Sentences with phrase «significant number of children have»

If a significant number of children have elevated levels of lead in their blood, the health department will develop...

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However, some economists and critics have said while the budget moved in the right direction when it comes to raising female labour - force participation, its failure to announce steps towards national affordable child care likely means a significant number of women will remain out of the workforce.

Reports indicated that a significant number of people, including children, had been killed by these attacks.

«Our sponsorship and fundraising over the years have allowed 1moreChild to open new homes and support a significant number of children in the area.

What is the real ignorance among African Americans is that the majority of their children are born out of wedlock, significant numbers of their men have taken a particular liking to prison, if white women have had to deal with the degree of lack of care and sympathy that black men have given to their responsibilities — they'd be angry too.

«I am particularly pleased that our highest - performing schools, Hampden Gurney, has secured fantastic outcomes with a significant number of disadvantaged pupils in Year 6 - demonstrating once again that a child's success should never be limited by their background.»

In a world where the religious spend a signficant amount of time pointing out the sins of others while claiming that they are in relationship with the One who has set the moral standards... and then a significant number of them commit one of the most heinous of crimes against children and have leaders spend significant effort at covering it up...

• A significant number of Local Authorities have bought Early Years Dad Cards, including Essex County Council, England's second largest local authority, which has bought 128,000 to provide Dad Info to their fathers via 60 children's centres

American Academy of Pediatrics strongly discourages spanking, even though during a study they found that a significant number of American parents have spanked or slapped their children.

After the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, a significant number of children of divorced or single parents lost the person who was essentially their only parent, while others lost a parent they had already lost once to divorce.

Challenge number two is — this is something that I became more aware of working on Helping Children Succeed — that even going beyond the challenges that low - income kids face and the gaps in our academic outcomes, there are significant problems with some of the basic approaches to teaching and education that we have in our schools: The basic principles of American pedagogy, how we teach math, how we teach anything.

Finally, a Finnish trial of universal home visiting by nurses35 and two U.S. programs implemented by master's degree - level mental health or developmental clinicians have found significant effects on a number of important child behavioural problems.36, 37 Additionally, a paraprofessional home visitation program found effects on externalizing and internalizing behaviours at child age 2; however due to the large number of effects measured in this study, replication of the findings is warranted.38

Researchers supporting co-parenting identified a number of fundamental methodological flaws of recent studies that challenge co-parenting of infants and young children: the failure to interview both parents, small and non-representative samples and use of unreliable and invalid measures, and the fact that even these studies have actually found no significant differences in child outcomes in single versus co-parenting families.

Programs serving fathers of young children have grown in response to two needs: (1) mothers are more likely to be employed outside of the home, thus placing demands on fathers to become increasingly involved in child care and child rearing, and (2) a growing number of biological fathers do not reside with their children and face significant challenges with being actively involved in their children's lives.

Successive studies have failed to find a link between MMR and autism but a significant number of parents have refused to allow their child to have the combined injection.

The council is supporting significant numbers of unaccompanied asylum - seeking children who do not have English as a second language and require additional support in schools.

In the study, which was published in May in the Journal of Applied Behavioral Research, Cynthia Trowbridge, an associate professor of kinesiology and athletic trainer, and co-author Sheetal J. Patel of Stanford University, found that a significant number of caregivers have a limited understanding of concussions and their impact on a child's future.

The quality of the neighborhood where a child grows up has a significant impact on the number of problem behaviors they display during elementary and teenage years, a study led by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers suggests.

These discoveries led to a significant change in the treatment of childhood cataracts that has helped untold numbers of children.

«Children who had low lung function at the start of the trial followed a series of predicted growth patterns: most had reduced lung growth with time and a significant number would go on to meet the criteria for COPD.»

In 2014 the same organization determined that 89 percent of adults and 75 percent of children in the U.S. have at least one electronic device in their bedroom, with a significant number of them sending or answering texts after they had initially fallen asleep.

Apple iPads have been an extremely significant investment in the school and have enhanced learning across the curriculum as well as providing a communication tool for a growing number of our children.

«It has become clear that a significant number of children coming into Head Start at age three or four were already behind their peers in terms of their cognitive and social skills,» says Ayoub.

Parenting Workshops When a significant number of parents approached Principal Becky Ford about their children's incorrigible behavior, Ford knew something had to be done.

In other words, the focus of the analyses that follow is on parents who purchase a significant number of hours of prototypical center - based care out of their own resources for a child under five who does not have a disability.

Researchers have long known that moving schools at age 11 causes problems for significant numbers of children.

There are a range of critical issues, such as: the implementation of the reauthorized ESEA (now called The Every Student Succeeds Act) which includes new flexibility for states in designing state standards and accountability systems as well as a hard cap on the number of students with the most significant cognitive disabilities taking alternate assessments on alternate standards; regulations on disproportionate identification of minority students to special education; and, the goal to transition more disadvantaged students into college and careers that will have a significant impact on some of the most vulnerable children.

As a result, Texans had no objective means of knowing whether students in Webb County, which has a significant number of children living in poverty, were doing as well in reading and math as students in more prosperous places like Collin County.

New research has shown that traditional referral systems for identifying gifted children tend to overlook significant numbers of talented students of color.

Wayne Daley, Northumberland's cabinet member for children's services, warned there are «a number of significant issues that need to be addressed to ensure children across the west have the best possible access to a first - class education».

Of that number, a significant percentage of families have chosen homeschooling as the educational option for their gifted childreOf that number, a significant percentage of families have chosen homeschooling as the educational option for their gifted childreof families have chosen homeschooling as the educational option for their gifted children.

But although its problems seem overwhelming — endemic corruption, high levels of debilitating poverty and vast numbers of children needing help — India has made huge investments in education and is making significant, if slow, progress toward its goals.

However, according to a significant number of people who have taken or seen Pearson's Connecticut «Foundations of Reading» test many of the questions relate to teaching children older than third grade or children who require English Language assistance.

When it comes to the Common Core SBAC testing mania, a number of parents from across the state — along with students and teachers — have identified a significant number of school districts that are engaged in immoral, unethical and quite likely illegal efforts to undermine parental rights and bully and abuse children who have been opted out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory SBAC testing scheme.

and the work of a number of state - wide efforts to inform state and local officials that they must respect a parent's fundamental right to opt their children out of the Common Core SBAC Test, a significant number of local school superintendents, and their staff, continue to mislead parents, throw up barriers or harass parents into believing that they have lost their right to protect their children from an unfair test that is rigged to ensure that as many as 7 in 10 children fail.

The practice of forcing students to stay in the testing room, despite having been opted out of the SBAC program by their parents, is an ugly strategy to embarrass, humiliate and ostracize children who are inappropriately being required to sit in the testing room for hours while their peers are taking the defective and high - stakes SBAC tests that are designed to unfairly fail a significant number of the state's children.

Now that the 2016 Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing season has begun for school districts across Connecticut, there has been a significant and disturbing increase in the number of reports that local school districts — driven by Governor Dannel Malloy's State Department of Education — are engaged in the unethical abuse of children whose parents have refused to allow their children to participate in the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory SBAC testing program.

Head Start also had some significant health - related effects, especially in increasing the number of children receiving dental care and having health - insurance coverage.

Bidders will be able to claim there is parental demand if they can demonstrate «strong evidence» that a «significant number of parents» want and would send their children to a new school, but the guidance does not define how the government would gauge this.

According to National Review, «Lawmakers have tied $ 4.35 billion in Race to the Top grants to the adoption of standards similar to those found in a significant number of states, and they've made the adoption of Common Core a major factor in securing a No Child Left Behind waiver.»

The acquisition marks a significant departure for O'Brien which, while publishing considerable numbers of children's and young adult fiction, has only a limited adult fiction list.

The legitimate aim it pursued was that of providing suitable adoptive parents for a significant number of children who would otherwise go unprovided for.

The family court found Father more credible on the issue of the number of overnights he had the children and further decided to employ Schedule C due to Father's significant contribution of direct support for the children.

She was required to care for her children and, although she had tried to make arrangements so that should could work until 6:00 PM, her new schedule would either result in significant daycare costs or heavy reliance on her family members, neighbours, and self - employed husband, which could lead to a number of potential «glitches» on any given day.

Rather, I can certainly see this process being employed by family law attorneys in a number of «single - issue» cases (e.g., alimony) and of having a greater benefit in those cases where there are significant marital assets involved, or in highly - charged child custody cases.

As the HFEA audit disclosed a significant number of anomalies in clinics, it remains to be seen how many more parents where children have been conceived using donor sperm are under the mistaken impression that they have complied with the relevant legal requirements to acquire parenthood.

There are now record numbers of care proceedings and recent cases before the family courts have highlighted significant gaps in good practice where the powers in section 20 Children Act 1989 are used to place children and young people in care without going tChildren Act 1989 are used to place children and young people in care without going tchildren and young people in care without going to court.

This attendance gap is well recognised in the literature and exists in spite of targeted interventions that span a number of decades.30 This significant gap has been attributed to several factors, including greater family mobility, social and cultural reasons for absence, the higher rate of emotional and behavioural problems in Aboriginal children, the intergenerational legacy of past practices of exclusion of Aboriginal children from schools, and its impact on shaping family and community values regarding the importance of attending school in Indigenous families compared with non-Indigenous families.6 7 31 Additional socioeconomic and school factors differed slightly between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous cohorts.

Spokesman Tony McBride had warned significant numbers of children from rural and remote and Aboriginal communities would have been affected.

Christine Buchanan, Eleanor Maccoby, and Sanford Dornbusch found that adolescents had fewer emotional and behavior problems following divorce if their mothers remarried than if they cohabited with a partner.31 Similarly, two studies of African American families found that children were better off in certain respects if they lived with stepfathers than with their mother's cohabiting partners.32 In contrast, Susan Brown found no significant differences between children in married and cohabiting stepfamilies.33 Although these data suggest that children may be better off if single mothers marry their partners rather than cohabit, the small number of studies on this topic makes it difficult to draw firm conclusions.