Some 66% of Asian-Americans believe parents should have some input into what careers their children select and 61% think that parents have something useful to say about their children's choice of a spouse.
Enrollment in the gifted and talented program is a coveted prize, providing advanced classes for the select group of children who qualify.
Headteachers don't want to do that because it would weaken their claim to charitable status and limit their ability to select the cleverest children and thus get the best results.
An allergy specialist and associate professor of pediatrics at Stanford University, Nadeau has been conducting a trial in which she is giving select patients children the foods they are allergic to in increasing doses over two to three years in order to induce a tolerance to the allergen.
How about the fact that alumni or others donate so that their children will get admitted to select schools?
Now members who enjoy Netflix on Xbox 360 can select "Just for Kids" to enter an experience designed for children 12 and under.
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For lesser appointments the Committees want an "effective veto" and an assurance that ministers will not blithely ignore a thumbs down from a committee, as Ed Balls did when, as Children's Secretary he went ahead with the appointment of Maggie Atkinson as Children's Commissioner despite an attempted veto by his select committee.
Had the professor attended not the debate on special-needs children on the floor, but, say, hearings on the same subject in the Education Select Committee, he would have formed a quite different impression of Parliament's effectiveness.
Couples planning to have children who know they have a genetic disorder running in their family often opt for IVF treatment and select healthy embryos for implantation.
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