Sentences with phrase «takes urban children»

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the christians were bad during the crusades, stirred up by Pope Urban II into going and taking land the ROMAN EMPIRE, not christianity, had lost, and these same «holy crusaders», upon taking Jerusalem, massacred men, women, children, muslims, jews, christians, everyone just because they were different.

And yet, when the children are asleep, breathing evenly beside me, and I just sit quietly and take a moment and listen to the distant sounds of urban life - the hum of traffic, the tumbling dryer, the buzz of a million lives outside my door - I feel a part of the flow and the struggle and the healing, I know that my life has meaning, and just for a heartbeat I get to understand it.

I took this opportunity to get some photos of her looking cute in her winter gear (she'd insisted on wearing two hooded cardigans... Continue reading The Urban Nature Experience All Children Deserve

Heralded as a major innovation in pediatric medicine, the mission of the hospital ship was to take ill urban children out onto the harbor to experience the healing qualities of fresh sea air and sunshine.

The article takes the focus off the prosperous women whose child - care situations raised anxious questions when they were being considered by President Clinton for appointment as U.S. attorney general and instead examines a group it sees as the largest group of mothers frustrated in seeking good day care: middle - class working mothers in urban areas where nearly all the available caregivers are undocmented foreign workers.

Unmarried urban fathers are actively involved in taking care of their children, and they may need more support from the health care system, according to a new study by a Northwestern University pediatrician.

The Urban Glide's padded seats recline all the way back, allowing your child to take a nap.

If you plan to take your child on long urban walks, you'll need a stroller that's sturdy but easy to maneuver over curbs, in and out of shops, and through on public transportation.

The Times article also notes that a price increase could drive more parents to simply fail to pay for the lunches their children take, which creates a significant financial burden for large urban districts in particular.

In the study, 292 first - generation immigrant children who attended eight high - poverty, urban elementary schools in Boston took part in the intervention, called City Connects, in the early 2000s.

I took this opportunity to get some photos of her looking cute in her winter gear (she'd insisted on wearing two hooded cardigans... Continue reading The Urban Nature Experience All Children Deserve

Not only did the district, the largest in the country, take on a student population that had come to symbolize the impossibility of educating a certain kind of child — the urban poor who entered high school two and three grades behind — but it succeeded in getting those students to graduation.

Alternative Routes to Teaching; When Mayors Take Charge; From A Nation at Risk to No Child Left Behind; Inside Urban Charter Schools; The Role and Impact of Public - Private Partnerships in Education; The Latino Education Crisis

Tyack & Cuban: «Reformers expected the kindergarten to be a cure for urban social evils as well as a model of education for young children... When public sponsorship took the place of private, an early casualty was the outreach program that sent kindergarten teachers into the homes of the pupils.»

Kozol's uniquely passionate take on urban schools and urban schoolchildren has been documented in such books as Death at an Early Age and, more recently, Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope.

Mrs. Parente has spent her career in urban education dedicated to doing whatever it takes to ensure children have the necessary academic and character skills needed to thrive in today's world.

Leadership team members have taken ownership in embracing the district's vision (to provide a quality education driven by an unrelenting determination to graduate all students, preparing them for success in higher education) and mission (to transform San Antonio ISD into a national model of an urban school district where every child graduates and is educated and prepared to be a contributing member of the community) to align their work at the campus level.

«Perhaps it is not surprising that profit margins take precedence over public health, but with transport emissions the main contributor to urban air pollution, resulting in nearly 10,000 early deaths a year in London alone and hugely decreasing quality of life for children, the elderly and those with pre-existing health complaints, the public should be utterly outraged by this news.»

This is a busy, busy oversize picture book about a busy, busy metropolis and some busy, busy people (an anthropologist, a young child, a spy, street performers, and a guide dog) taking various kinds of public transportation to get to their shared destination: Great Park, an urban recreation center.

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Children will love having their own mini club, pool and playground and further from the hotel, a ten minutes drive from Salou takes you to Tarragona, home of the roman ruins of Tarraco, medieval alleyways, cobbled streets and plenty of tempting dining options that make for one of the most vibrant and beautiful urban centres in Catalonia.

The urban weirdness of 80s action staples like Big Trouble In Little China, They Live, and The Golden Child is alive and well in TinyBuild's Garage, an overhead shooter for the Switch that takes place in a parking garage with «a passageway to a supernatural world that has never seen the light of day.»

The concept of a «vertical urban village» began to take shape as organizations like Church Health Center, Memphis Teacher Residency, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, ALSAC / St.

Many Ghanaians spend 10 to 20 percent of their income on drinking water, forcing many poor urban families to take their children out of school to help cover costs.

With a poetical tone, Lerner takes on the meaning of sustainability, his obsession with educating children on ecological issues, and what he calls «urban accupunture».