Sentences with phrase «youngsters who»

But when policy intervenes to reshape the teacher's priorities, it is invariably on behalf of the laggards, for they are the beneficiaries of major governmental efforts — such as NCLB and IDEA — to advance the education of youngsters who face difficulties and to reward schools and teachers that accomplish this.

The third involved only 12 youngsters who were randomly assigned to a desegregated school.

Youngsters who grow up in poor neighborhoods don't have access to the same resources as children in more affluent communities.

Yes, some want their kids to attend schools with youngsters who look like them.

Often unrecognized are those youngsters who are making a positive impact on their schools and communities!

It also means learning how teachers can use their time differently, how to work with youngsters who have different abilities, and how to blend Khan into the curriculum, not substitute for it, everyone told me.

Set the new cut scores high to denote true «readiness,» get the colleges to accept them as such, and confer a «readiness diploma» on youngsters who meet that standard.

Nyankori says he has lured back 155 of the district's 2,400 special - ed youngsters who are in private schools, at a yearly cost of $ 141 million, with more programs and better case management, and has set a target return date for each of the others.

He said: «I can think of youngsters, even at the highest - performing schools, who will find it a problem, I can think of youngsters who would have been better suited to do English, Maths and Science and a range of vocational subjects.»

College might catapult prepared low - income kids into the middle class in one fell swoop, but using high - quality career and technical education to give low - income youngsters who are not ready for college a foothold on the ladder to success is a victory as well.

The PLCs take youngsters who have at least attempted 9th grade, plus a few overage 8th graders.

In its own analysis, ANet says the number of its youngsters who scored proficient or above on state tests last year increased by 7 percentage points in English and 4 percentage points in math in Chicago, and by 5 points in English and 3 points in math in New Orleans.

I noted and praised the youngsters who were dutifully taking notes.

Still, more than one - third of the youngsters who started at the Virginia PLCs in fall 2009 graduated in 2010, including 68 students who headed to two - or four - year colleges, the Virginia project reported.

Nothing says summer fun quite like the Fourth of July, especially for all those youngsters who've probably been counting the days until the fireworks show.

Unlike many youngsters who have learning disabilities or differences, I was identified early.

Nevertheless, a treat is in store for the uninitiated, especially youngsters who've never seen either of these leads ply his trade before.

He conjured them at will to protect a trio of youngsters who solved a puzzle in an obstacle course that led them to an area near an incursion.

He provides a mix of technical and narrative observations, with plenty of screen - specificity and no interest in talking down to the youngsters who might have chosen this soundtrack.

We define redemption differently than wide - eyed, innocent youngsters who've yet to feel life's brutal, sometimes unforgiving clutches.

Falcone also stages a number of ingenious sight gags, most of them having to deal with the youngsters who have bonded together to make the growing brownie business a success, while a joke involving a foldaway couch got me to laugh out loud even though I saw it coming from a million miles away.

Director Andy Muschietti breathes fresh life into the story of bullied youngsters who take on a dark force, making IT a coming - of - age film as well as a horror movie.

Unfortunately, the film's ultimate message seems to be that education is irrelevant for those with physical talents, a dangerous example to set for the countless other impoverished youngsters who are destined for the NBA - or - nothing path that left Telfair's older brother to enjoy merely the obscurity of Greece's basketball league.

Devotees of the J.M. Barre source material will be no doubt disappointed and confused, but the theatre was filled with youngsters who couldn't seem to care less that Joe Wright had taken a classic story in the opposite direction.

Ken Loach produces a gritty, realistic tale of life on a dismal Scottish estate, and exposes the soft side of the hard youngsters who live there without diverging from the harsh reality of their lives.

This new trailer is totally focused on the kids in the movie, a cast of youngsters who have to deal with the Decepticons coming back for revenge.

Props to the powers that be at the Burns for recognizing that Red Dead Redemption is freaking awesome and giving Rockstar a venue for showing a bunch of hardcore film people (not to mention all the hip youngsters who brought hard copies of the game to be autographed by the Rockstar crew) what's up in the increasingly expansive world of interactive entertainment.

Hannigan is meant to be wallowing in hole of self - pity, yearning for lost youth surrounded by youngsters who constantly remind her of what might have been.

Meaning, it's about a group of wild, party - every - night youngsters who live motel to motel selling crappy magazines to whoever they can sucker into buying them.

Heder scored better on all fronts by voicing Reginald «Skull» Skulinski in the Steven Spielberg - produced, CG - animated family film Monster House, a spooky and funny romp about a home that begins devouring trick - or - treaters, and the three youngsters who set out to stop it.The November 2006 release School for Scoundrels returned Heder to live - action material.

As you know that you may not find a life mate in single bars or clubs because these places are gathered by youngsters who come to have fun.

You only see youngsters who go to these places to have some fun.

He approached me online with actual conversation starters (unlike other youngsters who approach with sexual advances only), and we quickly found several common interests.

Well, most of people gather at such places are youngsters who are seeking for fun, not serious in a relationship.

Mainly youngsters who have chilled attitude towards dating are the active members of BeNaughty.

With UFC or mixed martial arts clubs springing up every were there are many youngsters who like the idea of cage fighting and either want to to test themselves in the Octagon or just obtain the benefits of mixed martial arts conditioning and so I have designed a list of all the qualities needed to compete successfully in UFC as well as guidelines of how to get them.

Youngsters who are clumsy and uncoordinated at age 7 are about two to four times as likely to be obese in adulthood as their more agile and graceful peers.

Compared to youngsters who stayed at home until they started school, babies who attended large - group child care before age 2 1/2 came down with more respiratory bugs and ear infections during their early preschool years (before 3 1/2), but fewer respiratory and ear infections once they started elementary school.

Youngsters who were slim at age 7, but gained excess weight by early adulthood also increased their risk of type 2 diabetes, the investigators found.

Research led by Dr. Laffel reported that youngsters who received care ambassador support services enjoyed healthier outcomes than those who received standard care, including 40 % fewer trips to emergency rooms and half the number of severe low blood glucose episodes.

They found that the death rate among the group which had suffered the adversity - related injuries was twice as high as the youngsters who had suffered the accidental injuries.

The study by academics at the university's Centre for Advances in Behavioural Science compared children with dyslexia to youngsters who had a history of repeated ear infections to see if they had a similar pattern of literacy difficulties.

Tracking the respiratory health of 208 children in 10 cities, the scientists determined that those youngsters who lived closer to highways were more likely to develop asthma.

Even so, researchers noted that most youngsters who are mistreated do not grow up to be criminals.

Parents who opt out are endangering not only their own kids but everybody else's, too — including those who can not be vaccinated because they are too young or immunocompromised, as well as youngsters who have received their shots.

... But a rule change introduced by Education Secretary Michael Gove now means schools can offer poor children places ahead of better - off youngsters who live nearer — with heads picking up hundreds of pounds in extra funding.»

Sgt. Dwayne Palmer answered questions and gave advice to youngsters who shared experiences they have had with police, the Times - Ledger reported.

In the speech, Bellone cited a new pilot program dealing with fourth - and fifth - graders in Wyandanch and South Country school districts aiming to divert youngsters who are showing signs of gang involvement like using gang clothing or terminology.

But demanding that no - one judge your offspring is a recipe for creating coddled youngsters who will grow up lacking self - awareness — and ignorant.

BASC's regional officer for the south east, Jenni Thompson, said: «These activity days are brilliant for youngsters who want to find out more about the countryside and the activities that are involved in supporting it.»