Sentences with phrase «american schools and homes»

And in so many American schools and homes these days, kids don't get a chance to fail anything.

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The American system of education makes it possible for a poor boy living in a great city to carry himself through college and even through certain professional schools free, whereas a similar boy living in a rural community will be Stopped alter high school by the costs of transportation to the state - college town and by the cost of board and food away from home.

As I read that, it struck me that, years before my Mississippi elementary school was integrated via busing, I'd seen African - American and Latino characters (such as «Gordon» and «Maria») functioning as equal members of a society, on the television screen of my home.

Given the «miracle» Nicaragua already is and could be — a Latin American nation where the hungry are being fed, the sick are being healed and the homeless are finding homes, where schools and parks are being built and faith is being put into practice as well as proclaimed in temples — it is hard to deny the reality expressed in a common slogan one hears there: «There is no contradiction between Christianity and the revolution.»

Roughly 75 million Americans are under seventeen years of age and presumably at home or in school, which is an important form of work.

American men and women need to put on their hard hats in the workplace, the schools, the political sphere, and at home and get to work.

The distinction between the nuclear and traditional family was also blurred in the recent report on human sexuality by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) titled Keeping Body and Soul Together: «Although many Christians in the post-World War II era have a special emotional attachment to the nuclear family, with its employed father, mother at home, and two or more school - aged children, that profile currently fits only 5 percent of North American households.»

I do nt belive we should, as a hindu and a american my holidays and holy days arent included, school is for learning skills that will help in your building a good life for yourself not for teaching religion leave that for in the home.

Being a Parent does note the problem and briefly discusses the increasingly common American response of home schooling.

Au advertisement there reads, «This dictionary is needed to Restore an American Christian Education in the Home, Church, and School.»

frespech You'd be amazed at how many Americans are home schooled, or attend religious schools where complete education and actual science aren't available.

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The U.S. National Team, who is training for the 2015 Pan American Games and the 2015 World Championships, calls SODA Aquatic Center at Campolinda High School its training home.

Things are getting weird in Riverdale, home of all - American boy and high school newspaper reporter, Archie Andrews.

Michelle Obama's push for better nutrition is bringing sweeping changes to agriculture, manufacturing, commerce, schools, and American homes.

Instead, the program is intended to serve the millions of impoverished American children whose parents can not send them to school with a home - packed lunch for a whole host of possible reasons that never seem to cross Parker's mind: the family's SNAP benefits fail to cover a month's worth of healthful food, in light of today's rising food costs; there is only one parent in the household and he or she works one or more jobs and is not home to pack a lunch; one or both caretakers are drug - addicted, mentally ill, physically disabled or otherwise unable to adequately provide for their children; the family lives in a homeless shelter and lacks access to kitchen facilities; the family lives in a food desert where healthful groceries are scarce, etc. etc..

Ironically, this is an apt metaphor for Judt's entire life: the son of Eastern European Jews who never felt completely at home in England; an autodidact at Cambridge who never learned historiography or became part of a dedicated «school»; an expert by training in French social thought with serious and evolving interests in Eastern European history; and an American denizen and critic without the faintest bond to the United States.

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Students in kindergarten through third grade at nine low - income New York City schools will receive more than 24,000 books they can take home, as part of a pilot literacy project launched Tuesday by the United Federation of Teachers, the New York City Department of Education, First Book, The American Federation of Teachers and The New York Community Trust.

Although our colleges and universities are home to world - class science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs that attract the best and brightest domestic and international students, I am very concerned that the math and science test scores of American school children are lagging behind their counterparts in other countries.

Webber and co-author Robert Fares, a Cockrell School alumnus who is now an American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy, analyzed the impact of home energy storage using electricity data from almost 100 Texas households that are part of a smart grid test bed managed by Pecan Street Inc., a renewable energy and smart technology company housed at UT Austin.

The American dream of an information superhighway linking computers in homes, schools and offices has given new impetus to the already frenzied software industry.

Some of the torture scenes between Nash and Russian operatives are a bit too graphic — and you may want to look away — but it hammers home the fact that the Russians and Americans are not playing school yard pranks on each other.

While isolated and home - schooled in their Lower East Side apartment, six teenage brothers processed American culture through movies and moviemaking.

Night School is directed by American filmmaker Malcolm D. Lee, of The Best Man, Undercover Brother, Roll Bounce, Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins, Soul Men, Scary Movie 5, The Best Man Holiday, Barbershop: The Next Cut, and Girls Trip previously.

That's one reason why I was impressed by a film that may not have come on your radar yet, although it has played at various American festivals — Life and Nothing More, by Antonio Mendez Esparza, a Spanish director working in the U.S.. It's the Florida - set story of a mother - son relationship, about a teenage boy going through problems at home and at school, and his mother, who keeps their household together through a series of diner jobs while dealing with the attentions of a fond but potentially troublesome suitor.

Other striking male performances were provided by: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Alec Baldwin and Anthony Anderson in The Departed; Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber and Toby Jones in The Painted Veil; Wim Willaert in When the Sea Rises; Leslie Phillips and Richard Griffiths in Venus; Clive Owen, Denzel Washington, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe, and Chiwetel Ejiofor in Inside Man; Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase and Shido Nakamura in Letters from Iwo Jima; Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Alan Arkin and Paul Dano in Little Miss Sunshine; Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti and Rufus Sewell in The Illusionist; Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Noah Emmerich, Gregg Edelman and Ty Simpkins in Little Children; Keanu Reeves, Christopher Plummer and Dylan Walsh in The Lake House; Nicolas Cage, Michael Pena and Stephen Dorff in World Trade Center; Tim Blake Nelson, Pat Corley, Jeffrey Donovan, Stacy Keach and Scott Wilson in Come Early Morning; Ryan Gosling and Anthony Mackie in Half Nelson; Jason Schwartzman, Rip Torn, and Danny Huston in Marie Antoinette; Matt Damon, Michael Gambon, Alec Baldwin, William Hurt, Billy Crudup, Robert De Niro, Keir Dullea, Timothy Hutton, Eddie Redmayne, Mark Ivanir and Joe Pesci in The Good Shepherd; Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Kelsey Grammer, James Marsden, Shawn Ashmore, Aaron Stanford, Vinnie Jones and Ben Foster in X-Men: The Last Stand; Mads Mikkelsen, Jeffrey Wright, Giancarlo Giannini, Simon Abkarian, Sebastien Foucan, Jesper Christensen and Tobias Menzies in Casino Royale; Ebru Ceylan and Mehmet Eryilmaz in Climates; Adrien Brody, Ben Affleck and Bob Hoskins in Hollywoodland; Jamie Foxx, Danny Glover, Keith Robinson and Hinton Battle in Dreamgirls; Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Jason Mewes, Trevor Fehrman, Kevin Smith and Jason Lee in Clerks II; Justin Kirk and Jamie Harrold in Flannel Pajamas; Stanley Tucci, Simon Baker and Adrian Grenier in The Devil Wears Prada; Will Ferrell, Dustin Hoffman and Tom Hulce in Stranger Than Fiction; Samuel L. Jackson, Curtis Jackson, Chad Michael Murray, Sam Jones III and Brian Presley in Home of the Brave; Harris Yulin, Ty Burrell and Boris McGiver in Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus; Max Minghella, John Malkovich, Jim Broadbent, Matt Keeslar, Ethan Suplee, Joel David Moore and Nick Swardson in Art School Confidential; Joseph Cross, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes and Alec Baldwin in Running with Scissors; Jamie Foxx, Colin Farrell, Ciarán Hinds, Justin Theroux, Barry Shabaka Henley, Luis Tosar and John Ortiz in Miami Vice; Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Alex Jennings, Roger Allam and Tim McMullan in The Queen; Samuel L. Jackson, Ron Eldard, William Forsythe, Anthony Mackie, Marlon Sherman and Clarke Peters in Freedomland; Vin Diesel, Peter Dinklage, Linus Roache, Alex Rocco, Ron Silver and Raul Esparza in Find Me Guilty; Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Stanley Tucci, Morgan Freeman and Ben Kingsley in Lucky Number Slevin; Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid, Chris Klein, Shohreh Aghdashloo, John Cho, Tony Yalda, Sam Golzari and Willem Dafoe in American Dreamz; Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson and Rory Cochrane in A Scanner Darkly; Adam Beach, Ryan A. Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, John Benjamin Hickey, Jon Slattery, Barry Pepper, Jamie Bell, Paul Walker and Robert Patrick in Flags of Our Fathers; Chow Yun - Fat in Curse of the Golden Flower; Sergi López, Doug Jones, Álex Angulo and Federico Luppi in Pan's Labyrinth; Bill Nighy in Notes on a Scandal.

This pointed satire about a high - school student election is one of Alexander Payne's finest satirical portraits of his home state, unearthing in the Nebraska suburbs a microcosmic portrait of American politics and all its wheelings and dealings.

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... the good news is that we know what to do about it: get back to the core values of our American heritage in our homes, our schools, our businesses, our government, and indeed in each of our daily lives.

Cheyenne, winner of NBC's America's Most Talented Kid at age 12, recording artist, and star of her own MTV show, is just one of many high - profile Americans whose educational choice is home schooling.

Native Americans in Virginia and North Carolina have founded home - school organizations in an effort to escape assimilationist public schools and preserve their traditional values.

Children may come home from school reciting a lovely story about the First Thanksgiving: the Pilgrims escaped England, the Native Americans taught them to farm, they sat down and shared a feast, and America has been been harmoniously celebrating ever since.

This lesson bundle focuses on: Vocabulary: greetings, family, friends, home and school, travel and nature, and history and communities Grammar: number and gender, articles, pronouns, punctuation, «Ser vs. Estar,» regular verbs in present and preterite, possession, and time Culture: independence of countries on the American continent; culture of the Spanish - speaking world, globally and in the US; and historical figures * We have provided the videos embedded within the lesson PDF and also separately in -LRB-.

It was the intriguing idea of Amanda Ripley, an investigative journalist, to track the experiences of three American high - school students who, dissatisfied with the offerings in their home schools, decided to go abroad for a year and attend school in two countries that surpass us in educational achievement — Korea and Finland — and in Poland, which has shown remarkably rapid improvement in PISA tests.

Though these «Anabaptists of American education,» as I called parents who have opted for home - based schooling in The Dissenting Tradition in American Education, are certainly an increasingly diverse lot, they are united by a common commitment to the proposition that parents, not the state, have the primary right and responsibility to direct the upbringing and education of their children.

Online schooling is in its infancy, and Americans remain skeptical of its use for credit by either dropouts or home - schooled students.

In fact, Colonial Days: Discover the Past with Fun Projects, Games, Activities, and Recipes is so full of fascinating information and easily done authentic activities that home - school teachers can build an entire American history unit around it.

Even though English is the official language of the island and children are taught Jamaican standard English (a mix of American and British English) in Jamaican schools, many of them grow up speaking Jamaican Creole at home.

With the exception of African Americans, a plurality of every subgroup, and sometimes a majority, oppose public funding for online education directed at home - schooled children.

Boston is the birthplace of American public education, and home to hundreds of innovative schools, nonprofit organizations, and education entrepreneurs.

Including hours teachers spend on work at home and outside the classroom, American primary - school educators spend 1,913 working in a year.

The 71 % of Americans who rate private school education positively is only a bit higher than the 63 % positive rating for parochial schools but far outpaces the percentages for charter schools (55 %), home schooling (46 %) and public schools (44 %).

We provide school information and parenting resources to help millions of American families choose the right school, support learning at home, and guide their children to great futures.

Here his argument is unpersuasive, simply because those most critical of the current public education system — Catholics, Christian fundamentalists, inner - city African - Americans, and home schoolers — don't disavow basic moral and civic education.

It documented that African - American and Hispanic students are underrepresented in gifted programs in all states and all types of schools, but even more so in schools where most students come from impoverished homes.

This includes the Bentonville district, which serves the city that is home to retail giant Wal - Mart, which threatened to mete out three - day suspensions for engaging in the protests, and the Needville Independent School District in Texas (whose threat was met with protests from the American Civil Liberties Union and others, who noted that it also violated the district's discipline guidelines).

And 65 percent say American students spend less time on schoolwork than do students in their home schools.

Generally, the students enrolled at a charter school are African American and Hispanic and come from economically disadvantaged homes.

Anahi Gutierrez, Animo Venice Charter High School, Los Angeles, CA Anahi was born and raised in West Los Angeles as the first generation Mexican - American in a home where Spanish is the predominant language spoken.