Sentences with phrase «more kids in the state»

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«Parents who respond to their children's emotions in a comforting manner have kids who are more socially well - adjusted than do parents who either tell their kids they are overreacting or who punish their kids for getting upset,» child psychologist Nancy Eisenberg of Arizona State University said in an interview.

A missionary kid living in Quito, Ecuador, Chad had begun using, and then selling, drugs as a teenager, in an environment far more dangerous than in the United States.

We live in a more racially diverse area of our primarily white state, so they hang out with kids who don't look like them.

And maybe in your State it's a two year wait but here in California there are children waiting to be adopted, though I can say that there is still a year or more process of vetting the adoptive parents to make sure they are not just using the kids as a means of financial support while locking them in a basement.

Sodomy, teen pregnancy, more taxes more money to the undeserved, more give aways, more restrictions on personal freedoms, kids taken from parents, parents told they cant punish thier children and the state steps in, country leaders that cant do sh.

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.

In addition, more than half of Canadian guests stated they would be «somewhat or very likely» to return to Boston Pizza solely because of the Kids Program.

Step 1 of Wisconsin's renaissance, led by Alvarez, may have been securing its borders and wringing every ounce of potential from in - state talent, but more and more the Badgers are complementing those Wisconsin kids with far - flung players from places like New Jersey, California, and Georgia.

None of the parents knew that their beloved and winning coach — this glib, engaging soul who had lived with and among them, who had so generously baby - sat their kids, taken the youngsters to movies and bought them expensive gifts — had undergone more than five years of treatment in two state mental hospitals for child molesting.

By increasing children's participation in federal school breakfast and summer meals programs, the No Kid Hungry North Carolina program could not only offer kids more food but also could garner more federal funds for the state, according to WRAL.

«Our book is about what parents and other caregivers can do in their interactions with their kids that actually develop a more integrated brain that creates a receptive state for learning and keeping the inner spark of your child alive and well.»

«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.»

Parents must be honest and realistic with their kids during the application process about how much they will spend on college... MORE Parents need to encourage their high school seniors to investigate all options, including in - state schools which will cost a fraction of a private college which can save significantly on the cost of a bachelor's degree.

Those kids who were already obese in fifth grade were also more likely to have reached a healthy weight by eighth grade, if they lived in a state with strict laws.

Kawasaki disease occurs more often in Japan, but the Kawasaki Kids Foundation estimates that the disease affects more than 4,200 children in the United States each year.

About Britax Child Safety, Inc.: Britax Americas manufactures a variety of award - winning strollers, accessories, and a birth - to - big kid premium line of intuitively designed car seats, of which more than 90 percent are assembled in the United States.

The only complication here is your state of health: more often than not, after a kid refuses to eat his soup twice, moms and grannies need urgent psychotherapeutic help and are quite ready to throw in a towel and agree to give their precious kid some potato fries he demands.

The National Organization for Marriage's third #MarchforMarriage is fixing to kick off in Washington D.C. Scheduled speakers include Brian Brown, NY State Sen. Ruben Diaz, 19 Kids and Counting's Josh Duggar, Liberty Counsel's Mat Staver, Focus on the Family's CitizenLink President & CEO Tom Minnery and more.

The Utica City School District received more than $ 4 million from the state to increase the number of hours kids are in school during the year, in an effort to increase the district's Common Core test scores.

The state this year reduced the number of answers kids needed to get right on 11 of the 12 Common Core exams, fueling concerns that rising scores were inflated, but state education officials said the questions were «slightly more difficult» than those used in past years.

Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña bragged about an increase in the number of city kids passing the state Common Core tests — but that success may have more to do with...

In addition to providing more choice and opportunity for parents and kids, he said it would boost the cash - starved state's chances of obtaining up to $ 700 million in «Race to the Top» funds from the federal governmenIn addition to providing more choice and opportunity for parents and kids, he said it would boost the cash - starved state's chances of obtaining up to $ 700 million in «Race to the Top» funds from the federal governmenin «Race to the Top» funds from the federal government.

«In the Buffalo Public School system, we have 14,000 out of 34,000 kids who don't go to school 18 days or more,» stated Fontana.

«Dogs are already used in search and rescue, in medicine, as service animals, to help autistic kids and more,» says Alper Bozkurt, an electrical and computer engineer at North Carolina State University in Raleigh who is building a smart harness for dogs.

Kids who are taught to reason about the mental states of others are more likely to use deception to win a reward, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

More to explore «Friction» from Kidipede, History and Science for Kids, Portland State University «Moti» from Motion Basics: Friction from Rader's Physics4Kids.com «Finding an Angle in a Right Angled Triangle» from Math is Fun Advanced «Slip Sliding Away: Experimenting with Friction» from Science Buddies This activity brought to you in partnership with Science Buddies

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!

Once you quit, you'll find it more amusing that tobacco soup smells like s ** t. Or at least that's what kids at a Washington state elementary school said when Teens Against Tobacco Use visited their class in 2008 and mixed up a concoction of cigarette ingredients.

The sooner you break your kid out of this pattern the easier it will be for them to accept more food in its natural state, which sets them up for a lifetime of vibrant health.

THREE: STATE Kane Backpack (they have a ton more options — and for every backpack purchased, they donate a backpack full of supplies to kids in need!)

(More to the point, the aforementioned Princess Mononoke, while featuring a fantastical setup and various creatures, is decidedly not a kids» movie, having been rated PG - 13 when released in the States.)

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Although, when enlightened on the meaning of STEM, more than two thirds (68 %) of parents stated that proficiency in tech is as necessary a life skill as budgeting or learning to cook, when it came down to the crunch 63.7 % of parents said that they'd rather their kids learned to speak a new language, than learned to code.

Since its inception, Kids Up Front has taught more than 350 six - week class series in 14 major cities throughout the United States and served more than 4,400 participants with a graduation rate of 90 percent.

The SAFE KIDS Campaign reports that each year in the United States, more than 3 million children experience sports - and recreation - related injuries.

Kids will be shortchanged, parents have to scramble for daycare, and the state gives away more than it gets in savings.

«If you think Common Core snuck up on families with the less than 1 percent of education dollars the Obama administration dangled in front of states, just wait until more public and private schools are directly accepting federal control through federal vouchers and the next Democratic administration decides they want to tell these schools what to teach kids.»

When you consider the fact that, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation study, kids in the United States ages 8 - 18 spend an average of six hours or more using media each day, it becomes that much more urgent for educators to become fluent in digital literacy.

«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 kids.

That's why the Romney plan is apt to do some good in states (and districts) that want to extend more school choices to their students — the federal dime can join the 90 cents in state and local funds in the kids» backpacks — but won't make much difference in places that aren't willing to put their own resources into this kind of reform.

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.

«By letting every state set their own benchmark, define their own standard and use their own assessment, combined with the requirement of 100 percent proficiency, they basically incented states to keep dumbing down and lowering their cut score in order to get more kids across the bar,» Weiss explains.

The advocacy organizations and state programs, with their clever names (Smart Start, More at Four, Every Child Matters, Vote Kids, Invest in Kids, Pre-K Now, Abecedarian, etc.), impress one with the ingenuity of those who are promoting the pre-K expansion.

They are hugely popular with parents, and more than 1.4 million kids now attend 4,578 charters in 41 states.

The reasons for this are many: more right - to - work states, a population shift to right - to - work states, an increase in mostly non-unionized charter schools and an uptick in the number of families availing themselves of school choice opportunities and sending their kids to private schools.

Arguing that post-recession budget cuts and Bush - era testing policies have prompted schools to cut art (in order to spend more time prepping kids for math and reading tests), they've come up with an idea: convince states to adopt new art standards — à la Common Core — to get schools to focus on art again.

Despite successful efforts, mostly by teachers» unions, to weaken and restrict charter laws, there are now nearly 3,000 charter schools in the United States, and enough kids on their waiting lists to fill 900 more...

Efforts to disentangle success from economics are made somewhat harder by New York's decision not to adopt one of the national Common Core tests, which promised to allow more apples - to - apples comparisons among school districts across the country (though New York has a modified version of the Common Core standards in place, the state makes its own exams to test whether kids are meeting those expectations).

Arguing that post-recession budget cuts and Bush - era testing policies have prompted schools to cut art (in order to spend more time prepping kids for math and reading tests), they've come up with an idea: convince states to adopt new art standards — à la Common -LSB-...]

That's because kids in Massachusetts take a bunch of state tests at the end of their sophomore year and Mahoney thought students needed to stick to a more traditional curriculum to make sure they learned all the material.