Sentences with phrase «more schools around»

The funds will be used to help expand the program to more schools around the country.

12 more schools around Australia will be included in a trial program known as Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P - TECH), following an announcement of a futher $ 4.6 million in funds from the Coalition Government.

12 more schools around Australia will be included in the trial P - TECH program, following an announcement of a further $ 4.6 million in funds from the Coalition Government.

More schools around the world are installing a bench on the playground designated as a «buddy bench,» where students can sit if they're feeling lonely or even bored.

Not exact matches

When she first started talking about how the school needed to become more diverse, she says, «I was surprised to find out the meme around Harvey Mudd was that we are a merit - based institution and bringing in more women or people of color would mean lowering our standards.»

Bridge International Academies, the subject of a recent New York Times Magazine piece, operates in hundreds of schools around Kenya and Uganda, with dozens more of its low - cost schools scattered through Nigeria, India, and most recently Liberia.

What was then a simple school social networking site has turned into a platform that connects more than 1 billion people from around the world.

The company does offer team discounts for high school squads, though, and Marver says more than 400 teams around the country have placed orders for the upcoming season.

The only difference is that he happens to jet around the world far more than an average high schooler.

Not to mention, an MBA from UT Austin comes with a network of more than 92,000 McCombs School of Business alumni around the world, bonding graduates to a lifelong community.

Clustered around Kerrisdale Arena and Point Grey Secondary School, the residents here are craft beer enthusiasts (16 % of them drank one in the past month) and more than a fifth are downhill skiers.

The oath has since been taken by students at more than 250 schools around the world, and while it is not a revolutionary thing, not a perfect thing, it is definitely a good thing.

We're not only supporting companies, we're also building a community around us, opening our space to middle - and high - school students in an effort to create more entrepreneurs and makers.

Wonder Workshop has sold robots to more than 7,000 elementary schools around the world and expects to reach another 8,000 schools this year.

For some schools, ensuring that more students stick around is becoming a matter of survival.

It paid around $ 10 an hour, and I babysat around 40 hours or more a week during the summer (and slightly less hours during the school year).

Pre-holiday or special event: While retail businesses generally don't want excess inventory sitting around, in the months leading up to the holidays or back - to - school shopping, having more inventory than usual can translate into more sales.

Beachside schools and schools in more open areas would likely be the most vulnerable, he added, explaining that a school with nothing around it would receive the full impact of winds, whereas a school tucked in a neighborhood would not.

As the deadly shooting at a Parkland, Florida, high school, which killed 17 and injured more than a dozen others, sparks a national conversation around gun control, the White House is pushing Congress to actually pass gun control measures.

All around the U.S. and worldwide, the company's day of service benefits local nonprofits, schools, parks and zoos, hospitals and more.

«We do have people living the more totally organic life around here: aging hippies, home schoolers of a certain kind, a few professors, and others too.

our sharpest minds would be schooled HARD by a supreme creator... not the other way around... an average joe off the street could write a better, more moral book than the Bible and utterly destroy the god of any of the holy books in a general knowledge debate with ease.

• A few people in an office in Rome have oversight of nearly 3,500 seminaries, 1,500 colleges and universities, and thousands upon thousands of Catholic schools with more than fifty million students around the world.

And if we ran circles around them and their shallow cultural theorizing because we had read more Marx and Lukacs and Frankfurt Schoolers and Sontag and Barthes than they had, they had an effective putdown: «Snob!

To Ken Margo: I am totally agree with you about this evil thing going around the earth... this evil minded people is there everywhere regardless of faith... that was not what i was trying to say... my point was to be able to recognize the One True God who is Unseen and who has no partners as He is not in need of any partners but we the creation is in need of Him... thats all... I wish I could do something to stop all these taking place around the earth... I think we human fear the fed laws more than we fear the laws of our Creator, for example not to associate any partner with Him, taking the life of others, drug dealing, human trafficking, believing in hereafter and so on... I remember a story that I was talking with one of my friends... I was telling him look we all obey the law of the land so much like for example when we drive and no one moves even an inch when there is a school bus stop to pick / drop kids as it is a fed laws but when it comes to the laws of our Creator, we don't care... like having physical relationship outside of marriage and many more... then he said something nice... he said that its because we see the consequence of breaking the law of the land but we do not see the punishment of hereafter even though it is mentioned very details in Quran, it even gives pictures of hereafter....

This entails a closer look at major events already presented by Greene and now fleshed out with the accounts of other people: his life in and around the Berkhamstead School, where his father was headmaster; the more or less serious attempts at teenage suicide; the startling decision of the family to respond to this crisis by sending the boy to board with a psychoanalyst in London; later games of Russian roulette played all alone in an effort to beat boredom and make existence seem precious; and his conversion to Roman Catholicism.

Valentines day is right around the corner and if you have little ones in school, I'm sure they want nothing more than the best box of «frozen» valentines to give to their friends.

Because of our work, 18,000 American schools are providing kids with healthy food choices in an effort to eradicate childhood obesity; 21,000 African farmers have improved their crops to feed 30,000 people; 248 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions are being reduced in cities worldwide; more than 5,000 people have been trained in marketable job skills in Colombia; more than 5 million people have benefited from lifesaving HIV / AIDS medications; and members of the Clinton Global Initiative have made nearly 2,300 Commitments to Action to improve more than 400 million lives around the world.

That made Williams even more determined to help Derrick, and she became known around the school as his shadow, often confronting him at his locker after he had committed yet another of his various transgressions.

Much more likely some small lowly school gets smacked around hard instead

Instead, he started working with local youths and traveling around to speak to various high school baseball organizations, extolling the virtues of throwing more often while regulating effort, controlling the strike zone — down and away, down and away — and learning how to pitch.

Played at a school with a lot more talent around him.

The youngster was hanging around outside City's Carrington training ground and asked the maverick striker for his autograph, but Balotelli was more interested in why the little scamp was wagging school.

«Here, Scott Verplank received more attention at Q school, I guess because he's been around awhile.

Stopping by to pick up a book, I look around the quiet office, I close my eyes and reflect on the biggest youth and high school sports stories of the year and wonder if we as a nation are any closer to our MomsTEAM mission of making sports safer, saner, less stressful and more inclusive or if we continue to spin wildly out of control in the crazy vortex that is youth sports in the 21st century.

The longest - running exhibition of African - American art in the U.S. features more than 100 dynamic works of art from amateur and professional African - American artists from around the nation, as well as a youth category which features work by a dozen area high school artists.

Times reporter Kim Severson mentioned in passing that Chef Ann Cooper, a pioneer in school food reform, was about to launch a series of video courses to help school professionals around the country bring more scratch - cooking to their meal programs.

I'm finding following a «schedule» from day one so much more important this time around because this is the first time we've had to juggle and new baby along with school & other obligations with our older kids.

New School: Since driving around your gas guzzler spewing pollutants into the air is frowned upon today, the new school way of soothing a crying baby through movement is to place the baby in your arms, stand with your feet slightly more than hip - width apart, and swivel back and forth at theSchool: Since driving around your gas guzzler spewing pollutants into the air is frowned upon today, the new school way of soothing a crying baby through movement is to place the baby in your arms, stand with your feet slightly more than hip - width apart, and swivel back and forth at theschool way of soothing a crying baby through movement is to place the baby in your arms, stand with your feet slightly more than hip - width apart, and swivel back and forth at the hips.

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At the moment the world is their school, and education is in front of and around them every day, with ancient history, new cultures, different ways of life and more.

But the bulk of my two conversations with Saidel centered around a new program launched by Chartwells last year, in partnership with a company called InHarvest, to bring more «intact whole grains» like farro and quinoa into schools.

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

I'm not sure how sensitive these sensors are supposed to be, but if the general public's boobs move around as much as mine do, those bras are going to feel less like support and more like your first boyfriend after the middle school dance.

That study assessed children in middle school and parents seem to be more comfortable setting limits around younger children.

And according to Shorter, the conversation around expanding access to school breakfast (and the breakfast - in - the - classroom option) is getting easier, and more stakeholders are receptive to the idea.

Christie - Mizell began the research thinking that mothers» work hours — since mothers overwhelmingly are the ones to care for and monitor children — would be more likely to have an impact on whether children exhibited bullying behavior such as being cruel to others, being disobedient at school, hanging around kids who get in trouble, having a very strong temper and not being sorry for misbehaving.

So far I have freaked out about doubling the amount of children in our house, where the babies are going to sleep, cloth diapering, starting completely over with baby clothes instead of trying to sort through what would be usable, nursing two babies at the same time, buying a bigger house, how I'm going to drive four kids around (thank God we just replaced my husband's car in January with a full size SUV with a usable third row), traveling with four kids, what happens if my husband has to start traveling for work, getting the big kids to and from school with two babies in tow, how the big kids are going to feel once there are two new babies in the house, how I»M going to feel with two more babies in the house, and so on and so forth.

The Challenge: Get a free 8 × 10 photo taken (Or build your own studio) Growing up, my family was not the type to get professional photos taken; school photos aside, we were more of the «grab the camera as the baby is running around naked» type of family.

Since October 2011, Waldorf School of the Peninsula (WSP) has been featured in more than 30 newspaper stories around the world.