Sentences with phrase «even schoolchildren»

Even schoolchildren can benefit from mindfulness.

By now even schoolchildren know that the plastics we discard every year in the millions of tons persist in the environment for hundreds of years.

That much even schoolchildren know.

«Even schoolchildren know the rules apply to everyone, but maybe Steven missed that lesson.

It's not uncommon to hear even schoolchildren debating over how her policies affected their families.

Not exact matches

Donahue called the Country Bank gift «transformative,» and one that will allow Old Sturbridge Village to reach even more schoolchildren every year.

Tuesday, August 4 QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz and the Queens Center will distribute free backpacks and school supplies to schoolchildren at several National Night Out events this evening starting at 5:15 pm at the 112th Precinct's event in MacDonald Park (Queens Boulevard Service Road and Yellowstone Boulevard).

The hallways of the Capitol were noisy with protesters, advocates and even groups of schoolchildren on field trips with only two days left in the session.

«This ceaseless commitment will continue this year with a community - supported bus lane, pedestrian refuge islands and a protected bike path on First Avenue straight through East Harlem, and we will continue to push for speed cameras to make our streets and our schoolchildren even safer,» he said.

You could even take a note from 1963 schoolchildren, who put big boxes over their heads to see a projection of an eclipse.

Next comes annoyance — which impairs people's well - being even if it has no direct impact on health — with a corresponding figure of 587,000 years, followed by learning deficits among schoolchildren estimated at 45,000, and tinnitus with 22,000.

CRISPR's powerful potential and ease of use — there are even DIY kits aimed at schoolchildren — brought the technology under intense scrutiny last year.

Even today, some schoolchildren are taught that continental drift accounts for all the evidence for a warmer Antarctica.

Now scientists have found the brain region that allows everyone from schoolchildren to major leaguers to track objects, even though the eyes themselves are moving.

Even better, it's «really terribly gross,» says Ruth Musgrave, director of WhaleTimes.org, a Web site that connects schoolchildren with deep - sea researchers and provides kid - friendly fact sheets on marine science.

Over the past nine years, the awards have seen hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren put to pen to paper and try their hand at storytelling, and this year, competition bosses are hoping to inspire even more young people to give writing a go.

LAST week's report on how Washington schoolchildren did on their statewide tests included some positive data on the promise of the state's charter schools, even as they are threatened by another lawsuit.

Another intervention, Cognitive Acceleration for Science Education (CASE), which targets «general thinking skills,» enabled British schoolchildren to outperform their peers even two years later on achievement tests in science, math, and English.

The basic skills of American schoolchildren are higher today than they were 40 years ago, even among poor children.

When even union supporters are telling AFT and its fellow teacher unions that fixes to the tenure system are needed, how long can Randi and her radical allies continue their trench warfare against America's schoolchildren?

Even with 60 new schools, charters would make up a smaller proportion of all schools at CPS than they do at some other large urban districts — in New Orleans, for example, about 70 percent of schoolchildren attend charters.

In the same way, DeVos's denunciations of the federal government and her refusal to make even a tepid call - out to the value of the public education system, can't help but have an effect on the way some Americans feel about their neighborhood public schools, which educate the vast majority of the country's schoolchildren.

In a world of multimedia technologies that can distract and even isolate students, educators must work ever more resourcefully to entice schoolchildren back to the basics of learning.

The story likely will unnerve educators, reformers, taxpayers, politicians, parents and students anywhere — even the book's main title provokes distrust: Newark politicians» idea of a «prize» relates more to helping adults than uplifting and educating schoolchildren.

The declining number of schoolchildren has financially stressed school districts, even though total state spending has increased.

Sadly, most superintendents, boards of education and even the teachers» unions are letting parents and schoolchildren down by not informing them of the pernicious nature of the SBAC (Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium) test.

«The campaign to «Bring Estelle Home» was a community effort; even New Orleans schoolchildren contributed to raise the money for this important work.

Now, when Utah schoolchildren finally get the chance to study climate change in the eighth grade, they'll have this dangerously wrongheaded idea in their minds to fuel much - spirited argument over whether excess greenhouse gases are even all that bad for the environment.

Even in South Africa, many drivers don't stop for red lights at night if there are no other cars, and schoolchildren protect their backpacks by wearing them over their chests.