Sentences with phrase «about being in class»

Suspension only works when kids care more about being in class than being out.

You should also think about being in a class about breastfeeding.

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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.

In his 68 - page finding, Chen was careful to note that saying the plaintiffs constitute a class — one that potentially now includes a majority of Uber's 160,000 U.S. - based drivers — doesn't say anything about whether those plaintiffs have justice on their side when it comes to the merit of their suit.

«It's not just about hitting that number in your class profile, it's about the broader initiative of changing the discussion at that boardroom table, changing the landscape of business,» says da Silva at Rotman.

Stiglitz told us that this decades - old debate about how to balance the creation of short - term and long - term value is recently gaining new life in the US because of the venomous class class tensions and ugly politics arising out of income inequality, and because people in positions of power are looking at the big picture and realizing that something has to change.

As an example, a cap of $ 500,000 in tax - free capital gains on any principal residence means that a home sold for $ 1 million that was purchased for $ 100,000 in 1985 say, would have $ 400,000 taxed at the owner's tax rate at the time of the sale (about 35 % for the average middle class Canadian).

A book about the prince written by US author Sally Bedell Smith claims that when travelling to America in first class — naturally to reduce his carbon footprint — he reportedly complained that the upper class deck was «incredibly uncomfortable.»

I hadn't had anyone come in in a couple hours and was brushing up on my class notes for the week feeling pretty good about being paid to study.

Despite early signs that a fast - food diet is no healthier in Beijing than it is in Boston, consumers who are new to middle - class dining seem less concerned about the health risks of the high - fat, high - sodium fare that many Americans now seek to avoid.

This person provided several interesting details about Lanza — the source said he was vegan and that he was taking private classes in Mandarin Chinese.

In April, users filed a lawsuit seeking class action status against Tidal that claimed the company misled its users about a Kanye West album being exclusively released on the music service.

«I would go to class one day and I would learn about transactions and I would go to work on Monday and be in the middle of the transaction, and I would think, «Thank God I went to class,»» says Cole.

New Jersey — a wealthy, educated state with ready access to world - class health care in Philadelphia and New York City — has «better access to higher - quality information that lets us be more complete» in screening, Walter Zahorodny, a New Jersey Medical School professor and director of the New Jersey Autism Study, said in a conference call about the findings.

It's all about risk - adjusted returns and in the case of venture, the asset class flat out isn't performing.

After graduating from the first Imagine K12 incubator class in 2011, Class Dojo co-founders Sam Chaudhary and Liam Don were armed with a background in education, seed capital, and interviews with thousands of teachers about the biggest time - suck they faced at school — behavior manageclass in 2011, Class Dojo co-founders Sam Chaudhary and Liam Don were armed with a background in education, seed capital, and interviews with thousands of teachers about the biggest time - suck they faced at school — behavior manageClass Dojo co-founders Sam Chaudhary and Liam Don were armed with a background in education, seed capital, and interviews with thousands of teachers about the biggest time - suck they faced at school — behavior management.

The other thing we identified about the Metatag was that Best in Class made use of the 67 to 70 character limit whereas the Industry Average did not.

So I graduated from Harvard, class of» 97, and the internet was just a couple years old then and, of my graduating class of about 1,600, probably fewer than 10 people moved out West to work in tech.

About Qumu Qumu is the leading provider of best - in - class tools to create, manage, secure, distribute and measure the success of live and on - demand video for the enterprise.

About 95 % of managers Jolly has studied over the past 10 years, both in his MBA classes and his coaching practice, suffer from the ailment, defined as the constant need to do more, faster, even when there's no objective reason to be in such a rush.

While there's lot we still don't know about the condition, experts believe it's part of a larger class of illnesses in which the body turns on itself.

His last open letter to shareholders makes the point clearly about investing in creating value — «Berkshire's gain in net worth during 2016 was $ 27.5 billion, which increased the per - share book value of both our Class A and Class B stock by 10.7 %.

«We are the world - class leader in this technology, no question about it... Since we have launched our mobile platform we've received numerous stories from our patients «Gee, you've saved my life, again,» and so it has been wonderful,» Sayer said.

The financial industry frequently touts 70 % as the percentage of your working income that you'll need to replace, but most middle - class Canadians replace only about 50 % to 60 % of their working income in their golden years, and they say that's just fine.

When I first heard about SoulCycle — famous for their full - body indoor cycling workouts — I swore I was never going to pay $ 30 + to be tortured in one of those 45 - minute classes.

The book is a memoir about his improbable journey from his working - class, «hillbilly» roots in Appalachia to the elite corridors of one of the top law schools in the U.S., and then the world of venture capital.

Eighty percent of Hillbilly Elegy is the memoir about his childhood and exposure to life in poor, working - class towns bereft of their former manufacturing employers.

And there are examples of things, like the Creative Destruction Lab, that are excellent for what they do, and not just excellent in terms of Toronto, or Ontario, but excellent in that you have Berkeley, Harvard and MIT looking at doing something similar, because there is something world class about it.

«It would be a big loss to the country if President Trump were to stop the program,» says Lam, 49, the founder and CEO of the Best in Class Education Center franchise, a Seattle - based chain of 50 learning centers in 10 states that employ about 300 people.

I think management skipped consulting with the corporate lawyer about the legalities of docking employees» pay; this company has had compensation policies result in a class - action lawsuit once before that I'm aware of.

Also consider signing up for a noncredit class at an area college in a subject you want to learn more about, be it accounting, marketing or customer service.

Parsons is a straight talker, whether it's about his handicap (now 9.1 with PXG clubs from a «12 to 14») or flunking fifth grade in his working - class Baltimore neighborhood.

I want to tell you about another first - class consumer electronics retailer — a much smaller business you probably haven't been to, unless you live in New York City or are a professional photographer or an avid hobbyist.

A colleague might ask you whether he should teach a class at a local college; what he really wants to talk about is how to take his life in a different direction.

About three quarters of the men in the class — and it was all men and all white men — had served in the war.

Anything about the Lean LaunchPad class or just being an entrepreneur in general prepare you for pitching on Shark Tank?

And, although Forbes also notes the drive is «smaller than most SSDs you'd find in PCs or laptops,» nothing about the SSD2go is second - class.

Tsinghua Unigroup, which had revenue last year of about 12.3 billion yuan, was also in talks about cooperating with a «world - class memory chip giant» to build a new chip factory in China, Zhao said, a move that could help his company acquire intellectual property needed to manufacture memory chips.

«The reality is,» he says, «millionaires think differently from the middle class about money, and there's much to be gained by being in their presence.»

After I got out of the service I went to world famous Los Angeles City College and like I came down here and I was going to Los Angeles City College and someone suggested I go to an acting class in the evening and I said I don't know about that.

Coaching is a leadership competency, Bachelder says, that they want to be best in class about.

For the study, one group was taught in the traditional way — a lesson about a single math concept — while a second class learned through interleaving, jumping around among different math skills to complete a task.

About one to two percent of people in the general population are psychopaths (that percentage is higher in prisons, boardrooms, and undergrad economics classes).

The rich habits study is really a five - year study of 233 millionaires, 128 poor people, and what I found out was that wealth, success, being in the middle class, being poor, is all about your habits.

In January — at about the same time states began filing civil demands — the first of a handful of potential class - action lawsuits that were national in scope were fileIn January — at about the same time states began filing civil demands — the first of a handful of potential class - action lawsuits that were national in scope were filein scope were filed.

We were curious about how last year's class was faring in the economic swoon, so we reached out to the No. 1 companies in each industry category.

But the vendor liaison for Texas Guaranteed Student Loans, in Austin, Texas, was pleasantly surprised when the «class» turned out to entail watching a humorous online video about two guys from a bait - and - tackle shop transforming themselves into peak performers.

Sure, there's not much time for talking during a yoga class, but stretching your body while flying through the air in a giant hammock suspended from the ceiling will surely give you and your date something to talk about once the class is over.

One example that I read about, Stanford University, a teacher in artificial intelligence offered a class, a couple of hundred kids in the class, he offered it online to 30,000 people, or 20,000 people, and if I remember correctly when he gave the test there were 400 people, or something like that, that did better than the number one kid at Stanford.

Of each graduating class, which usually comes to about 100 companies, about 10 start - ups are selected to receive an additional $ 100,000 in equity - free financing as long as they meet certain requirements and agree to keep their business in Chile for at least a year.