Sentences with phrase «children at the existing school»

Jackson is generally opposed to the practice he said has been shown to have a negative impact on children at the existing school.

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Some Waldorf teachers have gone on to argue how Waldorf homeschooling shouldn't really exist, because Steiner was laying out indications for a school setting and how this model is not possible for home for one child, let alone multiple children of different grades being taught at the same time.

As parents and community members, we applauded Mr. Mills» success in bringing healthy, fresh, locally - produced food to D.C. school children as well as his attempts at oversight of existing and new vendors.

Since children will often deny problems with kids at school either because they are embarrassed or because they don't recognize they exist, parents need to do a little detective work if they suspect social problems.

It's not mandatory, but if you want your child to learn how to exist in a classroom environment and you feel confident about the quality of the education at the school of your choice, then you should seriously consider it.

Mr Gove said a «direct line to deprivation» existed from children whose behaviour was not «policed with proper boundaries» at primary school.

Meanwhile discussions elsewhere reached consensus on disability rights, taking competition out of the NHS, tribunal fees, legal aid, zero - hours and short - hours contracts, agency workers, immigration, local government funding, housing, the Middle East, the minimum wage, the living wage, Royal Mail, the railways, science and technology, mental health, fracking, animal welfare, Lords reform, reducing smoking and consumption of alcohol, fats and sugar, reaffirming all - women shortlists, youth services, careers advice, sexual and relationship education, and even the 11 - plus (recognising that selection at age 11 damaged education for all children, but stopping short of abolishing existing grammar schools).

Success had requested space for four new middle schools — two in Brooklyn, one in the Bronx and one in Queens — and reallocation of space at two existing middle schools to accommodate children matriculating from elementary school to middle school.

It means that all new and existing religious free schools must continue to keep at least half of its places open to all children, irrespective of their religious or non-religious backgrounds.

«While there are still barriers that exist for low - income children, families from across the socioeconomic spectrum are struggling to get their kids to eat healthy food at school,» says Black.

In a review of existing literature, Marteau did find descriptions of nudging being used to improve health behaviors — one study reports a 70 % increase in the amount of fruit bought by school children at lunchtime after fruit was placed by the cash register — but these interventions have not been evaluated on a large scale or assessed for cost - effectiveness.

If there existed one, simple thing you could do to improve your child's performance every day at school, in addition to their long - term educational and health outcomes, earnings, and family stability, you'd want to do it, right?

Stand for Children exists to challenge the conventional power arrangements of the K - 12 public education system, organizing parents at the grassroots level to advance a school reform agenda.

I know of at least one instance of children moving up to their secondary school where no school choir exists.

It is important that schools work with what they have to make the most of existing equipment and outdoor space and lead through example, involving children at each stage.

An alternative way to enhance children's socio - emotional skills is to improve existing learning environments and activities in schools and at home.

«To me this means first acknowledging the work that community educators, mostly in communities of color, are doing to supplement the information our children receive about themselves, their histories, and the worlds in which we exist through schools and classrooms,» says Torres Covarrubias, citing as an example the work of her friend Patrisse Cullors - Brignac at Dignity and Power Now, an organization that helps people affected by the Prison Industrial Complex.

ACER's research shows that achievement gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students can be the equivalent of three years of schooling, and that many of these gaps exist at the time children begin school.

The authors believe that school readiness is as much about schools recognising the existing capabilities and knowledge that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children have when they arrive at school as it is about supporting children and families to become ready for formal learning.

At the end of the discussion, Mr. Evans left the audience with a thought to ponder about school safety; in addition to physical security, children need intellectual and ambition safety: without a supportive environment that enables children to dream, they can't live up to the full potential which he emphasized exists within every student.

Gifted children should be tested initially with one of the more recent tests (Stanford - Binet: Fourth Edition, WISC - III, or K - ABC) solely to meet whatever requirements exist at their schools for entrance into gifted education programs.

The 172 existing students will be guaranteed places, while a further 115 places are available to new applicants - with priority for those with siblings at the school and 20 % of the remaining places allocated to children from some of the town's most deprived areas.

In order to convert an existing public school to a charter school, the school must demonstrate the support of at least 50 percent of the teachers employed at the school and 50 percent of the parents whose children are enrolled at the school.

Early education programs at elementary schools with low third grade reading scores that are farthest from an existing early education site will jump to the top of the list for funding along with elementary school with high - concentrations of English Learners and children in foster care.

He wrote at the time that charter schools can provide «valuable alternatives to existing options for the students they serve, particularly those charter schools focused on serving traditionally under - served groups of students like English Language Learners, foster children or children living in temporary housing.»

It's the opinion of this and other school choice supporters that public education exists to fund the best possible education for every child, whether that's at a district school, private school, parochial school, home school, or other service provider.

This allows us to target our philanthropic efforts toward growing new schools and regions while also ensuring that our educational models for our existing children and communities are not at risk of waning philanthropic support over the long - term.

Cooper Union has demonstrated a long history committed to to service to society, and there are a number of existing initiatives that continue to build community from the Saturday art program for high school students, to the Interactive Light Studio, an outreach project where engineering students are working to create a digital display that responds to sound, which will be installed at local public school for deaf and hearing children.

And where does that nice precise (if rounded to the nearest 5 %) figure of 65 % come from, re children in primary school being in (at some point in the next 60 years, presumably) in a career that doesn't exist yet.

[13] He considered (1) the existing shared parenting arrangement and the relationship between the children and Ms. G; (2) the existing shared parenting arrangement and the relationship between the children and Mr. S; (3) the desirability of maximizing contact between the children and both parents; (4) the views of the children, which had not been canvassed; (5) Ms. G's reason for moving; (6) the disruption to the children of a change in custody; (7) the disruption to the children consequent on removal from family, schools, and community; and (8) various other factors, such as Mr. S's economic stability, the importance of the paternal grandparents, the location of the proposed residence at Moyie Lake on a leased lot at an RV park, the girls» relationship with Mr. G and his children, and Ms. G's inflexibility.

It is advised that you seek guidance from an Aboriginal person or organisation that your service or school has existing relationships with (such as an Indigenous Professional Support Unit or Aboriginal Education Assistant) when considering screening these animations to children and families at your school or service.

The Smiling Mind program helps to support children's mental health at school and has been designed to complement existing mental health and wellbeing programs in a variety of ways.

In particular, population - level studies that capture children's developmental health and well - being as well as associated social and contextual assets from the child perspective, and at representative population levels do not exist — despite the fact that middle childhood represents a developmental period that is particularly apt for prevention and intervention efforts that target actionable factors in children's multiple environments: social relationships at home, school and community; sleep and nutrition habits; school experiences; and after - school time use.

When children enter kindergarten, half of the achievement gap between low - income students and their more affluent peers that exists in high school is already present.22 The federal government can address the developmental needs of young children through child care reform by implementing policies that improve quality starting at birth and continuing up to age 13.

Well over half of future recidivist delinquents can be predicted at age 7 from the child's aggressive behaviour together with the family's ineffective child rearing practices.5 On the other hand, where protective factors exist, the outcome can be good: figure 1) shows the school report of the 9 year old Winston Churchill, whose conduct was «exceedingly bad.»

That being said, insufficient research exists on attachment - based interventions in school - aged children and adolescents to be able to recommend it based on our findings at this time.

Two key differences exist between these groups which may lead to differences in their scores: first, data collection with those children who started school at sweep 3 occurred, for the most part, in the first school term between August and December whereas that for the sweep 4 group occurred in the spring and summer terms.

To quote John E.B. Myers, a professor at McGeorge School of Law, University of Pacific, California, PAS «increases exponentially the skepticism of society generally about whether child abuse exists.»

In light of evidence that children from low - income and minority backgrounds are more likely to exhibit delays in language and learning at school entry, additional work is needed to understand why these differences exist, and how to best support parents in their provision of positive home environments for their children.

My buyers / sellers wrote me a wonderful letter, explaining how much they appreciated how I had marketed their existing place and how quickly it had sold at top of market price, in a quiet market, on a busy subdivision lead street, positioned right where dozens of children gathered daily to catch a school bus, and then found them the perfect magic new place, done up in that magnificent magic screaming loud colour.