Sentences with phrase «so as a high school student»

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«A» decides they want to see Rhiannon again, so they take Amy to her high school and poses as a new student.

Consider not just the appalling record of the twentieth century; consider as well the sullenness of so many high school students today, the emptiness of their elders in college, the despair of the underclass, the desperate fun - seeking of the jet set, the divorce rate, the incidence of child abuse, and on and on.

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.

They are so addicting, and yet, even as a high school student, I knew they weren't good for you.

In California The Fairmont San Francisco and The Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn are supporting local agricultural studies by purchasing two student - raised hogs from the Sonoma Valley High School Agriculture Department so that they can make their own sausages, bacon and dried meats, as well as support local schools and help strengthen the regional farming community.

The Gunnery (never properly referred to as the Gunnery School) is an ancient institution of high repute, so small that the absence of eight students in an eight - oared shell would seriously deplete the student body.

Trap shooting is doing so both figuratively and literally as student - athletes are increasingly hitting the range at local shooting clubs to hone their craft and compete against students of rival high schools.

So if participation in high school sports is good for students, at a certain level it makes sense that as many students as possible should get that opportunity — but if the same group of athletes hogs three sports» worth of spots, then opportunities are lost for others.

So what can you as a parent do to relieve the pressure on your high school student (and put your own mind at ease) around the issue of college admissions?

If we do eliminate the a la carte options that kids so love and introduced a single, healthful menu for all students, I wonder whether students on open campuses (i.e., most high schools) who previously had the money to buy those foods would simply leave the program altogether and go elsewhere for their pizza and fries (as many already do).

To me, the solution to the attrition issue, whether it's at a KIPP middle school or the Promise Academy middle school, is the Harlem Children's Zone's «conveyor belt» model, which provides continuous, high - quality early - childhood and elementary education to precisely those «disengaged families and students,» so that when those children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first few years.

At high school, we price our entrees the same as our meals, so that it behooves the student to take a meal instead of just the entree (i.e. a complete meal (entree, two 1/2 fruit, 1/2 cup veg, trip through salad bar, and milk) is $ 2.00... a deli turkey wrap is $ 2.00.

Accordingly, rather than force children to take the whole meal and throw out much of it, in 1975, Congress passed an amendment to the School Lunch Act allowing high schools to still receive federal reimbursement for meals so long as students selected at least three out of five options served, including milk.

So why do some books that aren't) of obvious (at least to me) interest to most high school students placed on reading lists, and why are others of much greater interest (as judged by sales and / or library borrowings) ignored?

They intrigued her, and so, as a high school student in the 1980s, she decided to do an unusual thing for a teenager: spend more time with her dad than necessary.

As lead author of the article, Dr Anna Mazenod from the UCL Institute of Education in the UK, explains: «Our findings suggest that secondary school students in the so - called bottom sets may be unintentionally encouraged to remain more dependent on their teachers in comparison with their peers in higher sets.

His father was a musician and so, as a high school student, Kurzweil came up with the idea of programming a computer to recognize patterns in music written by composers such as Mozart and Chopin.

As a high school student, Dr. Power was under the impression that she wanted to become a pediatrician, so she volunteered in a pediatric hospital unit.

So, thank you to those students who understand that the expectations in the library are there for me to enforce to provide an academic place for high school students, yet as an individual, aside from my role in the library, I may be someone to get to know.

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The Strangers In about as simple a horror film premise as a high school screenwriting student might come up with, this night out with Scott Speedman («Felicity,» «Anamorph») and Liv Tyler («The Lord of the Rings» series) hits the standard horror buttons to ensure a spectrum of shocks so that inveterate genre fans won't won't be demanding their money back.

So this time he sends them, not to high school, but to college, to pose as students and find the source of a new killer drug that's spreading all over campus.

Currently, high school graduates can use federal student aid money to pay for up to 30 credits of remedial coursework, so long as it is part of a degree - granting program.

So far, it is difficult to know exactly how effectively a program such as the one in Sacramento high schools can be in helping students take advantage of employment opportunities.

Then I realized that I had never phrased the material as outside the realm of what the students were expected to achieve, so to them these concepts were just what typical middle school students should see — they weren't aware it was high school material, and they were less prone to give up easily.

So it came as no surprise to me a few years ago when high school student Nikhil Goyal received national recognition for his book One Size Does Not Fit All: A Student's Assessment of Sschool student Nikhil Goyal received national recognition for his book One Size Does Not Fit All: A Student's Assessment of student Nikhil Goyal received national recognition for his book One Size Does Not Fit All: A Student's Assessment of Student's Assessment of SchoolSchool.

We found that the pathway to becoming the leader of a classroom starts in middle and high school, so we ask: How do we engage middle and high school students to think about teaching as a career?

So we have to make sure each child goes outside of his / her comfort zone and speaks and listens to every child in the classroom on a regular basis (I cringe to think of my days as a new high school teacher when I am sure «student K» went the whole year without uttering a sentence to «student G» and vice versa.)

Jump $ tart estimates that more than half the nation's high school students graduate without so much as a week's instruction in personal finance.

Only one in nine high - school students uses outside coaching courses to prepare for the Scholastic Aptitude Test, but those who do so rate them as helpful in raising scores, according to a new survey by the College Board.

It wasn't because she was nervous — it was because she felt so strongly about her time as a student at the High School for Recording Arts in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Students from the 420 - student Hewitt School in Manhattan, where the yearly tuition is $ 20,000, collected nearly 450 new and used dresses — as well as shoes, jewelry, purses, and makeup kits — so that their counterparts at Clay County High School in Clay, W.Va., could celebrate...

This strategy — which has so far been replicated nationally in eleven states, plus the District of Columbia — includes placing as many visits as possible during summer and fall to parents of teens entering high school — a critical transition point for many students — to begin building a net of support and to connect parents to the new school.

Just as Americans support tying teacher pay to student performance on standardized tests, so too do they want students» eligibility to be promoted from one grade to the next and to graduate from high school to depend on demonstrated success on tests.

So what do you, as the teacher, do with these ill - structured, real - world problems for middle and high school students?

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07, is wrapping up his third year as principal of Newberg High School's Yellow School, one of four small schools that have 400 students or so in Newberg, Ore. «It can be a little bit daunting to sit in front of a staff of 25 and realize most of them are as old as your parents — if not older — and think of yourself as their boss,» he says.

Their small sample of schools was further stretched so as to compare private versus public sponsorship, elementary versus middle schools (the sample included no high schools), and higher - versus lower - income student populations.

So are schools where teachers have 120 or more students to get to know (with this 120 shuffled at the end of each semester); where serious learning is broken up into snippets of 50 - minute «subject matter periods» arranged in no intellectually coherent order; where assessment keeps knowledge tightly packaged in separate intellectual domains; where short - term memory work is rated as deserving the highest value at the expense of original, long - term analytic work; and where the intellectual engine of the curriculum comes at most students and teachers as a list of subjects and skills, usually far too long for the careful savoring and devoted practice that leads to deep understanding and worthy habits.

So, the school spent one year giving staff focused professional development that would help them deliver the program — including how to teach some students basic skills such as decoding, and how to continue to push the high achievers to the next level.

Education is a field where value to society is not reflected in income, so it is important for HGSE to establish prestigious fellowships and abundant financial aid opportunities in order to enroll the highest caliber students — students who, as Hobbs says, might otherwise opt for business, law, or medical school.

During the 1970s, nearly every state in the nation began instituting tests of basic skills for high - school students as the leading edge of the so - called «first wave» of education reforms.

Doing so would have a number of positive benefits, including 1) making sure that the taxpayer dollars devoted to this purpose are being spent on those most able to benefit, 2) encouraging students to work harder during high school to prepare themselves for college, and 3) increasing what students actually learn as opposed to the amount of seat time they acquire.

That presented a slight challenge, as our timetables did not mesh; so the elementary students juggled their lunchtime to be available to meet with the high school students.

So, they're a highly inactive group and they're a group that also has no compulsory physical activity in their school day anymore, which is different to junior high school, in which students have to do physical education as part of their normal school week.

By the time they reach high school, students should be well on their way to becoming independent learners, so homework does provide a boost to learning at this age, as long as it isn't overwhelming (Cooper et al., 2006; Marzano & Pickering, 2007).

The sources that do offer strategies tailored for high school students tend to be either excessively academic or so general as to be useless.

Many, if not most, high - performing private schools admit students who may be seen as high - risk or come from less than ideal backgrounds, so long as the student is capable of carrying the workload.

So, as much as we may want ever - increasing numbers of students to graduate high school ready for college and career, amping up the criteria for attaining the general diploma to such a high degree, at least too quickly, is neither the right thing to do, nor is it practically or politically sensible.

Over the next few weeks, I invite you to join me and my colleagues at the Knowledge Matters Campaign as we tour schools across the country to see the many ways knowledge - building curriculum is enhancing classroom instruction — by asking students to read, write, and speak to high standards, but to do so from a wide range of topics that enrich students» understanding of the world around them — ranging from water conservation to the Revolutionary War to Renaissance architecture.