Sentences with phrase «groups of schoolchildren»

Clinical questionnaires aimed at assessing anxiety and depression, for example, have been given in unchanged form to normative groups of schoolchildren in the US ever since the 1950s.

While we enjoy al - Azhar Park, we sometimes rue the fact that it is almost exclusively the preserve of foreigners, relatively well - to - do locals and groups of schoolchildren on field trips.

The superintendent of the Burlington Railroad added additional train routes to accommodate groups of schoolchildren who poured in from all over Nebraska to view the work.

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.

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.

Each morning, for example, groups of schoolchildren get in free, part of an agreement with the Chicago Park District, which, in turn, provides the Art Institute free rent and a modest operating subsidy.

A group of schoolchildren from Sheffield have been learning about airguns, gundogs and conservation with BASC this month.

IN 1995, a group of schoolchildren from Minnesota discovered that half of the frogs they found in a pond were deformed.

At the end of the visit the sarpanch addresses a group of schoolchildren.

This sequel to the Daniel Radcliffe - starring The Woman In Black advances the story to 1941, when two teachers evacuate a group of schoolchildren to the abandoned Eel Marsh House during the blitz.

In a book - length study to be published this summer, researchers from the Bank Street College of Education describe a group of schoolchildren floundering academically and dropping out — or being expelled — at disproportionately high rates.

For example, a group of schoolchildren may be passing between you and your distant dog.

Around the same time Lukwa left Telegraph Cove with a group of schoolchildren from Avalon Adventist Jr Academy in Port Hardy.

Finnish artist Pilvi Takala won last year's prize for her proposal to give most of the # 10,000 award money to a group of schoolchildren to see how they used it.

«Their First Murder,» 1941; a group of schoolchildren watch a man get shot and killed.

The video focuses on a group of schoolchildren and a painting at the Tate Gallery in Liverpool, England, Picasso's Weeping Woman (1937).

Not exact matches

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

He had the fun of going round with a group of other schoolchildren singing from house to house — the traditional way of earning something to help defray living costs.

Staff from GreenPalm were joined by other local businesses to use their expertise to give a group of 80 Hull schoolchildren a lesson in global trade, during an event intended to help them learn more about International business.

«It is clear that the complex array of federal food safety programs doesn't adequately protect America's schoolchildren,» said Caroline Smith DeWaal, food safety director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer advocacy group.

SPUC is an anti-choice group which, through its «Safe at School» campaign, delivers talks to parents and schoolchildren about the supposed harms of Sex and Relationships Education (SRE), and the dangers of abortion.

Speaking to a group of reporters, the Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, a Democrat of Manhattan, said, «I do want to remind you there are new schoolchildren in our schools, there are new people enrolling in Medicaid in an economic downturn,» adding, «all of which has driven projections of what spending should be that are real and defined and not made up.»

The group's models could also help interpret data from future clinical trials that evaluate the effectiveness of booster shots in schoolchildren, «as well as predict the potential impact of new vaccination strategies,» he said.

However, political conservatives are slightly more likely than either moderates or liberals to say that parents should be able to decide not to vaccinate their children — though seven - in - ten or more of all three ideology groups support requiring the MMR vaccine for all schoolchildren because of the potential health risk to others.

Now in it's third year, the platform has a roster of more than 2,000 scientists in 32 countries ready discuss their research with schoolchildren, big companies, support groups, service clubs and anyone else now comfortable enough to ask for a presentation.

The rapidly - growing specimen is eventually named Calvin by a group of American schoolchildren live - chatting with the astronauts from Earth; fitting his hand into flexible gloves that allow him to reach into its isolation tank, a smitten Derry interacts with it as if it's a new kitten.

The educational futures of a group of low - income D.C. schoolchildren hinge on the answer.

Anthologies of reading for schoolchildren now carefully select stories to include all the major ethnic and racial groups; to ensure that girls and women are portrayed in a positive, nonsexist manner; and to include at least one selection dealing with a disabled person.

The National Business Consortium for the Gifted and Talented, as the group called itself, proposed to carry out an ambitious scheme incorporating one of the new President's major themes — the enlistment of the national business community in «partnerships» with those championing important social causes, in this case the advancement of programs for gifted schoolchildren.

Simon Harbridge, CEO of Stone Group commented, «We were amazed by the response to the competition from schoolchildren and the variety of entries blew us away.

A Nation of Proficient Schoolchildren Jeff Howard (© 2004 Lisa Kessler) «Raise your hand if you know a classroom like this one,» Jeff Howard asks the groups of educators in his seminars.

Last month I suggested that grouping New York City schoolchildren by age rather than ability would address two issues that stymie the NYC Department of Education: strict birthday cut - offs that ignore readiness and the perennial shortage of Gifted and Talented seats.

Indeed, one could make a strong argument that any outsized influence that teachers unions exercise in school board elections provides a nice enhancement of democratic decisionmaking on education policy because teachers, as much as any other group in society, can serve as powerful advocates for those Americans who can not vote: schoolchildren.

The Coalition for the Future of Detroit Schoolchildren, a group of stakeholders that attempted to develop a compromise proposal for improving the situation at DPS, believes that some type of control is needed.

A group of Rutherford County schoolchildren found themselves recent fodder for legislators» jokes about the state's public school system.

There is no evidence to prove the government's flagship academies programme has raised standards for all schoolchildren, according to a cross-party group of MPs.

A recent report from a prominent group of business and civic leaders called the Coalition for the Future of Detroit Schoolchildren anticipated a possible role for the mayor.

But the group's plan for public schoolchildren isn't actually about promoting worship of the devil.

As well as rehoming unwanted and abandoned cats, the charity also promotes neutering, provides cat care advice, and delivers talks about cat care to thousands of schoolchildren and community groups every year.

If you don't want your views of the Botanic Garden's stunning displays interrupted by nearly every group of suburban schoolchildren in northern Illinois, head farther south to a different garden.

Located in Nugegoda, a suburb of Colombo, Art Way Gallery organized «Art Way Art» (3/28 — 31), a group show of over 200 drawings by schoolchildren, at the NAG.

The gallery will be opened by one of Margate's most famous residents, Tracey Emin, with the musician Jools Holland and a group of local schoolchildren.

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