Sentences with phrase «rural school children»

This year's winners are: Doris Attebury of R / E Professional Consultants, Lubbock, Texas, founder of East Lubbock Special Angels, which collects donated goods from the community and distributes them to those in need; Jean Clary of Century 21 Clary & Associates, Emporia, Va., founder of Children are Really Extra Special, a program that enlists corporate sponsors to fund educational opportunities for 4,000 low - income, rural school children; Craig Conant of Elsberry Realty, Warrensburg, Mo., who supports many projects in the community including founding a Big Brothers / Big Sisters chapter and a children's memorial park; Debra Parmenter of Coldwell Banker Heritage House, Durango, Colo., who, among her many charitable activities, founded Adopt - A-Family, an organization that donates Christmas gifts to the needy; and Matthew Schrum of Weichert, REALTORS ®, Yardley, Pa., who has worked as a volunteer firefighter for 19 years.

The prevention of depressive symptoms in rural school children: a randomized controlled trial

The prevention of depressive symptoms in rural school children: A randomised controlled trial.

The prevention of depressive symptoms in rural school children: A follow - up study.

The J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Foundation, the ROCI Task Force and Bellwether Education Partners are working to foster a better understanding of the issues that affect rural education, inform policy discussions, and bring attention to the unique needs and circumstances of rural school children.

Not exact matches

Tamela Walhof, a regional organizer for Bread for the World, says many rural residents have to drive an hour and 15 minutes to the grocery store and bus their children two and half hours to school.

Play Therapy for traumatized children in rural schools can be amplified through a systems approach that includes consultation with teachers and school systems and by expanding our view of «systems» to include nature, a readily available and under - utilized resource in play therapy.

The Asantehene cited the Otumfuo Charity Foundation, a community development organisation which had an ICT programme, and said that could be a starting point for a possible partnership with Vodafone to roll out training programmes to help school children in rural communities.

About one - third of children in rural districts and about 37 percent in New York City were considered proficient in the skills they need in English and math, while just an average of 16 percent of students in upstate city schools performed well on the tests.

«To support more opportunities for the girl child, especially those in the rural areas and those who were not opportune to go to school, we are planning on setting up six Women Development Centres to make it easier for them to access projects and programmes set up by government to better their living conditions», she said.

It's summer vacation for school children, leaders of New York's rural schools are worrying about the new school year, and say they are squeezed by a tax cap and other factors.

You used an extracurricular rifle safety program in a rural Upstate county to make it sound like Rob would threaten the safety of school children?

«Rural schools face unique issues and I want to ensure that pupils that attend them have the same opportunities as children in other areas.

It is summer vacation for school children, but leaders of New York's rural schools are worrying about the new school year and say they are squeezed by a tax cap and other factors.

The researchers examined the impact of this policy on children's snack food and beverage intake at eight middle schools in rural Appalachian Virginia.

But Rozelle became aware of health issues during a 2009 visit to a rural school with Reynaldo Martorell, a maternal and child health and nutrition specialist at Emory University in Atlanta.

Using HUNT, a Norwegian population - based health cohort study based in a rural county with 130,000 residents, the Bristol Medical School team, with co-workers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, were able to see how mortality in the parents related to both their own BMI (the conventional approach) and to the BMI of their adult children.

Researchers worked with two groups of children: a primary age group in rural South Ferriby, Lincolnshire, where a tidal surge breached the banks of the Humber; and a high school group in urban Staines - upon - Thames, Surrey where the Government declared a state of emergency and the army was drafted in to assist emergency services cope with tidal, rainfall, river and groundwater flooding.

She lived in South Africa, bringing mobile - based e-learning to rural schools, as well as mentoring social entrepreneurs in low - income townships and working with children affected by HIV / AIDS.

On a winter's day, in the small rural community of Sam Dent, British Columbia, a school bus inexplicably crashes into a frozen lake, taking the lives of fourteen children and injuring many others...

Preer starred as Sylvia Landry, an African - American woman who travels north in an effort to raise money for a rural school in the Deep South for poor black children.

In Calvary Gleeson - who was once a teacher in a Catholic school - plays a priest in a rural parish and is under a death sentence from a man abused as a child by a priest.

Weaver is Alice Goodwin, a school nurse who lives on a farm in rural Wisconsin with her husband Howard (David Strathairn, Limbo, A Midsummer's Night Dream) and their two children Emma and Claire.

Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy grow up together at what seems to be an upscale boarding school in rural England, going through the joys and squabbles that any children do, but there are signs that things may not all be as they seem.

«An investment in quality preschool for at - risk children, including all those rural children in poverty, will help them start school ready to learn and stay on track for success.»

Even with parental determination to be involved while their children are in school, «I think the primary challenge rural kids face is a lack of preparation for school,» Rearick told Education World.

A South Carolina judge's ruling that the state must provide more educational opportunities for young children in poor and rural areas is setting the stage for an extensive legislative and policy debate on K - 12 schools in the Palmetto State.

It is certainly of concern that children in these more rural schools may be denied access to the latest, most innovative digital education learning content because of a mismatch in broadband and connectivity, as the findings of our research implied.

Today's youth hostels are helping school children from all backgrounds to participate in a range of different activities in rural and urban areas across the country.

Following the introduction of the pre-school education program, student attendance in participating rural areas has reached 95 per cent, parent attendance in the program is 90 per cent and all children accessing ANEER have transitioned to primary school.

The formula included weights for housing prices, minority, English - as a second language learners, children with special needs, children who are permitted free school meals, schools located in rural under - privileged areas, rusting economic areas and with high percentages of «working classes».

Of the children who are in school today — especially those in rural areas — 50 per cent of the mothers have probably not had any schooling or very little schooling, which means that the ability at home to help children with learning is very low.

Quality education choices for every child What does school choice mean in rural America?

«The poorest children in America go to school in rural areas.»

«West Northumberland's rural schools are nurturing places that provide a safe and secure environment for our children to learn and develop.

It didn't matter whether the teacher was working in a rural school in the south west or an inner city school in the north east, the national pay scale ensured that every good teacher teaching broadly similar groups of children would receive an equivalent salary.

It is hardly surprising that only a minority of rural children gets into secondary school, and only a small part of that group goes on to higher education.

The for - profit company's effort in the rural South represents Edison's newest interest: helping states deal with the many schools listed as needing improvement under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

(p. 5) Tyack & Cuban: «In the firm belief that they were the trustees of the public interest, superintendents and other policy elites of the first half of the century tended to dismiss their opponents as ignorant or self - interested... They regarded the rural foes of school consolidation as backward yokels who did not know what was good for their children.»

Children in rural Guatemala attend schools that are constructed out of corrugated iron and plastic tarps.

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One of her professors shared the story of an incident between an international organization and a rural village in Africa in which the mothers of the village opposed the construction of a new road through the community for fear that their children, who had to walk to school along the roadway, would be hit by speeding traffic.

Similar findings were reported in the Plowden Report in England, which compared children from the informal schools of rural areas with children who attended the more formal schools of urban centers.

While rural and urban schools share certain challenges, including the devastating effects of poverty on school children, there are myriad other problems specific to rural schools, which is why applying an urban model and urban solutions to rural schools simply doesn't work.

In the Rio Grande Valley of rural Texas, where half the students at Edcouch - Elsa High School are children of migrant farm laborers, kids are reclaiming their heritage through oral histories, compiling a local business directory, and producing a monthly civic - affairs newsletter in Spanish and English.

Nearly 10 million children attend schools in rural places, and there are more than 7,600 school districts in the United States where more than half of students attend rural schools.

Some of these children live in small rural communities, but most reside in the Clark County school district surrounding Las Vegas.

In rural and deprived areas these concerns manifested themselves in higher levels of driving and bus travel, along with more children being accompanied to school by an adult in areas of high deprivation.

LC: Cyberschools and distance education have increasingly connected isolated rural students and home - schooled children to teachers and resources that were heretofore unavailable to them.

It isn't because rural children suffer from spending too many days in school.