Sentences with phrase «schoolchildren do»

I know that not all schoolchildren do this but there are enough of them that do to make it a worry.

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In fact, U.S. schoolchildren do better in the other major international comparison, the TIMSS, which is a more traditional test of the academic curriculum.

Schoolchildren do not sit at their desks memorising - Natasa Pantovic The system needs a shift in focus: from one that teaches children a curriculum, to the one that inspires lifelong learning.

To keep kids» eyes safe during the eclipse, firmly affix eclipse glasses, like these schoolchildren did while taking in the March 2015 eclipse in Barcelona.

LAST week's report on how Washington schoolchildren did on their statewide tests included some positive data on the promise of the state's charter schools, even as they are threatened by another lawsuit.

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Hey Zeus (someone about whom schoolchildren today no nothing because, y» know dude, ancient Greeks were misogynists)... I don't claim Bush or the statist NCLB legislation which he passed to please Laura, or the Iraq war, which he caused to please Poppy, or his Prescription Drug Bennie which he passed to buy senior votes.

Mr. Gourevitch is also right in believing that marching troops of schoolchildren through a horror show of what was done by awful people of what will seem to children a long way away and a long time ago is not necessarily a constructive purpose.

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?»

But they also did some music, at any rate in the form of the songs which all schoolchildren sang frequently in the street.

Other politicians are taking part, including those from the veggie - friendly state of California, where LA has already joined Meat Free Monday, and schoolchildren at public schools have also recently done so.

«It is clear that the complex array of federal food safety programs doesn't adequately protect America's schoolchildren,» said Caroline Smith DeWaal, food safety director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer advocacy group.

Regular spates of truanting, depression and aggression by British schoolchildren shows what serious damage can be done to a sensitive child when the environment is not appropriate.

School nutrition staff and public users must ensure that food is prepared safely and that shared use of kitchens does not endanger users or schoolchildren.

The pact doesn't resolve a longtime dispute between District 54 officials and officials of the Hoffman Estates and Schaumburg Park Districts over whether the cost of renovating playgrounds used primarily by schoolchildren should be shared or paid solely by the park district in question.

But I still feel we can do efforts, we can progress, we can try to fit this progress into the budget to offer more balanced meals to schoolchildren at a price we can afford.

The gun control side has developed a well - financed infrastructure that did not exist when schoolchildren were fatally shot at Sandy Hook.

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?

But don't look to the U.S. Secretary of Education for guidance on which candidate would be best for the city's 1.1 million public schoolchildren.

Neither do any of the other candidates, or for that matter any sensible civilian and certainly not millions of schoolchildren.

«The need to get the budget done is starting to overtake some of the issues, and we do not want to see the need to restore funding for our schoolchildren get lost in the mix.»

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.

Speaking to a group of reporters, the Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, a Democrat of Manhattan, said, «I do want to remind you there are new schoolchildren in our schools, there are new people enrolling in Medicaid in an economic downturn,» adding, «all of which has driven projections of what spending should be that are real and defined and not made up.»

There's a speeding lorry behind and schoolchildren in front — do you take the hit or swerve?

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.

Downstairs in the Field Museum's main hall, Sue, the biggest, most complete, and best - preserved Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, was doing a good job of amazing, if not intimidating, that day's busloads of schoolchildren.

Schoolchildren «don't have much energy left over for what we might consider to be normal mischief».

Schoolchildren taking U.S. History should know that the United States did not arise out of nowhere but that the country is a product of the original 13 colonies that moved doggedly and steadily westward.

The scheme has made him a joke among his neighbors, though they do regard him with affection — he's sometimes invited to address local schoolchildren in his space suit.

The schoolchildren take their choir seriously, but they also pass the time as many boys do, with mischief and rivalries.

A string of horrific school shootings has catapulted the issues of school violence and safety into the national spotlight, leaving parents, teachers, and policymakers wondering why the attacks had happened and what could be done to better protect the nation's schoolchildren.

Doctors still do not know the best way to diagnose or treat attention deficit disorder (ADD) or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) although it affects approximately 3 to 5 percent of all American schoolchildren.

Instead of focusing on remedying the harm done to those black schoolchildren injured by segregation, the District Court here sought to convert the Kansas City, Mo., School District into a «magnet district» that would reverse the «white flight» caused by desegregation.

Substantial improvement in the education of American schoolchildren has to be based not on those rare individuals who are willing to do this, but on raising the level of competence of a workforce of millions.

Professor Steve Furber FRS, who led the research, said: «The rate at which technology is transforming the workplace means that we live in a world where many primary schoolchildren will work in technology - based roles that do not yet exist, so it is essential that future generations can apply digital skills with confidence.»

«The schoolchildren who brought these actions do not claim they are entitled to a world - class education.

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Even with 60 new schools, charters would make up a smaller proportion of all schools at CPS than they do at some other large urban districts — in New Orleans, for example, about 70 percent of schoolchildren attend charters.

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.

Our nation's schoolchildren deserve a world - class public education, and we will continue to work with Congress to get ESEA done and to get it right.»

«Overly rigid and unrealistic federal mandates undermine the ability of school districts to do what the law intends: prepare and serve nutritious food that enables America's public schoolchildren to grow, learn, and thrive,» said Gentzel.

After citing the evidence of large gaps in achievement by low - income students and English learners, Liu wrote, «The schoolchildren who brought these actions (Robles - Wong and Campaign for Quality Education) do not claim they are entitled to a world - class education.

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.

We already do this for millions of schoolchildren.

How do Kansas schoolchildren fare?

The Common Core does not appear to be in any danger in California, home to 1 in 8 of all public schoolchildren in the United States.

If teachers do in fact walk the main effect will be that schoolchildren will not be in school for a while.

Doing away with tenure, moreover, would arguably hurt schoolchildren more than it helps them, by opening the door to patronage hiring and making it more difficult to attract strong candidates.

But his less - than - honest autobiography has been accepted unquestioningly by allies like Arne Duncan who use it, as he does, to support needless test obsession for millions of schoolchildren, on the theory that more accountability for teachers will cure our social ills.