Sentences with phrase «target young school»

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While some elementary and middle schools have started implementing coding classes, Fisher Price introduced a $ 50 toy this year to targeted towards a much younger demographic: preschoolers.

- The company has already reached 70 % (7,000 employees) of its 10,000 - employee commitment for hiring «opportunity youth» (unemployed young people who are not in school) as well as being 25 % of the way toward its even more ambitious 100,000 opportunity youth hiring goal, the 100,000 Opportunities Initiative, that Starbucks successfully goaded other corporate giants (Target, Walmart, etc.) to join in.

Most people still think in terms of two sexes, but they are gradually being «re-educated» and here the main strategic target is the young, in the schools.

In its recent report, Still Too Fat to Fight, the nonprofit Mission: Readiness, which is run by retired military leaders, found that roughly 25 percent of young adults ages 17 to 24 are too overweight to qualify for military service and it targeted junk food vending machines in schools as a contributor to this problem.

Schools should be a safe haven from the pernicious attempts of the advertising industry to target young people.

Young people leaving school or starting their first job will be targeted by the government under efforts to encourage people to switch to public transport.

«However, with each new class of teens entering the challenging years of middle and high school, we must remain vigilant in our prevention efforts targeting young people, the adults who nurture and influence them, and the health care providers who treat them.»

When puberty hits, Alex Lawther (the young Alan Turing in «The Imitation Game») takes over as Christopher Robin, whose fame makes him an irresistible target for bullies after he is sent away to a boarding school.

The film tells the story of four social - media - obsessed, sexually provocative girls (played by Odessa Young, Hari Nef, Suki Waterhouse, and Abra) in their senior year of high school in Salem, Massachusetts, who become the target of a riotous witch hunt after the town's citizens are subject to a mass doxing.

Worrying that she and her two young children will make for easy targets, Dwight then looks up an old friend from high school, Ben Gaffney (Devin Ratray), and asks him for a favor: the weaponry and firepower needed to end this deadly war between these two mid-Atlantic families.

In particular, the report shares lessons learned in targeting key economic regions, analyzing regional assets and gaps, and focusing technical assistance and support on helping states and regions with such things as early career advising and exposure, engaging employers, and building intermediary organizations that can link employers and schools to scale up the provision of workplace learning opportunities for young people.

The Department for Education will target its programmes to ensure children get the best start in the early years, to build teaching and leadership capacity in schools, to increase access to university, to strengthen technical pathways for young people, and work with employers to improve young people's access to the right advice and experiences.

The Jobcentre Plus Support for Schools programme targets young people ages 12 - 18 who are at particular risk of being out of education, employment or training (NEET) or who face disadvantages when looking for work.

They will develop and test a scalable, web - based screening tool for reading difficulties — that diagnoses the underlying causes — and a set of targeted home / school interventions that change the way we approach intervention for young children with reading difficulties.

Certainly, we see the opportunity in targeting young people who have not been exposed to music through school, family, or community; those who have grown up digital and are creating and expressing themselves through the written word, photography, and video.

Young, who is known for his book «How to Lose Friends and Alienate People», will take up the role from January and has said he believes the target of opening 500 new free schools by 2020 isn't ambitious enough and should be raised to 750.

There also are serious concerns about many urban districts clustering special education students and over-classifying young men of color inappropriately, all of which call into question what kinds of targets are appropriate to set for any school to meet.

If you are anti — are you against the only college prep school in NY that targets and supports students with emerging mental health issues, the school that integrates autistic students, the residential charter taking young men as they leave Rikers, or against unionized charters?

Increasingly children and young people are expected to attend extra tutoring or exam cramming sessions in their lunch breaks, after school, on Saturdays and in the school holidays to ensure they achieve the grades required by the Government's imposed league table targets.

The suspension rate for elementary students at Success Academy charter schools is seven times the rate of New York City's public elementary schools and, like Achievement First, Inc. the charter school was targeting and abusing children as young as kindergarten.

New research shows that children who start school young are struggling to keep up with curriculum targets.

«This is a better target, I think, because it relates to what teachers can aim for in their classrooms, in their schools, as regards the actual progress of young people,» he said.

According to Spanish Fork police, sometime between 2:15 a.m. and 6 a.m. on Dec. 30, two young men, who appeared to be from the ages of 16 to 20, broke into the school, targeting the auditorium.

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Rather than lengthening the school day, which exhausts young children and deprives older children of the opportunity to engage in extracurricular activities and sports, a better alternative is to provide targeted, enriched learning activities, especially in the summer.

Establishing these specific graduation targets is clearly an effective measure given that young Hispanic students are now half as likely to drop out of high school as they were 15 years ago.

A learning target theory of action uses evidence that comes from the classroom to inform our decisions about what it takes to develop expert teachers, accomplished administrators, and schools that produce competent young adults and lifelong learners.

Although this Alex Award title was published under an adult imprint, its shrewd, authentic view of boarding - school life seems targeted toward young adults and has attracted a wide crossover audience.

Whilst TMNT's premise certainly holds a vague sentimentality for old - school Turtles fans, the sustenance feels very much targeted at younger audiences.

Our first World Climate targeted university students and young professionals, while the second one, conducted in January 2017, targeted younger youth in high school.

By emphasizing the involvement of young people and targeting the middle school audience, the book is well suited for young people and has a decidedly hopeful, forward - looking tone.

Most driving schools target teenagers and young adults who are trying to earn their driver's licenses.

Employers are also targeting students at a younger age with the number of higher apprenticeship and school - leaver programmes doubling in the last four years.

The largest treatment effects occurred in the older and / ormore severely depressed adolescents, consistent with findings in the adultIPT literature.35 This finding suggests thatmilder depression in younger adolescents can be more easily treated with supportivepsychotherapy, whereas more severe depression is more effectively treatedwith a structured treatment specifically targeted for adolescent depression.The current findings extend treatment effects observed in carefully controlledclinical trials with depressed adolescents17, 18 totreatment in school - based health clinics, and are an important first stepin the study of the transportability of treatments from the laboratory tothe clinic.

Justice reinvestment is about shifting spending away from prisons and juvenile detention expansion towards prevention, such as early childhood education in vulnerable communities, targeting young people at risk of school disengagement, intensive case work support with housing and employment support, and job creation.

Positive parenting practices (e.g., parental support, monitoring, avoiding harsh punishment) are associated with positive child outcomes, such as better adjustment, higher self - esteem, higher grades, fewer behavior problems, and lower reports of deviance among school - age children.6 Even if programs target parents of young children, parents may be able to use the skills they develop for years into the future or to help parent older children.

To achieve this, the project centred on the combined delivery of the Parents Plus Adolescents Programme (an intervention teaching relationship - building, positive communication, and conflict resolution skills to parents) and the Working Things Out programme (a small group mental health intervention for young people, promoting positive mental health and building coping capacity) to families targeted in mental health and school settings.

The primary target group for group programmes are parents of children in the pre-primary and primary school years, though it has also been conducted with parents of children as young as two years of age.

Target group: The main purpose of Program Achieve is to support communities, schools and homes in a collective effort to optimise the social, emotional, and academic development of all children and young people.

Similarly, in a study of Interpersonal Psychotherapy approaches to preventing youth depression, Young and colleagues found that teens who participated in a skills - based intervention targeting interpersonal role disputes, role transitions and interpersonal deficits reported fewer depressive symptoms at six - months follow - up than teens who were assigned to a school counseling control group.

The Lions Quest «Skills for Adolescence» is a school - based life skill programme targeting young people to develop skills, to accept the responsibility, to learn how to communicate effectively and make health decisions, as well as to resist pressure to use alcohol and drugs.

Since especially vulnerable or young students frequently become targets of peer - victimization [45], integrating social competence training in school settings might be an effective and necessary strategy to prevent or reduce the effects of peer - victimization.

We were basically targeting ourselves 10 years ago since we knew that renter profile the best: young family with 1 - 2 kids who valued good schooling, move - in ready SFR, fenced in, nice garage, major appliances provided, great renting experience, etc..

Based on the price they are selling these older homes for and location near schools, the target buyer is often a young family buying their first or second house.