Sentences with phrase «of schoolchildren around»

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.

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Notably for our purposes, at all stages of the Barnette litigation in the courts below — as in Gobitis before it — the issues had revolved entirely around the schoolchildren's claim regarding their free exercise of religion.

Schoolchildren around Merseyside are enjoying a meat free week this week courtesy of Food for Thought.

There are several curriculum - linked activities for schoolchildren to get their teeth into, including getting children to create a chart of meat - free food according to the alphabet in order to help them with their literacy, learning about meat - free diets around the world for geography, and designing a four - week MFM diet for design and technology.

For more than 60 years, Drumlin Farm has given schoolchildren, families, and visitors from around the region and the world opportunities to experience first - hand the wonders of nature and learn about how our food is grown.

Her photographs of that food and her accompanying blog, Fed Up with Lunch, provided an eye - opening expose of the kinds of meals served to millions of American schoolchildren in lunch rooms around the country: mysterious, shrink - wrapped entrees, fried chicken patties, the ubiquitous square pizza and highly processed PBJ «sandwiches» that crumbled to the touch.

Makers of some of the cleanest hand soaps around, Soapply is a company founded on the philanthropic mission to bring soap to schoolchildren in the developing world.

For all the criticism that law has received — and there is no doubt that the law needs to be improved when Congress gets around to its re-authorization — the law, and especially its accountability provisions, have been, in general, of great benefit to the country's schoolchildren.

The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling upholding the Cleveland voucher program has reverberated around the nation, reigniting the debate on how best to improve the education of all schoolchildren.

«These school leaders have been at the forefront of efforts in their communities around the country to raise student achievement and provide urban schoolchildren the high - quality education they deserve,» added CUBE Chair Micah Ali, who serves on California's Compton Unified School District Board of Trustees.

Charter schools are publicly funded but privately operated, sometimes by for - profit companies, and have been proliferating for more than 25 years, with thousands of them enrolling as much as 6 percent of America's schoolchildren around the country.

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.

Around the same time Lukwa left Telegraph Cove with a group of schoolchildren from Avalon Adventist Jr Academy in Port Hardy.

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.

What is the extent and nature of social, emotional and behavioural difficulty among Scottish schoolchildren around the age they enter primary one?

All schoolchildren adopted from care are to benefit from # 20m of additional Pupil Premium money to get the support they need to thrive at school — helping around an extra 10,000 pupils.