Sentences with phrase «school aged individuals»

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American high schools have been described as places where «individuals of the same age group define each other's world.»

In their research, economists Jaison R. Abel and Richard Deitz determined that an individual who had a college degree could expect to make $ 1.2 million more from ages 22 - 64, than their peers who have just a high school diploma.

The skill school provides recreational soccer players, ages of 4 to 18, with opportunities to develop individual skills.

Isabella, a seventh - grader at Conackamack Middle School and a second - degree black belt, won six individual titles competing in the girls» ages 9 — 11, second - and third - degree black - belt level at the American Taekwondo Association's world championships in Little Rock.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: This program is designed for beginning to intermediate players middle school age players in 6th -8 th grade to learn and advance their individual volleyball skills.

We encourage all of families at our school to follow an age - appropriate approach to use of media, in a belief that guarding a young child's acute senses and impressionable mind is essential to the healthy growth of each individual student.

Notably, this includes a range of initiatives aimed at school - age students, the establishment of the university Academic Centre of Excellence, and a number of schemes designed to allow individuals to transition into a career in cyber security.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)- Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples - Stokes visited East High School late - Friday afternoon to advocate for «raising the age» for individuals who commit crimes to be charged as an adult.

As an individual with three children aged five or under, I worry more about finding good state schools than almost anything else.

«Delirium complicates hospital stays for millions of elderly individuals in the United States each year,» said co-senior author Edward Marcantonio, MD, Director of the Aging Research Program in the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care at BIDMC and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS).

These findings persisted even after taking into account individual, school, and state - level factors that can affect marijuana use (such as age, ethnicity, public versus private school, proportion of each state's population who were male or white).

Unlike schools, which grow increasingly segregated and involve more individual instruction as children grow older, afterschool programs are spaces where instructors, often similar to the students in age and background, can facilitate diverse, productive interactions that help youth reach social and academic goals.

In contrast, Rank said, the risk of poverty for an individual between the ages of 25 - 29, who is nonwhite, not married, and with an education of high school or less, is «a whopping 72 percent.»

The research group of Computational Intelligence Group (CIG) from the School of Computing at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), in collaboration with a veterinary student from Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio and the Department of Ethology from Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest have carried out a research on canine behavior showing that gender, age, context and individual recognition can be identified with a high percentage of success through statistical and computational methods of pattern recognition applied to their barking.

Gitlin, who directs the Center for Innovative Care in Aging at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, adds, «The DICE approach is inherently patient - and caregiver - centered because the concerns of individuals with dementia and their caregivers are integral to each step of the process.

McGuine and his colleagues enrolled 1,544 individuals into the study during the 2015 - 2016 school year with 50 % being female and an average age of 16 years.

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.

The University of California San Francisco School of Medicine study pushes back against stopping the cancer screening at age 75 for women, saying it is really an individual decision.

At age 18 years, individuals with persistent ADHD had more functional impairment (school / work: OR, 3.30 [95 % CI, 2.18 - 5.00], home / with friends: OR, 6.26 [95 % CI, 3.07 - 12.76]-RRB-, generalized anxiety disorder (OR, 5.19 [95 % CI, 2.01 - 13.38]-RRB-, conduct disorder (OR, 2.03 [95 % CI, 1.03 - 3.99]-RRB-, and marijuana dependence (OR, 2.88 [95 % CI, 1.07 - 7.71]-RRB- compared with those whose ADHD remitted.

Individuals who were chronically overweight from high school to middle age were:

Hidden Figures shines the spotlight on three of these amazing individuals: Katherine Johnson (played by Taraji P. Henson) started high school at age 10 and had degrees in Mathematics and French by 18 years of age.

Over half (51 per cent) say staff numbers at their school have decreased in the last two years, with nearly two - thirds (65 per cent) saying they are not able to give pupils as much individual attention in lessons due to the loss of support staff and a similar number (64 per cent) saying pupils are not always taught by a teacher trained for the subject or age range due to the loss of teaching staff.

Meeting this fifth challenge depends on better ways of: identifying children at risk of being locked into trajectories of low achievement at the earliest possible ages; enhancing levels of school readiness; diagnosing learning difficulties upon entry to school; and intervening intensively during the early years of school to address individual learning needs to give as many students as possible the chance of successful ongoing learning.

Our sample consists of 6,072 individuals from whom information was collected on parental income and other characteristics between the ages of 14 and 16 and on completed schooling at age 24.

These include additional tutoring, friendship gardens, hero walls and individual counselling for primary school - aged students.

Now new research published in Education Next shows that by the age of 24, individuals who lived in single - parent families as adolescents have received fewer years of schooling and are less likely to attain a bachelor's degree than those from two - parent families.

The promoted individuals are identical to the baseline career teacher in terms of age at entry into teaching and initial salary; the difference is that they are promoted to these administrative posts at the median promotion age for their respective positions (age 38 for school leadership, age 45 for superintendents).

[1] Using data from the American Community Survey, they show that in 2015 just over half of American children aged 5 to 17 were white, but nearly 80 percent of young teachers (whom they define as individuals aged 25 to 34, with a bachelor's degree, and teaching at the prekindergarten through high school level) were white.

The assessment itself was first given in 1969, but the underlying political compromises meant that (a) students were tested by age, not grade level; (b) results were reported either as percentages of test takers getting individual questions right or (starting in 1984) on a psychometric scale that included no benchmarks, standards, or «cut points»; and (c) the «units of analysis» were the entire country and four big regions but not individual states, let alone districts or schools.

Special education students, according to regulations that are part of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act, can stay in school until the age of 21.

To illustrate one such practice they could all adopt with a hypothetical that occurs rather routinely, for students entering their schools at a fifth - grade age but reading at a second - grade level and where the district school where the student was formerly enrolled doesn't transfer the students» academic record, the schools could determine a protocol for pre-assessment as soon as a student enrolls so as to create sound individual growth metrics.

«I would suggest,» he wrote in Compulsory Miseducation, his polemic against universal public education, «that, on the model of the GI - Bill, we experiment, giving the school money directly to the high - school - age adolescents, for any plausible self - chosen education proposals, such as purposeful travel or individual enterprise.

In schools, there is a greater focus on using assessments to establish and understand where students are in their learning regardless of their age or year level, to identify appropriate starting points for teaching and learning, and to monitor the progress that individuals make over time.

I compared individuals of different ages, some of whom attended high school before the first - wave education reforms were implemented and others who attended afterward — and were thus required to take minimum - competency exams and more courses in academic areas in order to graduate.

More than one - third of all U.S. children under the age of five are cared for outside of their homes by individuals not related to them.1 Research on early childhood education shows that high - quality child care experiences support the development of social and academic skills that facilitate children's later success in school.

In the context of the school curriculum, an equitable approach is one focused on establishing the stages individuals have reached in their learning; using this information to identify starting points and ambitious targets for each student's further learning; and expecting every student to make excellent progress, regardless of their age, year level or starting point.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

So, one of the findings from this is that it's too late at the age of 15 to try and get an individual student engaged in schooling; the engagement needs to happen through the school at a lot earlier age than 15 possibly as well.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

SP: Well... it's not saying that the school doesn't matter, but what it's saying is that by the age of 15 is that the patterns of the individual - who they are and their lifetime to date - is having more influence than the school at that particular point in time.

«By starting at the school at the age of four and staying with us right up until they take their GCSEs, it means we will be able to get to know each child as an individual from an early age, developing them on an holistic level.

Adjusted means that the approach 1) uses data from the GED Testing Service to count the number of GED recipients and to subtract this number from the total number of individuals who report that they completed high school, and 2) excludes from the calculation recent immigrants, in particular, those who came to the U.S. after age 11 and therefore were educated primarily in non-U.S. schools.

For purposes of the grant program, the bill expands the definition «at - risk» to include school - aged individuals who: (1) have come into contact with the child welfare system in the past, or (2) are at risk of dependency adjudication or delinquency adjudication.

1 High school completers are individuals ages 16 to 24 who graduated from high school or completed a GED or other high school equivalency credential prior to October of the calendar year.

The Supreme Court, in cases culminating in Agostini [v. Felton], has established the general principle that state educational assistance programs do not have the primary effect of advancing religion if those programs provide public aid to both sectarian and nonsectarian institutions (1) on the basis of neutral, secular criteria that neither favor nor disfavor religion; and (2) only as a result of numerous private choices of the individual parents of school - age children.

The principal question is whether the degree of public school choice at the district level is associated with within district racial imbalance between school enrollment and the school - age population of individual schools» geographical catchment areas.

Drawing inspiration from dozens of interviews conducted over the course of a two - year period, Lawrence - Lightfoot focuses on the experiences of 11 individuals in particular, including an Iranian teenager forced to flee political strife and come to America alone, a middle - aged gay man and his coming out, a bullied child whose parents take him out of school, and a psychotherapist who guides abuse victims in an effort to finally «terminate» therapy.

Idaho Arts Charter School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability in admission to its programs, services, or activities, in access to them, in treatment of individuals, or in any aspect of their operations.

«A variety of national data analyzed by the Center for Labor Market Studies show that conservatively all youth between the ages of 16 and 24 (6,173,883 individuals) that had left high school without a regular diploma by 2007.

Distinguishing the earlier Brady decision, the court noted that funds were paid to the transportation system administered by the board of education, not directly to individual schools, and benefits flowed «toward the safety and welfare of elementary age school children and not into the accounts of non-public schools.»