Sentences with phrase «at young people in school»

Not exact matches

Before «The Hunger Games» novels became a YA phenomenon, there was this Japanese movie that looks at a future where young school kids are ordered to take part in a killing tournament that ends when one person is left alive.

Will Riley, a senior at Carlsbad High School in Carlsbad, New Mexico, launched «Stand for the Second» in an effort to speak out on behalf of young people who support gun rights.

But after a Bushmaster rifle was used in 2012 to kill 26 people, most of them young children, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., public anger at Remington drove some investors to try to divest from the company.

At the Annual Meeting of Shareholders in March, Starbucks pledged to hire at least 10,000 young people between the ages of 16 - 24 who are not in school or employeAt the Annual Meeting of Shareholders in March, Starbucks pledged to hire at least 10,000 young people between the ages of 16 - 24 who are not in school or employeat least 10,000 young people between the ages of 16 - 24 who are not in school or employed.

«Shockingly, the rate of young people not working and not in school between the ages of 25 and 29 is double that, at one in five.

Grammy - winning performer and producer Wyclef Jean believes the combined creativity, ingenuity and energy of young people in their last few years of high school and early college is a musical, cultural and political force that a society ignores at its...

When I ask Carter to describe the kind of young person who commits violent crime, he says there are some recurring themes: «The common factors will be a broken family at home, someone who isn't fully engaged in their education — absenteeism from school and truancy — and domestic abuse is a key factor as well.

The young people of Tehran who threw themselves in frustration at the security forces seem to be the group that in the great High School Yearbook of the Civilizations would have been voted least likely to succeeded.

Young people fear for their safety at school more than ever, despite dramatic increases in security measures.

Second tale: Defying all the best previous research on how readily people change their opinions, a young PhD student in political science at a top research university teams up with a senior scholar in his field at another top school to publish a brief report in America's leading scholarly scientific journal that upends everything we thought we knew about the subject.

This is no different than some young people going to college and leaving their brains at the door and swallowing evolutionary theory and purposely rejecting the obvious of what creation clearly shows except this is leaving your brain at the door of theology school and accepting man's opinion over what is clearly stated in the holy scriptures, and then teaching others false doctrine.

I challenge every young person in America, and around the world, to realize that on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School prayer was brought back to our schools.

From his warm, funny and friendly demeanor to efforts in the classroom — he's earned a 3.5 grade point average this semester at the Hayward school — to excelling on the basketball court, the long, lean, high - flying 6 - foot - 6 wing is a young man for young people — and old — to look up to.

Seeing the iconic trophy in person was a true moment of honor and inspiration for the young football players who are striving for success at Arsenal Soccer Schools USA.

But we also need to make sure that our communities are safe, that our young people have proper nutrition, that they have great healthcare, that they get the after - school and the summer supports they need, so that these young people really have an opportunity to do well in school, and out of school, and at home all at the same time.

Footage of educators, policy makers, and young people at the center of our film is complemented by a rich spectrum of individuals who are important to school lunch policy and administration but who are rarely included in popular discourse on the subject.

One of Tough's collaborators, Dominic Randolph, head of school at an elite academy in upstate NY, surmised that «the best way for a young person to build character is for him to attempt something where there is a real and serious possibility of failure.

The legislation is a spending bill that in part takes aim at standards the Agriculture Department proposed earlier this year to make school lunches healthier amid an obesity epidemic among young people.

Parents with kids that study in different schools and do extra curricular activities, retired / old people, tourists, businessmen have a lot of valid reasons to still need to use a private or at least massive transportation system, so we can not rely solely on bicycle transportation methods for those, still, we must provide those that can rely on them (young people, average commuters living not that far from the office, teenagers...)

PHOTO ESSAY BY DONNA ACETO In the first of several nationwide actions initiated by high school students to protest the lack of meaningful legislative action on gun control, young people nationwide walked out of their classrooms on March 14 — some for 17 minutes to commemorate the 17 people killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High -LSB-...]

Malloy, Wentzell and others at the discussion emphasized the importance and effectiveness of young people like Marotta and Jasmine Lall, a Bulkeley High School junior also on the panel, speaking up after the massacre last month at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

However, he also suggested there was a case for introducing some kind of social marker that young people, particularly those who leave school at 16, could use to prove they understood their role in society.

According to the acting CEO, UBA Foundation, Bola Atta while touring the C. William Brumskine elementary school in Monrovia to introduce The Fishermen to a delightful group of young students said: «We at UBA Foundation are eager to better the lives of people across the continent.

When the survivors of the Valentine's Day mass shooting at Parkland, Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School took to Florida's capitol in February, sparking nationwide actions in solidarity, they were echoing the actions of an earlier group of young people protesting a shooting.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

Miner, visiting scholar at New York University's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, will speak about the importance of involvement in civic affairs, especially for young people.

Speaking on behalf of the School and Business Alliance, Oneida Herkimer Madison BOCES Superintendent Howard Mettelman said: «Our SABA program has enjoyed great success in placing young people for the summer at Faxton and St. Luke's hospitals as well as offering technology - related programs in Waterville, Rome and Utica.

In response to the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, young people nationwide, including many New York City public school students, are planning to walk out of school for 17 minutes — one for every person killed — at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, March 14 to protest the U.S. Congress» inactioIn response to the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, young people nationwide, including many New York City public school students, are planning to walk out of school for 17 minutes — one for every person killed — at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, March 14 to protest the U.S. Congress» inaSchool in Parkland, Florida, young people nationwide, including many New York City public school students, are planning to walk out of school for 17 minutes — one for every person killed — at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, March 14 to protest the U.S. Congress» inactioin Parkland, Florida, young people nationwide, including many New York City public school students, are planning to walk out of school for 17 minutes — one for every person killed — at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, March 14 to protest the U.S. Congress» inaschool students, are planning to walk out of school for 17 minutes — one for every person killed — at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, March 14 to protest the U.S. Congress» inaschool for 17 minutes — one for every person killed — at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, March 14 to protest the U.S. Congress» inaction.

«We are going to try to identify those young people working with the school district, working with Peacemakers, working with Say Yes to identify those young people who will be determined as some of the most at - risk young people in this community.

«We believe that early treatment and self - recognition of depression are essential for reducing suffering in young people, and our results validate the overall effectiveness of the program,» says Karen Swartz, M.D., associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and founder of ADAP at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

«The biggest source of morbidity and mortality in young people in industrialized countries isn't medical disease but problems with behavior and emotion,» says Ronald Dahl, a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley's School of Public Health.

«For several years, the emphasis in the tobacco industry has been on this sort of direct marketing, especially to young people who are highly price sensitive and who may find coupons, samples, and promotions appealing,» said lead author Samir Soneji, Ph.D., an assistant professor at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.

«Our goal was to show exactly how environmental protection can reduce poverty in poorer nations rather than exacerbate it, as many people fear,» says co-author Paul Ferraro, a professor of economics and environmental policy in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University.

«Many young people who are at risk for hepatitis C may acquire the infection and then not know it, and then through drug injection practices may transmit it to others,» said Brandon Marshall, associate professor of epidemiology in the Brown University School of Public Health and corresponding author of the new study in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis examined data on drug use collected from young people, ages 12 to 17, over a 12 - year span.

Dr Cath Winsper, Senior Research Fellow at Warwick Medical School and part of the study group said, «It's clear that we need to keep school mobility in mind when clinically assessing young people with psychotic disoSchool and part of the study group said, «It's clear that we need to keep school mobility in mind when clinically assessing young people with psychotic disoschool mobility in mind when clinically assessing young people with psychotic disorders.

In the first national study of a large, diverse population, researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and colleagues, found that 1.2 percent of the study population engaged with devices, and that most of the individuals who started using an activity tracker were younger and had higher - incomes than people who opted not to use the devices.

I am interested in why so many young people do not get enough sleep and what can be done about it,» says Serena Bauducco, linked to the School of Law, Psychology and Social Work at Örebro University.

«In the short term, I think some people would want to know and some wouldn't,» says Tracy Young - Pearse, a neurologist at Harvard Medical School.

Yeah, so I actually as a young person, I had a really interesting opportunity, went to public schools; and my high school German teacher, who was all of 24 years old at that time, brought a group of his university friends for a camping trip in Russia, and one person canceled, so they had an extra slot.

The subject of English at school and the English that the young people encounter and use in their leisure time are not two separate worlds,» says Liss Kerstin Sylvén.

Mr. Mikita has achieved numerous milestones for individuals with disabilities as the first admitted student in a wheelchair in the history of Duke University, where he graduated magna cum laude; the first student in a wheelchair at Brigham Young University's Law School and the first recipient of the Muscular Dystrophy Association's National Personal Achievement Award for his advocacy on behalf of people with disabilities.

«Factors other than parental eating behaviors such as community and school, food environment, peer influence, television viewing, as well as individual factors such as self - image and self - esteem seem to play an important role in young people's dietary intake,» said May A. Beydoun, PhD, co-author of the study and a former postdoctoral research fellow at the Bloomberg Sschool, food environment, peer influence, television viewing, as well as individual factors such as self - image and self - esteem seem to play an important role in young people's dietary intake,» said May A. Beydoun, PhD, co-author of the study and a former postdoctoral research fellow at the Bloomberg SchoolSchool.

«Motivating more young people to take an interest in understanding and learning science at school is important not only because science careers are exciting and rewarding, but also because young people need to know about how science and technology is changing our world - their world!

Director Dot Harris, Office of Economic Impact and Diversity at the Department of Energy, will be on the line with Dr. Rebecca Spyke - Keiser, Associate Deputy Administrator for Strategy and Policy at NASA; Jill Fuss, Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Stephanie Stilson, Engineer at Kennedy Space Center and NASA Headquarters, and a class at Andrew Jackson Middle School in Titusville, Florida, to discuss ways to find role models for young people in STEM fields and answer questions from students and the general public about STEM careers.

«Among young people, high school and college athletes, theres one death in about every 200,000 people [during exercise in general],» says Paul Thompson, MD, the director of cardiology at Hartford Hospital, in Connecticut.

Still, «when I see a young person who's constipated more than normal and really complaining, I do tend to get a thyroid level,» says Carla H. Ginsburg, MD, assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

At the time, Dr. Bass was the youngest person to become Dean of a medical school and was a pioneer in his field, carrying the first microscope west of the Mississippi River.

After an unsuccessful attempt with a «Cat People» remake at Warner Bros, Bill Condon and producer Michael Laughlin decided to collaborate on Condon's early version of «Dead Kids,» and with assistance from Hemdale and tax incentives from the New Zealand government, began production in northern New Zealand, with an eclectic mix of American actors: Dan Shor had recently appeared in John Huston's «Wise Blood»; Dey Young had just debuted in «Rock and Roll High School»; Michael Murphy was a Woody Allen alumnus; and Mark McClure had achieved a kind of immortality as Jimmy Olson in the «Superman» films.

At Film Australia, Noyce embarked on a series of shorter documentaries about young people, intended as discussion starters in high school.