Sentences with phrase «significant number of my peers»

A significant number of my peers were of the «old school» and called me, derisively, a «Quaternary Urbanite» due to my rantings regarding tree spirits and the EEEEeeevil oil companies.

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However, a significant number of mothers also require specialist support, which needs time as well as skill, and all mothers can benefit considerably from the social support that trained peer supporters can provide.

A higher proportion of life peers than MPs are women, and significant numbers of ethnic minority members have been appointed in recent years.

«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.

These associations were statistically significant even after we controlled for the strongest predictors of on - the - job peer interactions found by prior research: teaching multiple grades, having a leadership position, the number of years of experience, teaching the same grade, and network size.

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, however, the district's own data provides evidence that a significant number of students who transferred to charter schools were not on track to graduate with their peers.

· Subject all such information to proper peer review by independent scientists, including the significant numbers of experts who are skeptical of alarmist pollution and climate change claims;

In order to be named to the IP Stars list, firms and individuals must receive a significant number of recommendations from peers as well as clients.

Previous MCS studies have related broad composite measures of father engagement in caring activities to subsequent child behavioural outcomes using subscales of total difficulties (emotion, conduct, attention or peer problems)[38 — 40]: most effects were very small and not statistically significant, but (among the large number of analyses performed), inverse associations were reported for (a) engagement at 9 months with emotional problems at 3 years [38], (b) engagement at 3 years with attention problems at 5 years [39] and (c) engagement at 5 years with peer problems at 7 years [40].