Sentences with phrase «school than boys»

Boys who were more aggressive (black solid line) were bullied more during elementary school than boys who were less aggressive (black dotted line), but the difference diminished over time.

In too many places, girls are less likely to be in school than boys.

Already, 71 % of Canadian women ages 25 to 34 have post-secondary degrees or diplomas, compared to just 62 % of men, a trend that looks likely to continue, because girls are currently getting better grades in school than boys.

Girls are more likely to miss out on school than boys and this is accentuated more among disadvantaged, rural families.

In some countries — including Israel and six European countries — girls were much more positive about school than boys, but in other countries such as Nepal and Ethiopia there was no difference between girls and boys.

Not exact matches

Sterling spent the next year creating the toy, studying gender differences and cognitive development in children, writing a business plan and doing in - home testing with a prototype with more than 100 boys and girls in three schools and more than 40 homes.

Today, Milton Hershey School, the institution he and his wife founded, nurtures more than 2,000 financially needy boys and girls in grades K - 12.

I had more than one guidance counsellor admonish me for not trying harder in school, suggesting that «it would be a shame if a smart boy like you ended up working on an assembly line.»

Girls are more likely to have concerns about their appearance than boys as they return to school after the summer holidays, with children becoming more anxious as they get older.

TO choose between him or Mitt Romney a man who is evil I have no choice but to vote for President Obama, To cut a child's hair off and commit the crime he did in school is a lot different than a little boy pushing a little girl because of embarassment.

Girls are more likely than boys to miss school for water - related reasons, either because they need to collect water for their families or because, once they hit puberty, schools lack toilet facilities to let girls manage their menstrual cycles.

He recalled the solid achievements which were now to be seen in Ernestine Saxony, the results of the Visitation, of the preaching of a theology of faith and the circulation of the Little Catechism, and the German New Testament: «The young people, both boys and girls, grow up so well instructed in the Catechism and the Scriptures that I am deeply moved when I see that young boys and girls can pray, believe, and speak more of God and Christ than they ever could in the monasteries, foundations, and schools of bygone days, or even of our day.

Boys in the study were somewhat more likely to report this behavior than girls; those who identified as lesbian, gay, or bisexual were three times more likely to report this behavior; those who were bullied at school were four to five times more likely, and those bullied online (by others) were seven to twelve times more likely.

Nowadays I don't even care and honestly, I'm really glad my parents couldn't afford to make me a metal mouth back then... I had plenty of other things going for me at the time anyway... unruly curls WITH bangs, being a foot taller than every boy in school, and ohhh, let's not forget the time I thought it would be a good idea to get a FREAKIN PERM!!!

You are totally right, however I have a houseful of almost a dozen growing boys here everyday after school and they aren't Paleo (most aren't even gluten - free) so they get at least a Paleo treat a day — far better than the standard teenage fare of soda and chips, if you know what I mean!

«When I signed with the Mariners, I was told, the coach who cut me from the state school boys team said I was too fat and lazy to make it, that just made me work even harder to make it to the big leagues, no better feeling than proving people wrong»

Most don't expect to win every game, but most do want to go up against the big boys knowing that we can but in something more than school boy stuff.

Am reading all over the net and hear as well that people are blaming the players fabianski for not getting his angles right, he had an ok game but a top class keeper would not be beaten at his near post, song who out of nowhere has become an attacking midfielder, chamaka for missing two easy headers, diaby for taking too long on the ball, Squillaci, Koscielny i know they new but they are making some mistakes that school boys would not basic mistakes rosciky for blasting a penalty over the bar when a cool head was needed, deneilson your team leading 1 nill late in a game and you shoot rather than take or pass the ball to the corner i can go on almunia whose technique is horrible and you say this team has improved.

Sarah: Last year, after more than ten years of teaching full - time in a Waldorf school, I was discovering that my two teenage boys needed me as much (if not more) than they did when they were younger.

High school boys had significantly greater odds of using protein powder / shades and other muscle - enhancing substances than those in middle school;

It's different than a school thing but once my dad called and said he was coming by to pick the boys up, take them shopping and out to lunch.

The use of muscle - enhancing behaviors among middle and high school boys and girls - including such unhealthy behaviors as using protein powders or shakes, steroids, and other muscle - enhancing substances - is substantially higher than previously reported, a new study finds.1

• If one parent is better - educated than the other, some children may benefit from the better - educated parent undertaking more care: e.g. in Norway, girls (but not boys) have been found to do better at school when a father who was better educated than their mother took longer - than - average leave (Cools et al, 2011.)

%) than soccer, where attendance by a doctor was rare (3.0 %), this despite the fact that statistics show that soccer, both boys» and especially girls, have concussion rates among the highest of all high school sports.

Two - thirds of the football, girl's soccer, and boys» soccer coaches surveyed reported working at schools that employed an AT, and six in ten reported that the AT attended games most or all of the time, although the percentage was much higher for football than soccer (98.4 % versus 77.8 %).

Preoccupation with food and dieting / unreasonable fear of being fat (girls on severe diets in one Australian study were 18 times more likely to develop an eating disorder; moderate dieters were 5 times more likely than those who did not diet; Harvard researcher says 44 % of high school girls and 15 % of boys diet);

Since boys at highest risk of becoming early fathers can be identified from age eight (see below) engaging with such young males in highly specialised programmes early on (to teach basic life skills, address negative peer influences, promote school success and direct them to alternatives other than early parenthood) is indicated, in order to reduce sexual risk - taking and early fatherhood (Thornberry et al, 2004)

The results of the research paper are consistent with those of a 2013 study which found that, while ACL injuries did not disproportionately affect female high school athletes overall, girls were found to have a significantly higher ACL injury rate than boys in sex - comparable sports (soccer, basketball, and baseball / softball), with girls 2 times more likely to suffer an ACL injury playing soccer than any other sport, and 4 times more likely to sustain such an injury playing either soccer or basketball than volleyball or softball.

Yes, and whoever wrote the boy's response for him seemed to overlook the fact that citing Laura Bush would raise some interesting issues, because in this same Iowa speech, Christie told folks «I think that this intervention into our school system is just another example of how the Obamas believe that they've got a better answer for everything than you do,» according to the CBS article you cite.

I'm not sure that the boys are covering everything on the National Curriculum - Tim in particular doesn't appear to be doing a lot of maths - but they're certainly learning plenty of other things, and enjoying life considerably more than some of their friends who go to school out here.

When teen boys need more help than their parents can give them, it's time to look at therapeutic boarding schools.

I didn't really keep any records of our home education during the year 2001, other than filling in the cards and other details required by the ACE curriculum, which will lead, eventually, to the boys» NCSC (National Christian Schools» Certificate) qualifications.

Boys whose mothers work part time or full time fared better, staying in school longer and later earning more than sons of mothers who work overtime, the study shows.

Established as an orphanage for forty boys in 1888, today Five Acres offers an array of services including community - based services, residential treatment, a non-public school and foster care and adoptions supporting more than 8,500 children and families across five counties.

For instance, in Taiwan, investigators found that boys and girls born in August (the last month before the official school cutoff) had 63 % higher odds of being diagnosed than kids born in September.

A recent study of high school sports revealed that the concussion rate in boys» ice hockey (5.4 per 10000 AEs) was second only to football (6.4 per 10000 AEs); however, concussions accounted for a greater proportion of total injures in boys» ice hockey (22.2 %) than any of the other 20 sports, with 30 % of the concussions in ice hockey resulting from a player being body checked.

(These moments, of course, are fewer and farther between than the moments of cursing and bemoaning the fact that my boys attend a school where lunches have to be ordered a full week in advance — so there's no emergency lunch - money fallback available in our house!)

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Ghana has also remarkably attained gender parity in education, where the number of girls in school now matches the boys, and even higher than the boys in some areas of the country.

It was always only a matter of time before their grass roots started to rebel as it dawns on them that they are nothing more than human shields for a bunch of Thatcherite, millionaire, public school boys.

A rural cemetery containing the remains of 14 boys who died while they were inmates at a state reform school in Rush will be returned to the state more than 20 years after being sold as part of a land deal.

A 15 - year - old boy brought a loaded gun to a Brooklyn high school yesterday — the first day of classes for more than a million New York City children.

The fortunes of Boys and Girls High School, a venerable but long - struggling school that the de Blasio administration pledged to revive, took another turn this week, when its principal said he was considering leaving for a different job after less than two School, a venerable but long - struggling school that the de Blasio administration pledged to revive, took another turn this week, when its principal said he was considering leaving for a different job after less than two school that the de Blasio administration pledged to revive, took another turn this week, when its principal said he was considering leaving for a different job after less than two years.

On average, by the age of 16, girls at the school were doing better than boys, even when both sexes had the same reading skills at age 12.

Data from a secondary school in East Anglia suggest that one popular idea — that girls have good literacy skills earlier than boys and can therefore use these skills to accelerate their learning — does not provide a complete explanation for their subsequent success.

(Thankfully, most of the boys at his school are more tuned in to monster - based video games and Legos than to current events.)

They also found that boys bully more than girls but here's a significant point: Those who do poorly in school are at a higher risk of becoming a bully.

The researchers also monitored the advanced math and science courses that students chose to take in high school, concluding that the girls who had been discouraged by their elementary school teachers were much less likely than the boys to opt for advanced courses.

In sixth grade, girls in both the European French and North African French groups reported lower levels of gender typicality and felt pressure than boys; contrary to expectations, the two ethnic groups did not differ in this respect at the beginning of middle school.