Sentences with phrase «students at a young age»

The initiative claims to better prepare students for college and careers by requiring instructors to teach more non-fiction and rigorous math to students at a younger age.

Mr. King continued to defend New York's implementation of the Common Core State Standards Initiative, which requires, among other things, instructors to teach more non-fiction and rigorous math to students at a younger age.

It primarily requires instructors to teach more non-fiction and more rigorous math to students at a younger age and is intended to better prepare them for college and careers.

The initiative aims to better prepare students for college and careers by requiring instructors to teach more non-fiction and rigorous math to students at a younger age.

Wayne Bowen, biology professor and co-director of the Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology and Biotechnology Graduate program at Brown University, agrees that reaching African - American students at a young age is crucial.

«In the middle of my first master's program, I began working with young children and realized the importance of reaching students at a young age to shape their long - term trajectories.

«Preparing our young people to succeed in a healthy 21st Century economy is becoming increasingly more important to their future achievement, and teachers like Ms. Chang — who are able to engage students at a young age — are exactly what our state and the students who call it home need,» Governor Rick Snyder said.

Engaging students at a young age in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math builds a foundation for inquisitiveness and innovation for future success in today's swiftly changing world.

Employers are also targeting students at a younger age with the number of higher apprenticeship and school - leaver programmes doubling in the last four years.

In order to do that, programs focus on teaching students at a young age how to communicate, problem solve, deal with frustration and set goals through focused activities.

Not exact matches

Virgin entrepreneur Richard Branson's commercial acumen was honed at a young age with his student magazine

His ability to eliminate his student loans and grow that business has allowed him reach financial independence at the young age of 32.

In its early years, a number of her students in the program were teenagers who had come to the country, unauthorized, at a young age and finished high school, but then could not obtain citizenship or receive any state or federal funds for college.

At Audubon Park Elementary in Orlando, Florida, fifth - grade students will observe a moment of silence for the Parkland victims; younger students will participate in age - appropriate observances, and their parents will write letters to Congress and the White House.

Owing student loans, working multiple side hustles, and investing at a young age are all complicated scenarios come tax season.

Almost two - thirds of younger students (62 percent) decided before or during college to attend seminary, and they first considered a religious vocation at an average age of 18.5 years, compared with 29 years of age for the older students.

The concept is simple: a team of four college students composed of two young men and two young women spends a week at a parish, catechising the elementary school students (ages 5 - 13) during the day and the high - school students (ages 14 - 18) in the evenings.

It's part of the larger Let Her Learn movement by the NWLC that tries to end all of the policies that end up denying students their right to their education, especially at a young age.

We are delighted to be working with Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) to offer a free heart test for students at Manchester Metropolitan University aged between 14 and 35.

Student athletes are being recruited at younger ages and committing to schools of their choice earlier than ever before.

We encourage all of families at our school to follow an age - appropriate approach to use of media, in a belief that guarding a young child's acute senses and impressionable mind is essential to the healthy growth of each individual student.

Babatunde was known to have emerged a student union leader at the age of 18 which made him the most youngest student to have attained the position in 1977.

Many of the students in the BPS are from high risk homes and statistics show that without appropriate guidance, nutrition, development of study habits and exercise from a young age «at risk» students are not given a fair opportunity for education and become doomed to failed lives.

Ellen Fanning of Vanderbilt created a program based on the notion of a community of scholars that brings students in for a summer research program at a young age.»

The same chemical weathering commenced before the Ordovician ice age, Saltzman and his student Seth Young reported today at a meeting of the Geological Society of America.

The last 15 years have seen students starting research at younger and younger ages, Doyle says.

Results of new study led by Linda Pagani, professor at the University of Montreal's School of Psychoeducation, show that young children who watch too much television are at risk of victimization and social isolation and adopting violent and antisocial behaviour toward other students at age 13.

This makes sense because elementary students tend to be more obedient to their teachers, so they may show higher levels of this type of engagement at that younger age.»

«The most commonly cited statistic is that one in three older adults falls each year due to age - related changes in balance, and in this four - month study, more than half of the college students fell during daily activities,» said Shirley Rietdyk, a professor of health and kinesiology, who only looked at young adults in this study.

As a young person, I had few female academic role models; as a professional, I anticipate working toward developing mentoring programmes to help foster students» interest in STEM fields at an early age.

The opportunity to join the annual gathering of Nobel Laureates at Lindau is provided exclusively to outstanding young scientists aged up to 35 — undergraduates, PhD students, and post-doc researchers.

A native of Sacramento, Larson started studying drama at the early age of 6, as the youngest student ever to attend the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.

Having left his wife at a young age, Kepesh has lived a life based around such freedoms; a popular lecturer, he admits to regularly sleeping with his students, usually through his end - of - term cocktail parties (in an amusing aside, he makes it clear that he only does this after he has given them their results).

Instead, the special education gap begins in kindergarten, when students classified at a young age as having a speech or language disorder are less likely than other students to apply to charter schools.

Educators looked at big ideas and provided young students with exposure to important math concepts at an early age, devising experimental curricula that had kindergartners learning about sets, an abstract concept now taught much later.

A study by Hammill Institute on Disabilities (Caldarella, Christensen, Young & Densley, 2011), looked at decreasing tardiness in primary school - aged students using teacher - written praise notes.

20 School initiates stress reduction programs for students; community group promotes kids wellness; obese children risk developing heart disease at a young age; free video game teaches youngsters to fight obesity.

For example, the unique effectiveness of NCLB in improving the math skills of younger students could be related to the biological evidence that cognitive skills are more malleable at early ages.

Not much of a fitness fan as a child, teacher Carol Goodrow wanted her students to develop an appreciation for healthful eating and exercise at a young age.

One of her students, Rachel, was sexually and physically abused at a very young age, and had severe learning difficulties.

As technology improves and develops more and more, students will value these practices at a younger age and will be able to produce a more efficient flow of study and overall improve their test results.

Education Policy and Management student Joshua Lafazan — elected to the Syosset (N.Y.) School Board of Education at age 18 — explains why becoming involved in public service, especially for young people, is so important.

Reality: While it's true that younger students, whether they be elementary school students or freshmen at your high school, need a more fundamental set of skills for both academics and behavior, students of all ages can work to know themselves better, relate better to others, and make responsible choices.

Some students socially transition at a young age and school records, including their «gender marker» — male, female — get updated, but what about kids who haven't started to transition or their records haven't been updated?

Often class meetings at the youngest ages involve students demonstrating or practicing certain social skills (greeting, apologies, requests, etc.).

Running for Fun and Fitness Not much of a fitness fan as a child, Carol Goodrow wanted her students to develop an appreciation for healthful eating and exercise at a young age.

In most parts of the country, students have the option of getting out of the school jail at age 16, sometimes even younger.

For younger students, research has shown that chronic absenteeism in kindergarten is associated with lower achievement in reading and math in later grades, even when controlling for a child's family income, race, disability status, attitudes toward school, socioemotional development, age at kindergarten entry, type of kindergarten program, and preschool experience.

Some of my most gifted and talented students are those who come from complex home environments and have to deal with difficult emotional situations at a young age.

Although rated for age 7 +, I think students at the younger end of this age group would require adult support for troubleshooting and the trickier parts, such as tyre assembly.