Sentences with phrase «high numbers of parents»

What this survey shows is a very high number of parents think they don't have an option.»

Those in the poor credit score group faced the most number of student loans (61 %), and surprisingly, had the highest number of parents cosign for the loans (50 %), as well.

The high number of parent involvement in playing games with their children is believed to be the increased popularity of Family Game Nights (i.e XBL) and fam - friendly consoles such as the Wii.

A high number of parents scored the maximum of 35, and so the lowest third of parents (with scores between 7 and 33) were contrasted with the remainder (referred to as «high warmth»).

Not exact matches

Before the era of mass incarceration, there was already evidence linking problems in poor neighborhoods to the high number of single - parent households and also to the high rate of mobility: the continual turnover on many blocks as transients moved in and out.

The numbers of Jewish students participating in Hillel activities have increased, but like their parents, most observe only the High Holidays and Passover.

We have the highest percentage of «Christians» in this nation with the largest prison population, the larger number of drug users and that is a nation divided over religion because of god fearing Christians who believe in this wondrous loving god that gives little girls cancer to test the faith of her parents as they watch her dying.

Dr. Abdullah also noted that a number of Indonesian rice varieties have been sent to IRRI to breed high - yielding varieties, for example, one of the parents of «miracle rice» — also called IR8 and renowned for its superior yields that helped avert famine in the 1960s — was an Indonesian rice variety called Peta.

It has been a good two weeks for parents looking to make high school football safer, with a number of promising developments.

For parents of higher order multiples, the number of children simply exceeds the number of parental hands!

In the newest generation of parents there are increasing numbers of higher earning mothers, and fathers willing to take on more of the care of children; in many couples both partners work full - time — but the childcare costs which hamper the poorest in entering the workforce also lead to difficulties for parents sustaining employment over time.

Over the last 24 years, Mrs. Harrison became involved in a number of volunteer activities, including the Girl Scouts, the First Presbyterian Church of Glen Ellyn's Women's Association, the Glen Ellyn Newcomers Club, Infant Welfare and the Parent - Teacher Associations at Westfield School, Glen Crest Middle School and Glenbard South High School.

But looking at kids» TV programming, the disrespect shown to parents on TV, the number of kids who lie to their parents on TV is a lot higher than it was when I was a kid.

All of us involved in youth sports - from parents, to coaches, from athletic trainers to school athletic directors to the athletes themselves - have a responsibility to do what we can to make contact and collision sports safer, whether it by reducing the number of hits to the head a player receives over the course of a season (such as N.F.L. and the Ivy League are doing in limiting full - contact practices, and the Sports Legacy Institute recently proposed be considered at the youth and high school level in its Hit Count program), teaching football players how to tackle without using their head (as former pro football player Bobby Hosea has long advocated), changing the rules (as the governing body for high school hockey in Minnesota did in the aftermath of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend).

In all of the excitement of planning for the new arrival, expectant parents can be overwhelmed at the number of decisions and choices before them, causing emotions to run high.

But Poppendieck says the USDA is probably underestimating the number of parents who will react angrily to higher prices and pull their children out of the lunch line.

The economic downturn in recent years, which led to higher unemployment levels among fathers; the re-entry of mothers into the labor force; a growing number of parents working different schedules; and the escalating costs of child care are all cited as factors that have made fathers» increased child - rearing role more feasible and more necessary.

New choices in materials and high tech fabrics are causing an increasing number of parents to reconsider whether disposable diapers are the best choice.

On a side note, in 1999, the AAP's issued a stern policy on Youth and Trampolines for parents, parks and schools after a high number of injuries and six deaths over a 9 year period.

With the working class having the highest number of working parents that ever, it has become imperative that parents get their children into a preschool - and one that they like and trust!

While parents who are paid a higher hourly rate may indeed qualify for support by working a low number of hours per week, those who earn national minimum wage or national living wage will effectively have to work more hours to qualify for the same type of support - but those extra hours may not be available to them.

A number of senior employees and executives resigned from News International and its parent company, after the emergence of the new allegations, along with high - ranking officers of the Metropolitan Police Service.

But Jeanette Deutermann, a North Bellmore parent and founder of Long Island Opt Out, said she was looking at numbers across the state and «we are much higher than we were last year at the end of day three.»

Thursday's City Council schedule will include a meeting of the Committee on Governmental Operations for its preliminary budget oversight hearing; a meeting of the Committee on Veterans to consider a resolution «calling upon the New York State Legislature to pass and the Governor to sign S. 752, the Veterans» Education Through SUNY Credits Act»; and a meeting of the Committee on Education to consider multiple resolutions, including one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to reject any attempt to raise the cap on the number of charter schools,» one «calling upon the Department of Education to amend its Parent's Bill of Rights and Responsibilities to include information about opting out of high - stakes testing and distribute this document at the beginning of every school year, to every family, in every grade,» and one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to eliminate the Governor's receivership proposal in the executive budget for New York City.»

This led to a number of High Court cases, notably against Surrey County Council in 2000, with parents claiming that their children had been discriminated against.

Calling for an end to the unfair distribution of teacher quality across New York City public schools, StudentsFirstNY organizers and hundreds of New York City public school parents came together today to demand action to address the disproportionate number of unsatisfactory - rated teachers in schools with the highest needs.

Ominously, Allen said, among the dozens of people with whom he has spoken in town, young children seem to be displaying far higher numbers than their parents.

The children's numbers are higher than their parents», and Allen's wife is concerned that PFOA passed through her and into the bodies of her children.

BOSTON — Efforts to close the word gap — the vast difference in the number of words heard by children from low - income and higher - income homes — by working with the parents and caregivers of very young children have shown promising new results in the behavior of parents and children, according to three researchers at a Feb. 17 briefing at the 2017 AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston.

«The number one thing parents can do to prevent injuries related to high chairs is to use the safety restraint system in the chair,» said Dr. Smith, also a professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine.

The actual number may be much higher because an estimated 300,000 Texan children are schooled at home, says Susan Wootton, an infectious disease pediatrician at the University of Texas in Houston; though the law requires these kids to be immunized too, parents don't need to submit proof of vaccination.

With only miniscule numbers of high school athletes making it to the big leagues, emphasizing the student part of student - athlete may be the best thing educators, parents and responsible adults can do to ensure a winning future for aspiring competitors.

«There were a number of things that appealed to me about the part,» the 21 - year - old actor says of Elio, a precocious high schooler summering with his parents — and a visiting graduate student, a friend of his father's — in their family seat in northern Italy.

The outstanding suburban school that retains most of its teachers is likely to be attractive on a number of levels: the pay is good, students are high performing, and parents are supportive.

There will be a number of high profile activities taking place, with a mixture of political activity and engagement with school caterers, pupils and parents.

President Barack Obama has often noted in speeches the enthusiasm of Korean parents for their children's education, the high quality of Korean teachers, the number of learning hours that Korean students spend, and the outstanding educational achievements these have produced; for example, top rankings in international academic - achievement tests, and low rates of school dropouts and juvenile delinquency.

Parents already have an interest in their child's school and education, but enhancing the school's popularity can lead to prospective parents desiring their pupils to also learn there, resulting in larger numbers of admissions and a higher school pParents already have an interest in their child's school and education, but enhancing the school's popularity can lead to prospective parents desiring their pupils to also learn there, resulting in larger numbers of admissions and a higher school pparents desiring their pupils to also learn there, resulting in larger numbers of admissions and a higher school profile.

Freedom of Information requests issued by Santander bank found that as many as 90,000 parents were issued fines over the last academic year, with issued by Lancashire County Council issuing 4,279, the highest number recorded.

Many of these schools had higher proportions of students living in challenging circumstances: high poverty and low parent education, or high numbers of students whose first language was neither English nor French and who were struggling with academic language proficiency.

Detroit parents still have very few high - quality options, despite a number of different reform interventions, including putting a state - appointed emergency manager in charge of the district, pulling the lowest - performing schools into a statewide turnaround district, and allowing a significant number of charter schools to operate.

School districts certainly don't have any incentive to limit the number of students who take the SAT with extended time, since higher scores look good to parents, taxpayers, and real estate agents.

Our approach is straightforward: elect and defend the right policymakers, pass high - quality laws that will help the greatest number of kids, and make sure parents are aware of their options and that the laws work for families and children.

More than half of parents of school - aged children say that 16 or more school days are dedicated to test activities each year and 44 percent believe this is «too high,» which is double the number who say it is «too low.»

There was be a number of high profile activities taking place, with a mixture of political activity and engagement with school caterers, pupils and parents.

However, if you ask most teaching colleagues and parents to share memories of learning about poetry, they recall, often with pained expressions, intensely studying a small number of poets in high school, where they had to analyze poems word by word.

Of course, it's a bit of a red herring to talk about the «educational software market» with such broad, sweeping generalizations because there are a number of different types of buyers there: schools, teachers, parents, and students to name at least four «consumers» (and that's ignoring, too, the differences between K - 12 and higher educationOf course, it's a bit of a red herring to talk about the «educational software market» with such broad, sweeping generalizations because there are a number of different types of buyers there: schools, teachers, parents, and students to name at least four «consumers» (and that's ignoring, too, the differences between K - 12 and higher educationof a red herring to talk about the «educational software market» with such broad, sweeping generalizations because there are a number of different types of buyers there: schools, teachers, parents, and students to name at least four «consumers» (and that's ignoring, too, the differences between K - 12 and higher educationof different types of buyers there: schools, teachers, parents, and students to name at least four «consumers» (and that's ignoring, too, the differences between K - 12 and higher educationof buyers there: schools, teachers, parents, and students to name at least four «consumers» (and that's ignoring, too, the differences between K - 12 and higher education).

«The research would suggest that there are a number of parents who start off with high aspirations for their children but gradually disengage, partly because the schools don't talk a language they understand, because they have poor experiences themselves with school and they find them frightening places to go to...»

And even as we watch in wonder as high - performing urban charter schools send increasing numbers of low - income minority students to college, it is hard not to be discouraged by the many more who remain trapped in schools that simply do not work, left to wander through the same opportunity void as their parents before them.

Leveraging donations from businesses and foundations, along with district funding, it manages a number of L.A. schools where test results were poorest, dropout rates highest, suspensions rampant and parents dissatisfied.

This crowd - sourced data, parsed by state and by respondent role (teachers, higher education faculty, parents, etc.) can then inform the comparatively small number of individuals participating in the standard - setting workshop.