Prenatal drug use, environmental toxins, poor nutrition for the mother, and exposure to stress and violence.
What are some factors that affect the health of children before birth?
100
Exposure to this leaves children with both academic and behavioral problems.
What are stress hormones?
100
The gap in SAT scores between wealthy and poor students has grown by ____% in the last two decades.
What is 42%?
100
Dropout rates of 16 to 24-years-old students who come from low income families are _____ times more likely to drop out than those from families with higher incomes.
What is seven.
100
Children that live below the poverty line are 1.3 times more likely to have _______ delays or learning disabilities than those who don’t live in poverty.
What are developmental delays?
200
Parents in poverty often lack the time and energy for anything more than...
What are simple and goal-oriented commands.
200
High availability of well-paid unskilled jobs created a virtual cycle allowed....
What is the ability of families to enter the middle class within a generation by sending their children to college in a stable family?
200
Financial stability has become less attainable especially for ______, with only one third of adults under 35 forming independent households.
What are college graduates?
200
A higher percentage of young adults, ____%, without a high school diploma live in poverty, compared to the 24% of young people who finished high school.
What is 31%
200
Programs like _____ can boost student’s print exposure, which helps compensate for reduced exposure to verbal language and print at home.
What is Reading Assistant?
300
Not just a matter of genetics...
What is cognitive capacity?
300
An economy in which attaining economic independence requires more education, planning, and interpersonal skills
What is a knowledge-based economy?
300
More than 30 million children are growing up in poverty. In one low-income community, there was only one book for every _____ children.
What is 300?
300
______% of children living in poverty aren’t prepared for primary schooling.
What is 40%
300
By training memory, attention, processing, and sequencing abilities, computer programs like _______ have successfully improved reading and math results at multiple elementary schools with high poverty rates.
What are Fast ForWord?
400
Impulse control, emotional regulation, attention management, prioritization of tasks, and working memory
What are executive functions?
400
Low-income students are ____ percent more likely to drop out of high school, and even those who are academically proficient are far less likely to complete college.
What is four and a half percent?
400
In 2011, nearly ____ million Americans were living in poverty.
What is 46 million?
400
By the end of the 4th grade, African-American, Hispanic and low-income students are already ____ years behind grade level. By the time they reach the 12th grade they are 4 years behind.
What is 2.
400
In addition to preschool and extended school hours, their scope can be broadened to include ________ support, parental training and mentoring programs to improve household stability.
What is health care/nutrition support
500
1995 study by Hart and Risley
What is a study that demonstrated that by the age of four, children from poor households hear 32 million fewer spoken words than their better-off peers?
500
Parents with higher education and income are more likely to...
What is engaging children with questions and dialogue that invite creative responses?
500
Children living in poverty have a higher number _____ because they are more likely to have to work or care for family members.
What are absences (absenteeism)?
500
In 2013, the dropout rate for students in the nation was at 8% for African American youth, 7% for Hispanic youth, and 4% for Asian youth, which are all higher than the dropout rate for Caucasian youth (____%).
What is 4%
500
Less than 30% of students in the bottom quarter of incomes enroll in a 4 year school. Among that group – less than ____% graduate.