In 1947, almost all 11-year-old children attending school in Scotland were given intelligence and mental-health tests.
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Over roughly the same period, the proportion attending school has dropped from 82% to 48%.
Too many children attending school still leave without the ability to read, write and do basic math.
Both parents have to be working, looking for work or attending school while the kids are being watched.
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According to UNESCO and the World Bank, nearly 400 million elementary- and secondary-age children are not attending school.
All of this while attending school with plans to graduate in June 2009.
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We also served half a million meals to children who work in the streets and are attending school part time.
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Slum kids, all-but abandoned by their parents, not attending school, and gathering on the platform for mutual protection and excitement.
He pointed to strides made in Afghanistan after the United States ousted the Taliban regime, such as women attending school.
Although the proportion of children attending school has grown over the past decade, the quality of their education has deteriorated.
More girls are now attending school in Afghanistan than in the decade before the Taleban introduced its ban on female education.
Stephen, 52, is believed to feel at home in Singapore where he spent a chunk of his childhood, attending school.
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The absence of clean, safe and separate toilets for boys and girls tends to discourage children, particularly girls, from attending school regularly.
And Stanford University had no record of her ever attending school and playing on the volleyball team, as Te'o had told reporters.
The data analyzed showed that in some countries less than 50% of the secondary schoolage population in rural areas is attending school.
The U.S. school calendar is unusual, with students typically attending school for 36 weeks, two weeks less than the average for industrialized countries.
All 50 states require children to receive vaccinations recommended by a government advisory panel before attending school, but all allow exemptions for medical reasons.
Because of these problems, a significant proportion of children and youths are not attending school and there is a high rate of school dropouts.
When he was attending school at Michigan State University, he dabbled in the local online food ordering market by launching a website called eSparty.com.
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An Arzu monitor checks every month whether children are attending school.
In early 2009 she wrote an anonymous diary for BBC Urdu about life under the Taliban, who had banned all girls in her area from attending school.
The family was found living on a waterlogged caravan site, the children were not attending school, were not registered with a doctor and the mother had no income.
When Kai-Yin Lo returned home to Hong Kong after attending school in Britain and the U.S. in the 1970s, she wasn't an obvious bet to emerge as a success in design.
If this explanation were correct, you would expect to find sex ratios falling precipitously as girls who had been hidden at birth start entering the official registers on attending school or the doctor.
That didn't deter the students and basketball players from attending school on a campus just a few minutes from the Gulf of Mexico that has dorms overlooking a beach on a lake.
Conduct disorder is marked by fairly serious behavior problems, like breaking rules for no clear reason, harming other people or animals, lying, not attending school, running away, and vandalizing property, according to the NIH.
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Sitting in a gilded conference room at his company's headquarters in the Tsim Sha Tsui neighborhood, Mong recalls the difficulties of attending school as a teenager in rural China during the Japanese invasion, when he occasionally had to dodge bombs.
Some of FinAid's tips for looking more financial aid-worthy include saving money in the parent's name rather than the child's, paying off consumer debt and enrolling multiple children in college, as the more students attending school, the more help given.
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