Sentences with phrase «efforts on young people»

We will focus our efforts on young people of color and those from low - income backgrounds.

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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.

In 2015, Starbucks community efforts focused on the opportunity youth population as partners worked with nonprofits that support young people.

In his address, Gregory said, «We need to put aside that which could distract us and set our sights solely on the task at hand: a full and recommitted effort toward the protection of our children and young people.»

There are nightly news reports these days of the efforts by young persons, black and white, to change the fundamental structure of our educational, governmental and social institutions on the grounds that these institutions support racism and the military - industrial complex at home, imperialism and immoral wars abroad.

Dr Rev Sam Wells, vicar of St Martin - in - the - Fields told Premier: «We've spent a lot of time reflecting on the pain of the past and it's time now to slightly change the emphasis, remember that Stephen was a young person when he was murdered and put all our efforts together to focus on a future that's bigger than the past.»

We have had tremendous feedback on the benefit to those attending our event in having young people involved so hope many who attend the conference will also support our efforts so we can grow our alumni of early career attendees.

It used to happen during the day, but MLB wants people to be more interested in these players from the start, and their efforts are worthwhile ones: they tend to provide analysis and video of a bunch of young dudes you've never heard of, so you can get a head start on picking your new favorites and players to root for.

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.

Through the poignant juxtaposition of citizenship and slavery, young people's protest against attacks on their economic activity and more broadly against the employment crisis, reflects their efforts to force their way to political recognition, rather than existing a political space that seems to exclude their voices and needs.

Sen. Brad Hoylman is releasing a report on the harm produced by so - called gay «conversion therapy» — a controversial method of «treating» young people in an effort to «cure» them of their preference for members of the same sex.

Efforts to tackle law and order have been focused on young people in recent years, with the introduction of the government's «respect» agenda, which includes the use anti-social behaviour orders (Asbos) and dispersal orders against «disorderly» youths.

The groups are modeling their efforts on the successful Democratic Party initiative of the 1990's, known as Rock the Vote, which resulted in the registration of hundreds of thousands of young people.

After Paul's speech, hundreds of people — mostly on the younger side — filed out of the Marriott Wardman Park ballroom despite former Florida Republican party chairman Al Cardenas» best efforts to keep them in their seats.

According to one source familiar with the effort to pass the bill, despite the unambiguous limits on it, Senate Republican leaders pointed to concerns some religious communities voiced about their freedom to counsel young people unfettered by the state.

People in their sixties learned 60 percent fewer words than young adults in their twenties who spent equal time and effort on the task.

The report suggests that government efforts should be geared not only towards academically - minded young people, but also towards the large number of high school graduates who want to start working rather than go on studying.

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By employing Tan's reflective voiceover throughout, Shirkers lines up with the first - person filmmaking tradition, offering up a conversational, frequently self - deprecating perspective on her younger exploits and efforts.

Anniversaries, TV shows, movies, documentaries and even little old publishers with good intentions and limited funds can draw people's attention to the wealth of truly classic literature available in individual slices for less than a cup of coffee, but it takes a co-ordinated and sustained effort, based on nothing more or less than a belief in the inherent worth, to individuals, to society and, especially, to children and young people, of great books and of the power of reading.

Launched in Boston a decade ago, the City Year program continues to be one of the best efforts in the nation aimed at providing young people with hands - on opportunities to engage in community - service work — and to grow and learn in the process.

Gardner's research entitled «Ethical Perspectives on Young Persons» Use of Digital Media» is one of many studies — to be conducted as part of a $ 50 million effort by the MacArthur Foundation over the next five years — on understanding the educational impact of the widespread use of digital media on youth.

Our efforts focused on working with young people from disadvantaged areas many of whom had been involved in anti-social behaviour and worked with them producing several large scale productions using a 12 week workshop plan of training and rehearsals.

In light of this, the mayor brought education leaders together with Ofsted, the Met police, Transport for London as well as parents and young people who have been affected by knife crime, at a special summit in Euston, to help increase efforts, and collaborate on how to best tackle the problem in schools.

His research and publishing efforts have focused on finding ways to strengthen the connections that young people experience with their communities and places.

To craft systems that make youth power meaningful, on the other hand, is to build a world receptive to the efforts and unique talents of young people, so that their efforts translate into success.

«Educational efforts can speak directly to some of the tensions we document,» Weinstein adds, «by providing young people with opportunities to reflect on perceptions of online discourse, the nature of productive exchanges, the value of civic speech, and ways to manage unintended consequences.»

Reformist efforts, however, diverge on what the education of young people should look like.

The KC - PIE program is based on the belief that teachers» professional learning is an essential component of any effort designed to increase the artistic literacy of young people.

This is true, and it's a fine argument for focusing education policy efforts on sustainable teacher quality reforms, such as recruiting more academically talented young people into the profession, requiring new teachers to undergo significant apprenticeship periods working alongside master educators, and creating career ladders that reward excellent teachers who agree to stay in the classroom long - term and mentor their peers.

But the need for that change should not be held up as a reason to tell young people to halt their creative protests on other issues, nor should anti-bullying efforts be conflated with addressing gun violence.

«Engaging Families» was part of the «Keeping Kids on Track» initiative, a broader effort by United Way to ensure that young people graduated from high school prepared to lead successful lives.

By focusing our efforts on those schools most at risk of failing young people, and encouraging «good» and «outstanding» schools to seize the opportunities of conversion, we will ensure the continued growth of the academy programme, empowering frontline heads and school leads, and transforming even more children's education.

The other draws on the deep experience of a compassionate teacher who finds fault not with teachers, unions, or students, but with a society that refuses to take responsibility for the conditions in which its children live and learn — and who has demonstrated through her own efforts how one dedicated teacher has improved the education of poor young people.

As its signature effort, the GradNation campaign mobilizes Americans to increase the on - time high school graduation rate to 90 percent by 2020 and prepare young people for postsecondary enrollment and the 21st century workforce.

The director general of the Libraries Department in the Ministry of Culture in Gaza, Mohammed al - Sharif, praised Khota Books» efforts to encourage reading, as young people too often get their information only from social media and prefer to read on a screen.

He came to Missoula on Friday to talk about his efforts to reconnect Christian religion with young people, in part through environmental issues.

Schools spend a huge amount of time ensuring the young people in their care are safe, but incidents of bullying can occur, despite teachers» best efforts, while bullying that happens outside the school will often have a knock - on effect on how the child being bullied performs in class or acts towards their fellow pupils, staff, or both.

Planned Parenthood affiliates across the country mobilized young people on college campuses to reach out to members of Congress through letters, phone calls and lobby visits to Capitol Hill in an effort to raise awareness about the need for a commonsense fix.

Despite efforts of anti-women's health politicians to cut family planning, the bill passed by the committee today protects Title X — the nation's only federal program for birth control that 4 million women count on each year — and Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs that provides young people the tools to plan for their futures.

Concentrating efforts on the early years of life, from before birth to up to 8 years old, and more generally on the mental well - being of children and young people, is likely to bring the best long - term outcomes of improved population mental health [page 8]

As Atlantic concludes grantmaking, we will focus on supporting our grantees in their efforts to mainstream their evidence - informed work that delivers better health and education outcomes for children and young people.