Sentences with phrase «while children from poorer families»

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Quality Preschool Benefits Poor and Affluent Kids, Study Finds NBC News, March 28, 2013 «While most previous studies had focused only on kids from underprivileged backgrounds, in the new study Harvard researchers found that regardless of family income children who got a year of quality prekindergarten did better in reading and math than kids who spent the year in daycare, with relatives, or in some other kind of preschool, according to the report which was published in Child Development.»

While public schools in New Orleans educate mainly children from poor families, «several new schools are attracting families who could afford private or parochial school, the same type of families who started leaving the school system 45 years ago,» writes Danielle Dreilinger on nola.com.

Also onboard is Marshall Tuck, former president and chief operating officer of Green Dot Public Schools, which has built a chain of charter schools in the district while organizing a parents» «union» and constantly pushing district officials to take bolder steps to improve the performance of children from poor families.

While Coates doesn't touch on education policy, he essentially makes a strong historical case for why reformers (especially increasingly erstwhile conservatives in the movement) must go back to embracing accountability measures and a strong federal role in education policymaking that, along with other changes in American society, are key to helping children from poor and minority households (as well as their families and communities) attain economic and social equality.

43 % of children from the richest 20 % of families are attending «outstanding» secondary schools, while only 18 % of children from the poorest 20 % of families in the UK attend an outstanding school.

Some see Wilkinsburg's plight as evidence of a broken school funding system that shortchanges children from poor families, while others see it as an argument for investing in charter schools instead of trying to turn around dysfunctional school systems.

Doris Entwisle, Karl Alexander, and Linda Steffel Olson noted, «children from poor and middle - class families make comparable gains during the school year, but while the middle - class children make gains when they are out of school during the summer, poor and disadvantaged children make few gains or even move backwards academically.»

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.

It may be contentious to state that many American children, whether they come from poor, middle - income, or wealthy families, do not have adequate access to high - quality educational opportunities and, as a result, fall short of achieving their academic potential while in school.

Yet far too many children, especially those from poor and minority families, are placed at risk by school practices that are based on a sorting paradigm in which some students receive high - expectations instruction while the rest are relegated to lower quality education and lower quality futures.