Sentences with phrase «numbers of parents whose»

Large numbers of parents whose children have diagnosed learning disabilities have pulled them from local schools, believing they can do a better job teaching them at home.

It sounds hard to believe, but that actually happens to not one but a number of parents whose baby monitors have not been encrypted.

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To hold that same - sex marriage is part of the fundamental right to marry, or necessary for giving LGBT people the equal protection of the laws, the Court implicitly made a number of other assumptions: that one - flesh union has no distinct value in itself, only the feelings fostered by any kind of consensual sex; that there is nothing special about knowing the love of the two people whose union gave you life, whose bodies gave you yours, so long as you have two sources of care and support; that what children need is parenting in some disembodied sense, and not mothering and fathering.

For instance, in Life Without Father, David Popenoe offers stunning evidence of negative outcomes for the growing number of children whose fathers are absent, whether because of divorce or because their parents did not marry.

According to evolutionary psychology, the emergence of the human species was accompanied by a change in reproductive strategy, a switch to producing a smaller numbers of offspring whose parents made a correspondingly greater investment in seeing them reach adulthood.

A number of them are second - generation employees whose parents worked there, as well.

With a lengthy injury list to contend with, Lee Clark has also recently lost a number of players, who returned to their parent clubs after the Seasiders» last game, including Jacob Murphy, whose ill - advised caption on a social media site saw his loan spell terminated after an internal investigation.

In contrast to these well - adjusted students were the growing number of students on my campus whose parents had done too much of the work of life for them, such that the student was rather bewildered when confronted with choices, problems, or questions they were accustomed to Mom or Dad handling.

Although currently the percentage of homeschooled children is only 4 % of all school children nationwide, the number of primary school kids whose parents choose to forgo traditional education is growing seven times faster than the number of kids enrolling in K - 12 every year.

I think it is time for the NFL, as the professional league in the sport which experiences the largest number of concussions by far, to demonstrate in a tangible way its commitment to concussion safety and education, both for its players, for the players at the youth level who emulate them, and the parents whose job it is to keep them safe.

Xiao is part of a fast - growing number of Chinese children whose parents are turning their backs on the state - run education system, which is based on rote learning and limited critical thinking.

At least, three students are reported to have died within one week, bringing to seven, the number of student deaths this year alone a situation causing alarm to parents whose wards are in the school.

As a result, a growing number of parents have delayed enrolling their children whose birthdays fall shortly before the cutoff date, seeking to gain academic and social advantages.

Dr. Perrin noted that despite these barriers, there is a growing number of children whose parents are gay, reflecting a rapidly changing legal and social climate for prospective gay and lesbian parents.

As Brown's aged, long - estranged mama, Davis — with the aid of terrific star Chadwick Boseman and some pretty expert makeup artists whose numbers Clint Eastwood should find immediately — manages to reinvigorate a set - up familiar from any number of tortured artist - biopics (i.e. absentee parent comes groveling years later to abandoned child - turned - superstar at the peak of his fame) with the same smart, electrifying clarity of character and tender yet tough - minded emotionalism that should be long - recognizable by now to anyone who has seen Doubt or Antwone Fisher or Solaris or Won't Back Down, or else Fences, King Hedley II, or Seven Guitars on Broadway, or, more likely, witnessed Davis» extraordinary, one - woman rescue job on Taylor's The Help.

Born and raised in Abu Dhabi to parents of Indian origin, Reuben is a Miami - based film critic and writer whose coverage includes local and national film news, obsessing over the lengthy awards season race, and reporting box office numbers.

Many of these schools had higher proportions of students living in challenging circumstances: high poverty and low parent education, or high numbers of students whose first language was neither English nor French and who were struggling with academic language proficiency.

The number of waivered classrooms is not caused simply by the number of students whose parents initially seek waivers.

A clear plurality of the public at large supports revisions in NCLB to increase the number of choice options available to parents whose children attend low - performing schools.

The number of students matriculating whose parents did not have college degrees was growing to the point of outnumbering the students whose parents had finished degrees.

Now that states are expected to be accountable for students learning, and many have instituted a statewide assessment of writing competence, both educators and parents are concerned about the large number of children whose writing skills are below standard.

If immigrants are targeted, children whose parents are immigrants or who are immigrants themselves will live in fear of deportation.36 If Medicaid is cut, not only will it increase the number of uninsured children without access to needed medical care, but it will also put the jobs of thousands of school nurses, psychologists, and physical therapists at risk.37 This would hurt health outcomes for many children, especially those with disabilities.

While there have been strides made in the number of first - generation students attending college, research has demonstrated that first - generation students graduate a lower rate (40 %) than their peers whose parents

Superintendent Christina Kishimoto — whose employment in this capacity with the Hartford Public Schools is over at the end of this school year and who has had her request to no longer be evaluated by the Board of Education granted — has angered a number of parents at the Clark School in the city's North East neighborhood with the proposal that this preK - 8 school be phased out and replaced by an Achievement First charter school.

Now that the 2016 Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing season has begun for school districts across Connecticut, there has been a significant and disturbing increase in the number of reports that local school districts — driven by Governor Dannel Malloy's State Department of Education — are engaged in the unethical abuse of children whose parents have refused to allow their children to participate in the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory SBAC testing program.

The law requires schools to report the number of students whose parents have not provided documents confirming their status.

It was a lofty and rather snide reference to the number of women working there whose parents had seen fit to name them after precious stones.

A dog with normal patellas whose dam had luxating patellas will likely be carrying a much higher number of the genes needed to produce luxating patellas than a dog from two normal parents.

A 5 month old bundle of joy whose number one passion is eating and loving her parents.

There will be plenty of kids raised away from nature, but there will be a lot more and an increasing number whose parents will want them to know more about the world around them.

Indeed there must be a considerable number of children whose parenting is more often done by grandparents than parents.

Possible transformations that might be possible from data anticipated to be analysed in this review would also include extrapolation of the number of fewer behaviour problems per week for children whose parents receive a parent skills training programme or the likelihood of a parent moving below a clinical threshold for depression.

Among the factors the court is to take into account are whether the residence is for pregnant women or parents whose children reside with them, the number of adults in the residence, and the parent's level of recovery.

The consideration of one parent's financial ability to support a custody arrangement should not discriminate against the parent who stayed home to raise the children or whose earning capacity is less for a number of reasons, including status in the society.