Sentences with phrase «high number of absences»

A few reasons they might be classified as at - risk students include: high number of absences, single - parent home, low academic performance or low - income family.

Lawmakers say the legislation is needed because some schools, especially those in Asian communities, have a high number of absences on the Lunar New Year, which begins on Friday.

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Ellis noted with regret «the absence of a love of scholarship for its own sake among American Catholics, and that even among too large a number of Catholics who are engaged in higher education.

The naming and subsequent pruning of provisional World Cup squads in recent days has yielded a number of high - profile casualties, among them Ronaldinho, Francesco Totti, Antonio Cassano, Esteban Cambiasso, Javier Zanetti and Karim Benzema, and the tournament will undoubtedly be poorer for their absences.

Australia is a society that has embraced the introduction of high technology across all aspects of life including childbirth, a situation reflected in the number of healthy Australian women who elect private obstetric services in the absence of clinical risk [3].

By contrast, «the absence of TSLP signaling in mouse control groups resulted in a higher number of MRSA bacteria,» said Leonard, who noted that there were similar results in human cells.

The high mustache indices in plastic and general surgery were, however, «driven by the absence of moustaches rather than the number of women,» the authors write.

They found that in the absence of the cloud, electromagnetic waves accelerated large numbers of electrons to high speed in Earth's inner radiation belt, causing a huge increase in radiation there.

But although there has been an absence of high - profile turkeys such as last year's opener, Grace of Monaco, the number of flat - out classics was also been felt to be down.

Margaret Blood: In the absence of a public policy commitment, we've allowed the market to take over and provide very high - quality services to a limited number of wealthy children and, for the most part, less - than - quality services to poor children, with lots of kids stuck in between.

Several variables, including number of absences, were significant predictors of high school completion.

Michelle Gibbs, who formerly worked for a number of Jersey City schools, including Ferris High School, was the only one of the four fired for reasons unrelated to absences.

Secondly, getting moral high is the key to keeping down staff absences and avoiding high numbers of cover lessons.

A growing number of studies suggest chronic absence is even higher in pre-K.

Anticipating a high number of teacher absences on May 16th, the following North Carolina school systems have opted to close for the day: Wake County Schools Charlotte - Mecklenburg Schools Nash - Rocky Mount Schools Guilford County Schools Mooresville Graded School District Orange County Schools Chapel Hill - Carrboro City Schools Durham Public Schools Asheville City Schools Iredell - Statesville Schools Cabarrus County Schools Pitt County Schools Asheboro City Schools Johnston County Schools New Hanover County Schools Winston - Salem Forsyth Schools Kannapolis City Schools

Diagnosis of canine dirofilariosis in animals which originate from a low - endemic region is difficult for 3 main reasons: 1) possible absence of circulating microfilariae (occult disease), 2) high frequency of a low number of adults, which in turn produces false negative results, using either ELISA or latex agglutination test, 3) possible false sero - positive results, due to cross-reaction with adult antigens of Dirofilaria (Nochtiella) repens (Schrey, 1996), the agent of subcutaneous dirofilariasis causing chronic pruritic dermatitis in dogs (Tarello, 1999).

Firms confront a number of client challenges: (1) dissatisfaction and failure to address it; (2) insufficient knowledge of the client's business; (3) high, unpredictable cost; (4) inefficiency and an economic model that «applies brute force» (read: lots of high - priced lawyers billing loads of hours) accompanied by a failure to assess appropriate value to task / cases from the client perspective; (5) failure to deploy technology to streamline operations and provide enterprise solutions; (6) an absence of process and project management; (7) a transactional approach to client matters rather than one that provides enterprise solutions; and (8) poor customer service.

This attendance gap is well recognised in the literature and exists in spite of targeted interventions that span a number of decades.30 This significant gap has been attributed to several factors, including greater family mobility, social and cultural reasons for absence, the higher rate of emotional and behavioural problems in Aboriginal children, the intergenerational legacy of past practices of exclusion of Aboriginal children from schools, and its impact on shaping family and community values regarding the importance of attending school in Indigenous families compared with non-Indigenous families.6 7 31 Additional socioeconomic and school factors differed slightly between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous cohorts.

As the Adverse Childhood Experience Study score increased, so did the number of risk factors for the leading causes of death.16, 17 Shonkoff uses the phrase «toxic stress» to describe high cumulative psychosocial risk in the absence of supportive caregiving18, 19; this type of unremitting stress ultimately compromises children's ability to regulate their stress response system effectively and can lead to adverse long - term structural and functional changes in the brain and elsewhere in the body.

Considering a high demand for houses and an absence of signs of considerably increasing the growth rate of housing inventories, I believe that real estate prices will continue to grow until the number of building permits, and housing starts will begin to increase noticeably.