Sentences with phrase «schoolchildren as»

While village leaders are working on an ambitious — and expensive — effort to relocate the entire community to the mainland nearby, Shishmaref schoolchildren as young as five are learning about the shift in the climate that will change their lives.

The «science» in Mr Gores Polemic was found to be factually deficient in 11 instances in a British Court and was thus banned from being shown to schoolchildren as fact without balance.

The snake, which currently is shedding its smooth, silky skin, visits schoolchildren as part of the animal control department's pet awareness program.

Hurt the taxpayers, hurt the schoolchildren as a result.

A Minneapolis experiment offers voluntary busing of minority schoolchildren as a way to deal with segregated schools.

NSBA will continue to work with lawmakers to prioritize the interests of our nation's local school board members and public schoolchildren as S. 1177 heads to the Senate for a vote, and approaches the finish line for the long overdue ESEA modernization.

However, with a growing popularity of the trend, digital classroom extends to schoolchildren as well.

Benito Juárez, supreme court justice and then president, was the liberals» foremost leader and engineer of the 1857 constitution (for which he is now honored by schoolchildren as the first among national heroes).37 Earlier outlawed had been any but «secular» education and the use of civil machinery to enforce religious vows and payment of church tithes.

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Other critics suggest the company would be better off returning to its roots as a forestry company and rubber - boot manufacturer, or selling «actual Androids to Finnish schoolchildren.»

A demonstrator from the group CodePink holds up a banner as National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre delivers remarks during a news conference at the Willard Hotel on December 21, 2012, in Washington, D.C. — one week after Adam Lanza used an assault - style rifle to slaughter 20 schoolchildren and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

Suburbia may also have fostered the absorption of the monetary value - standard; the question most frequently asked by thousands of wide - eyed schoolchildren visiting the traveling King Tut exhibit was not anything about that fabulous era, or what those people believed as they prepared for afterlife, but rather, «How much does it cost?»

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.

As the Darwinists move out to convert the nation's schoolchildren to a naturalistic outlook, it may become more and more difficult to conceal the religious implications of their system.

When he opened a crusade in his home town of Charlotte, North Carolina, in the fall of 1971, schoolchildren, government workers and store clerks got a holiday, as the governor of the state, U.S. senators from North and South Carolina and the secretary of the treasury showed up to pay tribute.

As he moves from the ordinary suburban world of his abusive foster parents into the enchanted realm of the Hogwarts School, the bullying intensifies from nasty to mortally dangerous (a progression that U.S. schoolchildren have witnessed in real life).

As a result, schoolchildren in Turin will soon be learning how to eat with people and planet in mind, and will be growing up into adults who can spread the word still further.

Last off - season, when Umenyiora returned to Nigeria for the first timesince he left as a teen, the villagers made him an honorary chief — not for hisfootball achievements, but because of the 30 scholarships he endows each yearfor local schoolchildren.

WASHINGTON — Warning that American schoolchildren need to learn about cholesterol as well as computers, a national panel of nutritionists said Wednesday that school lunchrooms must serve less fat and more fiber.

From the outset, they had two purposes: to help dispose of surplus agricultural commodities owned by the government as a result of price - support agreement with farmers, and to help prevent nutritional deficiencies among low - income schoolchildren.»

Pizza contains some tomato paste, and Congress says that a couple of tablespoons of the stuff should count as a serving of vegetables for schoolchildren.

As Children's Freedom Has Declined, So Has Their Creativity New research suggests that American schoolchildren are becoming less creative.

Sen. Donne Trotter (D - Chicago) touted the ban as a way to provide healthy food to schoolchildren, particularly those who may be receiving their only hot meals at school.

The school meal recommendations are also meant as handbook for communication between stakeholders; providers of education and supporting activities, schools, persons in charge of school food services and pupil welfare, as well as for parents and carers, and the schoolchildren themselves.

Visitors can talk with volunteers about activities such as giving tours to schoolchildren and other visitors; making floral arrangements and gardening; touring new exhibits; learning the opportunities for dressing up in costume to demonstrate 19th Century exhibits; or plying a hobby such as blacksmithing, printing or stone carving.

It's common for Brazilian schoolchildren to go home for lunch as well.

Regarding charter schools — Charter schools are supposed to act as laboratories, where small numbers of schoolchildren are subjects of experiments to find better ways to educate them.

AQE Executive Director Billy Easton heaped praise on Silver, calling him «one person who's not only been listening for as long as you can imagine to the needs of schoolchildren across the state, but has been reflecting that voice back and speaking it out in the halls of decision - making» and the «originator of pre-kindergarten.»

No one is taking these peoples» guns away, as long as they stay in their lanes and don't open fire on innocent people, like say, schoolchildren?

Thousands of parents have gotten a lesson this week, as the Mayor's «my way or the highway» approach has left thousands of schoolchildren stranded at curbs across the city by the school bus strike.

Harriet Harman treated a rowdy House of Commons exactly as they deserved - like a bunch of naughty schoolchildren.

Quigley joined with a number of local northern Manhattan elected officials, including New York State Assemblymember Robert Rodriguez and New York City Councilmember Melissa Mark - Viverito, community leaders such as Department of Youth and Community Development's Commissioner Jeanne B. Mullgrav and Supportive Children's Advocacy Network (SCAN)'s Executive Director Lewis Zuchman, and a host of residents, including local schoolchildren, for the center's unveiling in a late afternoon reception.

He toyed with his Blackberry throughout the session, for instance, and paid about as much attention as the army of schoolchildren who were ushered into the public gallery half way through.

The bill required a supermajority and only 12 Republicans voted for the act, which proposed giving as much as $ 7.4 billion to people who were exposed to Ground Zero toxins, including first responders, firefighters, rescue workers, police officers, EMTs, cleanup workers, area residents and schoolchildren.

It's a cruel thing to do to children, not to mention the moms and dads who see charters as escapes from the traditional public schools that are failing most of the city's other schoolchildren.

The Governor George E. Pataki Leadership and Learning Center, located in Peekskill, New York, is designed to educate schoolchildren on government using Governor Pataki's public service as an example.

As a mayoral candidate, de Blasio promised to restore the protections, arguing that keeping experienced bus drivers was a matter of safety for city schoolchildren.

Understanding linguistic diversity among London's schoolchildren is key for the city's future as a «global player», research shows.

He also believes that public safety is a huge priority, and wants to meet with all of the schoolbus drivers to get their input on what they see as potential hazards or dangers on the roads as they drive schoolchildren to and from their homes.

«Fifty of our schoolchildren and teachers were killed in a suicide attack yesterday (Monday) in Potiskum and we act as if it is normal.

When scientists concluded in 2007 that the giraffe — long regarded as a single species, Giraffa camelopardalis — should in fact be classified as six or more species, the news worried schoolchildren and conservationists alike.

The group's models could also help interpret data from future clinical trials that evaluate the effectiveness of booster shots in schoolchildren, «as well as predict the potential impact of new vaccination strategies,» he said.

We did this using a variety of methods, including experimental games, door - to - door surveys and questionnaires aimed at schoolchildren, and by observing the frequency of spontaneous prosocial acts such as people picking up and posting a stamped addressed envelope left on the sidewalk, or the extent to which people decorated their houses during Halloween or Christmas.

Schoolchildren in Portugal were taught the scientific method using laboratory rats as school pets.

The results of eye tests carried out as part of last year's annual survey of the health of schoolchildren were the worst on record, with the highest ever number of children having sight classed as «extremely poor».

Some see it as a form of broadcast «edutainment», giving thousands of schoolchildren access to star «superteachers».

As an environmental activist in South Florida who gives speeches on sustainability to schoolchildren, he believes Curbelo's comments could be a watershed moment.

On March 20, as on every vernal equinox, schoolchildren learn and the media proclaim that day and night are equal everywhere.

Most people think of bullies as a playground issue for schoolchildren.

Schoolchildren may also dissect parts of animals such as eyes, kidneys or hearts obtained from butchers or may sometimes dissect dead animals, such as fish or rats.

Treating variation in the amount of time that states mandate schoolchildren spend in PE as natural experiments, the researchers found that an additional 60 minutes per week of PE time (enough to bring states without an explicit requirement up to the amount of PE recommended by the CDC) reduces the probability that a fifth - grader is obese by 4.8 percentage points.