Sentences with phrase «people at school ask»

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«People just aren't that discriminating and won't ask the hard questions,» said David Koch, a clinical chemist and associate professor at the Emory University School of Medicine.

The most unnerving incident was when one of Kleinfeld's daughters, a student at Harvard Business School, was approached on campus by someone who asked to «friend» her on Facebook; the person also spoke to her friends, fishing for information about her family.

«If you're being asked to show up at diversity fairs or be the «person of color» at events unrelated to your job function, it costs you,» says David Thomas, 59, dean of the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.

A funny thing happened when we asked people to weigh in on whether the new clear backpacks at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School would be an effective school safety meSchool would be an effective school safety meschool safety measure.

When I ask Carter to describe the kind of young person who commits violent crime, he says there are some recurring themes: «The common factors will be a broken family at home, someone who isn't fully engaged in their education — absenteeism from school and truancy — and domestic abuse is a key factor as well.

When I speak at seminaries and divinity schools, people invariably ask me: How do I implement justice in my congregation?

At the beginning of the Minnesota course, Smith and Bodin ask students to identify religious agencies (synagogues, churches, hospitals, schools), places and persons that they know in their local community.

The whole idea behind the food revolution is to get people — parents, students, concerned citizens to ask for more, to ask for better from the foods available at school.

• 8 out of 10 people (80 %) think fathers should feel as able as mothers to ask for flexible working • 8 out of 10 women (80 %) and more than 6 out of 10 men (62 %) agree that fathers are as good as mothers at caring for children • 7 out of 10 (70 %) agree, 42 % strongly, that society values a child's relationship with its mother more than it values a child's relationship with its father • Almost 6 out of 10 (59 %) agree with the statement that society assumes mothers are good for children, fathers have to prove it • 7 out of 10 (70 %) agree, 50 % strongly, that there should be a zero tolerance approach if fathers do not take on their parenting responsibilities • Almost 7 out of 10 (67 %) agree that dads should be encouraged to spend time in school reading with their child • 7 out of 10 (70 %) agree, 50 % strongly, that dads should be able to stay overnight with their partner in hospital when their baby is born.

You can ask people to serve as liaisons for individual schools (ideally, there would be a liaison at every school in the district) or as subcommittee members of your advocacy group.

«When people come to the truck for food at community events, they're often curious and asking questions about the truck, who it serves... leading to questions about the School Food Project in general.»

At a 2012 SNA meeting, a Schwan executive and other industry advocates pushed for the group's leadership to be more aggressive in asking for changes in the school lunch program, according to a person who witnessed the exchange but requested anonymity because he was not authorized to talk about it.

Should I say Nana Akufo - Addo has built a hospital or should I say he has built a school, so when people ask those things, maybe because they don't know the type of magazines I publish... so if Nana is President of Ghana, and he is producing these things and I don't publicize it then you can hold me that I am very unfair so we are looking at the man who is in government now and like I explained, when [John] Kufuor was there that was exactly what we did for him, we did same for Rawlings,» he added.

«Most people have been asking whether this project would change the way we deliver education in the Kingston City School District at Kingston High School, and I think that's a great conversation to be having.»

«If I were to go to my district tonight at a meeting with the community, or school or a function and ask people if they thought the city was better prepared today for a storm than they were three years ago, very few hands would go up,» Queens Councilman Eric Ulrich said.

About 115 people packed the Kennedy Catholic High School in Somers to hear from County Executive Rob Astorino and ask their own questions at his town hall.

King Street's auditorium holds at least 300 people and the school's gymnasium will be used as an overflow seating area where monitors will be set up for even more people to listen in and ask questions.

Asked if school districts would be brought into the fold, Cashman said, «I envision a seat at the table for lots of people in the region.»

His campaign raised issues, including saying that ballots were not available at a polling place at Carroll Hill Elementary School; that people were discouraged from voting; that voters were asked for ID at polling places at the Rensselaer County Office Building, in which the board offices are located; that the School 12 polling place was locked with no instructions on how to get inside; and that Wiltshire poll watchers were harassed by board employees about encouraging people to cast affidavit ballots.

«People ask me what to do about a cat or dog who hurts their sleep, but when I tell them to kick him out of their bedroom, they'll say, «Oh, I can't do that — it will traumatize my pet,»» says Meir Kryger, MD, professor of medicine at the Yale School of Medicine.

For her research, Anne Steinemann, PhD, a professor of civil engineering at the University of Melbourne School of Engineering, asked nearly 1,100 people to complete questionnaires about their exposure to fragranced products — such as personal care products, air fresheners, cleaning solutions, and laundry supplies — and any reactions those products may have triggered.

«If you take a random group of people and you ask them to nominate their friends, their friends will be more central in the network than they are,» says one of the study's authors, Nicholas Christakis, MD, a professor of medical sociology at Harvard Medical School, in Boston.

People constantly asked me at work and at school what I did to be in shape.

They would even ask if I wanted to get a boob job when I turned 18... Looking back, I know the people at school who commented on it were most likely jealous, but still, when you're 12 years old and starting your period and getting acne and someone starts commenting about your weight, are you gonna obsess over it?

Ask anyone at YES Prep North Central about the key ingredient of the school's success, and he or she will say, «People, people, people.&People, people, people.&people, people.&people.»

It is an odd mark of our time that the first question people ask about character education is whether public schools should be doing it at all.

The biggest question people ask the faculty at my new school is, «How do you make sure they learn everything they need to learn?»

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We asked Josephine Kim, an educator, counselor, and faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, to share her thoughts on the risks the film poses for young people, and how educators can support young viewers and create a safe space to teach about eating disorders and mental health.

Mobilize for Education September 22 A coalition of organizations, calling itself the National Mobilization for Great Public Schools, is asking people to meet at house parties September 22 to discuss education concerns and possible solutions.

The fact that people are asking more questions shows that free school meals messages aren't always getting through to those who need to hear them — and that no matter how well you promote free school meals at your school, some parents still miss out because they don't come in.

When people are asked whether the federal government should continue the requirement that all students be tested in math and reading in each grade from 3rd through 8th and at least once in high school, nearly four out of five respondents say they favor the policy (see Figure 2).

In the background questionnaire, students will be asked to report how familiar they are with global issues; how developed their linguistic and communication skills are; to what extent they hold certain attitudes, such as respect for people from different cultural backgrounds; and what opportunities they have at school to develop global competence.

In recent decades, «people have begun to ask questions not just about the psychology behind resilience but also about the external conditions that are likely to create positive reactions under stress,» says Michael Ungar, a professor of social work at Dalhousie University, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and head of the school's Resilience Research Centre.

In January, the school council at Boothroyd Primary Academy also hosted its own version of «Question Time» by interviewing MP Paula Sherriff on how her role supports the people of Dewsbury, and by asking what more could be done to save the local and wider environment as well as endangered animals.

Every parent and faculty member is asked to join at least one design team, and though participation varies from person to person, we average about sixty adults actively involved in the school's governance.

With such concerns in mind, Coleman jumped at the opportunity when the U.S. Department of Education in 1979 asked him to lead another national survey of American students, known as «High School and Beyond,» that would follow young people as they progressed from 10th to 12th grade and on into college.

We asked Carrie James, a sociologist at the Harvard Graduate School of Education who explores connections between young people's digital, moral, and civic lives, to share perspectives on the Carter / Roy case, as well as takeaways for parents and educators.

However, when asked what the best lessons learnt at school were, many listed life lessons such as «be yourself», how to «get on with other people» and to «respect everyone» were listed as top reasons.

People often ask George Pawlas how he became such an advocate for establishing school - community relations plans at the schools he led.

Not only will you have an exodus of headteachers, but you will have mass resignations from governing bodies, at the very time when schools need experienced people who ask the important question: why?

One really fun question to ask actually to people at lots of different levels in schools is, what does awesome look like?

The Making Caring Common Project surveyed 10,000 students from 33 schools across the country and asked them to rank what was most important to them: achieving at a high level, being a happy person (defined as «feeling good most of the time») or caring for others.

To continue to ask the working people to support schools at this level is a little bit absurd,» he said.

You will want to ask to meet with them at their district office, unless the Harrisburg office would be more convenient for any reason The staff person or scheduler will ask you what you'd like to discuss; just give them a clear, succinct answer such as «education cuts», «school vouchers» or anything else you wish to talk about.

Hours after a student in a Texas high school allegedly shot dead at least 10 people — mostly classmates — Rep. Tom Suozzi asked Long Island...

These are just some of the common questions we are asked by people who join us at our Newquay surfing school.

In his Sept 18 speech at NYU Law School, http://www.calcars.org/­calcars-news/­524.html, addressing the questions he gets as people increasingly ask what they can do, he included PHEVs in his roundup of «particularly promising» global warming solutions.

One question the writers of «legal eduction» studies might ask — perhaps they have, I've never bothered to look — is «what does it tell us about law as a discipline that so many people who claim they're no good at math, sciences, philosophy, logic etc. (and whose transcripts show it), manage to get into law school and then do reasonably well»?

Over at the In - House Counsel blog, Melanie Hatton writes about a recent interview she gave on Twitter (yes, such a thing exists) in which she was asked what advice she had for people just now going off to law school.