Sentences with phrase «as school fields»

Corn gluten is an organic fertilizer and weed killer that has become popular for use in residential lawns as well as school fields and golf courses.

Thousands of charter school students on 450 buses, along with their parents and teachers, came to the Capitol for a rally that was billed by organizers as a school field trip.

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Standing on a stage set up on a high school football field, Rutan and Paul Allen, the multibillionaire Microsoft co-founder who has sunk some $ 25 million into SpaceShipOne, struggled with the kitchen - table - size ceremonial check as some 600 local space fanatics cheered lustily.

«When you do outdoor events,» says Russell, who went to high school across the river on 98th Street and played sports on Governors Island's athletic fields as a kid, «you are expected, both contractually and on a personal level, to return the park in the same condition, if not better than, it was in when you first took it over.

According to GirlsWhoCode, 74 percent of middle - school girls express interest in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields, yet only 0.4 percent of high - school girls plan to study computer science as a major in college.

Young women are simply losing interest in these fields as an area of study and a profession as they progress from middle school to high school to college.

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.

More students are accepting internships in these fields as well, as the school has offered more «industry focus» programs that expose students to careers in niche finance sectors, Fitch said.

As Kenneth Freeman, dean of Boston University's School of Management, explains, «Rankings include starting salary among the metrics and many MBAs from higher ranked schools go into the higher paying finance and technology fields, with fewer taking lower paying roles in non-profits for example.

The finance sector's allure has held strong at the University of Virginia's McIntire School, where 47.8 % of students accepted jobs in the field in 2014, nearly the same number as last year, said Tom Fitch, McIntire's associate dean for career services and employer relations.

Becoming a star on the football pitch (as Europeans call a soccer field) and in business requires «practice, practice, and practice,» and the successful manager must always be prepared to «retune things,» Ferguson told a group of Stanford Graduate School of Business students.

When a couple of Canadian economists published research (pdf) last December showing that using an alternative methodology yields much better productivity growth rates, StatsCan was quick to reject it, even though one of the authors, Erwin Diewert, a professor at the University of British Columbia's Vancouver School of Economics, is widely regarded as one of the world's finest brains in the field.

Teach full - time as a highly - qualified teacher in a high - need field at an eligible low - income elementary school, secondary school, or educational service agency for at least 4 academic years.

First taught as electives and now part of core business school curriculums, the field is still struggling to escape from the bounds of the business plan - centric view that startups are «smaller versions of a large company.»

Follows Kevin Simpson, a second - year Harvard Business School 1990 student, through his job search to his final decision between two very attractive but different job offers: a job as an international marketing manager at Eli Lilly and Co., a leading multinational health product corporation; and a position as the assistant to the president of Haemonetics, an entrepreneurial company in the biomedical equipment field.

She began her travels abroad with Europe, during college, and later returned to work as a field archaeologist in the U.K., digging up Vikings, before attending graduate school in New York.

Trained as an architect at the University of Virginia's School of Architecture, Susi previously worked for 10 years in that field, most recently as a Project Architect for Robert A.M. Stern.

What has since become commonplace in modern psychology as field theory under the influence of the Gestalt school and subsequent modes of holistic psychology, and in the new metaphysics since Whitehead, 14 was scarcely manageable or even definable, except as one associated it with the intuitive act.

Most of these students had returned to school after some significant work experience — in such diverse fields as teaching, politics, law, securities, real estate and graphic design.

Maybe on a night drive or a confrontation with our parents, perhaps as we drive past the house of a high school boyfriend or an old football field.

In the memoirs of Asian and African leaders who were graduates from these schools it has become almost obligatory, as part of an attack upon white Christian colonialism, to express bitterness and recrimination about the loss of native roots that came as a by - product of missionary education and of imperialist schools both in the mission field and in the home country.

As such, his role will be to attract talented Christian scholars in the field, enhancing the school's academic profile in accordance with its renewed religious mission.

Moody Bible Institute, the Bible Institute of Los Angeles and scores of lesser - known schools trained thousands of leaders for work in local churches and on the mission field, organized conferences and revivals, sponsored radio broadcasts, published literature and served as surrogate denominations.

I'm a little pessimistic, because faculty members come out of graduate schools with a loyalty to a particular field, and it's very hard to get their attention or arouse their passion for larger sets of problems, such as pedagogy or the reform of theological education.

Vocational advisement, if it is to be of real educational value, should consist not in one or a few interviews on entering or leaving school, but in a continuing dialogue between the student and his parents and teachers in all fields as well as with professional guidance officers.

The trouble began even before Ketcham entered the mission field in 1961; his behavior was sexually inappropriate as early as high school, when he admitted to «heavy petting» with an unknown number of girls, according to the Pii report.

The technical emphasis in recent theological education has given us better pedagogies, opened up the larger society as a field for ministry, redistributed authority and power in the schools, and added new and important areas of study.

What if your father was an accountant and raised you to believe that only by being an accountant could you truly find happiness and never gave you any other options, infact threatened to disown you if you even so much as glanced at the attorney booth or medical fields at your school job fair?

Faculty in those fields who are members of departments of religious studies receive their doctoral education in the same graduate schools as do faculty in theological schools, and faculty move back and forth between the two contexts.

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.

Over in psychology, a Skinnerian or a Freudian unabashedly propounds his own school's thought as if it were normative for the entire field.

In this area of law, prosecutors work closely with experts in this field as part of a multi-disciplinary team, which includes law enforcement, social services, child advocacy centers, medical and mental health providers, the school system and many other partner agencies.

There are few theological schools where these groups do not compete for the students» interest and time, where some members of the former group do not feel that the scholarliness of theological study is being impaired by the attention claimed for field work and counseling, where teachers of preaching, church administration and pastoral care and directors of field work do not regard much of the theological work as somewhat beside the point in the education of a minister for the contemporary Church.

He presently serves as pastor of the Lakeshore Avenue Baptist Church in Oakland, California, and as adjunct professor of Preaching and Field Education at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley.

Dialectic was the first course in this school, and it is described as the art of the husbandman who cultivates various kinds of fields.

As she did not go to school, Joan helped her parents in the home and in the field.

General Parts» clients include restaurants, universities, hospitals, schools and stadiums such as Solider Field in Chicago.

Growing up we would often eat frozen popsicles as we walked around our neighborhood or on our way to the local high school football / baseball field to play.

FAO and IRRI will together assist rice producing countries to adopt improved and adapted rice varieties, enhance availability of certified seeds and also the transfer of knowledge - including on pest management - through participatory approaches such as farmer fields schools.

Leonor Espinosa was chosen as winner of the Basque Culinary World Prize from a final Top 10 by a Prize Jury of the world's most respected chefs and experts in other fields, and announced today at the El Claustro de Sor Juana, a culinary school in Mexico City.

Chen, who coached the Menlo middle school track and soccer teams, and later cross country, convinced her to try track and field, envisioning her as a sprinter («In soccer, she would blow by everyone,» he said).

My parents thought that if they did not let me go to sports school, I could end up as a peasant digging the fields.»

Even though it had long been known primarily as a basketball conference, the Big East had always fielded football schools, and a few powerful ones at that.

But more revealing was this: As the Auburn players walked off the field, they genuinely believed they had found their 2013 version of Newton — who like Marshall had left an SEC school (Florida), gone to junior college for a season (Blinn College in Brenham, Texas) and was the team's opening - game starter as a junioAs the Auburn players walked off the field, they genuinely believed they had found their 2013 version of Newton — who like Marshall had left an SEC school (Florida), gone to junior college for a season (Blinn College in Brenham, Texas) and was the team's opening - game starter as a junioas a junior.

For instance, it's true that as a high school scrapper in Joliet, Ill., and later as an unlikely star at Purdue, Alstott toned his body by pushing his Jeep Wrangler back and forth across the practice field and by running with whitewall tires strapped around his waist.

As you can see in the photo below, a teddy bear, Rutgers magnets and paper packet were spread across the 50 - yard line of the football field of the high school.

The football field is named after Coach Ben Parks, as I remembered during my high school football & wrestling career at Capuchino - San Bruno.

He and Patty made this final move so he could be closer to school, so, with his workday beginning at 6:30 a.m., he wouldn't have to spend three nights a week sleeping in a San Jose State dorm room after having studied tapes until 11 p.m. Just as a point of speculation, it is suggested that maybe he would like to coach until he's 90 or 95, keel over on the field in mid-practice and be buried under one of the goalposts that bookend all football fields like gateways to another world.

He demolished the 400 - meter field by 40 meters, broke the school's sophomore record with a 50.8 and walked off the track as if he'd just taken a jog around the block.

Then, as Harris stood in a soft rain and looked down at his old high school field, the South Stadium, he said, «I don't dwell on what has happened.