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The difference from what we have now is that every school activity, whether compulsory or optional, is specifically designed to help young people to lead a full and socially valuable life.
Physical activity levels were much higher among children, where the recommended level is 60 minutes each day, including school-based activity.
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The software also monitors school laptops if they are taken home: once plugged back into the school system the software highlights all of the activity carried out while the laptop was out of the school.
Over 4, 000 schools have established rigorous nutrition and physical activity standards through the HealthierUS School Challenge, and more than a million Americans have earned the Presidential Active Lifestyle Award by committing to healthy eating and regular exercise.
Earlier this summer Dr Bearman reported, in the American Journal of Sociology, an examination of high-school students' sexual activity and romantic relationships.
Mr Lewis told assembly members there was a "fall off in activity" between primary and secondary school, and the problem was worse for girls compared to boys.
And what we do know is that our kids are getting most of their activity, most of their nutrition at school.
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One high-profile activity was the founding of a Muslim school in London.
The program provides simple steps and tools to help schools create active environments where students get 60 minutes of physical activity before, during and after the school day.
The project has been carried out during the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 school years and was aimed at all teachers open to participating in a creative activity on the theme of water and science with their Primary or early Secondary school classes.
The main activity aims to link the local group and school work with the national and global events.
Chicago schools suffer, in heavy doses, all the ills of urban school districts: poverty, gang activity and teen pregnancies.
Duke University is planning to open a campus in China and the business school plans to engage in programmatic activity there.
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Whereas old-school coaches were focused on an activity metric batting averages, for example Beane chose to measure and prioritize outcome metrics like on-base percentage.
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But the large meals, combined with a lack of physical activity and the junk food Breanna ate at school, continued to create a big problem.
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Business is a collaborative, highly social endeavor and school is an independent, highly individual activity.
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Changing our culture into one that promotes physical activity starts by making a priority out of funding school sports.
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"It's simply unacceptable that the overwhelming majority of our young women are leaving school with dangerously low levels of physical activity, " said WSFF chief executive Sue Tibbals.
In addition, physically active kids do better in school, with studies showing that physical activity enhances important skills, like concentration and problem solving, which have been shown to improve academic performance.
We are encouraging our students to walk or bike to school rather than be driven which supports physical activity and a greener environment.
From a regular elementary school, the principal cited many anecdotes of positive activity.
My high school FFA members were always involved in some sort of activity to improve the community.
But, police say, there was no activity on Kopetsky's cell phone after she walked out of school, indicating that the battery went dead or was removed from the phone.
The shooting school is open to individuals or groups, and is a fun activity for corporate outings.
Even when the fighting stopped, simply going to school or gathering firewood for cooking was a potentially life-threatening activity in many areas: landmines and unexploded bombs caused over 340 casualties in the first six months after the fighting ended, and all in an area half the size of Wales.
The cost of sending your child to an after school program may be a qualifying expense, even if it focuses on a particular activity.
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Last year, the largest March activity occurred in Broward County Florida, where more than 39, 000 fathers took their children to school on the first day.
Bim got involved in running Playhouse, a pre-school started by her sister in Delhi, but that was always a part-time activity which she gave up only last year.
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