Sentences with phrase «more education for kids»

We need more education for kids and parents, but also more inspired food service professionals who understand that it takes time and are willing to get creative and thoughtful about the food that they're serving.

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Using the authors» analogy — despite its condescending overtones — of kids and adolescents growing more quickly than adults, if we took away the extra gallons of milk and after - school snacks, if we stopped providing education, if we penalized a kid for an inadvertent mistake, if we took away all the extra tools and resources required to usher kids through childhood, what would that look like?

Success at the Games means more government money for physical education programs, which supposedly encourage kids to get off the couch — and ironically leave their video games behind — to go exercise so they don't get fat.

But Kids Konserve's matching stainless - steel containers and reusable cotton napkins are meant to drive more than just eco-friendly revenue — they're also a platform for education and communication.

Live in the bright red State of California, who just took $ 10k in income tax from me this year and still wants me to pay more for my kid's Cal State education then Harvard charges.

!!!!!!!!! Dragging kids to church for this kind of mindless activity goes against «education» and is more like brainwashing.

For a long time (and even now here and there), American Catholic education, even for working class kids in South Philly or South Boston, was a lot more than middle claFor a long time (and even now here and there), American Catholic education, even for working class kids in South Philly or South Boston, was a lot more than middle clafor working class kids in South Philly or South Boston, was a lot more than middle class.

The world of television, athletics, apathetic parents, and dragged - screaming - and - kicking kids pretty well eliminated for all but the few the more effective hours - long Wednesday (or whenever) times of religious education.

• Shake up the parental leave system so fathers can spend more time with kids under two years - old • 25,000 more dads per year to sign their child's birth certificate, to reach international standards and halve the number of those who don't • Dads able to stay overnight in hospital with their partner when their baby is born • Modern and relevant antenatal education for both parents • Dads reading with their children in all primary schools • Family professionals — midwives, teachers, health visitors, nursery workers, social workers — confidently engaging with dads as well as mums, and supporting all family types.

Dads tend to push their kids a little harder and hold them more accountable for their education.

William Greenwald opened it in 2013 because he wanted more enriching STEM education for his own kids and saw the lack of choices.

My boys, so my first two were boys, so my first son was about six months and same thing really for my second son and I was really personally disappointed by that, that wasn't my plan, my plan was to breastfeed them a lot longer than that and just other things just kind of got in the way and education and everything that probably could get in the way and with my girls I just kind of was like and I think what helped me too was knowing that the twins were my last plan pregnancy, like after that like, if I get pregnant you know «Surprise» but we are not planning have any more kids and I think knowing going into to it that I wasn't able to do what I wanted to do with my first two, really, really motivated me and knowing that these are my last babies that I'm planning to have so if I, it's now or never so it's kind of like putting a little bit of pressure on me I guess on that regard.

But having more money in the pool also improves the food that can be served, and while I believe some parents at these schools complain, I've also heard anecdotally that when every child and teacher is sitting down to the same meal, it can have benefits like a more cohesive environment, opportunities for informal nutrition education, and a greater likelihood that kids will try new foods.

The workers are calling for five specific changes they plan to present to the school board during a Wednesday meeting: soliciting input from lunchroom staff to help improve school food, offering more training and education for lunchroom workers, adding collective bargaining language that protects workers» right to talk about the food to parents and kids, building working kitchens in all new schools, and ceasing the replacement of fresh food with frozen and reheated fare.

Also, children in special education are more likely to be abused than kids who are not, and considering the pathetic funding and stress of supporting and caring for a special needs child, it should be no wonder, but please understand this: not everyone who suffers becomes traumatized, some of us experience what positive psychologists refer to as «Post-Traumatic Growth.»

It means less hunger, more education for girls, few school absences, and healthier kids the world over.

«We try to help kids understand they «ve got to take that step forward, to take more responsibility for their own development, «said Don Hellison, a University of Illinois at Chicago physical education professor who developed a basketball program for children living in the Cabrini - Green public housing complex.

Kids Plus is home to Adoption Health Services of Western Pennsylvania, where Dr. Sarah Springer has worked for more than 20 years to provide education, support, and both physical and mental health care for families in all stages of the adoption process.

Ramadan also emphasizes the need for more «affordable housing,» a shibboleth in local politics that every single candidate solemnly swears by, and for supplemental education to assist local kids who need extra academic help.

I'd also like to be remembered as the speaker who helped bring the council together to achieve even more forward motion on education and for our kids in this city.

The one policy that has arguably done more to improve education outcomes for kids in New York City over the past decade has been the systematic effort to close the City's giant failing high schools (i.e. drop out factories) and replace them with new, smaller high schools.

But in a stark contrast to Cuomo's plan, Mayor de Blasio has sought to improve education by boosting social services, expanding universal prekindergarten and adding more after - school programs for middle - school kids.

I commend the Governor for working with the Legislature and labor on this important issue and look forward to doing much more to help our kids compete and succeed, so they can prepare themselves to be tomorrow's leaders in business, in education, and in each of our communities.»

For instance, we're building a partnership with the New York City Department of Education with the goal being that what we do is not limited to a festival each May but rather extends to activities throughout the year that will help get kids more excited about science and prepare them for the annual festivFor instance, we're building a partnership with the New York City Department of Education with the goal being that what we do is not limited to a festival each May but rather extends to activities throughout the year that will help get kids more excited about science and prepare them for the annual festivfor the annual festival.

Guest blog by Frank C. Worrell, Paula Olszewski - Kubilius and Rena F. Subotnik For more than a quarter century, critics have faulted gifted education programs for catering to kids from advantaged backgrounFor more than a quarter century, critics have faulted gifted education programs for catering to kids from advantaged backgrounfor catering to kids from advantaged backgrounds.

«The irony is that quitting smoking is one of the main reasons both adults and kids use e-cigarettes, but the overall effect is less, not more, quitting,» said co-author Stanton A. Glantz, PhD, UCSF professor of medicine and director of the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education.

Brazilian scientists from the D'Or Institute of Research and Education (IDOR) and the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) found that ADHD kids and their mothers are more likely to have shorter telomeres, a hallmark of cellular aging, which is associated with increased risk for chronic diseases and conditions like diabetes, obesity and cancer.

More to explore Thermal Decomposition, from BBC Bitesize Chemistry for Kids, Chemical Reactions, from Ducksters Education Site Equation for the Decomposition of Sodium Bicarbonate, or Baking Soda, from ThoughtCo.

Nestle: Well, we will do it in the way these changes always take place — you do it through education of the public; you create demands for different kinds of foods; you teach parents to go into schools and look at what their kids are eating and then do something about it; you change policy so that it becomes more difficult for food companies to advertise to children; you stop them from marketing junk food to kids using cartoon characters.

Recipients participate in a variety of community engagement activities including operating free neighborhood clinics, helping patients pay for their medications, delivering healthy literacy education and mentorship to youth, handing out free bike helmets to kids, conducting medical and psychological examinations to those seeking asylum in the United States, giving out safe sleep sacs for newborn infants, and more!

Of course, you can also fill in your personal preferences for other things that are important to you in a partner, such as family status, smoker / non-smoker, education, religion, wants kids / doesn't wants kids, and more.

The More category is a catchall for preferences such as education, kids, and pets, as well as a search field that you can use to enter specific keywords you're looking for in other users» profiles.

Educational opportunity is a personal thing for me... and every kid's future is more important than preserving anyone's notion of residential assignment as the primary way we distribute education.

Action for Healthy Kids is comprised of more than 50 education, health, fitness, and nutrition organizations forming our Partner Steering Committee that provides guidance to the 6,000 volunteers working across the country to make improvements in schools.

If enough families see that their child's likely future includes remedial education, then maybe they will start pushing their K 12 schools to do more to help prepare their kids for success at the postsecondary level.

Spurred by a government report warning about the effects of overeating and inactivity among children, education and health officials formed Action for Healthy Kids, a group that works with schools to promote more healthful lifestyles for youngsters.

The very nature of education is that difference techniques are more effective in different kinds of situations for different kinds of kids.

High - quality career and technical education needs to be a viable option for many more kids, beginning in high school.

He addressed K - 12 education, too, but only on the «compulsory attendance» and «teacher quality» fronts — and while the latter hinted at merit pay and nodded at schools having the flexibility to «replace» instructors «who just aren't helping kids learn» — mostly what he did was urge more money for schools - as - we - know - them and those who teach in their classrooms.

HGSE Grads Talk About Why Today's Kids Need Full - Service Education Last year, when Maryland Congressman Steny Hoyer introduced landmark legislation to provide funding for full - service community schools, he became part of a nationwide movement aimed at making children's school days longer, more numerous, and filled with services once provided solely through other industries.

Finally, one of the best ways to get more bang for the education buck is to strap it to the backs of individual kids and let parents decide which schools deliver the best value for money?

Attitudes: support for diversity (racial integration), a perception of inequity (that the public schools provide a lower quality education for low - income and minority kids), support for voluntary prayer in the schools, support for greater parent influence, desire for smaller schools, belief in what I call the «public school ideology» (which measures a normative attachment to public schooling and its ideals), a belief in markets (that choice and competition are likely to make schools more effective), and a concern that moral values are poorly taught in the public schools.

In a 2006 article for Education Next, «Not Your Father's PE,» economists John Cawley, Chad Meyerhoefer, and David Newhouse wrote «requiring more PE seems like a logical response to the childhood obesity epidemic, but will mandating more time in gym classes actually result in more exercise for kids?»

(2012), in which Khan provides his views on pedagogy (child education) and how Malcolm Knowles's views on andragogy (adult education) may be more attune for kids than our current system provides.

«For more than one - hundred years,» King said, «Maine has always been in the bottom third of states — in prosperity, income, education, and opportunity for our kiFor more than one - hundred years,» King said, «Maine has always been in the bottom third of states — in prosperity, income, education, and opportunity for our kifor our kids.

The motto of leaders like Tom Harkin (D., Iowa), chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, could be «Spend more, reform less» — hardly a winning formula for our beleaguered education system and the kids stuEducation, Labor, and Pensions, could be «Spend more, reform less» — hardly a winning formula for our beleaguered education system and the kids stueducation system and the kids stuck in it.

Certainly, the interests of teachers in ensuring adequate educational investment are far stronger than they are for most voters, who don't have children in the school system and may be more concerned about holding down taxes than investing in the education of other people's kids.

Helping Schools Promote Fitness, Healthful Diets Spurred by a government report warning about the effects of overeating and inactivity among children, education and health officials formed Action for Healthy Kids, a group that works with schools to promote more healthful lifestyles for youngsters.

NEA Leader Stresses Goal of Great Public Schools for All Kids National Education Association president Dennis Van Roekel wants to give all students access to a quality education in part by working to close the achievement gap, seeking more funding for public schools, and increasing parent and community invEducation Association president Dennis Van Roekel wants to give all students access to a quality education in part by working to close the achievement gap, seeking more funding for public schools, and increasing parent and community inveducation in part by working to close the achievement gap, seeking more funding for public schools, and increasing parent and community involvement.

For the past decade, the Wallace Foundation has focused its education philanthropy (to the tune of $ 300 million) «exclusively around the notion that to make school reform work for kids, we need to spend much more time and attention on leadership,» said M. Christine DeVita, the foundation's presideFor the past decade, the Wallace Foundation has focused its education philanthropy (to the tune of $ 300 million) «exclusively around the notion that to make school reform work for kids, we need to spend much more time and attention on leadership,» said M. Christine DeVita, the foundation's presidefor kids, we need to spend much more time and attention on leadership,» said M. Christine DeVita, the foundation's president.