Sentences with phrase «more school absences»

Children with chronic problems had diminished family functioning, more school absences, and less participation in community activities compared with other children.

These impacts are seen school - wide as students with trauma have more discipline referrals and suspensions, are more likely to be retained, have more school absences, and have lower test scores and academic performance.

The common cold responsible for more school absences than any other illness.

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You must have a qualifying person living with you for at least half the year (except for a school absence) and you must bear more than half the cost of keeping a home.

But my own judgment is that the absence of some of the more highly motivated students is not the primary problem with the public schools; and in any case these students might lose much of that motivation if forced to attend those schools.

Healthy children also have fewer school absences, are more engaged in their studies and quite possibly will behave better.

When students eat school breakfast it can help decrease visits to the school nurse, tardiness, and absences, while improving behavior, attendance, concentration, standardized test scores and more.

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

As part of the conversion to the national Common Core standards, school districts in New York are required to place more student records, transcripts, and even behavioral information, like absences and suspensions, in online data bases.

It is the number one illness leading to school absences in children, and accounts for more than 1.8 million emergency room visits annually.

A lack of sleep is associated with more absence and teens turn up jet lagged to school on Mondays, as shown in a doctoral thesis by sleep researcher Serena Bauducco, at Örebro University, Sweden.

In 2005, Browns Mill School became the first sugar - free school in the country, and the results speak for themselves with a 30 percent decrease in nurse visits, a 28 percent drop in teacher referrals for bad behavior, and improved test scores.20 Dr. Sanders - Butler continues to see the difference in the children's health through weight loss and fewer absences, as well as more frequent everyday positive interactions with happier chiSchool became the first sugar - free school in the country, and the results speak for themselves with a 30 percent decrease in nurse visits, a 28 percent drop in teacher referrals for bad behavior, and improved test scores.20 Dr. Sanders - Butler continues to see the difference in the children's health through weight loss and fewer absences, as well as more frequent everyday positive interactions with happier chischool in the country, and the results speak for themselves with a 30 percent decrease in nurse visits, a 28 percent drop in teacher referrals for bad behavior, and improved test scores.20 Dr. Sanders - Butler continues to see the difference in the children's health through weight loss and fewer absences, as well as more frequent everyday positive interactions with happier children.

The latter felt the most playful (and possibly nostalgic for anyone who sported oversize bows in elementary school) but was made more serious by way of a color palate consisting of just black and white and the absence of too much extra frill.

And as I started to succeed, financially, I grew more baffled at the absence of sound financial lessons in schools.

INFECTION PREVENTION Illness is the most common reason for absence from schools, accounting for more than half (58 per cent) of school days missed.

«Increasingly over the last few years... there have been more and more schools saying: «No we can't allow this anymore because of this issue with unauthorised absence.»»

Teachers in these schools had slightly less experience and slightly more absences than teachers in other schools.

They are also more likely to remain enrolled in school, and they show modest improvements on measures of behavior such as absences and suspensions.

When it comes to stress levels, more than two fifths (45.6 %) of school workers are stressed about redundancies, more than a third (34.6 %) are stressed about disputes, more than two fifths (41 %) feel stressed about long - term sickness and almost half (47.2 %) feel stressed about repetitive short - term absences.

The increased amounts of sunlight prior to school start only modestly reduces absence rates — and more for young children than for teenagers — indicating that these improved student outcomes are probably due to increased alertness, rather than to more time in school.

A new Fordham report finds that 28 % of teachers in traditional district schools miss more than 10 school days a year for sick or personal leave while teachers in charter schools have lower rates absences.

The average Massachusetts student misses eight school days per year, according to Goodman, but student absences vary by poverty status, with poor students being absent ten days per year on average, three days more than nonpoor students.

And working in these environments has the advantage of forging more productive relations with school administrators because of the absence of restrictive union work rules that contribute to daily standoffs between management and labor.

Fewer absences therefore may also explain why later - starting students have higher test scores: students who have an early start time miss more school and could perform worse on standardized tests as a result.

In the absence of vouchers, only parents with enough money are able to seek out good schools by going private; but under a voucher system, they argue, with the cost of private education much reduced (or zero), many more parents would be able to — and would want to.

In the education department's 2009 — 10 report — assembled by its Office for Civil Rights from surveys of 57,000 schools — on average, half the teachers in the 208 Rhode Island schools surveyed were absent more than 10 days during the year, surpassing teacher absences in Hawaii, Arkansas, Oregon, and New Mexico by only a whisker.

They are not satisfied with certain features of the public school system, especially inequities, the absence of voluntary prayer, the level of parental involvement (they'd like more), and school size (they'd like smaller).

Female teachers under age 35 averaged 3.2 more absences each school year than did men.

As the «school employer,» I know that I am far more likely to motivate an uninterested student with poor attendance to show up, and therefore make it more likely that she will pass my class and graduate, by telling how much we missed her during her absence rather than by giving her a zero on missed assignments.

The significant relationship with precinct test scores and the absence of a relationship with district scores suggests that voters were more concerned with school performance within their immediate neighborhood than across the district.

KIPP DC says that from 3 to 8 percent of the students in the five grade schools that it operated last year had 15 or more unexcused absences, the D.C. definition of truancy.

It is dangerous to apply such results to more typical charter - school students, and it is wrong to portray them as representative in the absence of independent evidence that they are.

Closer examination of the studies of such schools clearly show that the apparent academic advances are due to the presence of such factors as smaller class size, more resources, greater parental interest, and higher student ability and motivation — not to the absence of the opposite sex.

The disconnect between real life and the high school experience and the absence of any real connection to peers and teachers causes many students on the margins to give up: More than 30 percent of U.S. students who enter high school never finish, according to a recent report by Harvard University's Civil Rights Project, the Urban Institute, Advocates for Children of New York, and the Civil Society Institute.

The contract teachers were much more likely to be found in school and teaching (74 percent versus 45 percent for the civil - service teachers), and their absence rate was unaffected by tracking (see Figure 2).

If cities simply add more choice schools in the absence of changes to the enrollment process, parents can struggle to find information on schools, be forced to fill out widely varying school applications, and then receive a staggered barrage of acceptance and rejection notices.

For example, it cost one school in Birmingham more than # 500,000 to cover staff absences and fourteen schools in Birmingham each spent more than # 200,000 on supply teachers.

These families are more likely to engage in online school research and to use GreatSchools.org in the absence of school choice.

The board of education or BOCES shall appoint the members of the team, a majority of which shall be teachers, which shall include the superintendent of schools or his or her designee in the case of school districts or the district superintendent or his or her designee in the case of BOCES; school administrators upon designation by the administrators» collective bargaining organization; teachers upon designation by the teachers» collective bargaining organization; at least one parent upon designation by the established parent groups in the district or in their absence, by the superintendent in the case of a school district or district superintendent in the case of a BOCES; and one or more curriculum specialists, meaning a teacher or administrator whose primary job responsibility involves the development or evaluation of curricula, upon designation by the district or teachers» collective bargaining organization or both.

The team, a majority of which shall be teachers, shall include the superintendent of the district for which the team was formed or his or her designee; school administrators upon designation by the administrators» collective bargaining organization; teachers upon designation by the teachers» collective bargaining organization; at least one parent upon designation by the established parent groups in the district, or, in their absence, by the chancellor in the case of a high school division, a special education division or a chancellor's district, or by the board of education of the community school district in the case of a community school district; one or more curriculum specialists, meaning a teacher or administrator whose primary job responsibility involves the development or evaluation of curricula, upon designation by either or both the teachers» collective bargaining organization, or by the chancellor in the case of a high school division, a special education division or a chancellor's district, or by the board of education of the community school district in the case of a community school district.

Like afterschool programming, efforts to reduce school absences are animated by the need to provide students more time on task in quality learning environments.

Mr Gibb said: «Such absence is still a problem but it is clear that more head teachers are refusing simply to wave through parents» requests to take their children out of school for term - time holidays.

Sponsored by the Education Department, the first - ever national conference on chronic absence attracted teams from more than 35 states as well as the 30 school districts that are participating in the My Brother's Keeper Success Mentor initiative.

A little more than a decade ago, in the midst of an avalanche of national reports on school reform, I felt compelled to write a Commentary for these pages taking note of the glaring absence in the reports of how school counselors can and should take part in the reshaping of our schools («Clarifying the Role of School Counselors,» June 1, 1school reform, I felt compelled to write a Commentary for these pages taking note of the glaring absence in the reports of how school counselors can and should take part in the reshaping of our schools («Clarifying the Role of School Counselors,» June 1, 1school counselors can and should take part in the reshaping of our schools («Clarifying the Role of School Counselors,» June 1, 1School Counselors,» June 1, 1988.).

A growing consensus of research points to chronic absence — defined by the national policy group Attendance Counts as missing 10 percent of school or more — as one of the strongest and most often overlooked indicators of a student's risk of becoming disengaged, failing courses, and eventually dropping out of school.

But schools can not punish students for walking out more harshly than they would punish students with other unexcused absences.

The district also has campaigns that address chronic absences of students who miss 15 or more days of school, promote dental and eye care in the schools, and promote Restorative Justice programs to prevent bullying and encourage safe environments.

«Chronically absent» is defined as missing 10 percent or more of the school year, or about 18 days of instruction, including excused and unexcused absences and suspensions.

Like truancy, chronic absence has no common definition, though many researchers and schools monitor how many students are missing 10 percent or more of the school year.

Almost 10,000 schools, or one out of every 10 schools in the nation, have extreme levels of chronic absence affecting 30 percent or more of their students.