Sentences with phrase «get more kids»

But seriously, while they spent quite a bit more time with this than they probably should have, I'm all for anything which might get more kids to read a book.

The Library of Congress, Every Child A Reader and the Children's Book Council want to get more kids reading and kids reading more.

We get more kids of a variety of disabities: IEP's, 504 plans, medical plans....

Unlike tobacco companies, which want to get more kids to smoke, and gun manufacturers, who want to sell more automatic weapons, a third grade teacher wants more money for school supplies and school funds to reduce overcrowding of classes.

Because it's always hard to get more kids to pass.

«By letting every state set their own benchmark, define their own standard and use their own assessment, combined with the requirement of 100 percent proficiency, they basically incented states to keep dumbing down and lowering their cut score in order to get more kids across the bar,» Weiss explains.

• The push by policymakers to boost academic performance, get more kids into and through college — and save some tax dollars by minimizing course duplication and, perhaps, student remediation.

He's also working on a more advanced computer tool that helps students simulate the process (and a student of his is developing an academic video game that will use these methods and problem - solving tools)-- anything, he says, to help get more kids to make a personal connection to math.

So, I guess that was surprising; you don't know what other countries are thinking but I think the thinking was very uniform... there might have been different priorities but everybody was trying to get more kids involved and excited and upskilled in STEM.

If Fariña truly believes balanced literacy can get more kids learning to read and write well while logic, experience, and evidence suggest otherwise, she owes New York parents a compelling explanation as to how it will be different this time.

What if a state wants to give extra credit to schools that get more kids to the advanced level (like level four on Smarter Balanced or level five on PARCC)?

The statistics have made the school a poster child for IB inclusion, but Burris and Murphy are determined to get more kids — all kids — to reach for the educational gold.

It's those metrics, mainly, that reveal how little progress we've actually made, despite all the effort to get more kids a better education.

The city of Syracuse is hoping to get more kids to the library this summer by forgiving overdue fines of cardholders 18 and younger who live in the city.

One of the goals of the John McEnroe Tennis Academy is to get more kids from urban areas playing tennis.

You get more kids playing, you get more chance of having future success.»

Leave No Child Inside is a Chicago Wilderness initiative to get more kids to spend more time outside.

As the head of R&D at a National School Lunch Program provider, I've been working on similiar healthy versions of lunchables to try and get more kids to eat lunch while still meeting the strict nutritional requirements, and our own «healthy as possible» company ethos.

In particular, they wanted to see if they could get more kids to choose plain white pasteurized fat - free milk, a highly processed drink, over pasteurized chocolate milk, a highly processed drink with added sugar.

, we work hard every day to get more kids and their families cooking in the kitchen, help fight the battle against hunger, and help more public school students have an opportunity toward education in the restaurant and foodservice industry.

Together with Let's Play, an initiative of Dr Pepper Snapple Group, we're awarding five $ 20,000 playground equipment grants to communities through the Let's Play Upgrade Your Play video contest to get more kids playing.

-- to be donated to Let's Move and other Sacramento area nonprofit organizations to help get more kids in the game.

The goal has always been to get more kids involved in the program.

I combined both batches to get a more kid friendly heat level.

Isn't getting more kids in cloth more important than any one business (although business owners may have a different answer!)

And he: «Look, this mother, she has got more kids than you and she seems to manage it all much better than you.»

If SNS put even a fraction of that effort into community engagement around getting more kids to eat school breakfast, for example, it would yield immediate benefits for the program.

And he says he wants the girl's help to strategize about getting more kids involved in government.

Regardless, you're getting more kids staying in school.»

He's right, of course, that both are «interest groups,» but does he not see a massive difference between an entity that is devoted to getting more kids addicted to deadly cigarettes so they'll be lifelong clients and a group representing rank - and - file teachers whose life's work is educating children?

«You've got more kids and less money,» White said.

That clearly didn't work because folks like NOLA advocate Josh McCarty replied: «moving the left end of the performance curve to the right through regs has gotten more kids in higher perf schools.»

«What we have here, it's about defending DCPS from the popularity of the charter schools, and it has nothing to do with getting more kids into quality schools.

Check out some schools that have shown big gains for students both in getting more kids to grade level proficiency and in showing year over year growth!

Despite a focus on getting more kids to class, the number of students who were chronically absent in LA Unified grew by 1 percent last year from the year before.

Governor Martinez identified truancy as «a key impediment» to getting more kids through high school.

The primary schools that such children often attend, however, have many other problems to solve, and all their current policy incentives point toward getting more kids up to a low «proficient» bar — not paying attention to those who have already cleared it.

Dr. Kim Hunter Reed, Executive Director of the Colorado's Department of Higher Education, opened the conference with a challenge to the audience with a question: «How do we ensure that we are not only getting more kids to college, but more college to kids?»

Amazon is launching a subscription service for children's games, videos and books aimed at getting more kids to use its Kindle Fire tablet devices.

Not exact matches

«Our kids are typical, involved in activities and other events that seem to be getting more expensive each year.»

As Mitra got similar results again and again (to date, Hole In The Wall experiments have been conducted in more than a hundred communities in India, Southeast Asia and Africa), he began to wonder about what else kids with digital resources could teach themselves.

Think long term, he advises: «If you don't get retirement fully funded, you're going to be on your kids» payroll for 15 or 20 years,» which could end up being more expensive in the long run than student loans would be.

To get an idea of what the kids are into these days and, more importantly, why they're into it, I decided to ask one of the smartest, most self - aware teenagers I know: my cousin Lucy, who is, as she told me recently «15 going on 30.»

«Just having that responsibility of seeing family members in India, completely bottom of the caste, having those images as a child... where they literally burn little kids» hands together so they stick together, so that when they're begging they can get more money,» says Roy.

«Parents who respond to their children's emotions in a comforting manner have kids who are more socially well - adjusted than do parents who either tell their kids they are overreacting or who punish their kids for getting upset,» child psychologist Nancy Eisenberg of Arizona State University said in an interview.

A recent BMO study found that in 2013, Canadian moms and dads were willing to fork out more than $ 425 to get their kid ready for the classroom, up 18 % over the previous year's figure.

Success at the Games means more government money for physical education programs, which supposedly encourage kids to get off the couch — and ironically leave their video games behind — to go exercise so they don't get fat.

The more they're banned, the more kids might rush to find something else to mess around with that won't get confiscated.

Walter Mischel, Ebbe Ebbesen and Antonette Raskoff Zeiss» famous 1972 study of 92 kids, 3 to 5 years old, found that when given the option between getting a small reward right away or waiting for a larger one, the children preferred larger rewards but were more likely to accept a smaller reward instantly.

It also gives the ability to get more deductions — three plans for three kids allows three times the deduction.»