"Jonathan Ross may not mind having his rhotacism mocked, but the average child will, " Geddes argues.
Their pupils come from the best-off homes, but they turn out 15-year-olds who do no better than the average child across the OECD.
But the long summer vacation acts like a mental eraser, with the average child reportedly forgetting about a month's-worth of instruction in many subjects and almost three times that in mathematics.
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"It wasn't very long ago that the average American child saw Africa as colorful flags and exotic names on a map, " Clinton said.
However, the average quality of child care in this country is mediocre and does not provide our youngest children with the support they need to arrive at kindergarten ready to succeed.
The review found that on average the cost of educating a child in a small primary school could be three times higher than a larger school.
But it's tough for low-income families to qualify for these loans in the first place (they often require a co-signer), and the interest rate offered will depend in part on the average default rate of students at the school a child attends.
The gender pay gap rears its head again at about the same time that the average woman has her first child.
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State benefits for foster carers have been increased - in St Petersburg they are equivalent to about half the average salary for the first fostered child.
Today, options are so limitless that many (privileged) young people try to avoid making these decisions entirely staying in school longer, job hopping, dating around, pushing the average age of first marriage and child higher and higher.
Taking income levels and differing demographies into account, Brazil spent twice as lavishly on each pensioner as the OECD average, but only two-thirds as generously on the education of each child.
They knew that China's fertility rate, or the average number of children born to each woman, was in decline even before the one-child policy began in 1980.
The average bereavement leave for a person who loses a child is three days, according to Dr. Joanne Cacciatore, a researcher at Arizona State University and the founder of the MISS Foundation, which provides support to grieving families.
Deputy Andrew Le Lievre said about 400 children were referred to the child and adolescent mental health service in 2012, on average 34 a month.
According to Child Care Aware of America, in 36 states the average annual cost of having a kid in daycare now exceeds in-state college tuition.
In the mid-60s, women in Tunisia spent an average of 18 years child-bearing.
The cost for low income families of sending a child to a four year public institution in the United States has risen from 13% of family income in 1980 - this is the one year cost, average cost for low income families of sending a child to a four year public institution has risen from 13% of family income in 1980 to more than 25% today.
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More striking, the average fall is faster than it was in China in the early 1980s, when child mortality was declining around 3% a year, admittedly from a lower base.
In a 2004 study on the parenting beliefs of college-educated mothers in the U.S. and France, the American moms said that encouraging one's child to play alone was of average importance.
Pregnant with her first child, the actress read the book Healthy Child Healthy World and realized how difficult it would be for an average mom to keep her house toxin free.
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However, research by Dr Louise Parker of the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle, published last year, suggested that workers at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in Cumbria had higher than average chances of fathering a stillborn child, or one born with defects.
The report also criticised the "unacceptably long" delays in bringing cases involving child sex offenders to court - on average eight months from allegation to sentence.
Ms. HARRISON: We found that the vast majority of characters, in particular child characters, could be coded as just having an average body size.
The number of white children declined, due in part to age: The white population is older on average, so more whites are dying, and fewer are in their prime child-bearing years.
The most widely used measure of child poverty in the UK is the proportion of children living in households with less than 60% of average income.
The child who could wait fifteen minutes had an S.A.T. score that was, on average, two hundred and ten points higher than that of the kid who could wait only thirty seconds.
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