Sentences with phrase «american elementary school children»
AND... if Jeb Bush actually does become the 45th POTUS, think of how great it would be for future American elementary school children who would be able to rattle off the answer to: «name the last 5 presidents» by counting their fingers: «Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Bush.»
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In 1951 the nation's scholarship program was opened up to qualifying students who wanted to attend private secondary schools; the government also began providing for children attending all elementary schools a minimal supplementary aid in a form similar to the tuition voucher plans presently under discussion in several American states.
Experts say that the chronic diseases that affect millions of American adults each year - heart disease, cancer, diabetes, osteoporiasis - get their start before and during the elementary school years when children are developing their dietary habits.
A dispute over who should lead an elementary school that serves almost exclusively Native American children of the Onondaga Nation has been resolved, just in time for the start of classes next week.
Almost all American children participate in music as a required subject in elementary school.
The research offers support for the recommendations of organizations such as the Centers for Disease Control, Institute of Medicine, and the American Academy of Pediatrics, all of which have advocated increasing the amount of time that elementary school children spend in gym class, says lead researcher and Cornell professor of policy analysis and management, John Cawley, who conducted the study with Chad Meyerhoefer of Lehigh University (Cornell Ph.D. 2002) and David Frisvold of Emory University.
Yet, while many Americans are aware of the importance of pre-reading skills, they have much less understanding that children who fall behind in early - literacy skills often do not catch up to their peers in elementary school, according to a report and polling data released last week.
Furthermore, she holds that the writers» workshops that have spread like kudzu through American elementary schools, promoted by Lucy Calkins of Teachers College, Columbia University, deaden children's creativity.
The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants offers a financial literacy section on their website with advice for young children and teens about money, a video on budgeting for older kids, and activities for elementary school students.
What would American education look like if we had shunned IQ tests as a means of sorting children, used higher salaries to attract more able recruits to teaching, adapted the kind of engaging cooperative inquiry among both teachers and pupils that Dewey favored, and expected all children to do rigorous mathematics and science beginning in elementary school?
As Ruth Wattenberg, the former editor of the AFT's American Educator magazine, explains in her essay, the elementary - school curriculum has been a content - free wasteland for decades, one that grew even more barren in the No Child Left Behind era.
But the idea that American schools should explicitly familiarize children — especially those from other countries, cultures, or traditions — with a uniform body of knowledge in elementary and middle school falls upon contemporary ears as awkward, anachronistic, even inappropriate.
A study sponsored by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development found that only 4 percent of first - grade class time in American elementary schools is spent on science and only 2 percent, on social studies.
This suit attacking the Texas system of financing public education was initiated by Mexican - American parents whose children attend the elementary and secondary [p5] schools in the Edgewood Independent School District, an urban school district in San Antonio, School District, an urban school district in San Antonio, school district in San Antonio, Texas.
The American School Food Service Association proposed that all elementary - school children receive a free lunch, financed by income taxes on familSchool Food Service Association proposed that all elementary - school children receive a free lunch, financed by income taxes on familschool children receive a free lunch, financed by income taxes on families...
«In 1960, six - year - old Ruby Bridges became the first African - American child to attend an all - white public elementary school in the South when she was escorted by U.S. marshals into William Frantz School in New Orschool in the South when she was escorted by U.S. marshals into William Frantz School in New OrSchool in New Orleans.
European American history is narrated gloriously and pumped into our children from elementary to high school.
According to a Center for American Progress report examining the largest school districts in the country, schools are closed for an average of 29 days each school year — not including summer recess — which is 13 days longer than the average private sector worker has in paid leave.58 Not only do days off increase the cost of child care, but the short length of the school day also decreases economic productivity when parents have to take time off from work or when parents with elementary school - age children opt out of full - time employment in order to accommodate their children's schedules.59
The research cuts across socioeconomic lines finding, «low income African American children whose families maintain high rates of parent participation in elementary school are more likely to complete high school.»
The American Kennel Club has a free education program created for elementary school children.