Sentences with phrase «paints schools as»

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Delta attempted to paint the move as an apolitical one and an attempt to stay above the fray in the gun debate, which has been reignited after this month's shooting at a high school in Florida.

When I went through school I trained as a painting conservator.

After the return of Humayun from his enforced exile in Persia, the Mughal nobles took the Persian style of painting for their model, thus making Bihzad and his school the example as Persian art was engrafted on Indian painting.

In painting, the depiction of this crossing ranges from the portrayal of the lovers in the traditional Orissa school, where they appear as one androgynous entity, to some of the paintings from the Himalayan foothills where Radha and Krishna are dressed in each other's clothes, or Radha is seen taking the more active «masculine» role.

It promulgates public school curricula that paint racism as the original sin of the United States.

This dad is an Imgur user widely known as DomZombie, who for the past three years has been uploading pictures of the custom lunch bags he hand paints for his son to take to school every single day.

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.

Yet most athletic officials, even those who oppose it, regard Prop 42 as a well - intentioned effort to strike a balance between academic integrity and the need to provide an opportunity for the disadvantaged athlete who wants a degree and is willing to work hard to get it — a kid like John Thompson was as a high school senior in Washington, D.C. Thompson says he could not have gone to college under Prop 42, but he's careful not to paint Proposition 42 in racial terms.

Or use old school chalkboards (or make your own using blackboard paint and plywood) as an simple alternative.

As onlookers, some hoisting beer cups, cheered, senior girls at a suburban Chicago high school slugged juniors and showered them with mud, garbage, paint and feces, injuring five.

Finger painting was one of my favorite pasttimes as a child, and I looked forward to the days at school when I could squish my fingers into gooey colors.

Volume XVI, Number 2 Science and the Humanities; The Great Rift in Modern Consciousness — Douglas Sloan What Stands Behind a Waldorf School — David Mitchell On Earth as It Is in Heaven: The Task of the College of Teachers — Roberto Trostli The Plight of Early Childhood Education in the U.S. — Joan Almon The Art of Knowing — Jonathan Code Painting from a Palette Entirely Different — Johannes Kiersch Authenticity in Education — Elan: Leibner Soul Breathing Exercises — Dennis Klocek

First up is Giant Kerplunk which we made for our school Summer Fair, it was almost a disaster at the time as it collapsed, but luckily a handy parent managed to fix it and we've since added some extra support and pink paint to brighten it up.

The school playgroup rang to warn me in advance that my strange son had insisted on being face painted as Hitler as his tribute to Mein Kampf!

Volunteers of the Catholic high school will spend the day doing such chores as bagging food at the Greater Chicago Food Depository and painting apartments of senior citizens.

In her free time, Molly enjoys playing with her son and her current foster children, volunteering at Sacred Heart Catholic School and Church, camping and playing in the mountains as well as scrapbooking and painting.

The Post's interviews with parents and staffers at JHS / MS 80, as well as public documents, painted a picture of a school where students are allowed to shirk their studies, hurt each other and play on computers in rat - infested buildings, while administrators turned a blind eye and even discouraged staffers from reporting violence.

For 9 weeks, the Southern Tier Athletic Conference (STAC) high school baseball league featured defending champion Vestal start off the season hot as ever, but find themselves backed down by teams like Seton Catholic, Union - Endicott, and Corning - Painted Post.

For 9 weeks, the Southern Tier Athletic Conference (STAC) high school baseball league featured defending champion Vestal start off the season hot as ever, but find themselves backed down by teams like Seton Catholic, Union - Endicott (U-E), and Corning - Painted Post (C - PP).

All participating schools will receive their final painted rain barrels to use, donate or raffle as desired.

Both are key locations for the 19 - century landscape painting style known as the Hudson River School.

When asked about the political implications of the rally, Moskowitz, a former city councilwoman, painted herself as a school leader who focuses on teaching children how to read and write rather than navigating politically complex situations.

Mary Lynch, an Albany Law School professor and former prosecutor, painted the program as bad law enforcement policy that subverts local discretion.

Zeldin tried to paint Demos as a political opportunist, noting that he was raised in Manhattan, educated at the exclusive Trinity School and only summered on Shelter Island.

Surrounded by supporters on the steps of City Hall Sunday, Jackson, who serves as the chair of the council's education committee, painted himself as a tireless fighter with a long track record of working to improve public schools.

(WBEN) A contrite Carl Paladino addressed his controversial remarks about the Obamas Tuesday and went on to paint himself as a watchdog during the final day of testimony at hearings to decide on his removal from the Buffalo School Board Challenging board attorney Frank Miller at times, the two both...

In an opening statement at a hearing in Albany to determine if Paladino should be ousted from his elected School Board position, attorney Dennis Vacco painted Paladino as a victim of an effort by fellow School Board members to punish him for making controversial, but constitutionally protected remarks about President Obama and his wife in another newspaper story.

Mulgrew noted that the Wall Street backers of Success Academy charter schools spent $ 5 million on television ads painting themselves as victims.

«Overall, we're trying to paint an updated, accurate picture of what teens these days are facing across our nation so as to underscore the critical importance of devoting additional resources and attention to this persistent problem, and inform schools exactly what they should focus on,» said Hinduja.

Instead, GHI offered to pay a third of the cost to strengthen the school, if village masons agreed to work cheaply and local businesses donated materials such as steel and paint.

Shalat says that poor children are both most likely to be exposed to lead — from factory smelters, dust, soil and paint — and to suffer the worst effects of that exposure, thanks to poor access to health care and other resources such as proper nutrition and high - quality schools.

In their Halloween - themed piece, the New York Times paints a picture of Botica & Co. as an old - school apothecary — a completely different genre...

I have loved art as long as I can remember and spent hours and hours in and out of school drawing and painting pretty much my whole life.

In 2011, artist Patrick Brill (known creatively as Bob and Roberta Smith) made waves in the art world with a letter to Michael Gove, an oversized painted - word response to the Education Secretary's proposed eradication of art from the British school syllabus.

The film is fairly paint - by - numbers and mostly predictable, but a standout performance from Shannon as the drunk, gambling - addicted father of a high school basketball star and an impressive turn from the always - welcome, always - gorgeous Carla Gugino will help position Wolves for a decently widespread theatrical release, though it probably won't have much staying power.

The scene ends with Swinton's mother waking up and leaving her house to find it (and her car) splashed in red paint by her fellow citizens, as her son, possibly stewed in the resentment and frustration of the mother, has grown up to become a neurotic sociopath responsible for murdering his fellow students in a school shooting — which of course is young people splashed in a different kind of red.

MONDELLO: Armie Hammer plays this Ranger - to - be as a fresh out of law school noble do - gooder while Johnny Depp's Tonto is a face - painting noble savage - that's the movie's phrase - who's forever feeding the dead crow he wears on his head.

Alas, it is very much a Hollywood treatment, full of glossed - over characterizations and trumped - up conflicts (the other school educators are painted as the villains), and, at best, we are given everything we expect, delivered tidy and sterile like a formula film always tends to.

Even the title of the film seems like a play on Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, so it can't really be ignored as a coincidence, especially as the story paints the group as a class under fire from those who don't understand them, a strong allusion to the X-Men as an analogue for various persecuted races and classes throughout the history of the 20th century.

Biggs is painted as an earnest, if deluded man, too restrained by rules and protocol to see the truth, and lacking an education in the school of hard knocks that has made such virtuous men of Hodges and Childers.

$ 40,000 may seem like a lot to pay so your kid can have the privilege of finger - painting around other privileged tykes, until you realize that these nurseries are now seen as feeder schools for the Ivies.

Peter grows up and we see him at school, where they try to paint Garfield's Parker as an outsider, though Gwen Stacy seems pretty into him from the start.

Gwendolyn is painted as such a harridan that she even intimidates some of the male authority figures at school, including a wimpy soccer coach (J.J. Watt) and an indifferent principal (Wendell Pierce).

There is no cartoon evil or sex comedy foolishness driving any of the characters, and even the meanest mean girl and the bro - est sex - obsessed bro dude have a couple moments that paint them as real people, or at least as real as high school kids can be.

Walk into one Christian school in North Carolina, as I recently did, and you'll find a 2nd - grade classroom wall covered with creative writing about a Monet painting.

As part of the study we are also asking students in grades 3 - 12 to write short essays in response to paintings that they have probably never seen before to assess how they critically analyze a new work of art after they've had a school tour of an art museum.

It's a great shame that some lovely old buildings like the 1930s village school in Chagford, Devon, which was assessed as having only a blocked gutter, a non life threatening crack and some peeling paint, are being demolished when it would be entirely possible to refurbish them.

A glimpse into your average school may not paint this exact picture just yet, but many Australian primary schools have been embracing «coding» as a part of their school curriculum for a while now and things are only just getting started.

The NEPC report paints a dismal picture of student learning at K12 - operated schools, but the fatal flaw of the report is that the measures of «performance» it employs are based primarily on outcomes such as test scores that may reveal more about student background than about the quality of the school, and on inappropriate comparisons between virtual schools and all schools in the same state.

Reid, a fifth grader at Elsanor Elementary School, makes a painting of a fish he saw in a video as part of his class's lesson on marine life.