Sentences with phrase «educational future of their children»

The online RefuseCommonCore.com website offers New Yorkers the ability to write a message directly to the Governor to respect the rights of parents to make important decisions on the educational future of their children and enable parents to have their children refuse to take the high stakes Common Core - based standardized tests.

«I believe public schools of choice will enhance that important contract that needs to be strengthened between parent and child in the engagement of the educational future of the child.

A child insurance plan secures the educational future of the children.

Not exact matches

This perspective unmistakably reveals the unwholesomeness, not to put it more strongly, of our way of life: our obsession with sex, violence, and the pornography of «making it;» our addictive dependence on drugs, «entertainment,» and the evening news; our impatience with anything that limits our sovereign freedom of choice, especially with the constraints of marital and familial ties; our preference for «nonbinding commitments;» our third - rate educational system; our third - rate morality; our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong, lest we «impose» their morality on us; our reluctance to judge or be judged; our indifference to the needs of future generations, as evidence by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our unsated assumption, which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion, that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.

I would like to see educational programs which immerse children into the history of hope in Israel and in the church, showing how visions of a good future grew in every age out of the memories of God's past disclosures to provide anticipations of a coming kingdom.

That and our «third - rate educational system, our third - rate morality, our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong lest we «impose» our morality on others and thus invite others to «impose» their morality onus, our reluctance to judge or be judged, our indifference to the needs of future generations as evidenced by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our inhospitable attitude to the newcomers born in our midst, our unstated assumption which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.»

It was written by a perspective Princeton student who believed that «The recruitment of elite athletes from grade school onward is degrading our entire educational system, and it bodes ill... for America's children and our nation's future.»

That being the case, why not try to make the food we're supplying our children — the future of this country, after all — best serve their physical and educational needs, rather than contributing to long term health care costs that we all pay for down the line?

These include the promotion of breastfeeding to enhance the quality of relationships between parents and their babies, recognising how attachment behaviours in these early years influence a child's future educational attainment, social skills, self - efficacy and self - worth.

What does this foretell for the future of Africa's children (including my children) and the educational systems they are being trained in?

«We need honest, serious leaders in Washington who can get the job done on the important issues we collectively face — protecting Medicare and Social Security, creating sustainable quality jobs, and providing the educational opportunities that give all of our children the best chance for a better future.»

«Look, I could not express the urgency more,» de Blasio said during an interview Friday with Politico while attending the US Conference of Mayors in Miami Beach, Fla. «Basically, our colleagues in the state Legislature have until next week to get this done — 1.1 million children's live and educational future depends on it.»

This is why it's so important that Teach First continues to work in deprived communities, and works towards creating an educational system where parental income, or lack of it, won't hinder a child's future prospects.

Scrapping these projects is totally unnecessary and is jeopardising the educational future of thousands of children and young people.

Further, thousands of Renewal Schools children, their parents, and hard - working teachers all around the city also learned that their educational futures would abruptly change via a cornucopia of closures, mergers, and truncations upon which the mayor's Panel for Educational Policy will vote.

In a related editorial, Virginia A. Stallings, M.D., of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania, writes: «Future studies and educational activities are needed to encourage families who choose to provide lunch from home to prepare meals that are similar to the NSLP diet patterns and the health promotion goals.

These two features of ESAs — the ability of parents to completely customize their child's education and save for future educational expenses — make them distinct from and improvements upon traditional school vouchers.

At the moment, most of these children and young people have a statement of special educational needs and in the future they will have an education, health and care (EHC) plan, which may be supported by a personal budget.

Psychologists like Edward Thorndike of Teachers College, Robert Yerkes of Harvard, and Carl Brigham of Princeton insisted that educational science was ushering in a new millennium of social progress and that IQ scores would enable educators to plan each child's education and future with certainty.

The kind of educational approach we should promote in an interconnected world is one that allows children taking the lead in deciding and charting their own future with guidance from the adults and not vise versa.

Your child is sure to gain a wealth of positive developmental skills at childcare camps like Barracudas, and get invaluable educational and social experiences to help them in their future!

A series of rapid shifts in the number of school - age children in the U.S. in the next 20 years will make planning for school staffing difficult and will «significantly affect» the future structure of educational institutions, according to a report released last week by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Preparing for adulthood • Planning for young people's futures • A broad range of education and learning opportunities: Wolf Review • Employment opportunities and support: the role of disability employment advisers • A coordinated transition to adult health services: joint working across all services • Support for independent living Services working together for families • Local authorities and local health services will play a pivotal role in delivering change for children, young people and families • Reducing bureaucratic burdens on professionals • Empowering local professionals to develop collaborative, innovative and high quality services • Supporting the development of high quality speech and language therapy workforce and educational psychology profession • Encouraging greater collaboration between local areas • Extending local freedom and flexibility over the use of funding • Enabling the voluntary and community sector to take on a greater role in delivering services • Exploring a national banded funding framework • Bringing about greater alignment of pre 16 and post 16 funding arrangements

«We must make sure all our children... have access to the educational opportunities of the present and future,» the president said.

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In response to the publication of the SEN Code of Practice for parliamentary approval by the Department for Education, the AEP has stressed that an uncertain funding future for the initial training of the educational psychology workforce and the ever increasing demand for educational psychologists» posts will mean that there will be an insufficient number of educational psychologists supporting local authorities and schools in future, which could put the wellbeing of vulnerable children and young people across the country at risk.

By taking into account factors such as where a child lives and their attainment at school, the research provides a unique analysis of how educational choices made at the age of 16 can have a deep impact on a child's future career and earnings.

My own vision for the future of our struggle remains anchored by the belief that we must give poor parents the power to choose educational environments — public or private, non-sectarian or religious — where their children will succeed.

(a) In grades K - 6, the program shall be designed in coordination with the teaching staff to prepare students to participate effectively in their current and future educational programs, to help students who exhibit any attendance, academic, behavioral or adjustment problems, to educate students concerning avoidance of child sexual abuse, and to encourage parental involvement.

But for Associate Professor Meredith Rowe, an educational psychologist at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the amount of words a child hears is just one factor, and not the most significant, in predicting future vocabulary growth.

By giving parents more control over their children's education, we are making strides toward a future of unprecedented educational attainment and freedom of choice.

Below is the Quality Schools Action Framework ™ developed by IDRA (Robledo Montecel & Goodman, 2010) that may assist the Legislature in drafting future laws that could help the state achieve its public education mission of «ensuring that all Texas children have access to a quality education that enables them to achieve their potential and fully participate now and in the future in the social, economic, and educational opportunities of our state and nation» (Texas Education Code § 4.001).

The Annie E. Casey Foundation is devoted to developing a brighter future for millions of children at risk of poor educational, economic, social and health outcomes.

Improving educational outcomes is one of the most important ways to lift children out of poverty, and charter schools offer that hope to parents who want a better future for their children.

Additionally, David is a parent of two young children and strongly believes in offering an innovative and diverse educational model that will prepare children for success in the future.

It shows the increase in present value of future earnings per child for a given educational intervention, compared with the cost of that educational intervention per child.

Mission Statement The Rocky Mountain Deaf School Family Student Staff Organization (FSSO), in cooperation with the Community in the Denver Metro Area, encourages an attitude of support, pride and enthusiasm that promotes a positive school / community relationship, enhancing our children's educational environments, and influencing our children's future success.

Let's hope that Governor McCrory sees the obvious educational and political benefits of focusing most of his efforts on supporting the teachers and students in the traditional public school system that educates more than 90 % of North Carolina's children and readies the future workforce of the state.

«Indianapolis, the home of our global headquarters, faces an uncertain future if we do not dramatically improve the educational attainment of all of our city's children.

This kind of antiquated, «one best system» thinking is detrimental to the future of further advances in education accountability and finance reform, as well as, ultimately, the growth in educational achievement of the children of Texas.

Although his statewide marathon of appearances has proven less than fun when addressing crowds of individuals who seek to improve his reform proposals, he's repeatedly acknowledged how imperative it is for this state's future that the ravages of poverty be overcome within our public schools and that policies and state funding mechanisms be devised to ensure equal educational opportunity for all children.

As the first iteration of No Child Left Behind evolves into the next generation of waivers and a future reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, it will be critical for the federal government to push states to support teachers and enhance standards in ways that will continue improving the educational achievement of English language learner students.

Romero, who's also director of California Democrats for Education Reform, tells the Weekly, «No mayor should be afraid of endorsing and embracing a law that was written to give parents real rights to become the educational architects of their own children's futures.»

Like many of the parents I met while canvassing the area, the mother was deeply invested in her child's academic success, desperate for more high - quality educational options and fearful that her child wouldn't get the education he needs to have a bright future.

Reading proficiency by 3rd grade is critical for all students, and an early indicator of future educational success, and yet, more than 80 percent of low - income children miss that critical marker.

The mission of the Calhoun Falls Charter School («CFCS», «Calhoun Falls Public Charter School», «CFPCS», «the Charter School», «the School») is to provide to the children and families of Calhoun Falls a safe and supportive learning environment where students are actively engaged in the educational process, develop strong leadership qualities and create an opportunity for the children and families of Calhoun Falls to leave behind a living legacy to future generations.

It's time to expand the role of parents choosing — and the market delivering — better education for Oregon's children through educational choice, because every child deserves a ticket to a better future today.

We will consider the systems design of the curriculum driven one - size - fits - all educational model, why it no longer meets our needs, and how to devise a system which can deliver a better future for our children and for ourselves as educators.

We are so pleased that you are considering Compass Charter Schools, an award - winning virtual school, as part of your child's educational future.

Undoubtedly, the law has given credence to the view that parents should be the true architects of their children's educational futures.