Sentences with phrase «if kids test»

I wonder if kids test the boundaries to see if we are in it for the long haul?

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Lower average test scores might not be a problem if you can find out that kids are rapidly improving over time, making that cute house in the cheaper part of town not only good for your wallet, but good for your child's education too.

One example that I read about, Stanford University, a teacher in artificial intelligence offered a class, a couple of hundred kids in the class, he offered it online to 30,000 people, or 20,000 people, and if I remember correctly when he gave the test there were 400 people, or something like that, that did better than the number one kid at Stanford.

If you saw the (pretty mediocre) film Swing Kids, you saw how the early jazz - hounds might test one another to correctly identify the soloists on records: is that Lester Young or Coleman Hawkins, Louis Armstrong or Roy Eldridge, Johnny Hodges or Benny Carter?

My kids are my best judges and recipes will not get posted if I receive a unanimous «thumbs down» — the problem was, I didn't have time to pass the kid test before the cookout.

Extras: There's a section of fun videos such as taste tests, back to school meal ideas (perfect if you have kids) and there's even a discussion section where Candice and James talk about a range of topics.

Yeah, sometimes I wonder if my kids aren't good for «normal» taste testing anymore because they're not used to boxed foods and processed / sugary foods these days!

Kids are often the toughest critics, especially with healthy stuff, so if it passed the 7 - year - old test then that is always a good sign I hope there are many more batches to come and I will keep that in mind and get back to more banana flour recipes / experiments soon hopefully!

If you want to know how you rate on intelligence go ask your peers, supervisor, and for the kids hanging around here just check how you performed in your last test.

Should stop worrying about left back and bring in quality attacking option... If isco is available should get him Sanchez giroud / welbeck isco ozil should be ok to keep us there or thereabouts... With Campbell as back up... ox on loan Walcott sold to some Middle East team with more money than sense... Or test Bilbao on the Williams kid suspect they might take 25 even with his buy out clause upped... need something... We r 2 points above spurs right now with a much poorer goal difference

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Kids are trying to figure out what's allowed and test boundaries, so they try different things to see if they will work, she says.

The pay off is obvious, kids will have more success in life if they have the confidence to test their wings.

If your child is a picky eater, consider checking out one of the kid - tested cookbooks listed below.

If my kid was exposed to lead, there are many more out there, many of whom may never get tested.

A nightly routine and regular bedtime will go down much easier with kids testing boundaries if you let them have a say in how they go to bed.

Before kids turn 3, they are tested again to see if they need to continue with special education.

I hear the other moms with toddlers my son's age asking their kids if they have to go and I realize it's because they're test - driving underwear outside the home.

I plan to write up a whole separate blog post outlining tips on how to do a successful taste testing session along with a litmus test to determine if it would be a good fit for your picky kid.

If we really stood back and watched them, kids learn in so many ways constantly — yet we are so conditioned to thinking that if there isn't a paper trail or test scores then they (we) aren't doing it righIf we really stood back and watched them, kids learn in so many ways constantly — yet we are so conditioned to thinking that if there isn't a paper trail or test scores then they (we) aren't doing it righif there isn't a paper trail or test scores then they (we) aren't doing it right.

So I tell kids that if they don't like a test, it will be over very quickly.

Even if the infants tested positive — indicating that they were probably allergic to peanuts — the researchers advised the parents to give their babies small amounts of peanut snacks regularly, as long as they did not have dangerous reactions to it in an initial food challenge, until their kids reached their fifth birthday.

By the way, if you do suspect your kid has a food allergy, go get him tested — one study found that only 14 percent of parentally diagnosed food allergies are actual food allergies.

And the increased academic requirements, test pressures and the age of the peers their kids will be competing against has many parents wondering if their kids are really ready to start Kindergarten.

If they haven't already, kids this age might undergo a tuberculin skin test, especially those at risk for tuberculosis.

We also offer tips for encouraging kids with SM to participate and verbalize, strategies for handling testing and advice on what to do if you learn you will be getting a student who has struggled with SM in the past.

Many people believe part of the low test score issue is that kids can't learn if they aren't there and anecdotal evidence is reporting massive truancy.

«The parents are saying «why are our kids being used as guinea pigs right now, with the threat of us losing funding if they don't take these tests?»»

There isn't going to be much, if any, growth in test scores for some kids.

If the kids there flunked the test, it's time to reevaluate what your expectations are of students.

If the WHOLE class fails a test, including the kids who are normally good students, the test was unfairly hard.

But Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott, who remained cool and collected throughout the hearing, argued that it wasn't right to keep schools open if they are failing kids with consistently low test scores and graduation rates.

«If they can invalidate these tests because not enough kids have taken them, then how can you evaluate a teacher, because the foundation of that annual professional performance review has now been taken away,» Kremer said.

Still, Redei eventually hopes to test thyroxine and metformin in pregnant drinkers during their third trimester to see if the drugs might improve their kids» outcomes.

«If we believe that these tests actually tell us how well a kid or a country is doing, and then we hold people accountable for that, those people are going to focus on what's most likely to be tested, and they're going to cut out everything else,» says Tienken.

Finally, if you find yourself racking your brain every night for inspiration for the next day's lunch, hang on to several kid - tested - and - passed lunchbox ideas.

I'm not sure if I was waiting for that perfect moment or waiting for the person I was dating to pass some sort of test that even I wasn't aware they were taking, but one thing was for sure — I wanted to be the one to bring up my kids and it had to be on my terms.

My own mother has had «cold sores» since I was a kid, and she's a saint... I wouldn't have known that the pin head that shows up every year (for 2 days) was hsv, if my blood test hadn't indicated hsv anti-bodies.

But if the measure is student growth, and the test being used is a good one (a big if, admittedly), then all kids but those with severe cognitive disabilities should be seen as contenders.

«If they're worried about their test scores and want a way to get them higher, they need to give kids more arts, not less,» says Tom Horne, Arizona's state superintendent of public instruction.

«You must know, don't you, that [middle school] kids seem to delight in taunting and testing authority, especially if they feel that the disciplinary consequences are the least bit vague, incongruous, contradictory, or downright non-existent!»

If the kids are taking a test,» Fair warns, «the parents take the test!»

«Results are shared with parents,» says school principal Sue Roche, «so if we know a child is especially bodily - kinesthetic, we give parents and kids tips on ways to learn and study for tests.»

Helping Children Overcome Test Anxiety From addressing the «what - if» questions to eating a hearty breakfast, this page offers tips to help kids cope with the anxiety of test Test Anxiety From addressing the «what - if» questions to eating a hearty breakfast, this page offers tips to help kids cope with the anxiety of test test day.

• too much school time is given over to test prep — and the pressure to lift scores leads to cheating and other unsavory practices; • subjects and accomplishments that aren't tested — art, creativity, leadership, independent thinking, etc. — are getting squeezed if not discarded; • teachers are losing their freedom to practice their craft, to make classes interesting and stimulating, and to act like professionals; • the curricular homogenizing that generally follows from standardized tests and state (or national) standards represents an undesirable usurpation of school autonomy, teacher freedom, and local control by distant authorities; and • judging teachers and schools by pupil test scores is inaccurate and unfair, given the kids» different starting points and home circumstances, the variation in class sizes and school resources, and the many other services that schools and teachers are now expected to provide their students.

If kids from all walks of life — wealthy, poor, white, black, Hispanic, Asian, gay, straight, immigrant, native born, Native American, with and without special needs, bilingual, monolingual, rural, suburban, urban — even if kids from all of these groups got equally high test scores, would that satisfy us that we could stop waging this civil rights strugglIf kids from all walks of life — wealthy, poor, white, black, Hispanic, Asian, gay, straight, immigrant, native born, Native American, with and without special needs, bilingual, monolingual, rural, suburban, urban — even if kids from all of these groups got equally high test scores, would that satisfy us that we could stop waging this civil rights strugglif kids from all of these groups got equally high test scores, would that satisfy us that we could stop waging this civil rights struggle?

California's year - end test can tell which 5th graders meet the state's math standards; it can't tell if some of those 5th graders have progressed to trigonometry or pre-calculus, as two Los Altos kids did last year.

If families feel their own kids are spending too much time taking tests that aren't helping them, «that will create real and growing headwinds,» says Hess.

If tests like these succeed, they could not only provide better information about children's readiness for real life but also give educators incentive to do what they want to do anyway: teach kids in engaging ways to be well - rounded people and lifelong learners, not drill the life out of school with dry test preparation.

Perhaps we would see better results if we took the proliferation of motivational assemblies and other incentives used to rally kids come test time, and traded them for increased support for stressed - out teachers throughout the year, helping them sustain the energy to make better use of known strategies that make kids want to come to school and do well.