Sentences with phrase «high school crime»

James Dean became the movies» all - time romantic teen - age icon when he pulled on his red jacket and played a confused knife - wielding kid named Jim Stark in this lyrical and violent drama of high school crime in the L. A. suburbs.

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Tough says that people who test high in conscientiousness get better grades in school and college, commit fewer crimes, and stay married longer.

An unfiltered glorification of crime, the movie is thought to have encouraged a number of copycat killings, including the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in Colorado, during which 12 people were shot dead, as the murderers supposedly yelled lines from the film.

The students should go to local, try to ramp up security, get more video coverage at these schools, maybe would with some veterans groups to see if we can get a volunteer program like Neighborhood Watch in areas 20 years ago that had high crime.

Ought we to be surprised that black youths isolated from the labor market, marginalized by decrepit urban schools, devalued by alienating ideals of beauty and targeted by an unprecedented drug invasion exhibit high rates of crime and teen - age pregnancy?

He recommends a constructive «tough on crime» policy: require every prisoner to work toward a high school degree.

But a high school coach and a program try to hold on in a city ravaged by senseless crime

«A Teachable Moment,» August 17, 2008 «While it is true that for decades the children of New Orleans toiled in a substandard school system, they have also continually faced countless other obstacles to success — inadequate health care, poorly educated parents, exposure to high rates of violent crime and a popular culture that often denigrates mainstream achievement.»

Jens Ludwig, an economist at the University of Chicago who oversees a research group there called the Crime Lab, has for the past few years been studying, along with some colleagues, a counseling program called Becoming A Man, or BAM, which operates inside 49 Chicago schools, mostly high schools in low - income neighborhoods.

It's linked to higher rates of poverty, failure in school, teen pregnancy, substance abuse, violent crime, depression, and ultimately a loss of hope.

In the Garfield Park fieldhouse, on the West Side in one of Chicago «s poorest, high - crime neighborhoods, next to nothing was happening in the after - school programs on that day, Oct. 17.

They are located in areas with a higher than average crime rate, said David Sinski, senior program director of After School Matters, a non-profit headed by the mayor's wife, Maggie Daley, and one of the partner groups in NeighborSports.

The infamous Central Park Five, who missed the graduation ceremonies for their own high schools because they were in prison for a crime they did not commit, accepted honorary diplomas from Bronx Preparatory High Schhigh schools because they were in prison for a crime they did not commit, accepted honorary diplomas from Bronx Preparatory High SchHigh School.

Don't forget that our fantastic socially liberal policies are responsible for the highest teen pregnancy rate in Europe, an explosion in youth crime and the wonderful notion that parents can be fined if their child doesn't attend school, but not have any right to know if their child is considering an abortion.

Lavine, focusing on education policy, said improved school districts and graduation rates would help prevent crime and reduce the city's high rate of poverty.

But for my unsurprised disappointment in the management of Osei Kyeretwie Senior High School (OKESS), I write to condemn the flimsy decision made by the Headmistress of the School for chasing Old Students (who committed no crime) out of the School premise and even some part of Tafo Compound with Policemen during the 80th Anniversary Homecoming cerebration.

It addresses gun control measures, and creates frameworks for schools and law enforcement, including new units within the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Florida Department of Education, including a Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Commission, and provides for student crime watch programs and other societal responses to potential threats to school sSchool Commission, and provides for student crime watch programs and other societal responses to potential threats to school sschool safety.

But he touted accomplishments in his first term such as universal prekindergarten, his affordable housing plan — which he recently announced is ahead of schedule — increased high school graduation rates, overall crime being down and a drop in the use of the stop and frisk policing method are rooted in maintaining the city's nature.

He is fighting an election with soaring employment, falling crime, a renaissance in schools, zero inflation and satisfaction with the NHS at the second - highest level ever.

«Crime is down, our economy is strong, affordable housing is being built, and more children are attending pre-K and graduating from high school than ever before,» said de Blasio spokesman Austin Finan.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)- Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples - Stokes visited East High School late - Friday afternoon to advocate for «raising the age» for individuals who commit crimes to be charged as an adult.

In a 50 - minute speech, Miner also outlined new programs meant to stop crime, improve police community relations, and make it possible for the renovation of the long - empty Central Tech High School in downtown Syracuse.

In poorer districts, the high concentration of children living in poverty means students come to school with added baggage - hunger, housing instability, exposure to crime and violence - that can affect how well they do in the classroom.

Most of the Bloomberg administration's claimed successes — from falling crime stats to higher high school graduation rates — came from the efforts of city workers.

The mayor and the borough president also focused on the borough's falling crime and unemployment rates and its increasing high school graduation rate.

Among the old - for - grade students, the likelihood of dropping out and being convicted of a serious crime is 3.4 times greater for those born to an unwed mother and 2.7 times greater for those whose mothers were high school dropouts.

Previous research cited in the study suggests that children placed in special education are at higher risk for dropping out of school and for committing crimes as adults.

When Weinberg and his collaborators Eric D. Gould of Hebrew University and David Mustard of the University of Georgia examined young males with no more than a high school education the demographic group that commits the most crime they found that average wages and unemployment rates were directly linked to the incidence of property crimes.

The research, conducted by Leah Schinasi, PhD, assistant research professor, and Ghassan Hamra, PhD, assistant professor, both of Drexel's Dornsife School of Public Health, was published in the Journal of Urban Health and used a decade's worth of crime data in Philadelphia (from 2006 until 2015) to find that rates of violent crime and disorderly conduct increased when daily temperatures are higher.

Participation in high - quality early childhood programs at ages 3 and 4 years is associated with greater school readiness and achievement, higher rates of educational attainment and socioeconomic status, and lower rates of crime.

«We know alcohol outlets can be associated with unsafe nuisance activities in urban areas, but this study appears to be the first to suggest U.S. tobacco shops may also impact public health,» said Andrew Subica, Ph.D., an assistant professor of social medicine, population, and public health in the School of Medicine, who led the study that focused on South Los Angeles, Calif. «Our analyses show that in South Los Angeles tobacco shops as well as liquor stores were associated with high levels of violent and property crime around their locations.

The verdict came in from a jury in Dayton, Tenn., that John Thomas Scopes had committed the crime of teaching evolution to students at his high school, for which transgression he was fined $ 100.

He found that the societal benefits would amount to $ 50,000 per child annually and an overall savings of $ 1.2 trillion by reduced crime and increased rates of on - time high school graduation.

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While they fight crime (and the law) in their spare time, our costumed heroes find it can be just as dangerous going to high school.

The titular character fights crime by night and attends high school by day.

A group of unlikely high school students take up crime as an extracurricular activity in this independent drama.

There are moments for Aaron Johnson and Jim Carrey, but this is about the female perspective on how hard it is to be a masked crime fighter in high school.

Interestingly Death Wish, the millennial - era remake of the gritty mid 70's crime thriller of the same name, notoriously arrives in theaters at an increasingly awkward moment in a divisive national climate (particularly in the aftermath of the most recent high school shooting) where the political stakes regarding gun violence in America are at an all - time high.

In this film, Rose (Amy Adams)-- a single mom and former Albuquerque high school prom queen — and her wayward sister Norah (Emily Blunt), go into the crime scene cleanup business.

The chase is pretty convenient for Spidey as he kicks crime's ass on his way to his high school graduation, where his non-web-spinning girlfriend Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone) is preparing to deliver her valedictorian speech.

An exasperated band teacher (a hilariously perturbed Tom Noonan) stops a high school marching band from performing a crime against harmony in their disastrous rehearsal of Peter Gabriel's «Sledgehammer.»

Baywatch: Lifeguard Mitch Buchannon (Dwayne Johnson, a graduate of Bethlehem's Freedom High School) and his new colleague (Zac Efron) must stop a local crime ring.

Ryan White's seven - part true crime documentary focuses on the investigations by Abbie Schaub and Gemma Hoskins into the 1969 murder of Sister Cathy Cesnik, a young English teacher at a Catholic high school in Baltimore.

Kid Cannabis (Unrated) Idaho crime caper revisiting the real - life exploits of an 18 year - old, high school dropout (Jonathan Daniel Brown) who quit his job as a pizza delivery boy to build a multimillion dollar Marijuana empire.

Paulina (Unrated) Dolores Fonzi plays the title character of this crime thriller, set in Argentina, as a lawyer who abandons a promising career in Buenos Aires to teach high school in her hometown, only to end up brutally assaulted by a local gang.

There have been rumors that Spider - Man: Homecoming will kick off a trilogy set during Peter's high school years, as he tries to balance school work with his crime fighting activities in the Big Apple.

«American Crime» explores bullying, teen sex, and sexual identity after an alleged attack at a party by high school basketball players, played by (from left) Michael Seitz, Andre Williams, Joey Pollari, and Trevor Jackson.

The film follows Spider - Man alter - ego Peter Parker in high school as he turns into a crime - fighting superhero.

In it, Ben (Jonah Bobo) is a high school loner who sees two of his fellow students commit a crime at a local store.