Sentences with phrase «numbers of school age children»

Increasing numbers of school age children with allergic disease is presenting schools with a major challenge around how to make school life for pupils with allergic disease as safe as possible.

According to future pupil demographics, the number of school aged children is expected to grow by four per cent in Wales and 15 per cent in England by 2025.

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A number of interesting cases followed the Sherbert precedent, notably Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972), exempting the children of Old Order Amish from a requirement to attend school until age sixteen.

Kingdom of the Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement by Mitchell L. Stevens Princeton University Press, 238 pages, $ 24.95 A recent government report documents a remarkable growth in the number of school - aged children now being educated at home and provides reassuChildren: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement by Mitchell L. Stevens Princeton University Press, 238 pages, $ 24.95 A recent government report documents a remarkable growth in the number of school - aged children now being educated at home and provides reassuchildren now being educated at home and provides reassuring....

This topic merits more extensive study, that more closely examines the number of foodborne illness cases in preschool aged children who bring lunch from home compared with others who eat school - prepared lunch.

Ronee offers a number of services to help with sleep including: Newborns, Infants, Toddlers, School age children, Teens, and even adults.

What was once one of the best school systems in New York State is now facing declining enrollment as the number of young families with school - age children declines.

After adjusting for child age, gender, and number of children, the researchers found that high video game usage was associated with a 1.75 times the odds of high intellectual functioning and 1.88 times the odds of high overall school competence.

Although the number of playground injuries is decreasingfrom 187,000 in 1992 to 98,000 in 1997Phelan hopes that prevention efforts aimed at middle - school - age children can reduce the number even further.

A CDC National Center for Health Statistics study from the May 2008 Journal of the American Medical Association found that obesity rates have leveled off in school - age children, but more than 16 % of kids are still obese — a number that has nearly tripled since 1980.

Figure 2 shows the results of our efforts to explain the amount of schooling children completed through five factors: family structure, mother's age at child's birth, mother's years of education, the number of siblings, and parental income.

With an aging teaching force, mandated class size reductions, and the swelling numbers of immigrants and baby boomer children, U.S. schools will need an unprecedented number of new teachers over the next decade.

About 1 million school - age children still can not go online at home and while that number is steadily reducing it remains an area of concern due to the growing assumptions that all children are now connected to the Internet.

Meanwhile, the number of both school - age children and college attendees grew steadily, with more than one - quarter of college degrees being granted in the field of education.

The total number of school districts in the U.S. dropped from more than 100,000 around the turn of the 20th century to less than 15,000 by the turn of the 21st century, even as the population of school - age children increased during that period.

Throughout our analyses, we adjust for three other family characteristics that may separately influence a child's educational attainment: mother's age at the child's birth, level of schooling the mother had completed when the child was 14 years old, and number of siblings born to the child's mother.

Barking and Dagenham is one of 11 London councils that face high increases in secondary school demand and has experienced the biggest growth in London in the number of children aged up to four.

And the «crisis» will be deepened by a gradual rise in the number of school - age children beginning in 1985, by increased graduation requirements in many states, and by an unusually...

They point, for example, to President Bush's No Child Left Behind law (enacted in 2002), mayoral governance of schools recently instituted in some cities, and the creation of a small number (4,638) of charter schools that serve less than 3 % of the U.S. school - age population.

The ASCL believes that the recruitment crisis may continue in the next year as a result of a fall in the number of graduates as a result of higher university tuition fees and an increase in school aged children.

Since the 1976 - 77 school year, when Congress first required public schools to count the number of children with learning disabilities (LD), the share of school - age children labeled LD has risen from 1.8 percent to 5.2 percent.

A series of rapid shifts in the number of school - age children in the U.S. in the next 20 years will make planning for school staffing difficult and will «significantly affect» the future structure of educational institutions, according to a report released last week by the U.S. Census Bureau.

More than half of parents of school - aged children say that 16 or more school days are dedicated to test activities each year and 44 percent believe this is «too high,» which is double the number who say it is «too low.»

The MPs said: «In an age of rampant child obesity there has been a shock increase in the number of children starting their first and final years of school who are underweight.»

Assuming the child is more aware and more sensitivity (which means they will be different from most of the population since the number of gifted kids ranges about 6 percent of school - aged children) then it is paramount that we educate these students about themselves and the differences.

They compared enrollment patterns in the Auckland, Christchurch, and Wellington urban areas with changes in the number and ethnic composition of school - age children in the schools» attendance zones.

Researchers have long known that moving schools at age 11 causes problems for significant numbers of children.

For more information on the competition, please visit http://schools.fictionexpress.co.uk/en/competition Entries must be submitted via email to: [email protected] Entries must also include the child's name, age, address, home telephone number and the name and address of their school.

To expand the number of youth workers trained in New York City school - age child - care programs: $ 240,000 (over three years) to the Fund for the City of New York.

Schools Week analysed new government figures on the educational outcomes of children in care for at least 12 months and found that since 2011, the number of children in care in year 3 (age 7) has increased by 15 per cent and the number in care by year 6 (age 11) has increased by 26 per cent, with much of the change due to increased pupil numbers overall.

Though homeschooled children represent only 4 percent (about 2 million) of all school - age children nationwide, they are growing seven times faster than the number of children enrolling in grades K - 12.

To quantify this type of productivity loss, CAP estimated the number of lost hours due to school closings and multiplied it by the average hourly wage of women with elementary - school - age children in the United States.

«Find out about his family; his marital status; the number of children he has and their ages and what schools they go to.

Children normally start school in the academic year that they turn five, but increasing numbers are attending pre-schools from the age of three.

Finally, age adjustments are used for entry exams to many grammar schools, yet there remains a disproportionately lower number of summer born children who are successful.

Suspension from school is a big factor in the number of black and brown children between the ages of 12 — 17, victims of the school to prison pipeline.

A study of 1,224 children between the ages of 8 and 11, on skills such as addition, number sequencing, size ordering and sentence memory, found «compelling evidence that physical activity between lessons is a valuable component of the school curriculum, for academic as well as physical development.»

This allows you to show the trends in numbers of arrivals in an area of school - age children.

Mississippi ranks near the bottom among all states in a number of markers including children ages 1 through 5 whose families read to them more than 3 days a week, fourth - and eighth - grade reading and math levels, on - time high - school graduation and average composite ACT scores.

The estimated number of home - schooled children represents 3.4 percent of the U.S. student population between the ages of 5 and 17.

Globally, the number of primary schools aged children not in school is actually increasing.

(e) The board shall establish the information needed in an application for the approval of a charter school; provided that the application shall include, but not be limited to, a description of: (i) the mission, purpose, innovation and specialized focus of the proposed charter school; (ii) the innovative methods to be used in the charter school and how they differ from the district or districts from which the charter school is expected to enroll students; (iii) the organization of the school by ages of students or grades to be taught, an estimate of the total enrollment of the school and the district or districts from which the school will enroll students; (iv) the method for admission to the charter school; (v) the educational program, instructional methodology and services to be offered to students, including research on how the proposed program may improve the academic performance of the subgroups listed in the recruitment and retention plan; (vi) the school's capacity to address the particular needs of limited English - proficient students, if applicable, to learn English and learn content matter, including the employment of staff that meets the criteria established by the department; (vii) how the school shall involve parents as partners in the education of their children; (viii) the school governance and bylaws; (ix) a proposed arrangement or contract with an organization that shall manage or operate the school, including any proposed or agreed upon payments to such organization; (x) the financial plan for the operation of the school; (xi) the provision of school facilities and pupil transportation; (xii) the number and qualifications of teachers and administrators to be employed; (xiii) procedures for evaluation and professional development for teachers and administrators; (xiv) a statement of equal educational opportunity which shall state that charter schools shall be open to all students, on a space available basis, and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, creed, sex, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age, ancestry, athletic performance, special need, proficiency in the English language or academic achievement; (xv) a student recruitment and retention plan, including deliberate, specific strategies the school will use to ensure the provision of equal educational opportunity as stated in clause (xiv) and to attract, enroll and retain a student population that, when compared to students in similar grades in schools from which the charter school is expected to enroll students, contains a comparable academic and demographic profile; and (xvi) plans for disseminating successes and innovations of the charter school to other non-charter public schools.

The Classpad is aimed at school children aged from 3 to 12, and it has been made available to 1,500 students across a number of schools in India.

Children and teenagers will enjoy a special program of weekend events including playful tours for preschoolers and tours focusing on a number of subjects for school kids, a family lecture program introducing visitors to the basics of kinetic and op art, and a series of workshops for all ages.

I encourage you to look at the map we created for the Science Times story showing numbers of school - age children in places with big earthquake threats.

Among the common sense recommendations to minimize risk to children walking to school were: not to allow those under the age of 10 to walk alone; to only cross at marked crosswalks; and to choose a route with the least number of street crossings.

Recent theoretical work suggests that bullying might arise out of early cognitive deficits — including language problems, imperfect causal understanding, and poor inhibitory control — that lead to decreased competence with peers, which over time develops into bullying.14, 15 A small number of studies provide circumstantial evidence that such a hypothesis might have merit7: 1 study found a link between poor early cognitive stimulation and (broadly defined) inappropriate school behavior, 16 and another found cognitive stimulation at age 3 years to be protective against symptoms of attention - deficit disorder at age 7 years.17 A study of Greek children found that academic self - efficacy and deficits in social cognition were related to bullying behavior.18 A large US national survey found that those who perceive themselves as having average or below - average academic achievement (as opposed to very good achievement) are 50 % to 80 % more likely to be bullies.8 Yet these studies are based on cross-sectional surveys, with the variables all measured at a single point in time.

In its application in a given case, the best interest of the child means what a judge says it means, but a number of best interest factors come into play, such as the child's age, gender, mental and physical health, the health of parents, the lifestyle and other social considerations of parents, the love and emotional ties between parent and child, the parents» ability to provide food, shelter, clothing and medical care, the quality of schools of the child, the child's preference if the child is over 12, the ability and willingness of the parent to foster a healthy relationship between child and other parent, and the stability of the environment.

As previously described (32), a number of standardized parent - and child - report questionnaires, as well as the semistructured diagnostic interview the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School Aged Children (33), were used to generate child psychiatric diagnoses.

School staff can give young carers (children under 12 years - of - age who help care for family members with an illness, disability, mental health issue or alcohol or other drug problem) the following number to contact 1800 242 636 if they require support.