Sentences with phrase «on school absences»

We examine the effect of air pollution on school absences using administrative data for elementary and middle school children in 39 of the largest school districts in Texas merged with air quality

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As a Christian who grew up in Kuwait, I had to go to school on Christmas (unless it fell on a Friday) and Easter and it was counted as «unexcused absence».

So, in the absence of any explanation, we must ask what, in the eyes of our national Education Service, is the big difference between these two constructive diocesan documents on Catholic schools?

Mt. Baldy, Calif.: Dry - ski school launched here on straw - covered slope in absence of sufficient cover.

Principals should consult the Tools for Schools page on the Attendance Works website for five essential strategies to reduce chronic absence:

Using DTI, researchers at Wake Forest found in a 2014 study [26] that a single season of high school football can produce changes in the white matter of the brain of the type previously associated with mTBI in the absence of a clinical diagnosis of concussion, and that these impact - related changes in the brain are strongly associated with a postseason change in the verbal memory composite score from baseline on the ImPACT neurocognitive test.

«Flexi - schooling» or «flexible school attendance» is an arrangement between the parent and the school where the child is registered at school in the normal way but where the child attends the school only part time; the rest of the time the child is home - educated (effectively on authorised absence from school).

5.6 «Flexi - schooling» or «flexible school attendance» is an arrangement between the parent and the school where the child is registered at school and attends the school only part time; the rest of the time the child is home educated (on authorised absence from school).

Every mother with a job outside the home worries about the impact of her absences on her children, especially if they are younger than school age.

While father absence has been associated with a host of negative children's outcomes, including increased risk of dropping out of school and lower educational attainment, poorer physical and mental health, and behavioural problems,36 - 40 higher levels of involvement by nonresident fathers may assuage the negative effects of father absence on children's outcomes.41, 42 Quality of the parents» relationship before divorce, or of the pre-divorce father / child relationship, can also be an important factor: children fare worse following divorce when pre-divorce relationships were good and fare better when pre-divorce relationships were poor, 43,44 suggesting children are sometimes better off without a father if the father's relationship to the child or the mother was not good.

These are just a few examples of where breakfast - in - the - classroom has become a tool for administrators and educators to address food insecurity, disciplinary issues, tardies and absences, and trips to the school nurse — and that's on top of improved academic outcomes for students who eat school breakfast!

Questions during the off - topic portion of the press conference included his opinion of the expected Democratic candidate in the 11th Congressional District special election and whether he'll campaign for Gentile, the prospect of Department of Homeland Security losing funding, religious organizations renting City school facilities for prayer / worship services and the related lawsuit, a NY Post report criticizing a newly - created NYPD training program, reported terror threats against shopping malls, the absence of a Lunar New Year message from the mayor and his non-attendance at the Lunar New Year parade, his reaction to Governor Cuomo's comment that their relationship will be «the best relationship between a mayor and governor in modern political history,» his scheduled trip to Albany on Wednesday and delays in federal funding of Sandy rebuilding.

Lawmakers say the legislation is needed because some schools, especially those in Asian communities, have a high number of absences on the Lunar New Year, which begins on Friday.

Jenny Sedlis, executive director of StudentsFirstNY, a education group that's closely aligned with Cuomo on issues related to schools, said she's not concerned that her priorities will suffer in King's absence.

«It is not obviously the same as addressing the core inequality as created by the absence of a resolution in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity case, this is not a follow - through on that commitment by the state, but it does look like a substantial step forward for school aid,» Mr. de Blasio said.

Rhodes then went to Harvard Law School — «with the goal of developing the legal tools to keep fighting on behalf of those who are too often ignored by the political process,» his press release says — but has taken a leave of absence to run for Congress.

Rhodes formerly served as an aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and is on a leave of absence from Harvard Law School.

Speaking further, Bichi who said one of the factors responsible for the mass failure, examination malpractices and cultism in Nigerian schools from primary to tertiary level is the misplacement of priorities by the governments, parents, teachers and students blamed the problems on the absence of Social Workers who can help to discover students» potentials and guide them based on their uniqueness.

While it said there was «unclear» evidence that free school lunches raised attainment, it pointed to its own research on free school breakfasts in disadvantaged schools delivering similar academic benefits to free school lunches, but «significantly improved» behaviour and concentration, and reduced absences.

About 14 percent of the city's public school students are Asian, and schools such as P.S. 130 in Chinatown have seen absence rates of 80 percent on the Lunar New Year, Silver said.

They were asked what types of guns they owned; reasons for ownership (protection, recreation, as collector's items); their attitudes on gun policies, such as bans, arming teachers and violence against the government; and the sources of violence, ranging from God's absence in public schools to media violence to insufficient mental health screening and background checks.

Children who attended a full - day preschool program had higher scores on measures of school readiness skills (language, math, socio - emotional development, and physical health), increased attendance, and reduced chronic absences compared to children who attended part - day preschool, according to a study in the November 26 issue of JAMA.

UF / IFAS assistant professor of food and resource economics Jaclyn Kropp — along with economists at Georgia State University, Clemson University and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration — worked with a county school food services director to develop a novel research model to study school lunch choices children make, combining lunch sales data collected at the cafeteria register with data on student absences.

A lack of sleep is associated with more absence and teens turn up jet lagged to school on Mondays, as shown in a doctoral thesis by sleep researcher Serena Bauducco, at Örebro University, Sweden.

Measles causes significant absence from school or work and has a much larger impact on people's daily lives than illnesses like flu or chicken pox, according to a new study by researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Public Health Enschool or work and has a much larger impact on people's daily lives than illnesses like flu or chicken pox, according to a new study by researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Public Health EnSchool of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Public Health England.

There are a few laughs, but in the absence of a sustained comic tone and consistently good ideas, the script relies on endless bathroom humor and such throwaway visual ideas as a baby stored in a high school locker.

The answer has got to be absolutely not, but in the absence of any enthusiasm from the Department for Education, the loss of Becta and a major reduction in local authority advisory services, schools will need to develop their own strategies, learn from the best schools, re-visit policies on leasing and parental contributions and find new sources of expertise, inspiration and support.

In the absence of a dedicated on - site professional developer, schools build capacity through distributive PD that taps its own faculty as mentors.

The absence of high - performing public schools, and the lack of emphasis on American civics or expectations for good citizenship, will hurt our nation's youth and will certainly handicap our Hispanic immigrant students and their families most by impeding the assimilation process.

The absence of ReadNet Bronx from our evaluation is likely to have only a small impact on our assessment of student achievement because the school had only two years of test - taking students before it closed.

Drawing on the same data, we will examine whether self - reported measures of students» non-tested outcomes predict related school behaviors (e.g., absences, suspensions, on - time grade progression, GPA) in subsequent years.

Principal Mike O'Connor makes attendance data a «big deal» at Brisbane's Browns Plains State High School and is only too happy to shine a spotlight on student absence.

Following the work on teacher absence, Muralidharan realized that low accountability — only one out of 3,000 schools reported firing a teacher for repeated absence — and the complete lack of differentiation between teachers on the basis of performance, were part of a systematic problem.

Such «selection effects» could in theory account for the apparent school impacts on test scores, or even the apparent absence of impacts on fluid cognitive skills.

They are also more likely to remain enrolled in school, and they show modest improvements on measures of behavior such as absences and suspensions.

In related work conducted in Massachusetts, Harvard economist Josh Goodman finds no effects of school closures on student achievement but large negative effects of weather - induced absences on moderately snowy days when schools remained open.

In the absence of a sizable, well - organized and mobilized block of voters, the path of least resistance for most mayors is to focus on things that are within their control (like a school district), rather than on things are not (like independent education entrepreneurs).

In a new analysis, June Kronholz discusses recent research on teacher absences and the impact that the reliance on substitutes has on school budgets and student learning.

Instead, it is individual student absences, which increase on days when schools remain open despite the bad weather, that affect student achievement, especially in math.

The average Massachusetts student misses eight school days per year, according to Goodman, but student absences vary by poverty status, with poor students being absent ten days per year on average, three days more than nonpoor students.

Two years later, the winter 1964 — 1965 issue was devoted to «education and race relations» and included essays on social psychology and racial balance and another look at Prince Edward County, this time by Neil Sullivan, Ed.D.» 57, a New York superintendent who took a leave of absence in 1963 to become superintendent — at the request of then - attorney general Robert Kennedy — of a privately funded Prince Edward Free School.

But individual absences caused by weather when schools don't close have negative effects on achievement

It's not uncommon to receive an unexpected cyber inquiry from a parent — anything from a father informing us of an impromptu trip requiring the child's absence from school to a mother needing to confirm specific directions on a project.

Fewer absences therefore may also explain why later - starting students have higher test scores: students who have an early start time miss more school and could perform worse on standardized tests as a result.

The net impact on taxpayers, then, is 1) the savings that come from the difference between the voucher and the per - pupil revenue at district schools, for those who would have attended them in the absence of the voucher program, minus 2) the voucher costs for students who would have attended private schools anyway.

My preferred estimate, as explained above, is 10 percent, indicated by the bold figures, and the other rows show how the results vary depending on the assumption one makes about private school usage in the absence of vouchers.

In the education department's 2009 — 10 report — assembled by its Office for Civil Rights from surveys of 57,000 schools — on average, half the teachers in the 208 Rhode Island schools surveyed were absent more than 10 days during the year, surpassing teacher absences in Hawaii, Arkansas, Oregon, and New Mexico by only a whisker.

As the «school employer,» I know that I am far more likely to motivate an uninterested student with poor attendance to show up, and therefore make it more likely that she will pass my class and graduate, by telling how much we missed her during her absence rather than by giving her a zero on missed assignments.

«The absences at the middle and high school levels are on a tiered format, so a student can miss a couple of days for illness and still be in the drawing for the grand prize at the end of the year.»

Marcy Cooper, a principal at Southern Middle School, near Fort Bragg in North Carolina, says she makes a point of asking school staff and parents about military spouses who may be deployed, and she grants excused absences to students whose parents are coming home on temporary School, near Fort Bragg in North Carolina, says she makes a point of asking school staff and parents about military spouses who may be deployed, and she grants excused absences to students whose parents are coming home on temporary school staff and parents about military spouses who may be deployed, and she grants excused absences to students whose parents are coming home on temporary leave.