Sentences with phrase «larger percentage of children»

For example, one cohort may have a larger percentage of children with special educational needs, or lower prior attainment.

The US has teen pregnancy rates that rival some developing countries, and a large percentage of these children pose a burden and threat to society.

The numbers vary, but statistics indicate that a large percentage of children have outgrown their allergies by the time they reach kindergarten, and virtually all have outgrown them by the time they're 10 years old.

A large percentage of your child's immune system is found within and around the gut.

Because today, a large percentage of children rarely, if ever, hike or go for a walk in a wild, natural environment.

The book reminds the reader of the challenges facing many African Americans today, including high unemployment, staggering neighborhood crime and violence, and large percentages of children growing up in low - income single - parent households.

New research from the National Literacy Trust UK shows that a large percentage of children and young people don't see a connection between good writing skills and employability.

Jerome Bruner reports that in French - speaking parts of Switzerland, where reading instruction is begun at the preschool level, a large percentage of children have reading problems.

A child's small size allows a burn to easily cover a large percentage of the child's body.

There are a large percentage of child care classrooms and family child care homes that of mediocre or poor quality.

A large percentage of children referred for therapy (about 50 % in my practice) have executive functioning deficits.

Not exact matches

All the statistics about attendees indicate that horror films are still solid date movies» and, in an American society where an ever - increasing percentage of young men and women are staying unmarried longer and having children later, the appeal of thrills that entertain without forcing one to think too hard is expanded to a larger market.

A larger percentage of such births are to children in disadvantaged / poor / broken households, who then often get poorer and less adequate educations than the general population does.

While there have always been two sides in an election and a large percentage of voters explaining to their children why one particular candidate won, or lost, that is not the substance of the calls I'm getting.

We discovered that a large percentage of moms are raising their children somewhat differently than they themselves were brought up.

Economic security is vital for families with young children, yet a large percentage of families across our country continually struggle with attaining financial self - sufficiency and stability.

A large percentage of parents extend their baby's bedtime assuming that the child will sleep in longer come tomorrow.

• A large percentage of dads consider themselves to be equal partners with their wives when it comes to the responsibilities of raising their children.

Sweden started keeping children rear facing in 1965, a large percentage of Swedish children today sit rear facing in the front seat with airbag deactivated with fantastic results.

Without having actual statistics from 2016, the newest being released for the calendar year 2015, it is safe to say that national Amber Alerts were instrumental in returning a large percentage of missing children to their parents.

The largest share of Russians would like to have 3 or more children in a family (42 %), while nearly the same percentage of people (40 %) would prefer to have 2 kids.

The largest Maryland «winner» in terms of percentage increase in per eligible allocation would be the relatively small and non-poor Queen Anne's County, whose allocation per eligible child would increase by about 50 percent.

In 71 of the nation's 100 largest cities, the percentage of public school teachers whose children attend private schools exceeds that of the general public, according to the study by the education analyst and consultant Denis P. Doyle.

For instance, America's improvements in health care have been horribly distributed, with a large percentage of Americans having no health coverage at all — just as the poorest Americans are generally forced to send their children to the worst schools.

If most parents whose children are taking the new tests this spring know little about it, how will they — along with lawmakers, taxpayer groups and the mainstream media — react when they learn that a large, perhaps very large, percentage of kids failed.

Charters that are their own LEA enroll «a notably larger percentage» of children with emotional disturbances (6.15 % vs. 3.10 %).

Among the characteristics shared by urban schools include large class sizes, social and disciplinary problems, a large percentage of poor and minority children, and little involvement from parents compared to their suburban counterparts.

-- so that a large percentage of families who have «won» the Norwich Free Academy bonanza are those who sit on appointed or elected boards, or who work in the Town Hall... it's unclear who got this year's bonus special dispensation... But one family seems to believe that all of their children will get the NFA benefit — at a cost of over $ 100K of local taxpayer dollars (with increased segregation and isolation in the impoverished Windham schools).

The percentage of unserved children is comparable in California, but is particularly acute because of the large numbers of students involved.

While every state and school district differs slightly, below you will find useful detail surrounding some of the Math concepts children will likely be covering in 3rd Grade Math such as: Addition and Subtraction Math Facts, Adding and Subtracting Larger Numbers, Multiplication and Division Math Facts, Skip Counting and Using a Hundreds Board, Money, Place Value, Telling Time, Measurement, Shapes and Solids, Lines and Angles, Symmetry, Fractions, Data Management and Analysis, Estimating, Area and Perimeter, Capacity and Weight, Decimals, Patterns, Circumference and Diameter, Long Multiplication, Percentages, Ordered Pairs on a Coordinate Grid, and Probability.

And for those who object to this State of Affairs, in which America's children are simply seen as little Dollar $ igns, who will grow up into big Dollar $ igns, the system has invented that tried and truly effective method of ridding the Education world of quite a large percentage of those troublesome, pesky individuals who refuse to «go along to get along» or go forth meekly, like sheep to the slaughter.

When large percentages of minority children do not complete high school and almost half of those in urban districts can not read at grade level, the lucky few who fit into the «diversity» quotas for higher education are insignificant in number compared to those condemned to permanent second class status by failing schools.

But thanks in part to the failures of IPS, along with the Hamilton County's strong population growth, children from low - income backgrounds are making up large percentages of enrollment.

Possible, but more likely that a large percentage of all affordable e-readers bought as gifts stem from a common concern of millions of parents — that their children are hopelessly hooked to electronic entertainment.

All they'd have to do was hire a team of editors, and offer the mainstays of the industry (Patterson, King, Child, Steel, etc) a larger percentage of the royalties.

A significant percentage of your RESP may be in equities when your child is young, but that is when the account will be smallest, so your rate of return is not likely to have a large effect during these early years.

An overwhelmingly large percentage of these attacks occur when irresponsible children intentionally trespass, and in some cases, antagonize the dog.

Pets that are relinquished due to changes in their owner's lives such as divorce, birth of a child or moving make up a large percentage of animals found in shelters and rescues.

It is feared that the recent earthquake in China may be responsible for the death of more than 80,000, with a large percentage of them school - aged children.

Sadly, many people lose their lives in ATV accidents, including children, who make up a large percentage of those injured in ATV accidents every year.

In pockets of the population where children remain unvaccinated, the disease can run rampant and gain entry into a larger percentage of the population.

[16] Statistics on the large Aboriginal community of Wadeye in the Northern Territory reflect a parlous situation, with a death rate four times higher than the rate for the Northern Territory, an average life expectancy of 46 years, a range of serious and endemic health problems, and a high percentage of children in the 0 - 5 age group who are stunted (20 %), wasted (10 %) and / or underweight (21 %).

From a public health perspective, even a modest decline in percentages, when multiplied by the large number of children in the population, represents a substantial social benefit.

Measuring adverse experiences is important for urban economically distressed children, who, in addition to experiencing poverty as an adversity, may be subjected to the experiences of abuse, neglect, and family dysfunction, along with a host of other stressors, including community violence, discrimination, and peer victimization.9, 37 The large percentage of racial minorities comprising low - income urban populations makes having an understanding of cultural norms key to conceptualizing adversity in these communities.

For all measures of well - child care and vaccinations, a larger percentage of intervention families received timely preventive services.

Economic security is vital for families with young children, yet a large percentage of families across our country continually struggle with attaining financial self - sufficiency and stability.

The percentage of secure attachments is similar in maltreated children and institution - reared children, but the percentage of disorganized attachments in institution - reared children is considerably larger (Figure 1).

This was also reflected in the large drop in percentages of children scoring above the clinically relevant cutoff value.

Furthermore, the largest percentage of the Millennial generation, who are the agents and consumers of the future, are immigrants or children of immigrants.