Sentences with phrase «kids of higher ability»

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People who had healthier diets as kids, they say, demonstrate higher cognitive ability as well as better social skills — both of which are useful among adults in the workplace.

Having a Fidelity Roth IRA for Kids comes with the added bonus of the ability to make penalty - free withdrawals for qualified higher education expenses or up to $ 10,000 for a first - time home purchase.

From the start, our mission was to enable kids to become complete tennis players with a balance of athletic and competitive abilities, knowledge of the game, high self - esteem, confidence, sportsmanship, and positive attitude on and off the court.

Involved Dads Give Kids an Edge Compared with children with absentee fathers, children whose fathers were present and actively involved in their lives during early and middle childhood had fewer behavior problems and higher intellectual abilities as they grew older, even among children of lower socioeconomic status.

«Up until around the age of 12, kids usually have a pretty high concept of their ability.

When teachers and schools are able to convey both of those messages at the same time, that you belong here and this is a place where you are welcome, but also that I have high expectations for your ability to achieve things, and I'm going to give you the right kind of help and support for you to breach those high expectations, those two toolboxes combine to be what is most motivating and inspiring to kids.

Clearly such foods are not offering the «highest level of nutrition» possible, but as long as they're sold in our lunch rooms, kids like the one above will make an entire meal out of them — to the detriment of their own health and their ability to learn effectively in the classroom.

If we want tomorrow's scientists, entrepreneurs, and inventors to «look like America,» our schools need to take special pains with the education of high - ability kids from disadvantaged circumstances.

This is most damaging for the life prospects of high - ability kids from poor families, who have perhaps the best shot at using a strong education to make it to the middle class.

Mike Petrilli talks with Education Next about the challenges of teaching high - achieving and low - achieving kids in the same classroom, and about one school in Montgomery County, Maryland, which is using a blend of ability grouping and differentiated instruction with great success.

I've been roaming the globe in search of effective strategies for educating high - ability youngsters, particularly kids from disadvantaged circumstances who rarely have parents with the knowledge and means to steer them through the education maze and obtain the kind of schooling (and / or supplementation or acceleration) that will make the most of their above - average capacity to learn.

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In «All Together Now: Educating High and Low Achievers in the Same Classroom,» Mike Petrilli explored why it is so hard to teach kids of different abilities in the same classroom.

Failing Our Brightest Kids: The Global Challenge of Educating High - Ability Students As reviewed by Mark Bauerlein

This is one of the questions explored by Finn and his coauthor Brandon Wright in the Harvard Education Press title, Failing Our Brightest Kids: The Global Challenge of Educating High - Ability Students, in which they take U.S. practices and set them against those of other countries in order to find the best ways to support our brightest students.

I'm halfway through an ambitious research project, in which I examine how other countries educate their high - ability kids in the hope that we might pick up tips that would prove useful in improving the woeful state of «gifted education» in the U.S. (In case you've forgotten what's woeful about it, look here, here, and here.)

It's a very big deal among U.S. educators, and we found some of it in all eleven countries that we profile in our recently published book, Failing Our Brightest Kids: The Global Challenge of Educating High - Ability Students.

Indeed, in our recent book, Failing Our Brightest Kids: The Global Challenge of Education High - Ability Students, we reported the same dual accomplishment in the Federal Republic.

On Monday, Oct. 26 from 4 to 6 p.m. the Hoover Institution hosted a discussion of Failing Our Brightest Kids: The Global Challenge of Educating High - Ability Students, the new book by Chester E. Finn, Jr., and Brandon L. Wright.

But we don't have enough of them — and we almost never provide their equivalent for elementary - and middle - school students, which would do much to launch more high - ability poor kids on a trajectory to success.

That neglect is what triggered our new book, Failing Our Brightest Kids: The Global Challenge of Educating High - Ability Students.

Part of what needs to happen is a flowering of much better opportunities — in school and out — for high - ability poor and working - class kids with obvious potential to be upwardly mobile.

It's titled Failing Our Brightest Kids: The Global Challenge of Educating High - Ability Students.

The book is Failing Our Brightest Kids: The Global Challenge of Educating High - Ability Students.

Parent Power groups are also going to push the legislature to eliminate the state's Zip Code Education policies, which essentially limit the ability of poor and minority families to provide their kids the high - quality education they deserve.

It isn't new at all: The Poor - Kids - Can't - Learn argument dates as far back as the Progressive Era of the last century, when another generation of educators declared that blacks and immigrants were also incapable of learning; it gave us the ability tracking and the comprehensive high school model that has helped foster the nation's education crisis.

I learned this reading the best book on gifted education I have ever encountered, «Failing Our Brightest Kids: The Global Challenge of Educating High - Ability Students,» by Chester E. Finn Jr. and Brandon L. Wright.

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