Sentences with phrase «more children in the neighborhood»

Our current location's bigger and brighter classrooms allow us to serve more children in the neighborhood, and create a positive and comfortable learning environment for all of our students.

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Our partnership with SHA will be in collaboration with a pilot program in Seattle to supplement housing vouchers to get families into better neighborhoods so that their children can experience more long - term success.

Another part of the answer has to do with early cognitive stimulation: Affluent parents typically provide more books and educational toys to their kids in early childhood; low - income parents are less likely to live in neighborhoods with good libraries and museums and other enrichment opportunities, and they're less likely to use a wide and varied vocabulary when speaking to their infants and children.

While their parents spent free time in activities like a neighborhood game of tag, building forts, or climbing trees, the modern child's day includes far more screen time than green time.

Children were much more likely to be active when they were outdoors near their homes or schools, according to the study, but they did not spend a lot of time outside in their neighborhood.

This works quite well for some students (our Campus and Community page discusses options for what your family can do in our neighborhood while you're in class); other students, however, find they can focus more on their studies when they are here alone and that their children are happier staying with a caregiver in the familiar environment of their own home.

Thus, corporal punishment in a high crime neighborhood as part of a controlling parenting style is more likely to be part of the parents» efforts to assure their children's safety, and less a part of the parents» need for control and authority.

Interestingly, research also shows men who delay fathering children until their late 20s or early 30s, move away from the neighborhood they grew up in, and have less frequent contact with their parents, or who have been divorced and remarried, are more likely to do housework.

So, although it is certainly true that we should be spending more money on children in disadvantaged neighborhoods, the primary problem is that what we are already spending gets spent in really unhelpful ways, haphazard ways: different programs, different agencies, different levels of government.

If you're lucky enough to find a good provider in your neighborhood, so much the better — your child will feel even more at home.

In the short term, camping permits will be increased by 900 per year starting next year, which the mayor said will give more children in some of Chicago's hardscrabble neighborhoods a chance to experience naturIn the short term, camping permits will be increased by 900 per year starting next year, which the mayor said will give more children in some of Chicago's hardscrabble neighborhoods a chance to experience naturin some of Chicago's hardscrabble neighborhoods a chance to experience nature.

The children at the Fresh Foods distribution, who were not even 10 years old, were already considerably behind in terms of academic and enrichment opportunities than their peers from the more affluent neighborhood.

Residents are more engaged, children are attending their neighborhood school, and people are proud to live in JOSANA.»

While some of this population surge is due to Hasidim, the traditionally garbed community whose cultural practices often lead to large families of 10 or more children (and whose neighborhoods voted more heavily for John McCain in 2008 than the State of Utah), the larger Orthodox Jewish population is experiencing explosive growth in New York City as well.

As the future congressman from this great district, I know Keith stands ready to deliver on the same fundamental issues he has fought for alongside me in the legislature — bringing more affordable housing to our neighborhoods, pushing through meaningful criminal justice reform and ensuring that all of our children have every chance to succeed with the promise of a first - rate education.

The mayor also touted his accomplishments such as the more than 70,000 children enrolled in full - day pre-kindergarten, Police Commissioner James O'Neill's neighborhood policing program and his push for more affordable housing, reminding the audience that the city needs to be inclusive of people of all socioeconomic statuses.

«As we work to transform our city, creating safer more vibrant neighborhoods, more jobs and better educational opportunities for our children, we are here to listen to what residents and business owners have to say about opportunities in their neighborhood,» Warren said in a news release.

More than half the children in some neighborhoods are poor.

In District 3's Harlem neighborhoods, just 36 city blocks, parents send their children to more than 60 different school options inside and outside of the district.

«New York City needs more supportive housing in every neighborhood to get more than 40,000 parents and children out of shelters and into permanent housing,» said Councilmember Ben Kallos.

Hispanic children were 5 percentage points more likely to live in a high - poverty neighborhood in 2010.

More children are living in high - poverty neighborhoods following the Great Recession — a troubling shift because children in these neighborhoods are a year behind academically, according to new research from researchers at Rice University, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Wisconsin.

«More children living in high - poverty neighborhoods following Great Recession.»

The research revealed that more children whose parents were not already poor were living in high - poverty neighborhoods following the Great Recession.

In contrast, in 2010 non-Hispanic black children were only 4.1 percentage points more likely to live in a moderate - high - poverty neighborhooIn contrast, in 2010 non-Hispanic black children were only 4.1 percentage points more likely to live in a moderate - high - poverty neighborhooin 2010 non-Hispanic black children were only 4.1 percentage points more likely to live in a moderate - high - poverty neighborhooin a moderate - high - poverty neighborhood.

Using survey data collected between 1997 and 2007 on 3,563 children, the researchers found that children seven - to 12 - years - old had significantly more serious behavior problems if they lived in neighborhoods that their parent rated as «poor» for raising children, compared to those living in the «excellent» neighborhoods.

The child welfare system is more likely to intervene in households in «less neighborly» neighborhoods and in which parents spank their kids, a new study shows.

Children who live in «smart growth» neighborhoods — developments that are designed to increase walkability and have more parks and green space areas — get 46 percent more moderate or vigorous physical activity than kids who live in conventional neighborhoods, finds a study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

In fact, younger children in the smart growth community were 62 percent more active in their neighborhood than older childreIn fact, younger children in the smart growth community were 62 percent more active in their neighborhood than older childrein the smart growth community were 62 percent more active in their neighborhood than older childrein their neighborhood than older children.

As evidence of peer influence, she also notes that siblings grow up to be very different adults; that adopted children are more like their biological parents than their adopted parents in terms of such traits as criminality; and that adolescents from poor neighborhoods are more likely to be delinquents than adolescents from middle - class neighborhoods, whereas being from a broken home has no effect on delinquency.

Scientific research has shown that low - income and minority children who grow up in segregated neighborhoods and attend segregated schools have worse educational and economic outcomes than children in more integrated areas.

Both measures of segregation indicate that children are more racially segregated between neighborhoods than adults, with white children living in slightly more white neighborhoods than white adults.

Both Latino and white children in Miami in 2010 lived in neighborhoods where, on average, more than 60 percent of the children were Latino.

The study, published in JAMA Pediatrics, tracked the progress of more than 1,500 children from low - income neighborhoods in Chicago, from the time they entered preschool in 1983 and 1984 in Child - Parent Centers (CPC) until roughly 30 years later.

Cockroach, cat and mouse allergens were substantially higher in homes situated in neighborhoods where asthma is more prevalent and that children living in these homes were more likely have cockroach antigen sensitization.

Ms. Doyle Melton is attractive and slender, lives in an upper middle class neighborhood, has a husband (although they are now separated), three good - looking children and more - than - adequate finances.

WINGS organizers believe that good social and emotional skills will enable the children to overcome the hardships in this low - income neighborhood, learn more in school and, ultimately, become better workers, friends, spouses, and parents.

In his final chapter, Putnam recommends a variety of well - known school - based reforms, such as moving poor children into better schools, compensatory financing for schools in poor neighborhoods to enable them to attract the best teachers and counselors, more school - based extracurricular activities and social services, and more effort to engage the whole community in the education procesIn his final chapter, Putnam recommends a variety of well - known school - based reforms, such as moving poor children into better schools, compensatory financing for schools in poor neighborhoods to enable them to attract the best teachers and counselors, more school - based extracurricular activities and social services, and more effort to engage the whole community in the education procesin poor neighborhoods to enable them to attract the best teachers and counselors, more school - based extracurricular activities and social services, and more effort to engage the whole community in the education procesin the education process.

Despite spending more per capita on preschool programs than any other state, Massachusetts has 40 percent fewer preschools for children in poor neighborhoods compared to wealthier communities, according to a study released today by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Youngsters who grow up in poor neighborhoods don't have access to the same resources as children in more affluent communities.

The schools would serve no more than 50 children in each neighborhood, according to the mayor, who was responding to an idea proposed by the school board.

Seeing the challenges confronted by highly segregated and under - resourced schools in crime - ridden neighborhoods, I realized that most urban children in America were as or more profoundly disadvantaged than children I had met in India, Nepal, and Mexico during previous international development work.

I say this as one of the few government administrators openly interested in the rights of low - income families to access non-governmental schools: Absent better systemic answers than those offered by ideologues, publicly funded private school choice for all children will continue to be more of a factor in legislative debates and scholarly conferences than in the homes and neighborhoods of America's youth.

More than 80 percent of parents surveyed support allowing parents to choose their child's public school, and more than 70 percent favor having a charter school open in their neighborhMore than 80 percent of parents surveyed support allowing parents to choose their child's public school, and more than 70 percent favor having a charter school open in their neighborhmore than 70 percent favor having a charter school open in their neighborhood.

One in four school children in the United States no longer attends his neighborhood school; fully 15 percent of all kids (more than 7 million) now participate in a public alternative school.

The coordinators said in all the programs parents who opted for a «choice school» over a neighborhood school were better educated and supervised their children's schoolwork more closely, compared to parents who kept their children in the neighborhood school.

Nearly 80 percent of parents of school - aged children support allowing parents to choose which public schools their child should attend and more than 70 percent of parents surveyed favor having a charter school open in their neighborhood.

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.

As with parental education, family income may have a direct impact on a child's academic outcomes, or variations in achievement could simply be a function of the school the child attends: parents with greater financial resources can identify communities with higher - quality schools and choose more - expensive neighborhoods — the very places where good schools are likely to be.

For example, those arguing for a return to zip code assignment of students to schools because such schools are somewhat more likely to be racially balanced than schools of choice have to discount: 1) the strong preference of parents to choose their children's schools, 2) the likelihood in some districts that a voluntarily segregated school of choice will provide a much better education than a child's marginally less segregated neighborhood school, and 3) the impacts of the competition among education providers that occurs when school enrollment is determined by choice.