"The Lottery, " directed by Madeleine Sackler, follows four elementary-age children from low-income neighborhoods in New York.

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Elementary school-age children were eating at some of the restaurants and no one was trying to escape, she said.

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According to UNESCO and the World Bank, nearly 400 million elementary- and secondary-age children are not attending school.

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Family members said Thursday that the violence in Mr. Ward's neighborhood affected him from an early age, when he had to walk six blocks to his elementary school.

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Implementing a STEM-focused curriculum as early as elementary school allows educators to spark an interest in these subjects at an impressionable age and to encourage that interest to grow throughout high school and beyond.

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Like a lot of people my age, the first computer I ever used was an Apple IIe, back in elementary school, which was full of them.

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Age 16: Some friend gets him library copy of book titled A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics and was a collection of 5000 theorems.

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