Sentences with phrase «like schoolchildren»

It put writers in groups and bused them around (rather like schoolchildren); it introduced them to local tourism officials; it showed them what the officials wanted them to see.

It may be that when we read blogs we're like schoolchildren with a substitute teacher: we want what we're used to or we don't feel we have to pay attention.

Finally they were all congratulated, then dismissed like schoolchildren themselves.

«And that's what Americans would like schoolchildren to learn about their nation.»

Here, it's set aside, with hasty and unconvincing moments of Caston and Claire flirting like teenagers or holding hands like schoolchildren at times when such behavior seems awkward, given the intensely personal nature of Caston's obsession.

To keep kids» eyes safe during the eclipse, firmly affix eclipse glasses, like these schoolchildren did while taking in the March 2015 eclipse in Barcelona.

If your child wants a weekly spelling test like schoolchildren have, then choose words which he often misspells and help him to practise writing them in sentences.

In 1586, when the theologians gathered for the meeting at Wittenberg, having had to come from Eisenach and Torgau because Luther was not well enough to go there, he lectured them like schoolchildren, himself almost intolerably overcome with irritation.

Not exact matches

When Zajonc started studying it so many decades ago, his initial experiments measured how much schoolchildren liked the adults in their classrooms.

Spending boatloads of money on professional lobbying and a massive postcard campaign to legislators, the organization and their deep - pocketed friends like PepsiCo, Coca - Cola, Con Agra and Schwan's killed the state school nutrition bill, ensuring many more years of junk food for New York's schoolchildren.

In both America and France recent federal changes in the school lunch program looks at a similar goal: provide schoolchildren with nutritious meals that they like to eat.

His mother, Johanna Whittlesey, like other parents across the country, assumed her child had enough water, but nutrition advocates believe schoolchildren's access to water is a national problem the federal government has only begun to address.

Shelly got her produce distributor to create affordable salad bars so that schoolchildren could choose which vegetables they liked.

No one is taking these peoples» guns away, as long as they stay in their lanes and don't open fire on innocent people, like say, schoolchildren?

Harriet Harman treated a rowdy House of Commons exactly as they deserved - like a bunch of naughty schoolchildren.

Out of No 10 they shuffled, like extremely well - behaved schoolchildren lining up for their end - of - year photograph.

2.59 pm: Vince Cable, the business secretary, told a fringe meeting at the conference that factories should open their doors to schoolchildren so that they can find out what manufacturing is really like.

«And a place like, this a national park, would be eligible to apply for grant money to talk about why Harriet Tubman's life was so relevant to women's rights, to teach schoolchildren, teach the community and have celebratory events.»

So when the results of international tests show Western schoolchildren lagging behind their peers in countries like Singapore and Japan, alarm bells start ringing.

A tiny museum in the back streets shows schoolchildren what life was like in the past.

Yet in her meetings with schoolchildren, like the class of local 4th graders that met here last week to discuss books...

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.

But his less - than - honest autobiography has been accepted unquestioningly by allies like Arne Duncan who use it, as he does, to support needless test obsession for millions of schoolchildren, on the theory that more accountability for teachers will cure our social ills.

Jewell countered this week that teachers aren't breaking any state labor laws, adding that educators believe lawmakers like Berger are «breaking their commitment» to the state's 1.5 million schoolchildren.

Fewer than half of American schoolchildren are white, and the number is much lower in urban school systems like Philadelphia.

Now, the memory of Jews fuels a different industry, a production for schoolchildren and travelers, for people like me, searching for some history left behind.

At one end of the floor, under a low, slanting ceiling, three canvases have been propped on the seats of small wooden chairs, lined up like rapt schoolchildren.

booms Theaster Gates with a big friendly wave of his arm, and the clutch of media clustered around him gamely follows, like a gaggle of schoolchildren tagging along after a favourite teacher.

Earthquake resistant buildings would ceratinly have been seriously damaged by the 7.9 magnatude quake, but they would not have crumbled like a ginderbread house, killing thousands upon thousands of schoolchildren.

As Harris, a man with absolutely no scientific background in climate change, reassures us like a bunch of schoolchildren, «don't be scared.»

I suggest that the more typical situation was that sensational nonsense appeared in the MSM by MSM reporters and environmentalist extremists, such as the claim that soon schoolchildren wouldn't know what snow was like.

Distractions may include an electronic device like a cell phone or a GPS, as well as disruptive individuals on board the bus such as loud schoolchildren or bus patrons.

AMERICA»S SCHOOLCHILDREN TREATED LIKE LAB RATS, by John W. Whitehead «In almost every state across the nation, schoolchildren are being subjected to behavioral exams and mental health tests, often without their parents» knowledge or consent... One such program is the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance SSCHOOLCHILDREN TREATED LIKE LAB RATS, by John W. Whitehead «In almost every state across the nation, schoolchildren are being subjected to behavioral exams and mental health tests, often without their parents» knowledge or consent... One such program is the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Sschoolchildren are being subjected to behavioral exams and mental health tests, often without their parents» knowledge or consent... One such program is the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS).

We would like to thank late Dr. K. Mimura for his assistance and the schoolchildren and parents who made this research possible.