Sentences with phrase «as grade school»

It's been a dream of mine as far back as grade school to someday live on the beach.

Many come with pre-loaded educational content, and considering that tablet OSes are being taught as early as grade school, just giving a child a chance to explore a digital interface can put them ahead.

Harris started out as a grade school teacher in Boston and was inspired by Judge David Nelson, who was the first black person to be appointed to the federal bench in Massachusetts.

Right next door to Pace, for the run of «Social Medial,» David Byrne squeezed an inflatable globe under the High Line, as old - fashioned as grade school.

As grade school grammar teachers have long taught about essays, books in this earlier era had a beginning, a middle, and an end.

But as your grade school teacher probably told you, the first answer you pick is often the right one.

Schoolwork is going digital as early as grade school, high school research is done online and most jobs in the workforce require high digital proficiency.

Weprin introduced a bill last week calling for all city public schools to institute required anti-bullying education for students as young as the grade school level, with -LSB-...]

More than 85 percent of children eventually outgrow their milk allergy, some as early as grade school, and others into their teens and 20s.

Mine, even as a grade school kid, was all about writing lists.

In such situations, humans invariably size one another up as quickly and ruthlessly as grade schoolers choosing sides in a pickup basketball game.

I heard of global warming and greenhouse gases as a grade schooler, and I'm in my 40's.

I spent countless hours as a grade schooler drawing floor plans, looking at design books and magazines, riding in the backseat of the car going on «drive bys» with my parents, and decorating my own room.

Not exact matches

Just as the streaming service can predict whether someone will enjoy a Judd Apatow movie, Brightspace can forecast the grade a user will receive in a biology course and customize the learning experience to increase her odds of getting an A. Welcome to the future of school.

Tracey Gordon, who taught Tsarnaev in fifth and sixth grade at a Cambridge school, described him as an exceptionally intelligent child who easily mastered English after arriving in the United States from Russia and «was eager to learn whatever school had to offer.»

The majority of CoachUp's athletes range from grade school up through high school — a natural pyramid, as Fliegel points out, with the best athletes most likely to continue through high school graduation.

She began working as soon as she was old enough, as a babysitter, waitress, table busser and switch - board operator — «name a crappy job [and] I've done it,» she jokes — and when her grades remained near - perfect despite all those extracurricular activities, she switched to a more challenging private school.

When the team looked at these numbers — average rate of improvement between third and eighth grade in math and reading — many schools that are traditionally thought of as «bad» suddenly seemed good.

Gorsuch's commitments to interpreting the law as «the words on the paper say» and not over-criminalizing innocent conduct were on full display in a 2015 decision in which he used «plain old grade school grammar» to determine the legal penalties imposed on defendants accused of using a firearm «during and in relation to any crime of violence of drug trafficking crime.»

Data visualization as a concept, of course, is hardly new (ask anyone who used crayons to color in a pie chart in grade school).

As I've stated before, failure happens to everyone — whether in grade school, our personal lives or our professional lives.

Through the years, the Kelley School has fashioned a reputation as a true MBA innovator, from being one of the few programs that give a single grade for the entire core curriculum to having a series of first - year academies that provide experiential learning, consulting projects and coaching to students interested in six core areas that range from capital markets and strategic finance to consulting and supply chain management.

The government requires students to maintain at least a C grade - point average, but some schools have their own standards as well.

Anita Krishnamurthi and Nick Hutchinson were able to talk about the much larger picture of PPP programs for informal STEM education, including how we measure private industry involvement, as well as how students are improving their grades, school participation, and post-graduation success rates.

1st grade has been just as awesome as Kindergarten and we have finally gotten back into the groove of school day routines.

«The mother told us that she sees Teddy [a CHP] as a kind of doctor to her and that she has known her for a long time because Teddy was her teacher in grade school.»

And regardless of social class, the stresses and distractions that afflict unemployed parents also afflict their kids, who are more likely to repeat a grade in school, and who on average earn less as adults.

Just as writing things down when you were in grade school helped you remember it later, it works just as well for remembering names.

it's comical how religion can take a person with little more than a grade school education — and elevate their mind to the level where they literally believe they can argue subjects for which they are so completely ill - equipped — that virtually everything they posit seems as if it's coming from an 8 year old child.

One thing I find troubling here is the grade - school level of understanding many commenters seem to have regarding democracy (even shaded as a democratic republic).

I was forced to go to Catholic schools when I was young, and had to read their version of the bible and study it and as early as 3rd grade I could not believe it, I could not pretend to believe.

Ludmila Javorova now teaches religion in a grade school and considers herself to be faithful to the Church, although, in her intense loyalty to her friend and mentor, Felix Davidek, she also thinks of herself as a priest in «spirit» if not in «law.»

In his new autobiography, An American Son, available Tuesday, the Florida Republican candidly discusses the three years he spent as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints and lauds the Utah - based faith for helping his Cuban - immigrant mother and him when they moved from Miami to Las Vegas when he was a grade - schooler.

Further, older students are more than twice as likely as younger students to have attended a vocational or technical high school or a two - year or community college, and much less likely to have attended a private, nonreligious grade and high school.

In order for it to serve as an educational center, parts of it had to be rebuilt, and it was opened as a school (grades one through eight) for the first time in 1969.

In 1974 Freire began raising the money for a new school, the Colegio O'Neil (which includes secondary as well as elementary grade levels) «I found this spot and started to build on it.

So «Toss my salad» you must have missed this in grade school but emotional maturity is defined as: the ability to express one's own feelings and convictions balanced with consideration for the thoughts and feelings of others.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

Mintz does not refer at all to research by developmental psychologists such as Jay Belsky of London's Birkbeck College and Alan Sroufe of the University of Minnesota; nor does he cite the huge, multicenter National Institute of Child Health studies, all of which suggest that more than 20 hours per week of child care beginning before the age of one correlates with a higher incidence of interpersonal difficulties by early grade school.

Robert, take this as a guy who has just graduated university with a degree in physics... graduating high school, regardless of your grades, has you uneducated.

As a parent of a grade - school student, I had a difficult time getting into that mind - set.

Third, as much as I hate to say it, EVERYBODY gets out of grade school these days.

A now discredited «secularization theory» (still to be found in textbooks from fifth grade to graduate school) is that, as people became more educated — read «enlightened» — religion would inevitably decline on its way to disappearing.

Obama attended the Indonesian - language government - run Besuki School for part of 3rd grade and for 4th grade (there was a bit of religious studies on Islam included as elective, but he was what?

The population of Madien NC is 3,282 81 % are listed as «white» race and their education stats are: Less than 9th grade 10 % 9th to 12th grade, no diploma 19 % High school graduate 34 % Some college, no degree 21 % Associate's degree 6 % Bachelor's degree 8 % Graduate degree 2 % The cure for ignorance is education.

Although Malcolm was an outstanding student and extremely popular among his peers, he dropped out of school when his white eighth grade English teacher discouraged him from becoming a lawyer and suggested carpentry as a more «realistic goal for a nigger.»

One of the resons I thought there would be a higher percentage of atheisim is that evolution is being taught as fact in schools, but apparently most of the kids are not buying it, they just answer the questions on exams for the best grades.

This feeling of duty to stay was not limited to, say, rabbis; I felt it strongly as a teacher in a Jewish grade school, and also as a son.

«For the rifle, for the rifle, in my hands will prove no trifle...» — I think that song was taught to me in school, as I recall it was in 5th grade or so.

If mothers today can sell their grade - school daughters into prostitution, why couldn't this sort of thing have happened five thousand years ago in Canaan as well?