Sentences with phrase «of schools exercise»

It is troublesome that, when asked, a sizable number of schools exercise their right to refuse to participate in NAEP testing.

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Already that morning he had appeared on «CBS This Morning,» exercised with NYC school children, met with the Virgin team, and conducted a series of other interviews.

A number of studies, including a February 2011 report from Harvard Medical School, have found the link between exercise and stress reduction.

In truth, most so - called curriculum overhauls are cosmetic marketing exercises intended to show that a school is adapting to the changing needs and demands of business.

The event drew stars like Tampa Bay Lightning forward Steven Stamkos and Montreal Canadiens sharpshooter Mike Cammalleri, who, alongside a group of the league's most promising prospects, all paid for the opportunity to press iron, grunt through excruciating exercises and run skating drills on the storied ice surface at Toronto's St. Michael's College School Arena.

«Aerobic exercise is the key for your head, just as it is for your heart,» write the authors of an article in the Harvard Medical School blog «Mind and Mood.»

Because ultimately, what the study proves is that we must increase the quantity and intensity of exercise both at schools and at home if we want our children to be more globally competitive.

For him, that means dedicating time to doing things that he cares about — liking dropping his kids off at school, watching shows with them at the end of the day, and carving out time in the day to exercise and think about the big picture.

Through a series of real - time broadcasts, brands such as U.S. sports nutrition company GNC, U.K. retailer Sainsbury's and Korean cosmetics maker Too Cool for School used everything from exercise routines to dance numbers to on - air makeovers to connect with consumers watching from home.

If the government were to fine a parent $ 10 for sending his or her child to a religious school, everyone would recognize this as an unconstitutional penalty on the exercise of religious freedom.

Through the exercise of its governance practices it will have decided to be a distinctively Pentecostal pietist theological school, for example, or a distinctively Roman Catholic school.

Schools respect the religious liberty of students in prohibiting religious exercises.

For nearly a dozen years I was a member of the Committee to Visit the Divinity School, of Harvard University, a quaint but sometimes useful device dating back to early days when the Commonwealth of Massachusetts had its suspicions about Harvard and exercised them through insisting on such inspection.

The school desegregation story illustrates the general principle that to the degree that control of education is not exercised with a sense of responsibility for justice, Federal control will be introduced.

Now, writes his biographer, «Mann was about to preach a new religion and convince his constituency of the need for a new establishment, a nondenominational institution, the public school, with schoolmasters as a new priestly class, patriotic exercises as quasi-religious rituals, and a nonsectarian doctrine stressing morality, literacy and citizenship as a republican creed for all to confess.

What there is is finding other ways of exercising that call: interim pastor, parish associate, stated supply, teaching church school, worshiping always, serving on presbytery committees, being volunteers in mission, and by being a participant as an «honorary layperson» in the ongoing life of a congregation — all these and more are ways by which we respond to the enduring calling by God through the church.

IMHO schools should only close for Federal holidays (aside from things like winter / spring / summer break) as that eliminates the risk of First Amendment challenges («establishment of religion» and»... or prohibiting the free exercise thereof»).

At first, they explained to me, it feels sort of trivial to do something like this — like an exercise you'd give to a Sunday School class.

The Supreme Court gave a boost to their conviction that secularism is a genuine competing faith in the ruling in the 1961 Torcaso case, in which «Secular Humanism» was identified as a religion, and in Justice Potter Stewart's dissent in the 1963 Schempp case, which referred to a refusal to permit religious exercises in schools as not «the realization of state neutrality, but rather as the establishment of a religion of secularism.»

Since Academy schools are not under the control of local authorities, it is a source of great wonder to me that all Catholic maintained schools have not opted for this status; it is an even greater wonder that the Catholic diocesan authorities are, it seems, actually discouraging the governors of Catholic schools from exercising their legal right to opt for Academy status.

By striking down religious exercises in the public schools on the grounds that they were an establishment of religion and therefore in violation of the First Amendment.

People who participate in the «opening exercises» of the Sunday School learn an ethos.

A typical day for the girls at a shelter includes a regimen of meals, school, vocational activities (such as sewing or gardening), artistic activities (such as dancing or painting), rest, exercise, free time, counseling and psychotherapy.

The avatara of Hinduism is not the prophet of Judaism nor the Christ of Christianity; karma is not easily equated with destiny or divine will; tantric yoga differs noticeably from Sunday School exercises.

When they are in high school they should learn more sophisticated aspects of the media: who's in control, how the power is exercised, how advertising and profits affects what is covered in the news and what is said in all programs, how our violence affects us and how our media imperialism affects other people.

Some see the issue in communism, some in devotional exercises in public schools, some in concern over pornography, some in issues of social justice.

Furthermore, there was no school of thought in China that would have presented a substantialist alternative to the view of being as change; the closest candidate would be the common - sense view of things attacked by the Buddhists as illusion, and even here it was the Indian, not Chinese, sources of Buddhism that became most exercised about criticizing the theory of permanent substances.

But given the considerably greater power of influence exercised by the electronic media, Postman comes to the regretful conclusion that traditional school education yields to it

Niebuhr insists that both poles are thorough - goingly theoretical: «Whether its function as the exercise of the intellectual love of God and man or as the illumination of other church activities is stressed, in either case the work of the school is theoretical».

It may be that Brown can be so sanguine about overcoming the fragmenting effects of disciplinary diversity because the national scholarly organizations that institutionalize the various academic guilds today exercised less political power in the 1930s over scholars» standing with peers, mobility from school to school, and promotion to tenure.

«They tend in consequence to neglect the first function of a theological school — the exercise of the intellectual love of God and neighbor».

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

Some of the new forms of worship and much of the «family service» is little more than worship at a child's level of comprehension, not unlike the opening exercises of the Sunday School.

In fact a common exercise in elementary schools is to ask children to draw up their genealogical trees, because this exercise allows the child to situate himself in relation to his father and his mother and thus also in relation to the rest of society.

The second function of theology as the intellectual activity of the Church and so of the theological school as a center of this activity, is the service of other activities of the Church through the exercise of theoretical understanding.

If a theological sketch of the idea of a theological school is a utopian exercise, the community it describes is less an ideal city than a crossroads hamlet with an overwhelmingly white male population.

To get to the market, I cut through a school yard where numerous different groups of Chinese adults practice ti chi, play basket ball, or loosen up their muscles on the metal exercise equipment.

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I don't know about your school but mine offers a ton of different exercise classes such as bodypump, zumba, kickboxing and kettlebell.

Three - mile run at 6 a.m., weights at 6:30, shower, rush to the gym to teach, dash to the lecture hall to take the exercise - physiology and sports - administration classes, sprint back to the gym to coach a 2 1/2 - hour practice, hop in the car to go scout a local high school player, burn rubber back to the gym for two hours of basketball and sprints, shower again and hightail it home by midnight to study for the biomechanics midterm.

Then there's an exercise that comes straight out of elementary school gym class: a game of tag.

She is too occupied with her announcing duties for HBO, coaching Navratilova and Mayotte, speaking engagements, a fancy to get into television and film production, a new chain of play schools called the Discovery Zone that promote and study exercise for children under 12, and her longest - standing project, Team Tennis, which represents her most fervid interest: to take the sport out of elite clubs and bring it to the masses.

I was working at an Elementary School Field Day last week, and I was teaching the students about the importance of warm - up and stretching before exercises.

Research has shown that the kind of stretching routine most of us have been doing since we were in grade school (holding a stretch for 20 or 30 seconds, supposedly to prepare muscles for exercise, or static stretching) not only fails to do what it is supposed to do but may actually weaken muscles and hurt athletic performance.

Generally speaking, after the morning school runs, there is always some housework to do and I might fit in a bit of exercise, though that used to be a much more frequent occurrence than it is now!

In 1999, only 17.2 % of the PPE forms in one high school study asked questions about exercise - related cardiac symptoms, a previous diagnosis of a heart murmur or high blood pressure, and about family history of heart attack before age 50 or sudden cardiac death (three main components of the cardiac history portion of the PPE recommended by the AHA);

Paul metropolitan area during the 2009 - 2010 school year to a series of five questions about muscle - enhancing behaviors, two healthy (changing eating patterns and exercising more) and three unhealthy (using protein powders or shakes, taking steroids, or employing another muscle - building substance such as creatine, amino acids, HMB, DHEA, or growth hormone), researchers at the University of Minnesota and Columbia University found that almost all students surveyed (90 % of boys, 80 % of girls) reported doing at least 1 behavior with this as the goal, and up to one - third reported the use of unhealthy methods.

«We're hoping to educate parents, coaches, school administrators, employers, athletic trainers and other health care professionals and those who exercise or work in the cold about what can be done to prevent these types of serious injuries.»

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

He was thrilled to win best under 10 at his last gala and as a parent I'm just so pleased he's found something he enjoys that's also great exercise and allows him to mix with children of different ages from different schools.