Sentences with phrase «school children in»

Schools That Work: Elementary school children in the WINGS for Kids afterschool program in North Charleston, South Carolina, learn social and emotional skills.

Topps are a proud supporter of Premier League Primary Stars and has helped to develop innovative maths resources that will inspire primary school children in England and Wales.

Despite this, three - quarters of teachers questioned said they don't feel equipped to help educate primary school children in this key area of tech literacy and computing skills.

Here we report findings from a unique partnership between the University of Michigan and the State that allowed us to match the universe of child maltreatment records in Michigan with educational data on all public school children in the state.

This report presents findings from a unique partnership between the University of Michigan and the State that allowed us to match the universe of child maltreatment records in Michigan with educational data on all public school children in the state.

Washington — The leaders of the U.S. Roman Catholic Church have called on the Congress to include families of public - school children in tuition tax - credit legislation now pending in the Senate.

Middle and elementary school children in poor - performing Dade County, Fla., schools will devote two hours each day to reading, beginning in the fall.

All of these programmes valued the unique contribution provided by school children in owning their behaviour change from strategy to implementation.

Ideal for Primary aged children in the UK, Junior school children in the US.

«The question remains,» says Carroll, «as charter schools continue to grow in the city — within a year of this September roughly a third of public school children in Albany will be in charter schools — will the district put its head in the sand or finally be forced to reform its schools in order to compete?»

Conservative plans to scrap free lunches for infant school children in England have been dropped.

Royal Greenwich Sportathon One flagship initiative is the Royal Greenwich Sportathon — a week - long celebration of sport for primary school children in the borough.

In 2000, as she writes in a recent paper, Sanitation and Education, «India was home to almost 20 percent of the out - of - school children in the world, with approximately 20 million children not enrolled in school.»

Rampant poverty and lack of awareness regarding the importance of education are the main reasons behind the high dropout and out of school children in these tribal villages.

e. states that «schools should involve school children in local and regional studies on environmental health» and that along with various UN branches, non-governmental organizations should help implement and support this education («Chapter 36», 1992).

He added: «The attainment gap between FSM and non-FSM secondary school children in West Berkshire is 31 percentage points.

To be sure, the population of public school children in New York City is different from that of many other school districts around the country.

At the center of these efforts is the statewide standardized test, the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS), administered to public school children in grades 3 to 10.

By reaching out - of - school children in Yemen, she says, «we can change world literacy rates.»

When the World Bank issued a report last fall that found that 60 percent of primary school children in developing countries were failing to achieve a basic proficiency in reading, writing, and mathematics, it exposed a so - called «learning crisis» in global education, one in which children attend school for years but fail to learn.

We disagreed immediately on several key issues such as keeping middle - school children in school while high schoolers were being tested.

The «Reaching and Teaching Out - of - School Children in Ghana» (REACH) project supports student transition to primary school by providing a nine month, accelerated, complementary basic education (CBE) learning program.

In an effort to improve the achievement levels of their most disadvantaged students, the Dade County schools have launched a large new program this year that will place more than 17,000 elementary - school children in classes of 15 or fewer.

«Therefore, we call on government to allow the current generation of school children in England to enjoy language, to be empowered by their skill in it, and not to become tangled in rules which have no application outside the narrow confines of a National Test.

The National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) measures the height and weight of around one million school children in England every year, providing a detailed picture of the prevalence of child obesity.

One in five of primary school children in our packed lunches survey had sweet fillings for their sandwiches, high in sugar, like jam or chocolate spread.

«They had door - to - door transportation,» Mary «Neva» Helms, recalls of the free bus service provided at the time by the Jefferson Parish, La., school district to private school children in this large suburban area outside New Orleans.

We have collected, purchased gloves for a group that distributes them to school children in the inner city, we also spend the year filling a jar with loose change and then find a family that could use some «loose change» for their daily needs.

I know a ton of parents have decided to home school their children in the past several years.

Bad food and poor nutrition, environmental pollutants and limited play are now the norm for pre-school and grade school children in America.

Effect of Repeated Anthelminthic Treatment on Malaria in School Children in Kenya: A Randomized, Open - Label, Equivalence Trial.

Breastfeeding appears to be associated with decreased risk of overweight and obesity among school children in Japan, according to a study by Michiyo Yamakawa, M.H.Sc., of the Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama City, Japan, and colleagues.

Addressing the press in Kumasi, the Mayor of Kumasi, Kojo Bonsu said the purpose of engaging the school children in the tree planting...

He says he finds it incredible that more than 95 percent of teachers were rated as performing properly, while two thirds of New York's school children in grades 3 through 8 have been deemed inadequate in math and reading standards.

«The home - Grown School Feeding Programme has created jobs for 61,352 cooks, and it is providing 7.5 million school children in 24 states with one meal a day.»

He said the city has doubled the number of middle school children in afterschool programs under SONYC, which was «the focus of the program.

A few months ago, the Federal Government raised the alarm over the growing population of out - of - school children in the country.

«This debate has always been about ensuring that school children in New York City receive a first - class education that prepares them for the rest of their lives, and this agreement moves us closer to that goal.»

On charter schools, as of 2008, there were 15,000 school children in NYS charter schools, with more in the pipeline.

«It's unfortunate that one person's gain, comes at the cost to all the school children in the district,» said Michael J. Borges, executive director of the New York State Association of School Business Officials.

Labour's plans for non-dom status and tests for school children in England feature in Andrew Neil's daily campaign report.

I mean, the people who were blindsided is 1.1 million school children in this city who deserved better.»

School children in a part of Berkshire have returned to the classroom after their school was turned into a help centre for the local community during the recent floods.

He says he finds it «incredible» that more than 95 % of teachers were rated as performing properly, while two thirds of New York's school children in grades 3 through 8 have been deemed inadequate in math and reading standards.

«It also effectively punishes districts, voters, taxpayers and school children in districts where school boards and voters exercise their constitutionally protected right to exceed the tax cap, by denying tax credits to otherwise eligible taxpayers in such districts.

School children in Lincolnshire have been learning about the importance of gun safety from BASC and their local police force.

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.

A New York City Housing Authority tenant leader also attacked Councilwoman Helen Rosenthal, the wife of an investment banker, for leading school children in a cheer claiming their parents could afford the fee at a recent rally in support of the proposal.

Ms. Rosenthal, who represents the Upper West Side, led a group of school children in a cheer on Monday, asking «What do we want?»

University recruits volunteers for mentorship program for at - risk school children in Broome County