Sentences with phrase «stakes for children»

In a high conflict divorce or custody dispute, stakes for the children are high.

The findings for the lowest achieving students are particularly troubling considering the high stakes for children who are already on the edge of failure.

«There's too much at stake for our children and our country,» Van Roekel told POLITICO, «to risk getting this wrong.»

Not exact matches

That's a valuable teaching moment, Golden said — and one it's better for your child to have early, with a small amount of money at stake.

As the Children's Schools and Families Bill 2009/2010 hurtles towards Royal Assent via the debating of committee stage amendments, there is a great deal at stake for home schoolers in particular and liberty in general.

While we should no doubt seek to do justice to all concerned, one can not help but note the dramatic disparities between what is at stake for the unborn child, the mother, and the politician.

At stake are medical treatments for and the fate of many unborn children in the mid-to-late second trimester.

Yet it will not preclude promise - breaking if the advantage is quite great, for example, if a child's life is at stake.

In this essay, I have referred only to the book of Genesis and thus have chosen not to mention the prohibitions against homosexuality included in Leviticus, for it seems to me that what is at stake now is not homosexuality, which is a fact, a reality, whatever my view of it as a rabbi might be, but the risk of irreversibly scrambling genealogies, questions of legal and social status (the child - as - subject becoming child - as - object), and identities — a confusion that would be harmful to society as a whole and that would lose sight of the general interest in seeking the advantage of a tiny minority.

A bill in Congress pushes for pizza and french fries on school lunch line, and our children's health could be at stake.

Volume XIV, Number 2 The Social Mission of Waldorf School Communities — Christopher Schaefer Identity and Governance — Jon McAlice Changing Old Habits: Exploring New Models for Professional Development — Thomas Patteson and Laura Birdsall Developing Coherence: Meditative Practice in Waldorf School College of Teacher — Kevin Avison Teachers» Self - Development as a Mirror of Children's Incarnation: Part II — Renate Long - Breipohl Social - Emotional Education and Waldorf Education — David S. Mitchell Television in, and the World's of, Today's Children — Richard House Russia's History, Culture, and the Thrust Toward High - Stakes Testing: Reflections on a Recent Visit — David S. Mitchell Da Valdorvuskii!

The fact that more than 10,000 children visit emergency rooms each year in the US for food - related choking incidents is further proof that you shouldn't stake your baby's life on his gag reflex.

Homework has long inspired strong feelings — and creative excuses — in children, but it has more recently become an area of growing concern for parents in a scholastic system increasingly focused on high - pressure, high - stakes standardized testing.

On the other hand, this is his child too, and the lives of two people he loves very dearly are at stake in what can be a pretty dangerous endeavor, and it's not unreasonable for him to want to protect us by having doctors ready and waiting.

«While the Majority bill protects children, teachers and schools from being penalized for opting out of the tests, it's missing the critical piece that parents should be informed by schools in writing or via email that they have a right to refuse to have their children take these developmentally inappropriate high stakes tests.»

«The Common Core Parental Refusal Act protects the rights of parents to have their children refuse to take these high stakes tests and it ensures that students, teachers and schools are not penalized or rewarded for participation — or lack thereof — in the exams.

When his child fell ill and there was a need to buy medicines for him, a pharmacist at East Legon (who we shall expose later) refused to sell to the family, ignoring the fact that a child?s life was at stake.

Many lawmakers have been asking for a delay in the implementation, and to put off the consequences of the high stakes tests for school children for another couple of years.

Coffee, a public defender for the past 13 years, says child abuse cases often raise the stakes so high that a bias toward false confessions may be concealed within the data.

I'm not coming from a place of never having used the pill, I'm not coming from a place where I want to have children soon and the stakes aren't as high for me, or from a religious place.

In particular, the long - term implications of China's One - child Policy have not only made it more difficult for the growing number of urbanized individuals to find a spouse, but have also raised the stakes for them to do so.

As the stakes escalate, Mark Perez's script still organically makes time for the characters» realities, like Max and Annie having trouble conceiving a child, without such story points feeling too forced, and plays on the expectations of thriller plot twists more than once.

His contact, Kate Burroughs (Laura Linney), tells him to look for child pornography, but it turns out there's much more at stake.

There is no Plan B. And the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001 raised the stakes considerably by setting hard goals and deadlines and real penalties for missing them.

Back in 2014, the British Parking Association (BPA) was busy lobbying against proposals to ban the use of CCTV and ANPR by local authorities for parking enforcement, including the use of cameras for parking enforcement outside schools which could potentially put children's lives at stake.

Second graders in Virginia, though, need to understand basic economics for the state's high - stakes tests, and teachers in many schools struggle to make the concepts understandable to young children.

They also tell us how much is at stake when our children lack the necessary social and emotional foundation for a healthy start in life.

Each of those hours presents a complicated and growing list of demands: preparing anxious students for high - stakes tests; teaching increasing numbers of children for whom English is not a native language; coping with the daily strain of limited resources.

High - stakes accountability with annual tests that are not tied to course content (which reading tests are not) amounted to a tax on good things and a subsidy for bad practice: curriculum narrowing, test preparation, and more time spent on a «skills and strategies» approach to learning that doesn't serve children well.

What teachers see is that high - stakes testing is putting so much stress on students — for no good reason — that it is making not only children unhappy but teachers too.

In this era of No Child Left Behind, the elephant in the room is high - stakes testing, which holds educators and students accountable for test scores.

Meanwhile, the political stakes involved in the child - care debate were underscored last week by new figures from the Census Bureau on the high cost of child care for working women.

What we should want for our children is for them to develop an emotional stake and a sense of attachment to civil society because they sense that society is invested in them.

Young people in the United States today, she says, are suffering because of «school stress, the college admissions process, high - stakes testing, cutthroat competition, the emphasis on stardom rather than on enjoyment of activities, sleep deprivation, parental pressure, the push for perfectionism, the need for escapism, the Age of Comparison, [and] the loss of leisure and childhood...» Among her favorite culprits for this state of affairs are testing in general, the SAT in particular, the «Nation at Risk» report, and the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), which she believes turned elementary schools and junior high schools into testing factories.

After contributing an essay to the blueprint, Lightman said: «For too long the way children are assessed has been dominated by the demands placed on schools by performance tables and a culture of high - stakes accountability.

Children were being «asked to answer questions that had little bearing on their reading ability and yet had huge stakes for students, teachers, principals and schools.»

High Stakes Testing and No Child Left Behind: Information and Strategies for Educators.

Macrogenetic research on digital learning can contribute to the further development of effective math education software, shed light on children's math learning, and also largely eliminate the need for high - stakes testing and traditional achievement tests.

Rethinking Pathways to High School Graduation in New York State: Forging New Ways for Students to Show Their Achievement of Standards In December 2013, the Coalition for Multiple Pathways to a Diploma released this report, prepared by Advocates for Children of New York, examining the difficulties that high stakes standardized exit exams pose for many students and addressing the need for more flexible exam requirements and assessment - based pathways to a diploma.

These and other results suggest that some of the most prominent ideas that dominate current policy debates — from supporting vouchers to doubling down on high - stakes tests to cutting federal education funding — are out of step with parents» main concern: They want their children prepared for life after they complete high school.

The high - stakes state tests that started in 2002 with No Child Left Behind were not really that high stakes for most teachers.

The federal «No Child Left Behind» Act of 2001 brings these tenets front and center by raising the stakes for schools and principals across the country.

High - stakes testing refers to the use of assessment data to make decisions about enrollment, retention, promotion, incentives for children or teachers, or other tangible rewards or punishments (Madaus, 1988; Meisels, 1989).

LAUSD School Board Member Steve Zimmer's recent commentary «Standing with Beatriz» hit the nail on the head on one key issue: for our children, the stakes are high.

For example, today, we are transitioning out of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) era of high - stakes accountability and saying hello again to continuous improvement — but with a twist.

«All of us think our children should be challenged by difficult tasks in school and that the performance of teachers in the classroom should be judged by the highest standards, but there is no scientific validity whatsoever to the use of high stakes tests as the primary instrument for evaluating children and teachers.

The future of state's economy and the employment opportunities for our children are at stake.

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Last April she called for a moratorium on high - stakes Common Core tests, and she made a call in November with early childhood education expert Nancy Carlsson - Paige for education officials to convene a task force to review the «appropriateness and the implementation of the Common Core standards for young learners... and recommend developmentally appropriate, culturally responsive guidelines for supporting young children's optimal learning.»

The stakes — the voices of those who work with children daily, the building of educators» capacities to care fully and advocate for those they teach, the valuing of teaching as a profession — have rarely been higher.