Sentences with phrase «success for every child in»

«We congratulate our students, teachers and administrators for their continued exceptional performance on these new tests, which shows they're mastering knowledge crucial to career and college readiness, and we have set our sights on greater success for every child in the coming year,» Superintendent of Schools Dr. Brian V. Hightower said.

At the Askwith Forums on Nov. 14, several cities» mayors share how — with HGSE's By All Means Initiative and HKS's Bloomberg City Leadership Initiative — they are mapping out cradle - to - career pathways to success for children in their communities.

Several mayors who are participating in both HGSE's By All Means Initiative and HKS's Bloomberg City Leadership Initiative are mapping out cradle - to - career pathways to success for children in their communities.

The mayors dicussed their innovative, silo - breaking efforts to map out cradle - to - career pathways to success for children in their communities.

The move today by Louisiana's legislature to approve the expansion of the state's voucher program can only be seen as a success for children in that state.

Their question was «What are the skills necessary for success for all children in this rapidly changing, increasingly diverse and interconnected world?»

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But in a society like ours that bombards kids with advertising and continuously pushes materialism and a narrow view of success, how can you encourage your children to stop wanting more things and start being thankful for the things they already have?

«We all have unconditional love for a child or someone dear,» he told us in a recent episode of our podcast «Success!

The data show that if you try to get your child to learn math by paying them for successfully completing exercises, any short - term successes will likely be balanced by her losing interest in math in the long term.

However, finding limited success with in - country adoptions, the government began to reconsider its policy and decided in 1994 to continue international adoptions for biracial and disabled children.

PNC is committed to engaging with nonprofits to enhance educational opportunities, specifically through Grow Up Great, a $ 350 million initiative created in 2004 to help prepare children from birth to age 5 for success in school and life.

«Successful» was mentioned several times, for children, for careers, never in a way that would imply the cross (the martyrs, etc.) as a success.

He added though that when the temptation during a suffocating point in a relationship may be to escape, couples should consider going away together: «I think there's a great deal to be said for going away together, on your own, preferably if you've got children without your children and investing in your relationship - that is without any doubt at all the best recipe for success.»

Private schools, charter schools, voucher programs and other school choice options have been championed by reform - minded conservatives such as Jeb Bush for years now, partly because of their success for countless children of color living in poor communities with even poorer - performing public schools.

In a world built up by chance, God would no more be responsible for the success of his «offspring» than a father whose children got fed and dressed because they were lucky enough to find scraps of food and clothing in the neighbors» trash binIn a world built up by chance, God would no more be responsible for the success of his «offspring» than a father whose children got fed and dressed because they were lucky enough to find scraps of food and clothing in the neighbors» trash binin the neighbors» trash bins.

Take for instance the case of a child being sacrificed in order to insure the success of an enterprise or to avert misfortune.

If the use of guns near schools may impair the performance of students, and the federal government bears responsibility for the success of children in the schools, why couldn't the federal government simply take over control of the local schools?

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

The great achievements of the Hebrew prophets, from one point of view, were their insistence that God is not to be approached in this external fashion and their success in securing a general consent by the Jewish people to the proposition that «the sacrifices of God are a troubled spirit» — that God wishes the offering to Him of the whole life of His people, both as individuals and as a group, not for His own glorification but rather so that He might effectively use them for the accomplishment of great ends: the redemption of the world and the opening of rich life for His children.

As a child who grew up in middle class America chasing the «American dream» — success has long been a deep - seated idol for me.

This generation of parents is ambitious for its children, and can't let anything get in the way of their future «success.»

That and our «third - rate educational system, our third - rate morality, our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong lest we «impose» our morality on others and thus invite others to «impose» their morality onus, our reluctance to judge or be judged, our indifference to the needs of future generations as evidenced by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our inhospitable attitude to the newcomers born in our midst, our unstated assumption which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.»

Tell all the truth but tell it slant — Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The -LSB-...]

In less than a decade it had gone from a Tasmanian family run business to the poster child for Australian success in China as it took advantage of surging demand for foreign infant formula which became known as «white gold»In less than a decade it had gone from a Tasmanian family run business to the poster child for Australian success in China as it took advantage of surging demand for foreign infant formula which became known as «white gold»in China as it took advantage of surging demand for foreign infant formula which became known as «white gold».

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Famed bestselling cookbook author Patricia Wells creates a blueprint for success in the kitchen with this superb collection of recipes drawn from her cooking schools in France — the perfect successor to Julia Child's classic The Way to Cook.

Earl is the epitome of what's wrong with parental involvement in kids» athletics: an over-involved dad who takes the limelight away from his child and believes he is the reason for his kid's success.

At the end of the year, only 2 percent of the children in the control group were securely attached, while 61 percent of the children in the treatment group were securely attached — a huge difference, and one that had enormous implications for the future happiness and success of those children.

Providing opportunity in the form of exposure to extracurricular activities is one of the best investments parents can make in their children for future success.

Solveig Horne, Norway's new minister for children, equality and social inclusion and a divorcee herself, says, «It is important to find small pockets of time where parents can be lovers... Maybe I didn't have success (in marriage) because we didn't have any date nights!»

«A Teachable Moment,» August 17, 2008 «While it is true that for decades the children of New Orleans toiled in a substandard school system, they have also continually faced countless other obstacles to success — inadequate health care, poorly educated parents, exposure to high rates of violent crime and a popular culture that often denigrates mainstream achievement.»

Along the way, certainly, those efforts have produced individual successes — schools and programs that make a genuine difference for some low - income students — but they have led to little or no improvement in the performance of low - income children as a whole.

In their book, «Good Behavior,» Stephen Garber, Ph.D., Marianne Garber, Ph.D., and Robyn Spizman suggest that parents chart their child's behavior and offer rewards for success.

Paul Tough, author of How Children Succeed, talks about shifting the focus from IQ and test scores to traits of perseverance, curiosity, and grit for long term success in kids.

For the average child (keeping in mind individual kids may be exceptions to these guidelines), an acceptable amount of homework per night is as follows: — Elementary school: approximately 10 minutes or so per grade level — Middle school: an hour or so — High School: 2 to 2-1/2 hours Any homework beyond these limits is no longer providing any advantage, and is probably cutting into those things that do provide advantages like adequate sleep and what we at Challenge Success call «PDF» — that is, play time, down time and family time.

For example, we know from existing research that social and emotional skills are critical to young people's academic success (Farrington et al., 2012), and that children must have the opportunity to practice and develop SEL skills such as empathy, perseverance, and collaboration, in order to thrive in careers, in family, and in community as adults (CASEL, 2015; Farrington et al., 2012; Pellegrino & Hilton, 2012).

You wouldn't withhold food or water from your child in the quest for academic success, would you?

We'd like parents to understand that every child is different, that there is no such thing as «one size fits all» when it comes to measuring success and that the historical measures of success, grades and SAT scores, are limited in their ability to predict success for our children.

You could then also try to have some times you left the house with the child, but I think working it in at home sets you up better for success.

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No matter how much you produce, or how long you pump, you've done something wonderful and loving for your child, and that in itself is a huge success.

Your goals for your child and your definition of parenting success play an important role in your personal parenting style.

Dr. Debra Weese - Mayer, chief of the Center for Autonomic Medicine in Pediatrics at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, told Reuters Health she worries that in light of the new study, parents may forget the success of the so - called Back to Sleep Campaign, now called Safe to Sleep.

We re-constructed the experiment with a group of local parents here in the Twin Cities about ten years ago, and it serves as a catalyst for important conversations about the role that self - discipline plays in our children's success and happiness...

Since joining River Trails, Claudia has been instrumental in developing our Trail Blazers preschool program and constantly strives to provide the foundation to allow for children's future success.

Although there have been considerable successes in many of the Children's Centres, for the next year of the project Shaun is working up an action plan which will focus on:

The mission of New Legacy Charter School is to offer young parents a rigorous, relevant, and engaging education so they are empowered with the skills needed to raise healthy children and graduate prepared for success in college and careers.

Education continues with daycare providers and teachers of young children who are working in partnership with parents to sustain each child's development and maximize their chance for success.

Rather than pushing, if you can talk to your child and find out the parts that are hard or scary for your child, then you can brain storm how to break down the challenge to smaller steps, or clear up a misperception of the consequences of that step, and in so doing, turn what was frightening into an opportunity for mastery and success.

Moms love their children, no matter how they look or what they do, and perhaps the most heartbreaking thing is to see your daughter's self - esteem get lower and lower as she grows... and what every Mom wants is for her young lady to be happy and self - confident, not to mention a healthy self - image is key to success in life.