Sentences with phrase «thousands of children all»

With only four secondary schools to serve tens of thousands of children, the schools used a cutoff score on an entrance exam to determine which students would enroll.

Working for one of the leading and largest academy trusts in the country, and liaising directly with heads and teachers every day, there is huge scope to shape the futures of tens of thousands of children and young people, which is enormously exciting.

Since 1983, we have developed creative, safe and enjoyable playground experiences for thousands of children.

«I've had thousands of children, all boys,» the elderly Chips says as he is dying.

Without othering, thousands of children in American schools would feel safer and more able to focus on learning.

The competition, organised by tuition provider, Explore Learning, has been running for ten years and has inspired hundreds of thousands of children across the UK to put pen to paper and give writing a try.

Opponents hammered at the theme that vouchers would divert taxpayers» money from public schools, weaken public education, and leave tens of thousands of children behind.

His writing influenced thousands of educators, and the schools established using his methods taught tens of thousands of children to think for themselves.

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan said: «Due to the turbocharged sponsored academy programme hundreds of thousands of children are now getting a better education - a key driver in our mission to spread educational excellence everywhere.

The news comes as thousands of children are due to hear which secondary school they will attend from September.

«For his tireless efforts to strengthen families and to improve outcomes for thousands of children as President and CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone, we are thrilled to...

They do not however reach every locality and can't cater for the tens of thousands of children who need them.

Thomas Mitchell, a solicitor at Simpson Millar, warned that thousands of children could now face a «stressful, poorly managed and hugely overwhelming transition» from primary to secondary school».

Thousands of children aged nine to 11 in schools across the UK took part in the survey, designed by researchers from the University of Oxford working with a BBC project called BBC Terrific Scientific which aims to involve children directly in scientific research.

Anna Feuchtwang, chief executive of the National Children's Bureau, said: «It is alarming that thousands of children are missing education every year, and vital that each one gets the right support to protect them from harm and support them back into learning.

She is working on a project funded by the Institute of Education Science, U.S. Department of Education, and National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, using multiple approaches such as using eye - tracking technology to investigate growth of silent reading, video - taping and coding classroom instruction, and coding thousands of children's oral language and writing samples.

«For his tireless efforts to strengthen families and to improve outcomes for thousands of children as President and CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone, we are thrilled to award the second Harvard Graduate School of Education Medal for Education Impact to Geoffrey Canada,» Dean Kathleen McCartney said.

And let's also bear in mind that there may be strong arguments for paying # 150,000 - plus salaries in large, complex trusts, with responsibility for many schools and many thousands of children.

Who doesn't remember the massive march in New York City — thousands of children and parents trudging across the Brooklyn Bridge wearing T - shirts with slogans such as «My Child, My Choice,» all to protest the crackdown on charters by New York's new mayor?

There are thousands more schools and academies than there are leisure centres in the UK, therefore thousands of children could have the chance to take part in affordable, fun, community and sports groups.

Brake's Kids Walk, in partnership with Co-op Insurance, will see thousands of children, aged 4 - 11, take part in supervised walks to promote road safety and the health and environmental benefits of walking.

The four month monsoon season in Bangladesh brings with it heavy rainfall - making it impossible for thousands of children in flood - prone areas to attend school.

The play is about the British Child Migration Scheme - which involved hundreds of thousands of children being exported to Commonwealth countries.

The so - called «no - excuses» model — and sundry variations on that theme — have helped hundreds of thousands of children in poverty, many of them African American and Hispanic (and many English language learners), to gain a fresh lease on education.

Whether in Washington, Milwaukee, Houston, or Los Angeles, in school or at home, thousands of children, many of whom have had no history of troublemaking, are packing...

Schools came from all four corners of Lancashire, the competition which involved thousands of children, took part in heats held at Westholme School (Blackburn), Marine Hall (Fleetwood) and Blackpool Tower Ballroom.

«It was really cool, speaking my opinion,» says Huber, «because I felt that that way, we could be heard, and I could be a role model for thousands of children.»

According to The Telegraph, campaigners believe that thousands of children are at a disadvantage for being left - handed following a lack of action from ministers.

The proposed changes would lead to poorer educational outcomes and require thousands of children (some as young as four) to travel long distances on inadequate road systems to school every day;

My focus in this article is on the CMOs in the NewSchools portfolio, which often operate 10 to 20 schools or more, serve thousands of children, and are materially different from their smaller counterparts, especially in terms of finances and management.

Edison now operates dozens of schools and provides full - and part - time education services to hundreds of thousands of children.

Foster care is an issue close to my heart, and there are currently thousands and thousands of children in need of that room.

Accountability structures and tougher standards, charter schools, and school - choice programs have changed the educational experience of hundreds of thousands of children and their families.

Stopping would disrupt tutoring for tens of thousands of children, he said, an outcome he views as absurd and contrary to the intent of the No Child Left Behind Act.

Thousands of children have also benefited: The books are collected after commencement and donated to a local organization or school.

For the majority of communities without such an important resource, we can easily imagine how thousands and thousands of children fall further behind or drop out permanently.

«This will be the start of a life - long interest in foreign languages for thousands of children around Australia.

The harm it could cause In the school environment, a release of asbestos that goes unnoticed could mean exposure to many hundreds, potentially even thousands of children.

«This broken promise is causing ongoing pain to thousands of children with disability who are being denied the chance of a decent education.»

Besides, we should prefer letting parents make mistakes for their own children over distant bureaucrats making mistakes for hundreds or thousands of children while claiming to protect them.

This is the most important and most obvious message I've noticed from the thousands and thousands of children with whom I've visited or interviewed.

«Unless we act now to boost the quality of early years education, it will be a decade or more before we see every five - year - old arriving at school ready to learn — with thousands of children suffering as a consequence.

Thousands of children will begin the term in 52 new schools as the next wave of free schools open their doors for the next academic year.

Today, the project has become a veritable global phenomenon, and because of it, thousands of children from more than forty countries have exchanged pictures, stories, and goodwill, turning a half - inch - thin storybook character into a cultural icon.

At the same time, we are also faced with hundreds of thousands of children at risk of food poverty in this country.

Now that I'm older and understand what my dad was trying to do all those years ago, I was hoping Disney could rejuvenate those feelings once felt by thousands upon thousands of children during the 50's.

Almost as shocking as its narrative — which tells the story of literally tens of thousands of children, and the terrible abuses they suffered after in many cases being told that their parents were dead — is the fact that it is hardly known in the United States, where tales of adolescent mistreatment and murder are typically seized upon with a white - hot tabloid fervor, grist for the mill of the 24 - hour cable news channels.

In her latest film, Watson again gives voice to another remarkable yet «ordinary» woman, starring in Oranges and Sunshine as Margaret Humphreys, a Nottingham social worker who in the 1980s uncovered a decades - long program of forced deportation / immigration which sent tens of thousands of children from England to Australia.

Civil unrest and a savage war that ravaged Sudan in the early 1980s left thousands of children orphaned.

Nevertheless, it's a genuinely moving story of a real life hero who lived with his demons, while also changing the lives of thousands of children.