Sentences with phrase «high school examples»

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Earlier this year, for example, Judy Zaichkowsky of Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business published a study indicating that the presence of just one woman on a company's board resulted in significantly higher standards of corporate governance (which has an established correlation to better financial performance).

Girls, for example, now make up about half of the enrollment in high - school science and math classes and are scoring almost identically to their male classmates on standardized tests.

For example, there probably is a anti-correlation between athletes and high grades in school, and between people with high grades and athletic ability.

For example, if you're still in high school, you may be able to take technical courses or enter a special program designed to advance your suitability for apprenticeship.

For example, my company, UChic, found that our high school and college - aged women consumers want life - changing experiences, but often lack the funding needed to pursue them.

Female high - school students, for example, need to be encouraged to consider their future earning potential when choosing their university programs.

As Kenneth Freeman, dean of Boston University's School of Management, explains, «Rankings include starting salary among the metrics and many MBAs from higher ranked schools go into the higher paying finance and technology fields, with fewer taking lower paying roles in non-profits for example.

For example, it was passion that allowed Plank — a star football player in high school — to walk on to Maryland's football team.

Rodgers, for example, got zero scholarship offers out of high school.

Millenials» unique media habits show up in other ways: Nowadays, for example, high schoolers do their initial research into potential colleges and universities on the Internet rather than during an actual trip to a campus; and young media users rely on YouTube videos to learn everything from magic tricks and hair and makeup tips, to cooking secrets.

He sees Lowry as the example: a high - school dropout who spends most of his waking moments at a keyboard.

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.

For example, near the public high school in Utah that my wife attended, there was a Catholic religious education building.

There are those, for example, who are deadly frightened by the awesome growth in drug use among high school and even younger students, and by the easy availability of pornography for young people.

(For an example of this kind of approach at its best, see Ninian Smart, World Religions: A Dialogue (London: SCM Press, 1960; Penguin Paperback, 1966), a text for advanced high school or college students.)

Wahlberg gives the example of high school students who learn propositional truths of modern physics from textbooks.

Take, for example, the case of the pregnant cheerleaders at Hempstead High School.

I have a feeling that, instead of, for example, Christians trying to have the Our Father said before the local high school football game, Muslems were trying to have everyone face Mecca, kneel and pray before the high school football game, atheists would have the same reaction.

For example, when someone I went to high school with and had not spoken to in 20 years found out I was a SAHD, he took it upon himself to send me email after email about how I was acting outside of God's will.

In this country, for example, the Jesuits are known mainly for their educational institutions: middle schools, high schools and colleges and universities like Boston College, Georgetown, Fordham and all the schools named «Loyola.»

For example, because of Facebook, I was accessible to someone I barely knew in high school.

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 insist that the Church would not condemn guerrilla action taken to free concentration camp inmates facing Nazi gas chambers, or the use of force by a civilian to stop killings such as those that took place at Columbine High School, or in a situation such as my example of a man killing infants in a nursery.

For example, a group of high school students may be facing the standard but almost impossible question, «Is God good?»

To cite one of too many possible examples, a Jewish organization, the aggressively secularist American Jewish Congress, welcomed the Supreme Court ruling upholding a state ban on the posting of the Ten Commandments in public high schools.

Ton Mulgrew, BBC Cook of the Year and chef at Ravenscliffe High School, which provides a predominantly vegetarian menu, said: «This is a great opportunity for all school chefs to showcase their skills — for example, writing their own menus for their students and schools, and having the flexibility to use only the best quality and local produce when designing menus.&School, which provides a predominantly vegetarian menu, said: «This is a great opportunity for all school chefs to showcase their skills — for example, writing their own menus for their students and schools, and having the flexibility to use only the best quality and local produce when designing menus.&school chefs to showcase their skills — for example, writing their own menus for their students and schools, and having the flexibility to use only the best quality and local produce when designing menus.»

Chris, if one starry - eyed high school kid sees you in your current state and decides to head his life in a direction other than pro football, that would be the best example of all.

In 1957 a newspaper editorial said of a speech he made to high school football players: «Boswell delivered an inspirational address which the youngsters were fortunate to hear, for it is doubtful that they ever again will see a more remarkable example of what a man with a healthy background of athletics can do in the face of prohibitive odds.»

Mize is already a pitcher you WISH Matt Manning (to pick an example with potential) could be by the end of next year, when Matt is 3 years out of high school.

For example, Darius Miles was drafted # 3 by the Clippers straight out of high school and was a decent player throughout his career.

Take the following statistics for example from the NCAA: Only 5.6 percent of all high school baseball players and 2.9 percent of all high school basketball players will go on to play collegiately.

My mother, for example, was always at my high school band concerts and my sister's choral concerts; the tinkling of her charm bracelet always told us up onstage where she was in the audience.

For example, someone in HISD told me informally that one motivation for serving this bright blue and red concoction at our high schools is to help meet the old federal caloric requirements:

Follow the 2013 example of Jeannette Voss of the Waldorf School of Lexington and order our comprehensive, annotated Waldorf High School reading list,

The introduction to «Overloaded and Underprepared: Strategies for Stronger Schools and Healthy, Successful Kids,» a new book from the Stanford University Graduate School of Education research group Challenge Success, begins not with research or analysis but an example of a high school student's daily schSchool of Education research group Challenge Success, begins not with research or analysis but an example of a high school student's daily schschool student's daily schedule.

Follow the 2013 example of Jeannette Voss of the Waldorf School of Lexington and order our comprehensive, annotated Waldorf High School reading list, Books for the Journey, for each student.

«Overloaded and Underprepared» also offers examples of schools, including Waldorf High School of the Peninsula in Los Altos, that use standards - based grading, which emphasizes feedback over grading.

It seems increasingly obvious that professional football players and the owners for whom they butt heads every Sunday and Monday (and occasional Thursdays and Saturdays) for money simply can't be counted on to set the right example for the tens of thousands of youth and high school football players who suffer concussions every season, far too many of which, like Morey's, never get reported to the coach, the athletic trainer (if there is one), or even their teammates, friends or parents.

For example, parents of Paulding County High School students assisted with a five - day edible and flowering plant sale, including five types of peppers, rosemary, and basil.

high school linebacker as an example of how the new guidelines fail our kids.

For example, our high school menu has 10 - 12 entree choices a day, 2 hot vegetable choices + fresh veggie salad bar, and 6 - 8 fruit choices EACH DAY — high school students respond to feeling empowered and trusted to make choices.

Here in Houston ISD, for example, high school students, PTOs and coaches often set up fundraising tables at lunch to sell entrees from local restaurants and fast food chains, everything from pizza to Chinese food, creating veritable «food courts» of junk food.

Our adolescent success measure, for example, is to graduate high school with a GPA of at least 2.5 and without either becoming a parent or getting a criminal record.

For example, she studied brain activity and speech in a group of teenagers before, and three years after they entered high - school, and found music training in school significantly improved the auditory processing of phenomes (speech sounds) and had lasting effects on language skills.

She found, for example, that the Kansas high school which produced the widely - viewed «We Are Hungry» video has only 83 students, 29 of whom qualify for free and reduced lunch.

Here in Houston ISD, for example, Aramark (our FSMC) has put really lovely «made to order panini bars» in several Houston high schools, but the food is totally out of reach for the majority of our students, 80 % + of whom are F / R.

Examples, she said, include Stagg High school in Palos Hills and Andrew High School in Tinleyschool in Palos Hills and Andrew High School in TinleySchool in Tinley Park.

Limiting contact practices in football to one session per week, or eliminating contact practices altogether, for example, would, according to a 2013 study [10] by researchers at the University of Michigan, result in an 18 % to 40 % reduction in head impacts respectively over the course of a high school football season.

One of the media reports I read criticizing the calorie limit used as an example a high school athlete who skips breakfast because he can't eat before he lifts weights, and then he grabs a white flour bagel and Gatorade after lifting.

Cross-posted from the Let's Move blog: The annual Harvest Challenge, menu planning and cooking event for high school students, is an important example of how aspiring chefs get started and learn to create winning recipes.