Sentences with phrase «public school books»

Our first public school books contained the bible.

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Each year, we take a family trip to the Dominican Republic to visit a public school to donate books and toys.

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I live in a state where a woman here is on a crusade to have the Potter books removed from every public school library.

This ambivalence is carefully examined in Terry Moe's fine new book Schools, Vouchers, and the American Public (Brookings, 2001).

Teachers in Ecuador's public schools often must contend with overcrowding (60 students per class), a dearth of books — even at the university level — and students fainting from hunger (according to the government's own figures, half the nation's children suffer from malnutrition)

This country was founded on the Christian God and if you dare to read real hisotry books and not those in public schools, you will get quite a shock.

As silly as this article is, my 4th grader's public school recently pulled «Superfudge», a book by Judy Bloom, out of the curriculum because the characters talk about the fact that Santa isn't real.

One may teach Biblical concepts in Sunday School, another in public university, another by writing books [or maintaining a blog; ^)-RSB-, another in a home daycare, another on a street corner, and another during breakfast, lunch, dinner, playtime, bathtime, and bedtime.

Marc Herman's job with PAW, he writes in Harper's magazine, «was to research book banning in the public schools and, particularly, to investigate evidence of censorship promulgated by the religious right.»

@LionlyLamb: You believe that the public school system's education is «outdated,» and yet you continue to read your 2,000 - year - old book of nonsense, which has not been updated since it's inception, and you believe that the Bible should re-enter the school system, because you believe that the 2,000 - year - old book of nonsense is a reliable source of truth and knowledge?

Contrary to general opinion, the public school may indeed teach the Bible — or for that matter, the Koran or the Book of Mormon or the I Ching.

According to Edward J. Larson's scholarly, informative, Pulitzer Prize - winning book, Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion, the prosecution of young John Scopes for presumedly violating a state law restricting the teaching of evolution in the public schools need not have resulted in the now legendary high - pitched standoff between the atheistic radical Clarence Darrow and the robustly religious populist William Jennings Bryan.

Read the book and cheer for the 25 percent of college students in private schools, but then weep for the majority who attend public universities where Big Questions are largely off the table.

Fed Up With Lunch — For a year, one woman blogged about her school lunch every day at a public school in Chicago... then she wrote a book.

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.

All books must to be available to the public in schools, libraries and bookstores no matter what they're about.

This book is being released in early February, however if you pre-order, you will be given a $ 27 gift card for DonorsChoose.org, the online charity that helps public school teachers raise money to fund classroom projects.

His book, however, is actually based upon personal journeys and in - depth research in two radically different schools, neither of which is from the public school system.

With the much - discussed Hollywood film Won't Back Down making educational waves, Tough's book is not only timely but germane to the larger public dialogue about improving teaching and learning in all schools — public, private and independent.

With all of the talk of education reform and what's needed to revitalize public schools, it's refreshing to read Paul Tough's new book, Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why.

First, let me point out that while you're right that I did some of my reporting for the book at a public charter school and a private school, I reported in more depth at two traditional public schools (Fenger High in Chicago and I.S. 318 in Brooklyn).

CHICAGO — In his new book, «Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why,» journalist Paul Tough investigates the challenge of educating low - income children, who now account for more than half of all public school students.

If the public presentation is not a school board meeting, work with the administration to book your meeting space well in advance.

Q) You looked at a public charter school and a private school for this book, both of them institutions that are not in the mainstream of public education.

Perseopolis, one of my favorite movies of all time, is apparently not 7th - grade appropriate in book form, according to Chicago Public Schools.

Of course, this plan would only be available in public schools, but might be worth a mention in the back of the book.»

They've finished the public performances, but are still booked for some school ones - this play attracts primary schools and the very youngest children love it.

As a parent to a toddler and a therapist who has worked in both private and public school settings, this book peaked my curiosity and my desire to learn more about the homeschooling lifestyle.

I have been getting so much useful feedback and information for my book from two surveys I've been circulating: one asking you about the notion of «kid food» and your general thoughts about the role of junk food in your kids» lives, and a second survey just for public school parents, asking your thoughts about school meals, a la carte snacks and on - campus food fundraisers.

Four years later, Tough — now the proud parent of a public school first - grader — is back with a new book that picks up where its predecessor left off.

Books will be written analyzing where these ideas came from and why they were foisted on the nation's public schools at a time of fiscal distress.

Battle of the Books is part of the overall Summer Reading initiative run by the 37 - site Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System where school age children are encouraged to read during the summer months in an effort to advance their academic performance.

Friday, NY State quarterfinal rounds of the New York State Public High School Athletics Association (NYSPHAA) boy's basketball playoffs are in the books.

Here, in addition to hitting the books, students participate in clubs not offered in many of our public schools, receive medical care and volunteer in a variety of activities.

In the district only 30 percent of students attend public schools, but by law the district is required to provide transportation, books, and special education for all students in the district.

She is also working on a book about school turnaround driven by her personal experiences through her brother, Maurice, who was functionally illiterate as a result of failures in the public school system and died at a young age.

The winning project is called «Buffalo's Reading Park,» and the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library is collaborating with partners City of Buffalo, Buffalo Place, Just Buffalo Literary Center, WNY Book Arts Center, Visit Buffalo Niagara, Plurality Press, Albright - Knox Art Gallery Public Art Initiative and the University at Buffalo School of Architecture & Planning, in cooperation with Erie County, to create «Buffalo's Reading Park» directly adjacent to the downtown Central Library.

More than 2 1/2 years after these laws went on the books, repeat concussions began to decline among high school athletes, researchers report online October 19 in the American Journal of Public Health.

Her series of children's books, Aventureros de la Ciencia (Adventurers of Science), has been adopted by the Costa Rican government as a basis for teaching science in public schools.

Dinar, professor of environmental economics and policy in the UCR School of Public Policy, edited the book with José Albiac Murillo of the Agrifood Research and Technology Centre in Zaragoza, Spain, and Victor Pochat, a consultant in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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The Cleveland Public Library, Harvard Law School, and Brown University all have books clad in skin stripped from executed criminals or from the poor.

«Few may have noticed that after Hurricane Harvey, her foundation and the Laura Bush Foundation for America's Libraries provided a combined $ 2 million for resources, supplies and books at schools and public libraries disrupted by the storm disaster.

This was more than 15 years ago in a public school in Colombia; I did not have access to computers at that time and my text books were not advanced enough to have all the explanations for all the experiments we conducted in the lab.

Gary Bass, professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, won the Ramnath Goenka Award for best nonfiction book for «The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide.»

We are proud to work with the experts at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health to publish the renowned monthly Wellness Letter, Health After 50 newsletter and a series of targeted health books, the Wellness Reports.

My cousins, on the other hand, attended public schools in the city straight through and they would tell me stories how you'd need to get to class at least 10 minutes early to get a seat and text book.

I'm not referring to the double - sided ad promoting the best - selling essay - compiling companion book, but a $ 25 DonorsChoose.org gift card to benefit the public school classroom of your choosing.

Wonder stars acclaimed young actor Jacob Tremblay (seen in Room, Before I Wake, The Book of Henry), who plays Auggie, a kid with an awkward facial difference who decides to go to public school despite being made fun of by other students.