She added that people most at risk of catching measles are children of school age who have not had two doses of MMR.
The minister will also look at changes to the law so parents with children of school age must be available for at least part-time work.
Thirty-two million children of primary school age are still out of school in the region.
Forty percent of the world's out-of-school kids of primary-school age live today in conflict-affected countries.
Approximately 24% of people had been infected overall, but half of school-age children showed signs of infection.
However, in Norfolk a little over half of secondary school age children and only 63% of primary school children currently do so.
The crossbench peer made her comments during a debate on school sports teaching on 7 December 2011, led by Liberal Democrat peer Lord Addington, who asked the government how it would ensure that the quality of teaching of school-age sport increased the levels of participation in sport in later life.
There are today 250 million children of primary school age who cannot read or write, and some 71 million teenagers who are out of secondary school.
UNESCO: Published in South China Morning Post on 17 October 2012.
There are today 250 million children of primary school age who cannot read or write, and some 71 million teenagers who are out of secondary school. 200 million young people in developing countries have not completed primary school.
In one survey, 23 percent of Indian school-age girls dropped out of school when they reached puberty.
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Advertising aimed at children of primary school age and younger should be banned, a group of authors, journalists and academics has said.
Some 97% of school-age children enroll, though over half drop out before completing secondary school.
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Their numbers doubled between 1980 and 2009, and they now make up 21 percent of school-age kids.
Asia's richest man, Li Ka-shing dropped out of school at age 15, after his father died, to work in a factory.
In addition, less than half of school-age children -- the population mainly responsible for spreading the flu virus -- got the flu shot, experts said.
Mera dropped out of school at age 11 to work as a seamstress, then helped her then-husband make dressing gowns and lingerie in their home.
There is also a learning crisis: Worldwide, 250 million children of primary school age cannot read or write, whether they are in school or not.
In addition to the 5-7% of the population who suffers from dyscalculia (the numbers form of dyslexia), about 20% of school-age children have significant problems in math.
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There is also a learning crisis: around the world, 250 million children of primary school age cannot read or write, whether they are in school or not.
There is also a learning crisis: around the world, at least 250 million children of primary school age cannot read or write, whether they are in school or not.
Work by other researchers, however, has suggested such supplements do improve the performance and behaviour of school-age children with specific diagnoses such as dyslexia, attention-deficit disorder and developmental co-ordination disorder.
While the region has made remarkable progress in helping children now of primary school age enrol in school, it must not forget its young people who missed out on that chance when they were growing up.
Mothers of school-age children, for instance, could be urged back into the workforce by changing the way child tax credits are structured, making them more generous when the child is younger than five and less generous afterwards.
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Unveiling the deal Caldas's Governor Mario Aristizabal said the region was "committed to giving each and every child of primary school age the same opportunity to access knowledge as the most privileged children in New York, Berlin or Tokyo".
According to the National Sleep Foundation's 2004 Sleep in America poll, 13% of school-age children have difficulty falling asleep at bedtime and 26% of preschoolers seem sleepy or overtired during the day at least a few days a week.
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The mother-of four said she had two children of primary school age who could now not attend the same school, with the result that KCC had offered a taxi for her four-year-old - a suggestion she felt was unacceptable.
One Northern Ireland caller to the helpline told the NSPCC about a toddler and child of primary school age whose mother drank every day until late in the evening while the children were in her care, sometimes passing out and not hearing when the children cried.
Although participation is increasing at secondary level, the report finds that only 54 percent of secondary school-age youth are enrolled, leaving an estimated 20 million "out-of-school" or still in primary classes.
They make up one-fifth of the school-age population in the United States and will be 30% of the adult population by 2050.
However, challenges remain at the upper secondary level, where there are enough school places for just 47% of girls and 49% of boys of upper secondary school age to enrol, according to the Digest.
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