Sentences with phrase «from school than other»

Homeless children are two to three times more likely to be absent from school than other children.

If you are from a black Caribbean background, you are three times more likely to be permanently excluded from school than other children.

«For a long time, clinicians in the field have noted that they seem to see more young people with eating disorders from some schools than others, but this is the first empirical evidence that this is the case,» she said in a university news release.

Not exact matches

To date, more than half of NaturAll Club's capital — a total of $ 120,000 — has come from pitch competitions sponsored by, among others, Harvard Business School Club, the entertainer Steve Harvey, UBS, and Under Armour.

According to a study by Michael Norton of Harvard Business School and two colleagues from the University of British Columbia, the amount of money people earn has less influence on their happiness than how they spend it, and those who spend at least some of their money on others are happier than those who do not.

A 2012 study of debt - payoff strategies from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management found that consumers paying off small balances first were more likely to have eliminated their entire debt than those focusing on other strategies.

Malehorn noted that engineering graduates from the University of Illinois often leave to work for companies on the East and West coasts, despite the fact that the school churns out more engineers each year than many other top programs combined.

Millenials» unique media habits show up in other ways: Nowadays, for example, high schoolers do their initial research into potential colleges and universities on the Internet rather than during an actual trip to a campus; and young media users rely on YouTube videos to learn everything from magic tricks and hair and makeup tips, to cooking secrets.

I ate up studies (from Facebook and others) that argued the site actually encouraged a certain kind of information diversity, because your Facebook friends are likely drawn from a wider group of people (the guy you went to middle school with, your mom's neighbor, that rando you met that weekend at the beach) than the people you discuss news with in real life.

And a new report finds that while many low - income students fall behind and fail to graduate on time from U.S. colleges, the University of California system supports them significantly better than other schools do.

The latest contribution to the literature, Race and Bankruptcy, by Ed Morrison (Columbia), Belisa Pang (Columbia), and Antoine Uettwiller (Imperial College Business School), tests an alternative hypothesis that pivots on a selection effect: «Financially distressed African Americans may be more likely to benefit from Chapter 13 than other consumers.»

Cashin, a 50 - year Wall Street veteran, drew more laughs from the audience in his first five minutes than all the other speakers combined, recalling how he got his start after his father died when he was a high school senior.

But when news broke of a mass shooting in a Parkland, Florida, school — which killed 17 people and injured more than a dozen others — Brown said it shocked him: He graduated from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 1999, and Aaron Feis, a football coach who died in the gunfire, was his classchool — which killed 17 people and injured more than a dozen others — Brown said it shocked him: He graduated from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 1999, and Aaron Feis, a football coach who died in the gunfire, was his clasSchool in 1999, and Aaron Feis, a football coach who died in the gunfire, was his classmate.

And it doesn't come from any unique insight of the Austrian School, other than the fact of the combination of the subjectivism coupled with the inherent boom - bust cycle makes those of us who use Austrian Economics very sensitive to issues of price and value.

«But it has prevented new Catholic schools from opening, which are more successful, more popular and more ethnically diverse than other types of state school.

On the other hand, more than 90 percent of the students in parochial schools, drawn from the same underclass population, go on to college or other advanced training.

Nobody thought much of religions other than Christianity; as was obvious by our public school pledge — which admonished us all to be good Christian citizens... Sure, I had questions too, but our church was pretty low - key so I was safe from some of the more radically - minded (read: brainwashed) of my peers.

Teachers and other staff in public schools are often moved from school to school when allegations emerge, rather than the school attempting to remove the teacher from the district.»

The program is excellent; the universe is a place where things are followed by other things that both correct and fulfill them; and a logic which gave us something like this movement of fact would express truth far better than the traditional school - logic, which never gets of its own accord from anything to anything else, and registers only predictions and subsumptions, or static resemblances and differences.

The other day a colleague of mine, who came to America from Russia via Israel, told me a story about her son who is in the eighth grade in a renowned progressive school in Cambridge, Massachusetts (than which no community could be more progressive).

Everything else suffers too — including schools and churches — when people lean away from rather than toward each other.

Access to public schools and to other institutions from which they had previously been largely excluded turns out to be less beneficial than they had expected.

And other texts: Letter of Consolation to all who Suffer Persecution (1522), Temporal Authority: to what extent it should be obeyed (1523), covering a wide range of the responsibilities of the state, Ordinance of a Common Chest (1523), That Jesus Christ was born a Jew (1523), a defence of the teaching that Jesus was the promised «Messiah» of the Jews, To all Christians in Worms (1523), Concerning the Ministry (1523), Trade and Usuary (1524), stricter than some earlier medieval theories but not in practice greatly different (and he sent a letter to the Saxon Chancellor, Gregory Bruck on the same topic), To the Councillors of all Cities in Germany that they establish and maintain Christian Schools (1525), How God rescued an Honourable Nun (1524), the story of an escape from a convent, A Christian Letter of Consolation to the People of Miltenberg (1524).

The sort of liberalism which looks with contempt upon conservative groups and their schools or even on conservative tendencies in theology in general, calling them all «Fundamentalist,» and the kind of conservatism that abhors all critical movements alike, cut themselves off from each other in the theological world more effectively than do Baptists from Presbyterians, Methodists from Anglicans.

In such a school only fragments of theology can be studied; its partial views are never corrected or illuminated from other perspectives than its own.

I'd say he decorated it, but other than a new bed, some old couches from his grad school apartment, and the lamps and curtains the previous owners had left, «decor» was pretty much nonexistent.

Mom and I arrived earlier than most, and as the other kids arrived, they looked like ants trudging into the band room from the parking lot, emerging shortly after carrying their instruments to the front of the school where five large charter buses sat waiting.

Williams graduated from Grambling in 1977 and has maintained close ties to the school and to its living icon, Eddie Robinson, who has won more games, 405, than any other college coach.

Only without JJ's athleticism or instincts or really anything other than he's a big, white DE from a B1G school...

Other than USC, Stanford and Oregon, Craig said he's received offers so far from all of the other schools in the Pac Other than USC, Stanford and Oregon, Craig said he's received offers so far from all of the other schools in the Pac other schools in the Pac - 12.

With year - round camps, seven - on - seven opportunities, friendly weather, and massive high school stadiums, players are fine - tuned from an early age, often entering college more polished than competition from other states.

Almost all of the Pac - 12 is closer to the West Coast's hotbeds than schools from other conferences are; Nick Saban's coaches have to travel 2,000 miles to swipe from high school star - studded Los Angeles, but only 600 to invade longtime Big 12 stronghold Dallas.

• If one parent is better - educated than the other, some children may benefit from the better - educated parent undertaking more care: e.g. in Norway, girls (but not boys) have been found to do better at school when a father who was better educated than their mother took longer - than - average leave (Cools et al, 2011.)

Up from 23.4 % in 2007, in 2017 40.6 % of students now spend 3 or more hours each day (on an average school day) playing video or computer games, or using a computer, smartphone, or tablet for something other than school work.

N.J.S.A. 18A: 40 - 41.5 (2010) provides immunity from liability for school districts for the death or injury of a person due to the action or inaction of persons employed by or under contract with a youth sports team, provided there is an insurance policy of not less than $ 50,000 per person per incident, and a statement of compliance with the school district or nonpublic school's policies for the management of concussions and other head injuries.

But as an attached parent (I breastfed my son until he was almost 2 years old, we still share a family bed, and aside from daycare, he has never had a babysitter other than my mother) I can tell you that daycare and attachment parenting can live happily together.My son is also very cautious and quiet, but he has always been happy at «school,» and even more, he is the one who befriends the children who cry easily and who need extra comfort at daycare.

Since boys at highest risk of becoming early fathers can be identified from age eight (see below) engaging with such young males in highly specialised programmes early on (to teach basic life skills, address negative peer influences, promote school success and direct them to alternatives other than early parenthood) is indicated, in order to reduce sexual risk - taking and early fatherhood (Thornberry et al, 2004)

I looked up the COLA for the past decade and found that on average the reimbursement rate for free has gone up 7 cents a year since the 2000 - 01 school year; in recent years it was higher than average (up 11 cents from 08 - 09 to 09 - 10, up 10 cents the year before that) but it was lower in other years (up 5 cents each year from 01 - 02 to 04 - 05).

Other than the wetness / mess, there was no pressure from the school.

There is nothing worse than getting a call from a teacher or an administrator indicating that your child has been bullying other kids at school.

Many school - age kids get too many calories from what they drink — not only from soda and other sugar - laden beverages but from fruit juice: The AAP recommends children 7 years and older drink no more than 8 ounces of unsweetened, pasteurized 100 percent fruit juice each day.

It's no wonder, then, that another study from 2009 that looked at children who participated in the National School Lunch Program found they were more likely to gain weight than other children.

If an athlete eats fatty hamburgers and fries or other less than healthy and nutritious food on the way home from sports practice, it is unlikely that a school lunch will save the day and correct her nutrition infractions.

They will learn social skills (direct from you, who know a little more than other children their age), and they won't have the de-socializing aspects of schools.

We did visit a local school here and saw their «science fair» but it seemed to consist of rather basic projects with lots of printouts from the Internet and CD encyclopedias, with no research or experiments or anything other than a display that looked nice.

This is different from home tuition provided by a local authority, or education provided by a local authority other than at a school.

«These speculations are false, unsupported by credible sources and serve no purpose other than to overly politicize the debate and detract from the legitimate concerns of school nutrition professionals nationwide.»

Your experience and the other comments indicate that many U.S. school lunches are far healthier than what many kids get at home; I can attest to this from my own childhood, although looking back the lunch I CHOSE (there's that missing education about food) was pretty deficient.

These days, I don't have to leave the house (other than school runs) if the weather is rubbish and on lovely days, I can work from the garden if I want to.

A recent study of high school sports revealed that the concussion rate in boys» ice hockey (5.4 per 10000 AEs) was second only to football (6.4 per 10000 AEs); however, concussions accounted for a greater proportion of total injures in boys» ice hockey (22.2 %) than any of the other 20 sports, with 30 % of the concussions in ice hockey resulting from a player being body checked.