Sentences with phrase «children at their neighborhood school»

After completing 12 hours of training with their husbands and children at their neighborhood school, the two Tristan families were allowed to check out microcomputers and educational software for use in their homes for up to three weeks at a time.

• When this Canadian elementary school had to close after funding cuts, a local ice cream shop stepped in and offered $ 2 million in Canadian dollars to keep children at their neighborhood school.

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One of the reasons children in Gaza were dying is that Palestinian terrorists deliberately put them at risk by locating their rocket launchers next to schools and residential neighborhoods.

Unemployment in the South Bronx was at 45 percent; of the 1,900 to 2,000 children enrolled at Morris High School, only about 65 graduated each year; and, many of the children were afflicted with asthma, something Kozol associated with the neighborhood's incinerators for discarded medical supplies.

Help your tween develop possible conversation starters, and encourage your child to approach children who are new at school or in the neighborhood.

Some your child can tackle at home, others are for school, your neighborhood, or the community.

Good habits start young — and affordably — at any of our city's neighborhood library branches; one of our favorites is the gigantic Conrad Sulzer Regional Library, with plenty of sunny nooks, a welcoming children's section and even a spot for your kid to (ahem) school you at chess.

So we are trying a new charter school in the area for next year for my oldest while my next child will stay at the neighborhood school.

Parents often worry about whether or not their child will be bullied at school, on the sports field, or in the neighborhood.

As a result, you should encourage your child to cast a wide net and seek out friendships in their neighborhood, at school, on a team, through a club, and at church.

Your child may have friends at school or in the neighborhood but do they have a few really solid friendships?

While many families in this area move east of the tunnel to attend better public schools, Berkeley Rose Waldorf School can meet their children's educational needs at an affordable tuition cost and reduce the relocation of local families away from their current neighborhoods and homes.

All kids grow at different paces, so you can't determine whether your child will be short or tall just from comparing her to other kids at school or in the neighborhood.

Now we're able to send our children to a middle school in our neighborhood,» Debra Millman, who has a 7 - year - old at nearby P.S. 59, told DNAinfo.com New York.

Among the concessions to neighbors would be greater access to the school's athletic events, scholarships for neighborhood children to participate in sports camps and a public dock at the waterfront.

At one point, he appears on television, in the wake of the massacre of school children and their teachers in Newtown, Conn. «These neighborhoods are our neighborhoods,» he says, referring to the places that have been devastated by gun violence.

18 — Early childhood: Academic Teaching Conference Series: From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development, sponsored by the Judge Baker Children's Center and Children's Hospital Boston, for teachers and school administrators, at the Judge Baker Children's Center in Boston, Mass..

Then and Now: Children play at recess outside of Hays - Porter Elementary School in Cincinnati's West End neighborhood.

Despite spending more per capita on preschool programs than any other state, Massachusetts has 40 percent fewer preschools for children in poor neighborhoods compared to wealthier communities, according to a study released today by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

This groundbreaking book illuminates the ways rising inequality is operating through disadvantaged neighborhoods, insecure labor markets and schools to undermine one of the most important goals of public education — the ability of schools to provide children with an equal chance at academic and economic success.

Taking all these results together, one implication stands out above all: That schools bring little influence to bear on a child's achievement that is independent of his background and general social context; and that this very lack of an independent effect means that the inequalities imposed on children by their home, neighborhood, and peer environment are carried along to become the inequalities with which they confront adult life at the end of school.

Maybe this was because they wanted to stay in the neighborhood, or were concerned about how their child could safely get to another school, or didn't know there were open slots at good schools.

Forty - eight percent of all adults — and 50 percent of parents of school - aged children — living in a neighborhood with at least one charter school were aware of that fact.

The cultural differences between the newcomers and the old - timers in gentrifying neighborhoods can be easily, though inadequately, summarized: white, upper - middle - class families prefer a progressive and discursive style of interaction with their children, both at home and in school, and lower - income, nonwhite families prefer a traditional or authoritarian style of interaction with their children in these same venues.

Inspired by the successful Harlem Children's Zone model, the Promise Neighborhoods Institute at PolicyLink supports Promise Neighborhoods — communities of opportunity centered around strong schools — to wrap children in education, health, and social supports from cradle toChildren's Zone model, the Promise Neighborhoods Institute at PolicyLink supports Promise Neighborhoods — communities of opportunity centered around strong schools — to wrap children in education, health, and social supports from cradle tochildren in education, health, and social supports from cradle to career.

Most young children get the «Stranger Danger» talk at school, so they know about how to handle strangers in their neighborhood and in face - to - face situations.

Most young children get the «stranger danger» talk at school, so they know about how to handle strangers in their neighborhood and in face - to - face situations.

«Research has shown that community violence has large, short - term impacts on children's attention and impulse control, both of which are central to students» ability to learn in school,» says Dana Charles McCoy, assistant professor of education at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education, who has studied the impact of neighborhood environments on the development of children's cognitive and socioemotional skischool,» says Dana Charles McCoy, assistant professor of education at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education, who has studied the impact of neighborhood environments on the development of children's cognitive and socioemotional skiSchool of Education, who has studied the impact of neighborhood environments on the development of children's cognitive and socioemotional skills...

Inner - city neighborhoods are where all these dynamics interact, the study points out, and in neighborhoods with poverty rates at or above 40 percent, higher rates of school dropout, teenage pregnancy, and crime, and lower rates on cognitive and verbal skill tests and health indicators among school - age children continue.

The one group for whom this expansion might sound especially appealing is parents who believe their children are not getting the best education possible at their neighborhood public school.

«Parents feel their children are safer at school than at play in their own neighborhood, but recent acts of school violence have ignited debate over school safety.

At the Charlestown community meeting on school choice options that was held last week by Boston Public School (BPS) officials, two goals that will affect the children in our neighborhood who attend or might attend the public schools were brought to school choice options that was held last week by Boston Public School (BPS) officials, two goals that will affect the children in our neighborhood who attend or might attend the public schools were brought to School (BPS) officials, two goals that will affect the children in our neighborhood who attend or might attend the public schools were brought to light.

At 6 pm, dinner will be served and the group will open up the discussion on public education and how the development of community schools can benefit children, families and neighborhoods.

Lusher gives admissions priority to children who live in the neighborhood, have siblings at the school or have a parent who works at Tulane.

Event Description, Location and Time: On November 20th, allied organizations and individuals will begin at the home of one child [TBD] on the Northwest side of Detroit in the Brightmoor neighborhood and will then accompany the student on their route to school.

Two of the policy proposals contemplate giving children the right to attend pre-kindergarten at their neighborhood school.

They can choose to deny children access to a great education by continuing to enroll them in seriously low performing schools, try to find enough money to move to a more affluent neighborhood (good luck with that) or face possible jail time or probation for using another address, in another zip code, just to get a chance at a good education.

Also emphasized is trauma - informed teaching, which addresses how the trauma children experience at home and in their neighborhoods affects their behavior and learning at school.

How best to help 77,000 children at perpetually failing K - 12 public schools sharply divided the Florida House on Thursday, as the chamber's Republican majority pushed through a controversial $ 200 million spending plan to attract specialized, high - performing charter schools to Florida that would offer an alternative to — and potentially supplant the role of — struggling neighborhood schools.

At the beginning of that school year, we felt so fortunate to have found a way to get our children out of our failing neighborhood public school and into a Blue Ribbon Sschool year, we felt so fortunate to have found a way to get our children out of our failing neighborhood public school and into a Blue Ribbon Sschool and into a Blue Ribbon SchoolSchool.

Suggesting, as the manifesto does at the end, that failing schools in the poorest of neighborhoods can close and those children can find charter schools is a cop out by those whose job it is to find good solutions for public schools.

Eighty - eight percent of parents feel their children are safe at school — the highest figure ever recorded by the poll — compared to the 66 percent who believe their children are safe playing in their neighborhood.

At the same time, parents in many neighborhoods still do not have viable options for sending their children to a school that provides a world - class education, whether it is a public, neighborhood, magnet, selective enrollment, charter or specialized school.

The authors pointed out some of the advantages of low poverty noting, «Children whose parents read to them at home, whose health is good and can attend school regularly, who do not live in fear of crime and violence, who enjoy stable housing and continuous school attendance, whose parents» regular employment creates security, who are exposed to museums, libraries, music and art lessons, who travel outside their immediate neighborhoods, and who are surrounded by adults who model high educational achievement and attainment will, on average, achieve at higher levels than children without these educationally relevant advantagesChildren whose parents read to them at home, whose health is good and can attend school regularly, who do not live in fear of crime and violence, who enjoy stable housing and continuous school attendance, whose parents» regular employment creates security, who are exposed to museums, libraries, music and art lessons, who travel outside their immediate neighborhoods, and who are surrounded by adults who model high educational achievement and attainment will, on average, achieve at higher levels than children without these educationally relevant advantageschildren without these educationally relevant advantages.»

Many schools lock up tightly at 3 p.m., sending children into empty houses, barren neighborhoods, or crime - ridden streets — often with dire consequences.

The neighborhood felt unsafe to many of the young children who had to walk themselves to school so grandparents of one child created a «walking bus», stopping at houses along the way so children could come out and walk with them.

Many of you have written to say how much you appreciate our on - scene reporting of neighborhood street crime, our close coverage of your children's charter schools or our elected officials, our regular attendance at neighborhood meetings and our promotion of events in the Uptown area.

Far too predictably, our study reported that children who attended schools in the most severely low - income neighborhoods were likely to hear far fewer explanations, with those explanations offered at lower difficulty levels, than children in middle - and upper - income areas.

By the early 2000s entrepreneurs were pitching full - time online schools - perfect, they said, for athletes with heavy travel schedules, children with medical conditions that confined them at home, or almost anyone who found the hustle and bustle of neighborhood schools uncomfortable.

If the United States could somehow guarantee poor people a fair shot at the American dream through shifting education policies alone, then perhaps we wouldn't have to feel so damn bad about inequality — about low tax rates and loopholes that benefit the superrich and prevent us from expanding access to childcare and food stamps; about private primary and secondary schools that cost as much annually as an Ivy League college, and provide similar benefits; about moving to a different neighborhood, or to the suburbs, to avoid sending our children to school with kids who are not like them.