Sentences with phrase «kids in high school benefit»

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The Enloe High School Student Council will host its 10th annual charity ball Dec. 6, 7 - 11 p.m., at Marbles Kids Museum in Raleigh, will benefit Inter-Faith Food Shuttle.

Just a quick post today to tell you about a neat program going on here in Houston in which high schoolers teach other kids about the benefits of healthy eating and regular exercise.

The two high school friends reunited in 2010 with the common goal to redefine screentime: to create media for kids that would benefit (rather than harm them) and help promote lessons that lay the social - emotional foundation essential for a happy, healthy life.

Mr. Haria talked about the measurable benefits of universal, in - classroom breakfast like higher attendance and fewer tardies, and said that kids are more excited to come to school when breakfast is waiting for them.

The statement includes a list of these developments: the US Supreme Court ruled scholarships constitutional; numerous studies showed these programs benefit needy kids; families empowered with this choice express great satisfaction; urban districts continue to struggle despite great effort; chartering hasn't created enough high - quality seats; and smart accountability systems can ensure only high - quality private schools participate in these programs.

Insofar as students benefit from peer effects in classrooms, corridors, and clubs, and insofar as being surrounded by other smart kids challenges these students (and wards off allegations of «nerdiness»), schools with overall cultures of high academic attainment are apt to yield more such benefits.

«When you create that pathway,» Weiss said, «you increase the likelihood of the long - term benefits that we want for kids: high school graduation with the skills they need to succeed in college or postsecondary education, and then in a global economy.»

If you can put a few kids from low income neighborhoods in a high performing school, they will probably benefit from the peer effects and lack of disruptions in this environment.

White, African American, and Hispanic higher - income parents valued income diversity in schools because they believed that kids benefited from exposure to «the real world» outside their own community.

By being more concerned about how accountability supposedly feels to those working in schools than on the demonstrable benefits to the poor and minority kids who deserve high - quality education, Petrilli and others have failed a key tenet of being school reformers.

Despite these hardships and gaps, U.S. youth have benefitted from significant academic and health improvements over the past seven years, including a 20 percent decrease in the number of kids without health insurance and an 11 percent reduction in the high school dropout rate.

For instance, younger workers with small children will generally need a much higher death benefit than older workers without any kids in school.

We must bring back the trade classes in high schools, recruit more high school kids, create more opportunity in apprenticeship programs, and make it a priority to give our workers better pay, benefits, and safer job sites.»