Sentences with phrase «u.s. schoolchildren»

This is based on real events: the exchange of dolls between Japanese and U.S. schoolchildren was conceived as a message of peace.

The vast majority of U.S. schoolchildren attend traditional public schools.

In fact, U.S. schoolchildren do better in the other major international comparison, the TIMSS, which is a more traditional test of the academic curriculum.

But as the sector continues to grow steadily — about 6,000 charter schools now educate more than 2 million U.S. schoolchildren — and as budgets remain tight, it is crucial that charter leaders, funders, policymakers, and educators think expansively about how to best serve students.

Because students from low - income families and students of color make up more than half of all U.S. schoolchildren, continuing to improve the performance of these students is key to the nation's future success.

Based on empirical evidence to date, there is a remarkable rate of abuse of U.S. schoolchildren by school personnel (e.g., teachers, coaches, bus drivers, administrators, custodians).

By 2020, one in every four U.S. schoolchildren will be Latino — their success is key to the nation's economic prosperity.

Here we examine U.S. schoolchildren who all entered kindergarten at risk for severe reading difficulties.

The report points out that rural America is far poorer than metropolitan areas and that nearly one in four U.S. schoolchildren attends school in a rural area.

Surely schools could make productive use of a technology that is relatively cheap, portable, and already in the hands of the majority of U.S. schoolchildren.

U.S. Schoolchildren Tumble in International Reading Exam Rankings, Worrying Educators (The Washington Post) Marty West discusses the impact the Great Recession may have had on school systems and what that means for improving educational outcomes for the most challenged students.

In the early 1900s, an intensive campaign eliminated the worms from the intestines of U.S. schoolchildren and spawned the formation of the U.S. Public Health Service.

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

As he moves from the ordinary suburban world of his abusive foster parents into the enchanted realm of the Hogwarts School, the bullying intensifies from nasty to mortally dangerous (a progression that U.S. schoolchildren have witnessed in real life).

Not exact matches

When he opened a crusade in his home town of Charlotte, North Carolina, in the fall of 1971, schoolchildren, government workers and store clerks got a holiday, as the governor of the state, U.S. senators from North and South Carolina and the secretary of the treasury showed up to pay tribute.

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 04: U.S. first lady Michelle Obama jokes with schoolchildren with White House chef Sam Kass (L) after planting the White House Kitchen Garden on the South Lawn of the White House April 4, 2013 in Washington, DC.

Some lawmakers want to add frozen, canned, pureed and dried produce to the menus of the U.S. Agriculture Department's Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program for schoolchildren.

But don't look to the U.S. Secretary of Education for guidance on which candidate would be best for the city's 1.1 million public schoolchildren.

At issue is a study funded by the U.S. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that was conducted on schoolchildren in Hunan province in 2008 and published online in August.

SHANGHAI, CHINA — An official investigation in China has come down hard on a controversial U.S. - funded study in which Chinese schoolchildren were fed genetically modified (GM) rice.

Schoolchildren taking U.S. History should know that the United States did not arise out of nowhere but that the country is a product of the original 13 colonies that moved doggedly and steadily westward.

The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling upholding the Cleveland voucher program has rejuvenated the school choice movement and, to a surprising degree, reinvigorated the debate over how best to improve the education of all the nation's schoolchildren.

To be truly effective, efforts to ensure equity in IDEA by Congress, the U.S. Department of Education, and education scholars require a correct empirical understanding of the types of inequities currently being experienced by minority schoolchildren.

Washington — School districts that were once racially segregated by law should remain bound by court desegregation orders until every wrong caused by the separation of races is cured, a lawyer for black schoolchildren in Oklahoma City told the U.S. Supreme Court last week.

The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling upholding the Cleveland voucher program has reverberated around the nation, reigniting the debate on how best to improve the education of all schoolchildren.

For some time, we have recognized that the academic achievement of schoolchildren in this country threatens, to borrow President Barack Obama's words, «the U.S.'s role as an engine of scientific discovery» and ultimately its success in the global economy.

Nearly 800 Cleveland schoolchildren returned to religious schools at government expense last week after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked an injunction that had barred new participants from the city's controversial voucher program.

By granting review of its third case in two years involving the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, the U.S. Supreme Court has signaled a renewed interest in resolving legal conflicts arising under the federal law that governs services provided to nearly 6.7 million schoolchildren in special education.

They're hoping that U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will be impressed by their size, serving a million schoolchildren, and their willingness to agree to conditions that Gov. Jerry Brown and the State Board of Education rejected.

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.