Sentences with phrase «little country school»

Amy from Livin» On The Road: «Last year, we had to walk to this tiny little country school in the middle of nowhere in the Aussie desert where we were staying for three months.

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Following the murder of 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Florida by a lone gunman carrying a high - powered assault rifle, the Trump administration has offered little comfort and few solutions for the country going forward.

Then there's this little gem: «The Buddhist country were I live had no hospitals, no schools for women, and no literacy until Christian missionaries arrived.

More recently, we have extended free healthy meals at lunchtime to all little children in reception class and years one and two in all primary schools across the country.

A liberal education, if added to a STEM or business degree in graduate school, could greatly benefit our country, which has seen very little good thinking in government, politics, and business as of late.

Balancing his coaching duties and audacious plan to bring the top recruiting class in the country to the little - known basketball school with the wave of uncertainty surrounding his personal life and job security, Dowkens takes his Badlanders to Las Vegas to play the eighth - ranked UNLV Runnin» Rebels on national TV in a game that seems certain to define his career.

Rashad Jones - Jennings, Arkansas - Little Rock The Trojans» 6» 8», 232 - pound forward was the No. 2 rebounder in junior college basketball last season, and after transferring to a four - year school he is still one of the chairmen of the boards: He was the country's No. 3 rebounder with 11.7 a game (while averaging 13.0 points), and he set a Sun Belt record with 30 rebounds in a Dec. 13 win over Arkansas - Pine Bluff.

I am not, as you claim, absolving everyone else from all responsibility (my appearance on the hate list of so many local school admins is testament to my history of holding people here responsible), but the PRIMARY responsibility for the mess this country is in when it comes to food, nutrition, obesity and health, has very little to do with what goes on in school cafeterias.

Originally posted on Our Little House in the Country: Starting school for the first time is an exciting and huge step in any child's life.

SNA is also calling for the USDA and the US Department of Education to work cooperatively to ensure that students have sufficient time to eat and enjoy their school meals This is a huge issue — with some students getting as little as 10 minutes of actual eating time for lunch — and one for which SNA's legislative clout could be well applied to benefit students across the country.

the need for Congress to provide funding to upgrade school kitchens around the country, many of which can do little more than deep fry and reheat;

Maybe it's straying a little far from my focus on «kids and food, in school and out» but in the near future I plan to post about the unconscionable amount of unrecycled paper and styrofoam waste generated by the lunch program in my own school district (Houston ISD) and presumably elsewhere in the country.

«The people this would help the most are the families, people who are working with children in school, with sports activities and homework,» said Little, a lawmaker who represents the North Country region.

The authors go on to illustrate that the remaining 20 cents of loan monies are used to finance white elephant projects, «ghost» projects» (i.e. fictitious roads, schools, soldiers, etc.), government salaries, ineffective development and infrastructural projects or it leaves the country through capital flight within the coming years — leaving little to nothing of actual development monies for the citizenry of these countries.

The model of hospital administration in this publication actually has lots of semblance with contemporary models in the US, UK, Republic of Ireland, Australia and Canada where there is a board of directors / governors with a Chairman (does not have to be a Medical Doctor), a CEO / President / Hospital administrator (does not have to be a Medical Doctor) and a CMD / MD / CMO / Executive director medical services etc (Is ALWAYS a Medical Doctor — different names but similar portfolio — In Nigeria we always look up to these countries for direction with respect to global best practices so I do not understand what the commentator code - named afam6nr means by «Obviously, this writer has not attended any Business School Training and has no knowledge of Business Administration» — My advice to afam6nr is to do a little study of the different heath system of the world (specifically regarding corporate governance, organisation and administration of tertiary hospitals) and after this little research come back and comment on his findings!

This is particularly important consideration due to the fact that many high schools in our country have little or no exercise programs for non-varsity athletes.

Dr Nimalan Arinaminpathy, lead author of the research, from the School of Public Health at Imperial College London said: «TB is the top infectious disease killer worldwide, yet we have had little idea of the true scale of the problem in India — the worst affected country.

«Unless you're a Warren Buffett or Bill Gates, you're one illness away from financial ruin in this country,» says lead author Steffie Woolhandler, MD, of the Harvard Medical School, in Cambridge, Mass. «If an illness is long enough and expensive enough, private insurance offers very little protection against medical bankruptcy, and that's the major finding in our study.»

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Throughout, he manages to dip into old - school doo - wop sounds, grand orchestral ballads and Johnny Cash - inspired country anthems, not at the same time, but almost within their own little worlds.

Sure, schooling, decent health care coverage and fruit roll - ups helped a little, but it wasn't until a few years later when the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) swept the country and became the new obsession of our impressionable lives.

The report contains some useful descriptive information on the population of K12 schools across the country but is ultimately of little use to policymakers or researchers.

In a study that examined whether some countries are particularly effective at teaching students from disadvantaged backgrounds, Eric A. Hanushek, Paul E. Peterson, and Ludger Woessmann find little difference in the rank order of countries by the performance of students from families where a parent had a college education and the rank order of countries by the performance of students whose parents had no more than a high school diploma.

Examples: Visited Florida this summer, Is an avid waterskier, Has a big brother and little sister, Was born in another country, Lives nearest the school, Learned how to skateboard this summer, Didn't see the movie Titanic, Likes anchovies on pizza, Was born in the same month as you, Has a brother or sister in the same school, Favorite subject is science, Has an ear pierced more than once, Father's name is Jim, Read more than one book this summer, Speaks two languages, Has two pets.

Over the past 20 years, many school systems around the globe have undergone some form of education reform and yet the trillions of dollars being spent in school systems, ongoing debates over the value of teacher pay incentives, and standardized test movements have yielded little effect in many countries.

Unlike countries like Australia, which randomly supplies sample schools» results across all SES and communities, if one digs a little deeper you will find Shanghai supply generally their higher performing schools for comparison.

Since bilingual teachers were in short supply, schools often hired aides to teach in Spanish or imported teachers from Spanish - speaking countries who spoke little English.

In almost every school district in the country, teachers are currently paid based solely on their years of experience and degree level, despite a consensus in the scientific community that these two factors bear little relationship to their success in improving student performance.

The country was lagging behind its international peers, and a half - century effort to erode racial disparities in school achievement had made little headway.

Even though we are in the early stages of this work — we are only a little over a year old — we are working with researchers like Carol Dweck, Angela Duckworth, Greg Walton, David Yaeger, Walter Mischel, and many more; educational institutions like Denver Public Schools, Baltimore Public Schools, KIPP, and Riverdale Country School.

The Manukau Family Literacy Program, run by the City of Manukau Education Trust, is based in the island nation's third - largest city, which has a significant concentration of Maoris (the country's first inhabitants) and Pacific Islanders who have had little formal schooling.

Suburban areas with high - performing school districts have shown little support for vouchers, so it was surprising to have the first locally enacted voucher program come from Douglas County, a Denver suburb with one of the highest median incomes in the country.

It is equally a global educational challenge especially in developing countries that children in schools get little quality education.

In this study, we solve this conundrum by taking advantage of the historical fact that the amount of competition in education today varies from one country to another for reasons that have little to do with contemporary school quality, or national income, or commitments to education.

In Afghanistan, for example, the country report suggests that there is little critical analysis of the media, and issues of access to media and information rise especially in rural areas, where newspapers are not published or distributed and multimedia materials such as CDs and DVDs can not be used in schools due to limited access to electricity.

However, critics have slammed the investment saying it does little to address the day - to - day funding crises schools in every part of the country are facing.

Featuring the voices of Miranda Tapsell (Little J), Deborah Mailman (Big Cuz) and Aaron Fa'aoso (Old Dog), each episode in the series is a narrative adventure designed to build positive connections between children's home environments, school and country.

It finds that there are 20 areas of the country with little, or no, school sixth form provision within a commutable distance.

Those living in parts of the country with lower - quality schools apparently have little idea that schools in other states are, on average, a lot better.

One finds little variation in the degree of satisfaction with charter schools by region: across the country, more than 60 percent of parents in urban, suburban, and rural communities say they are very satisfied with the charter school that their child is attending.

«Many schools across the country invest in stuff, but there's little foresight into how will it improve learning.»

Currently, a little less than half of the state's superintendents are elected, while the rest are appointed by the local school board - as is common through most of the country.

For them, there's little to lose in taking a chance on independent charter schools authorized by one of the best public university systems in the country.

But little has been written about the fact that the proposal misses the mark when it comes to the real challenges facing the vast majority of school districts across the country.

So, with New York City public school students returning next month, * the question is: Why isn't more being done to bring students of different races together in the most racially and ethnically diverse city in the country, one where the public schools have had little success closing a huge racial achievement gap?

We think these schools, and likely hundreds of others, will be important to follow since there remains so little true innovation in high schools across the country where most kids are still just herded from one 50 - minute lecture block to the next for four years.

In fact, President Bush has said little about charter schools for months, but guess who is urging the country to create many more of them?

Andreas Schleicher, who heads OECD's indicators and analysis division, says the highest - performing countries apply rigorous academic standards, recruit and train topnotch teachers, dig deeply into the subject matter, and allow little variance in performance by the highest - and lowest - performing schools.

This starts with teachers seeking to understand if a student has consistently attended school in their home country or if he or she has had little or interrupted education.

«It is little short of disgraceful that our government is releasing money huge sums of money for projects which are unproven and not viable when excellent schools up and down the country are not even able to make ends meet,» said Mr White.