Sentences with phrase «children learn in school»

Parents ask yourselves this question; how can children learn in a school where the teachers are constantly looking over their shoulder afraid that the dictator is going to make up some fictionary infraction to write them up for and ultimately fire them!

By Rozanne Lanczak Williams, this basic book helps with one of the main math lessons young children learn in school.

Now that we've upgraded course content to better prepare students for college and careers, PARCC is aligned with what our children learn in school.

ASK and HSPA are not aligned with what our children learn in school, although they are, sadly, responsible for misconceptions about student proficiency because they were way too easy; former Governor Jon Corzine's Education Commissioner Lucille Davy used to refer to the HSPA, which students took in 11th grade, as «an eighth - grade level test.»

«The most important things that children learn in school are not easily measured... The good news, however, is that the most important and meaningful things that we want children to learn and do in school can always be observed and described.

As in our larger society, our children learn in school that being a good or kind person is not as important as being a smart or a winning one.

But I'd much prefer a system like vouchers and school choice to let all parents decide what their children learn in school.

What children learn in school is typically the opposite.

Language Learners use interactive games to enhance the foreign language skills children learn in school.

Although sharing is one of the first lessons children learn in school, a few prominent education scholars are suggesting some of their colleagues ought to take a refresher course in the subject.

But the RAND study offers a window into a phenomenon that is rarely discussed in American education: What children learn in school varies wildly from state to state, within districts, and even within grades in the same school.

«How Much Do Namibia's Children Learn in School — Findings from the 1992 National Learner Baseline Assessment» (with B. Fuller and S. Grant Lewis), (1995)

That way, what children learn in school gets reinforced and supported by the people who matter to them the most: their families.

Is it possible to cover approximately the same material as children learn in school?

In certain subject areas, such as mathematics, children learn in school most of what they know about a subject.

The Long March is Communist China's founding myth, the heroic tale that every Chinese child learns in school.

Not exact matches

Tracey Gordon, who taught Tsarnaev in fifth and sixth grade at a Cambridge school, described him as an exceptionally intelligent child who easily mastered English after arriving in the United States from Russia and «was eager to learn whatever school had to offer.»

Even though Pioneer is considered a «high - needs school» and enrolls a large number of English language learners and children of immigrants, every student gets a chance to learn in Jones» high - tech classroom.

For older children, letting them feel in charge of creating and choosing potential solutions is an important skill to develop as they learn to navigate life, lessons and school.

The NIH says breakfast «has been suggested to positively affect learning in children in terms of behavior, cognitive, and school performance.»

Whether it's joining a scouting troop, participating in sports or joining the school band, children learn valuable lessons about teamwork through these activities.

A similar program to MediaWise was recently piloted in Canada under the name NewsWise, where it provided a program for school - aged children to learn to find and filter accurate information online.

Marriott Vacations Worldwide (NYSE: VAC) is pleased to announce its donation to Step Up For Students, its third in three years, to help provide scholarships so low - income children can find the best school for their learning needs.

The briefing focused on a vision of STEM learning opportunities as a network of charging stations in which children power up their learning by plugging into activities at school, after school, at science centers and libraries, as well as online.

Name: Kelly Blackett Title: Executive Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Communications Areas of responsibility: Human resources, learning and development, corporate communications Years with CWB Financial Group: 3 Career history: 17 years with General Electric in Canada holding a series of progressively responsible human resources leadership roles at GE Capital and GE Corporate, supporting businesses within Canada as well as globally Education: Bachelor of Commerce with Distinction from the University of Alberta Community involvement: Sits on the Board of Trustees for the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation, member of the MacEwan Business School Advisory Board, and past mentor with MORE, a program providing cross-business mentorship to female leaders in Edmonton's business community

When two students killed 13 people at Columbine High School in 1999, some parents did not learn their children's fate for two days.

In regard to primary and secondary education, initiatives include imposing caps on class sizes; ensuring schools have the necessary support staff; funding full - day kindergarten and half - day junior kindergarten for vulnerable children; eliminating fees and fundraising for learning essentials, such as computers; phasing out private schools and bringing charter schools under the jurisdiction of school boards; and providing breakfast and lunch programs.

This included programs and services that provided direct care and early learning for children in settings such as child care centres, family child care homes, preschools, and nursery schools.

Bottom line is this, keep it out of the public square; learn to respect others beliefs / disbeliefs; stop trying to tell LGBT they are wrong; stop trying to tell women what they can and can't do with their bodies; stop trying to push bogus creationism crap (backed with zero evidence) on innocent children in the public school system; just stop pushing it outside your home or church.

In school, Christian children are forced to learn all about evolution in science and history, but can't even speak the word «God» without being frowned upoIn school, Christian children are forced to learn all about evolution in science and history, but can't even speak the word «God» without being frowned upoin science and history, but can't even speak the word «God» without being frowned upon.

He was arrested in 2009 after he lodged a protest with local education officials after learning his child was being forced to read from the Quran, the Muslim holy book, in school.

he IS grasping at straws since the singel parent thing wasnt an issue... secondly... you apparently need to go to school and learn that there IS a difference between a woman and a man and that children benefit from BOTH... and hwo a man loves a woman as nature intended... its people like you who are reason for high divorce rates in USA, because they don tknow what love or marriage is..

So we learned about generations of indigenous children who had been removed from their homes, their parents, their communities, and their families to be placed in government - sponsored religious schools beginning officially in 1880 so the «Indian» could be educated out of them.

In this world, so full of fictitious forms of freedom that destroy the environment and the human being, let us learn true freedom by the power of the Holy Spirit; to build the school of freedom; to show others by our lives that we are free and how beautiful it is to be truly free with the true freedom of God's children.»

In ghetto areas, typically, the criminal law is weakly enforced, the schools do not expect children to learn, and welfare has not required adult recipients to work.

9/11 — Ordinary people at work get attacked with planes Aurora - Ordinary people at a movie for entertainment Virgina Tech — Ordinary people at college to learn Newtown — Ordinary children in elementary school Boston — Ordinary athletes, their friends and family out to support them

We begin to formally educate a child at the age of six, and twelve years later frequently find we have failed, not because school material is intrinsically difficult (the task of learning a new language is much more so, yet the child masters it in thee years); we find failure because we have ignored the fact that the developing personality has a natural sway, to and fro, which Whitehead says results in a «craving» to be continually refreshed by the experience of starting anew.

Ironically, this newsworthy curriculum evidently teaches a good deal less about etiquette than we learned back at Margaret M. Amidon Elementary School in the «60s, but that is still a good deal more than children learn in most places.

Imagine for a moment, those of you who have children in grade school, if your child came home from school tomorrow, and told you that at school from now on, the children were the teachers, and the teachers were going to learn from the children.

I don't care if you pick your nose and eat the boogers, I just don't want to see you doing it in public or trying to get congress to pass laws forcing my children in public schools to learn your disgusting habits.

In another educational innovation, the Human Development Program, children in groups of ten or so, for about twenty minutes each school day, participate in a variety of learning gameIn another educational innovation, the Human Development Program, children in groups of ten or so, for about twenty minutes each school day, participate in a variety of learning gamein groups of ten or so, for about twenty minutes each school day, participate in a variety of learning gamein a variety of learning games.

Colin Diamond at Birmingham City Council claimed church lessons and other places of informal places of learning should be regulated in a similar way to formal schools, to manage children's exposure to «non-mainstream societal values».

Even though we know that their domestic family is the first place where they should learn the faith, in truth many only really begin to learn it, if at all, in the Catholic School which is increasingly having to b e in loco parentisi n a unique way and which links the child to the widerChurch family through the parish.

Some parents won't want their children to learn this in school.

Parents are urged to develop an atmosphere of mutual respect; to communicate on levels of fun and recreation as well as on discipline and advice; to allow a child to learn «through natural consequences» — that is, by experiencing what happens when he dawdles in the morning and is permitted to experience the unpleasantness and embarrassment of being late to school; to encourage the child and spend time with him playing and learning (positively) rather than spending time lecturing and disciplining (negatively), since the child who is misbehaving is often merely craving attention and if he gets it in pleasant, constructive ways, he will not demand it in antisocial ways; to avoid trying to put the child in a mold of what the parent thinks he should do and be, or what other people think he should do and be, rather than what his natural gifts and tendencies indicate; to take time to train the child in basic skills — to bake a cake, pound a nail, sketch or write or play a melody — including those things the parents know and do well and are interested in.

Learning centers for children and simulations for youth prompt such comments as, «All they do in Sunday school is play.»

Last year St Columba's Lochside Mission and Outreach youth programme provided more than 150 lunches daily to local children after church staff learned that the 95 per cent of children in one local primary school, who receive free school lunches and breakfasts during the school term, were at risk of hunger during the summer holidays.

How did we go from «Train up a child in the way he should go» (Prov 22:6) and «Teach these things to your children...» (Deut 6:7; 11:19) to asking, «So what did you learn in Sunday school today?»

And an admittedly hurried examination of several texts intended for use in courses of instruction before confirmation or in «religious studies» in schools for adolescents has made it plain that this whole set of ideas is either entirely absent or is so «muted» (to put it so) that it plays no really significant part in what children or confirmands learn as they are introduced to the Christian faith and its theological implications.

World responsibility in education further entails serious attention to the teaching of foreign languages, beginning in the early years of school, when children can quickly and naturally learn another tongue in the same fashion as they learned their native language.