Sentences with phrase «school families founded»

In 2006, a collective of Green Meadow Waldorf School families founded Meadowlark Toys as an independent source for natural toys and crafts.

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Forty schools were closed province - wide while de Jong was the minister of finance, and many families were forced to make tough decisions about their careers when they couldn't find or afford child care.

The assumptions and techniques of psychology and therapy have found their way into business, schools, families, popular entertainment, and even the courts» so much so that it has become common to speak of our society as a «therapeutic culture.»

A study by Dartmouth economist Bruce Sacerdote found that family income and neighborhood income have no effect on adoptee's success in school and work.

Additional Masses are held around the clock to accommodate the thousands of school groups, parish youth groups, families, and others who find whatever way they can to make it to Washington from all over the country for the march.

With the help of World Relief's federal Matching Grant program, he was able to fund his CNA certification and find a job that would accommodate his school schedule while covering the families living expenses.

The latter is not a feasible possibility in many homes where breakfast must immediately be got, served, and eaten, clean clothes found for this or that member of the family, the children packed off to school, trains or buses caught, a host of other immediacies attended to.

He started coordinating Christmas gifts for dozens of children, sent hundreds of kids to class with backpacks full of school supplies, and found ways to help families buy insulin, pay their electricity bill, and find jobs.

The family of the Del Campo High School senior calls it a miracle that he was even found after being hit by a vehicle walking home early Sunday morning.

All parents, whatever their religious beliefs and desires, have a daunting agenda: balance careers with childcare, find time for family meals, deal with demanding schools, isolate the young from the easily available violence and pornography on the internet and establish and enforce codes of conduct.

Waqfs were established to furnish trousseaux for orphan girls, for paying the debts of imprisoned or bankrupt businessmen, for clothing for the aged, to help pay village and neighborhood taxes, to help the army and the navy, to found trade guilds, to give land for public markets, to build lighthouses, to help orphans and widows and the destitute, to care for the needs of poor school children and to give them picnics, to pay for the funerals of the poor, to provide holiday gifts for poor families, to build seaside cottages for holidays for the people, to distribute ice - cold water during the summer, to create public playing fields, to distribute rice to birds, and to give food and water to animals.

The research of James S. Coleman and his colleagues confirms the finding of the Kauai group that, for a child whose family is weak or broken, a certain kind of school can make a remarkable difference.

Likewise, homeschooling seems to mitigate the negative effects of low levels of parents» education on student achievement — a finding that's especially intriguing since these parents are the educators — as well as the negative effects of family socioeconomic variables and race displayed in public schools.

A 1992 study of 330,000 Catholics households from 280 Catholic parishes, for example, found that whereas the average family income was $ 41,000, the average annual contribution to the parish (not including school tuition) was $ 276.51-less than 1 percent of total income.

«The families who found shelter inside the churches or schools are in a rather good condition while those who are still sleeping in the streets and public parks are in a deplorable situation.»

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, inschool followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, inSchool, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Mother Mary McKillop founded schools for settler families in 19th century Australia and New Zealand... it wasn't just the heat and hardships in rural New South Wales, it was problems with the Bishop, muddles over funding, complications about the status of her Order...

In 2009, Chef Ann founded the Food Family Farming Foundation (now the Chef Ann Foundation), a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to helping schools take action so that every child has daily access to fresh, healthy food.

Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools» founding partners, Food Family Farming Foundation, National Fruit and Vegetable Alliance, United Fresh Foundation and Whole Foods Market, have raised more than $ 8.4 million for Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools to cover the cost of salad bar equipment and delivery.

By Tara Redfield, The New School of Cooking Straus Family Creamery, located in Northern California, was founded in 1994 and has now become one of the most well known organic...

This healthy school lunch initiative was founded by Food Family Farming Foundation (now the Chef Ann Foundation), National Fruit and Vegetable Alliance, United Fresh Start Foundation, and Whole Foods Market in support of First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move!

We've found that products and services which go hand - in - hand with education, recreation and families are an integral part of our free Camp and School Fairs and add to the range of services offered to our attendees.

You need to find the right housing, to feel comfortable in your daily life, your family need to like it, and your children need to find the right school.

The Reds are prepared to boost Sessegnon's weekly wage, and also find the family a house and high quality schooling in nearby Cheshire, meaning a perfect compromise to the issues that have dogged his time with Sunderland so far.

Founded in 1989, Center Families programs include support groups for LGBT parents and prospective parents; trainings for teachers and school administrators; advocacy and activist efforts; support around alternative insemination and other biological parenthood options; forums on custody issues when LGBT parents separate; financial planning for alternative families; and recreational programs for children 8 and under (Halloween Parties, Holiday Parties, Play DaysFamilies programs include support groups for LGBT parents and prospective parents; trainings for teachers and school administrators; advocacy and activist efforts; support around alternative insemination and other biological parenthood options; forums on custody issues when LGBT parents separate; financial planning for alternative families; and recreational programs for children 8 and under (Halloween Parties, Holiday Parties, Play Daysfamilies; and recreational programs for children 8 and under (Halloween Parties, Holiday Parties, Play Days, etc.).

I taught art in the public schools in my previous life and have found the balance to be perfect for our family.

When she's not helping families find the school that's right for them, she's enjoying time at home with her relentlessly curious and brilliantly creative daughter, who is a constant inspiration for the hopes, dreams and ideas that drive her life.

Our mission is to promote, encourage and applaud children's enthusiasm for school and learning; take the mystery and anxiety out of the school finding process for parents; and provide families with comprehensive information on all of their educational choices.

Find copies of our monthly magazine at libraries, grocery stores, public and private schools, preschools, day care centers, medical offices, hospitals, retail locations and other family - friendly sites.

I worry that lost amidst the hoopla about the new CTE study is the fact that not every football player whose brain was donated to the CTE Center for pathological scrutiny was found to have the disease, and, that it was not detected in either the brains donated by the families of football players who died before they got to high school, and in only three of fourteen of high school players (and, in those, the disease had not progressed beyond the «mild» stage).

* Try and find a «trigger» for them — stressful situation at school, change is family dynamics, being sick, food sensitivity

We know that picking a school can be a daunting task so we reached out to six local families to find out why private education works for them and their tips on making a decision.

Science briefs: Helpful findings for parents of teens - Family conflict; Sleep researchers advocate later school start times; The future of adolescence.

Throughout the college admissions process, the chief concern is giving each student — and his or her family — tools to help find the right match: that institution best suited to offer academic and personal challenge appropriate to that student's abilities and interests following graduation from the Waldorf School of Garden City.

You are determined to find a school and community that will welcome you openly and meet the holistic needs of your child and at the same time align with your family's beliefs and values.

Families who need child care to cover the summer months when school's out often find that summer camp fits the bill.

What a shame... and standardized testing, what a revolting way to judge the merit of a school system (more specifically ~ an individual educator) I was horrified to find out from a family friend who was a Special Education teacher a few years ago (who is now my sons 7th grade, general Ed., Language Arts teacher), that the BOE pays for the special Ed teachers to go to a 3 day long In Service, instructing them how to get their Spec.

Dozens of studies in the past decade have found that teenagers who regularly eat dinner with their families are healthier, are happier, do better in school, and engage in fewer risky behaviors than teenagers who don't regularly eat family dinners.

You'll find many camps, such as Vacation Bible School or kids» camps offered through your local university, run throughout the summer months so you have plenty of options to choose the camps that work best with your family's summer schedule.

After I had a family I was looking for something else and found schools.

Throughout the college admissions process, the chief concern is giving each student — and his or her family — tools to help find the right match: that institution best suited to offer academic and personal challenges appropriate to that student's abilities and interests following graduation from the Waldorf School of Garden City.

In their book Growing Up with a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps, sociologists Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur found that 31 % of adolescents with divorced parents dropped out of high school, compared to 13 % of children from intact families.

But every child needs to learn how important it is to balance school, family time, and other responsibilities while still finding time alone to destress and recharge.

«We found that one out of six kids hadn't had breakfast before they got to school — and it wasn't tied to socio - economic status,» said Mary Begallethe director of food and nutrition service for the Minnesota Department of Children, Families & Learning.

Mark Chaffin and his colleagues at the University of Oklahoma found that PCIT significantly reduced the recurrence of child maltreatment and related service costs among physically abusive families of elementary school children.

Ask your child to toss the salad, find ingredients for you, set the table, or husk the corn, suggests Marilyn Segal, dean emeritus at the Family and School Center at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

A study of military families, in which co-sleeping is common because fathers (and, nowadays, mothers) are often away from home for extended periods, found that children who had coslept as babies received higher evaluations of their comportment in school and exhibited fewer psychiatric problems.

I was in high school before I found out how rare family dinner time is in many homes.

You can find them at work, at your children's school, at church or in your extended family.

A new edition of No Kid Hungry's Hunger In Our Schools report surveyed three groups on the front lines of childhood hunger — families, teachers and kids themselves — and found alarming statistics about the challenges for those facing hunger.