Sentences with phrase «less children access»

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Gays can't get married, women make less money, millions of children don't have access to healthcare, and cops can stop and frisk anyone they feel like in some places.

My thought is that until society changes, it will be a up - hill battle to convince children that the healthful choices they see at school cafeterias are great when outside of school many are seeing and eating the less - than - healthful choices in many of the ways we've talked about here before: classrooms, athletic practices, homes because parents are busy, don't have access to fresh foods and more.

While ours kids are growing up in a 24/7 digital world, children in lower income households have less access to technology than kids from wealthier families.

Its maximum capacity is 40 pounds, which is also a little less than other lightweight strollers, but it comes with lots of extras that make traveling with a child more enjoyable such as child's tray and cup holder, parent tray and cup holders and storage basket that is easy to access and holds a respectable number of items.

In a population - based Canadian study of children with epilepsy, each of whom had access to universal health care, those from poor families had the same medical course and remission rate as their wealthier counterparts, but they had a less favorable social outcome as adults.

On the other hand, children from families with lower incomes and with less educated parents tend to be under - vaccinated because they lack access to resources.

«Putting a TV in the bedroom gives children 24 - hour access and privatizes it in a sense, so as a parent you monitor less and control their use of it less.»

The results, Thompson points out, would likely differ in less - developed countries where children don't have equal access to education; academic achievement in these places is shaped more by opportunities than genetics.

Infants who experience insecure access to food will be less cognitively advanced when they become toddlers, compared with infants who had consistent access to food, concludes a study by a team of researchers at Child Trends, a Washington - based nonprofit organization that researches child and youth isChild Trends, a Washington - based nonprofit organization that researches child and youth ischild and youth issues.

Without access to digital technology, one in five children are far less likely to develop the digital literacy skills necessary for surviving in the modern economy, and for participating in a globally - networked information society.

A week after Hurricane Maria, the strongest storm to hit Puerto Rico in decades, there's less immediate concern about when schools will reopen and more about when children and families will have access to food, running water, and power.

Access and costs can be a challenge when rolling out these new types of innovations, but by showing what children can get out of it, it becomes less about the cost and more about the value and potential it holds for addressing long - term issues in early learning and education.

«Getting rid of school libraries also risks increasing inequalities and further disadvantaging the most deprived children who are less likely to have access to books or computers at home and will have less access to public libraries since so many are closing.»

Yet according to the government, less than 10 per cent of school children have access to outdoor learning.

Was it right that her children should have limited access to speech therapy and music programs simply because their school received $ 1,000 less per pupil each year than other public schools?

In terms of scheduling, major construction works are best undertaken during school holidays when the obvious issues arising from the contractor's vehicle movements, delivery of materials, workers in proximity to children, dust, noise, restricted access to existing play areas and a host of other logistics, health, safety and child protection considerations are less likely to impact on the school's daily life.

Furthermore, it is the children in deprived areas who are hit hardest by the cuts as they are less likely to have access to gardens or outside space in which to move.

Even in kindergarten and first grade classrooms, minority children from families of lower socioeconomic status (SES) are less likely to attend schools that provide computer access in their classrooms than children in the highest SES groups.

Research also shows that low - income children are less likely to have access to literacy - rich environments.

Moreover, advocates should keep in mind that school districts in participating states access Medicaid dollars directly to pay for medically necessary services for students with disabilities.70 The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act requires that districts provide all necessary services and resources to afford every child a «free appropriate public education,» and some medically related supports qualify for Medicaid reimbursement.71 With less Medicaid funding statewide to meet that guarantee, states and districts would have to siphon money from other education funding streams to afford necessary medical services that support the learning of students with disabilities.

First, although pre-K attendance has increased in the past two decades, rates of access to early education vary widely as a function of children's socioeconomic backgrounds: African American, Hispanic, and low - income children are less likely to access center - based early childhood education than their white and more affluent peers.

According to the White House Fact Sheet on Obama's educational plan, children from low - income families are less likely to have access to pre-kindergarten programs, and middle - class families also struggle to afford private pre-school programs, yet these programs are critical to children's long - term school success.

This also means expanding opportunities for high - quality education — from greater access to Advanced Placement courses to the expansion of high - quality charter schools — so that children from poor and minority households, especially young black men and women who did the worst on NAEP this year (and have less access to college - preparatory courses in traditional districts) can succeed in school and in life.

We've made real progress, but all our children deserve nothing less than access to the best educational options.

Without access to quality preschool, students of color, and children from low - income families, are far less likely to be prepared to start kindergarten than their peers.

The follow chart shows, yet again, that charter schools cream off the children that are less poor and they provide very limited access to Latino students, especially those who go home to families where English is not the primary language.

Notably, the report also showed that poor and minority children living in these areas were even less likely to have access to broadband.

There is no comprehensive survey of the scale of this work, though it's known for example, that only approx 10 % of children access learning outside the classroom through schools and even less in disadvantaged areas.

Thus, while the federal government provides less than 10 percent of the national education budget, it can leverage that funding to ensure equitable access to a quality education for all children.

«Studies have found that students from low - income families lose ground academically over the summer, and also are less likely than students from wealthier families to have access to enriching, non-academic experiences,» said Lucas Held of The Wallace Foundation, which released the guide in partnership with Crosby Marketing Communications of Annapolis, Md. «Many of these parents and students aren't used to thinking of summer as an opportunity for learning, so it was important to listen to them and to market voluntary summer learning opportunities in ways that would appeal to them and to their children.»

For accessing the third row, the captain's chairs have a one - touch button for slide and tip, but as is the case with most three - row crossovers, it's no picnic for the less - than - limber to get back there — and even then, the space is best suited for smaller children.

The importance of increasing access to books in schools was highlighted in the most recent Scholastic Kids & Family Reading Report which found that children ages 6 — 17 from lower - income households are more likely to read books for fun in school and far less likely to read books outside of school than their higher - income peers.

Not every child has access to an e-reader, but the devices are certainly less costly than tablets.

The brain child of Dream Industries, Bookmate offers its subscribers open access to its entire library of no less than 225,000 books for a mere $ 5 per month.

I fear that ebooks will bring about a new wave of illiteracy among poor children, as they won't have access to digital resources and publishers print less.

With features like a resort size pool, spa, two barbecue areas, undercover security parking, lift access to all floors and a children's playground adjacent on the Esplanade, why settle for less?

There are games like this one that a student invented to help her and her peers to spend less time on their phones as well as this app developed by the UNICEF Tap Project that donates money to provide water for a child without access to clean drinking water for every ten minutes you don't touch your phone.

When society becomes less child - friendly, it also becomes less mother - friendly, limiting access for women who already find it challenging to get out and participate in society in a meaningful way while raising the next generation.

Where a spouse exercises a right of access to, or has physical custody of, a child for not less than 40 per cent of the time over the course of a year, the amount of the child support order must be determined by taking into account

When parents share parenting time such that the child (ren) spend between forty to forty nine percent of the time with the «access parent», it is possible that the amount of support paid by the parent with less access time will be reduced to reflect the increased costs of this increased access parenting arrangement.

The remedy to protect a party's «rights of access» is less well defined than the remedy to secure a child's return.

«Even if the perfect public supports were in place for people with disabilities, the legislative regime here denies access to child support to «illegitimate» children in contrast to «legitimate» children, sending the message that the claimant families are less worthy of respect, concern and consideration.

Father's that do a good job of supporting the mother and the children will have a less stressed out mother to deal with in terms of access issues, and that is good thing.

If a judge does not believe that you are capable of fostering a healthy relationship between your child and the other parent, you are less likely to be awarded custody or favourable access terms.

Such parents may be more permissive in allowing their children access to large amounts of television time and also less likely to spend time reading to their children, taking them to museums and zoos, and so forth.

This also facilitates the identification of determinants of average mental health in the population (rather than focusing on the extreme ends of the distribution), which will provide important information to guide the development and implementation of universal mental health promotion programmes alongside targeted approaches for vulnerable children.34 Data were collected by self - report, providing access to the child's own perspective on their experiences, which may be particularly important for phenomena that are less readily judged by other informants.

At the same time, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families are less likely than non-Indigenous families to access universal and targeted services that can strengthen and support families, improve safety and wellbeing and reduce the increasing rate of contact with child protection services.

Nonetheless, on all scales, there were children who displayed less healthy or developed functioning or lacked access to supports (eg, 13.2 % of children reported a lack of any supportive relationship with an adult in their community or neighbourhood).

Less than one - third of low - income children currently have access to publicly funded or publicly subsidized child care and preschool programs.

In the long term, those participating children are more likely to be employed and less likely to be dependent on government assistance.9 The positive effects are larger, and more likely to be sustained, when programs are high quality.10 In addition, the impact is greatest for children from low - income families.11 Differences in children's cognitive abilities by income are evident at only nine months old and significantly widen by the time children are two years old.12 Children living in poverty are more likely to be subject to stressful home environments — which can have lifelong impacts on learning, cognition, and self - regulation — while parents living in poverty have limited resources to provide for their families and high barriers to accessing affordable, high - quality child care.13 High - quality early learning programs staffed by warm and responsive adults can help mitigate these effects, offering a safe and predictable learning environment that fosters children's develochildren are more likely to be employed and less likely to be dependent on government assistance.9 The positive effects are larger, and more likely to be sustained, when programs are high quality.10 In addition, the impact is greatest for children from low - income families.11 Differences in children's cognitive abilities by income are evident at only nine months old and significantly widen by the time children are two years old.12 Children living in poverty are more likely to be subject to stressful home environments — which can have lifelong impacts on learning, cognition, and self - regulation — while parents living in poverty have limited resources to provide for their families and high barriers to accessing affordable, high - quality child care.13 High - quality early learning programs staffed by warm and responsive adults can help mitigate these effects, offering a safe and predictable learning environment that fosters children's develochildren from low - income families.11 Differences in children's cognitive abilities by income are evident at only nine months old and significantly widen by the time children are two years old.12 Children living in poverty are more likely to be subject to stressful home environments — which can have lifelong impacts on learning, cognition, and self - regulation — while parents living in poverty have limited resources to provide for their families and high barriers to accessing affordable, high - quality child care.13 High - quality early learning programs staffed by warm and responsive adults can help mitigate these effects, offering a safe and predictable learning environment that fosters children's develochildren's cognitive abilities by income are evident at only nine months old and significantly widen by the time children are two years old.12 Children living in poverty are more likely to be subject to stressful home environments — which can have lifelong impacts on learning, cognition, and self - regulation — while parents living in poverty have limited resources to provide for their families and high barriers to accessing affordable, high - quality child care.13 High - quality early learning programs staffed by warm and responsive adults can help mitigate these effects, offering a safe and predictable learning environment that fosters children's develochildren are two years old.12 Children living in poverty are more likely to be subject to stressful home environments — which can have lifelong impacts on learning, cognition, and self - regulation — while parents living in poverty have limited resources to provide for their families and high barriers to accessing affordable, high - quality child care.13 High - quality early learning programs staffed by warm and responsive adults can help mitigate these effects, offering a safe and predictable learning environment that fosters children's develoChildren living in poverty are more likely to be subject to stressful home environments — which can have lifelong impacts on learning, cognition, and self - regulation — while parents living in poverty have limited resources to provide for their families and high barriers to accessing affordable, high - quality child care.13 High - quality early learning programs staffed by warm and responsive adults can help mitigate these effects, offering a safe and predictable learning environment that fosters children's develochildren's development.14