Skills in sentence

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And that's important, because those are the very skills that children living in poverty are most likely to struggle with.

Now, should we be encouraging teachers to focus on the kinds of skills that disadvantaged kids are most likely to struggle with?

Now, in our work, we're finding that kids who experience more back-and-forth, responsive conversational turns tend to have a larger brain surface in parts of the brain that we know are responsible for language and reading skills.

In this way, it's possible that we'll promote brain development and perhaps their kids' language and reading skills.

And in that 15 percent, the main focus is on human mind, thinking skills, somehow trying to unleash kids from the straightjacket of school, which is putting information and dogma into them, get them so they really think, ask tough questions, argue about serious subjects, don't believe everything that's in the book, think broadly or creative.

And over the past 30 years, researchers have found that it predicts all kinds of good things in childhood and beyond, like social skills, academic achievement, mental and physical health, making money, saving money and even staying out of jail.

We’ve come up with a simplified research scenario for each of these three headlines to test your skills.

Can you take your skills from the first two questions to the next level?

Now that you’ve battle-tested your skills on these hypothetical studies and headlines, you can test them on real-world news.

I'd like to have a word about Valdés's drawing skills.

The anthropology of the meritocracy is you're not a soul to be purified, you're a set of skills to be maximized.

I'm a very average person with above average communication skills.

For too long, we've treated relationships as a soft topic, when relationship skills are one of the most important and hard to build things in life.

After all, what are academic skills without the confidence to use those skills to go out and change the world.

So other cognitive skills are important, too.

Now, in terms of cognitive skills, look at this sleeping behavior in the cuttlefish.

And a tremendous amount of money went into the funding of science and mathematics skills for kids.

So, I began to experiment with industry in different ways with this kind of mixture of skills.

We go into the prisons, train them, give them skills, tools and support to enable them to be able to change their mindsets, their behaviors and their attitudes.

Western workers lost their jobs, they saw their incomes stagnate, clearly people had to think about new competitive policies, workers needed retraining, workers needed new skills.

What you are seeing here, is that Callie is not a particularly obedient dog; she has no particularly special skills.

These types of academies overemphasize physical strength, with much less attention spent to subjects like community policing, problem-solving and interpersonal communication skills.

At-risk children who reach school without basic skills are 25 percent more likely to drop out, 40 percent more likely to become teen parents and 60 percent less likely to go to college.

And we tell them the software can check every reading, math and science box, but they're going to be responsible for motor skills and self-help skills, and together, we're going to work on social emotional learning.

A wise person knows how to use these moral skills in the service of the right aims.

And the less we know about the future, the more we're going to need these tremendous sources of human, messy, unpredictable skills.

But in our growing dependence on technology, we're asset-stripping those skills.

Lose those skills, and we are adrift.

The most skillful players in our club deploy their skills to turn a 9-1 lead for their team into a 9-9 game in which everybody is intensely involved.

As their top spy, your skills range from infiltration and subterfuge, to safecracking and reading faces for signs of deception.

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