Sentences with phrase «large numbers of children»

With large numbers of children starting school unprepared, this book gives vital guidance on understanding, assessing and ensuring school readiness.

The data could also be useful in tracking federal Impact Aid funding awarded to school districts serving large numbers of children from military families.

Individuals, communities and nations can be trapped in a cycle of poverty by the need to provide for large numbers of children and a growing population.

Because I was Catholic for a number of years, and I knew families with both a VERY large number of children, and I knew families with none.

Play equipment standards are based on minimum user numbers, not large numbers of children playing at the same time.

As hubs in the community, schools have tremendous potential to reach large numbers of children and families.

Schools have the potential to impact large numbers of children and to reduce suicide rates.

Chronic early absence matters because it adversely affects academic successes and affects large numbers of children, especially in some communities and schools.

These materials may well have exposed large numbers of children (and their parents) to the ideas and values of religious liberals.

«There have to be more ways to expand outreach» during the summer months when large numbers of children are not in school.

While many different configurations of rope structures are available, one fundamental is their capacity to accommodate large numbers of children.

If the school has large numbers of children opting out, the school day may proceed more or less normally, with the few children who are testing sent to a separate location.

School food service departments generally welcome universal breakfast programs because they bring in more federal reimbursement dollars, particularly in districts with large numbers of children who qualify for free or reduced price lunches (true of over 80 % of students in Houston ISD.)

In the Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (MTA) study of large numbers of children with ADHD and various coexisting conditions, behavioral treatments were equally as effective as medication treatment for children with ADHD and parent - reported anxiety symptoms.

Creed filmmaker Ryan Coogler, Selma director Ava DuVerney, comedian Hannibal Buress, musicians Stevie Wonder and Janelle Monáe and several others hosted an event in Flint to raise money for the community that has been effected by a horrific crisis, in which thousands of residents — including large numbers of children — have been exposed to contaminated city water.

Last summer, federal officials backed off on similar threats and said they would not penalize schools financially where large number of children boycotted the tests.

Not all could afford to practice plural marriage because the support of several wives and large numbers of children required the physical resources to maintain them.

Nonetheless, a depressingly large number of those children leave the vegetable side dishes untouched and they go right in the trash.

Report from Office of the Medicaid Inspector General Shows Large Number of Children Receiving Assistance

The data show that numerous school districts are not suspending large numbers of children from any racial group.

Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), said: «This deeply upsetting Social Mobility Commission research shows that the Government continues to fail large numbers of children by ignoring the effect of poverty on their educational attainment.

These changes have placed great strains on America's decentralized approach to public education, particularly in schools serving large numbers of children from low - income families.

«This means that there are still large numbers of children with HIV, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, who are vulnerable to opportunistic and other infections diseases such as TB, bacterial pneumonia and diarrhea.

Aborting large numbers of children is now a standard part of our National Health Service and accepted by many as normal - defeating this horror is only possible by prayer.

Television audience data from OzTam Australian Television Audience Measurement [14] indicate that larger numbers of children regularly view television outside these times.

«The government's policy of «inclusion» - closing special schools and sending large numbers of children with special education needs to mainstream schools - has caused great distress,» said commission chairman sir Bob Balchin.

The firefighting equipment drew large numbers of children fascinated with the close - up look.

«In developmental psychology there has long been a trade - off between gathering lots of data from a small number of children or a small amount of data from a much larger number of children,» says Harvard University linguist Steven Pinker, who proposed a similar idea several years back.

«If one reasons from the perspective of prudence, it would seem wise not to allow large numbers of children to be exposed unwittingly to a probable human carcinogen»

RB: If I even start with enrolment, we find that between government, parents and communities we've managed to enrol a very, very large number of children into our schools.

And here in Massachusetts which was the case virtually everywhere there were State institutions in which large numbers of those children were housed at that time.

- Support two, leading - edge projects from promising initial results to scalability, and in the process learn what it takes to build, test, and document a structured, systematized approach to greater impacts for larger numbers of children within an evolving R&D pipeline.

Mercifully these cases are the tragic exception, nevertheless large numbers of children are sent to A&E each year after suffering an injury at school.

Using rigidly paced learning programs is damaging large numbers of children.

Fearless leaders work in schools under - resourced and overburdened and serve disproportionately large numbers of children who live in poverty and face racism daily.

Ofsted has urged its inspectors to crack down on schools found to be «off - rolling» pupils, suggesting those transferring large numbers of children before their Year 11 exams could be penalised.

Your pet must be very well behaved and comfortable around large numbers of children and young adults, including handicapped and those with special needs.

When driving in school zones in Texas, even if school is not in session, drivers may encounter large numbers of children walking to and from school buildings.

(1989) noted that large numbers of children attempt to align with one or both angry parents which simultaneously helps the child feel more important and more vulnerable.

It is now clear that unless and until we make a more active effort to mitigate the impediments to learning that are commonly associated with poverty, we will still be faced with large numbers of children who are either unable to come to school or so distracted as not to be able to be attentive and supply effort when they get there.

Risk groups tend to include large numbers of children and most agencies or programs have limited resources that may require that screening is provided only to children who meet preset criteria (e.g., exposure to abuse, teen parent, depressed parent).

In 2014, in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, about 21 % of < 2 - year - olds, 58 % of 2 — 3 year - olds and 44 % of 4 — 5 year - olds attended some form of formal child care services, 3 showing that these services are pivotal in reaching large numbers of children and their parents.

The data also show that numerous school districts are not suspending large numbers of children from any racial group.

While we want our children to reach curriculum and grade level expectations, as a huge country with very large numbers of children, we might have to spend some time and quite a bit of energy in just helping them catch up and build the basic skills first.