Sentences with phrase «at the worst schools»

The findings above deserve repeating: Fix - it efforts at the worst schools have consistently failed to generate significant improvement.

Not only do low achieving students in the bottom quintile end up at the worst schools in the city, the authors note that these bottom students are often selecting bad schools as their top choices.

At the worst schools in DC, teachers leave in droves.

At the worst schools, the situation is serious in the extreme.

Not exact matches

As a college student, Kaling illustrated a daily comic for the school paper called «Badly Drawn Girl,» which «riffed on day - to - day campus life and took a witty stab at everything from fraternity life to alumni.»

It's the worst mass killing in Canada since Marc Lepine killed 14 women at a Montreal engineering school in 1989 before turning the gun on himself.

«The bubble has become worse,» says George Athanassakos, a finance professor at the Richard Ivey School of Business.

«For better or for worse, I think many companies take a very legalistic view of termination to protect themselves liability-wise,» says Adam M. Kleinbaum, an assistant professor at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business.

Pediatricians have long cautioned that kids under two should spend no time in front of screen at all, while research shows that among older kids lots of screen time is correlated with worse school performance.

It's bad for the workers, but its arguably even worse for the companies that employ them, says Ron Burke, a professor at the Schulich School of Business.

With five kids between them — and the assistance of Rotman School entrepreneurship expert Reuber — they promise a «candid and brutally honest look» at mompreneurship: «the good, the bad, and the sticky.»

As a PhD candidate at Weill Cornell Medical School, Piraye Beim spent much of her time trying to figure out why a particular cancer drug was lifesaving for some patients but useless — or worse — for most.

When the team looked at these numbers — average rate of improvement between third and eighth grade in math and reading — many schools that are traditionally thought of as «bad» suddenly seemed good.

The bad news is that «you're on the radar» for competitors that want to replicate your success, says Becky Reuber, a professor at the Rotman School of Management.

Andrew Policano, dean of The Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine, shares his thoughts on news — good and bad — in the economy.

The Scott campaign, meanwhile, has run TV ads accusing Crist of raising tuition at state colleges and leaving K - 12 schools in worse shape than when he took office.

Instead of fostering entrepreneurial traits in kids, most schools want to manage them at best, and suppress them at worst.

It was Sept. 28, 2016, and Cruz — who since has admitted to perpetrating one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history, Wednesday's massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High — took to his arms with a knife.

Climate, poverty, unemployment, inequality, neighborhoods that are job deserts at best and killing fields at worst, lagging infrastructure (public schools!)

Sam is it bad if I'm still in school and will graduate at 24.

And the layoffs and bad news in mining are not yet dampening the enthusiasm of students at the Haileybury School of Mines, says associate regional director of Northern College's south campus, Shawn Chorney.

The carnage at Stoneman Douglas High School shared all of the horror of America's worst mass shootings.

Math teacher Joel Sanders said that when watching TV news coverage, he starts out thinking that a bad thing happened at some other school.

The debate over what Congress and the president should do in response to mass shootings is once again confronting Washington after Nikolas Cruz, 19, allegedly killed 17 people at his former high school Wednesday, with authorities charging that he aimed his AR - 15 assault - style rifle and fired round after round into classroom after classroom in one of the nation's worst school shootings.

«I think that is true, but I was just so bad at school that at one point, my dad was just like, «Bro, I think it's working, but you should just quit and do your thing.»

He says spiritual mentors like a Sunday school teacher in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and some of his Redskins players helped him get back on track with a deeper, more meaningful Christian faith even while the struggles were at their worst.

«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.»

Bad school memories were the hot topic at a recent party hosted by David Dancer for GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, with guests such as New York's, a social worker and educator of the year for 2009.

If it is left entirely to the RE department to create a school's Catholic identity, the inevitable result is that other subjects tend to become permeated (at best) or dominated (at worst) by an antipathetical, secularised philosophy.

We had one teacher at the School of Theatre who constantly reminded us, «If you're going to steal something, don't steal bad stuff.

The shock and heartbreak over the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School have inspired Westboro Baptist Church to do what they do worst: jettison any semblance of humanity and decency by picketing the funerals of the victims.

At the public charter school where she used to teach, she said, «I had a lot of students comment, «I can't really feel bad for this rich kid with a weekend free in New York City.»»

When your playing a silly game with a bat and ball you bring him out, you thank him when you move a pig skin across a line, you stamp his name on my currency, you tell my children about him in our public schools, you trot him out like a prized pig at a fair anytime something good or bad or even mediocre happens, and even when you stub your toe.

At worst, this approach will encourage and force congregations to determine exactly why they are involved in church school education.

Religion was more prominent and prominent for longer at most private schools, most of which bad a Protestant heritage.

The good news is that there is religious life after Sunday School; the bad news is that we have to work at it.

Her academic credentials are dubious, she is phenomenally bad at math, she is verbally inept, and she is so ignorant of hard science that she thinks Creationism should be taught in schools.

The Houston Press: San Benito Teacher Replaced After Bizarre Classroom Rant About Jesus, Mary Magdalene, UFOs & The Apocalypse A ninth - grade teacher at San Benito's Veterans Memorial High School has been replaced for the remainder of the year after her lesson plan went badly awry last Tuesday and her 12 - minute rant was filmed by a student and uploaded to YouTube.

To make matters even worse, those who have experience working in Catholic schools are often at a disadvantage when compared to other applicants for well - paying public school positions.

The two schools of philosophical thought represented on this occasion were Epicureanism and Stoicism: the former, discounting reason and advancing pleasure through experience, or self - satisfaction at the highest and noblest human level, as the true impetus for living; and the latter, exalting human indifference, or submission to the exigencies of existence through rigid self - discipline, treating with sublime disregard good fortune and bad fortune alike.

The issue of blatantly false (or at least extremely embellished) news stories has gotten so bad, that researchers at Stanford's Graduate School of Education call it «a threat to democracy» after a «dismaying» study found that most American students can't tell the difference between which headlines are real and which ones are fake.

I had a friend once say «So all those lessons we had in school about how good fats were liquid at room temperature and bad fats were solid... those were wrong?»

On the one hand, if it was egg salad day at school, it meant I was avoiding worse fate, like bologna or tuna salad.

Paulsson explained that it was worrying to see the campaign's efforts sabotaged by some members of the farmers» association, who chose not to respect the majority decision and instead serve «the worst possible junk food» to students at the school.

In addition to an allergy flare - up, Sam has been testing out each of my already - frazzled nerves with his dependence, Jade has had an on - again off - again issue with a girl at school, we are still on the house hunt with nothing in sight (the «dream» home fell through for the time being), and we are down a vehicle thanks to some atypical bad luck.

The Fortune 500 company — which runs the dining operations at thousands of schools and other institutions across the country — is tackling three key area where industrial agriculture has been badly failing in its production model: intensive confinement, painful procedures and practices, and unnaturally fast growth.

There's over 300 division 1 basketball schools, I'm confident in saying that at worst we're still in the top 100.

You need to be on the line giving hope and encouraging your team even schooling if need be, they are paid to take the praise as well as the bad, so a new type of Manager that stands on the line and makes the decision to either close out game or add to win, Wenger apart fro Arteta Flamini who if 2 yrs younger would do it with attackers we have them, how ever when you make the subs at the right time can to alter the game is key and Wenger is not that type of person.

Randy Shannon's Hurricanes shut down their time in the old Orange Bowl by getting blasted at the hands of Virginia, 48 - 0, the worst home shutout loss in school history.

Promising a high school senior playing time in 2020 at the most important position on the field suggests that our QB situation is in pretty bad shape.