Sentences with phrase «most children experiment»

As much as we might like to think that our children will always tell the truth, the reality is that lying is something most children experiment with at one point or another.

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Dissatisfied with the results of most organizations helping the urban poor in the mid-1990s, Canada launched an experiment, an effort to reach all the kids in a 24 - block zone of New York City — he called it the Harlem Children's Zone — and give them education, social, and medical help starting at birth.
Typical freelancers, for the purposes of this experiment, are single adults with no children, moderate living expenses and a 1,000 - square foot apartment, «which is a good sized one - bedroom in most cities.»
Even when rehabilitation is most successful there are the strains of accepting the alcoholic as he experiments with new patterns of relating to his wife and children.
A carefully researched and deeply affecting dispatch from inside the most daring and potentially transformative social experiment of our time: the Harlem Children's Zone.
Under five, children are at their most curious and inquisitive, wanting to explore and experiment.
Most children have a natural curiosity about their bodies and they experiment in a variety of ways.
Children will learn to ask their own scientific questions, discover value in failed experiments, and — most importantly — have a blast with science.
While many parents don't think their children would ever drink, the truth is, most teens are experimenting with alcohol.
NAYS believes that children who experiment with drugs and alcohol are the ones most in need of the benefits that youth sports provides.
In the experiment, children most often chose the chocolate - chip cookies, with apple slices in second place.
Most people think of the «marshmallow experiment,» he said, referring to the classic experiment where children were tested for their ability to delay gratification by giving them the choice between one marshmallow now or two marshmallows a few minutes later.
How Things Work by Neil Ardley (Dorling Kindersley, # 14.99, ISBN 0 7513 0215 5) does better than most because there is an extra dimension: it doesn't tell, it shows, By following some simple step - by - step experiments the child discovers scientific principles, including how levers work and why skyscrapers don't fall down.
The findings are based on data collected through various methods including behavioural experiments with children in two countries (The Netherlands and Spain); focus groups with children and with parents in eight countries (UK, Spain, Italy, France, Poland, The Netherlands, Germany and Sweden); a survey with parents in the same eight countries; an in - depth analysis of the most popular games in the main online platforms; a literature review, and a regulatory review covering the 28 EU Member States, Norway and Iceland.
More human research and animal experiments are needed to understand which components are the most harmful and why, said Marie Lynn Miranda, dean of University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and Environment and director of the Children's Environmental Health Initiative.
Children have to estimate which container holds the most water, then experiment.
The free school experiment has failed in its most important purpose; ensuring every child has a school place.»
But as teacher leader and blogger Ariel Sacks notes, «Sadly, most of the experiments in education reform come from the imaginations of people who don't actually teach children
At the moment, suburban white students have the most choices, and, once again, poorer children are subject to band - aid solutions, experiments in privatization, and other ideas that only harm them more.
But was it a good thing for the subjects of the experiment, those children whose family incomes were low enough to qualify them for LSP vouchers, most of whom were Black?
«As valuable as your work is for children, it is your support of teachers which has had the most lasting impact on education here in Loudoun County... you work with teachers in their own classrooms, where they can see the direct effect of your methods and can experiment with new techniques under the guidance of a trained Wolf Trap teaching artist.»
Schools should be «uncomfortable» with the idea that practical science is «mainly about motivating» pupils, she said, adding: «Children should find experiments fun and motivating, but making sure children finish practical tasks having learned something... is most importantChildren should find experiments fun and motivating, but making sure children finish practical tasks having learned something... is most importantchildren finish practical tasks having learned something... is most important.»
Luke Messer, a Republican Congressman from Indiana who is a friend of Mike Pence and who founded the Congressional School Choice Caucus already suggested that some or all of the money for Trump's school choice program could come from the $ 15 billion the federal government spends on Title I. Grabbing money intended to help public schools that serve the nation's most needy children and turning it into an uncontrolled experiment in vouchers and unregulated charter schools is exactly the kind of project Betsy DeVos would relish.
Thus began the one - child policy, the world's most radical social experiment, which continues to irrevocably shape how one in six people in this world are born, live, and die.
The abolition of China's one - child policy brings to an end one of the most futile and inhumane experiments in top - down social engineering the world has seen.
«The most important conclusion we draw from this set of experiments is the following: People don't only think that leaving children alone is dangerous and therefore immoral.
Called «one of the most ambitious social - service experiments of our time,» by The New York Times, the Harlem Children's Zone Project is a unique, holistic approach to rebuilding a community so that its children can stay on track through college and go on to the jobChildren's Zone Project is a unique, holistic approach to rebuilding a community so that its children can stay on track through college and go on to the jobchildren can stay on track through college and go on to the job market.
Although the record for these programs is mixed, the most established program, the Oklahoma Marriage Initiative, has achieved successes in improving the quality and stability of low - income relationships.59 Given the fragility of family life among low - income, twentysomething couples with children — especially cohabiting couples — federal and state policymakers should continue to experiment with programs that give these couples skills that will help them stay together and thrive.
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