Sentences with phrase «school takes a few years»

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A few hundred thousand people visit the Killing Fields every year; there is another site open to the public in Phnom Penh, a former school where victims of the genocide were tortured before being taken to the Killing Fields.

A few years ago, she and her team took 373 middle school students, and identified those who exhibited fixed mindsets and those who exhibited growth mindsets.

While on the campaign trail in 2015 at the age of 44, the presidential candidate spoke at Liberty University and alluded to his experience of having to finance his education: I, Cruz said, «took over $ 100,000 in school loans, loans I suspect a lot of y» all can relate to, loans that I'll point out I just paid off a few years ago.»

As I recall, Plymouth actually stayed rather small and insular for some time while the Boston Bay Company took off with their colonies in what's now called Boston, New Bedford, and I believe the Cape Ann area but I'd have to re-read a book I read while going to school down on Cape Cod a few years back.

A few years later, I decided to do a refresher course on Greek, and took first - year Greek from the Grace Evangelical School of Theology.

And since I somehow got through high school and college without ever taking a literature course (except for drama lit in college, which was great, but it was very specific in genre), I am currently trying to read a few classics every year.

Well I think I can answer that when a few years ago the courts and schools started to take the 10 commandments off the buildings.

We hope that what happens at Emory over the next few years will stimulate discussion, debate and creative ideas at other graduate schools, leading them to take up these challenges in their own ways and build other educational models for preparing practical theologians.

A few years ago, when I was on staff with my church, my best friend and I took several high school girls to Charleston for Spring Break.

Scout.com's Brian Dohn notes that Gary could end up taking a few official visits now that his high school year is wrapped up.

Department officials say the review process could take a few months, but the changes would take place in the 2015 - 2016 school year.

The changes did not take place in 2010, but were rolled out over the next few years to give schools and communities time to understand the guidelines and adapt as needed.

As my husband and I needed help and were worried that the little guy might come early, my mom flew in a few days earlier than planned and saved the day as usual, cooking us food, doing laundry, taking our 2 year old to school and just generally providing support.

Since I thought a few of you may be in the same boat as me with the bustle of the school year taking over,........

A vote on a separate piece of legislation Paterson will be sending up to delay $ 1.5 billion worth of education aid payments to school districts could be more problematic — particularly since this is an election year and few lawmakers are going to want to take that potentially troublesome vote.

It took some trimming — a few million dollars here, a half - million dollars there — but the Buffalo Public Schools were able to close a projected $ 10.2 million deficit and come up with a balanced budget for next year.

In February, approximately half of the schools were taken off the struggling and persistently struggling lists after federal accountability statuses from the 2014 - 15 school year showed those schools had made progress and would not otherwise have been put on the receivership list (a few schools also closed).

The cafeteria won't be ready for another few weeks at the downtown school, which took years of negotiations and construction.

Since then, the sources said, a battle has continued over payments for «education costs and health care» for 20 - year - old daughters Cara and Mariah, who attend Harvard and Brown universities, respectively, and Michaela, 18, who recently graduated from high school a few months after being taken to the Westchester County Medical Center after an unexplained incident in which she was found unconscious at her mother's home.

(NYC) Brian Jones, the Green Party candidate for Lieutenant Governor, took aim at the recent announcement by the SuccessAcademy that it would seek to expand the size of its network of charter schools over the next few years.

Now a primary school with fewer than 60 per cent of pupils achieving the basic standard of level 4 in reading, writing and maths (that increases to 65 per cent next year), and fewer pupils than average making the expected levels of progress between KS1 and KS2 will be taken over.

Lavine, 61, took over as superintendent a few years after retiring as a school administrator.

He joined the local Black Hills Astronomical Society while still in high school in 1957 and became its president a few years later, before seizing on the chance to work with professional astronomers when he took a job at the University of Arizona as a research technician developing imaging devices for telescopes in 1968.

In these few weeks «off» from this blog following the end of the school year, I have taken this opportunity (aka new free time) to dig a little deeper into something that has been on my mind for quite some time; veganism.

My bestie just took the BAR exam a few days ago so I've learned a lot about the process of law school the past few years.

It actually takes me «a good few» years back, to the school days.

Her career in fitness began a few short years ago, while studying biology and in preparation for medical school, her life took a change in direction after her university went on strike.

The results for about one - third of these schools are very imprecise, usually because they had very few students in test - taking grades during the analysis years.

«It concerns me that many educators merely apply Western developed school programs blindly without considering the cultural context in which these programs take place,» Assarat says of the many international schools that have popped up around Bangkok in the last few years.

With lots of new features rolled out in the last few years, this app is the frontrunner for school note taking, in my opinion.

Your son is applying to some state schools and a few private colleges, but after a tough fall term, he's also thinking about working for a year and taking classes at the community college.

It will take a few years to develop a school - wide mindfulness program.

One 18 - year - old student she visited, who has taken several college courses in nursing through a dual enrollment program at Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), said that in high school «I'm only learning in a few of my classes.»

After a few years on the force, Johnson decided to take on another integral role in his community and began teaching a film course at a high school in the Boston neighborhood of Jamaica Plain.

The last few years have brought long - overdue attention to the needs of high - achieving, low - income students, as well as new initiatives to ensure that they have opportunities to take rigorous coursework in high school and apply to selective colleges upon graduation.

The Iowa City, Iowa - based publisher of the ACT — the college - entrance exam taken by high school students primarily in the Midwest and the South — will open 40 testing centers in the next few months and is on its way to having 250 operating by the end of next year, said Richard L. Ferguson, the president of ACT.

After all, one of the most chronic problems with school reform is the lack of patience with bold, innovative reforms that take at least a few years to bear fruit.

Few high - school principals have taken steps to ensure that their students are aware of the new academic standards for freshmen college athletes passed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association last year, according to a survey by four faculty members at Clemson University.

Indeed a few years ago, a New Zealand - born elementary school teacher at a TeamCFA charter school in North Carolina was herself studying to take the citizenship test.

Critics point out that none of the few dozen Success Academy 8th graders who took the entrance exam over the past two years did well enough to get into one of the city's eight selective public high schools.

Seventeen years into his tenure but just a few months before retirement, Peter McWalters took on that state's famously strong union, voiding teachers» seniority rights in the troubled Providence school district.

During the school year, residents take a typical load of reflective seminars and methods courses in addition to a few innovative yearlong courses that meet less frequently and address equity and achievement in the urban school context.

Though this type of hierarchy took years and a lot of resources to establish, you can start small with just one AfterZone made up of a few volunteer - led after - school programs.

One of the few girls taking technology - related classes at G. Ray Bodley High School in Fulton, N.Y., the 15 - year - old fought back her initial anxiety and now works well with male students in a computer - enhanced technical drawing, design, and production class.

His search for educational innovation took him to an event at Harvard a few years ago, where he met Frank Locker, a school design expert.

The Bradley family is especially egregious as they were running the schools when the state took over a few years ago and have been doing their utmost to get a hold of the piggy bank ever since.

But because students often enter transfer schools with few credits, it can take them six, seven or even eight years in total to graduate.

There are just a few more days for you to take advantage of the best deal you will be able to get all year on registration for the 19th Annual California Charter Schools Conference.

Somerville's Office of Prevention and public schools have taken this education - centered approach over the past few years.

«We are proud of the steps New York City has taken in recent years to strengthen tenure but we also recognize that we still don't have a fully fair, efficient system that protects teachers and students,» said April Rose, a fourth grade teacher in Queens, N.Y. «Our vision for tenure is to set a high bar and a clear process, and in doing so, allow district and school leaders to focus on more pressing concerns like reducing attrition among educators in their first few years and creating safe, supportive school environments.»