Sentences with phrase «of gifted youngsters»

Yecke, Minnesota's embattled education commissioner, targets two trends: the «middle - school movement» and public education's growing hostility toward the needs of gifted youngsters.

An overdue tribute to a generation of gifted youngsters whose seminal contributions to popular culture deserve to be acknowledged, if only to validate the fact that L.A. rap's roots are far more rich, diverse, sophisticated and uplifting than the materialistic and misogynistic messages that they've been reduced to by the music videos found in regular rotation on BET and MTV.

20th Century Fox has released the so - called final trailer for Bryan Singer's follow - up to Days Of Future Past, which pits Professor Xavier's (James McAvoy) latest batch of gifted youngsters against Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac) and his Four...

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If I couldn't get into a certain school for gifted youngsters, maybe one of my offspring can, and I can live vicariously through him / her.

Coric is regarded as one of the most gifted youngsters in Europe and has already won two full international caps for Croatia, so this Instagram behaviour is bound to get Liverpool supporters excited!

None of the parents knew that their beloved and winning coach — this glib, engaging soul who had lived with and among them, who had so generously baby - sat their kids, taken the youngsters to movies and bought them expensive gifts — had undergone more than five years of treatment in two state mental hospitals for child molesting.

Jonjo Shelvey is apparently a naturally gifted youngster who has already shown what he is capable of at Charlton.

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The «technically - gifted» 17 - year - old midfielder who has been tipped for a big future at Arsenal is the latest youngster to be sent out on loan by Arsenal ahead of the new season.

The budding youngster appeared overjoyed to have received such a precious parting gift on a night when his team were on the wrong end of the final result.

Arsene Wenger has a gift for developing young players and Arsenal have a knack for getting the best of former La Masia youngsters, with Cesc Fabregas and Hector Bellerin as prime examples.

He is, it has to be said, incredibly natural and gifted in the company of youngsters.

Because Mäntyranta, who competed for Finland in the 1960s, was straight out of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters.

Professor Charles Xavier (Stewart, «Star Trek: The Next Generation»), the most powerful telepathic mutant, has established a School for Gifted Youngsters for the purpose of providing a safe haven for these mutant outcasts and to train them in the wise use of their special abilities.

In fairness, Marvel Comics» X-Force started as a re-branding of the New Mutants, effectively the X-Men junior team, so perhaps it's to be expected that Deadpool would start his recruitment drive and Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters.

The presence of the X-Men's iconic Blackbird might lead you to conclude that's the poor man's version of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngster.

He recruits a few other evil mutants to help him in his not - very - well - explained quest to destroy the world, and so of course Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and his Gifted Youngsters must come save the day.

In Bryan Singer's X2, his 2003 sequel to X-Men, one of the young students at Charles Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters is forced through outside circumstances to tell his family that he has not, in fact, been attending a normal boarding school — that he has mutant powers, and he is attending a school that is...

The Gifted doesn't really need to provide an elaborate reason why teenager Lauren Strucker (Natalie Alyn Lind) and her brother Andy (Percy Hynes White) aren't approached by Xavier or his associates in the opening moments of the series; surely the School for Gifted Youngsters doesn't catch every single young mutant before it's too late.

Professor X, a powerful telepath, turned his home into an educational institution called Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters where he teaches mutants to co-exist peacefully with the rest of humanity.

Not only does Wade prance around in Professor X's wheelchair but there is so, so, so many more references to X-Men characters in and out of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters.

We also catch a quick glimpse of Zazie Beetz's Domino, kicking down a door in what appears to be a school (one for gifted youngsters, perhaps) that's being engulfed in flames, not unlike the church where Cable's banner appears.

Even the title of the film seems like a play on Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, so it can't really be ignored as a coincidence, especially as the story paints the group as a class under fire from those who don't understand them, a strong allusion to the X-Men as an analogue for various persecuted races and classes throughout the history of the 20th century.

In the present, Russell is merely a troubled kid who's fallen prey to a repressive foster home, the Essex House, a dark mirror of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters.

The X-Men is a team of mutants led by Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart), a powerful telepath who runs a school for «gifted youngsters» and fights for mutant tolerance.

Given the divisive opinions toward both Apocalypse and The Last Stand, Fox hopes to pull out all the stops for what could be one of the last main franchise X-Men adventures before Xavier and his gifted youngsters move to Disney.

The image depicts the front yard of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, where X-Men characters participate in the mayhem initiated by a black - ops unit.

The story picks up right after the events of the first film, with Magento (Ian McKellan, The Two Towers, The Fellowship of the Ring) in a jail of plastic, and Professor X (Patrick Stewart, Star Trek: Nemesis, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius) still teaching young mutants at his school for «gifted» youngsters.

Schools also need to identify more high - potential youngsters for inclusion in gifted education, and equip all them, especially children of color, to succeed in these challenging academic opportunities.

It's evident from multiple studies that our K — 12 education system overall is doing a mediocre job of serving its «gifted and talented» youngsters and is paying too little attention to creating appealing and viable opportunities for advanced learning.

* This lack of synchrony leads to bizarre situations, such as an arts - keen kid finding a program that's right for him at one level but only in science, or maybe nothing, at the next level and youngsters welcomed into «gifted» program as late as ninth grade who find no openings in suitable high schools starting in tenth.

Yet barely one - fifth of these youngsters actually receive «gifted education services» from their schools.

This is fed by the small percentages of low - income black and Hispanic youngsters in many gifted - and - talented classrooms and specialized schools.

Christina Sparacino, 3rd grade teacher, Watchung Elementary School Christina Sparacino exemplifies the commitment to differentiation and student achievement that is critical to meeting the needs of all students, but most particularly to gifted youngsters.

Your gifts take music to places that have gone without - schools that have lost their music programs, special education classrooms that have been left out of arts instruction, children in shelters and medical settings, to students with disabilities, and to those in unusual educational settings - home day care centers, early intervention programs, head starts, to students in the juvenile justice system, to children on tribal reservations, to youngsters in high risk communities.

The gifted youngster's ability to define and solve problems in many ways (often described as fluency of innovative ideas or divergent thinking ability) may not be compatible with traditional gifted education programs or specific classroom requirements, in part because many gifted students are identified through achievement test scores (Torrance, 1977).

Youngsters hoping to get a McLaren as a gift should be extra-good until December, as the P1 carries an MSRP of # 375 (roughly $ 486).

As the scene continues, the puppy stumbles preciously over mounds of gift wrappings, to the great amusement of delighted children who rush to hug the youngster and receive big wet puppy - slurps in return.

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Boutiko has stocked up on a range of brightly colored gifts that will appeal to children from 12 months through pre-teen, including two variations on the traditional jump rope that will have your youngsters itching to get outdoors and exercise.

When members of older generations tell their personal stories, they give youngsters a gift: knowledge of their own family's history and value system (and access to all of those brilliant inside jokes).

A mock X-Mansion listing allows film and X-Men enthusiasts to browse photos and view a video home tour shot on the set of Professor Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, the home of the X-Men.