Sentences with phrase «schoolchildren in»

Carolyn Griffis received the Spirit Award in recognition of her work to establish the Children's Breakfast Program, which provides nutritious breakfasts and snacks to schoolchildren in need.

Our study sought to identify the prevalence of bullying behaviours among schoolchildren in New South Wales, Australia, and the association of bullying with psychological and psychosomatic health.

A total of 133 subjects from a juvenile correction centre and 108 matched schoolchildren in the Arkhangelsk region, Russia, were assessed by means of the EMBU questionnaire and Youth Self - Report.

Clinical questionnaires aimed at assessing anxiety and depression, for example, have been given in unchanged form to normative groups of schoolchildren in the US ever since the 1950s.

Parents express great confidence and trust in your school and I am certain I can contribute to and support your mission using my experience, skills and abilities for the benefit of all the schoolchildren in One Hill District.

It was conceived and built by a charity with the aim of making computers available to schoolchildren in order to have them learn how to... [more]

It was conceived and built by a charity with the aim of making computers available to schoolchildren in order to have them learn how to write code.

The efforts to do this often seem laughable to later generations, and can be easily identified by schoolchildren in documents from long ago — but the efforts made yesterday may be totally obscure and invisible to anyone but the most rigorous observer.

«EPA found Latino schoolchildren in California suffered disparate adverse effects from the application of methyl bromide between 1995 through 2001.

Oil giant BP is promoting its brand to thousands of schoolchildren in almost 100 schools in Aberdeenshire, an area in which it recently slashed a fifth of its workforce...

Thanks for the powerful information about the danger to schoolchildren in Oregon.

Since 2015, Milroy has worked with the Vodafone Foundation's Instant Network Schools, where she initiated «Hands On», a practical art workshop programme that can be delivered through digital connectivity for schoolchildren in refugee camps.

These will include working with artists and schoolchildren in Dingle, Co Kerry, events to celebrate ten years of partnership between the Arts Council and Údarás na Gaeltachta in Inis Oírr and Connemara and exhibitions in Thurles, Co Tipperary, Wexford and Letterkenny, Co Donegal.

The purpose has been to interest schoolchildren in art and fashion in a creative way and at the same time stimulate intellectual and emotional growth.

If you don't want your views of the Botanic Garden's stunning displays interrupted by nearly every group of suburban schoolchildren in northern Illinois, head farther south to a different garden.

Chattering schoolchildren in navy blue - and - white uniforms cycled across the bridge, while fishermen in rickety wooden boats occasionally floated by.

For the second year, SPANA worked with CREW to deliver humane education lessons for primary schoolchildren in the Guaymi and Nabe indigenous reserves.

A preschool student signs a book to be sent to schoolchildren in Houston, Texas.

For instance, the society educates schoolchildren in the care of animals, takes pets to nursing homes to bring a bit of joy to what is often a joyless day, and cares for lost and abandoned animals every day.

K - 12 schoolchildren in the US.

For the past two years, I have been working with the Youth Services department to provide easier library access to schoolchildren in our area.

This worked for more than 100,000 schoolchildren in the clubs, and it continues to work for young bird enthusiasts I know today.

Among Chicago schoolchildren in sixth through 12th grades, about 8 percent lack any kind of internet at home, according to a 2013 report by the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research.

A lot of Chicago parents with the resources to do so have followed Emanuel's lead: 17 % of schoolchildren in Chicago attend private schools, and so don't have to trouble themselves with whether or not their local public school has air conditioning, or a library (160 do not), or classes with 45 students.

Via Edweek by Stephen Sawchuck A second lawsuit challenging New York laws governing teacher tenure, layoffs, and dismissals has been filed on behalf of seven schoolchildren in the state.

It appears from the motions filed in late January by the state in the Connecticut Coalition of Justice In Education Funding v. Rell lawsuit that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, a former prosecutor, would prefer to fight schoolchildren in the courtroom than to sit down with plaintiffs and realistically consider the state's options.

* About 10 percent of schoolchildren in the United States go to private schools, according to 2013 - 2014 data, the latest available, with 38 percent of these enrolled in Catholic schools.

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.

Improvements to literacy and numeracy among schoolchildren in Wales is not being met due to a «training deficit», according to the National Union of Teachers

On February 21, 2018, Governor Greg Abbott issued instructions to the Texas Education Agency to take steps to ensure all schoolchildren in Texas public schools are safe.

Flanked by a dozen schoolchildren in his Central Ward headquarters, Jeffries called for local control, longer school days, improved facilities, more teacher support and more choice for Newark's 40,000 schoolchildren.

The fight over charter schools has filtered down in the community to schoolchildren in Rutherford County and created a situation where children are passionately trying to defend their school system.

While these schools represent only a fraction of the 1.1 million schoolchildren in the public education system, the charter school movement has spurred heated debate across the country.

For far too long, schoolchildren in D.C. and other urban areas have been subject to a «narrative of disinheritance» — the persistent inequities of experience, resources, and perceived worth, based on race, class, or story.

In a study measuring the physical activity of 453 schoolchildren in Massachusetts, only 15 percent of students achieved the CDC - recommended 60 minutes of daily MVPA throughout the day, and only 8 percent met the recommendation of 30 minutes of MVPA during school.

WASHINGTON — Little has changed for hearing - impaired schoolchildren in the four years since a federal commission concluded that the education of deaf students was «unacceptably unsatisfactory,» witnesses last week told a House panel beginning work on extension of federal deaf - education programs.

By granting review of its third case in two years involving the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, the U.S. Supreme Court has signaled a renewed interest in resolving legal conflicts arising under the federal law that governs services provided to nearly 6.7 million schoolchildren in special education.

In a study measuring the physical activity of 453 schoolchildren in Massachusetts, only 15 percent of students achieved the CDC - recommended 60 minutes of daily MVPA throughout the day, and only 8 percent met the recommendation of 30 minutes of MVPA...

The ACLU of Southern California, Public Counsel and the law firm Morrison & Foerster represented the schoolchildren in the case and plan to seek review by the California Supreme Court, said David Sapp, a staff attorney for the ACLU of Southern California.

Chester Zoo has enlisted the help of UK schoolchildren in its battle to save South East Asia's endangered songbirds.

Without this, schoolchildren in state education face the very real scenario of an education devoid in musical tuition and all the benefits which that bring.

For some time, we have recognized that the academic achievement of schoolchildren in this country threatens, to borrow President Barack Obama's words, «the U.S.'s role as an engine of scientific discovery» and ultimately its success in the global economy.

«By backing the Barefoot Computing project the Welsh Government has shown the leadership and vision necessary to ensure all primary schoolchildren in Wales now have the chance to develop those skills and as adults successfully compete in the global digital economy.»

President Clinton told schoolchildren in his home state of Arkansas recently that he would go to bat for education as members of Congress and his Administration seek ways to cut taxes and spending.

Washington — School districts that were once racially segregated by law should remain bound by court desegregation orders until every wrong caused by the separation of races is cured, a lawyer for black schoolchildren in Oklahoma City told the U.S. Supreme Court last week.

Each year, between 10 and 20 percent of schoolchildren in the United States are exposed to domestic violence.

They design games and build apps that teach reading and math concepts to schoolchildren in Latin America.

Somehow millions of Harry Potter fans manage to complete every book without benefit of leading questions, a teacher's guide, previsioning, or any of the other junk pedagogical strategies that burden American schoolchildren in their English classes.

Groundwork has been working with schools to bring environmental education to schoolchildren in a way that complements the National Curriculum for the past 30 years, and we have found that nothing brings a subject to life more than giving pupils the opportunity to experience the environment first hand.

STRAW — Students and Teachers Restoring a Watershed — engages hundreds of schoolchildren in watershed restoration efforts across Northern California.