Sentences with phrase «performance of children»

That achievement has to be based on solid and sustained academic performance of all children in the district.

According to the developer's website, it is designed to be incorporated into the existing curriculum with the goal of improving the academic performance of children with diverse academic needs.

But it is impossible similarly to explain away the poorer educational and employment performance of children of single - parent families.

The academic performance of children conceived by assisted reproduction techniques (ART) is no better or worse than that of spontaneously conceived children when assessed at the ninth grade of their school education.

It is also about improving the academic performance of our children and the health of our nation.

Specifically, we studied the behavior problems and academic performance of children from single - parent families compared with children from nuclear families according to teachers» views.

While praised at the time for featuring one of the creepiest performances of a child actor, the original film hasn't exactly aged well.

However, as the gap between the incomes of wealthy and poor families has increased over the past three decades, so too has the educational performance of their children, bringing into question the nation's reputation for equal opportunity for all.

«The generally poor performance of our children on international comparisons speaks volumes about its effectiveness.

The Elementary School Performance and Adjustment of Children Who Enter Kindergarten Late or Repeat Kindergarten: Findings from National Surveys This National Center for Education Statistics report analyzes the elementary school performance of children whose entry into kindergarten is delayed or who repeat kindergarten.

Nurmi and von Wright [25] have already noticed that noise during learning impaired the subsequent recall performance of children with high neuroticism scores and with high score on state - anxiety.

In October, the man plead guilty to attempted indecency with a child and attempted sexual performance of a child for the pictures he took of the girl.

Ms Raymond says traditional public schools no longer have the excuse that they can not be blamed for the poor performance of children because of their background; so competition from charters may improve standards in non-charters, too.

Powers Musical School's Storytelling Program presents a musical performance of the children's book Dragons Love Tacos (Arlington)

Interestingly, this highly localized atrophy was correlated with the social communication performance of children in the autistic group: the deeper the sulcal pits, the more impaired were their skills in terms of language production.

Similarly, parents watching a singing performance of their child often get completely into it, mouthing every word.

Julian Dennison in the role of Ricky gives a convincing performance of a child who is tired of being shuttled through the foster care system.

Moments of redemption come in the surprisingly excellent performances of the children, who, given little to work with, find a way to flesh out their characters and provide Bushwhacked with spark and even a small measure of joy.

Understanding the deep - rooted importance of family and parental involvement in education and its effect on the academic performance of a child requires recognizing the fact that parents are childrens first teachers.

The Children's Campaign reversed its long - standing opposition to vouchers in part because of the dismal performance of children attending schools in low - income areas.

People in California are worried about the mathematical performance of their children.

«We are very pleased with the overall performance of children in the Louisiana Scholarship Program.

Currently, Dr Bruce is the principal investigator on a study designed to investigate the effects of early adverse experiences and the cognitive processes underlying behavioral regulation on alcohol use in maltreated adolescents and a study designed to examine the behavioral and electrophysiological performance of children and adolescents on a decision - making task.

«But during that same period, the educational performance of our children has hardly budged.

The effects on internalizing disorders for the full sample, and on academic performance of children whose mothers had low psychological resources, are more likely to be valid since similar effects were found in the Denver trial (study 3, below).

Recently, school officials in the District of Columbia public school system announced a significant change in expectations for academic performance of children of different ethnic groups.

Police said he was charged with possession of a sexual performance by a child and promoting the sexual performance of a child, both felonies.

The Cowans found positive effects in the school performance of children whose parents participated in their couples instruction and group discussion program.

The effects of welfare reform on the academic performance of children in low - income households

Your mother may have warned you not to walk and chew gum at the same time, but when Schaefer compared the performance of both children and young adults on a standard test of working memory when they were sitting with when they were walking, her results contradicted mom's advice.

In collaboration with well - known artists, entrepreneurs, policy makers and the general public, Adopt the Arts is dedicated to improving the academic performance of every child, through the gift of making music and art.

Convention on the Rights of the Child, Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) recognises the right of mothers to breastfeed, to appropriate assistance in the performance of child - rearing responsibilities and the development of institutions, facilities and services for the care of children.

2 Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) recognises the right of mothers to breastfeed, to appropriate assistance in the performance of child - rearing responsibilities and the development of institutions, facilities and services for the care of children.

«During the 26th African Union Summit in Jan. 2016, the heads of states adopted school feeding programmes as a continental strategy to enhance retention and performance of children in schools and to boost income generation and entrepreneurship in local communities.

Charlotte Keith of Investigative Post broke a story in July that resulted in the performance of Child Protective Services becoming an election issue.

At 18 months the children did not perform any better on standardized tests of performance and intelligence, but by age three study directors Colombo and Susan E. Carlson, A. J. Rice Professor of Dietetics and Nutrition at KUMC, began to see significant differences in the performance of children who were fed the enriched formulas on finer - grained, laboratory - based measures of several aspects of cognitive function.

Performance of children and adolescents with Asperger syndrome or high - functioning autism on advanced theory of mind tasks

The performances of the children are so good (annoying at first, though) that they feel almost totally natural, and Willem Dafoe's attempt at portraying a fatherly figure proves to be successful by all means.

That goes from the performances of the child actors — who, though cute, tend to overact — to the strained and misjudged attempts at quirkiness from Ray Liotta, as Billy's father, and the distracting and needless Jamaican accents of two characters.

But it's no easy trick to hang your film on the performances of children, and Haynes isn't always able to elicit believable emotions from his young cast.

While one fifth saw their child's social confidence grow after being fitted with glasses, over half of parents saw an improvement in the performance of their child's social skills after a sight test.

Conscientious parents are constantly getting feedback about the academic performance of their children, almost all of it from teachers.