Sentences with phrase «educational needs of kids»

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While there is growing awareness of the health and educational benefits that salad bars provide to kids, many school districts are unable to afford the basic equipment needed to adopt this strategy.

Also available are Junior Golf Camps and the Golf Academy.The primary goal of our Junior golf lessons is to provide a safe, fun and educational environment where kids (ages 7 through 17) can learn all the need to play a successful game of golf.

Distracting your kids away from needing your constant, highest level of energy and attention every now and then with some beloved and educational children's programming?

Rated «K» for Kids Only is an educational facility that caters to the growth and developmental needs of children living in Smyrna, Georgia.

This one is very educational, because your kids need to learn about the various types of foods that mother nature has to offer.

Montessori and Waldorf schools are the two most common types of schools that parents of gifted kids look to as a solution to their child's educational needs.

Reversing letters is entirely normal for kindergartners and is nothing to worry about, says David Funk, an educational consultant and author of Love and Logic Solutions for Kids With Special Needs.

Success» opponents and their supporters in the media are trying to use this mistake as proof of a pattern of discrimination against special - needs kids and portray Success Academy specifically as the embodiment of institutionalized, deliberate educational neglect.

It was a group undoubtedly underserved: The federal government requires schools to provide an appropriate education to children with cognitive, physical, and emotional handicaps, but is largely silent about the needs of kids at the upper end of the educational curve.

If you train a different lens upon all this, however, you realize that you're looking at a badly messed - up system, one that privileges some kids over others, that extends rights to some citizens that others don't have, that invites finagling by both seekers and suppliers of educational services (and countless intermediaries), and that ends up being costlier than it needs to be, not to mention sitting substantially beyond the reach of policymakers seeking to apportion scarce education dollars across multiple legitimate causes, needs, and priorities.

We need to be able to say that «this educational intervention for kids with dyslexia helps 50 percent of the kids who fit a certain pattern, but only five percent of the kids who fit another kind of a pattern» — just as doctors break down results for medical treatments.

We at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute have a longstanding interest in advancing quality school choices for kids who need them and a parallel interest in boosting educational achievement with the help of rigorous standards, assessments, and accountability systems.

They exist because states believed it was important to lay out clear expectations for what all kids needed to know at each grade level in order to succeed in future educational settings, the workforce, or as a contributing member of civic life.

Some accountability supporters get concerned when there's talk of «testing reform;» that can be a euphemism for «testing backtracking,» meaning less attention to the educational needs of underserved kids.

But if Indianapolis is going to fully seize this moment and give dramatically more kids better educational opportunities, we need to invest more public resources in the most successful programs and schools, regardless of whether they are run by or part of a traditional school district.

Charter schools were established to offer a new opportunity to children, especially kids of color and kids from low - income families, who didn't have access to a schools that fit their educational needs.

Despite their sordid history, Blaine Amendments are today used not only by Washington to deny educational opportunities for children with special needs, but also by opponents of school choice programs to deny parents the right to select the schools that are best for their kids.

The irony is that if we want our kids to be truly successful (happy, healthy, fulfilled, and prepared for life outside of school), we need to challenge the narrow conception of success as solely related to grades, test scores, and educational credentials, and we must focus on these other critical components.

It's a form of us branding ourselves in terms of being autonomous and independent as we design our educational curriculum and meet the needs of the parents and kids.»

Brinig: As we discuss in our book, the loss of Catholic schools is a «triple whammy» for our cities: When Catholic schools close, (1) poor kids lose schools with a track record of educating disadvantaged children at a time when they need them more desperately than ever; (2) poor neighborhoods that are already overwhelmed by disorder and crime lose critical and stabilizing community institutions — institutions that our research suggests suppress crime and disorder; and, (3) middle - class families must look elsewhere for educational options for their kids, leading many to migrate to suburbs with high - performing public schools.

Carol is author of more than 250 books, book chapters, articles, and other educational materials including (for ASCD): How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed - Ability Classrooms; The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners (2nd edition); Fulfilling the Promise of the Differentiated Classroom: Strategies and Tools for Responsive Teaching; Integrating Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design: Connecting Content and Kids (with Jay McTighe); The Differentiated School: Making Revolutionary Changes in Teaching and Learning (with Kay Brimijoin and Lane Narvaez); and Leading and Managing a Differentiated Classroom (with Marcia Imbeau).

While charter school expansion is part of an education privatization movement favored by Republicans in particular, who say families need more choice when it comes to kids» educational options, the movement has been dogged by controversy as several charter schools have abruptly closed almost as soon as they opened due to financial and governance problems.

iStoryTime co-founder Graham Farrar has spoken publicly about the need to be able to amuse their kids by handing them a device — say, while waiting in a restaurant — but finding very little viable and easily accessible educational content, leading to the creation of the platform.

To maximize the fund, and to not run the risk of our kids not putting the true value on the funds contribution, they will be required to repay half of what they take out to the fund for the remaining kids — or if they put money in they will have a credit of double their money sitting in the fund (Put in $ 5,000 before university from PT jobs — take out $ 10,000 for educational needs or if you haven't pre-contributed; take out $ 10,000 and repay $ 5,000 later)

Miles for Kids Miles in Need: Provides worldwide support for children and their families, as well as for organizations dedicated to improving the quality of life for children with needs for medical, educational, social services issues and / or for those that heighten public awareness of children's issues.

If you need detail on the provisions of these proposed laws, including penalties, enforcement, associated educational campaigns, helmet banks or giveaway programs, treatment of contributory negligence (liability) provisions, or dates of enactment, Safe Kids Worldwide has a status sheet on bicycle helmet laws available from Meg Farrage at 202-662-0616.

The First Eight Years: Giving Kids a Foundation for Lifetime Success (PDF - 1,628 KB) Annie E. Casey Foundation & KIDS COUNT Focuses on the importance of using an integrated and comprehensive system of services and evidence - based programs to address the varied needs of all children, birth to age 8, and their families to support improved educational and related outcomes for children, now and into adulthKids a Foundation for Lifetime Success (PDF - 1,628 KB) Annie E. Casey Foundation & KIDS COUNT Focuses on the importance of using an integrated and comprehensive system of services and evidence - based programs to address the varied needs of all children, birth to age 8, and their families to support improved educational and related outcomes for children, now and into adulthKIDS COUNT Focuses on the importance of using an integrated and comprehensive system of services and evidence - based programs to address the varied needs of all children, birth to age 8, and their families to support improved educational and related outcomes for children, now and into adulthood.