Sentences with phrase «than every fourth child»

Less than every fourth child in Europe have enough fruit and vegetables included in their daily diet, a study by Swedish researchers at Örebro University and Karolinska Institutet shows.

Not exact matches

Children of parents with less education watch more, and, at the fourth - grade level, boys watch more TV than girls.

In Mozambique, for example, where a fourth of all children die before their fifth birthday, government expenditures for debt repayment are four times more than for public health.

She doesn't want to end her fertility any more than she wanted the abortion, but is «terrified» not only that she will become pregnant again, but also that she will deliberately have a child in an attempt to make the loss of her fourth child tolerable.

While seven months pregnant with her fourth child, Joy Szabo was told by her local hospital that she would be required to have a repeat cesarean section rather than allow her to have the birth she wanted, a VBAC.

While most are worried about their children being injured (34 % worry often or always), more than four in ten (43 %) only worry sometimes, and one fourth (24 %) either rarely worry (20 %) or never worry (4 %); among this group the prevailing attitudes were that «injuries are just part of the game,» «children can protect themselves,» and «accidents happen.»

Sometimes welcoming your second, third or even fourth child may be even more intimidating than your first as you have the added task of preparing older siblings for the big change.

Due with my fourth child in just a few weeks has made me think about the blankets and swaddling again and I decided better safe than sorry!

For example, a child in the 75th percentile in height is taller than three - fourths of his peers.

But, as my fourth annual countdown of top youth sports stories shows, the courage and sportsmanship of children confronting special challenges this year serve as a reminder to all of us that the final score is much less important than it may seem.

A busy new mom who has to return to work right away will have a different experience than a stay - at - home mom having her fourth child.

And quite a few have written about how naming a second child (or third, or fourth...) is much harder than naming your first.

It's certainly not the birth I would have requested (if I have a fourth child, I'll be camping out in a delivery room for a week before my due date), but on the whole, it was less terrible than I expected.

In September 2013, more than a year before U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson announced he would not be seeking a fourth term in 2016, Heaney moved with his wife and three children to the outskirts of Millbrook in central Dutchess County horse country.

In this study, the proportion of women in the longest telomere tertile was higher for women in the fourth quartile of maternal age at the birth of their last child than in the first quartile (35.7 % vs 20.2 %).

Despite the intervention's brevity, the black children who received the affirmative assignment scored one fourth to one third of a grade point higher in that course than the black control group at the end of the term, and the difference showed up in other classes, too.

One of the most surprising details is that Nigeria alone accounts for more than one - fourth of the 150,000 new infections in children last year.

I was probably more overwhelmed with my first child than with my fourth, due to the difference in parenting experience.

Boasting a menacing larger - than - life turn from Pam Ferris, a rare child lead performance that doesn't require the sick bucket courtesy of Mara Wilson and a series of hilarious set - pieces, including a chocolate cake - scoffing scene enough to put you off the stuff for life, Danny DeVito's fourth directorial effort is a joy to watch from start to finish.

Debunking the stereotype that the nation's poorest, most unhealthy, and most undereducated children are members of minority groups living in urban areas, the report says 14.9 million, or one - fourth of, American children living in rural areas face conditions «just as bleak and in some respects even bleaker than their metropolitan counterparts.»

According to an Ipsos / Reuters poll, more than ten percent of parents around the world say their child has been cyberbullied and nearly one - fourth know a youngster who has been a victim.

Fifteen elementary schools and more than 1200 children in second and fourth grades in urban and suburban districts in Washington were assigned to participate in the Second Step program, versus as control, using a quasi-experimental design.

2) More than one - fourth of all families with school - age children have educated a child in a setting other than a traditional public school.

While nationally 30 percent of urban children read at grade level in fourth grade, Pennsylvania's urban schools successfully teach only 19 percent of their students to read proficiently in primary school, while the state's suburban schools teach more than half of their students to read well — approximately the same proportion left functionally illiterate in fourth grade by the state's urban schools.

Advocates of universal pre-k who wish to ground their position in research better hope the estimates are biased downward because they are very small, e.g., no more than one to three percent of a standard deviation difference between the children in Georgia / Oklahoma vs. other states on fourth grade NAEP achievement scores.

In the years immediately following the No Child Left Behind Act (2002 to 2005), about half of all states improved their average fourth grade math achievement on NAEP at a rate faster than.08 standard deviations per year (which translates to 2.3 NAEP points).

At Jackson Avenue, which houses the third and fourth grades, all 417 children, including those in special education, have their own tablets, and they spend about 75 percent of their instructional day on the devices, more than many other schools that have embraced digital learning.

There are now 172,078 fewer functionally - illiterate fourth - graders than in 2002, the year the No Child Left Behind Act was passed.

In addition, research from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, indicates that more than three - fourths of students who drop out of high school report having reading difficulties.

The scores for fourth - graders and eighth - graders were higher than in previous years, but psychometricians have yet to untangle the degree of improvement attributable to No Child Left Behind (no NAEP math test was given in 2002, when No Child Left Behind began).

Examples: Wechsler Intelligence Scales (WPPSI - IV, WISC - V or WAIS - IV) or Woodcock - Johnson — Fourth Edition: Tests of Cognitive Ability (WJ - IV) and in some cases, the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children — Second Edition (KABC - II)(must be less than 3 years old)

Mississippi ranks near the bottom among all states in a number of markers including children ages 1 through 5 whose families read to them more than 3 days a week, fourth - and eighth - grade reading and math levels, on - time high - school graduation and average composite ACT scores.

It means admitting that No Child's accountability provision has spurred reforms that have led to 256,795 fewer fourth - graders struggling with functional illiteracy in 2013 than a decade ago.

More than half of the Hispanic and African American fourth - graders were reading below the goal level, and the scores only worsened as children got older.

In DeVos» native Michigan, for example, children in the fourth and eighth grades in the state's charter schools did worse on a national reading and math test than those in traditional public schools.

The good news is that 256,795 fewer fourth - graders are functionally illiterate and on the path to despair than in 2002, the year after the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act, based on Dropout Nation «s estimates of federal enrollment data.

«Children's Perceptions of Interethnic and Interracial Friendships in a Multiethnic School Context,» Pica - Smith's study of 103 children — including one group of kindergartners and first graders and another of fourth - and fifth - graders — found that younger children do have a more positive outlook on inter-group friendships than their oldeChildren's Perceptions of Interethnic and Interracial Friendships in a Multiethnic School Context,» Pica - Smith's study of 103 children — including one group of kindergartners and first graders and another of fourth - and fifth - graders — found that younger children do have a more positive outlook on inter-group friendships than their oldechildren — including one group of kindergartners and first graders and another of fourth - and fifth - graders — found that younger children do have a more positive outlook on inter-group friendships than their oldechildren do have a more positive outlook on inter-group friendships than their older peers.

The results released Wednesday showed that the city's children in fourth and eighth grades are scoring better than those in Detroit, Washington and Cleveland but behind those in New York, Boston and Atlanta.

Rosie and Penn had nothing to milk nor any animals beyond the puppy (Jupiter, a present for the twins» fourth birthday), but they did, more frequently than not, have children up before dawn.

Here's your chance to get back to nature.The fourth annual Earth Day Celebration will take place Saturday at Jaycee Beach on Lake Minneola in Clermont.Sponsored by the South Lake Animal League, the festival marks the 25th anniversary celebration of the first Earth Day.More than 5,000 people are expected to attend the daylong event featuring environmental exhibits, eco-oriented products, Earth Day crafts and children's activities.Exhibits, crafts booths and food concessions will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.Among those on hand will be Smokey Bear, Pollyanna the Clown and members of the Keep Lake County Beautiful Committee, which has supported resolutions declaring April as Environmental Awareness Month.

In 1845, Victor Robert exhibited Religion, Philosophy, the Sciences and the Arts Enlightening Europe, while in 1846, no less a figure than Baudelaire himself deigned to notice the Universal Charity of Laemlein, a bizarre confection representing a personification of Charity holding in her arms three children: «one is of the white race, the other red, the third black; a fourth child, a little Chinese, typifying the yellow race, walks by her side.»

Now, to be fair, the fourth commentary to r. 5.1 - 1 of the Model Code does mention the duty of lawyers with respect to non-party children, the only reference in the Code to children other than in the context of lawyers» guarantees of loans at r. 3.4 - 35 (a).

Despite these modifications, consistencies with data from other developed nations were apparent: children's reports of Social Integration at school were similar to those reported previously in primary school samples in Australia14 and Hong Kong30 31; response patterns on the EATQ - R scales (Attention, Inhibitory Control, Perceptual Sensitivity and Aggression) aligned with data from a community sample of 1055 Dutch32 school students of similar age and access to Supportive Relationships at Home, School and in the Community was similar to that reported for a community sample of Canadian fourth - grade school children (~ 2 years younger than our sample).16 The pattern of responses on the Big Five personality constructs was also consistent with that reported for an Australian sample of 268 children aged 10 — 12 years33 using the full 65 - item version of the BFQ - C.20

First, parent support programs improve parental competence / confidence and parental beliefs that child - initiated interactions are most important in parent - child interactions.7, 8 Second, although general parent support programs support social - emotional development of children, parent support that is directed at parental emotional and educational / economic development has an enhanced impact on child social - emotional development.9 Third, participatory help - giving practices contribute the most to parents» judgment of their children's emotional competence.7 Fourth, group approaches to parental support have a more powerful effect on child social - emotional competence than home - visiting approaches.9

Families that live in states with robust preschool programs might be able to enroll their 4 - year - olds, but nationally, only about one - fourth of children are enrolled in state - funded preschool programs, and only eight states serve more than half of their 4 - year - olds in preschool.

Recent studies found that children who attend ECEAP have stronger kindergarten entry skills than their peers, and their success persists with higher math and reading scores in third, fourth and fifth grades.

Fifteen elementary schools and more than 1200 children in second and fourth grades in urban and suburban districts in Washington were assigned to participate in the Second Step program, versus as control, using a quasi-experimental design.

Teaching Reading to Bilingual Children Longitudinal Research Study (1979): This study tracked more than 300 bilingual children in more than 20 schools in five Texas school districts from kindergarten through the third or fourtChildren Longitudinal Research Study (1979): This study tracked more than 300 bilingual children in more than 20 schools in five Texas school districts from kindergarten through the third or fourtchildren in more than 20 schools in five Texas school districts from kindergarten through the third or fourth grade.

It has the eighth - highest average home listing price of $ 409,270, fourth - highest grocery costs and child care costs that are higher than in half of all states.