Sentences with phrase «schoolchildren get»

If an estimated 15 percent of schoolchildren get into a fight in a school year, then such a reduction in aggression would translate into 8 percent, approximately half of the baseline rate.

Translated into everyday terms, if an estimated 15 % of schoolchildren get into a fight in a school year, an ES of 0.25 for ROE represents a reduction in fighting to about 8 %, approximately half the baseline rate (Wilson et al. 2003).

If an estimated 15 percent of schoolchildren get into a fight in a school year, then such a reduction in aggression would translate into 8 percent, approximately half of the baseline rate.

«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.»

Each morning, for example, groups of schoolchildren get in free, part of an agreement with the Chicago Park District, which, in turn, provides the Art Institute free rent and a modest operating subsidy.

The mayor got his press conference, the union chief got his revenge — and the city's schoolchildren got nothing.

Perhaps worse, a lucky select contingent of schoolchildren got the chance to meet their Unfortunate Events hero, but the most unfortunate event that day involved his regaling the kids with a story about having only one testicle.

Not exact matches

Obamaalso showed a «get - tough» strategy in his determination to pursue gun control after last month's massacre of schoolchildren by a gunman in Newtown, Connecticut.

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.

Italian schoolchildren have been getting an education in Meat Free Monday, thanks to the inspiring efforts of a teacher in Rome.

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.

The extent of my experience with getting food allergy legislation introduced pertains to guidelines for Colorado food allergic schoolchildren.

Shelly got her produce distributor to create affordable salad bars so that schoolchildren could choose which vegetables they liked.

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.

«It's time for everyone to get to the table and work in the best interest of the 1.1 million New York City schoolchildren and their families.»

Amongst Welsh schoolchildren in Year 10 (age 14 - 15), awareness of alcohol sports sponsorship was linked to a 17 % higher chance of boys, and 13 % higher chance of girls, getting drunk at the weekend.

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.

All donated items received will be distributed to schoolchildren living in homeless shelters to assist them with getting ready for the school year.

So when I heard Shane McCracken give a presentation about «I'm a Scientist, Get Me Out of Here,» an outreach program to connect schoolchildren with scientists, I asked to participate.

For schoolchildren trying to memorize the names and order of the planets, life just got a bit harder.

Scientists — and curious schoolchildren — have long wondered why sauropods were so big and how they got that way.

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.

Tricky spelling and grammar quiz designed for schoolchildren leaves many adults stumped... so how many can you get right?

For every overwrought sequence of a boy's choir singing «Silent Night, Holy Night» — savor the metaphorical import — you get McCarthy and cinematographer Masanobu Takayanagi cleverly inserting schoolchildren into the background of a cover - up conversation and an AOL billboard doubling as a sly sick - joke punch line.

All elementary schoolchildren receive free lunch, she says, but girls who have an 80 percent or better attendance rate in a given month get an incentive: an extra sugar ration, a commodity in the camp.

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.

Although most of the nation's 52 million schoolchildren are still on traditional schedules, about 2 million attend school year - round; they attend school the same number of days as students on traditional schedules, but they get shorter breaks throughout the year.

Hypothesizing that getting in shape has emotional as well as physiological benefits, researchers are beginning a study that will test whether exercise improves the self - esteem of 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.»

A village in China's mountainous west where schoolchildren must climb an 800 - meter (2,625 - foot)- high bamboo ladder secured to a sheer cliff face may get a set of steel stairs to improve safety

«It seemed to me if we could get this case resolved in a reasonable manner that it would be a wise thing for the public and a good thing for the schoolchildren.»

But there is no reason to turn our backs on parents who face agonizing decisions on how to provide comfort to their schoolchildren who get caught up in vicious and life - altering attacks.

KIPP, or the Knowledge Is Power Program, is known for its size — 162 schools and 59,000 students nationally and growing — as well as its track record of getting solid test scores out of underprivileged urban and rural schoolchildren.

«Their First Murder,» 1941; a group of schoolchildren watch a man get shot and killed.

SUNDERLAND schoolchildren are being urged to get creative to mark the prestigious Turner Prize landing in the region.

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.

Maneuvering to dupe schoolchildren is about as cynical as it gets.

In the meantime, though, we can make sure that schoolchildren are getting real science in their science classrooms.

Now, when Utah schoolchildren finally get the chance to study climate change in the eighth grade, they'll have this dangerously wrongheaded idea in their minds to fuel much - spirited argument over whether excess greenhouse gases are even all that bad for the environment.

The two companies behind the project, which saw a large - scale energy storage system deployed in the small German village of Feldheim, also decided to call on professional street artists and invited schoolchildren to get involved with designing the outside of the system's enclosure.

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.