Sentences with phrase «education have fewer children»

In most societies, particularly during the process of demographic transition, women with more education have fewer children, both because they want fewer and because they find better ways to pursue their goals.

In a study published today, scientists at deCODE genetics use genomic and genealogical data from across the population of Iceland over many decades to show that people who carry sequence variations linked to higher levels of education have fewer children than average...

«Almost universally, women with higher levels of education have fewer children,» wrote demographers in a paper in Science on July 29.

Not exact matches

«Growing up in a home with 500 books would propel a child 3.2 years further in education, on average, than would growing up in a similar home with few or no books,» the Pacific Standard noted.

Common sense would dictate that if the people of a large society wanted to pay less to house criminals, wanted fewer abortions, and more people working — they would put their resources towards educating their youth on how to not get pregnant, providing contraception to those women who do not want children until they are equipped to raise them, and towards making sure all children obtain the highest possible education they can achieve.

As a result, some of the best recent efforts in Christian education have been in adult education — programs that enrich adult communities in which there are children, not communities of children in which there happen to be a few adults.

yuogot a few years f «education» of psych under your belt... that makes you more knowledgeable than me who has a degree in it and work in the field... go ahead... keep your children away from me if you wish... you are delusional about my work...

To arrest population growth the Chinese regime created a program of mass «ideological education» and a system of economic incentives to encourage people to have fewer children.

If only half of reimbursements for debt servicing went towards health and education, it would save the lives of 300 children per day and 16 fewer women per day would die following childbirth.»

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of being in on an amazing call with finance expert Suze Orman, who provided sage advice on everything from women in business, to student loans, to saving for your child's education, to home and personal finances.

To me, the solution to the attrition issue, whether it's at a KIPP middle school or the Promise Academy middle school, is the Harlem Children's Zone's «conveyor belt» model, which provides continuous, high - quality early - childhood and elementary education to precisely those «disengaged families and students,» so that when those children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first feChildren's Zone's «conveyor belt» model, which provides continuous, high - quality early - childhood and elementary education to precisely those «disengaged families and students,» so that when those children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first fechildren arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first few years.

In the past few years, «grit» has become a buzzword in child development and education circles.

As I told you a few weeks ago, I had the chance to appear on a national talk show, The Doctors, to talk about my Change.org petition against McDonald's «nutrition education» in our children's schools.

A few people have wondered what happens to the children's educations during our two month trip around Italy and France.

Though the bill is called the «Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016,» very few aspects of it would actually improve child nutrition; indeed, if you care about kids» health, there's a lot in the bill that ought to worryChild Nutrition and Education Act of 2016,» very few aspects of it would actually improve child nutrition; indeed, if you care about kids» health, there's a lot in the bill that ought to worrychild nutrition; indeed, if you care about kids» health, there's a lot in the bill that ought to worry you.

The Nigeria Medical Association Committee on Girl Child Education has said no fewer than 50,000 Nigerian girls die annually owing to complications arising from wrong and...

He also claims that New York's education budget is too high, without noting that because of the wide disparities of income in the state, children in wealthy districts benefit from much higher spending and students in poorer districts have to make do with far fewer resources.

Global fertility has halved in a generation to fewer than 2.5 children per woman, thanks to social trends such as education and urbanisation.

When children were given words and pictures, those who seemed to ignore the pictures and pointed at the words learnt more words than the children who pointed at the pictures, but they still learnt fewer words than the children who had no pictures at all (Review of Education Research, vol 40, no 3, p 349 and p 397).

Psychologists, doctors and special - education teachers now realize that a diagnosis at infancy does not necessarily mean a child will have few options in life — as long as he or she receives special training early.

You can search by region, distance, age, height, education, having children, income level, body type, ethnicity, to name a few.

March 26, 2018 • Abreu began El Sistema in Venezuela in 1975 with fewer than a dozen students — 40 years later, his system has been used throughout the world to unite children through musical education.

There have been very few cases heard by the United States Supreme Court regarding what exactly «free, appropriate public education» means for children with disabilities under IDEA.

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.

Additionally, Khan noticed that though the school's educators were passionate and caring for the 140 students, few had received advanced education in special needs, which limited what could be offered to many children.

For too long, some fitness experts say, physical education has not lived up to its name: Traditional phys - ed classes provide too little activity to too few students, offer little or no guidance for maintaining a healthful lifestyle, and can make less athletic children feel inadequate, which can further turn them off to exercise.

Murray points to the fact that national gains in educational achievement, particularly for those beginning on the lower end of the distribution, have been very hard to come by in the past few decades: «If we confine the discussion to children in the lower half of the intelligence distribution (education of the gifted is another story), the overall trend of the 20th century was one of slow, hard - won improvement.»

It would also ultimately teach families the consequences of bad choices — as poorly prepared children could not get needed education or jobs — but nobody knows whether that would take a few years or a few generations.

But the lawyer representing one of the defendants said he would file suit within the next few months to test whether district boundaries can be used to deny parents from the inner city the opportunity to provide a high - quality education for their children.

And he answers, «certainly not because I have any direct self - interest — no... I'm not profiting from my involvement in charter schools (in fact, I shudder to think of how much it's cost me), and I have little personal experience with the public school system because I'm doubly lucky: my parents saw that I wasn't being challenged in public schools, sacrificed (they're teachers / education administrators), and my last year in public school was 6th grade; and now, with my own children, I'm one of the lucky few who can afford to buy my children's way out of the NYC public system [in] which, despite Mayor Bloomberg's and Chancellor Klein's herculean efforts, there are probably fewer than two dozen schools (out of nearly 1,500) to which I'd send my kids.»

A new Gender Report compiled by UNESCO's EFA Global Monitoring Report (GMR) for International Day of the Girl Child, shows that fewer than half of countries — of which none in sub-Saharan Africa — have achieved the goal of gender parity in both primary and secondary education, even though all were supposed to achieve it by 2005.

Extensive inequities in education funding, by which students with the greatest needs receive the fewest funds, still prevail in many parts of the United States; for that reason, state courts continue to have a critical role in ensuring meaningful educational opportunities for all children.

«Few educators or philosophers of education would argue that schools» sole purpose is to keep children safe,» writes Sadowski, a faculty member in education at Bard University.

With this is mind, we all have to agree what education should be like for the coming decade, but few could argue that any strategy that ignores the technology our children use every day and that permeates working lives, will risk failure.»

Students there, along with Native American children attending Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) schools and children from military families, are the few eligible populations to whom the federal government has a unique obligation to provide education Education (BIE) schools and children from military families, are the few eligible populations to whom the federal government has a unique obligation to provide education education services.

Though most Americans believe that improving mathematics and science education is crucial to maintaining the country's competitive advantage over other countries in science and technology, few parents push their children to pursue careers in those fields, a survey has found.

Teachers with fewer students find that they have more time to involve parents in their children's education.

Maybe, if our corporations and corporate leaders gave our public schools the time, money, and respect they currently lavish on a very few private schools, they would find that a quality education is available to every child — no strings attached.

Research will be necessary as the children have to know the countries within the continents and a few flags of the most populated countries in the world, together with how education and homes around the world, compare to their own.

If there's ever been a case of «wrong for all the right reasons,» it's the laser - like focus on reading and math that has been the hallmark of schooling for the last few decades and was enshrined in education policy under the No Child Left Behind Act.

No fewer than 26 % percent of respondents living with school - age children have used an alternative to traditional public schools at some point in those children's education.

Research by home education provider Oxford Home Schooling has found that increasingly fewer parents believe that weekend jobs are important for older children to understand managing money.

A new Gender Report compiled by UNESCO's EFA Global Monitoring Report (GMR) for International Day of the Girl Child, shows that fewer than half of countries — of which none in sub-Saharan Africa — have achieved the goal of gender parity in both primary and secondary education, even though all were supposed to achieve it -LSB-...]

Establishing education savings accounts for every DC child would create unparalleled options for District families, empowering those children from low - income families in particular who have had few choices in the past.

Michael Rebell: Extensive inequities in education funding, by which students with the greatest needs receive the fewest funds, still prevail in many parts of the United States; for that reason, state courts continue to have a critical role in ensuring meaningful educational opportunities for all children.

Further inquiry would reveal that this Scandinavian country, together with its Western neighbors, also is a leader in empowering women in politics and perhaps therefore has only a few children who live in poverty, has one of the smallest income inequalities in society, gives every child a right to high - quality early education, offers universal healthcare and free higher education to all, and has - probably for these reasons - one of the happiest people on the planet.

Because so few regular classroom teachers have received training in gifted education it is often difficult for many of them to understand that gifted children do not need constant review.

«In 1998, the U.S. Department of Education found that fewer that 75 % of America's teachers could be considered fully qualified (that is, have studied child development, learning, and teaching methods; hold a degree in their subject areas; and have passed state licensing requirements)» (Schargel & Smink, 2001, p. 143).

As the year winds down and people are looking for ways to support their children and public education in California in the new year, we have come up with a few ways that you can get involved.

When parents get involved in their children's education, grades go up, test scores go up, children become more likely to pass and to attend better schools after high school, they have fewer discipline problems, and they're less likely to use drugs and alcohol.