Sentences with phrase «families lose ground»

«Studies have found that students from low - income families lose ground academically over the summer, and also are less likely than students from wealthier families to have access to enriching, non-academic experiences,» said Lucas Held of The Wallace Foundation, which released the guide in partnership with Crosby Marketing Communications of Annapolis, Md. «Many of these parents and students aren't used to thinking of summer as an opportunity for learning, so it was important to listen to them and to market voluntary summer learning opportunities in ways that would appeal to them and to their children.»

The findings are important because children from low - income families lose ground in learning over the summer compared to their more affluent peers.

However, the county's families lost ground over the past few years in some areas, including median family income and women receiving early prenatal care.

That is, the mean change in income - to - needs was a positive.73, though some families went up more and some families lost ground over this time period.

Not exact matches

We have acknowledged the humanitarian impact of 9/11/2001 on every anniversery since but most of us still can not possibly understand what the family's that lost loved ones realized and felt on that dreadful day and the days that followed as they hoped and prayed their loved one's would be pulled from ground zero.

Ground Zero is kind of «sacred» for lack of a better word, to the families and supporters of the men and women who lost their lives trying to save life and are protecting our rights to say what we want.

If the muslim community respected this burial ground of thousands of those who lost their lives and their families, their would not be a debate about where this mosque should be placed.

They are losing ground because their rhetoric consistently reflects a commitment to an idealized glorification of the pre-feminist nuclear family of 1950s America rather than a commitment to «biblical manhood» and «biblical womanhood» — terms that many of us recognize as highly selective, reductive, and problematic.

The other day I read that the day of the family dinner plate being made up of a main protein (meat, chicken, fish), a side of carbohydrates (rice, pasta, potatoes), and then a side of veggies (carrots, broccoli, whatever is languishing in the fridge), is quickly losing ground as the best idea of what dinner should look like.

Obviously, Lazio, who ostensibly cares enough about the still - raw emotions from 9/11 to demand that a mosque be located far away from ground zero, would also be sensitive to the reasonable (and widely known) objections of the police officers and firefighters who lost friends and family that day.

The Kadams are a family who have gotten out of their native India during a time of political unrest that saw their restaurant burn to the ground and their beloved matriarch lose her life.

Midsize family sedans have been steadily losing ground to crossover SUVs for the last couple of years.

Thankfully, the Toyota Highlander claws back that lost ground by being a comfortable, refined, well - equipped and good value family SUV that also doesn't lag behind too much in the aforementioned areas where the competition has the upper hand.

«To have an inquiry of this magnitude, to be able to get off the ground takes time... and mistakes are going to be made,» said Simard - Chicago, who lost a cousin in 2011 and also works with the National Family Advisory Circle.

Poor children in families experiencing loss of income over the three years lost ground to the non-poor on this measure of academic readiness.

Remembering and understanding that we need to treat each other and the families in the system with civility and respect is often lost in the daily grind.

Nowak notes that the West Oak Lane neighborhood in Philadelphia for years had «been losing ground,» as middle income African American families moved to the suburbs and left behind abandoned houses and storefronts.

Spending on single - family housing, manufacturing, and other commercial projects (including warehouses) all lost ground.