Sentences with phrase «of elementary school children»

About 50 percent of high school students have access to salad bars at schools, 39 percent of middle school kids and 31 percent of elementary school children.

And within walking distance of the elementary school the children attended.

Reading disabilities affect up to 8 percent of elementary school children.

«We know that daily recess is in the best interest of all elementary schools children and that by - and - large, local control on this issue just isn't working.»

While teaching at the University of Texas at Austin in 1990, Welch created photo portraits of elementary school children in Austin on the theme of what each wanted to be when they grew up and their visions of the future.

Prediction of elementary school children's socially appropriate and problem behavior from anger reactions at age 4 — 6 years

She was chosen to become a leader of the Little Red Guards, a group of elementary school children who supported and believed in Mao's ideas.

Mark Chaffin and his colleagues at the University of Oklahoma found that PCIT significantly reduced the recurrence of child maltreatment and related service costs among physically abusive families of elementary school children.

The study authors concluded that «adding puréed vegetables to lunch entrées may be an effective strategy to increase vegetable consumption and reduce energy intake of elementary school children.

In a 2010 report to the USDA [PDF], Mathematica predicted that adopting a full range of improvements to make meals «healthier» would result in 5 percent of elementary school children dropping out of the program, and even more — 12 percent — at the secondary school level.

«It looks like we found a very promising, low - cost and effective way of improving the nutrition of elementary school children,» reported Robert Siegel, MD, the study's lead author and medical director of the Center for Better Health and Nutrition at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

BC - Healthy Eating: Effects of a whole - school model to modifying eating behaviours of elementary school children.

But the biggest problem I've had all along with this approach is that it does not address the needs of elementary school children, who are the biggest consumers of the federally - subsidized meals program.

In New York City, nearly half of elementary school children are overweight.

«In principle, the EU School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme is a useful nutritional measure to increase the fruit and vegetable consumption of elementary school children,» concludes Julia Haß.

These children especially have a higher dropout rate with the equivalency in reading level of an elementary school child, and that has more to do with having a grading system that moves children up grade levels without warrant and those students not getting enough attention with giant class sizes.

Analyzing the math achievement of elementary school children, Stephen Raudenbush, Marshall Jean, and Emily Art find that students learn less if they attend schools with high student turnover during the school year — a common occurrence in poor schools.

Other interesting stops included lunch with a local family in Acul, a visit with the old gentleman who makes the famous black salt of Nebaj, a hike into the hills near Acul and a visit with a classroom of elementary school children.

Objective To determine relationships between weight and health - related QOL reported by parent - proxy and child self - report in a population sample of elementary school children.

The results imply that cooperative games can be used as a meaningful activity to improve the peer relationship and the community consciousness of elementary school children.

The Association for the Promotion and Advancement of Science Education: This is a nonprofit society dedicated to supporting teachers, parents, and other community role models in capturing the interests of elementary school children.

Prediction of elementary school children's externalizing problem behaviors from attentional behavioral regulation and negative emotionality