Sentences with phrase «other schoolchildren»

It's a cruel thing to do to children, not to mention the moms and dads who see charters as escapes from the traditional public schools that are failing most of the city's other schoolchildren.

It's a cruel thing to do to children, not to mention the moms and dads who see charters as escapes from the traditional public schools that are failing most of the city's other schoolchildren.

He had the fun of going round with a group of other schoolchildren singing from house to house — the traditional way of earning something to help defray living costs.

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.

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Other critics suggest the company would be better off returning to its roots as a forestry company and rubber - boot manufacturer, or selling «actual Androids to Finnish schoolchildren.»

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.

Other laws include stipulations for Qur «an literacy among schoolchildren and severe punishment for adultery, alcoholism, and gambling.

Some challenge specific parts of the curriculum (mandatory AIDS education, New York City's distribution of condoms to schoolchildren without the knowledge or consent of the parents, textbooks that propagate anti-Christian doctrines, gym - class dress requirements at odds with the modest dress required of Hindu, Muslim, and other children, «values clarification» classes that teach that there is no objective source of right and wrong, and so forth).

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.

Other politicians are taking part, including those from the veggie - friendly state of California, where LA has already joined Meat Free Monday, and schoolchildren at public schools have also recently done so.

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.

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.

Deci and Ryan and others have replicated this finding in studies with schoolchildren.

Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches may be a lunchtime mainstay for many schoolchildren — along with other cafeteria fare of questionable nutrition and taste.

At other Evanston rec centers, schoolchildren can sign up to be escorted directly from school to a park for after - school sports and games.

Visitors can talk with volunteers about activities such as giving tours to schoolchildren and other visitors; making floral arrangements and gardening; touring new exhibits; learning the opportunities for dressing up in costume to demonstrate 19th Century exhibits; or plying a hobby such as blacksmithing, printing or stone carving.

His mother, Johanna Whittlesey, like other parents across the country, assumed her child had enough water, but nutrition advocates believe schoolchildren's access to water is a national problem the federal government has only begun to address.

Schoolchildren can still buy additional foods in other parts of the lunchroom and the school.

Neither do any of the other candidates, or for that matter any sensible civilian and certainly not millions of schoolchildren.

While a number of GOP senators voted for the SAFE Act in 2013, other Republican senators were opposed, and five years later, still want to repeal the measure, saying there are other ways to keep schoolchildren safe.

To ensure that the City and the state's other districts fulfill New York's promises to its schoolchildren, we request that you introduce a back - stop measure that requires districts to develop teacher evaluation plans by August 31, 2012.

In addition to backpacks, the Coalition for the Homeless says other supplies that are much needed by schoolchildren include No. 2 pencils, composition books, pocket folders, calculators, one - inch binders and colored pencils.

There are shows six days a week with special presentations for schoolchildren, university students and other visiting groups.

However, political conservatives are slightly more likely than either moderates or liberals to say that parents should be able to decide not to vaccinate their children — though seven - in - ten or more of all three ideology groups support requiring the MMR vaccine for all schoolchildren because of the potential health risk to others.

The findings of one Japanese study that followed the immune system of two groups of schoolchildren (where one group was taking vitamin D supplementation, and the other group wasn't) suggest that lack of vitamin D can result in increased chances of catching influenza.

Both films share a forbiddingly wintry setting, all the better to draw conspicuous attention to the chilly distances that lie between characters; both feature children in peril (a busload of drowned schoolchildren in the one, a Lolita-esque belle captive in the other); and both employ an ominous, if explicitly subtextual, poem to lend a literary sheen to the proceedings.

On Friday 16th March, the school hosted 400 schoolchildren from other local schools who participated in a range of activities.

Through PLNs, American schoolchildren share cultural information with other children around the world.

Mike serves or has served on various advisory boards: transition teams for the past two MA governors (Deval Patrick and Mitt Romney), the National Council for Teacher Quality, Harvard's Futures of School Reform, Boston Schoolchildren's Consortium, Education Sector, and others.

Five schoolchildren were killed on May 31 in Greene County, N.C., when a tractor semi-trailer collided with four other vehicles, including a school bus carrying 28 students.

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

Back on March 13, 2011, retired Los Angeles school district teacher Doug Lasken and I wrote an opinion column for the San Francisco Chronicle about non-compliance with the Stull Act in Los Angeles and other California districts — so I could not be happier about this lawsuit, which may finally bring some justice for Los Angeles schoolchildren after years of the district's deliberate dodging of the law.

A new study of Connecticut schoolchildren challenges the traditional view of dyslexia as a permanent disability that is easily distinguishable from other kinds of reading problems children encounter in their elementary - school years.

Somehow millions of Harry Potter fans manage to complete every book without benefit of leading questions, a teacher's guide, previsioning, or any of the other junk pedagogical strategies that burden American schoolchildren in their English classes.

The schoolchildren told them, among other things, that they had more positive attitudes about school and were more inclined to aim for college.

Indeed, one could make a strong argument that any outsized influence that teachers unions exercise in school board elections provides a nice enhancement of democratic decisionmaking on education policy because teachers, as much as any other group in society, can serve as powerful advocates for those Americans who can not vote: schoolchildren.

Achieve serves as a significant national voice for quality in standards - based reform and regularly convenes governors, CEOs and other influential leaders at National Education Summits and other gatherings to sustain support for higher standards and achievement for all of America's schoolchildren.

While the United States spends abundantly on elementary and secondary schoolchildren ($ 12,401 per student per year in 2013 — 14 dollars), it devotes dramatically less than other wealthy countries to children in their first few years of life.

For far too long, schoolchildren in D.C. and other urban areas have been subject to a «narrative of disinheritance» — the persistent inequities of experience, resources, and perceived worth, based on race, class, or story.

Even with 60 new schools, charters would make up a smaller proportion of all schools at CPS than they do at some other large urban districts — in New Orleans, for example, about 70 percent of schoolchildren attend charters.

Average test scores for American schoolchildren usually lag behind those of many other nations (although results vary somewhat by test and subject).

And so far, they haven't expressed concern about other ideas Tennessee's teachers may be planting in the unsuspecting heads of our state's schoolchildren.

But the current model, with two public school systems pushing each other to be better and cooperating whenever possible, is proving to be the right mix for the District's schoolchildren.

The 50 stories gathered here, along with hundreds of others, were submitted as part of the Rethink Learning Now campaign, a national grassroots effort to change the tenor of our national conversation about schooling by shifting it from a culture of testing, in which we overvalue basic - skills reading and math scores and undervalue just about everything else, to a culture of learning, in which we restore our collective focus on the core conditions of a powerful learning environment, and work backwards from there to decide how best to evaluate and improve our schools, our educators, and the progress of our nation's schoolchildren.

In fact, U.S. schoolchildren do better in the other major international comparison, the TIMSS, which is a more traditional test of the academic curriculum.

There's an urgent need to close an enduring and troubling achievement gap between these highest need students and other California schoolchildren.

SANFORD — Seminole County animal control officials will begin talking to young schoolchildren this month about pet responsibility, animal overpopulation and other topics.

Seminole County animal control officials will begin talking to young schoolchildren this month about pet responsibility, animal overpopulation and other topics.Animal control employees will visit Eastbrook Elementary School from 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

With news this week that schoolchildren are to receive lessons in dealing with the «Fear of Missing Out», and many of us more likely to suffer from anxiety than any other generation, it's no wonder stress is on the rise.

McCollum has used the system in collaborations with a community library, schoolchildren, home craftworkers, writers, architects, and other artists, as the Shapes are created to be used for many different kinds of projects, and so far have been produced in the form of both prints and sculpture, in Plexiglas, Corian, plywood, hardwoods, metals, rubber, and fabric, in a variety of sizes.