Sentences with phrase «good as boys»

In addition to their lower levels of confidence and higher levels of anxiety towards mathematics, PISA finds that girls are not as good as boys in taking what they've learned and applying it in novel situations.

The science track, considered the most prestigious and difficult, attracted 40 % of the boys in the study's sample but only 17 % of the girls, even though the girls, on average, had math records as good as the boys and better overall grades.

She hopes to expand the GoldieBlox line to reach both older and younger girls as well as boys.

The century ended with about 21 million refugees around the globe, including about 6 million internally displaced people and more than 300,000 child soldiers (under the age of 18), girls as well as boys, engaged in armed conflicts.

And either he would have beat her and reaffirmed his manliness, or she would have beaten him and he may have realized that if a girl athlete is as good as the boy athletes, she should be able to compete against boys.

Dizzy and Paul Dean used to pull on young Paul's fingers when he was growing up, but as good as that boy's genes were his fingers would not stretch enough.

No wonder why girls — as well as boys, women and men — are confused.

It's a vaccine both for girls as well as boys because both can catch the illness and then spread it.

A: Actually, my bosses are not behaving as well as my boy.

Just imagine your baby in this cute yellow oneside, which can be used for both girls as well as boys.

awww i got teary eyed reading your post for your husband, lovely photos of your husband and you as well as the boys, i can relate to you in this post!

While her parents begin gorging themselves, Chihiro explores the village and sees strange spirit creatures as well as a boy named Haku, who warns her of danger.

The reality is that girls can do science and math just as well as boys.

There had, indeed, been earlier signals: evidence of weak achievement by the country's small but growing immigrant and minority populations, as well as boys lagging way behind girls.

Rates vary considerably by race, ethnicity, and social class, and large numbers of girls as well as boys leave school before earning a high school diploma (see Figure 3).

For more than five decades, Congress has consistently recognized and acted on the need to promote fair and equal access to public schools for: children of color; children living in poverty; children with disabilities; homeless, foster and migrant children; children in detention; children still learning English; Native children; and girls as well as boys.

The effects are large, present for both math and English, and evident for girls as well as boys.

Clearly teachers play a critical role in nurturing and supporting girls» — as well as boys» — learning of mathematics and science.

Project manager Clare Thomson said girls did just as well as boys in GCSE maths and physics, but only a minority chose to continue the subject beyond the age of 16.

The local project recently hit a snag because of concerns the single gender school may not meet state and federal requirements for providing an equal education for girls as well as boys.

OCR's mission is to ensure equal access to education and promote educational excellence throughout the nation through the vigorous enforcement of civil rights OCR is responsible for enforcing federal civil rights laws that prohibit discrimination by educational institutions on the basis of disability, race, color, national origin, sex, and age, as well as the Boy Scouts of America Equal Access Act of 2001.

Although the daughter of a court musician, Aemilia is brought up in the household of Lady Susan Bertie, who believes girls can learn as well as boys.

As well as the boy and the girl, there are also numerous creatures that you need to avoid.

Nowadays children live in a culture were hard core pornography abounds, it affects girls as well as boys and often leads to significant addictions and damage in their ability to form healthy relationships as an adult..

«Women are making headway, but girls still think there are some things they can't do as well as boys.»

Girls as well as boys are at risk for delinquent behaviors once they begin exhibiting conduct disorder symptoms, although boys tend to out represent girls, and sports participation may, to some degree, mediate this trajectory.

Alam Simsim addresses the pressing educational and developmental needs of Egyptian children — girls as well as boys.

This room will age well as the boys get older....

Not exact matches

A rigorously constructed morality tale with a well - paid Wall Street investment banker as its hero, Flash Boys could hardly be confused for Das Kapital.

The company's plan, which prioritized community amenities, called for affordable homes that Hershey workers could rent or own, as well as public schools, an all - boys orphanage, shops, restaurants, and a trolley system.

The most amazing part about this to Cramer is that many other companies within the same group, such as AutoZone, Advance Auto Parts and Pep Boys, are all trading at their highs as well.

The duo also scored a lot of free publicity in Atlanta by playing up the «local boys make good» angle of their story as well as the idea of a gay couple starting a company together.

«As a farm boy growing up in Indiana, my parents instilled in me a very good work ethic, but when I went to college at 17, I had no goal, no idea where I wanted to be.»

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The company, whose SNES Classic Edition is already selling out at stores nationwide, has reportedly filed a trademark application in Japan for a system that seems to indicate the Game Boy will be getting the Classic Edition treatment as well.

On the other hand, 69 percent of millennials say it's a good thing for parents to encourage young boys to play with toys and pursue activities normally associated with girls, while older generations don't support such a move as much.

But Saskatoon was the final stop for Jersey Boys, and for Dancap as well — at least for now.

It also offered her the flexibility to work around the homeschooling of two of her kids, as well as the extra income the family needed to buy a larger house so each boy — whose tics would sometimes keep the others awake at night — could have his own room.

The Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Nevada was incredibly grateful as well.

Mike enjoys volunteering in his community and has volunteered for the Boy Scouts of America as well as contributed to the Idaho National Engineering & Environmental Laboratory as a research associate.

My extensive work with financial firms here in Australia, as well as learning from other professional traders, has enabled me to see how the «big boys» trade and further enhanced my understanding of how markets move.

A sobering statistic is that 9 million girls between the ages of 6 and 11, as well as 6 million boys of the same ages, will never set foot in a classroom at all.

As well as prohibiting students from wearing any type of religious head covering, the uniform policy states boys must also have short haiAs well as prohibiting students from wearing any type of religious head covering, the uniform policy states boys must also have short haias prohibiting students from wearing any type of religious head covering, the uniform policy states boys must also have short hair.

And don't forget all the victims of Christianity's own Jim Jones... I'm certain you and all you Christian Extremists are in your churches, always trying to find ways to brainwash everyone into committing suicide like Jim Jones and have plans to blow up buildings like Timothy McVeigh and think about as well as act upon your perverted thoughts by molesting young boys... don't you?

Hanging in the balance are each of their reputations, as well as the well - being of the young boy, whom Hoffman claims he's merely paying extra attention to in order to help him overcome the ill behavior shown him by his racist classmates.

Well I sometimes use the Christian label so as not to be oppressed by people like you — for example, when filling out religious preferences for organizations like the Boy Scouts.

As children we are told about Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy the Easter Bunny and all that good sense.But as we get older we realise «wait... a chubby old jolly man makes toys for all the boys and girls in the world and delivers them all to them at night... That cant be true because first off you cant possibly do that in one night an reindeer cant flAs children we are told about Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy the Easter Bunny and all that good sense.But as we get older we realise «wait... a chubby old jolly man makes toys for all the boys and girls in the world and delivers them all to them at night... That cant be true because first off you cant possibly do that in one night an reindeer cant flas we get older we realise «wait... a chubby old jolly man makes toys for all the boys and girls in the world and delivers them all to them at night... That cant be true because first off you cant possibly do that in one night an reindeer cant fly.

Newt Gingrich is a good ol' boy from Ga. and If you don't think that he is corrupt you yourself are as gullible as people who think Romney is not going to let his religion guide his presidency.

I heard a rumor, that the Vatican thought a better punishment for Aziz, would be to dress him as an altar boy and leave him with a group of priests...

Then instead of attacking all Catholics in all of the ranting, attack the men who have committed these crimes, the boy scout leaders, teachers, coaches, next door neighbors as well as the priests, pastors and deacons of whatever church they are part of.