Sentences with phrase «asked by a high school»

I was asked by a high school media specialist if I would be interested in helping their students deal with the anxiety of final exams.

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I don't play fantasy and keep up with other teams» players enough, but a steady diet of high school and college prospect study intrigues me to ask, «how are guy's careers affected by the teams they play for?»

Oh, and by the way, ask college fans about college officials (better than high school refs), and what will the answer be?

Ask them if they had a good experience, and they will remember — and if they're hampered still by a high school injury, you can bet they will remember that more than anything.

In 1999, only 17.2 % of the PPE forms in one high school study asked questions about exercise - related cardiac symptoms, a previous diagnosis of a heart murmur or high blood pressure, and about family history of heart attack before age 50 or sudden cardiac death (three main components of the cardiac history portion of the PPE recommended by the AHA);

But just ask the kids who played on my soccer teams, especially the players who were told by the town travel soccer club that they weren't good enough to play travel soccer but who, after playing on one my teams, went on to play high school varsity soccer.

We understand smart phones provide an invaluable reference with the Internet in our palms, but ask any high school student and even they will tell you it is not acceptable to cheat by using the phone for any reason during a test or in this case a debate.

Candidates were asked about specific legislation they would endorse to curb gun violence and if they supported arming teachers, proposals floated by Trump and the NRA since a massacre at Florida high school killed 17 in February.

Each student of the Gyaama Pensan Senior High Technical School in the Kwabre East District of the Ashanti Region, has been asked to pay Ghc 100 to to cater for damage caused to properties following disturbances by some students.

He recalled advice given to him by his mother and father, who never went to high school and weren't wealthy: «They said, «All you can ask for out of this life, son, is to do what you think is right.

Now, parents and education advocates from across New York City are asking state legislators to ensure the future of high - performing public charter schools by supporting the Governor's proposal.

When asked which groups should not run state - funded schools, 35 % said religious organisations (the highest figure obtained by any of the answers listed).

Please why is the free senior high school not for the 2015, 2016 academic students who where by some means not able to go to school this year are not eligible to enjoy free senior high school if i may ask please.

I had a concussion in high school, I had a concussion — and I played linebacker in high school and then played only as a quarterback in college — but after my second concussion, the last game of my senior year in college, I was being looked at by the neurologist, the doctor at Yale, and he asked me if I had any aspirations of going onto play, and I said, «No, I don't» And he said, «Good, two concussions is enough.»

When he graduated from high school, he asked for a job with a solar telescope being built by Honeywell in Burbank.

In high school and college I was constantly asked by peers and girlfriends, «Where did you get that?»

► A cat starts to explain, «How babies happen» and begins by saying, «when two people have special feelings for each other, there is a powerful urge...» A high school aged girl asks an older ogre out on a date for her friend.

-- Strange Fruit lyrics by Lewis Allen On August 31st of last year, a small group of black freshman at Jena High School approached the assistant principal to ask whether it was okay for them to enjoy the shade under a big tree located in what had come to be considered the «white only» section of the schoolyard.

In the film, Nell Kessler plays Sarah, a high schooler who decides to get revenge on the people who have been bullying her by asking for help from a mysterious wishing well.

Mary is played by Cameron Diaz as a high school knockout who amazes the geeky Ted (Ben Stiller) by asking him to the prom, even though he has pounds of braces on his teeth.

It would be unfair to ask any other film to mix insight with carnage but again the Diablo Cody pedigree is built upon such knowing play with conventions; Jennifer's Body has the necessary structure to outdo not only Scream with the genre self - awareness but also Heathers with a look at the «scorched earth» dynamics of high school existence heightened by a string of murders.

For middle and high school teachers, I wonder if these questions could be asked by phone over a period of time, or through email or paper surveys, or in some kind of innovative Back to School Night where parents shared their thoughts and feelings rather than teachers talking to paschool teachers, I wonder if these questions could be asked by phone over a period of time, or through email or paper surveys, or in some kind of innovative Back to School Night where parents shared their thoughts and feelings rather than teachers talking to paSchool Night where parents shared their thoughts and feelings rather than teachers talking to parents.

In an effort to determine our core competencies, we are asking whether it makes sense to have extracurricular activities, such as supplemental sports and art classes, taught by the school's teachers or contracted out to nonprofit groups who may offer these services at reduced prices and provide higher - quality services.

The survey released last week by the Los Angeles - based Josephson Institute of Ethics asked more than 43,000 high school students whether they'd been physically abused, teased, or taunted in a way that seriously upset them.

Our study overcomes the limits of short - term analysis by asking: when schools face accountability pressure, do their efforts to raise test scores generate improvements in higher education attainment, earnings, and other long - term outcomes?

Follow by asking them what they think the brave and startling truth means for them, for their time in high school, and their future?

«I'm shocked by their lack of knowledge,» says history teacher Jennifer Norton of Argonaut High School in Jackson, Calif. «As a pretest, I asked...

That startling question, asked by a senior in Ernest Van Seasholes» current affairs class, is how Seasholes recalls the beginning of a new era at Newton South High School, in Newton, Massachusetts.

«How are we building 21st - century skills,» she asks, «to get our kids where they need to be by high school?»

You can discourage middle and high school students from asking to leave the room unnecessarily by providing an unwieldy or embarrassing hall pass.

Discourage middle and high school students from asking to leave the room unnecessarily by providing an unwieldy or embarrassing hall pass.

Courtney Couvreur at Oakland International High School does this by asking her Statistics and Probability students to create a cookbook and, in the process, learn foundational numeracy skills about fractions, which will help them eventually interpret quantitative data they see in their everyday life.

When asked which measures would most likely improve social mobility and help disadvantaged young people get on in life, almost half of respondents (47 per cent) chose «high - quality teaching in comprehensive schools», ahead of two social mobility policies adopted by the main parties in the recent election.

A modern conservative columnist, Kate O'Beirne, writing in the National Review, has questioned the value of food stamps, school breakfasts and lunches, and the WIC programs (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children): «With rates of excess weight and obesity highest among low - income households, budget officials should be asking themselves why tens of billions of dollars are being spent each year by federal nutrition programs aimed at boosting food consumption by the poor.»

An examination of assignments given by middle school teachers appears to show that most of the work asked of students does not reflect the higher, more rigorous standards set by Common Core.

However, if you ask most teaching colleagues and parents to share memories of learning about poetry, they recall, often with pained expressions, intensely studying a small number of poets in high school, where they had to analyze poems word by word.

A 2015 survey by Marc Brackett of Yale University asked 22,000 high - school students how they felt when they were in school.

Frequently asked questions about the Holyoke high school redesign: by Mike Plaisance on Scribd

As such, Schiess and Rotherham begin their work by asking whether rural high schools graduate a higher proportion of students under less rigorous standards than non-rural high schools.

Over the next few weeks, I invite you to join me and my colleagues at the Knowledge Matters Campaign as we tour schools across the country to see the many ways knowledge - building curriculum is enhancing classroom instruction — by asking students to read, write, and speak to high standards, but to do so from a wide range of topics that enrich students» understanding of the world around them — ranging from water conservation to the Revolutionary War to Renaissance architecture.

A recent Wall Street Journal article written by a high school student rejected from her top - choice colleges asked a controversial question that admissions officers have skirted around for years: If college admissions focus so much on diversity, are non-diverse students unfairly shunted to the side?

We use this to get usable data from middle and high school students by asking them to select one quadrant that best describes each of their classes.

To this last point, we should ask ourselves whether it makes sense to align benchmarks on Common Core assessments (potential gatekeepers for high school graduation or college enrollment) with NAEP's Proficient benchmark when fully 50 percent of students judged merely «Basic» by NAEP's metrics go on to obtain a four - year degree (Scott, Ingels, & Owings, 2007).

Connecticut officials are asking a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by families who want more high - quality school options such as charter and magnet schools.

Petersen's recent series on the financial scandals at El Camino High School asked hard questions about the lack of oversight provided by the Los Angeles School Board.

Thirteen years ago, NCLB dreamed that we could ask every student to enter kindergarten and climb the ladder to success by their senior year of high school.

When you ask high school students in Lake County, Illinois what their career goals are, you may be surprised by how many of them answer «scientists».

Seven schools that have 6,730 students are recommended to have their charters revoked, including LA's top - ranked charter high school, while three other schools asking for revisions affecting 2,060 students are also recommended for denial by staff.

When asked why high school teachers weren't included in this program, education minister Martin Dixon said that by focusing on primary students, the initiative would «address the worrying trend of students turning away from maths and science in secondary school.»

For example, a high school biology teacher might ask the class how much water taken up by the roots of a corn plant is lost through transpiration.