Sentences with phrase «where schoolchildren»

Interestingly, there's another coal - dependent state that's never gotten around to adopting an RPS where schoolchildren are also being used as pawns in the battle between science and the status quo.

A village in China's mountainous west where schoolchildren must climb an 800 - meter (2,625 - foot)- high bamboo ladder secured to a sheer cliff face may get a set of steel stairs to improve safety

Interestingly, there's another coal - dependent state that's never gotten around to adopting an RPS where schoolchildren are also being used as pawns in the battle between science and the status quo.

He said the prevailing situation where schoolchildren marched in the hot sun instead of using the day to inspire the Ghanaian and African personality which was the...

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In her book The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You, Elaine N. Aron cites a study where researchers compared 480 schoolchildren in Shanghai with 296 schoolchildren in Canada to see what traits made kids most popular.

How powerful can the image of peace be in a country where, for example, half of its schoolchildren can not identify Adolf Hitler or Vietnam?

On the morning of the shooting, Marie led a prayer group at a local church, where they asked God to keep schoolchildren safe.

Other politicians are taking part, including those from the veggie - friendly state of California, where LA has already joined Meat Free Monday, and schoolchildren at public schools have also recently done so.

A British - born son of Yemeni immigrants, Hamed is a huge draw in England and in his parents» homeland, where his face is plastered on everything from schoolchildren's composition books to postage stamps.

Regarding charter schools — Charter schools are supposed to act as laboratories, where small numbers of schoolchildren are subjects of experiments to find better ways to educate them.

Thousands of Buffalo's schoolchildren live on streets where violence is a constant part of their lives.

Sadly, Tinubu, Ambode, Mohammed, Fashola, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and the visiting President know that state visits caused hardship to the citizenry and brought Lagos to its knees since the days of the jackboot when innocent schoolchildren were lined up along routes where visiting military tin gods rode.

Nearly a year later, a giant raft of Krakatoa pumice washed up on the shore of Zanzibar, 3,000 miles away off East Africa, where it was found by schoolchildren.

The problem with today's mosquito control is that it suffers from too much talking and increasingly relies on «community participation,» which is difficult to sustain, Knols wrote in his book; he scorned Aruba, where during a dengue outbreak schoolchildren were given a note asking their parents to remove mosquito breeding sites around the home.

The findings of one Japanese study that followed the immune system of two groups of schoolchildren (where one group was taking vitamin D supplementation, and the other group wasn't) suggest that lack of vitamin D can result in increased chances of catching influenza.

It is but natural that they would be famous by now and popular, and that someone would have made motivational videos where they tell schoolchildren to exercise (that's Captain America, in a series of hilarious videos).

The first is the provision E of a building that inspires the schoolchildren and the local community; the second is the way in which this building inspires them; and the third is the use of prefabricated materials, where possible, and simple detailing to reduce the labour and waste in order to meet the school's tight budget.»

In the United States (where some 13 percent of schoolchildren attend private or charter schools), independent schools are predominantly religious.

Indeed, in those areas where we were able to adequately compare public and private provision, a large majority of schoolchildren are in private school, a significant number of them in unrecognized schools and not on the state's radar at all.

I had caught up with him for part two of our interview in his official Trenton office, 50 miles to the south and west, where the state's education department is headquartered and where he has lively paintings drawn by schoolchildren on the walls.

About the same share of 8th graders attend schools where music and visual - arts instruction are offered as a decade ago — a proportion that accounts for only about half the nation's schoolchildren at that age.

Professor Steve Furber FRS, who led the research, said: «The rate at which technology is transforming the workplace means that we live in a world where many primary schoolchildren will work in technology - based roles that do not yet exist, so it is essential that future generations can apply digital skills with confidence.»

This Education Week special report is all about the concrete — and equally crucial — topic of school facilities and what it takes to assure that the nation's 56 million schoolchildren have a modern, fully - equipped, well - maintained school to attend, and a place where all that theory and educator experience can be put into practice.

For us, this belief translates into service to the children of Washington, D.C., where the majority of schoolchildren face some disadvantage or adversity.

The fight over charter schools has filtered down in the community to schoolchildren in Rutherford County and created a situation where children are passionately trying to defend their school system.

The analyses broadly laid out the «system» of schools in the city — including public, charter, and private schools — to delineate where Milwaukee schoolchildren are being educated, student demographics in the various types of schools, and the performance characteristics of those schools.

If you live in New York City, where the majority of schoolchildren are Black, Latino, and poor, then you care about school quality a great deal.

The researchers utilized a dataset of elementary schoolchildren from a large - scale urban district where the rates of chronic absenteeism were expected to be higher compared to the national average.

Finland's new curriculum means that schoolchildren will no longer need to sit down quietly in classrooms, since they will instead be able to choose where and how they study.

In a country where leaders are pushing for more technology for students (in 2013, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta pledged to provide free laptops to all schoolchildren), a kindle may be a more practical solution if well convinced.

Since 2015, Milroy has worked with the Vodafone Foundation's Instant Network Schools, where she initiated «Hands On», a practical art workshop programme that can be delivered through digital connectivity for schoolchildren in refugee camps.

Bronx bomber John Ahearn was standing in a gallery where Ligon's Malcolm X painting held the wall with other «coloring - book» canvases inspired by a project Ligon had done with schoolchildren, who drew such figures without regard to color.

The works are a part of a long - term project where Murillo attaches canvases to the desks of schoolchildren aged 10 to 16 years.

Adolescent Outcome of Physically Abused Schoolchildren: NDACAN Dataset Number 117, User's Guide and Codebook (PDF - 1260 KB) Miller, Wach, & Salzinger (2008) Identifies important factors influencing the path from preadolescent abuse to adolescent outcomes and target possible points where intervention in childhood might avert some of abuse's costly individual and social consequences.

Carolyn Cowan is Professor of Psychology, Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is co-director of 3 longitudinal preventive intervention projects: Becoming a Family, Schoolchildren and Their Families, and Supporting Father Involvement.

Adolescence is an important decade in a child's development, marking the period of transition from childhood to adulthood.7 Adolescents are a particularly vulnerable group, experiencing a third of all new HIV infections worldwide, 8 high levels of violence, lower school attendance and enrolment than primary schoolchildren, early marriage and higher levels9 of sexual abuse victimisation.10 Furthermore, adolescence is a time where the intergenerational transmission of poverty, violence victimisation and perpetration, gender inequalities and educational disadvantage manifest themselves.9

I can't tell you how many people have mentioned that they appreciate knowing where I stand on various and sundry issues, from my dislike of Common Core state educational standards (which dictate what schoolchildren should know in each core subject by the end of each grade level) to my dislike of career politicians.