Sentences with phrase «schoolchildren around»

What is the extent and nature of social, emotional and behavioural difficulty among Scottish schoolchildren around the age they enter primary one?

About two years ago, we were following the progress and release of the One Laptop Per Child program, an organization that was developing a cheap laptop that it wanted to put into the hands of schoolchildren around the world.

But the virtual charter school stands to affect school districts, and schoolchildren around the state, said Laura Crumpler, an assistant North Carolina attorney general representing the state board.

The state does run the North Carolina Virtual Public School, which offers individual classes to schoolchildren around the state.

North Carolina, unlike many states, doesn't have any full - time virtual charter schools but the state does run the North Carolina Virtual Public School, which offers individual classes to schoolchildren around the state.

Charter schools are publicly funded but privately operated, sometimes by for - profit companies, and have been proliferating for more than 25 years, with thousands of them enrolling as much as 6 percent of America's schoolchildren around the country.

Schoolchildren around Merseyside are enjoying a meat free week this week courtesy of Food for Thought.

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Notably for our purposes, at all stages of the Barnette litigation in the courts below — as in Gobitis before it — the issues had revolved entirely around the schoolchildren's claim regarding their free exercise of religion.

There are several curriculum - linked activities for schoolchildren to get their teeth into, including getting children to create a chart of meat - free food according to the alphabet in order to help them with their literacy, learning about meat - free diets around the world for geography, and designing a four - week MFM diet for design and technology.

For more than 60 years, Drumlin Farm has given schoolchildren, families, and visitors from around the region and the world opportunities to experience first - hand the wonders of nature and learn about how our food is grown.

: How Schoolchildren Eat Around the World looks at meals from Kenya to Afghanistan, Russia to Brazil.

Her photographs of that food and her accompanying blog, Fed Up with Lunch, provided an eye - opening expose of the kinds of meals served to millions of American schoolchildren in lunch rooms around the country: mysterious, shrink - wrapped entrees, fried chicken patties, the ubiquitous square pizza and highly processed PBJ «sandwiches» that crumbled to the touch.

The problem with today's mosquito control is that it suffers from too much talking and increasingly relies on «community participation,» which is difficult to sustain, Knols wrote in his book; he scorned Aruba, where during a dengue outbreak schoolchildren were given a note asking their parents to remove mosquito breeding sites around the home.

Interestingly, there's another coal - dependent state that's never gotten around to adopting an RPS where schoolchildren are also being used as pawns in the battle between science and the status quo.

Makers of some of the cleanest hand soaps around, Soapply is a company founded on the philanthropic mission to bring soap to schoolchildren in the developing world.

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

For all the criticism that law has received — and there is no doubt that the law needs to be improved when Congress gets around to its re-authorization — the law, and especially its accountability provisions, have been, in general, of great benefit to the country's schoolchildren.

The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling upholding the Cleveland voucher program has reverberated around the nation, reigniting the debate on how best to improve the education of all schoolchildren.

«These school leaders have been at the forefront of efforts in their communities around the country to raise student achievement and provide urban schoolchildren the high - quality education they deserve,» added CUBE Chair Micah Ali, who serves on California's Compton Unified School District Board of Trustees.

«This is a victory for minority and low - income schoolchildren, not only in Louisiana but around the country.»

It put writers in groups and bused them around (rather like schoolchildren); it introduced them to local tourism officials; it showed them what the officials wanted them to see.

We have pioneered innovative, science - based forest - restoration work, educated thousands of schoolchildren about the uniqueness and resilience of these wild marvels of nature, improved access to parkland and helped create parks and reserves that have touched the lives of millions of people from around the world.

Around the same time Lukwa left Telegraph Cove with a group of schoolchildren from Avalon Adventist Jr Academy in Port Hardy.

booms Theaster Gates with a big friendly wave of his arm, and the clutch of media clustered around him gamely follows, like a gaggle of schoolchildren tagging along after a favourite teacher.

Local schoolchildren and art experts from around the world travel to see works such as Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica's «Cosmococas», and Matthew Barney's «From Mud, a Blade», which engages critically with the relationship between mining and nature that made Inhotim possible in the first place.

Interestingly, there's another coal - dependent state that's never gotten around to adopting an RPS where schoolchildren are also being used as pawns in the battle between science and the status quo.

All schoolchildren adopted from care are to benefit from # 20m of additional Pupil Premium money to get the support they need to thrive at school — helping around an extra 10,000 pupils.