Sentences with phrase «[shooting at a school»

Just days after a gunman opened fire at her school and killed 17 of her peers, Florida high school senior Emma Gonzalez used her voice to call national attention to gun law reform.

At school?

Since Parkland, I have come to the terrifying realization that a shooting can just as easily happen at my school.

TranQool has signed up about 100 brand ambassadors, at schools such as Ryerson University, OCAD and George Brown College, who blog for the company and spread the word on campus.

But to assume prices will keep rising as a result misses an important point, says Josh Gordon, assistant professor at the School of Public Policy at Simon Fraser University.

The shocking part is that we claim that women aren't studying STEM subjects at school and aren't entering tech careers in the U.S. because of discrimination and oppression, but in countries where women don't have a lot of rights (and granted, those rights vary drastically even within Middle Eastern countries), they manage to succeed in STEM in school.

«They were banking on their employers paying for their degrees and then saw that funding revoked,» says Séan Corbishley, the schools's director of EMBA and custom programming at the school, adding that mining firms are looking to save money.

Once clients sign up, they stick around — many have been students at the school since it opened, and children often stay in music school until they go to college.

This research shows that this kind of attitude adjustment will literally change the way their brain works for their better, giving them a boost at school.

She trades in observation comedy, sometimes about situations she's far removed from («Types of Kids at School,» for example).

My son had started to complain about small problems at school («This person wasn't nice to me,» «Someone wasn't playing with me,» etc.).

By the time early - riser Sheryl Sandberg gets to the office at 7 a.m., she's already fitted in an hour of responding to emails, a morning workout at her home gym and dropping her two kids off at school.

Union leaders urged Wisconsin teachers to return to work at schools that are open on Monday, but large protests were expected to continue at the Capitol against a plan to cut collective bargaining rights and benefits to state workers.

I challenged his thought process by asking him to try and help someone else at school the next day.

That tendency towards anxiety is at least helping you perform better at school, work, or wherever a sharp memory will help you get ahead.

On one of Branson's last days at school, his headmaster is reported to have told him he would either end up in prison or become a millionaire.

«When the kids arrive at school, we start with the energy setting,» Tamara van Thiel, a teacher at the school, told CNBC's Innovation Cities.

I'm specifically referring to the kind of high - end training provided at schools such as Tribeca Flashpoint College.

Teens from low - income families are more likely to report negative digital experiences such as cyber bullying, and social media experiences that spill over to create problems at school and with peers.

Among kids currently ages 8 to 14, 65 percent say they learn more about money from their parents than they do at school, according to a T. Rowe Price survey released last month.

She gave an early - morning final presentation at school.

People at my school were from all over the world, and I would have friends who would bring in Korean or Ethiopian or Chilean food.

... To have the bullet pointed at me - at my school, my classmates, my teachers, my mentors - it's just it's definitely eye - opening to the fact that we need more gun control in our country.»

Her family was so poor that, as a child, Oprah was teased at school for wearing dresses made of potato sacks.

The ballooning cost of college, especially at elite universities, puts attendance at schools such as these beyond the means of most nonwealthy students.

This fall, our team members in and around Chicago, Boston, and Philadelphia volunteered with Cradles to Crayons, a national organization that provides children from birth through age 12 with essential items — all free of charge — to help them thrive at home, at school, and at play.

Privacy was extremely limited both at school and home.

Anderson was teased terribly at school and harassed by students and a hateful headmaster, and he considered those some of the darkest days of his life.

«Most websites are built by technology folks and then you slap a design on top of it,» said Jeffrey Rubin, associate professor at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University and CEO of SIDEARM Sports, a major provider of college athletic websites.

Can you come speak at our school?»

Growing up, my dad would drop off my brother and I at school every morning, then pick us up afterwards.

The unpredictability impacted assignments at school where his classmates would never be certain if he'd show up for group projects, he said, and weekend trips to Toronto hinged on whether he would be called in on a Friday night in the final hours before his shift was to start.

Booth, a 1971 Chicago MBA, built his investment firm, Dimensional Fund Advisors on principles he learned from Eugene Fama at the school.

For years, said Caroline Bell, leader teacher at the school, the genocide wasn't spoken about in Cambodia.

The action comes one week after the FDA disclosed a nationwide crackdown on underage sales of Juul e-cigarettes, which have become popular among some teenagers as a way to vape at school and in public.

After graduating from the first Imagine K12 incubator class in 2011, Class Dojo co-founders Sam Chaudhary and Liam Don were armed with a background in education, seed capital, and interviews with thousands of teachers about the biggest time - suck they faced at school — behavior management.

I was in school learning about advertising - I really became entrenched in media at school.

He and his business partner approached me and said, «Hey we want to build a website... and we want to have a slider on the homepage that has this information,» and then he showed me a flyer they hand out at schools to advertise their service.

In spite of her busy schedule, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg drops her two young children off at school in the morning and leaves work by 5:30 p.m. to be at home with them.

A child needs to be picked up at school.

CrisisGo has many different uses, but in an era of mass shootings at schools, this company's chat app for teachers is taking off.

Luckily, friends of mine in Ukraine and Ukrainian - Americans are sponsoring students at the school to help fund ethical development of business — «clean,» to use their terms.

Eating a meal at school makes a difference for children who are chronically hungry.

Those Happy Meals were a rare treat, and I worked hard to get a good report card or an honor at school just for a visit to the Golden Arches as a reward.

So Rendon, who'd worked at the school for a year and a half, told her bosses she'd be having transplant surgery on July 21 and planned to take leave starting July 19.

Personal finance is one of the most important aspects of education, but it isn't always given the same amount of time or commitment in the home or at school.

«At some schools, sometimes when you give a big donation, you get your name on a building,» a touched Shaw told the Edmonton Journal.

The family hasn't just slapped their name on the front door, either — in 2005, Sobeys Inc., Empire Company Limited and The Sobey Foundation contributed $ 2 million to fund undergraduate scholarships for students enrolled at the School of Business and pay for infrastructure developments.

I drop the kids off at school at 9:00 am and then I give myself until 10:00 am to straighten the house and get the basics done.

They have learned from and interacted with multiple cultures online through social media and at school.