Sentences with phrase «classes of children at»

The aim of this study was to identify classes of children at entry into first grade with different patterns of academic and behavior problems.

Not exact matches

«At the same time as they have these massive tax cuts for the richest people in the country they actually increase taxes for a lot of working and middle class people, and so I think they see the child tax credit as a way to try to address that,» Marr said.

But it is a different story if we use the low income measure, which looks at the gap between poor children and the middle class, calculating the number of children who live in a family which has less than one half of the income of a comparable middle income family.

A W5 investigation on Saturday: An Ottawa fertility doctor accused of using his own sperm and fathering at least 11 children faces a class - action lawsuit as his patients speak out in exclusive interviews.

«At the time, people looked at our plan for more generous and means - tested child benefits, tax increases for the rich and tax cuts for the middle class as a bit of a curiosity,» he said, according to a copy of his remarkAt the time, people looked at our plan for more generous and means - tested child benefits, tax increases for the rich and tax cuts for the middle class as a bit of a curiosity,» he said, according to a copy of his remarkat our plan for more generous and means - tested child benefits, tax increases for the rich and tax cuts for the middle class as a bit of a curiosity,» he said, according to a copy of his remarks.

By contrast to the so called middle - class tax cut which favours the more affluent, the CCB will have a positive impact upon the lamentably high rate of child poverty in Canada (which stood at 16.5 % in 2013), and will promote greater income equality among families with children.

At confirmation class, this pastor spoke about being «children of God» and looked for an example to illustrate this special relationship between father and children.

They are then further disturbed that the headteacher loyally supports the staff member who has made the children shout out «penis» or «vagina» at the front of the class, or has said that the Church will one day ordain women priests, or has talked openly about their gay partner.

Today I just found out that I didn't pass my class and so I yelled at GOD and now I feel so bad that I should not have yelled at him, or I will be punished because I yelled and that's when I came across this article and this article made me realize that we are GODs children and GOD will forgive whatever we do just because GOD loves each one of us.

Can people in bad, poor areas break out of the cycle of family instability that puts children at risk academically, economically, socially, and emotionally — a cycle currently working its way through the working class?

The common wisdom of church developers at the time was simple: where there is a pool of white, middle - class, home - owning families with children, mainline churches are likely to grow, no matter what their theological orientation.

Teachers in Ecuador's public schools often must contend with overcrowding (60 students per class), a dearth of books — even at the university level — and students fainting from hunger (according to the government's own figures, half the nation's children suffer from malnutrition)

For example, in the case of the Action for Children «s Television call for a ban on commercials for children too young to discriminate, or the church «s protest against excessive and gratuitous violence, the criticism was aimed at a class of programming rather than against an individual Children «s Television call for a ban on commercials for children too young to discriminate, or the church «s protest against excessive and gratuitous violence, the criticism was aimed at a class of programming rather than against an individual children too young to discriminate, or the church «s protest against excessive and gratuitous violence, the criticism was aimed at a class of programming rather than against an individual program.

A precocious and self - contained child, from an early age possessed of an outstanding facility for languages, he was dazzling as a scholar at Eton and, at seventeen, a scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he went on to gain first - class honors and a prize fellowship.

Some challenge specific parts of the curriculum (mandatory AIDS education, New York City's distribution of condoms to schoolchildren without the knowledge or consent of the parents, textbooks that propagate anti-Christian doctrines, gym - class dress requirements at odds with the modest dress required of Hindu, Muslim, and other children, «values clarification» classes that teach that there is no objective source of right and wrong, and so forth).

For example, one church school has a social worker who, at the invitation of a teacher, visits that class to observe and work with a troubled child.

One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

Over half of New Yorkers are immigrants or the children of immigrants, and the city hosts many thriving immigrant churches, Orthodox, Catholic, and Evangelical, Pentecostal, and charismatic, but Bishop Rimbo's focus — at least in this profile — is on the white middle class, the traditional constituency for mainline churches.

At the other end of the spectrum, children in middle - to - upper - class families grow up knowing that college, work, and a strong family are all desirable and attainable.

At the big, evangelical church it was almost unheard of to have children in our classes who didn't attend church with both parents.

The damage to the children varies, depending on a number of factors — the strength of the nonalcoholic parent, the age of the child at the onset of the most destructive phases of the illness, the nature of the relationship with the alcoholic parent, and the social class level of the family.

When we of the so - called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank - account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion.

I see by my children and gran children that the majority of women are still looked at and treated 2nd class even by the lowest of lowest of males.

As the oldest child in a stable middle class family, Luther endured a childhood of strict discipline at home, school and church that left him with a sense of inferiority, and emerged into university life at a time of great intellectual ferment that challenged the entire educational system as well as the corruptions of a politically powerful church.

A knife - wielding man injured 22 children and one adult outside a primary school in central China as students were arriving for classes Friday, police said, the latest in a series of periodic rampage attacks at Chinese schools and kindergartens.

A friend of mine who gave a child safety class at a church, was contacted three or four weeks later by a parent.

Hilton Anaheim's «Center of SoCal» package includes accommodations, breakfast for two adults and two children under twelve (a $ 100 daily value), Wi - Fi (a $ 14 daily value), access for two to the property's first class health club (a $ 28 daily value) and over $ 300 in savings per person at an array of top - tier Southern California attractions — twenty at my last count.

Ross, of course, has one big advantage at Santa Barbara — there are no classes for children.

She has taught child development classes to graduate students at the University of California Medical Center / San Francisco.

At Shriners Hospitals for Children — Chicago, our mission is simple: deliver world - class care to children who need it most — regardless of their abilityChildren — Chicago, our mission is simple: deliver world - class care to children who need it most — regardless of their abilitychildren who need it most — regardless of their ability to pay.

There are good political and social reasons behind making pre-K available to everyone, including the benefits to all children of socioeconomic integration and the fact that middle - class voters are more likely to be invested in programs that aren't narrowly targeted at the poor.

However, if your child is a student who can finish at the top of his or her public school class while securing the support needed to navigate the college admissions process, then he or she may be better off as a giant gerbil in a pint - sized Habitrail.

In conjunction with May as Exercise is Medicine ® Month, «The World's Largest Exercise Class» is coming to children and schools around the world May 1, as millions of participants across the globe celebrate the 25th annual Project ACES ® Day beginning at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, May 1.

By the way, if you find that you are having a hard time controlling your own temper, seek out support in the form of friends, other parents with same - age children, or by taking a parenting class at your local rec center or church.

When my oldest started Kindergarten, I was distressed to see that many of the lessons of personal protection I was teaching at home were being undermined at school where candy was given as a reward, class parties overloaded children with junk food, and fundraising involved peddling candy and cookies.

Little Groove also does a lot of free programs at the public libraries, classes in different neighborhoods including a weekend class in Back Bay, and two classes a week at the Children's Museum.

With a staff full of licensed therapists and professionals experienced in working with children and families, the Wright Mommy and Me offers classes aimed at nurturing both Mama and Baby and helping you both through the often - tumultuous first year and beyond.

In other words, you want your child to excel in his high school course, but not at the expense of his other classes.

While at the museum, check out the many activities for children, including Family Sundays, art classes and special projects such as decorating sugar candy skulls and creating Dia de los Muertos art of your own.

I also flew BA with a 9 week old from LA to London in business class and they did not have a bassinet or child seat to offer me despite having notified them at the time of booking.

Specifically, for fathers, higher expectations about their children's educational level, and greater level / frequency of interest and direct involvement in children's learning, education and schools, are associated strongly with better educational outcomes for their children, including: • better exam / test / class results • higher level of educational qualification • greater progress at school • better attitudes towards school (e.g. enjoyment) • higher educational expectations • better behaviour at school (e.g. reduced risk of suspension or expulsion)(for discussion / review of all this research, see Goldman, 2005).

She married at 35 — late, but not extraordinarily so for her generation and social class — and managed to have two children before her window of opportunity closed.

Growing up in Edison Park as the younger middle child of 4 sisters, she started taking drama classes at the Park District and immediately decided being onstage was the most fun ever.

Parents often feel lost at sea, themselves, when it comes to the best course for guiding and growing their children in the storm - tossed waves and murky waters of childhood behaviors, and many churches try to meet parent's needs by offering parenting books and classes.

She has had a large clinical practice with an emphasis on child and adolescent problems and parenting issues, and has taught Child Development classes to graduate students at the University of California San Francisco Medical Cechild and adolescent problems and parenting issues, and has taught Child Development classes to graduate students at the University of California San Francisco Medical CeChild Development classes to graduate students at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center.

Tough shows even the most naïve reader how difficult it is to grapple with the question of how to take an entire community of mostly disadvantaged children and mostly undereducated parents without financial resources and transform them — or at least the children as they grow — into fully functioning members of the middle class.

At the end of the class day, snack is a calming, intimate and focus - building segment for your child.

The teacher can not spend more time with this child than with the rest of the class — and if statistics are to be trusted, we should expect at least three easily distractible children in every classroom.

Also, one of the reasons I dislike in - class treats is the allergen issue, and that's not a problem with school food as, at least in HISD, a child's special allergy - related needs are routinely accommodated.

With the insights of anthroposophy, gleaned through a daily look at child development focusing on your class's age group, you will get to know the first grader as he or she crosses the bridge into elementary school.