Sentences with phrase «higher outcomes for kids»

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Childhood obesity can have negative effects on health outcomes, including putting kids at risk for Type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure.

The one policy that has arguably done more to improve education outcomes for kids in New York City over the past decade has been the systematic effort to close the City's giant failing high schools (i.e. drop out factories) and replace them with new, smaller high schools.

«[I thought recruiting an associate] would be really good for our staff... to have someone who's really passionate about improving kids» outcomes and who was a high achiever in school.

• Do all this while maintaining a high bar and ensuring states are taking steps to improve outcomes for kids.

High - quality early education programs can improve outcomes and narrow achievement gaps for all kids, particularly children from low - income families.

We believe that focusing our joint efforts on attainable outcomes will lead us toward high quality schooling for our kids in the lowest performing schools.

While not every dollar a school spends directly improves academic outcomes, a new report from Rutgers school - finance expert Bruce Baker finds certain kinds of money very much do matter: extra funding for higher teacher salaries and more equitable distribution of resources between rich and poor districts, for example, are correlated with higher student achievement, especially for the neediest kids.

The strike in West Virginia, which in 2016 ranked 48th in the nation for teacher pay, wasn't aimed only at securing higher salaries; it also sought to raise awareness about the countless burdens teachers shoulder, and at demonstrating that kids» learning and long - term outcomes suffer when educators are stretched too thin.

We looked for high - impact partnerships to provide the R&D capacity needed to build, codify, and spread the kinds of school models that have the potential to create wildly different outcomes for kids.

Our members in Mississippi are informing state lawmakers that evidence - based approaches to education, such as high - quality preschool programs and school safety policies that reduce suspensions, can improve outcomes for kids.

Combined with the 11yo starting high school this year and having to organise after school activities because the local after school care doesn't take high school kids, it was a nightmare but a friend of mine said that the new routine and will soon become normal and a bit of extra travel time is better in the long run if the outcome is better overall for the kids.