Sentences with phrase «about getting to school»

I should see about getting this to my school.

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When Kasia Urbaniak first started a new kind of power - training school for women, she had a tough time getting people to understand what the place was all about.

They're about as close to commodities as consumer devices get,» Hal Friedlander, co-founder of the Technology for Education Consortium and former CIO for New York City schools, told Business Insider.

In my previous job, I remember front section editors asking me to report on a story about children in Ontario supposedly getting sick from the Wi - Fi in their schools.

An advocate for a local teachers union also expressed concern to the New York Times Magazine about the quality of the education, arguing Bridge focuses less on getting poor students to the baseline as enticing public school students to switch to Bridge schools.

Look at STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)-- if we focused on finding early indicators of high performers in our education system, then treated them differently as they progressed through school as potential Canadian innovators, by the time they got to Grade 12 and were thinking about university, they would be wildly ahead of the innovation curve.»

Allegations have been made that Moritomo got a favorable deal because of connections to Abe's wife, who was made honorary principal of the new school but swiftly resigned when details about the deal came to light.

That's why we created a VIP Move Concierge service to help our customers get set up with utilities, change their address with the post office and find out more about the schools and coffee shops in the vicinity.

If you go to a less expensive college, get excited about «the opportunities a school will give you beyond college because you're not going to be burdened by debt,» said education consultant Klemmer.

«Writing about race and inequality made me want to explore these issues more deeply, so I'm now getting my JD at Yale Law School,» Jeff says.

By the time he or she gets to high school, it is time for a heart - to - heart about college.

They get on board the bus from school, and that's our time to chat about the day so far.

«He's an extraordinary judge who is scrupulous about getting the law right, and has the courage to do that even when it angers powerful people,» says Minor Myers, a Brooklyn Law School professor who has studied appraisal suits.

Last June, the internet giant debuted its Made with Code campaign in an effort to get young women excited about computer science — a field that less than one percent of high school girls think of as part of their future.

The Late Show host also spoke to Cook about his decision last year to publicly announce that he is gay, as well as the Apple CEO's efforts to increase the company's charitable works: «It became so clear to me that kids were getting bullied in school, kids were getting discriminated against, kids were even being [disowned] by their own parents,» Cook said.

A new survey says graduates of the nation's top b - school aren't entirely optimistic, but they have some pretty solid ideas about how to get Americans back to work.

I read books about the female brain, met with science and math elementary school teachers and nonprofit educators who were doing programs to get kids interested in STEM.

On Being a Young CEO «When all my friends were getting ready to go back to school, I met with Mick Jagger to talk about his website.

«I knew I wanted to go to business school when I got more excited about Fast Company and Harvard Business Review showing up in my mailbox than People magazine.

«Every time I think about those kids, it gets me mad,» Obama said, referring to the 2013 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

With these for - profit universities pulling out all stops to get students to enroll in their programs, there isn't much room left for nonprofit schools like Georgetown and Stanford to educate the public about their offerings.

That is particularly promising for Kohl's given that back - to - school season is now underway: Kohl's gets about 16 % of annual sales during that six - week shopping blitz.

About a third of employers say they are getting the workers they need, in part because they are engaged in the training process, communicating directly with schools and students to develop course work or to the let institutions know what skills new hires need.

You're probably going to get asked about why you want to go to the particular business school you've set your sights on.

I grew up in West Vancouver, and on the last day of school each summer I'd go to the barbershop and get my hair shaved off, so I wouldn't have to worry about ticks.

I love the idea of getting kids involved in back - to - school shopping, as it often increases their excitement about the upcoming year.

For old - school shaving purists, tallow based shaving soaps are the only way to go, as these are about as traditional as it gets.

Let's face it, your parents didn't teach you how to get rich and the schools and colleges don't even talk about it.

About 78 % of the responding admissions staffers said that getting into business school will become increasingly competitive due to their expectations of greater number of applicants.

We'll get to that in a minute, though, because also on stage was David Carroll, the associate professor at Parsons School of Design in New York who filed a lawsuit against Cambridge to find out what data the company has about him.

Rubio added that he did not want to get ahead of law enforcement in speaking about details of last week's school shooting, but that «three or four people might be alive today.»

He preened with guns and knives on social media, bragged about shooting rats with his BB gun and got kicked out of school — in part because he had brought bullets in his backpack, according to one classmate.

A new «independent issues advocacy group» backed by Michael Sacks will launch a campaign to tell Chicago about how schools are getting better.

If you're organized, knowledgeable about the higher education process, and enjoy working with adolescents and their parents, consider starting a side business as an independent college application consultant to help more smart, ambitious, and qualified kids get into the schools of their dreams.

House Speaker Ryan was hammered on Twitter after he tweeted out an item about a public school employee who, thanks to the tax bill, got an extra $ 1.50 in her weekly paycheck.

Reed said it takes about 12 hours to get a school ready for students once power and water are available.

Parkland, Florida, school - shooting survivor David Hogg was able to get about a dozen advertisers to boycott «The Ingraham Angle» last week after host Laura Ingraham tweeted that he had «whined» about not getting into the colleges of his choice.

Girls are more likely to have concerns about their appearance than boys as they return to school after the summer holidays, with children becoming more anxious as they get older.

If you're one of them or you're thinking about going back to school, you've got a big choice ahead of you.

In contrast, they get maybe a few days of education about evolution (assuming they weren't home schooled or sent to a religious school).

The school doesn't want you spreading your poison and you want to cry about not getting free money; just another example of the religious groups in this country wanting a free lunch while being able to hate on whoever they want.

If the paradigm of the school / class is to get their chaplains in training to think more about talking about God at the end of life, then the lecture has a point, a meaning.

The government doesn't need to recognize marriage (I don't give a hang if they don't recognize my relationship with my wife); the government doesn't need to run public schools (and get into the fight about whether evolution truly explains the origin of species and the origin of life).

In fact I bet you're one of those hypocrite teabagger trolls who are happy to have the government pave their roads, provide public schools for their kids, provide a mortgage credit, etc. then whine about all those fictional people getting so much for free.

After living in Asia for 12 years, where no one cared that I was not Christian, then coming back to the US and having people get in my face about Christianity and my kids belittled in school has got my furor up.

I'm concerned about Tony's theology, whose philosophical foundations I criticized pretty consistently while I was involved in EC in 2004 - 7 before bowing out because Tony seemed more into pushing with some arrogance a pomo philosophy he never really studied in school than he was into fostering dialogue (I went back to just reading the wonderful books of Brian McLaren which is how I got involved in the first place).

The Commission urged that books should be used to convey important social messages: for instance one book which it urged school libraries to acquire, and this writer personally got to see as a governor, was about a boy wearing a pink dress.

I get confused about what excellence can mean from institution to institution, given the American practice of grading colleges; even the much less than superlative schools claim to be excellent.

«We are worried about the fact that you are having trouble at school (unhappy, having bad dreams, setting fires, using drugs, running away), and we are going to see whether we can get some help with the problem.»

I had to go to a Catholic school for about 8 years and we never got this sort of treatment.