Sentences with phrase «of schoolchildren»

Clinical questionnaires aimed at assessing anxiety and depression, for example, have been given in unchanged form to normative groups of schoolchildren in the US ever since the 1950s.

Each morning, for example, groups of schoolchildren get in free, part of an agreement with the Chicago Park District, which, in turn, provides the Art Institute free rent and a modest operating subsidy.

When they are not visiting thousands of schoolchildren in their classrooms each year, these animals reside at the Wildlife Care Center.

and Balloon Fight and Mario Bros.; the Nintendo that drove a generation of schoolchildren mad with the sadistic bleeps of Game & Watch; the Nintendo that whiled away the 1970s peddling light - gun games in abandoned bowling alleys.

In the United States (where some 13 percent of schoolchildren attend private or charter schools), independent schools are predominantly religious.

Today, at age 35, Stevens is on a quest to make those miracles available to millions of schoolchildren whose parents can't afford one - on - one therapy.

«There would be a number of schoolchildren who would want to go to this nature sanctuary,» he said.

A group of schoolchildren from Sheffield have been learning about airguns, gundogs and conservation with BASC this month.

The hallways were filled with noisy with protesters, advocates and even groups of schoolchildren on field trips.

Their stories are inspiring — and hopefully motivational, especially for the balcony full of schoolchildren who attend the awards ceremony each year in San Francisco's Opera House.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says the «sham» organization was supposed to provide training for parents of schoolchildren, but existed only on paper.

Even with 60 new schools, charters would make up a smaller proportion of all schools at CPS than they do at some other large urban districts — in New Orleans, for example, about 70 percent of schoolchildren attend charters.

At the same time, Nelson rightly insists that these individual rights must be balanced by a concern for the public good so that we protect the blood supply, and the health of schoolchildren and health professionals, while wisely allocating scarce medical resources.

One is by providing an environment where the crystal is most thermodynamically favored — the atoms assemble in the crystal in the least energetic way possible, sort of like organizing a classroom full of schoolchildren by having them sit in seats arranged neatly in rows side - by - side in the corner of the room.

STRAW — Students and Teachers Restoring a Watershed — engages hundreds of schoolchildren in watershed restoration efforts across Northern California.

While hiking in the San Bernardino Mountains, in Southern California, late last month, a class of schoolchildren from Big Bear Elementary School and their guide spotted a rare and hopeful sight high above in the trees: two bald eagle parents rearing a weeks - old chick.

Biden heads up the White House's Gun Violence Commission, which is looking into ways to reshape national policies in the wake of last month's mass shooting of schoolchildren in Newtown, Connecticut.

For some time, we have recognized that the academic achievement of schoolchildren in this country threatens, to borrow President Barack Obama's words, «the U.S.'s role as an engine of scientific discovery» and ultimately its success in the global economy.

California has broken its promise to millions of schoolchildren with an education system that is failing to teach students to read or write, advocates charged Tuesday in a lawsuit seeking a statewide right of «access to literacy.»

About two years ago, we were following the progress and release of the One Laptop Per Child program, an organization that was developing a cheap laptop that it wanted to put into the hands of schoolchildren around the world.

Martin Fallon (Mickey Rourke) is a terrorist with the Irish Republican Army who, while attempting to blow up a British military transport, accidentally bombs a bus full of schoolchildren.

Carolyn Pape Cowan Ph.D., adjunct professor of psychology emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, co-directors of the Schoolchildren and their Families Project and co-authors of When Partners Becomes Parents: The Big Life Change for Couples.

Ghana marks its 59th birthday today with a colourful national parade of schoolchildren and contingents of security personnel at the Independence Square in Accra to be addressed by President John Dramani Mahama.

Earlier this week, the California Supreme Court brought a swift and near - silent conclusion to the plight of schoolchildren around the state.

«Somewhat,» says Randler, pointing to a study where half of schoolchildren were able to shift permanently their wake - up time by an hour.

Obamaalso showed a «get - tough» strategy in his determination to pursue gun control after last month's massacre of schoolchildren by a gunman in Newtown, Connecticut.

This week, parents and guardians of schoolchildren across the country will receive their first report card of the 2011 - 2012 school year.

He toyed with his Blackberry throughout the session, for instance, and paid about as much attention as the army of schoolchildren who were ushered into the public gallery half way through.

He pushed through the strongest gun - control measure in the country after the mass killing of schoolchildren in Newtown, Conn., in 2012.

She also takes criticism for not involving key constituencies — such as families of schoolchildren.

The protest against the Common Core Standards and state testing has reached a fever pitch, sparking a profound debate that is about more than preset standards or global competition, but about the civil rights of our schoolchildren.

You also have the opportunity to network with your school board peers across the nation and share best practices that can make a difference in the educational success of your schoolchildren.

A judge's ruling in a case brought on behalf of schoolchildren in a Grand Canyon reservation could impact whether school districts are required to provide disability services to students impacted by trauma and adversity.

As a generation of schoolchildren knows, «by that time, it's very unlikely that [a bill will] become a law.

We have pioneered innovative, science - based forest - restoration work, educated thousands of schoolchildren about the uniqueness and resilience of these wild marvels of nature, improved access to parkland and helped create parks and reserves that have touched the lives of millions of people from around the world.

The number of schoolchildren not vaccinated against childhood diseases in Texas is growing rapidly, which means that the state may see its first measles outbreaks in the winter or spring of 2018, Hotez predicted in a recent article in PLOS Medicine.

«Their First Murder,» 1941; a group of schoolchildren watch a man get shot and killed.

Concerned about the future of the children in her poor rural community, Clary recruits local business to sponsor classrooms of schoolchildren, providing them with one - on - one mentoring, field trips, gifts and supplies, and most of all, people who care.

Explain whether you favor or oppose compulsory busing of schoolchildren.

We begin 50 years in the past, with a class of schoolchildren drawing imagined visions of the future for inclusion in a time capsule to be buried on campus.

Mr. Gourevitch is also right in believing that marching troops of schoolchildren through a horror show of what was done by awful people of what will seem to children a long way away and a long time ago is not necessarily a constructive purpose.

It is estimated that 90 per cent of the schoolchildren between 12 and 20 in the occupied territories have been arrested at least once.

New York's most populous borough has just announced that many of its schoolchildren will be tucking into a Meat Free Monday next year.

Hordes of schoolchildren descend on the zoo, bringing April bananas and carrots as gifts.