Sentences with phrase «students jump at»

Students jump at just the potential for being rewarded, easily understanding their odds of actual reward are limited.

Students jump at the chance to get sneaky with their acts of kindness.

Not exact matches

A few of the many things that jump off of the pages for me are that it doesn't seem to support working families with kids (it REPEALS the up to $ 5,000 exclusion from gross income for dependent care assistance that many working parents use to subsidize the skyrocketing costs of child care while they work) or even those who (like my fantastic law students at UNLV) are pursuing and paying for higher education.

February 2, 2017 By Ann Perry http://mbd.utoronto.ca/ When Arif Aziz learned last fall about a new independent study project that was bringing together MBA candidates and PhD students in health sciences and engineering to map the global market for stem cell therapies, he jumped at the opportunity.

Not only must one conform, but one's apparent attitude in the midst of external compliance had to be constantly evaluated: Does the student smile as she jumps out of bed promptly at 7 AM.?

The university's caterer, Mount Charles, has jumped at the chance to take part, as have the Students Union's food providers.

Eight days after his 17th birthday, Gail, a student at Sycamore High, high - jumped a world age - group record 7» 4».

Cosenza had heard stories about how bookies sometimes operate, but the headline still jumped out at him last Saturday when The Boston Globe reported that a Queens, N.Y., bookmaker had put one of the student bookies implicated in the Boston College scandal in the hospital last year.

Despite the fact that parents might not serve all the fresh fruits and vegetables at home that we do, they are often surprised that once students get to school the children aren't immediately jumping at those fresh fruits and vegetables.

So when Hiatt - Henry presented the idea of BIC at a principals meeting, Johnson thought back to the effect that toaster had on her own students years ago, and jumped at the chance.

As a student at Hersey High School, Arlington Heights, she excelled in track and field, competing at the state level where she won first in 80 - yard hurdles and second in long jump, as well as in national meets.

In the 1960s, as a graduate - student researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, he discovered that dogs zapped with an electric shock and allowed to escape by jumping over a low barrier quickly learned to do so, but most shocked dogs given no escape option eventually gave up, even when a way to flee was introduced later.

One of Belov's students, immunologist Hannah Siddle, now at the University of Southampton in the U.K., jumped at the chance to investigate this possibility.

«The lightning jump is getting in front of forecasters now so we can get feedback, and fit the lightning jump concept into their forecasting methods,» said Chris Schultz, an atmospheric science graduate student at UAH and an intern at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.

Since Illinois enacted its truth - in - tuition law with the fall 2004 semester, tuition rates for nonresident students at Illinois» 12 public institutions jumped an average of $ 3,645, or about 28 percent.

During the first survey, 22 percent of the students reported seeing at least one advertisement for medical marijuana over the past three months and the rate jumped to 30 percent the following year.

Buchanan and grad student Ryan Taylor at Florida International University have found an explanation: by urinating, the frog becomes lighter and can jump farther.

At 12 of the 25 universities with the most foreign students, he noted, international enrollments have jumped by almost half over 5 years.

This mystery of the deep was solved by a graduate student at Harvard University, Colleen Cavanaugh, who relates the story of jumping up in class and shouting that she figured out how the tubeworms make their living.

Kafui is a product of the nationally renowned Meyerhoff Scholarship program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where he was conference champion in the long jump, an academic All - American, and student body president.

We also encourage students to jump into the Beginning level classes or Restorative classes offered weekly at the studio.

Often times music students are eager to jump on a board for a gig, and they'll come in at a much more affordable rate than musicians who have been in business for a while.

When the opportunity came to try their model with the group of students from nearby Decatur High School, they jumped at the chance.

While 52 percent of those surveyed for the annual PDK / Gallup poll said they oppose allowing students to attend private school at «public expense,» support for the notion has jumped 12 percentage points since the...

A CDCH student since the program's early jump start days, Adam sits at a bulky wooden desk specially made for disabled students.

Student enrollment jumped up at many KIPP schools after Oprah's TV profile because parents saw elements of KIPP that excited them — articulate students, inspired and dedicated teachers, and a nationwide track record of results with kids.»

Existing student organizations generally jump at the chance to take younger students around and to talk with them about their experiences on campus.

Lawmakers in at least six states have jumped into the fray over student - led prayers in public schools.

The average debt for fourth - year students at the region's private colleges was $ 23,491, which is a 49 percent jump from the 1992 - 93 school year.

On the other hand, if I were commissioned to find a teacher for a group of adolescent boys and if, by some miracle, I could secure either Socrates or the latest Ph.D. from Teachers College, with his equipment of the latest technologies and techniques of teaching, with all due respect to the college that employs me and to my students, I am fairly certain that I would jump at the chance to get Socrates.

The table at the bottom of Chart 1 shows the group breakdown and we can clearly see that while the whole cohort success increased by a factor of three, low SES students and minority students rates of success jumped by factors of five and six — double the rate of the whole cohort.

As students become more adept using empty number lines, they can solve problems with fewer steps; instead of jumping by ten at a time, they might be able to jump all the tens in one jump (jump 30, or 40, or more, as called for in the problem).

Since PLCs were organized at the district's Jefferson Elementary School, where 60 percent of the students are English - language learners, those students have hit 53 percent proficiency in English language arts, an enormous jump from 3 percent in 2002.

For example, to add 38 + 35, the student could start at 38 (by placing a pencil or finger to the left of 40), jump by 10 three times: 48, 58, 68 (placing the pencil to the left of 50, 60, and 70); jump 2 to reach 70; and then jump 3 more (ending about 1/3 of the distance between 70 and 80).

At first, a teacher or student can «narrate» the jumps: «Jump 7; jump 3 and then 4 to 14; jump 6 and then 1 to 21; jump 7 to 28; jump 2 and then 5 to 35.»

Students at Venable are doing much more than learning to jump rope, however.

Teachers at two elementary schools in Baltimore County, Maryland, find that students jump to attention when the teachers use sound systems in their classrooms.

The percent proficient jumped 13 points for minority students in Reading First schools and 6.7 points for minorities at other schools.

In a randomised controlled trial, children taught using JUMP Math progressed at twice the rate of students in the control group who were taught using a widely - used maths program in Canada.

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.

Dubbed «Upper West,» the school's students wear orange - and - blue uniforms complete with jumpers and clip - on ties, just like at the other locations.

It is ideal for laminating to allow students to write the day they are starting at by the correct date and count ahead, jumping in whole weeks if they can or filling in all the days.

Students at Match Community Day Charter Public School jump to attention at resident teacher Erica Vuolle's command.

Among the founding faculty was Chezare Warren, now an assistant professor at Michigan State University, a young math teacher who jumped at the chance to help design a curriculum for these students — many of whom had never thought college to be an option for them — that would consider their unique stories and focus on understanding the factors that would lead...

Principal Marcheta Williams saysshe jumped at the opportunity toinvolve her students in the project.She's also working on a districtwidetask force to bring more arts into theschools — the first step being the hiringof two art teachers this year.

Students in that school ordinarily are not allowed to wear hats, so many kids jumped at this opportunity to have fun.

When I got the inquiry to record a podcast with my friends Kasey Bell and Matt Miller on their weekly Google Teacher Tribe show I jumped at the chance to talk about the many options to support student writing using GSuite.

Some students are more serious about chess than others, but most jump at the chance to play.

That means students can work at their own pace, jumping ahead or spending more time on concepts they're not sure of.

Students will jump at the chance to play Figuro!