Other policies chalked up as successes included the party's commitment to get extra funding for the most disadvantaged school kids in England, an initiative known as the pupil premium.
No school in a disadvantaged area has ever matched the performance of a school in a more affluent area, it reveals.
Agassi is also well known for his Andre Agassi Foundation for Education, which started a school for disadvantaged youth in Las Vegas, where the power tennis couple lives, and is very vocal and involved in his charitable cause.
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"Many programmes provided a fresh opportunity to disadvantaged pupils and those rejecting school, " the report said.
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Many young people around the world especially the disadvantaged are leaving school without the skills they need to thrive in society and find decent jobs.
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The program provides academic coaches to high school football players in economically disadvantaged communities.
There is growing agreement that the poor school performance of many minority and disadvantaged children is a national disgrace.
Another team from a public high school in one of the most disadvantaged neighborhoods in Philadelphia successfully created a low carbon emissions and ultra-high efficiency alternative fuel vehicle which competed against collegiate and corporate teams.
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Version 2.0 continues the Gates emphasis on successful high-school completion and college-readiness for disadvantaged young people and adds a parallel thrust toward college completion.
France's Delegate Minister for Educational Achievement, Ms George Pau-Langevin underlined her country's commitment to quality education for all, and in particular to fight against school failure, which hits children from disadvantaged backgrounds hardest, also noting support for UNESCO's efforts globally.
And students from disadvantaged families need schools that expand time to learn through longer school days and years, in order for them to catch up.
Free school meals have long been a measure of a disadvantaged childhood, but the coalition government has attached extra funding to each child registered for the meals.
Garre reversed course, saying the school goes out of its way to recruit students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
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Instead the authors recommend that "policymakers should concentrate on educational reforms in primary and pre-school" and want more effort made to raise the basic skills of disadvantaged groups.
According to UNESCO, a CLC is as a community-based non-formal educational institution or organisation which provides a range of services and learning opportunities to out-of-school children, youth and illiterate or semi-literate adults from socially disadvantaged rural and urban communities.
Bringing these children, who often belong to disadvantaged groups such as migrants, child labourers or children with special needs, into school and retaining them and providing trained teachers and relevant curricula, will be a major challenge, Mr Parsuramen said.
As a result, socially-disadvantaged groups have limited access to quality education, while some among them fail to attend school at all.
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