

Disadvantaged children are in greater need than other children from ongoing positive relationships with their fathers (Dunn et al 2004).

Another of Quinton's key findings was that background disadvantage was a less powerful predictor of the young fathers» remaining in contact or losing contact than was the quality of the relationship with the child's mother.

Adult models are not significantly more expensive than kids» models, and their batteries are usually rechargeable and therefore longer lasting; however, adult models do come with a serious disadvantage: children's walkie talkies and adult walkie talkies are programmed with different channels, and children using adult walkie talkies will be able to hear communications on adult CB channels — communications that may include swearing and explicit language.

While I don't mean to minimize the plight of financially disadvantaged students, I couldn't help but think how much I'd rather have my child eat a simple sandwich than some of the highly processed food my own district regularly serves.

The main disadvantage with the outdated R44 regulations was the way that child seats are sized; with i - Size, seats are sized by the child's height rather than weight, meaning that they progress to a larger size at the appropriate rate for their body, ensuring the highest safety standards are provided at all times.

To say that formula fed children are being put at a disadvantage is untrue, my son is doing much better statistically than the majority of children his age who were breastfed.

Data of the Universities of Nebraska and Pennsylvania show that children who grow in a single - parent family do not feel more disadvantaged than kids from conjugal families, provided that the other parent is actively involved in their upbringing.

The lead article in the February issue of Journal of Marriage and Family challenges the idea that «fatherless» children are necessarily at a disadvantage or that men provide a different, indispensable set of parenting skills than women.

«Over the last decade we have made substantial progress in narrowing the gap between children from disadvantaged backgrounds and the rest - the average achievement for those pupils has risen more sharply than for others,» she claimed.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

«The teacher evaluation moratorium just delays the implementation of a fundamentally flawed policy that is more about punishing disadvantaged communities than educating their children,» Jones said.

«Given that disadvantaged children and teens enrolled in Medicaid, a public insurance program, are disproportionately diagnosed with ADHD, these are important policy questions to address: why are there more children taking ADHD drugs today than a decade ago, what benefits do they deliver and at what cost.»

Despite being a more realistic part of her life than the fantastical world of voice acting, her desire to improve the lives of disadvantaged children is similar to the role her character plays in the final game in the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy, Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII.

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

In an effort to improve the achievement levels of their most disadvantaged students, the Dade County schools have launched a large new program this year that will place more than 17,000 elementary - school children in classes of 15 or fewer.

Disadvantaged children in areas of low social mobility made 20 months less progress than their wealthier peers across England in 2015, according to research released today from Ambition School Leadership.

Children from such families are doubly disadvantaged compared to children from two - parent families: they have only one breadwinner and that breadwinner — the mother — typically earns less than the primary breadwinner in a two - parent family (who is typically the Children from such families are doubly disadvantaged compared to children from two - parent families: they have only one breadwinner and that breadwinner — the mother — typically earns less than the primary breadwinner in a two - parent family (who is typically the children from two - parent families: they have only one breadwinner and that breadwinner — the mother — typically earns less than the primary breadwinner in a two - parent family (who is typically the father).

It neatly captures the heart of the issue: Privileged children come to school on day one with larger stores of knowledge and vocabulary than their disadvantage peers.

Class size is more important than the length of the school day in the achievement of disadvantaged kindergarten children, concludes a study by the Chicago Board of Education.

The overarching goal of this effort is to leverage new knowledge in the service of generating and testing innovative intervention models to produce substantially greater impacts on learning, behavior, and health outcomes than existing programs and policies, particularly for the most disadvantaged children and families.

We have yet to take sufficient note of a historic development in public education: A critical mass of schools is establishing, with more assurance than ever, that children can achieve at high standards regardless of race or economic disadvantage.

Seeing the challenges confronted by highly segregated and under - resourced schools in crime - ridden neighborhoods, I realized that most urban children in America were as or more profoundly disadvantaged than children I had met in India, Nepal, and Mexico during previous international development work.

Figures show that just five per cent of children eligible for free school meals gain five A grades at GCSE, while a child living in one of England's most disadvantaged areas is 27 times more likely to go to an inadequate school than a child living in one of the least disadvantaged.

In a bid to reach more than 80 schools in West Berkshire, BDZ Holdings in Newbury has teamed up with the charity to help improve the outcomes for children who are underachieving in the county, which could result in over 3,000 disadvantaged children progress academically and socially.

Disadvantaged children in areas of low social mobility made 20 months less progress than their wealthier peers across England in 2015, according to

The report said: «Compared with disadvantaged children who did not attend after - school club at the age of 11, those who attended after - school club one or two days per week had made significantly more progress than predicted.

Economically disadvantaged rural and small - town children do a lot better than their city counterparts in learning what they are taught in school, but schooling is not enough.

Worse, the gap has widened over time: «American children raised in single - parent homes appear to be at a greater disadvantage educationally than ever before,» they write.

For example, families that send their child to a «free» federally funded Head Start program are much more disadvantaged economically than the families in the present customer subsample who are paying the full freight for a fee - for - service center.

It's great news that there are 1.8 million more children in schools rated good or outstanding than there were in 2010 and the attainment gap between disadvantaged children and their peers is narrowing.

Many states and districts will take the easier path than trying to educate ALL children, disadvantaged students will lose out, and millions of young people who could have become hard - working taxpayers will end up jobless, in prison, or worse.

«All the evidence shows that selective education creates barriers for disadvantaged children rather than breaking them down.»

After 10 years of running prekindergarten programs for disadvantaged children, some Florida districts are planning to get out of the early - childhood - education business rather than dip into their K - 12 budgets to pay for preschool.

First, to give parents more schooling options for their children, the government introduced a number of changes to its national voucher program, instituting a weighted voucher (more than 50 percent over the base voucher) to compensate for the higher costs of educating disadvantaged students and to provide schools with financial incentives to enroll low - income students.

Either this discordant plan is a front for public school expansionism, bent on adding another grade or two to its current thirteen, and adding the staff (and dues - paying union members) that would accompany such growth, or it's a cynical calculation: only by appealing to the middle - class desire for taxpayers to underwrite the routine child - care needs of working parents will any movement occur on the pre-K front, and the heck with the truly disadvantaged youngsters who need more than that strategy will yield.

Urban and rural children are more likely than suburban children to attend full - day kindergarten and economically disadvantaged children are more likely than advantaged children to attend full - day kindergarten (NCES).

«charter schools — public schools — are clearly laying out obstacles bigger than those in the applications of private universities, with requirements that put low - income students, foster children and those from poorly educated or immigrant families at a disadvantage.

Disadvantaged white children far less likely to get grammar school places than ethnic minority kids (Lynn Davidson, The Sun)

Previous Sutton Trust research has shown that disadvantaged children are much less likely than other pupils to attend grammar schools.

This new test is more about memory than application, and it could well disadvantage children with forms of SEND related to working memory.

Over time, the promises will melt away, and, in most states, performance standards will be significantly lower for disadvantaged students than the modest bar set by No Child.

For more than 100 years, the Christopher House mission has been to strengthen and empower economically disadvantaged children and their families by providing a continuum of educational and human services.

How about introducing social policies which raise children out of poverty rather than putting all the responsibility on schools to close the gap between disadvantaged pupils and advantaged ones?

Disadvantaged children living in rural England are less likely to do well at school than those from the big cities, says Ofsted's chief inspector.

A child living in one of the country's most disadvantaged areas was 27 times more likely to go to an inadequate school than a child in the most advantaged area, said Ms Greening.