Sentence examples for children with poor background from inspiring English sources

In other words it's the children with poor background knowledge or difficult home environments who benefit least from it, and the most fortunate who get any effect at all.

Infanticides were usually associated with poor backgrounds and teen pregnancy.

Ofsted said almost half of pupils (47%) who attended AET secondary academies were at facilities rated less than good, with children from poor backgrounds faring "particularly badly".

Similar observations have been made in poor readers, in addition to children with poor perception of speech presented in background noise [ 5]; we extend these findings to the domain of music.

As the civil servant in charge of delivering the previous Labour government's flagship Sure Start programme, which aimed to improve the life chances of children from poor backgrounds, Naomi Eisenstadt was used to rolling with the punches.

I was a child from a poor background who was lucky enough to attend the local grammar school.

The foundation pays for gifted South African children from poor backgrounds to attend the country's top private schools.

The argument advanced in favour of expanding grammars is that they tackle social inequalities by stretching bright children from poor backgrounds.

1.25pm: Gove says it is wrong to assume that children from poor backgrounds can't pass GCSEs in science, a language and history or geography.

Data from the Department for Education shows that existing grammar schools have far fewer children from poor backgrounds than their neighbourhood – and some have almost none.

Children from poor backgrounds are squeezed out of good schools.