Sentences with phrase «leaves children at risk»

He notes that delaying vaccines leaves children at risk for disease longer, and that many parents have little firsthand experience with those diseases.

The use of single vaccines leaves children at risk of catching measles, mumps or rubella in the time periods between doses of the vaccines, and a full course requires six injections rather than the two required for MMR vaccine.

Yet with so many people on the streets and with kids excited by the promise of trick - or - treating, some often heeded safety rules may fall by the wayside, leaving children at risk of an accident.

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The need for adequate legal aid is very compelling in situations where a woman is attempting to leave an abusive relationship, and her life and her physical and emotional security are at risk, as is the safety of her children.

Families flee conflict to save their lives, leaving behind their homes and jobs, and putting at risk their children's futures.

Mr. Tough presents a thoughtful strategy to help those children most at risk, and it left me feeling hopeful about the huge difference we can make in the lives of those who have little opportunity.»

If you're driving your child around at all, you've already accepted a whole lot more risk than can possibly be posed by simply leaving Junior to his nap while you zip into the bank for a second.

This was a turning point in my life, and although a difficult decision, I left my work again, to risk, and to start a magazine that filled the need of mothers like me, who love crafting, but could not easily find sources for natural materials and patterns that fit a natural lifestyle and conscious parenting, for mothers who not just enjoyed doing crafts with their children, but wanted to sit down at the end of a hard day's work and read, and create, within a community they belong to.

This leaves the upper body unprotected and adds extra slack to the seat belt system, putting your child at risk of severe injury in a crash or with sudden braking.

Your child still has an immature immune system and this leaves her at an increased risk of catching colds, viruses and tummy bugs.

So a less - than - ideal diet will probably not affect your breastfeeding child, but it may leave your body at nutritional risk.

This leaves the upper body unprotected and adds extra slack into the seat belt system, putting your child at risk of severe injury in a crash or with sudden braking.

Without healthy relationships, humans are at a definite risk for social and learning disabilities, mental illness, and unhealthy, risky behaviors used to fill the void left by the unmet needs in the first attachment relationship — that with each child's primary caregiver.

Last but not least, if you leave your child drinking from a bottle at bedtime for too long, you run the risk of letting peer pressure finish the job for you.

«We've seen obesity double in children over the last 10 to 15 years, and this leaves them at increased risk for heart disease, diabetes and cancer,» said Satcher.

In 2001, 70 % of mothers left the hospital breastfeeding, and 33 % were still breastfeeding at 6 months.25 If we assume that the risk structure has not changed as the overall rates have fallen, then the overall postneonatal mortality rate, a weighted average of the rate among those who were breastfed and those who were not, consists of 70 % of children who are breastfed when they leave the hospital and who have a rate of 2.1 per 1000, and 30 % of children who are not breastfed and have a rate of 2.7.

Charities today hit out at the news, warning that it could leave vulnerable children and parents at risk of destitution and abuse.

The State Education Department today is expected to present the Board of Regents with regulations to conform with the Every Student Succeeds Act, the successor to No Child Left Behind, under which the vast majority of NYC's transfer schools would be designated as «in need of improvement» and could be at risk of being closed.

Doing such only serves to leave sexual predators of children out there to offend more youth more times, continue to put children unduly at risk and prohibit any access to justice for those who have experienced such heinous crimes.

The opioid epidemic is not just killing hundreds of local residents — it's leaving hundreds of Erie County children without a home or at risk of being removed from one.

They observed that «in many parts of the world» these stereotypes leave girls at greater risk of dropping out of school or suffering physical and sexual violence, child marriage, early pregnancy, HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.

For these reasons, under dosing is common, leaving children at increased risk for bleeding episodes and even death.

Otherwise, he says, an undervaccinated child is left at risk of infectious disease for a longer period.

Everyone who comes onto the site, whether it is a child in our nursery, a pupil, a teacher or a contractor, has the right to expect they leave it without their safety or health being at risk.

It is possible that parents whose children are at risk of dropping out are more likely to choose charter high schools in a belief that the traditional public school environment would make it more likely that their child leaves school early.

«The cradle to prison pipeline is a national crisis that leaves a black boy born in 2001 with a one in three lifetime chance of going to prison and a Latino boy a one in six risk of the same fate,» said workshop participant Barbara Best, director of foundation relations and special projects at the Children's Defense Fund.

The Royal College of Nursing has warned that this leaves children with asthma, epilepsy and diabetes at risk in the classroom.

«A lack of funds for social services and child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) means pupils are at risk and, all too often, school staff are being left to plug the gaps in social care as best they can.

Pardon my skepticism, but it feels like we have been here before with earlier programs designed to address concerns about failing schools, like A Nation at Risk and No Child Left Behind.

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The Associated Press breathlessly reported the finding that, «Millions of at - risk students could fall through the cracks as the Education Department gives states permission to ignore parts of No Child Left Behind.»

It was an elegant way to highlight the performance of the children who were most at risk of being «left behind,» without resorting to an explicitly race - based approach like No Child Left Behinleft behind,» without resorting to an explicitly race - based approach like No Child Left BehinLeft Behind's.

From A Nation at Risk to No Child Left Behind: National Education Goals and the Creation of Federal Education Policy.

Young people in the United States today, she says, are suffering because of «school stress, the college admissions process, high - stakes testing, cutthroat competition, the emphasis on stardom rather than on enjoyment of activities, sleep deprivation, parental pressure, the push for perfectionism, the need for escapism, the Age of Comparison, [and] the loss of leisure and childhood...» Among her favorite culprits for this state of affairs are testing in general, the SAT in particular, the «Nation at Risk» report, and the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), which she believes turned elementary schools and junior high schools into testing factories.

Each chapter narrates one episode in the American history of teaching: how teaching became a feminized profession; initial movements toward the unionization of teaching; early teaching in segregated black schools; McCarthy - era attacks on teachers for their politics; conflicts between (mostly white) teachers and (mostly black and Latino) local control advocates; and then on through A Nation at Risk, No Child Left Behind, and Race to the Top.

Transportation Despite the very best intentions, sandwiches and healthy snacks are all too often returned warm and squashed in the bottom of school bags, leaving parents in despair and children at risk of missing out on essential nutrients.

Standards - based education reform is in deeper trouble than we knew, both the Washington - driven, No Child Left Behind version and the older versions that most states undertook for themselves in the years since A Nation at Risk (1983) and the Charlottesville education summit (1989).

The U.S. Department of Education will not reverse its decision that Oregon is at «high risk» of failing to use student test scores to help evaluate teachers, a step it promised to take to get out from the most onerous provisions of No Child Left Behind.

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Will «No Child» waivers leave behind at - risk students.

Some states are struggling with how to tie student achievement to teacher and principal evaluations and it's putting their escape from some of the conditions of the federal No Child Left Behind law at risk.

About 26,000 children are at risk of leaving Welsh primary schools unable to read well over the next five years, a campaign group has claimed.

«I hope we can follow the schools that are potentially at risk very closely,» said Cobey of the prospective charters, noting recent failures of charter schools that have left families scrambling to find appropriate educational options for their children.

The U.S. Department of Education released a report today showing Indiana is not in full compliance with the No Child Left Behind waiver requirements and is at risk of losing its waiver.

Indiana's federal No Child Left Behind waiver could be at risk after the U-S Department of Education indicated significant issues with the state's compliance.

To recap, the U.S. Department of Education sent a letter to state superintendent Glenda Ritz on May 1, informing her Indiana was at risk of losing its No Child Left Behind waiver.

Parrett is the coauthor of Saving Our Students, Saving Our Schools (2003 and 2008); The Kids Left Behind: Catching Up the Underachieving Children of Poverty (2007); Hope Fulfilled for At - Risk & Violent Youth (2001); How to Create Alternative, Magnet, and Charter Schools That Work (1997); Hope at Last for At - Risk Youth (1995); Inventive Teaching: Heart of the Small School (1993); The Inventive Mind: Portraits of Effective Teaching (1991); and numerous contributions to national journals and international and national conferenceAt - Risk & Violent Youth (2001); How to Create Alternative, Magnet, and Charter Schools That Work (1997); Hope at Last for At - Risk Youth (1995); Inventive Teaching: Heart of the Small School (1993); The Inventive Mind: Portraits of Effective Teaching (1991); and numerous contributions to national journals and international and national conferenceat Last for At - Risk Youth (1995); Inventive Teaching: Heart of the Small School (1993); The Inventive Mind: Portraits of Effective Teaching (1991); and numerous contributions to national journals and international and national conferenceAt - Risk Youth (1995); Inventive Teaching: Heart of the Small School (1993); The Inventive Mind: Portraits of Effective Teaching (1991); and numerous contributions to national journals and international and national conferences.

She has gone from working in a preschool setting and the «No Child Left Behind Program» to working with the inner - city at - risk youth and teaching in suburban public schools.

No Child Left Behind has given the country transparency about the progress of at - risk students.

StateImpact Indiana's Claire McInerny explains why Indiana's No Child Left Behind waiver is at risk, and how this will affect schools statewide.