Sentences with phrase «school age or younger»

A child of compulsory school age or a young person has a learning difficulty or disability if he or she:

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Part of that decline has been due to difficult economic conditions after the financial crisis of 2008, but part of it is also due to simple demographics: The baby boomers are hitting retirement age, and young people are more likely to go to college or graduate school, meaning that fewer people will want to work.

It's crafted not necessarily «just» for young job hunters, but for anyone of any age who's recently completed a degree or starting a second, third or even fourth career after returning to school.

In its early years, a number of her students in the program were teenagers who had come to the country, unauthorized, at a young age and finished high school, but then could not obtain citizenship or receive any state or federal funds for college.

The company's hope is that a large number of these graduates will be «Opportunity Youth:» young people between the ages of 16 - 24 who are not enrolled in school or are out of the workforce.

At the Annual Meeting of Shareholders in March, Starbucks pledged to hire at least 10,000 young people between the ages of 16 - 24 who are not in school or employed.

We might as well expect public schools for the indigent to weaken the standard of private education among the wealthy; or asylums for the deaf and blind, to make Possessors of perfect eyes and ears careless of their safety and indifferent to their preservation; or humanity towards the aged and the suffering to promote idleness and improvidence among the young and healthy... as to imagine that asylums for inebriates will promote and increase drunkenness.

It was difficult to judge who was the prettier, the wives of the old swimmers or the girl friends of the young, particularly since Kelbe's high - school - age daughters were sitting near their mother.

The latter hasn't been popular at all with a lot of supporters who either have to work on Mondays or who have children of a younger age for whom a late night generated by an evening kick off is a no - no; especially when school falls the next day.

Internationally recognized author and consultant Jane M. Healy, PhD identifies a key indicator of learning difficulties or disabilities in young school aged children.

School - age kids — especially younger ones — need a bit of time to go from one thing to another, whether it's going from one place to another or going to sleep.

While some are young people in long - distance relation - ships because of schooling or careers, or couples who want to live together but can't for various reasons (such as military families), many include women like me — divorced, middle - aged empty - nesters who want nothing that resembles the married life we knew.

But when young people your age switch schools or neighborhoods, it's common that they often switch friends, too.

These are really intended for secondary school children aged 11 - 14, but may well be suitable for a home educated child as young as eight or nine who enjoys and understands maths.There are many interesting and well - produced Key Stage 3 maths text - books available online and at local bookshops.

Then, in September, API Reads is launching a new and exciting opportunity: Participants will have the opportunity to read and discuss a book focused on the younger child (birth to preschool) and / or a second book focused on the older child (school - age and above).

► Compared to the sports adults aged 30 and older played when they were younger and still in school, more children play soccer (14 % now vs. 6 % in the past), and fewer children play baseball or softball (11 % now vs. 17 % in the past).

While some are young people in long - distance relationships because of schooling or careers, or couples who want to live together but can't for various reasons (military families are a good example), many include women like me — divorced, middle - aged empty - nesters who want nothing that resembles the married life we knew.

While some are young people in long - distance relation - ships because of schooling or careers, or couples who want to live together but can't for various reasons (such as military families), many include middle - aged empty - nester divorcees who want nothing that resembles the married life we knew.

Each family can decide what «babysitting» means for a school - age child: One family might want their 9 - year - old to be in charge of reading or playing games with a younger sibling while a grown - up is nearby, while another family might decide it's okay to leave 10 - year - old with a 7 - year - old sibling while the parent runs to the store for a few minutes.

Typically, hazing occurs when kids are older such as in high school or college, while bullying starts at a much younger age.

I believe we can and do all agree on two points: 1) really, no one — not teachers, not other parents, and not school staff should be feeding our kids things we don't want them to eat or which could harm them (particularly at younger ages) and 2) that there is much too much unhealthy food being served way too often in schools.

Believe me or not, through Kumi Preko, a young man of thirteen years, Ahunu was shot in front of the Adabraka Primary School so you can imagine if he was alive today what his age would be.

They found a clear age - related cohort effect: «No difference can be found within the younger generation — people who had either not been born at the time of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, or had not yet reached school - age, and who therefore grew up within the same western society.

Young adults ages 18 to 25 are the group that has the highest level of tobacco use, reporting rates of smoking that are nearly 50 percent higher than either high school seniors or adults over age 26.

Positive personality traits associated with liberalism (self - reliant, resilient, dominating and energetic) and negative ones attributed to conservatism (easily victimized or offended, indecisive, fearful and rigid) appear as young as nursery school — age kids — and correlate with those children's political beliefs in adulthood, according to a 20 - year study published in 2006 in the Journal of Research in Personality.

The researchers analyzed state - level rates of nonmedical exemptions at school entry from 1991 through 2004 and data for incidence of pertussis from 1986 through 2004 for individuals age 18 years or younger.

Covariates included the child's sex, calendar conception year (categorical variable), gestational age, maternal prepregnancy body mass index (BMI, calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared)(BMI < 18.5 = underweight; 18.5 ≤ BMI < 25 = normal weight; 25 ≤ BMI < 30 = overweight; BMI ≥ 30 = obese), maternal age at delivery (younger than 20, 20 to 24, 25 to 29, 30 to 34, and ≥ 35 years), maternal education at delivery (≤ high school graduate, some college education, college graduate, postgraduate, or unknown), maternal race / ethnicity (Asian, black, white, or other), and gestational diabetes (yes / no).

Whether a child is given responsibilities from young ages in the home, is expected to tell the truth, to be polite, show patience, or exhibit good character in any way — they will be a part of the solution at school, on the bus, on teams, and at after - school activities, and eventually online.

Instead of going to school or doing things young men his age are interested in, Bones travels into the forgotten industry mills to retrieve copper pipes to help his mother Billy (Hendricks) pay their bills.

Key recommendations for government in the report that won API support were: for play to be embedded within a Whole Child Strategy under the aegis of a Cabinet Minister for Children responsible for cross ‑ departmental roll out and co-ordination; for government to require local authorities to prepare children and young people's plans including strategies to address overweight and obesity with its physical, mental and emotional consequences; for funding for play to be ring - fenced within local authority budgets; to address barriers to outdoor play for children of all ages and abilities; to extend the Sport England Primary Spaces and Sport Premium programmes to all schools with a broader scope to incorporate a wide variety of physical literacy activities including play; to communicate through public information campaigns to parents and families the value of active outdoor play, including risk or benefit assessment; and to improve public sector procurement practice for public play provision.

Instead, the special education gap begins in kindergarten, when students classified at a young age as having a speech or language disorder are less likely than other students to apply to charter schools.

Additionally, 59 per cent of girls and young women aged 13 - 21 questioned in 2014 said they had faced some form of sexual harassment at school or college in the past year.

It comes from Ingersoll's report, and it shows the percentage of teachers who are age 50 or older (the chart includes public and private teachers, but private school teachers tend to be much younger, so a similar chart for public school teachers only would likely be even higher).

The Jobcentre Plus Support for Schools programme targets young people ages 12 - 18 who are at particular risk of being out of education, employment or training (NEET) or who face disadvantages when looking for work.

Reality: While it's true that younger students, whether they be elementary school students or freshmen at your high school, need a more fundamental set of skills for both academics and behavior, students of all ages can work to know themselves better, relate better to others, and make responsible choices.

Some students socially transition at a young age and school records, including their «gender marker» — male, female — get updated, but what about kids who haven't started to transition or their records haven't been updated?

Outdoor learning, whether undertaken in school, the surrounding area or further afield on residentials and expeditions has the potential to positively effect the health and well - being, and ultimately the life chances, of children and young people across all ages.

With that information, we can obtain a good estimate of the achievement of migrants from various states, because, on average, 86 percent of children age 14 or younger attend school in their state of birth.

Three - quarters of the university student population (aged 16 - 24)-- that's over 900,000 young people — will get the chance to take up a new sport or continue playing a sport they enjoyed in school or college.

Today's crop of younger principals talks about whether or not age has anything to do with being an effective school leader.

Having interviewed 300 young people aged 16 to 25, the charity Fixers, who undertook the study, found that 27 per cent of young people said they had felt pressured into sexting, sexual activity, drinking alcohol or taking drugs while in or around school; 34 per cent did not feel safe walking to and from school; and 12 per cent had been sexually assaulted.

«They start experiencing failure at a young age, which does something negative to their self - image, and they begin to compensate with behavior that we don't understand, appreciate, or tolerate in the school system.»

Mariam Durrani, an expert on Islamophobia and Muslim youth and a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), says that even if there are no Muslim students in a class, «changing educational and society - wide demographics suggest that as young people come of age, we'll have even greater need for conversations about learning across difference and about addressing systemic inequalities,» whether about religion, race, gender, sexual orientation, or other identifiers.

Too many U.S. kids get involved with alcohol, sex, and tobacco at young ages, and live in poverty or unsafe conditions or attend unsafe schools, Dr. Benson maintains.

Richard Weissbourd, a boomer - age senior lecturer at Harvard's Education Department, is the lead author of a recent report that suggests misogyny and sexual harassment are «pervasive» among young people, yet few parents are talking to them about it and neither are high schools or middle schools.

For decades, American schools have been engaged in a failed experiment, attempting to cram more content into a typical teaching day than humanly possible, asking children to learn overwhelming content at younger and younger ages without taking the time to build the foundation skills needed for learning success or behavioral success, and creating anxiety - filled classrooms in which children are less likely to fall deeply in love with learning.

(5) The student is beyond the sixth grade and thought to be eligible, the student attends a nonpublic school and is thought to be exceptional or the young child thought to be eligible is not yet of kindergarten age or not enrolled in a public school program.

(a) This section does not apply to students beyond the sixth grade who are thought to be eligible, to students attending nonpublic schools who are thought to be exceptional or to young children not yet of kindergarten age or not enrolled in a public school program.

In a 6 - year study of middle school age gifted learners taking biology, chemistry, or physics in a 3 - week summer program, these younger learners outperformed high school students taking these courses for a full academic year (Lynch, 1992).

Ability grouping and grade advancement can be of invaluable assistance in the early years of school to young gifted children whose accelerated conceptions of friendship are urging them to seek the sure shelter of a relationship of trust, fidelity and authenticity, at ages when their age - peers are seeking play partners or casual conversation.