Sentences with phrase «less education about»

In low - income communities, there's less education about breastfeeding, and hospitals nurses are also more likely to encourage low - income black mothers to use formula.

Not exact matches

According to the 2010 study, about 42 % of women have their first abortion between the ages of 12 and 19, and about about 23 % of women with less than a fourth - grade education have had an abortion.

An advocate for a local teachers union also expressed concern to the New York Times Magazine about the quality of the education, arguing Bridge focuses less on getting poor students to the baseline as enticing public school students to switch to Bridge schools.

If you go to a less expensive college, get excited about «the opportunities a school will give you beyond college because you're not going to be burdened by debt,» said education consultant Klemmer.

Among residents of the 27 countries of the European Union, women were less likely than men to agree with the four statements about the role of education in the development of entrepreneurial attitudes and skills, with the gap being largest for the skills to run a company.

More respondents with a college diploma (51 %) or university degree (52 %) agree that they could be persuaded to support a closer economic relationship with China if they knew more about what was involved, compared with those with high school education or less (44 %).

Most people suddenly furrow their brows and purse their lips and declare their concerns about homeschooling, which seem always to be less often about the quality of the education as about the children's «socialization.»

This country has always been about helping those less fortunate whether it through education and providing the tools that help people make their lives better or giving to charity.

Curtis Berger shocked his Columbia University Law School associates at a convocation for the opening of the school year by saying, «I do not assert that legal education makes our graduates evil, but I do believe that [it makes them] less feeling, less caring, less sensitive to the needs of others,... even less alarmed about the injustices of our society than they were when they entered law school.»

It's funny you talk about education in such a cavalier fashion when study after study confirms that the smarter you are, the less likely you are to believe in a god, or gods.

Even people with less than a high school education today recognize the priority of the brain over the blood, so much so in fact, that in the movie, Hannibal (about a cannibalistic serial killer), the thought of slicing out tiny parts of a person's brain, cooking them in a pan, and serving the pieces to that person to eat has become in the public's mind a more disturbing image than, say, serving a person a glass of their own blood to drink, which appears relatively tame in comparison.

That's why not only is there generally no such thing as a good education, but we have no idea about how to obtain one for ourselves, much less impart one to our children.

This talk on education makes me feel less crazy about my school experience - straight A student who was fidgety and hated every minute of school, until college.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

The bad news is that concussion education of athletes and parents was much less extensive, with about a third of athletes and more than half of parents not receiving any concussion education beyond signing a concussion and head injury information sheet.

(or a class of «behavior challenged» Middle Schoolers who could care less about taking a test) Sad that this is what education has come to in an effort to make sure that no child is «left behind»... This is the underlying issue right here ~ too much emphasis on penciling in the correct letter circle and not enough student driven cirriculum.

Give childhood back to children (Independent, UK, 12-01-14)-- a long and thought - provoking article; not about home education as such, but about the need for less formal schooling, less homework, less structure to children's lives, and more time for play and creativity.

Physicians receive little education about breast - feeding and even less training on the effects of maternal medications on the nursing infant.

So, perhaps you should work on your own education level and worry less about other people's.

The more education and awareness we have about injuries, the less ignorance there will be.

When I started writing about concussions - particularly the danger of second impact syndrome - twelve years ago, we were considered by no less an authority than our original concussion expert, Dr. Robert Cantu, to be the pioneers in concussion education (see video of presentation Bob Cantu made at Concord - Carlisle High School back in 2007).

Education and exercise are crucial to teaching you about your lungs and your disease, and how to be more active with less shortness of breath.

It is about further entrenching middle class privilege which, ultimately, leaves clever but poor children more likely to be stuck with a second - best option, while their less bright but well - tutored peers are gifted a better education.

Compared to when he announced the Buffalo Billion, Cuomo spoke less about region specific initiatives this year --- but Upstate Mayors Byron Brown and Lovely Warren say the governor's focus on things like education funding, infrastructure and economic development remain important to their cities.

«I want to be very clear on this because there can be no dispute about it — New York City will get $ 579 million less in education aid than it did in last year's budget.

But although Cuomo has railed against he belief that the public education system has grown to become more about protecting the administrative bureaucracy and less about educating kids, the focus of his wrath has been the teachers unions and not — so far, anyway — superintendents, who I'm sure are breathing a sigh of relief.

Teachers and directors at pre-K centers in community - based organizations (CBOs)-- which make up about half of all the city's pre-K offerings — make significantly less and have fewer benefits than their counterparts at Department of Education pre-K centers.

They're both scumbags who could care less about your child's education.

Three and a half minutes later, Madore tried again during the sanctioned off - topic portion of the Q&A, saying SUNY professors will have one less day to work right before final exams and asking whether the Governor is concerned about the impact that could have on students» education.

Regarding Tristram Hunt, I know relatively little about education, and even less about his position on education, so it's probably best I don't comment.

But the former education secretary sounded less sure about her own place in the party when she confessed it might might be «a bit of of a stretch» to stay on board if Rees Mogg became leader...

«I'm sure that he's intending it to cloak his other positions, like less funding in an already underfunded system of education in New York state, and his other positions about getting rid of due process and his very Wisconsin Walker - like positions about collective bargaining,» Weingarten said.

«I have wondered what are the qualifications of the two people,» Jones said, «because they seem to know less about education, health care and what this community is about than Ayo (Harrington).

The common joke / cliché about the Ph.D. education is that, as your education progresses, you learn more and more about less and less until (when you graduate with your Ph.D.) you know everything about nothing.

Nevertheless, a gap remains: These days, black men have about a year's less education than white men, on average.

With the gain in knowledge from [this trial], it may be possible to make the recruitment of patients less restricted, to incorporate education about self - measurement as a standard procedure and focus on which scheme for titration to use, or to study the timing of the home blood pressure recordings.

After adjusting the data for age, sex, race, education, smoking, alcohol use, blood pressure, diabetes, high blood pressure medication, cholesterol levels, statin use and body mass index, the researchers found that those people who met both the recommended activity levels and had vitamin D levels above 20 nanograms per milliliter experienced about a 23 percent less chance of having an adverse cardiovascular event than those people with poor physical activity who were deficient for vitamin D. On the other hand, people who had adequate exercise but were vitamin D deficient didn't have a reduced risk of an adverse event.

Less is known about trends among those who do not partake, which inspired new research by Professor of Health Education Adam Burke, published in PLOS ONE on June 17.

Schwartz and Han found that couples married between 2000 and 2004 in which both individuals had the same level of education were about one - third less likely to divorce than those in which husbands had more education than their wives.

After the researchers corrected for factors such as age and education, they determined that Norwegians who had taken salbutamol at least once in their lives were about one - third less likely to develop Parkinson's disease.

Universities have traditionally put the onus of prevention on the victim, with less attention on promoting education that instructs would - be perpetrators about why it is inappropriate to coerce sex from women.

Some 59 % of whites favor this idea, compared with about half of Hispanics (48 %) and 36 % of African - Americans.25 College graduates and those with higher family incomes tend to be more strongly in favor of this idea than are those with less education or income, respectively.

About three - quarters of college graduates (76 %) say scientists generally agree about evolution, compared with 58 % of those with a high school education or About three - quarters of college graduates (76 %) say scientists generally agree about evolution, compared with 58 % of those with a high school education or about evolution, compared with 58 % of those with a high school education or less.

As with views about the safety of eating GM foods, those with more education are more likely than those with less schooling to say that foods grown with pesticides are safe to eat.

Similarly, about half of those with a college degree (52 %) say that scientists generally believe the universe was created in a single, violent event compared with 33 % of those with a high school degree or less education who say the same.

Out of 3,635 people surveyed about their health and reading habits, bookworms were 20 percent less likely to die over the next 12 years — even after researchers controlled for factors such as gender, education, and cognitive ability.

A very low calorie diet (VLCD) prescribes about 3,300 kJ a day or less and should only be undertaken under medical supervision or as part of a reputable program such as the Cambridge Weight Loss Plan, to ensure nutrient needs are met and calorie reduction is paired with education to promote long - term weight loss.

Stray bird will be eating hotspot instead, but believes it is no less yummy than traditional Thanksgiving food She is extremely thankful for her parents for bringing her into this world, for her supportive friends who have always been there for her when she's down, for her luckiness to receive excellent education and to have a job that she is passionate about, and of course, the opportunity to bring this outfit idea to you.

To make myself sound like less of a freakstamaniac I am going to acredit this back to my college Education class in science where we had to plant lima beans and observe then write about them in a journal three -LRB-!!!)

Online daters are most likely to contact people with the same level of education as them, but are less fussy about an intellectual match as they get older, according to QUT research.