Sentences with phrase «children approaching high»

This can also apply retirement savings as your prepare to leave the workforce, or to college savings accounts as your child approaches high school graduation.

Not exact matches

Process thought has much to offer in suggesting a sound perspective on the principles that should govern the work of — as it should also determine the approach to — education both of the young, whether they be children or adolescents, and of adults who are enrolled in institutions of higher learning or in other ways participate in what appropriately is called the educational process.

Youth leader and writer Mike Yaconelli explains that he is reluctant to adopt the family - based approach because there aren't enough parents available who place their faith high as a top priority for their children.

The Toolkit's 8 - Step approach also informs the Fatherhood Institute's training and consultancy services and underpins our kite - marking system for father - inclusive practice — the Fatherhood Quality Mark — promoted by DCSF / HM Treasury in Aiming high for children: supporting families (2007).

The Toolkit's 8 - Step approach also informs Fathers Direct's training and consultancy services and underpins our kite - marking system for father - inclusive practice — the Fatherhood Quality Mark — promoted by DCSF / HM Treasury in Aiming high for children: supporting families (2007).

But with increasing dissatisfaction over the high - stakes testing currently consuming mainstream education; the growing recognition of the many benefits a child receives through experiences with art, movement, and nature; a concern over a reliance on technology by younger and younger students; and the news that leaders in the high - tech industry are touting the lifelong benefits of low - tech Waldorf schools in educating their own children, more and more parents and educators are taking a closer look at the Waldorf approach and what it has to offer.

Parenting Coordination (PC) is an out - of - court intervention and relatively new approach and / or service that assists parents in high conflict separations and divorces to establish and maintain healthy relationships conducive to the positive adjustment and development of their children and minimizing litigation.

The Government has also committed to investing # 150m a year until 2020 to improve the quality of sport provision in every state primary school in England in the form of the PE and sport premium, because high quality provision — resulting from approaches like HDHK — can lead to dramatic improvements in children's health, behaviour and attainment.

It involves a child - centric approach in which parents hold high expectations for their children.

Studies of both Western and Chinese children report that kids are more likely to be rejected by their peers when their parents practice authoritarian parenting — an approach characterized by low levels of warmth and high levels of control.

Local Early Childhood Mental Health (ECMH) boards hired ECMH consultants to work with providers serving children with high needs and to support early childhood professionals use of standards and assessments related to social and emotional development and approaches toward learning.

«That's the message sent loud and clear yesterday by thousands of parents across New York who rose up against a top - down, one - size fits all approach to education that focuses on the over-utilization of high stakes Common Core standardized tests and refused to have their children be any part of this culture of testing.»

Mulgrew shared news of a bipartisan effort by federal lawmakers to overhaul No Child Left Behind and move away from the harmful emphasis on high - stakes testing in favor of a more balanced approach that targets educational inequality.

«We're very comfortable with the approach we're increasingly taking, which is to de-emphasize high - stakes testing, de-emphasize test prep — focus on actually assessing the child,» de Blasio said.

Free all - day programs can also be a lifeline to parents struggling with sky - high child care costs, points out Brian Jones, a former New York City elementary school teacher, current Green Party candidate for lieutenant governor of New York State, and parent of a young child approaching preschool age.

Mr Blair's approach to tax was forged in 1992, when John Smith's shadow budget, which involved increasing taxes to pay for higher pensions and child benefit, was blamed for the party's election defeat.

Dr. Potvin Kent's research reveals grave weaknesses in the CAI approach and its criteria, given the high volume of unhealthy food and beverage marketing seen by children and youth.

Consistent with this approach, scientists at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) just published their research on ADHD in a most unusual academic journal: the Frontiers for Young Minds is an electronic scientific journal whose primary audience comprises children from elementary and junior high schools.

«The fact that their machine - learning approach has such high specificity and sensitivity and is useful at the level of an individual child is truly impressive,» says Charles Nelson, professor of pediatrics and neuroscience at Harvard University, who was not involved in the study.

The study found that higher achievement goals were linked to higher levels of worry, with the highest levels of worry observed in child athletes whose parents wanted him or her to outperform others in the upcoming competition, or to not lose to others (performance - approach and performance - avoidance).

With teaching facilities in Long Island and New York City, it brings a hands - on approach to learning about biology and genomes to classrooms and homes of children in primary schools, middle schools, and high schools.

Teresa Doyle and Ursula Bellugi of the Salk Institute, along with Julie Korenberg and John Graham of UCLA and Cedars - Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, found that children with Williams syndrome scored significantly higher on tests measuring behavior in social situations, including their ability to remember names and faces, eagerness to please others, empathy with others» emotions and tendency to approach strangers.

The individual approach for children and adolescents at higher risk for CVD and with a high concentration of LDL includes recommended changes in diet with nutritional counseling and other lifestyle interventions such as increased physical activity.

Think: the floundering security agent turned away from working in the highest office, only to be trapped there in a time of crisis; the plucky child barely talking to her father, soon needing his help to survive; the weary government agent approaching his last week of service, certain to have a memorable swansong; the overworked employee forced to deal with distress on her day off; the leader lambasted for being an academic, then swiftly becoming an action hero.

As a parent of two children, I've experienced different instructional approaches, from progressive public K - 8 programs such as Montessori to a project - based learning high school.

Are comparisons between the United States and other countries truly equitable / comapable when the U.S. has a pluralistic approach to teaching all children versus other countries in which students are deliberately grouped, tracked, and segregated into different ability classifications and restricted in their access to higher levels of education?

Together, they pushed an education reform agenda, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), that emphasized higher standards and more accountability, a results - based approach that parents liked.

High - stakes accountability with annual tests that are not tied to course content (which reading tests are not) amounted to a tax on good things and a subsidy for bad practice: curriculum narrowing, test preparation, and more time spent on a «skills and strategies» approach to learning that doesn't serve children well.

So let me invite proponents of differentiated instruction to supply evidence that this strategy is effective, particularly for educating children of high ability, versus approaches that entail separation, augmentation, or acceleration.

The Scope of this project is to: - Provide seed funding and support pilot implementation of ideas resulting from the June 2014 design workshop on improving outcomes for babies in foster care; - Launch pilots of co-designed strategies for working collaboratively with parents in creating daily, regularized family routines in four sites and evaluate executive function skills, child development, child literacy and parental stress levels of participants pre -, during, and post-intervention; - Build a core group of leaders to help set the strategic direction for Frontiers of Innovation (FOI) and take on leadership for parts of the portfolio; - With Phil Fisher at the University of Oregon and Holly Schindler at the University of Washington develop a measurement and data collection framework and infrastructure in order to collect data from FOI - sponsored pilots and increase cross-site and cross-strategy learning; Organize Building Adult Capabilities Working Group to identify, measure and develop strategies related to executive function and emotional regulation for adults facing high levels of adversity and produce summary report in the fall of 2014 that reviews the knowledge base in this area and implications for intervention, including approaches that impact two generations.

The key points from each strand are highlighted as follows: Early Identification and support • Early identification of need: health and development review at 2/2.5 years • Support in early years from health professionals: greater capacity from health visiting services • Accessible and high quality early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Tribunal

In 2006, a statement called the «Broader, Bolder Approach to Education» was created and signed by a diverse, bipartisan group of individuals stating that education policy has failed and calling for a much broader approach to education by incorporating high - quality early childhood and afterschool / summer programs, and adequate healthcare for all children.

As I explain in Education Next, a more holistic approach would also take seriously what Isabel Sawhill and Ron Haskins of the Brookings Institution call the «success sequence»: get at least a high school diploma, work full time, and wait till you are at least twenty - one and married before having children.

Our approach is straightforward: elect and defend the right policymakers, pass high - quality laws that will help the greatest number of kids, and make sure parents are aware of their options and that the laws work for families and children.

The pupil premium research carried out by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has shown how, as part of a whole ‑ school approach, low - cost, high - impact strategies can impacting positively on outcomes for children and young people with SEN and help in narrowing the gap in attainment for our most vulnerable students (http://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk).

Riverway Early Learning Center in Lawrence, Mass., exemplifies the state's approach to providing high - quality care for its youngest children by encouraging collaboration at the local level.

«With public charter school waitlists approaching one million names, its heartbreaking for too many families hoping to send their child to a high - quality public charter school, said Nina Rees, NAPCS president and CEO.

[Other school reformers offer other approaches, including the expansion of high - quality charter schools serving Black children, which could also help.]

This report, Take a Giant Step, represents the Council's multi-sector action plan to enhance teacher education and a higher quality, 21st century approach to the learning and healthy development of children in preschool and the primary grades.

But conflating guidance for teachers with the work that's put in front of children is a lazy tactic meant to obscure the truth: Common Core's «new» approach to math isn't new, it's actually very understandable, and kids have already proven adept at grasping it — despite the higher level of rigor the standards demand of students, teachers, and parents.

It seems probable that some middle and high schools are taking a tougher approach to discipline than others, and some of these schools — «suspension factories» if you will — serve high proportions of children of color.

Lauren Petry, left, and Imani Williams from Bishop O'Dowd High School volunteered to read to children during a summer program that is part of the Hayward Unified School District's transition to a «community schools» approach.

Developed by a panel of leading practitioners, this standards document defines new competencies and outlines a practical approach to high - quality early childhood education that is critical to laying a strong foundation for learning for young children from age 3 to grade 3, or pre-K — 3.

In these recent studies, children's learning outcomes are shown to be higher in a play - based program compared to children's learning outcomes in direct - instruction approaches.

For California to provide all children access to high - quality ECE, state policymakers will need to adopt a comprehensive approach to turn an uncoordinated set of underfunded programs into a true system of supports for children, families, and providers.

In this approach, children are taught the easiest high frequency words first.

This includes offering a new vision of structuring public education, based largely on the portfolio model Hill and his successor at CRPE, Robin Lake, have advanced for the past decade, as well as crafting a new approach for financing education that expands high - quality school options for children and their families.

«We created this beautiful school and then our whole focus changed from just academics, where it was academics, academics, academics, to really a whole - child approach and making sure students are not just getting the high academic opportunities, but music, art, dance, electives and enrichment programs,» he said.

They show that while universal coverage would be the most expensive option, more targeted approaches will shift priorities to different parts of the city, and would require higher effort — and additional resources — to ensure that all children and youth in the target group can participate in these programs.

AppleTree Institute works to close achievement gap by transforming early childhood education through the research, development, and dissemination of an evidence - based, high - quality instructional approach that prepares children for success in school, work, and life.