Sentences with phrase «among huge schools»

Plunge overboard and explore one of the richest marine habitats as you snorkel among huge schools of tropical fish.

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I made this smoothie at a health fair at a local elementary school last week and it was a huge hit among the kids!

When my school district (SFUSD) first proposed banning soda back in 2003, there was huge outrage among the students.

Among the major areas of disagreement are the Senate's insistence — despite the huge deficit — on a politically popular property - tax rebate and a new Senate plan to lift the cap on the number of charter schools, which is strongly opposed by the teachers - union - friendly Assembly.

But there is a huge added benefit: The seizure patients who volunteer for Schalk's experiments prior to surgery have allowed him and his collaborator, neurosurgeon Eric C. Leuthardt of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, to collect what they claim are among the most detailed pictures ever recorded of what happens in the brain when we imagine speaking words aloud.

«This fear, which is seen to varying degrees among people with fibromyalgia, is a huge obstacle to getting people to be more physically active,» says Daniel Rooks, PhD, who studied fibromyalgia as an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and now works with musculoskeletal diseases at the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, in Cambridge, Mass..

I made this smoothie at a health fair at a local elementary school last week and it was a huge hit among the kids!

The popularity of charter schools among Bostonians and the growing number of families whose children attend them is potentially a huge political asset to a new administration; it can also be a credible threat.

But there's a huge upside: Many teachers have used social media to share best practices, provide an authentic audience for student work, cultivate digital citizenship among their students, and build more connected school communities.

Positive comments from some recent users of this book include: Most schools are full of documents and data... Dr Slater is among the first to show how they can be used to compare what is said on paper and in interviews... The results will shock you... Dr Slater is a successful high school teacher and an award winning author... and here's why... Fantastic little book, punches well above its weight... Makes it seem so simple... the art of the genius... As an advocate of the What Works agenda, I think this book really is a wake - up call... A fantastic insight into the potential for using documents in research... Nails twenty years of research in twenty minutes... Worth every dime... Every student in my class (6th form) has been told to buy this book... and it's easy to see why... Shines a great big light on the power of documents in research... Surely this is the best book in its field... First class... I kept referring to this book in my presentation last week and the audience was ecstatic... Education research, usually has little effect on me... Until now... This book is formidable... Crushes the concept that education research is rubbish... fantastic insight... Blows you away with its power and simplicity... Huge reality check, senior school managers at good schools tell the truth, other's don't, won't or can't, and their students suffer.

On February 14, 2005, State Supreme Court Justice Leland DeGrasse, who had overseen the case from the beginning, awarded the city a staggering $ 5.6 billion more per year for its schools, a 43 percent increase to the city's $ 12.9 billion school budget, an amount that would raise per - pupil spending to more than $ 18,000 per year and make New York City's huge school district (with more than a third of the children in the state) among the richest in the state, if not the country.

Bullying is a huge issue among youth across the country, and is often the root cause of school violence.

Research documents the importance of using after school hours to build on and enhance what students learn in class, of sustaining school year gains over the summer months, and the huge cost of so - called «summer learning loss» among disadvantaged students when those are not achieved.

The head teacher said that a major area for school improvement was in the area of reading for meaning among the children and this was an area where the Harrow boys could make a major contribution, and would certainly have a huge impact.

Among the facts from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Fourth Grade Reading report cited by FairTest: — There has been no gain in NAEP grade four reading performance nationally since 1992 despite a huge increase in state - mandated testing; — NAEP scores in southern states, which test the most and have the highest stakes attached to their state testing programs, have declined; — The NAEP score gap between white children and those from African American and Hispanic families has increased, even though schools serving low - income and minority - group children put the most emphasis on testing; and — Scores of children eligible for free lunch programs have dropped since 1996.

They show huge variation in earnings among programs at the same school and for the same program offered at different schools.

«It does not come from outside the schools budget as the Coalition Agreement promised - we find out today that it is to be recycled from within it, creating huge winners and losers among schools.»

Despite the huge decline in college students enrolling in Education Teacher Prep programs in Pennsylvania and California, and despite the huge numbers of laid off experienced teachers in both States, California and Pennsylvania are among the «leaders» in charter schools, charter school corruption and TFA recruits.

Though their track record is good — with significantly higher graduation and college admission rates than similar students statewide — their future was in doubt without secure funding, even though the amount per school in state aid ($ 59,000, to support a coordinator's time and collaborative planning among Academy teachers) is not huge.

In schools which aren't among the states» very worst performing, huge numbers of low - achieving students will slip through the cracks.

I am a HUGE Michael Crichton fan and after reading Jurassic Park and Pirate Latitudes (among the half dozen other of his meticulously researched novels) I was thrilled to learn about his earlier works from his med school years.

«By divine right of mayoralty, or someone, 13 vehicles waited at the curb in a no - standing zone, among them four black S.U.V.s (three Chevy Suburbans and one Yukon XL) an ambulance, a huge E.M.S. vehicle and a police school safety van.

And I think that if you look at the market generally, with 40,000 law school graduates for 20,000 law firm jobs in the US in 2014 and 2015, there's a vast kind of oversupply of lawyers, but at the same token, there is a huge unmet legal need among middle class people especially for legal services.

There aren't a huge number of opportunities in the media for school leavers, but among those that do exist: