Sentences with phrase «kids meet these standards»

They are also a mapping process that enables teachers to think carefully about research - supported, teacher - learner - content interactions that help kids meet standards and grow up to save the world.
Right now, big new standardized tests intended to make sure kids meet these standards are themselves being tested out in many states.
Our first two turnarounds — Dodge and Williams — have more than tripled the percentage of kids meeting standards in five years.

Not exact matches

The new California «Uber for kids» companies claim there are benefits to working with them for drivers who can meet their loftier standards.
It's very possible that the seat you've had sitting in the garage for 5 years between kids no longer meets current safety standards.
Some states even make it almost a breeze; in Tennessee, couples with kids have to meet higher standards to be able to divorce than those without kids.
You still want your kids wearing a helmet with the latest technology though and which meets all of the requirements of the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE), with a certification sticker that says it meet the NOCSAE standard, since the CPSC does not mandate safety guidelines for football helmets.
But that said, only 11 % of the children's meals from those ten chains meet the Kids LiveWell standards.
The Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act recognized the need for USDA to establish education and training standards for all school nutrition personnel — including school nutrition assistants; managers; district supervisors and directors; and state agency directors as a means of helping to ensure that school nutrition programs meet the goal of healthy children ready to learn.
Accounts like these (and my post on Monday about the USDA Team Up program) show that successfully meeting the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act standards is entirely possible when schools receive adequate support.
Given conflicting data indicating that 90 % of districts are already meeting the standards successfully, many school food advocates have asked the obvious question: instead of weakening nutrition — a move that directly harms kids — why not put more effort into helping the small minority of districts that are struggling?
But I love her overarching message (as you seem to, also) that we must set a reasonably high standard for school food and let kids learn to meet it, instead of assuming they'll only eat junk food so there's no point in even trying to improve school food.
Team for me - teaching is much more about the relationships I create than the Products my kids create and the standards they meet!
Correcting kids is about establishing standards — whether that's setting a morning routine or dinnertime manners — and then teaching them how to meet those expectations.
As of 2013, 88 percent of school districts needed at least one additional piece of kitchen equipment to help prepare and serve meals that meet the National School Lunch Program's nutrition standards, according to a survey by the Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project.
Like the Good Housekeeping Seal given to household products that meet high standards, the Better Sports for Kids Quality Program Provider designation recognizes those organizations that have met an equally high standard when it comes to administering youth sports programming.
... Parents have a right to expect that their kids will be served fresh, healthy food that meets high nutritional standards
As I said in my May post, any roll - back of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act rules is misguided, given that 99 percent of districts were reportedly already meeting the more rigorous standards.
While you were served a meal of meatloaf, mashed potatoes, peas and carrots and a canned pear half, today's children (if they have the financial means) can pay for a meal of processed «kid fare» which has to meet only the most minimal federal standards — chips, ice cream, and (particularly if they're in secondary school) items like brand - name pizza, breaded chicken sandwiches, Rice Krispie Treats and slushies.
We currently have three car seats that meet this new standard, these are the Maxi - Cosi 2 - Way, Joie i - Anchor and the BeSafe Kid i - Size.
When I was about 20 years old, I met an old pastor's wife who told me that when she was young and had her first child, she didn't believe in striking children, although spanking kids with a switch pulled from a tree was standard punishment at that time.
This type of parenting includes very little connection between parents and children, with high expectations for kids and punishment when they don't meet parents» stringent standards.
Schools can serve healthy lunches, but whether kids will eat them is a question that has been asked often since the 2012 - 13 school year, when districts across the United States raised the nutritional quality of meals to meet updated national standards.
Although areas such as menu variety and food waste still have room to improve, these studies demonstrate that kids are accepting and benefiting from school lunches that meet today's strong national standards.
As part of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010, Congress directed the USDA to review and update CACFP nutrition standards to align more closely with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGAs).2 In early 2015, based on science - based recommendations from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Health and Medicine Division (formerly the Institute of Medicine), the USDA proposed several adjustments to CACFP standards to better meet children's nutritional needs without increasing costs.
Kids can play Pop Warner tackle football from age 5 to 16, but must meet strict weight - for - age standards.
Also, an example of red tape: Exemption for Entrees to exceed the smart snack standard for a la carte sales the day of and after it is put on the menu: My broccoli with cheese sauce (some kids: the only way they eat broccoli) does not meet the smart snacks requirement... Yet, I can sell Cheetos (until 2016)?!
This is how schools and commodity processors are able to serve food that «meets guidelines» — they first engineer it to meet the standards, and then find ways to make it resemble what our kids have been taught to regard as «food».
Finally, our list would not be complete without the Step2 Shootin» Hoops set, which looks like your standard basketball hoop for kids, but there is more to it than meets the eye.
Pursuant to a provision of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 (HHFKA), as of July 1, 2014 all foods sold at school during the school day will need to meet nutrition standards.
According to the latest USDA data, over 93 % of schools are currently meeting the higher nutrition standards that were implemented as part of the Healthy, Hunger - free Kids Act of 2010.
The new standards have met with grumbling from school nutrition officials who say they are difficult and expensive to follow, conservatives who say the government shouldn't be dictating what kids eat and — unsurprisingly — from some children who say the less - greasy food doesn't taste as good.
Britax claims that this car seat meets or exceeds all safety standards, so there's no question about your kid's safety while riding in the seat.
All our kids deserve to be taught by teachers who have gone through a rigorous process, but the Charter Schools Committee has just approved a measure that would toss these standards aside for charters — all because some charter schools have trouble meeting them.»
There's no more pressure you can put on a person than to say, if they show up, «You get these kids for 56 minutes a day, and you're required to meet these standards
You know those things or people that try to make you feel guilty because you don't meet THEIR (key word on «their») standards of raising kids and the possibilities of being selfless at the sametime.
My kids are very particular about their clothing — each with their own picky standards — and we were so pleased to find clothing to meet their liking in each department.
Our entire kids» sweater range meets the high standard of quality expected from winter wear.
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Knowing he'll need a «super-duper fucking group» to get the kid back, Deadpool begins to assemble his team, though they must meet some very strict standards.
The new transcripts «get kids focused on doing their personal best on meeting or exceeding standards rather than getting a better grade than the kid next to them,» said Pierce.
PBL can align with CCSS when teachers, knowing their kids» interests and abilities, let projects evolve to meet student needs as well as the standards.
You try to meet the kids where they are today and then raise standards over time and push the system along as you go.
The temptation, of course, will be to cut plenty of slack for young people in that world, a sort of end - run around the standards that kids in regular schools and courses will be expected to meet.
(Btw, some argue that students with relatively mild disabilities are achieving well in charters, but I'd love to see more hard data proving that in charters kids at risk for special ed are not being labeled, and / or they're being exited from sped at higher rates after meeting grade level standards.)
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.
The assessment - oriented judgment of whether or not kids have met a standard does not change.
So why would an education administration that claims to care only about the interests of kids decide to use a reading program, Month - by - Month Phonics, that does not meet the standard for effectiveness established by a broad consensus of scientists?
Only 29 percent of New York's kids met the new higher English standards under Common Core.
The real challenge is going to be when there's an awareness of — an awakening to — the fact thatwe've created a set of standards that only a third of our kids can meet.
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