Sentences with phrase «of young people in school»

«Compelling education research and brain science now demonstrate what parents have always known: the success of young people in school and beyond is inextricably linked to healthy social and emotional development» Shirley Brandman, executive director of the commission and a former juvenile public defender in Newark, N.J., wrote in a blog post.

We're having trouble keeping many of our young people in school because they're bored and they don't see the benefit of a memorized education; they want to learn and they want to contribute something meaningful to society.

The success of young people in school, the workplace, and the community depends on more than content knowledge and test scores.

At CDC Healthy Schools, located in the Division of Population Health, we work to prevent chronic disease and promote the health and well - being of young people in schools and out - of - school programs.

«Student voice is formed of the unique perspective of the young people in our schools.

In responding to bullying of young people in schools we have seen a strong alliance between schools, parents and children as part of the Solid Kids, Solid Schools project.

Not exact matches

«Young people have got the potential to be great employees in a sales capacity, but they're not coming out of school completely job - ready,» says Scarborough.

Once an optional stop on the career path, internships are increasingly becoming de rigeur for young people — often high school, undergraduate, and graduate students — looking for hands on experience in a wide range of fields.

«This issue of having young people out of school and out of work is the most important issue we need to address in the United States,» Hoplamazian said.

- The company has already reached 70 % (7,000 employees) of its 10,000 - employee commitment for hiring «opportunity youth» (unemployed young people who are not in school) as well as being 25 % of the way toward its even more ambitious 100,000 opportunity youth hiring goal, the 100,000 Opportunities Initiative, that Starbucks successfully goaded other corporate giants (Target, Walmart, etc.) to join in.

Isolation is of such concern that young people 16 to 24 who are neither employed nor in school are now tracked and classified as «disconnected youth.»

I'm sure there are young people in business schools who do have that sense of mission.

As a career development specialist and one who has worked with young people in and out of schools for 35 + years, I DO promote the notion that finding something you are passionate about is KEY to loving what you do.

Will Riley, a senior at Carlsbad High School in Carlsbad, New Mexico, launched «Stand for the Second» in an effort to speak out on behalf of young people who support gun rights.

But after a Bushmaster rifle was used in 2012 to kill 26 people, most of them young children, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., public anger at Remington drove some investors to try to divest from the company.

A lot of young people that I know in Beijing — high school and college students, young professionals, musicians, etc. — were horrified by the violence that occurred in Paris and very eager to express a real sympathy for Parisians, which they did in the ways that young people express themselves today, via smart phones, social media, and all the other things that wouldn't have occurred to me.

They have joined leagues of other young people fighting for what seems like common sense: safety in schools.

For adults and young people seeking higher education in 2011, chose a school whose costs keep you out of debt.

The company's hope is that a large number of these graduates will be «Opportunity Youth:» young people between the ages of 16 - 24 who are not enrolled in school or are out of the workforce.

At the Annual Meeting of Shareholders in March, Starbucks pledged to hire at least 10,000 young people between the ages of 16 - 24 who are not in school or employed.

If you are a parent of a high school student or a high schooler yourself, ensuring these skills are well understood and engrained will help any young person better succeed in personal -LSB-...]

«Shockingly, the rate of young people not working and not in school between the ages of 25 and 29 is double that, at one in five.

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program changed the lives of young people who came to the United States illegally as children in incredible ways — boosting high school graduation rates and college enrollment, while slashing teen births by a staggering 45 percent.

Grammy - winning performer and producer Wyclef Jean believes the combined creativity, ingenuity and energy of young people in their last few years of high school and early college is a musical, cultural and political force that a society ignores at its...

Set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, shortly after the massive changes ushered in by the modernizing Vatican II conference in Rome, the story quickly sets up a conflict between the old - school nun who serves as principal and runs the school like a prison (played by Meryl Streep) and the young, new priest (Philip Seymour Hoffman) who wants to shake things up by treating the students as fully rounded young people who deserve doses of freedom and respect as well.

People have the right to leave church and organized religion, they have a right to question an institution that will do anything to save face even if it means letting children be harmed (and trust me, there are Priests that have issues with girls - my mom when to an all girls» Catholic school in the 60s and talks about how many of the priests used to «hang out» with the young girls out and girls have been abused), churches that are not practicing social justice.

This is what apprenticeship is all about, and in modern Western nations schooling is the way by which young people are apprenticed in the skills of citizenship required of adults.

Young people in schools and colleges struggle with all of this.

When I ask Carter to describe the kind of young person who commits violent crime, he says there are some recurring themes: «The common factors will be a broken family at home, someone who isn't fully engaged in their education — absenteeism from school and truancy — and domestic abuse is a key factor as well.

Other churches are fighting on different fronts: Beacon Church Brixton has seen many young men give their lives to Christ and come off the streets thanks to the passion of a teacher in their congregation; Ecclesia Church is partnering with an education charity to provide support for young people excluded from school; and Emmanuel Pentecostal church has organised successful youth events where Christian ex-offenders share their testimonies.

In a country where alcoholism, gun violence, and drugs lure a lot of young people (particularly young men) into destructive lifestyles, World Vision has implemented leadership initiatives, after - school programs, and peace programs that seem to be making a difference, particularly among sponsored children who grow into adults.

The «Let me play devil's advocate» strategy is bizarrely inappropriate in such a situation, as it assumes that the young people in our secondary schools are so indoctrinated that they need to be shaken out of the complacency of a life of faith based on social approval.

The area in which schools should have a very significant role to play (and where perhaps some Catholic schools currently underperform), is the promotion of a culture in which young people understand and engage with the Church's key teachings relating to sexuality and the inherent dignity of human life.

actually you do nt have to prove the many deities or Gods that they really exist, because they really had existed in their times, They are part of the evolutionary process for us humans to transcend to higher consciousness.To simplify the analogy, when we were young and we are in the lower grade school, we were taught simple subjects not advance literatures but simple stories even mythicals, The same with religion, thousands of years ago when there was no science yet, primitive people had a religion, of course man made faiths to conform with their state of mind or intellect.But later atfter thousands of years we evolve into a more educated people and so new concept of God again was presented to them, another man made concept, and this go on and on, until a few thiousand years ago.monotheism, Judaism, christianity, islam, buddhism, etc also evolved, But with the accelerated evolution, these faith again is threatend with obsolesencs because of of scientific developments and education.In panthroteistic faith, the future religion needs to conform to evolutionary process, This proves that God is always there guiding the change.And it his will that made this a reality in history since the begining of the universe 13 billion years ago, and this will continue to exist until He will completely fulfill His will to infinity, Thats PANTHROTHEISM, the futue, man made religion under His guidance through scientifiic evoluition after the Bi Bang

There are those, for example, who are deadly frightened by the awesome growth in drug use among high school and even younger students, and by the easy availability of pornography for young people.

The young people of Tehran who threw themselves in frustration at the security forces seem to be the group that in the great High School Yearbook of the Civilizations would have been voted least likely to succeeded.

It is within the province of public schools not only to see that students are correctly informed about religious matters, but also to provide a setting in which older young people may learn to recognize and sift out irreligious and idolatrous tendencies and perversions in the various religious systems of mankind.

Schools and colleges were established in great numbers, and more and more young people took advantage of this great new opportunity for upward movement on the ladder of success.

Amanda Spielman, the chief executive of Ofsted said some faiths schools «seek to isolate young people from the mainstream, do not prepare them for life in Britain or, worse, and actively undermine fundamental British values».

The report notes that education must prepare the 1.5 million young people who graduate each year from some level of schooling to join their elders in continuous striving for new attainments.

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Chaplains are seeing the firsthand results of materialism, secularism and interfaith marriages and are dealing with young people where they spend most of their time and energy — in school.

This week, we talk with Teresa Goines about Old School Cafe, how it's making a difference in the lives of young people and to actually effect change in local communities.

He recalled the solid achievements which were now to be seen in Ernestine Saxony, the results of the Visitation, of the preaching of a theology of faith and the circulation of the Little Catechism, and the German New Testament: «The young people, both boys and girls, grow up so well instructed in the Catechism and the Scriptures that I am deeply moved when I see that young boys and girls can pray, believe, and speak more of God and Christ than they ever could in the monasteries, foundations, and schools of bygone days, or even of our day.

St Columba's Church also supports a youth project in Lochside which offers a range of summer activities for children from primary school age to young people in high school.

Young people met ridicule and exclusion in the schools because they acknowledged membership in the Junge Gemeinde (the youth fellowship) of the church.

Most people still think in terms of two sexes, but they are gradually being «re-educated» and here the main strategic target is the young, in the schools.

He advised Christian teachers to be: «Recognising that every young person is made in God's image and that we want all young people to have opportunities and to be leaving school with aspirations and dreams and regardless of their backgrounds we need them to all recognise that».

They work with schools, run seminars for young married couples, meet with the large community of sex workers in the border town of Nyanza Lac, broadcast a weekly radio program, and use the natural contexts of young people — like soccer matches — to share the message of creaturely self - respect and divine love.