Sentences with phrase «of schoolchildren by»

In Missouri, and some other states, state - required separation of schoolchildren by race ended shortly after the Supreme Court decision in 1954.

As is the case today, from 1940 to 1960 teacher educators sought to protect the interests of schoolchildren by socially engineering «desirable» characteristics in their teachers.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Suburbia may also have fostered the absorption of the monetary value - standard; the question most frequently asked by thousands of wide - eyed schoolchildren visiting the traveling King Tut exhibit was not anything about that fabulous era, or what those people believed as they prepared for afterlife, but rather, «How much does it cost?»

Benito Juárez, supreme court justice and then president, was the liberals» foremost leader and engineer of the 1857 constitution (for which he is now honored by schoolchildren as the first among national heroes).37 Earlier outlawed had been any but «secular» education and the use of civil machinery to enforce religious vows and payment of church tithes.

The study estimated that 15 percent of the country's fifty million public schoolchildren will be abused by a school employee.

Schoolchildren in northern Indiana, I can attest, marked Lincoln's birthday by drawing crayon portraits of the president while listening to inspirational stories about his life.

Staff from GreenPalm were joined by other local businesses to use their expertise to give a group of 80 Hull schoolchildren a lesson in global trade, during an event intended to help them learn more about International business.

In recent years, the fight against ocean plastic pollution has gone from a preoccupation of marine scientists to a movement embraced by everyone from schoolchildren to Queen Elizabeth II, galvanized by images of trash - strewn seas and sea turtles choking on plastic straws and other consumer castaways.

With the IAAF World Indoor Championships returning to her home city of Birmingham from March 1 - 4, the Olympic 400m bronze medallist marked the 100 days to go milestone by helping to launch a ticket campaign offering 100 local schoolchildren the chance to attend the Championships for free.

From the outset, they had two purposes: to help dispose of surplus agricultural commodities owned by the government as a result of price - support agreement with farmers, and to help prevent nutritional deficiencies among low - income schoolchildren.»

Department of Agriculturein January unveiled new rules aimed at improving the health standards of federally - funded meals consumed by about 32 million American schoolchildren.

Regular spates of truanting, depression and aggression by British schoolchildren shows what serious damage can be done to a sensitive child when the environment is not appropriate.

Parks officials have asked the school district to share the cost of playground renovations because they are used primarily by schoolchildren.

The pact doesn't resolve a longtime dispute between District 54 officials and officials of the Hoffman Estates and Schaumburg Park Districts over whether the cost of renovating playgrounds used primarily by schoolchildren should be shared or paid solely by the park district in question.

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.

Appointed parliamentary secretary for pensions by Winston Churchill, in the coalition government of 1940, she went on to become minister for Education in the landmark Attlee government of 1945, introducing free milk for schoolchildren and raising the school leaving age.

A new scheme to urge schoolchildren to be vigilant on British streets against the threat of robbery is being launched today by the Home Office.

Always proud of her ties to Queens, Ferraro introduced the borough to the rest of the country in her 1984 convention speech, telling how schoolchildren pass by subway stops on their way to school, residents hang flags on Grand Avenue on the Fourth of July and small businesses «take pride in supporting their families through hard work and initiative.»

Thousands of parents have gotten a lesson this week, as the Mayor's «my way or the highway» approach has left thousands of schoolchildren stranded at curbs across the city by the school bus strike.

Schoolchildren from his former primary school, St Columba's, sang a psalm, and when his old friend, the businessman Brian McBride, concluded his eulogy by saying: «That's what you were Charles, one of us,» the 500 - strong congregation broke into affectionate applause.

While not confirming his intention outright, the education secretary indicated he wanted to see a new examination which would be taken by the vast majority of schoolchildren — recognising the best - performing «high - flyer» pupils while also acknowledging the «fluency» of lesser - able students.

The governor said the country should be mourning at the moment, following the killing of schoolchildren and teachers in Potiskum, Yobe State, on Monday by the Boko Haram sect.

Six school districts and parents of schoolchildren submitted a brief on Nov. 10 accusing Pennsylvania of violating its state constitution by skimping on education funding.

Next comes annoyance — which impairs people's well - being even if it has no direct impact on health — with a corresponding figure of 587,000 years, followed by learning deficits among schoolchildren estimated at 45,000, and tinnitus with 22,000.

We did this using a variety of methods, including experimental games, door - to - door surveys and questionnaires aimed at schoolchildren, and by observing the frequency of spontaneous prosocial acts such as people picking up and posting a stamped addressed envelope left on the sidewalk, or the extent to which people decorated their houses during Halloween or Christmas.

Nearly a year later, a giant raft of Krakatoa pumice washed up on the shore of Zanzibar, 3,000 miles away off East Africa, where it was found by schoolchildren.

At issue is a study funded by the U.S. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that was conducted on schoolchildren in Hunan province in 2008 and published online in August.

By now even schoolchildren know that the plastics we discard every year in the millions of tons persist in the environment for hundreds of years.

Treating variation in the amount of time that states mandate schoolchildren spend in PE as natural experiments, the researchers found that an additional 60 minutes per week of PE time (enough to bring states without an explicit requirement up to the amount of PE recommended by the CDC) reduces the probability that a fifth - grader is obese by 4.8 percentage points.

And the simplified version of the tree of life memorized by schoolchildren for decades lags far behind what researchers depict today.

One Japanese study demonstrated that feeding 1,200 units of vitamin D per day to schoolchildren in the winter months slashed their risk of contracting the influenza A infection by roughly 40 percent.

Schoolchildren who washed their hands twice a day reduced their risk of developing the flu by 50 %, according to a 2011 study published in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases.

The rapidly - growing specimen is eventually named Calvin by a group of American schoolchildren live - chatting with the astronauts from Earth; fitting his hand into flexible gloves that allow him to reach into its isolation tank, a smitten Derry interacts with it as if it's a new kitten.

It is but natural that they would be famous by now and popular, and that someone would have made motivational videos where they tell schoolchildren to exercise (that's Captain America, in a series of hilarious videos).

You can see it in Steven Soderbergh's experimental «Bubble» from 2006, a love triangle set in a small - town doll factory featuring non-actors, and in Zhang Yimou's 2000 drama «Not One Less,» about the struggles of schoolchildren in a rural Chinese village played by... schoolchildren in a rural Chinese village.

After covering the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City and Pennsylvania for ABC News, Baldrick brought solace to youngsters touched by these tragedies with «The Children of 9 - 11 Wall of Hope,» a display of artwork and writing by children from the victims» families and schoolchildren across Pennsylvania.

The ambitious legislation identified test - based accountability as the key to improving schools and, by extension, the long - term prospects of American schoolchildren.

This special report, «Joining Forces,» examines the attempts by a small but growing number of districts and unions to work together to enhance the knowledge and skills of teachers and, in turn, improve the achievement of schoolchildren.

Director Vicki Abeles» documentary is about the pressures faced by American schoolchildren and their teachers in a system and culture she describes as obsessed with the illusion of achievement, competition and the pressure to perform.

In a note to the citizens of Cleveland and the schoolchildren and administration of the district, he asked that his death be used by Clevelanders to rid themselves of «petty politics, racial politics, greed, hate, and corruption.»

But by this time, the state had approved charter schools, and substantial numbers of Kansas City's black schoolchildren were patronizing them.

As schoolchildren absorbed lectures on state history during tours of the Capitol here last week, California lawmakers were making history of their own by passing a school reform package that will raise the stakes for teachers, administrators, and students.

Glynn Robinson, managing director of BJSS, said: «To safeguard the UK's digital competitiveness, it is crucial that primary and secondary school teachers are properly equipped and resourced to teach the digital and coding skills that will be required by the time today's schoolchildren enter the workforce.»

The research shows that while the number of white non-British or Irish schoolchildren has increased by just over 1.2 per cent between 2011 - 15 overall, some areas have experienced an individual increase of up to 30 per cent.

Instead of focusing on remedying the harm done to those black schoolchildren injured by segregation, the District Court here sought to convert the Kansas City, Mo., School District into a «magnet district» that would reverse the «white flight» caused by desegregation.

To be truly effective, efforts to ensure equity in IDEA by Congress, the U.S. Department of Education, and education scholars require a correct empirical understanding of the types of inequities currently being experienced by minority schoolchildren.

Simon Harbridge, CEO of Stone Group commented, «We were amazed by the response to the competition from schoolchildren and the variety of entries blew us away.

Washington — School districts that were once racially segregated by law should remain bound by court desegregation orders until every wrong caused by the separation of races is cured, a lawyer for black schoolchildren in Oklahoma City told the U.S. Supreme Court last week.