Sentences with phrase «less children attend»

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The reality is that most parents in America are, wisely or not, more or less satisfied with the government schools that their children attend.

I sang loudly and more or less on key, and because my father was organist and choir director of the various Lutheran churches we attended during my boyhood, I was always drafted for the children's choir and occasionally even given a semi-prominent role, but I was never as good as my family heritage or personal eagerness might have predicted.

I have been taught this less by my feminist professional colleagues than by the students who have attended my classes on passes from hospitals or after therapy sessions, in which they are being treated for wounds inflicted by men (and sometimes women) who abused them as children or as adults.

In a piece for the Washington Post entitled «Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior,» Chua explains how her children were never allowed to attend a sleepover, have a play date, be in a school play, watch TV, choose any of their own extracurricular activities, get any grade less than an A, or play any instrument other than piano or violin.

«Those children are less likely to attend school.

If you and your partner share the same religious beliefs and actively attend service, your child is less likely to engage in bullying, fighting, or arguing.

This seems like a lot less sleep than I got teaching my children to sleep by attending to their needs and then gradually reducing the amount of comfort I offered.

a review of 20 years of research on fatherhood, by Charlie Lewis, Professor of Psychology at Lancaster University and published in June 2001 by Fathers Direct, NFPI and other parenting charities: · Involvement of dads with children aged 7 - 11 predicts success in exams at 16 · Where dads are involved before the age of 11, children are less likely to have a criminal record by the age of 21 · Pre-schoolers who spend more time playing with their dads are often more sociable when they enter nursery school · Nine out of ten dads attend the birth

I'm a medical provider and I take responsibility for what I do, so I would expect no less from someone who is attending the birth of my child.

Basically, the observational studies find that when very low - risk women have home births following thorough prenatal care, attended by skilled practitioners who transfer to hospital promptly when signs of a problem appear, the absolute increase in risk to the child is small, less than 1 per 1000.

However, if this is your child's first experience with overnight camp, see if any of their friends are also attending so they'll be less likely to experience problems.

Also, children ages 1 - 6 years who attend daycare centers seem to get fewer and less severe airway infections when given milk containing this lactobacillus strain or when given a specific combination of lactobacillus and bifidobacterium.

Bridget has taught in Children's Centre's as part of an Outreach program targeting groups less likely to attend standard classes and developed and delivered a course for BME women in Telford in 2012.

Cameron says in 2001 less than a million children attended schools - none of the girls.

And if you live in the Midlands or the North, you have less chance of attending a good school than children in the South.

Poor children are considerably less likely to attend grammar school.

The net effect of this not - thought - through policy is that, in many cases, children from rich and affluent homes who attend some of the best private schools for their primary education will be the beneficiaries of this scholarships, and children of less endowed schools and remote villages and towns will be disadvantaged.

She told lawmakers at a joint legislative budget hearing in January that it is a top priority, citing studies that indicate children who participate in high - quality preschool programs are 50 percent less likely to be placed in special education courses, 25 percent less likely to drop out of school, and 60 percent more likely to attend some college.

«Children from low - income families are less likely to attend college than their higher - income peers,» said lead author Arthur J. Reynolds, a professor at the University of Minnesota Institute of Child Development and director of the Chicago Longitudinal Study.

Children who attend daycare in their first few months are much less likely to develop leukaemia than those who stay at home, for instance, while some tuberculosis vaccines reduce the risk of skin cancer.

Babies who attend large - group child - care centers before they are 2 1/2 years of age do get more respiratory and ear infections than those cared for at home, but they are less likely to come down with these ailments once they start elementary school, according to the study.

When asked about support for a proposal «that would allow low - and moderate - income four - year - old children to be given the opportunity to attend a preschool program, with the government paying the tuition,» no less than 60 percent of the public responded favorably, with just 27 percent voicing opposition.

«Because, as a result, children from low - income families are less likely to attend schools with children from affluent families, and this ultimately isolates the poor kids.»

The same analysis also found that pupils from poorer backgrounds who performed just as well as their more well off peers were still less likely to attend grammars, with 66 per cent of children who achieve level five in both English and Maths at Key Stage 2 who are not eligible for free school meals going to a grammar school compared with 40 per cent of similarly high achieving children who are eligible for free school meals.

For every million children who attend school, there is less than one violent school - related death per year.

Children growing up with a single mother are exposed to more family instability and complexity, have more behavior problems, and are less likely to finish high school or attend college.

However, none of these effects were found among black children, a third of those served (see Figure 2) although one of the surveys suggested that black children who attended Head Start engage in less criminal activity.

Using data from surveys of representative samples of families that included information on whether children had or had not participated in Head Start, Currie found that white children who attended Head Start centers were less often held back in school than siblings who did not participate in Head Start.

Wilshaw named 16 local authorities where less than 60 per cent of children attend good or outstanding schools and have below average «attainment and progress» at GCSE with 13 in the North and Midlands.

We find that the more people attended religious private schools as children, the less anti-Semitic they are.

Finally, to account for the minor differences between respondents and nonrespondents that we did observe, the test scores of children who, based on their demographic characteristics, were more likely to attend follow - up sessions were weighted less heavily, while the test scores of children who were less likely to attend follow - up sessions, but nevertheless did, were weighted more heavily.

#NakedTeachingDay is designed to raise awareness of the plight of children from less developed countries who attend makeshift schools in slums, refugee camps etc..

For the families we serve, whose children are more apt to attend low - performing schools and have less - effective teachers than their privileged peers, the time taken for standardized tests is a reasonable cost for receiving vital information about how their children are doing academically.

Whatever one thinks of standardized tests, it is hard to argue that fragmenting or complicating academic measurement will aid parents whose children attend less elite schools that don't have top - notch college lists to validate institutional quality.

It found that in England, poorer children — those from families in the bottom quarter of household incomes — had less than a 10 per cent chance of attending a grammar school, compared with a 40 per cent chance among those from families in the top quarter of household incomes.

Some 5 percent of US children attended public charter schools in 2013 - 14, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, while less than 1 percent participate in private school choice programs.

He did not specify how long that school year should be, however he noted that U.S. students attend classes, on average, about a month less than children in most other advanced countries.

The disparity results, in part, from the fact that many low - income children don't attend pre-school; low - income parents speak to their children about one - third as much as parents who are professionals; low - income parents read to their children much less than do other parents; and low - income children watch much more television than do their peers.

Students assigned to high - value - added teachers were more likely to attend college, earn higher salaries, live in better neighborhoods, and save more for retirement; and were less likely to have children as teenagers.

We look separately at the effects on the outcomes of Haitian - born incumbent students, other immigrant students, U.S. - born Haitian Creole speakers, other U.S. - born black students, other U.S. - born non-black students, limited English proficient students, those who are not English language learners, children with mothers who have less than a high school diploma, children with mothers who have a high school diploma but no other education, and children whose mothers attended college.

He will also describe how children in the north and midlands are less likely to attend a good or outstanding secondary school compared to peers in the south.

Poor children are more likely to attend preschools or childcare of lesser quality.

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.

But the researchers found these children «were substantially less likely to attend grammar schools» than children from better off areas.

Previous Sutton Trust research has shown that disadvantaged children are much less likely than other pupils to attend grammar schools.

Previous research by the Sutton Trust has shown that children from the poorest homes are much less likely than any other pupils to attend a grammar school, even after allowing for location and prior attainment.

When parents get involved in their children's education, grades go up, test scores go up, children become more likely to pass and to attend better schools after high school, they have fewer discipline problems, and they're less likely to use drugs and alcohol.

Research shows that children who attend high - quality prekindergarten programs are less likely to drop out of school, repeat grades, need special education, and have greater opportunity to succeed in life.

The children who attended the equivalent of one week or less of the four - week camp scored 47 percent on the Brigance test, while those who attended the equivalent of three weeks or more scored 74 percent, according to figures provided by JCPS.

Often, their most positive conclusions are that their children will not be harmed in attending a diverse school — that they will receive more or less the same education.