Sentences with phrase «high school efforts»

Since 2013, Erin has led the statewide Early and Middle College High School efforts, support, and development through her service as the Treasurer for the California Coalition of Early and Middle Colleges (CCEMC).

Philanthropy constitutes only a fraction of 1 percent of total spending on K - 12 schools, but initiatives like the Gates high school effort illustrate how such money can have a vastly disproportionate impact on the direction of America's schools.

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Schools are launching major efforts to entice high - quality female candidates.

An inspirational profile of an inner - city high school football team's valiant effort to reach the school's first - ever playoff game.

Last June, the internet giant debuted its Made with Code campaign in an effort to get young women excited about computer science — a field that less than one percent of high school girls think of as part of their future.

As California slashes billions from its higher education budget, the state's premier public business schools have quietly focused its efforts on raising private dollars.

The NRA briefly suspended its online ad efforts after a February school shooting that left 17 dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Flschool shooting that left 17 dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FlSchool in Parkland, Florida.

We live in a time where high school students are leading our nation's efforts for gun reform.

When the Australian School of Business studied attitudes toward pay openness, it found that top earners increased their effort and accuracy when their high compensation was known.

We're not only supporting companies, we're also building a community around us, opening our space to middle - and high - school students in an effort to create more entrepreneurs and makers.

Will Riley, a senior at Carlsbad High School in Carlsbad, New Mexico, launched «Stand for the Second» in an effort to speak out on behalf of young people who support gun rights.

Wide ranged efforts to promote deeper learning in the STEM subjects will also help ensure that all students are ready for college or for the workforce when they graduate from high school and that they are prepared to take their place as productive, full participants in society.

Dick's Sporting Goods DKS, -3.41 % ending sales of assault rifles after a gunman at a Parkland, Fla., high school killed 17 people is a prime example; so is Starbucks» SBUX, -1.01 % damage - control effort in the wake of a racially charged incident at one of its Philadelphia stores.

Exhibit D: The only reason a nerd would want to do well in gym is to impress the girls in their class, and since in high school, the least - cool thing you can do is care about anything, the Newsboys» gym - class effort did not lead to impressing said girls.

Certainly since World War II there has been an accelerating national effort to provide post — high school educational opportunity to everyone who shows even the least promise of profiting by it.

Nevertheless, a concerted effort to appeal to high school youths and young adults has apparently paid off.

Today's youth seem to share that much formation — a tribute, no doubt, to the efforts of Mr. Rogers, school guidance counselors, high school valedictorians and commencement speakers.

For instance, Everett, a professor of ethics at Andover - Newton Theological School, notes that the confederations that eventually led to self - governance in some German cities and to democratic efforts such as the Weimar Republic after World War I had been deeply embedded in hierarchical and royal structures, with a high degree of centralized control.

Originally, Quest concentrated its efforts on serving high - end parochial schools in the Chicago area, but in time the company discovered that there was need for its services in the public school sector.

During the third annual Food Waste & Hunger Summit, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack drew attention to efforts like The Campus Kitchens Project, which engages college and high school students to gather unused food from dining halls, grocery stores, restaurants and farmers» markets and deliver it to the less fortunate.

He redoubles his efforts with high school players.

The NCAA tournament is not won on a temporary court built in a football stadium in March but in sweaty gyms where kids who know Michael Jordan only as a small - market team owner work through the tropes of basketball success — hardship, effort, tricked - out Escalades — and adults hang on the decisions of high school juniors.

Yet most athletic officials, even those who oppose it, regard Prop 42 as a well - intentioned effort to strike a balance between academic integrity and the need to provide an opportunity for the disadvantaged athlete who wants a degree and is willing to work hard to get it — a kid like John Thompson was as a high school senior in Washington, D.C. Thompson says he could not have gone to college under Prop 42, but he's careful not to paint Proposition 42 in racial terms.

Bush, who helped lead Flanagan High School to a State Championship last year, should be a big addition for next year's recruiting efforts in Florida.

Instead, he started working with local youths and traveling around to speak to various high school baseball organizations, extolling the virtues of throwing more often while regulating effort, controlling the strike zone — down and away, down and away — and learning how to pitch.

Thinking back to when I was in high school and college, during the height of «correcting speech for politics» — hard to believe is was So Long Ago tm — the effort to change how we used language was meant to indirectly change how we viewed others by enforcing a new lexicon.

In addition to the contributions from the St. Francis families, the collection efforts also included items donated from several high schools and groups: El Camino, Rio Americano, Bella Vista, Woodcreek Aquatics, Oak Ridge, Jesuit, Christian Brothers and Stats Swimming.

That got him very little attention from college coaches, despite the best efforts of both himself and his high school coach, Larry Nigro.

HIGH SCHOOL: Smith fell short of the 100 - yard mark only four times in 49 games at Escambia: 87 - and 71 - yard efforts as a freshman and 88 - and 93 - yard performances as a sophomore.

From the first day I met Joe in the practice room to his final match in high school, I can't recall a day that he didn't give 100 % effort into all that he did.

From his warm, funny and friendly demeanor to efforts in the classroom — he's earned a 3.5 grade point average this semester at the Hayward school — to excelling on the basketball court, the long, lean, high - flying 6 - foot - 6 wing is a young man for young people — and old — to look up to.

He scored a career - high 47 points in a nonleague win over Campolindo - Moraga and finished his high school career with a 40 - point, 10 - rebound effort in a narrow Sac - Joaquin Section Div.

A visit to the Rizvi Springfield High School in Mumbai reveals the effort that goes into making champions out of school cricketers; Prithvi Shaw, Sarfaraz Khan and Armaan Jaffer are ex-stuSchool in Mumbai reveals the effort that goes into making champions out of school cricketers; Prithvi Shaw, Sarfaraz Khan and Armaan Jaffer are ex-stuschool cricketers; Prithvi Shaw, Sarfaraz Khan and Armaan Jaffer are ex-students.

In a written statement responding to the AAP's guidelines and recommendations, the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) said that it that «agree [d] with many of the recommendations,» and pointed to its efforts over the past 20 years to minimize risk for high school cheerleaders, beginning with publication of its first guidelines for sideline cheerleading in 1988, which became the basis for the NFHS Spirit Rules Book, first published in 1High School Associations (NFHS) said that it that «agree [d] with many of the recommendations,» and pointed to its efforts over the past 20 years to minimize risk for high school cheerleaders, beginning with publication of its first guidelines for sideline cheerleading in 1988, which became the basis for the NFHS Spirit Rules Book, first published inSchool Associations (NFHS) said that it that «agree [d] with many of the recommendations,» and pointed to its efforts over the past 20 years to minimize risk for high school cheerleaders, beginning with publication of its first guidelines for sideline cheerleading in 1988, which became the basis for the NFHS Spirit Rules Book, first published in 1high school cheerleaders, beginning with publication of its first guidelines for sideline cheerleading in 1988, which became the basis for the NFHS Spirit Rules Book, first published inschool cheerleaders, beginning with publication of its first guidelines for sideline cheerleading in 1988, which became the basis for the NFHS Spirit Rules Book, first published in 1992.

In an effort to continue minimizing the risk of injury in high school football, three additional rules will take effect next season to address helmets coming off players» heads during games.

A 2014 study (1), however, found that, despite the 2010 endorsement of 6 national medical societies of a single PPE form as part of an effort to standardize the screening process, and nearly unanimous public support for PPE screening by a qualified health care professional before participation in a consistent manner across the country, the medical community is still largely unaware of national sports preparticipation physical evaluation guidelines and only 11 % of athletes at US high schools are guaranteed to receive a PPE fully consistent with the national standard.

I support efforts to recruit players to the middle school teams that serve as the pipeline for my son's high school team.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

Through the efforts and generosity of High School Chairman Peter Curran, Glen Brook has become a regular part of the school's proSchool Chairman Peter Curran, Glen Brook has become a regular part of the school's proschool's programs.

I would also like to think that MomsTEAM's continued efforts to educate parents about concussion risk management and our PBS documentary, «The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer,» which aired on over 300 stations last fall and which will be broadcast on almost all 387 stations in the fall of 2014, has played a role in increasing awareness.

In the latest effort to entirely miss the point about gun safety, children who attend Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School now must wear clear backpacks.

So even though its a hot dog with mushy re-heated frozen green beans, at least there's an effort to provide all the food groups.I remember the cafeteria in high school... I had fries and gravy every day.

«These kids are at high risk, «said Lorraine LaSusa, who in 1983, following the kidnaping and murder of 10 - year - old Jeanine Nicarico of Naperville, launched Kidsline in an effort to fill the void between the time school lets out and the parents get home.

A new collaborative effort is confronting the problem of high - risk drinking among college and high school students in Chapel Hill and surrounding communities

This effort is intended to offer an alternative to the prevailing notion in so many schools of success as high academic performance, often at the cost of children's mental and physical health, character and integrity.

Whilst most parents do whatever they can to warn their children about the dangers of smoking, there's no denying the statistics — almost one in every four high school seniors today are smokers, despite all the efforts by parents, the government, and healthcare services to warn them of the consequences of taking up this habit.

Anyone Can Save a Life Emergency Action Planning Program (The Anyone Can Save A Life program was originally developed and released in 2008 as a joint effort of the Minnesota State High School League and the Medtronic Foundation.

Following several public meetings and many discussions with High School District 214, whose swim teams used the indoor pool for practices and meets, about a combined effort to renovate and expand the pool, a plan was approved by the Park Board in December 2002.

Despite an increase in media attention, as well as national and local efforts to educate athletes on the potential dangers of traumatic brain injuries, a new study found that many high school football players are not concerned about the long - term effects of concussions and don't report their own concussion symptoms because they fear exclusion from play.

Collaborative efforts with Indiana High School Athletic Association (IHSAA) and Department of Education (DOE) to develop education materials in response to DOE Concussion Law