Sentences with phrase «children of school age in»

With figures suggesting that almost 20 % of children of school age in the UK are bilingual, its findings could have major implications for young people's personal and professional prospects, as well as national health and education systems.

Live in Bayfield County and have a child of school age in the Washburn School District?

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Yousafzai has been advocating for Pakistani women and children since the age of 11, when she documented in a BBC blog life in the Swat Valley under Taliban rule during a time when girls in the region were prohibited from going to school.

This fall, our team members in and around Chicago, Boston, and Philadelphia volunteered with Cradles to Crayons, a national organization that provides children from birth through age 12 with essential items — all free of charge — to help them thrive at home, at school, and at play.

Gordon L. Flett, a psychology professor at York University in Toronto, says more than 50 percent of today's Western school - aged children exhibit the perfectionist traits hinted at above.

With its state license for 116 students; lucrative tuition subsidies for single parents, available from North Carolina's Child Care Resources program; and expertise with children, from infants to after - schoolers (up to age 12), this business could advance as quickly as a 2 - year - old — if placed in the care of a growth - minded new owner.

For this reason, commercial space companies have a vested interest in sparking the imagination of school - age children, and in demonstrating actual space industry careers to today's youth.

«Whether it was the use of hotels instead of supportive care to house youth like Alex Gervais, or the heartbreaking story of Paige Gauthier whose belongings were dropped off in a black garbage bag at her last known school when she aged out, Mary Ellen gave British Columbians a window into the stories of children and youth being failed by the Christy Clark government.

Social Security sets out a few key rules for eligibility: The child must be unmarried, under the age of 18 or 19 years old, and in school no higher than grade 12.

If a child is in school, benefits will cease upon graduation from high school or two months after reaching the age of 19 — whichever is first.

The primary business of Hobby Quest is after - school programs for children aged 5 to 14 years old, working mainly with and in schools and community centers.

If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.

Still a third national survey (1997) discovered not only that a strong majority of African - Americans (57 percent) and Hispanics (65 percent) favored vouchers, but also that it was precisely the black age group most likely to have children in the public schools (those 26 to 35) who supported vouchers most strongly (86.5 percent!).

If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and enti.tle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.»

«The inequitable distribution of the national revenue; the disparity in the scale of salaries (some dispose of emoluments which are an insult to the poverty of the country, while the immense majority receives a miserable pittance); the fact that a bare two per cent of the active population owns seventy per cent of the arable land; the system of recruiting our agricultural laborers, who do not even enjoy legal status; the fact that hundreds of thousands of school - age children lack basic education; the disintegration of the family; the growing immorality everywhere — all this demands bold and definitive change.»

Charles was a clever child, and after local schooling, he and a friend were sent at the very early age of fifteen to University College London, in Gower Street.

Matters came to crisis point a year ago when the last government's Children, Schools & Family Bill sought to impose a statutory sex and relationship education (SRE) curriculum on all schools from the primary stage (currently SRE is only compulsory in secondary schools and the content can be determined by each school) and to remove the right of parents to withdraw their children from inappropriate SRE lessons from the agChildren, Schools & Family Bill sought to impose a statutory sex and relationship education (SRE) curriculum on all schools from the primary stage (currently SRE is only compulsory in secondary schools and the content can be determined by each school) and to remove the right of parents to withdraw their children from inappropriate SRE lessons from the ageSchools & Family Bill sought to impose a statutory sex and relationship education (SRE) curriculum on all schools from the primary stage (currently SRE is only compulsory in secondary schools and the content can be determined by each school) and to remove the right of parents to withdraw their children from inappropriate SRE lessons from the ageschools from the primary stage (currently SRE is only compulsory in secondary schools and the content can be determined by each school) and to remove the right of parents to withdraw their children from inappropriate SRE lessons from the ageschools and the content can be determined by each school) and to remove the right of parents to withdraw their children from inappropriate SRE lessons from the agchildren from inappropriate SRE lessons from the age of 15.

However, it amazes me that in a city that has recorded over 440 + school age children being injuired or killed but a gun this year, and with a city with some of THE STRICTEST gun laws in the US, that they aren't beating down city hall doors to make some more laws.

The distinction between the nuclear and traditional family was also blurred in the recent report on human sexuality by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) titled Keeping Body and Soul Together: «Although many Christians in the post-World War II era have a special emotional attachment to the nuclear family, with its employed father, mother at home, and two or more school - aged children, that profile currently fits only 5 percent of North American households.»

We begin to formally educate a child at the age of six, and twelve years later frequently find we have failed, not because school material is intrinsically difficult (the task of learning a new language is much more so, yet the child masters it in thee years); we find failure because we have ignored the fact that the developing personality has a natural sway, to and fro, which Whitehead says results in a «craving» to be continually refreshed by the experience of starting anew.

In some slum areas ten to thirty percent of the school - age children are mentally or culturally retarded.

He spoke from a culture in which caring meant controlling, directing, making decisions for children of far older than nursery - school age.

When Bruno Bettelheim committed suicide in 1990 at the age of 86 he had a towering and broadly based reputation: as a wise and humane child psychiatrist in whose Orthogenic School at the University of Chicago hundreds of severely disturbed children had been restored to normal life, as an expert on child - rearing in the Israeli kibbutzim, as a survivor of Buchenwald and Dachau whose writings had established him as an authority on life in the concentration camps, and as a specialist in the treatment of autistic children.

In the fall of 1987, Ricky Ray, aged ten, and his two younger brothers, all hemophilic children from Arcadia, Florida, who tested positive for the AIDS antibody, tried to go to school.

Kingdom of the Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement by Mitchell L. Stevens Princeton University Press, 238 pages, $ 24.95 A recent government report documents a remarkable growth in the number of school - aged children now being educated at home and provides reassuChildren: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement by Mitchell L. Stevens Princeton University Press, 238 pages, $ 24.95 A recent government report documents a remarkable growth in the number of school - aged children now being educated at home and provides reassuchildren now being educated at home and provides reassuring....

St Columba's Church also supports a youth project in Lochside which offers a range of summer activities for children from primary school age to young people in high school.

«This is my body» comprises twelve lessons for children aged 10 - 11, in their last year of primary school.

The UNDP calculates that 113 million of 680 million primary - school - age children were not enrolled in school in 1998.

During the post-war period children of school age were in «the family pew» with their parents.

mentally ill, delusional people who believe in the existence of gods should be prohibited from voting, serving on a jury, running for or holding any public office, purchasing or owning firearms, teaching public school, or having any contact with children under the age of 18.

Back in 2015, a survey commissioned by ITV revealed that 12 per cent of parents of primary school aged children admitted to having pretended to practice a faith in which they did not believe to get their child into a desirable faith school.

And, Julia Child for finding her passion later in life — she didn't even enter culinary school until age 36 and then later wrote the iconic Mastering the Art of French Cooking which ended up as a syndicated television show she hosted well into her later years.

I'm drowning in parent - of - school - age - children - end - of - the - year — hectic - ness!

In the Philippines, vitamin A deficiency still affects approximately 1.7 million children (15.2 %) aged 6 months to 5 years while in Bangladesh, more than half of preschool and school children are affecteIn the Philippines, vitamin A deficiency still affects approximately 1.7 million children (15.2 %) aged 6 months to 5 years while in Bangladesh, more than half of preschool and school children are affectein Bangladesh, more than half of preschool and school children are affected.

A New Study Shows Effects of Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools More than 1.7 million school - age children in the United States have better access to fresh fruits and vegetables thanks to new salad bars donated to schools through Let's Move Salad Bars to SSchools More than 1.7 million school - age children in the United States have better access to fresh fruits and vegetables thanks to new salad bars donated to schools through Let's Move Salad Bars to Sschools through Let's Move Salad Bars to SchoolsSchools.

«This is in addition to restricting availability of regular soft drinks in primary schools and not marketing these to children under 12 years of age.

But for those of us who aren't in school and don't have school - age children, why exactly should we care that school is starting back -LSB-...]

The Little League Challenger Program is for Youth with intellectual and physical challenges., ages 4 - 18, or up to age 22 if still enrolled in high school, to enjoy the game of baseball along with the millions of other children who participate in this sport worldwide.

Playground injuries are the leading cause of injury to children in childcare and to children ages 5 to 14 in schools.

Although most school - age children who suck their thumbs do so in private (they become aware that thumbsucking is not an accepted practice), there is a small percentage of children who continue sucking during the day.

And even though I'd like to think I'd make a different choice in the situation when my kids are high school age, now that I do have children of my own I'm a lot more sympathetic to my dad.

Phase II of the study was conducted between 1995 - 2000 to follow the 1226 children continuing to participate from age 3 through their second year in school.

Researchers have found, in fact, that most of the achievement gap between well - off and poor children opens up before age five; for most children, the gap then stays pretty steady from kindergarten through the end of high school.

Internationally recognized author and consultant Jane M. Healy, PhD identifies a key indicator of learning difficulties or disabilities in young school aged children.

According to non-profit advocacy group Families Fighting Flu, a particularly onerous flu season like this one can result in as many as 30 percent of school - aged children getting sick.

Parents who were over-involved in high school turn into parents who receive late night electronic transfers of essays between them and their college - aged children, which leads to parents writing job cover letters, which leads to parents doing assignments in the workplace.

Yet 88 percent of Ontario parents in another survey believed that their school - age children were «active.»»

As a parent of an elementary aged child, and having shared meals in the school cafeteria with my child's class, on more than one occasion, this may actually work.

A study review by CJ Bacon and colleagues from the Department of Child Health Medical School in the University of Newcastle tracked 649 babies from the age of 8 to 26 weeks to answer the question, «How mothers keep their baby warm?

I am a mother of a 4 children ages 16 to 7 months and each one of my children were not raised in either daycare or pre schools.