A group of acclaimed children's authors including the UK's newest Carnegie medallist Tanya Landman is preparing to contact the education secretary about the "very damaging" tendency for primary school teachers to steer children's creative writing towards "too elaborate, flowery and over-complex" language to meet assessment criteria.
Studies that examine the age of the test-takers have found different results, but there seems to be a tendency for primary-school age to generate more effects (Pomplun et al. 2006).
That is when students develop tendencies to leave for school in the morning, only to head back home, lured by video games, TV and other attractions, after they know their parents have left for work, said Mr. Balfanz, the Johns Hopkins researcher.
The undergraduate age distribution reflected the tendency for fewer 'straight from school' students to enrol in the direct entry midwifery program compared with nursing and allied health programs.
We further found evidence for genetic independence of the two components of schooling behavior, the tendency to school vs. schooling ability (Greenwood et al. 2013).
There was a tendency for an association also with school-age onset asthma (adj OR per 5 kg/m increase: 1.22; 95% CI 0.98 1.52) (Table 2).
Kenji Yoshino of New York University's law school notes a tendency for those who are "out" to become ever more open among colleagues until they become candidates for top management, when they begin to play down their sexuality anew.
The Austrian writer and director Ulrich Seidl is one of a number of European filmmakers — less a school than a tendency — for whom sadism is a tool of ethical and political enlightenment.
He also warns of a tendency for people to use Finland's school system as a way of confirming what they want to find.
There is a tendency for girls to drop out of school, and now we are seeing that boys are supporting girls to continue with their studies and even speaking with their families and parents about the importance of education, so that girls stay in school", he says.
