Sentences with phrase «school are at greater risk»

In stark contrast, students who fail in school are at greater risk of poverty, welfare dependency, incarceration, and early death.

The report also highlighted students who reported spending the most time online outside school were at greater risk of feeling lonely at school, arriving late, or skipping lessons.

Not exact matches

A section of the press has mis - characterized Governor Dr. Raghuram G. Rajan's remarks at the AQR conference at London Business School on June 25, as saying «the world is at risk of a Great Depression».

It never says anything of public school districts, where reports say children are at far greater risk of abuse.

Schools often feel that they must implement a particular SRE scheme because otherwise their pupils will be at greater risk of early pregnancy.

Not surprisingly, teenagers growing up with only one parent are at greater risk of dropping out of school, of having a child of their own during the teen years, and of being neither in school nor in the work - force during young adulthood.

Specifically, for fathers, higher expectations about their children's educational level, and greater level / frequency of interest and direct involvement in children's learning, education and schools, are associated strongly with better educational outcomes for their children, including: • better exam / test / class results • higher level of educational qualification • greater progress at school • better attitudes towards school (e.g. enjoyment) • higher educational expectations • better behaviour at school (e.g. reduced risk of suspension or expulsion)(for discussion / review of all this research, see Goldman, 2005).

Children of teenage mothers have lower birth weights, are more likely to perform poorly in school, and are at greater risk of abuse and neglect.

The researchers in the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) study showed that student athletes who participate in girls soccer at schools without access to an athletic trainer are exposed to an 8 times greater injury rate for concussion, a 5.7 times greater risk of recurrent injury, and a 1.73 times greater overall injury rate.

As a pediatrician, it is very worrisome to me that the children most likely to be eligible to receive free or reduced - price school lunch are exactly those who are at greatest risk for obesity and Type II diabetes: Latinos and African - Americans.

Research led by Barry M. Lester, PhD, director of the Brown Center for the Study of Children at Risk at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island and professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, found the single greatest contributor to long - term neurobehavioral development in preterm infants is maternal involvement — and that a single - family room NICU allows for the greatest and most immediate opportunities for maternal involvement.

An epidemiological study conducted by researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Seoul National University suggests that persons deficient in vitamin D may be at much greater risk of developing diabetes.

«A human is better at spreading viruses than an aerosol» that might breach a lab's physical containment, said epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who has calculated that the risk of a lab - acquired infection sparking a pandemic is greater than recognized.

«Cigarette smokers are at far greater risk than the general public for developing lung cancer, and helping smokers quit should be our top cancer prevention priority in these people,» said Jian - Min Yuan, M.D., Ph.D., associate director of the UPCI's Division of Cancer Control and Population Science and an epidemiologist with Pitt's Graduate School of Public Health.

As a result, these children did not do as well in school and were at greater risk for obesity and video game addiction, Gentile said.

«In our study, it did not matter whether their sodium levels were high at the beginning of the study or if they were low to begin with, then gradually increased over the years — both groups were at greater risk of developing high blood pressure,» said Tomonori Sugiura, M.D., Ph.D. the study's lead author and an assistant professor in the Department of Cardio - Renal Medicine and Hypertension at the Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences in, Nagoya, Japan.

Epidemiologists at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report that persons residing at higher latitudes, with lower sunlight / ultraviolet B (UVB) exposure and greater prevalence of vitamin D deficiency, are at least two times at greater risk of developing leukemia than equatorial populations.

They indicate that particulates are the greatest current environmental risk to human health, with the impact on life expectancy in many parts of the world similar to the effects of every man, woman and child smoking cigarettes for several decades,» says study co-author Michael Greenstone, the director of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) and the Milton Friedman Professor in Economics, the College and the Harris School.

The more the surface area of the body is covered by psoriasis, the greater the risk of death for the patient suffering from the condition, according to a new analysis by researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

One problem with the old logic is that «total cholesterol is not a great predictor of risk,» says Meir Stampfer, a professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health.

The research team found that infants born within a half a mile from a fracking site were 25 percent more likely to be born at low birth weights, leaving them at greater risk of infant mortality, ADHD, asthma, lower test scores, lower schooling attainment and lower lifetime earnings.

«As a result of our study, we recommend that blood pressure evaluation, control and monitoring should be included as an integral component of the clinical management of children with NAFLD, especially because this patient population is at greater risk for heart attacks and strokes,» said Jeffrey Schwimmer, MD, in the Department of Pediatrics at UC San Diego School of Medicine and principal investigator of the study.

Children who enter school with low SEH are at greater risk of developing difficulties in reasoning and problem solving, as well as having reduced attention spans and experiencing decreased social acceptance.

«The database has allowed us to assess the national burden of HIV infection through vertical transmission throughout the HIV / AIDS epidemic and to identify the populations at greatest risk,» said Joel Singer, professor in the School of Population and Public Health at UBC, who is presenting at IAS 2015.

Children who enter school with a low level of readiness are at greater risk of difficulties with reasoning and problem solving.

Women who are at greater risk for birth defects, for instance those taking anti-seizure medications, will need a prescription for a prenatal with a higher amount of folic acid, says Carl P. Weiner, MD, professor and chair of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Kansas School of Medicine in Kansas City and coauthor of The Complete Guide to Medications During Pregnancy and Breast - feeding.

First, he finds a house elf called Dobby bouncing on his bed, who wants to prevent him returning to school because he will be at great risk.

The portion of at - risk students was less than 10 percent at about 15 traditional schools in affluent neighborhoods and greater than 75 percent at more than two dozen schools, mostly in poor neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River.

When I took a group of at - risk high - school boys from the inner - city of Chicago to volunteer at a homeless shelter, numerous residents commended the boys, telling them «It's so great to see you all in here helping people instead of being out on the street gang - banging.»

This or similar approaches (e.g., Kingsland's proposal to grant larger vouchers for at - risk students) are more likely to yield wider private school participation — and therefore greater access to quality schools — than a strict open admissions mandate.

«Data drowning» also means that they are at greater risk than ever before of sensitive pupil and school financial data from falling into the wrong hands, which could potentially bring chaos to unassuming education institutions.

As well as schools this could also include residential properties, hospitals and care homes — depending on which area is at greatest risk.

Clearly alarmed by the religious instruction that would occur at religious schools — «not only is the risk of religion intruding into the secular educational function great, that risk is inevitable and unavoidable due to the very structure of the Scholarship Program» — Judge Martinez accepted nearly all of the ACLU's claims.

The plans aim to tackle those inequalities and ensure Britain is a country that «truly works for everyone» by looking at the experience and outcomes for children who face the most challenges in mainstream school - including those at greatest risk of exclusion - such as those with special educational needs (SEN), children with autism or children in need of help and protection, including those in care.

While such decisionmaking is hard to observe in the OneApp data, this kind of strategy puts parents at a greater risk of not matching to any school.

The Great British Make Off aims to show that English schools have a subject in its curriculum (we were the first country in the world to introduce it 25 years ago), that is being looked at enviously by countries around the world and especially in the Far East at the very time we are at risk of losing it.

We focus on the scores of students at the 25th percentile of the distribution of achievement for each group, because it is low - performing students who are at greatest risk of not graduating from high school.

At that time, one in four students in these schools was taught by an underprepared teacher in any given year, placing at greater risk the quality of education these students receiveAt that time, one in four students in these schools was taught by an underprepared teacher in any given year, placing at greater risk the quality of education these students receiveat greater risk the quality of education these students received.

Such a pattern could indicate that traditional schools are weeding out students at greater risk of dropping out, although there are many reasons why graduation rates rise.

As a result, children with a parent in prison are at greater risk of homelessness, which in turn can have grave consequences: the receipt of social and medical services and assignment to a traditional public school all require a stable home address.

The purpose of the present study was to examine the instructional and organizational factors that might explain how and why some schools across the country are beating the odds by attaining greater than expected primary - grade reading achievement with populations of students at risk for failure by virtue of poverty.

This is an issue of great concern to many districts, I've been getting regular calls from our finance officer and our budget folks on this issue because it's been going on now more than a year,» said Virginia Strom - Martin of the Los Angeles Unified School District, who noted the district had an estimated $ 16 million at risk.

Advocates for Children of New York works on behalf of children who are at greatest risk for school - based discrimination and / or academic failure due to poverty, disability, race, ethnicity,...

Salend, a well - known writer on assessment for at - risk students who consults with schools on assessment procedures, offers guidelines for creating tests that have greater validity and are more accessible and clearer to students.

Research indicates that homeless students experience greater school mobility, are at higher risk

Great Start Readiness Program (GSRP) is Michigan's state funded preschool program for four - year - old children with factors that might put them at risk for school failure.

«Leaving aside the fact that these young people will not receive a decent education, this is a safeguarding risk — we have real concerns that children out of school may be at greater risk of radicalisation or other harms.»

It also suggested that the department reinforce financial risk and due - diligence tests at all academies and for trustees, speed up the process of converting «inadequate» schools, and work on new initiatives to develop capacity in the local areas where need is greatest.

As documented under Section 1115 of Title I, Part A of the Every Students Succeeds Act (ESSA), a local education agency receiving Title I funds «may use funds received under this part only for programs that provide services to eligible children under subsection (b) identified as having the greatest need for special assistance... Eligible children are children identified by the school as failing, or most at risk of failing, to meet the State's challenging student academic achievement standards on the basis of multiple, educationally related, objective criteria established by the local educational agency and supplemented by the school, except that children from preschool through grade 2 shall be selected solely on the basis of such criteria as teacher judgment, interviews with parents, and developmentally appropriate measures».

We wanted to get behind the averages, to go deeper and more granular, to find out which groups of EAL pupils are at greatest risk of not doing well at school.