Leadership is dedicated to a mission of giving
more kids access to a great education, evident in Fordham's portfolio growth from 2,700 students in 2005, to 5,000 students in 13 schools (and growing) in five Ohio cities today.
Khan and Hess are somewhat onto this, but seem to be thinking of it more as just enabling in - person teachers of any quality to engage in more interaction with the kids they have — rather than specifically to give dramatically
more kids access to the best available in - person teachers.
I learned that 41 percent of homes with kids five and under have internet connected game consoles and that
more kids access the internet through game consoles than through a computer.
Not exact matches
Many resent the reduced
access to training, promotions and, yes, money (according to Statistics Canada, childless women earn up to 30 %
more than mothers) that comes as a result of having
kids.
In addition to savings, you'll also receive 1 year of FreeTime Unlimited, which gives your
kids access to hundreds of hours of fun and educational content, audio books, ad - free radio stations, and
more.
I — I do sweat the specifics, because I think they matter, whether one
more kid gets health care, one
more person finds a job, or one
more woman entrepreneur gets
access to capital to follow her dream — those just may be details in Washington, but it really matters to those people and their families.
But when researcher Donna Freitas recently surveyed
more than 1,000
kids about their tech habits, and interviewed 200 of them in depth to discuss their feeling about their devices and parental attempts to limit
access to them, a
more nuanced picture emerged.
Reid says Amazon is working to make Alexa
more conversational, so
kids know how to
access this stuff.
It includes lots of new features, like
access to a bundle of
kid - friendly Audible audiobooks, child - specific answers to questions, an explicit lyrics filter for music, and
more.
Furthermore, the policies, procedures, and requirements put into place are even
more stringent than those that allow me to have
access to
kids as a teacher.
It is no longer feasible to keep a child insulated from outside influences forever — and the longer a parent tries to do it, the
more likely the
kid will question things once they inevitably get
access to the oceans of information we have at our disposal.
We are thrilled they are expanding our reach in Las Vegas with a third library so
more children in Clark County can be positively impacted by
access to much - needed high - quality books and literacy resources,» says Amanda Hirsh, executive director, Books for
Kids.
Well - off
kids have on average
more access to books and other printed materials; just as important, their parents speak to them
more than low - income parents speak to their children — by some estimates, far
more — and the speech they use is
more complex.
To give you some numbers: 22 million
kids receive free / reduced price meals during the school year and during the summer,
more than 80 % of those
kids may go hungry because they don't have
access to school meals.
When you have
access to smart resources and parenting advice, you're
more likely to spend wisely and have money left over for the important things, like quality time with your
kids and, hopefully, 529 accounts.
When parents are afraid of other
kids» bad influences, they restrict their children's
access, isolating them further and creating
more stress by interfering with their need to connect.
And there are also many, many things we could be doing to encourage children's acceptance of healthier school meals: imposing meaningful restrictions on children's junk food advertising; requiring food education in schools — not just nutrition education, but offering
kids a real understanding of our food system, and overtly inoculating them against the allure of hyper - processed and fast food; teaching all children basic cooking skills; getting
more gardens into schools; encouraging restaurants to ditch the standard breaded - and - fried children's menu; imposing taxes on soda (and even junk food); improving food
access; and so much
more.
She decided that if she chose the school counselor then
kids from
more classrooms would get
access to the supplies.
«USDA has continued to show flexibility in implementing these new standards, and Congress should focus on partnering with USDA, states, schools, and parents to help our
kids have
access to
more healthy food, not less.»
But in the end, I can glean that: (1)
more TLT readers pack lunch in the a.m. vs. the p.m.; (2) your
kids definitely prefer variety over the same lunch every day; (3) readers are almost evenly divided on whether they enjoy packing lunch or find it a chore; and (4) none of our
kids have
access to a microwave at lunch.
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While many
kids — including my own — are sad to see summer end, for too many of our of nation's children, back to school is
more than new textbooks and teachers — it's about the relief of getting
access to school meals again.
All I mean is that parents today have
access to a great many
more professional opinions and options, and sometimes exercising your right to find new doctors, and make informed, safe choices about your
kid's healthy might mean going against what some doctors advise, or what your mom thought of as «normal» medical advice.)
Kids can have fun while staying active, with instructor - led activities like age - appropriate exercise, team building, Ultimate Dodgeball,
access to Warrior Course, arts and crafts and
more.
for children ages 3 and up, and it comes loaded with one free year of Freetime Unlimited, which lets
kids access age - appropriate games, apps, and videos from sites like PBS, Disney, and
more.
In many cases, this leaves adults and
kids with easier
access to fast food than fresh produce,
more broken sidewalks than safe parks, and a greater chance of getting sick than living well.
From increasing the federal reimbursable rates to eliminating junk food marketing to children to supporting families»
access to fresh, healthy food (to encourage youths» taste preferences), we need to be doing a lot
more to ensure all
kids are getting proper nutrition.
Parents often complain that their
kids watch too much TV and spend too much time in front of screens, all the while giving them
more and
more access to these devices.
These include automatic sliding doors (so you can load everyone in even the narrowest parking spot or your garage),
more trunk space even when the 3rd row is in use (to hold that triple stroller), and most importantly, easier
access for adults to reach all 3 car seats when buckling in the
kids.
At the end of the day, the school would see a profit of
more than $ 33,000 thanks to federal reimbursements and about 720
kids will have better
access to the food they need to grow and thrive.
Thanks to the dedication of this Congress and First Lady Michelle Obama,
more kids will have
access to healthy, balanced, nutritious school lunches.
I also think he deserves a big «thank you» for everything he's done in the past year — especially the inspiring work that doesn't make the headlines, like personally checking on the progress of a soy factory in Rwanda this summer and helping give
more American
kids access to healthy meals throughout the school year.
These dangerous heat days pose the greatest threat to
kids and the elderly, who are
more sensitive to the heat, along with anyone that doesn't have easy
access to air conditioning.
-- Nell Fox, Seattle, WA Today fully one - sixth of the world's human population lacks
access to clean drinking water, and
more than two million people — mostly
kids — die each year from water - borne diseases.
We hope to see
more professional athletes spreading the word about eating plant - based as these players have tremendous influence over
kids, especially
kids in lower - income areas who often don't have the
access or education about the importance of eating healthy.
Whether they're taking selfies or studying photos their parents took of them, in 2018 there's no escaping the fact that
kids have way
more access to photos of themselves than the children of previous generations did.
When the younger market can
access these games on mobile and at little to no cost then it's clear why mobile has pretty much replaced dedicated handhelds among the younger market and this is backed up by NPD who state that
kids now spend
more time on mobile gaming than any other platform.
I couldn't
access this BonusView feature, though I presume it will better benefit the
more sparsely supplemented The Karate
Kid Part II.
In Overwatch, everything is cosmetic, while in Battlefront 2, if some
kid spent $ 400 on microtransactions, they'll have
access to heroes, better guns, secondary abilities and
more.
It is becoming
more and
more apparent to educators and parents that
kids can gain
access to the Internet without the help and guidance from schools.
«It may take longer, it may be a little
more challenging, but the
kids really have complete
access to things,» she adds.
The challenge will be to make sure that students from disadvantaged backgrounds get the same
access and have the same opportunities to learn with technology as
more privileged
kids have.
It's impossible to picture how the United States will radically upgrade the quality of its three - million - member K - 12 teacher cadre, attract
more able people to enter and stick with this field, ensure needy
kids»
access to the best instructors, or span the curriculum with people who really know their subjects as long as this archaic, civil - service pay system persists.
Choice among schools is a fine thing, and the U.S. has made major strides in widening
access for millions of
kids via vouchers, charters, tax credits, savings accounts, and
more.
Through visits to secondary schools and community organizations, the Peer -2-Peer educators hope to provoke
more kids into thinking about the source of their food and their own eating habits, and to connect those personal experiences to larger social phenomena surrounding food, nutrition, and food
access.
According to Sachs, if
kids have
access to high - quality early care and education, «they'll do better in school, they'll come to school much
more prepared to learn, they'll know how to interact with adults, they'll have better language skills, they'll know how to get along with
kids better.»
A recent survey conducted by Grunwald Associates, a market research and consulting firm specializing in technology, and released in conjunction with The National School Boards Foundation (NSBF), seems to indicate, however, that educators need to devote at least as much energy to making
kids smart — by providing them and their families with greater
access to online educational content and
more opportunities to communicate and collaborate.
What is
more likely than a disruptive technology in the schools is a disruptive technology that end - runs the schools: indeed, all the things that
kids like about technology — games, Facebook, texting, PDAs, cell phones, smaller and smaller computers, 24/7 uncensored web
access — are off - limits in schools.
And sadly our school's internet is so slow that if we want to have
more than 15
kids in the school
accessing a website, you have to double them up on computers.
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 involvement.