Sentences with phrase «of schoolchildren in»

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.

Oil giant BP is promoting its brand to thousands of schoolchildren in almost 100 schools in Aberdeenshire, an area in which it recently slashed a fifth of its workforce...

A lot of Chicago parents with the resources to do so have followed Emanuel's lead: 17 % of schoolchildren in Chicago attend private schools, and so don't have to trouble themselves with whether or not their local public school has air conditioning, or a library (160 do not), or classes with 45 students.

* About 10 percent of schoolchildren in the United States go to private schools, according to 2013 - 2014 data, the latest available, with 38 percent of these enrolled in Catholic schools.

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.

Each year, between 10 and 20 percent of schoolchildren in the United States are exposed to domestic violence.

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

Nearly one - fifth of the schoolchildren in Massachusetts are considered Limited English Proficient (LEP), and they speak almost seventy different languages.

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.

«Newtown» filmmakers used a nonpartisan approach to document the aftermath of the deadliest mass shooting of schoolchildren in American history.

Synopsis: How the community of Newtown came together in the aftermath of the largest mass shooting of schoolchildren in American history.

The campaign rolled out its first television spot, featuring jarring images of schoolchildren in flak jackets and combat helmets, to illustrate Ryan's support for an assault weapons ban, this week.

Governor Cuomo has questioned why more than 95 % of teachers last year were rated adequate or above average, when two thirds of schoolchildren in grades 3 to 8 were found in standardized tests not to be meeting the new requirements.

Not exact matches

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.

Instead of rushing in, several Broward sheriff's deputies waited outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School while a killer gunned down schoolchildren, according to other officers on the scene.

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.

Schoolchildren searching for whitehouse.com on the internet found porn in the late 1990s, and «the bottom line is it's almost impossible to protect yourself from this kind of stuff,» said Reese, a Jesuit at Georgetown University.

Reading it brought it all back again — the Pope's magnificent speech in Westminster Hall, his beautiful message to schoolchildren gathered at Twickenham, and the way in which the fundamental goodness of the man communicated itself to the crowds.

How powerful can the image of peace be in a country where, for example, half of its schoolchildren can not identify Adolf Hitler or Vietnam?

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.

When he opened a crusade in his home town of Charlotte, North Carolina, in the fall of 1971, schoolchildren, government workers and store clerks got a holiday, as the governor of the state, U.S. senators from North and South Carolina and the secretary of the treasury showed up to pay tribute.

As he moves from the ordinary suburban world of his abusive foster parents into the enchanted realm of the Hogwarts School, the bullying intensifies from nasty to mortally dangerous (a progression that U.S. schoolchildren have witnessed in real life).

In our own time, for instance, this question is the intellectual shrug that lies behind the institution of multicultural education, the social shrug that lies behind a race - based double standard of conduct, and the moral shrug that lies behind the permission to teach techniques of anal and oral sex to schoolchildren.

Leon Gersten (at the far left end of the third row back) with other schoolchildren in a displaced persons camp in Germany after the war.

She critiqued the practice of administering strong drugs to schoolchildren in an effort to promote better school performance in Why Ritalin Rules and extended her treatment of the topic in her book, Home Alone America.

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.

But they also did some music, at any rate in the form of the songs which all schoolchildren sang frequently in the street.

The real Trojan horse in the Birmingham affair is the imposition on schoolchildren of a radical liberal agenda lurking behind a thin veneer of «British Values».

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

Italian schoolchildren have been getting an education in Meat Free Monday, thanks to the inspiring efforts of a teacher in Rome.

Schoolchildren from a community in the Mosquitia region of Honduras, site of a Rainforest Alliance community forestry enterprise.

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.

Providing schoolchildren in South Africa with meals packed in multilayer pouches designed to provide optimum nutrition at the start of the school day while minimising food waste.

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.

A British - born son of Yemeni immigrants, Hamed is a huge draw in England and in his parents» homeland, where his face is plastered on everything from schoolchildren's composition books to postage stamps.

One day last week, in the old part of Prague, schoolchildren from the small town of Klatovy were taking a tour of the big city.

Scores of schoolchildren bandy about, some offering heartfelt attempts to «tag» one another in the game of the same name, others waiting their turn for hot dogs and Slushies.

The school system in England gave up on competitive sport but now professional clubs have taken over the coaching of schoolchildren and the dividends are paying off.

The mission of the Partners is to increase breakfast consumption among schoolchildren and spark the academic and nutritional gains associated with the morning meal through the implementation of Breakfast in the Classroom programs.

A continuation of our partnership with DC Public Schools that began in 2010, DCCK will serve nearly 1,000 more low - income students, providing healthy, scratch - cooked meals to schoolchildren at 12 District schools in Ward 7.

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.

In a presentation to the school board in January 2011, CPS officials credited the breakfast program with improving the «intellectual, emotional, social and physical development» of schoolchildren from low - income familieIn a presentation to the school board in January 2011, CPS officials credited the breakfast program with improving the «intellectual, emotional, social and physical development» of schoolchildren from low - income familiein January 2011, CPS officials credited the breakfast program with improving the «intellectual, emotional, social and physical development» of schoolchildren from low - income families.

«It is clear that the complex array of federal food safety programs doesn't adequately protect America's schoolchildren,» said Caroline Smith DeWaal, food safety director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer advocacy group.

The headline: «The most important meal of the day: Daily breakfast may lower obesity risk in schoolchildren — Nestlé study.»

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WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 04: U.S. first lady Michelle Obama jokes with schoolchildren with White House chef Sam Kass (L) after planting the White House Kitchen Garden on the South Lawn of the White House April 4, 2013 in Washington, DC.

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.

The school meal recommendations are also meant as handbook for communication between stakeholders; providers of education and supporting activities, schools, persons in charge of school food services and pupil welfare, as well as for parents and carers, and the schoolchildren themselves.

Our camps reach over 11,000 children and their families from 76 percent of cities and towns in Massachusetts, and we offer programs serving schoolchildren in 62 percent of the state's cities and towns.