Sentences with phrase «young children from poor families»

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And these days, unless children from poor families get a college degree, their economic mobility is severely restricted: Young people who grow up in families in the lowest income quintile (with household income below about $ 21,500) and don't obtain a B.A. now have just a one in two chance of escaping that bottom economic bracket as adults.

A young dad is often kept away from his child by the child's mother and her family because they assume not only that he won't be interested but also that he will be a poor father.

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.

If we are to stop squandering the potential of so many of our young people, educators must face the fact that schools alone will never be able to adequately address the disadvantages that children from poor families and blighted neighborhoods bring with them to school.