Sentences with phrase «educational benefit to children»

Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, said: «The Reception Baseline Assessment and Multiplication Tables Check will be of no educational benefit to children and break the promise not to increase the assessment burden on primary schools.

The fear is that the English system — which was introduced in 1870 in order to get women back into work, rather than on the basis of any educational benefit to children — is now causing profound damage.

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She noted that there is strong research that indicates that the extra income the tax credit gives to low - income families has significant long - term benefits for the children, improving their educational, health, and career outcomes, on top of helping to mitigate immediate hardship.

Benefits include 16 - week paid maternity leave, $ 1,000 «Baby Bucks» to all new parents, designated nursing rooms with fully equipped hospital grade pumps and fridges in all our offices, free overnight breast milk shipping for nursing mothers on business trips, free backup child care and on - the - job educational opportunities to advance employees» skill sets and career opportunities.

About three thousand students are already benefiting from the latest wrinkle in five states, «education savings accounts,» which provide even more flexibility to families by allowing those who withdraw their children from public schools to receive a deposit of public funds into government - authorized savings accounts that can be used to pay for private school tuition, online learning programs, private tutoring, educational therapies, or college costs.

This may seem hard to do as you face a pile of applications to preschool for the first time, but we think if you approach this as the beginning of an educational journey and establish some ground rules early, your entire family will reap benefits from a more sane approach to child - raising.

If you never really thought of them as super educational, you will soon see the benefits to letting children play with LEGOs.

So we've taken all that we know about the benefits of music, along with our knowledge of child development and behavior, to create this extremely unique music class that will not only be entertaining but educational as well!

The extra focus and tailored attention of specialised one - to - one private tuition can be the decisive factor that will make the difference to successful learning and good exam grades, ensuring that you or your child is able to gain the most benefit from their mainstream educational activities and fulfil their academic potential.

Research also shows the particular benefits when fathers are able to take leave with a new baby, making them more likely to be involved in that child's care, which boosts children's educational attainment and emotional stability.

«They are themselves in a two - year pay freeze, teachers and lecturers are facing redundancy, will lose child benefits and other benefits, are paying more VAT, their children stand to lose educational maintenance allowances and their children will also have to pay higher tuition fees to go to university.»

Segregation with the sanction of law, therefore, has a tendency to [retard] the educational and mental development of negro children and to deprive them of some of the benefits they would receive in a racial [ly] integrated school system.

Service members will be able to transfer unused educational benefits to his or her spouse and children.

In addition to increased educational enrichment, full - day preschool benefits parents by providing children with a continually enriched environment throughout the day, thereby freeing parental time to pursue career and educational opportunities.

The study is one of the first to examine whether a child's participation in the federal program benefits mothers and fathers — in particular parents» educational attainment and employment.

In its opinion, the Supreme Court determined that Endrew's «making some progress,» found acceptable by the lower courts, was not «reasonably calculated to enable the child to receive educational benefits,» noting that it was barely better than «sitting idly in classrooms waiting until they were old enough to drop out.»

Last year Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street joined forces with HGSE to explore how electronic media can benefit children educationally.

For most of us, that driving force is the continuous improvement of the educational process to benefit hordes of individual children, so they might one day become productive, healthy, contributing members of a greater society.

As we race to the top after having left quite a number of children behind, we have to wonder why so many grand educational initiatives yield such limited benefits.»

Two bills providing for educational vouchers on a limited scale, including one that would restrict such benefits to the children of low - income families, are scheduled for hearings this fall in the Minnesota legislature.

In Session 3, you will deepen your understanding of the distinguishing features of a learning group and five strategies for promoting group learning in an educational setting: nurturing children's capacities to learn together; designing engaging tasks that benefit from a group perspective; facilitating conversations that deepen learning; forming groups intentionally; and choreographing individual, small - group, and whole - class learning.

Solar power can bring real benefits to schools through financial and carbon savings and be a great educational resource for the children.

Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street has joined forces with the Harvard Graduate School of Education to explore how electronic media can benefit children educationally.

The research funded to study long - term benefits of early educational programs was concentrated on children from highly impoverished families or children who already showed delays or disabilities.

Turning to that type of educational intervention, she states bluntly that its political and logistical impediments are even greater than those facing no - excuses charters — and suggests that those impediments exceed the likely benefit to children.

The district pointed to a 1982 Supreme Court decision, Board of Education v. Rowley, which held that schools must merely provide «some educational benefit» for children with disabilities.

«Our study suggests that the pressure put on families by this cut in benefits may also be working contrary to other policies that are intended to support child wellbeing and educational achievement, diminishing their effectiveness.»

From the first day of school I found myself mixing with one of the most talented and intelligent group of people, from across the globe, from different creeds and cultures, all congregating at this one school to lead educational institutions and systems that benefit all children.

Gillian believes the benefits to the children are enormous, from social and educational benefits, to enhancing health and well - being — the children are often learning without knowing it.

The implication is that, from the very beginning, disadvantaged and advantaged children have different educational needs and stand to benefit from different kinds of instruction.

These resources help maximize the benefits of parent - teacher collaborations to serve each child's educational needs.

Secretary of Education William J. Bennett last week unveiled his proposal for distributing Chapter 1 aid through vouchers, saying it would benefit disadvantaged students by «enabling parents to choose the educational program that best meets the needs of their children.»

The University Council for Educational Administration is a consortium of higher education institutions committed to advancing the preparation and practice of educational leaders for the benefit of schools and children.

The University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) is a consortium of higher education institutions committed to advancing the preparation and practice of educational leaders for the benefit of schools and children.

UCEA's mission is to advance the preparation and practice of educational leaders for the benefit of all children and schools.

This award complements UCEA's core mission to advance the preparation and practice of educational leaders for the benefit of all children and schools.

While an ESA program for students with special needs is a step in the right direction and could potentially benefit many Mississippi families, the end goal should be expanding the ESA to all students in our state and letting parents choose the best educational setting for their child.

Ultimately, the board discussed various options and concluded to leave the wording that the board would «stand opposed to internal and external initiatives that seek to reduce public education in Los Angeles to an educational marketplace and our children to market shares, while not investing in district - wide programs and strategies that benefit every student whom we are sworn to serve.»

UCEA is dedicated to advancing the preparation and practice of educational leaders for the benefit of schools and children.

With the evident benefits for those students most in need, the strong appeal to parents desperate for better educational opportunities for their children (with an admission waiting list of one million names nationally) and the predominantly non-union academic faculty, charter schools represent a powerful threat to the economic and political hegemony of the unions.

She called on the government to «take speedy action» to make sure all children could benefit from «an education that harnesses the power of educational technology».

Following each column, some very angry and frustrated parents write to make it clear that not only did their children benefit from charter schools but that my comments are an assault on the very essence of the educational model charter schools provide.

Likewise, the lower court rejected the ACLU's Blaine Amendment claim, holding that it «was not intended to preclude any expenditure that has an incidental benefit to religion, where such is made for a primary secular purpose,» and that the ESA «was enacted for the valid secular purpose of providing financial assistance to parents to take advantage of educational options available to Nevada children.»

If children's welfare is the highest educational priority, then teachers, parents, and administrators should work together to design assessment systems that bring the greatest benefits to children.

But educational benefits are something that we as a nation have long held should be afforded to all children, irrespective of their backgrounds.

OSEP warns that failing this requirement is likely to result in a child not receiving a meaningful educational benefit or FAPE.

[1] At stake: «What is the level of educational benefit that school districts must confer on children with disabilities to provide them with the free appropriate public education guaranteed by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?»

Research has firmly established that investing in early learning yields powerful benefits for children, both in early elementary and as a cornerstone to their overall educational success.

This desire to impose an English First approach not only contradicts the research that illustrates the benefits of bilingual education but also contradicts the platform's stance that parents, not the government, should be the ones empowered to make educational decisions for their children.

The Court will decide what level of educational benefit schools are required to provide to children with disabilities under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).