Sentences with phrase «time children from poor families»

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Cahill says he wants to do more to protect children at Charter Schools, who often come from the poorest families in the state, and says he sees it as «the civil rights issue of our time».

It also claims that children from poorer families are four times more likely to be at weaker schools.

Furthermore, children from poorer families are five times more likely to die as a result of accidents than those from wealthier backgrounds.

Yet the GEM Report shows that children from the poorest 20 % of families are eight times as likely to be out of school as children from the richest 20 % in lower - middle - income countries.

But they are wanting in terms of their external validity for decisions about whether to expand present public programs for four - year - olds: They are from a time when very little of today's safety net for the poor was in place, when center - based care for four - year - olds was rare and even kindergarten was not the rule, and before the wave of Hispanic immigration that transformed the demographics of early education programs for children from low - income families.

Teachers and administrators who work with children from low - income families say one reason teachers struggle to help these students improve reading comprehension is that deficits start at such a young age: in the 1980s, the psychologists Betty Hart and Todd R. Risley found that by the time they are 4 years old, children from poor families have heard 32 million fewer words than children with professional parents.

Greg Duncan, George Farkas, and Katherine Magnuson demonstrate that a child from a poor family is two to four times as likely as a child from an affluent family to have classmates with low skills and behavior problems — attributes which have a negative effect on the learning of their fellow students.

While the states primary school funding grant provides 30 percent more money for children from low - income families, experts who testified for the plaintiffs during the trial testified that it costs two to three times as much to educate poor children who often show up for school with major deficiencies.

Families may be time poor because of frequent medical appointments, they may have financial stress because of medical bills or being unable to take paid employment or they may feel tired from the physical and emotional toll that can sometimes be a part of supporting a child with high needs.

Albeit based on older children than in GUS, children aged 13 to 14 years who live in families with five or more problems (such as neither parent in work, poor housing conditions, parents with mental health problems) are 36 times more likely to be excluded from school than children in families with no problems and six times more likely to have been in care or to have contact with the police (HM Treasury and DFES, 2007).

However, living in a geographically remote part of Scotland (more than 30 minutes» driving time from urban settlements of 10,000 people or more), did appear to increase the risk of a poor father - child relationship, irrespective of whether the family was living in a remote town or rural area.