Sentences with phrase «of educational children»

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The goal of the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy is to ensure that every child, regardless of socioeconomic status, has access to educational opportunities to teach them reading and writing.

-- Michael Barnett, cofounder and CEO of Romp n» Roll, a play - based educational program for children and their parents.

And if you have kids and find yourself spending a lot on kids» books, movies, TV shows, or educational apps and games put - together, Prime members can pay $ 2.99 per month for a single child or $ 6.99 for a family of four kids for FreeTime Unlimited, which gives members unlimited access to 13,000 options.

Some other examples of ongoing programs might include scholarship programs, urban renewal projects, performing arts programs, social and educational programs, children's activities, community organizations, and construction projects.

A retired educator and Founder of the Learning Store, Ltd., a chain of educational toy stores that specialize in playthings for children with disabilities, Klein's solution is the Eco Connect Bottle ® System.

On this occasion, Kowalski lost out to a speech therapist and physical therapist, who created a box of laminated cards that describe educational activities parents can use with their young children.

She noted that there is strong research that indicates that the extra income the tax credit gives to low - income families has significant long - term benefits for the children, improving their educational, health, and career outcomes, on top of helping to mitigate immediate hardship.

Further, pitches that were tagged as «educational,» which most often had to do with children's education, were successful 73 percent of the time.

Littman, the founder of educational computer game designer Morphonix, says she works with a bunch of guys most comfortable solving digital problems, so when she wants to get something new out of them, she finds some way to make them act like the children for whom they design the games.

Young boys are taught to be professional tailors inside the educational and rehabilitation center called «Bal Ashram», which was created by Kailash Satyarthi who won (along with Pakistani Malala Yousafzai) the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize for his many years of work against child labor.

The result has been to give the children of certain city - dwelling types of recent immigrant an educational advantage over the children of native American and other stocks living in rural areas.

Was on the board of the Thorn Tree Project and the Samburu Scholarship Fund, which provide educational opportunities for nomadic children in northern Kenya.

I also became frustrated with the lack of developmentally appropriate educational games available for young children.

Her original webshow, TheGoToMom.TV has captured one of the largest growing niche audiences — parents who have children birth to seven, through professionally produced yet authentic and real educational videos.

RepublicaVR (USA): We create interactive educational virtual reality applications that aim to teach diverse subjects and inspire children of all ages.

Airlines could alleviate a LARGE part of the problem by providing educational materials for parents about how to fly with children.

An initiative of international charity and educational partner, Free The Children, and supported by RBC and Ford Motor Company of Canada, Ltd., the We Create Change Tour will run from April 11 - June 17, 2014...

2014.04.02 Double amputee Spencer West embarks on coast to coast road trip to celebrate Canadian students opening the doors to education around the world An initiative of international charity and educational partner, Free The Children, and supported by RBC and Ford Motor Company of Canada, Ltd., the We Create Change Tour will run from April 11 - June 17, 2014...

He started the Education Freedom Fund, which awarded more than 4,000 scholarships to underprivileged children in Michigan, the West Michigan Aviation Academy, (a High School that aims to provide a rigorous educational program through an aviation focus), and has served on the State Board of Education.

They hand out educational toys with their children's meals that are truly useful and not just another piece of plastic junk that finds it's way into the trash.

He surmised that an educational emergency might provide a motivation for parents to «accept religious indoctrination [of their children] that they otherwise would have avoided.»

Recognizing that poverty is more than a lack of money, Compassion works through local churches to holistically address the individual physical, economic, educational and spiritual needs of children — enabling them to thrive, not just survive.

In the case of same - sex couples adopting children, it has only been a relatively short time that same - sex couples have been able to adopt and foster and therefore, there has not been time for a proper analysis to be carried out into the effects such placements have on the children's educational, emotional and developmental wellbeing.

But Claire reminds me, now and then, that it is precisely events like these — well - intentioned educational initiatives that explicitly remove sex from the purview of family and religion — that promote the idea that sex can be engaged in without the consequences of sexually transmitted diseases, hurt feelings, and (by the way) children.

They should be able to take their child to the neighborhood public school as a matter of course and expect that it has well - educated teachers and a sound educational program.»

She and Stefan launched the Spring of Life centre, now a registered NGO that aims to provide for the practical and educational needs of children at risk.

Are they given further educational opportunities or do they simply return to poverty and perpetuate a culture of dependence with their own children?

Thus educational initiatives are already underway to introduce young children to positive examples of «gay and lesbian» relationships [11].

Because one out of four of our children suffer from poverty, they need the advantage of early educational opportunities.

The role of the family as the first educator of the child will be examined, as well as the educational theories of St John Bosco, Sofia Cavalletti and Luigi Giussani.

From Picasso to Sir Ken Robinson, including my own and my possibly your observations with our own children going through school, it is believed that our educational methods have ways of killing creativity in kids.

I mean, I understand that religion spreads because adults take advantage of the fact that children are born programmed to believe anything coming out of an adult's mouth, both educational and BS, but all of this represents such a huge, incredible waste of time and effort and money that could be put to so many good uses...

If some children are neglected in our society they are — as educational theorist Henry Giroux points out — being closely targeted by at least one segment of society: corporate marketing.

I want any child who strives toward an educational goal to have a chance of obtaining it unfettered by prohibiting financial limitations.

There are sound reasons for thinking the children of two remarkably excellent humans will have greater genetic and educational chances than most to become remarkably excellent themselves.

One is in helping churches utilize more fully their broad educational programs and their contacts with parents of young, impressionable children.

It is for this reason that parents should be given the right to send their children to schools of their choice, provided certain minimal standards of safety and competency are satisfied, and should not be required to utilize state educational facilities.

This perspective unmistakably reveals the unwholesomeness, not to put it more strongly, of our way of life: our obsession with sex, violence, and the pornography of «making it;» our addictive dependence on drugs, «entertainment,» and the evening news; our impatience with anything that limits our sovereign freedom of choice, especially with the constraints of marital and familial ties; our preference for «nonbinding commitments;» our third - rate educational system; our third - rate morality; our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong, lest we «impose» their morality on us; our reluctance to judge or be judged; our indifference to the needs of future generations, as evidence by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our unsated assumption, which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion, that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.

The earlier parts of the educational system I remember, of course, from first hand experience as a child, and experienced again, indirectly, through...

From Picasso to Sir Ken Robinson, including my own and my possibly your observations with our own children going through school, it is believed that our educational methods have ways of killing creativity in...

Family values do matter to the educational success of children, Sacks argues.

How, he wonders, will he pay off educational debts, finance his child's college education, save for retirement and buy a home at the end of a ministerial career?

In another educational innovation, the Human Development Program, children in groups of ten or so, for about twenty minutes each school day, participate in a variety of learning games.

Sesame Workshop's mission is to harness the educational power of media to help all children the world over reach their highest potential.

(CNN)- The Roman Catholic Church is willing to partner with American educational institutions to educate the public about child sex abuse after the Penn State scandal, according to the head of the U.S. church.

I would like to see educational programs which immerse children into the history of hope in Israel and in the church, showing how visions of a good future grew in every age out of the memories of God's past disclosures to provide anticipations of a coming kingdom.

Moreover, recent research by Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner has devastated the optimistic assumptions of modern developmental psychology which has set the terms for much modern educational theory (see Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences [Basic Books, 1983] and The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach [Basic Books, 1991]-RRB-.

The staff and volunteers at recovery centers and aftercare programs offer food and shelter along with medical / psychological assessment, evaluation of educational / social development, child care and legal assistance.

The Chair of the Federal Communications Commission called for legislation to mandate increased children's educational programming.