Sentences with phrase «as a high school student on»

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The study sampled both parents of high school students intending to go to college, as well as the students themselves, to determine overall outlook on college expenses, money - saving habits, and life after college in today's workforce.

Like, for instance, when he mentions that he was the first New Zealander to be selected as a Fulbright Scholar in entrepreneurship, or tells you he once spent two weeks in a coma after contracting malaria in Indonesia, or says he was among the highest - scoring secondary - school students on a national math exam.

A student who attended the same alternative high school as Cruz after Cruz's expulsion said Cruz was known to have flaunted pictures of firearms on his phone.

They drone on as if both they and the students were back in high school.

His epiphany was that students with great earnings potential paid the same high rates on their school loans as everyone else.

Therapy dogs visit Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Sun., Feb. 25, 2018, for an open house as parents and students return to the school for the first time since the shoSchool on Sun., Feb. 25, 2018, for an open house as parents and students return to the school for the first time since the shoschool for the first time since the shooting.

Local high school students are planning several walkouts to demand that Congress cracks down on gun violence in America, according to Cleveland 19 News, with similar demonstrations ongoing in Columbus, Ohio, as well.

2017.02.03 RBC announces 30 Black History Month Student Essay Competition scholarship winners As Canada prepares to celebrate its 150th birthday, RBC asked high school students to reflect on the contribution of black Canadians over the past 150 years and what future generations can learn from them...

Ms. Sanders told reporters on Tuesday that the session on Wednesday will include students and parents from the Florida school as well as people affected by school shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado and Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, school as well as people affected by school shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado and Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, school shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado and Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, School in Colorado and Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, School in Newtown, Conn..

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students Julia Salomone, 18, and sister Lindsey, 15, celebrate with other students as their bus leaves Coral Springs bound for Tallahassee on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018, to demand stronger gun control.

On Wednesday, as high school students from DC, Maryland, and Virginia protested in front of the US Capitol and the White House, Sen. Jeff Flake (R - AZ) announced he and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D - CA) were working on a bill that would raise the minimum age to buy an AR - 15 rifle to 21 for buyers who aren't in the military (an initiative opposed by the National Rifle AssociationOn Wednesday, as high school students from DC, Maryland, and Virginia protested in front of the US Capitol and the White House, Sen. Jeff Flake (R - AZ) announced he and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D - CA) were working on a bill that would raise the minimum age to buy an AR - 15 rifle to 21 for buyers who aren't in the military (an initiative opposed by the National Rifle Associationon a bill that would raise the minimum age to buy an AR - 15 rifle to 21 for buyers who aren't in the military (an initiative opposed by the National Rifle Association).

On Monday, April 23, Xtreme Action Park offered free admission from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. to all students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School as a way of showing their support following the events of Feb. 14.

Consider not just the appalling record of the twentieth century; consider as well the sullenness of so many high school students today, the emptiness of their elders in college, the despair of the underclass, the desperate fun - seeking of the jet set, the divorce rate, the incidence of child abuse, and on and on.

◾ LGBT students are twice as likely to say that they were not planning on completing high school or going on to college.

As head of Students for Life of America, overseeing student - led organizations on around 1,200 high school and college campuses nationwide, I know from experience that social conservatives can not cede the territory of culture and expect to survive.

We first meet Charlotte Simmons on the eve of her departure from Sparta, North Carolina, where, as a gifted student, she had felt rather isolated from (and superior to) her high school classmates.

Merle M. Ohlsen describes group counseling of adolescents and children in schools.9 Helen Driver reports on two groups for high school seniors, three groups for college students, and four leaderless teachers» groups.10 The second part of Driver's book reports on forty - four projects using small groups in elementary, high school, college, and graduate professional schools (as well as mental health settings), as described by the leaders of each group.

Posted on the church's website, his official statement reads: «As a college student on staff at a church in Texas more than 20 years ago, I regretfully had a sexual incident with a female high school senior in the church.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

I grew up eating Laughing Cow Cheese on crackers, but never actually cooked with it until I went to France as a foreign exchange student in high school.

Delta Educational Vineyard Takes Shape Students at Clarksburg's Delta High School and Clarksburg Middle School now have the opportunity to get hands - on experience growing grapes as they learn about viticulture and employment opportunities in the region's leading agricultural industry...

As a Single Parent / Mother of a high school student at Detroit Cass Tech (Donovan People - Jones) here in the City of Detroit I am initiating this Petition on behalf of all students and parents around the country and even Canada.

When she pushed out as the last contending racer on the second run, she led Schild, whose videos she had studied while a high school student at Burke Mountain Academy in Vermont, by 1.34 seconds.

The Unified races will be one of the many highpoints of Bay Area Games as more than 500 Special Olympics Northern California special education student - athletes compete in track & field events on Tuesday at Acalanes High School in Lafayette.

The most recent statistics from the National Athletic Training Association suggest that almost 4 out of 10 U.S. high schools still do not have access to an athletic trainer (although this statistic may be somewhat misleading, as the percentage of high school students with AT coverage is higher, perhaps as high as 70 %, due to the fact that larger high schools in more densely populated states are much more likely to have one or mor athletic trainers on staff), and the likelihood that trained personnel will be present during games or practices at the youth level is low).

So what can you as a parent do to relieve the pressure on your high school student (and put your own mind at ease) around the issue of college admissions?

If we do eliminate the a la carte options that kids so love and introduced a single, healthful menu for all students, I wonder whether students on open campuses (i.e., most high schools) who previously had the money to buy those foods would simply leave the program altogether and go elsewhere for their pizza and fries (as many already do).

The dish is on the menu every day in the city's high schools and regularly offered to younger students as well.

Lastly, for the high - school and college students out there -LCB- and maybe even for you parents too -RCB-, the «How to Ditch Your Parents» book comes with loads of great advice for living on your own, preparing your child for the working world, and advice that you as a parent may think is common knowledge.

In high school, this can be very important as students must focus on specific subjects that will fit their needs best for college preparation.

Look for people with a medical background, or those with youngish kids in the public schools, or those who have fought similar battles in the past, especially battles based on the idea of social justice, that low income students deserve the same respect and services as higher income students.

In our direct education work, FoodCorps currently concentrates on schools with high rates of students from low - income households, as measured by eligibility for free or reduced - price school lunch.

So why do some books that aren't) of obvious (at least to me) interest to most high school students placed on reading lists, and why are others of much greater interest (as judged by sales and / or library borrowings) ignored?

Students of a Long Island middle and high school are now required to wear clear backpacks on campus as part of a new safety measure in the wake of the Valentine's Day mass shooting that left 17 dead in Florida.

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Students of a Long Island middle and high school are now required to wear clear backpacks on campus as part of a new safety measure in the wake of the Valentine's Day mass shooting that left 17 dead in Florida, an official confirmed to The Post.

She echoed the union's concerted push for more school aid and a moratorium on using students scores on Common Core - aligned exams for «high stakes» decisions, such as teacher evaluations.

SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher said cuts to programs that help disadvantaged high school students gain the opportunity to attend college, as well as reductions to federal college aid and cuts to medical research, including cancer research, would have a huge negative impact on New York's colleges.

Each CEC consists of 12 members (9 elected members, 2 appointed by the Borough President and 1 non-voting high school student appointed by the superintendent) who serve as volunteers and provide hands - on leadership and support for their district's public schools.

«They provide an evaluation of student mastery of content and skills in various courses of study, serve as a tool for measuring the degree to which students are on track to graduate high school college - and career - ready, and help shape future instruction.»

Plans for the protests circulated widely on social media on Saturday, as students, parents, teachers and neighbors gathered to express their grief over the fatal shooting of 14 students and three staff members at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

In light of reports in today's Albany Times Union that a 10th grade teacher at Albany High School asked students to make a persuasive argument blaming Jews for the problems of Nazi Germany as part of a writing assignment, Councilman David G. Greenfield is calling on the school district to immediately terminate the teacher in queSchool asked students to make a persuasive argument blaming Jews for the problems of Nazi Germany as part of a writing assignment, Councilman David G. Greenfield is calling on the school district to immediately terminate the teacher in queschool district to immediately terminate the teacher in question.

SANTA FE, Tex. — A nation plagued by a wrenching loop of mass school shootings watched the latest horror play out in this small Southeast Texas town Friday morning, as a young man armed with a shotgun and a.38 revolver smuggled under his coat opened fire on his high school campus, killing 10 people, many of them his fellow students, and wounding 10 more, the authorities said.

The measure also comes as school districts across the state on Tuesday reported high numbers of students choosing to opt out of the current round of English Language Arts standardized tests that will run for the next two weeks.

The policy group highlighted North Carolina's state community college system as having established a new mechanism to place students in courses based in part on high school performance, rather than just through testing.

Ian Kravitz hugs his daughter Madyson, 16, as she and other students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School board buses on February 20 to travel to Tallahassee to call for a ban on assault rifles.

The Network for ASSIN Development is calling on the government as a matter of urgency to sack all the Head Teachers of both the Basic and the Senior High School in the Assin Land for failing to give the students proper sex education.

One commonly used definition of a «good» school is one that has high academic outcomes in absolute terms - its students don't drop out, frequently go to college, frequently go to selective colleges if they do go to college, frequently find decent jobs if they don't go to college, perform well on standardized tests, take more advanced classes such as advanced placement, international baccalaureate, honors and college classes, etc..

Here in the Ctiy of Buffalo this year a report from the Council on Great City Schools on Improving the Academic Achievement of English Language Learners in the Buffalo Public Schools System cited that only 21 % of these students graduate from high school and the academic achievement programs ignored them as a group as though they don't exist with as many as 100 never recieving their mandated language instruction.

Speaking on Eyewitness News, he echoed the suggestion that students could be given stipends to attend private senior high schools, as private head teachers have proposed.