Sentences with phrase «american schoolchildren»

Data from the U.S. Department of Education show that African American schoolchildren of all ages are more than three times more likely to be suspended and expelled than their non-Hispanic white peers.

Spilling out wrenching tales of lost lives and stolen security, students with quavering voices and parents shaking with anger appealed to President Donald Trump on Wednesday to set politics aside and protect American schoolchildren from the scourge of gun violence.

It's heartening because it confirms what most of us believe to be true: Our teachers, for the most part, are doing their absolute best to inform and educate American schoolchildren about the origins, nature, and implications of global climate change.

Climate change activists are touting new evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of educational programs that seek to transform American schoolchildren into anti-carbon activists through the power of animation and freestyle rapping.

All told, there are an estimated 4.2 million American schoolchildren, ages 5 to 14, who live in regions with significant earthquake risk.

For more than 20 years his most famous work, Super Mario Bros. remained the best - selling video game, selling more than 40m copies worldwide and popularising a character who, by the 1990s, had become more recognisable among American schoolchildren than Mickey Mouse.

For over 20 years it remained the best - selling game ever, shifting over 40 million copies worldwide and popularising a character that, by the 1990s, had become more recognisable amongst American schoolchildren than Mickey Mouse.

American schoolchildren are taught that the nation's first transcontinental railroad was completed when the golden spike was driven on May 10, 1869, at Promontory Summit, Utah.

(from Brookings) A couple of recent studies analyze the disparities between the racial make - up of American schoolchildren and the teaching force.

Fewer than half of American schoolchildren are white, and the number is much lower in urban school systems like Philadelphia.

Racial segregation produces achievement gaps between white and African American schoolchildren because it concentrates students with the most serious social and economic challenges in single classrooms and schools.

The witnesses also represent a single, ideologically driven approach to educational policy that has yet to produce significant benefits for American schoolchildren.

One of the most commonly taught stories American schoolchildren learn is that of Ragged Dick, Horatio Alger's 19th - century tale of a poor, ambitious teenaged boy in New York City who works hard and eventually secures himself a respectable, middle - class life.

Average test scores for American schoolchildren usually lag behind those of many other nations (although results vary somewhat by test and subject).

They fear that Trump, along with DeVos, will push «choice» programs that many see as draining resources from the traditional public school districts that educate most American schoolchildren.

ideologically driven approach to educational policy that has yet to produce significant benefits for American schoolchildren.

The basic skills of American schoolchildren are higher today than they were 40 years ago, even among poor children.

For millions of American schoolchildren, it is a nightmare from which they can not wake, a trial visited upon them each year when the law requires them to take reading tests with little preparation.

The Goldwater Institute, the Foundation for Excellence in Education, the Hispanic Council for Reform and Educational Options, and the American Federation for Children argue that the Blaine Amendments were «motivated by bigotry» and «present an obstacle to the provision of high - quality educational opportunities for millions of American schoolchildren» that must be removed in order «to vindicate our nation's sacred promise of equal educational opportunities.»

Substantial improvement in the education of American schoolchildren has to be based not on those rare individuals who are willing to do this, but on raising the level of competence of a workforce of millions.

Somehow millions of Harry Potter fans manage to complete every book without benefit of leading questions, a teacher's guide, previsioning, or any of the other junk pedagogical strategies that burden American schoolchildren in their English classes.

Washington — Warning that American schoolchildren are in danger of becoming «stragglers in a world of technology,» a national commission on science, mathematics, and technology education has proposed a 12 - year plan that would significantly increase the emphasis on these subjects in schools and would cost the federal government $ 1.5 billion in new money during the first year of its implementation.

The Red Cross has collected almost $ 1.5 million in a special relief fund for Afghan children after President Bush called on American schoolchildren last month to send a dollar apiece to the cause in care of the White House.

Doctors still do not know the best way to diagnose or treat attention deficit disorder (ADD) or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) although it affects approximately 3 to 5 percent of all American schoolchildren.

Director Vicki Abeles» documentary is about the pressures faced by American schoolchildren and their teachers in a system and culture she describes as obsessed with the illusion of achievement, competition and the pressure to perform.

For generations, American schoolchildren have kept up with current events with the help of such venerable classroom magazines as Junior Scholastic and My Weekly Reader.

Through PLNs, American schoolchildren share cultural information with other children around the world.

The ambitious legislation identified test - based accountability as the key to improving schools and, by extension, the long - term prospects of American schoolchildren.

The Greatest Show on Earth, it seems, is now in the business of preventing American schoolchildren from becoming the largest kids on Earth.

The rapidly - growing specimen is eventually named Calvin by a group of American schoolchildren live - chatting with the astronauts from Earth; fitting his hand into flexible gloves that allow him to reach into its isolation tank, a smitten Derry interacts with it as if it's a new kitten.

«We believe that up to 5 percent of American schoolchildren may have a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.

Currently, about one - third of American schoolchildren are considered overweight or obese.

Her photographs of that food and her accompanying blog, Fed Up with Lunch, provided an eye - opening expose of the kinds of meals served to millions of American schoolchildren in lunch rooms around the country: mysterious, shrink - wrapped entrees, fried chicken patties, the ubiquitous square pizza and highly processed PBJ «sandwiches» that crumbled to the touch.

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Department of Agriculturein January unveiled new rules aimed at improving the health standards of federally - funded meals consumed by about 32 million American schoolchildren.

As Children's Freedom Has Declined, So Has Their Creativity New research suggests that American schoolchildren are becoming less creative.

WASHINGTON — Warning that American schoolchildren need to learn about cholesterol as well as computers, a national panel of nutritionists said Wednesday that school lunchrooms must serve less fat and more fiber.

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According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the condition affects 4 to 12 percent of U.S. schoolchildren.

American patriotism involves the flying of the flag outside the home, schoolchildren pledging their allegiance every morning, the constant use of that pernicious phrase «anti-American».

Earlier this century, for example, American Indian schoolchildren were punished for speaking their native tongue.

Synopsis: How the community of Newtown came together in the aftermath of the largest mass shooting of schoolchildren in American history.

«Newtown» filmmakers used a nonpartisan approach to document the aftermath of the deadliest mass shooting of schoolchildren in American history.

«And that's what Americans would like schoolchildren to learn about their nation.»

Indeed, one could make a strong argument that any outsized influence that teachers unions exercise in school board elections provides a nice enhancement of democratic decisionmaking on education policy because teachers, as much as any other group in society, can serve as powerful advocates for those Americans who can not vote: schoolchildren.

An intimate crowd gathered to hear Trump's speech included about a dozen schoolchildren who were predominantly African American.

The American Civil Liberties Union defines the school - to - prison pipeline as «the policies and practices that push our nation's schoolchildren, especially our most at - risk children, out of classrooms and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems.»

In the same way, DeVos's denunciations of the federal government and her refusal to make even a tepid call - out to the value of the public education system, can't help but have an effect on the way some Americans feel about their neighborhood public schools, which educate the vast majority of the country's schoolchildren.

More than half of American public schoolchildren live in poverty.

It may not line up with exactly what we were taught as schoolchildren, but it's a story about people seeking prosperity — American through and through.