Sentences with phrase «school life pressures»

These include claims that bullying stems from large class or school sizes, competition for grades, or other school life pressures.

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Stress levels surge in September, for instance, when the school year hits families hard, and again in December, when supposedly fun holiday activities add pressure to everyone's lives.

In addition, MCC - SF members enrolled at Pacific School of Religion continually pressure the seminary to live up to its policy of fair treatment for students with AIDS.

It's easy to live a healthy life if your household comprises adults, but it's hard when you throw kids, school lunches, peer pressure — and time constraints — into the mix.

From puberty to school pressures to driving, teen life is full of new experiences.

The pressure to finish school, buy baby clothing and other baby needs as well as remain a part of their school social life is more than challenging.

Meanwhile, as many schools are feeling top - down pressure to raise test scores, research demonstrates that when it comes to predicting life - long success, other factors may outweigh academic knowledge.

«March for Our Lives» was started by survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and aims to pressure Congress to pass stricter gun control laws.

Shelter life can put additional pressure on school - aged children who find themselves having to cope with insufficient space to complete assignments, long commutes to school every morning and the constant stigma of being homeless.

My mental struggles and doubts were exacerbated by the pressures from my boss to attend graduate school in the life sciences.

«This shows that your blood pressure in young adulthood can impact your risk for heart disease later in life,» said Norrina Allen, lead study author and assistant professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Price also provided fascinating anecdotes from his clinical experience, wherein nutrient - dense foods corrected hypocalcemia - related seizures and chronic fatigue, made remarkable improvements in chidrens» performance at school, and wherein a surgical intervention to correct a narrowed palate induced puberty in a child long failing to develop through that stage of life, probably by releasing pressure on the pituitary gland.

I've been thinking a lot about how I want to balance school, blogging, career aspirations, travel, and social engagements in 2017, and which pressures I want to be forces in my life and which stressers I want to let go.

Today, Laura from the No Pressure Life is showing us how to make a cute back to school photo prop.

Better Luck Tomorrow, a corrosive, insightful study of the pressure - packed lives of suburban high school students, brings a new variant to gangster movies: gangsters with perfect SAT scores.

Attuned to the formalism inherent in Japanese life — the rules of school, playground and workplace; the frequency of group singing and parades; the use of communal and folk song as receptacle of social values and agent of social pressure — Ballad of Narayama simply takes these elements familiar from his earlier films and pushes them to their aesthetic limit.

The film is modest, unpretentious in its intelligent character study of a high school senior facing the near - adulthood pressures of the end of high school and living in a poor family.

Bigger Than Life (Criterion) Ostensibly a drama about prescription drug misuse and abuse and drawn from an article in The New Yorker, this portrait of a grade - school teacher and middle class father (played by James Mason, who also produced and helped develop the project) is as much about adult male masculinity and responsibility as a husband and father, and the pressure on him to live up to the ideal, as Rebel Without a Cause is about the emotional realities of being an American teenager.

The school culture needs to respect work - life balance whilst acknowledging workload pressures and offer up flexibility where possible.

By comparing grade cohorts who faced different degrees of accountability pressure, we can ascertain how much their level of risk affects not only 10th - grade exam scores but also how much schooling they completed and their earnings later in life.

Having insight from an adult could help teenagers handle the pressure of school life.

Even more troubling is that 45 per cent of girls do not see the relevance of the skills they learn in PE to their lives and ultimately, issues with confidence, self ‑ consciousness, the pressure of academic school work and lack of encouragement from teachers and parents, all hold teenage girls back from being physically active.

These intangible middle class advantages include such things as a computer with internet access at home, a quiet place to study and complete homework, working parent (s) above the poverty line, no pressure to get a low - level job in high school to help pay the rent or support the family, and no fear of the streets upon which they live.

Lifelong learning arrangements, particularly those in informal and non-formal settings, can confer a number of benefits: they can provide people who live in countries that do not have universal education with access to learning opportunities on a continuous basis; they can address the problem of conventional formal schooling being too far removed from local cultural and social environments; and they can alleviate economic hardship, particularly for young people in developing countries who may experience strong pressures to earn income to help support their families or, particularly if they are girls, to take on significant responsibilities at home (1, 4).

It's an absolute disgrace that the pressure on schools to ensure pupils pass tests means children as young as three consider themselves «low ability» right at the start of their academic life, a belief which could impact on their self - esteem, carry on throughout their schooling and determine the direction of their adult lives.

The takeaway: Don't underestimate the effect of peer pressure in your school — it's powerful enough to get students to walk away from even life - changing academic opportunities.

For many, the desire and intention is there, but due to the pressures of family, work, and life in general, home reading can drop off the list of things to do, especially as a child moves through primary school.

Between school, assorted after - school activities, various family obligations, and maintaining a healthy social life, students don't respond well when faced with any unnecessary added pressure.

The UK is leading the edtech scene in Europe where amongst the schools feeling the pressure of the teaching crisis, there are also those who are thriving — those who are able to chip away at teachers» looming paperwork, and re-establish some work - life balance through technology adoption.

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He said: «Given the pressures on the school timetable, it's understandable if unfortunate that an appropriate number of hours is often not given to the teaching of the important life - saving skills of swimming and water safety.

The MHBA staff expressed concern about being able to keep their students focused on college when the children are dealing with daily social pressures at school or are faced with trauma in their lives.

If suburban schools do not live up to their price tag, then their active parents and other taxpayers worried about their property values put pressure on policymakers to improve them.

Even if schools started an hour later and even if all tests were abolished, it is unlikely that any of us has the power to roll back the trends and competitive pressures that have become so much a part of all of our lives.

Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Klein have ramped up the citys efforts to infuse arts into New York City public schools, but the pressure is on all of us — our schools, arts education advocates, business leaders — to seize opportunities for partnerships that can build the type of successful communities that we all want to live in, and support our kids — the future of this city.

John Buell: I am pleasantly surprised, but I do think the attention to this book is partially a result of three intersecting and destructive trends in American life: increasing demands on schools, growing time pressures on adults, and the demands homework places on both children and adults.

The data now shows that teachers, under the pressure of needing to make enough of a living wage to support their own families, are moving from poor schools to non-poor schools... from high - minority to low - minority schools... from urban to suburban schools.

• A new intergenerational study shows that for 76 % of 15 - 17 year olds, studying hard for good exam results is their biggest priority for the coming year; and they are preparing to sacrifice friendships, family time, hobbies and even sleep to achieve this, • In fact 57 % of 15 - 17 year olds feel school work must come before anything else if they want to do well in the future • And only 39 % of this age group think being happy is more important than good grades • Yet half (51 %) of UK business leaders calls on teens to develop broader life / work skills before leaving education A new report launched today by National Citizen Service (NCS) reveals that the UK ¹ s 15 - 17 year olds feel under significant pressure to excel in exams at the expense of other life skills, experiences, healthy relationships and even their own happiness, suggesting that they are struggling to juggle the demands of young adulthood.

Based on my observations, the lives of the high school students I teach are hemmed in everywhere by social pressures and expectations: high - stakes testing, the looming shadow of college admissions, the fiercely competitive school system, the painful process of figuring out who you are, and the ubiquitous desire for peer acceptance.

The onset of sedentary lifestyles and time pressures both inside and outside of school mean that many young people are not being encouraged to lead healthy, active lives.

Our children and young people are under increasing pressure, caused primarily by intensive testing, and yet neither employers nor universities are convinced that this is preparing them for life after school.

The worst days of a school administrator's professional life can be tempered through pre-planning and perspective under pressure.

I understand the pressures schools are under to achieve the standardized test scores to prove they are successful, but my wish, my hope is that school leaders do not forget their philosophy of education, that they continually reflect on what they believe students really need to learn to succeed in life, that they encourage a culture of listening at their schools.

All this before we consider the cost pressures facing schools during the next comprehensive review period: increased national insurance and pension contributions, cost of living increases, incremental drift, reduction in post-16 academic programmes, reductions to education services grant funding for academies.

The pressure on academic subjects is pushing life skills out of timetables — and organisations trying to support schools are struggling to get them back in.

Lions Quest helps provide protective factors by creating a strong connection to school, involving parents in the lives of their children, and helping students gain the knowledge, skill, and commitment to make healthy choices when they face pressure to use alcohol, drugs, and tobacco.

Schools across the country are increasingly turning to wraparound services after recognizing that earlier efforts like creating new schools and putting pressure on teachers to boost test scores were not sufficient to help children living in pSchools across the country are increasingly turning to wraparound services after recognizing that earlier efforts like creating new schools and putting pressure on teachers to boost test scores were not sufficient to help children living in pschools and putting pressure on teachers to boost test scores were not sufficient to help children living in poverty.

Murphy's guidebook can help school leaders thrive under pressure and navigate through «life's inescapable downpours.»

Most of us have already lived through our high school years when peer pressure is at its zenith.

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