Sentences with phrase «at younger school»

His analysis found that books with «fairly simple» vocabulary and grammar aimed at younger school pupils are still the most read by secondary school pupils overall.

I look at my young school - aged kids and wonder what kind of world they will inherit.

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Michael Dell was speaking to an entrepreneurship class at the University of Texas business school when a bold student stood up and asked the young multi-billionaire why he still kept going to work.

At a young age, Gates showed an avid interest in computers, spending as much time as possible in his middle school's computer lab.

Business analysts (who were young and fresh out of school, remember) were judged based on the percentage of their products that were in stock at any given time, and a low percentage would result in a phone call from a vice-president demanding an explanation.

For plenty of young Americans, spring break is a week - long vacation from school that involves gorgeous beaches and plenty of partying, at least ideally.

And in September, at about the first Wednesday after Labour Day, they «go haywire,» as parents with young kids scramble to readjust to a new school year.

In a last ditch effort, Wagstaff, who goes by Dr. Bob, brought the Orabrush to a marketing class at Brigham Young University's graduate school, which offers companies the chance to let students perform a case study for them for about $ 1,500.

Gates showed an interest in computer programming at a very young age, spending all of his free time creating programs on the teletype terminal computer his school had donated.

Before «The Hunger Games» novels became a YA phenomenon, there was this Japanese movie that looks at a future where young school kids are ordered to take part in a killing tournament that ends when one person is left alive.

In spite of her busy schedule, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg drops her two young children off at school in the morning and leaves work by 5:30 p.m. to be at home with them.

The author's convict past will probably only enhance interest in his work, says Mark Young, a professor at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business.

Her high school teachers remember a mix of precociousness and humility — and an ability to multi-task at a very young age.

He can speak with moral authority on the issue: In his state, a gunman killed 20 young children, as well as six adults, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012.

So says an enterprising young student at Aspen Heights elementary school in Red Deer, Alberta.

Harry is an avid fan of rugby and even coached at schools around the U.K. to encourage young people to learn the sport.

Srilata Zaheer, dean of the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management, tells the story of a young and highly promising Chinese scholar who decided not to join the Carlson faculty because her mother implored her to take an offer from a higher ranked school — even though her discipline — management information systems — is a major strength at CaSchool of Management, tells the story of a young and highly promising Chinese scholar who decided not to join the Carlson faculty because her mother implored her to take an offer from a higher ranked school — even though her discipline — management information systems — is a major strength at Caschool — even though her discipline — management information systems — is a major strength at Carlson.

Thiel had then passively boarded a conveyor belt that would carry him from college to Stanford Law School, and thence to a position as a young transactional lawyer at New York's Sullivan & Cromwell, a position near the pinnacle of that profession.

Women are heading to business school in larger numbers than ever before, and at younger ages to boot.

Since the percentage of phone numbers that connect to mobile phone — wielding young people and elderly landline users is about equal, it's actually the youthful folks who may dominate a sample created by random digit dialing, says Marc - David Seidel, an associate professor at the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia.

Mayer left school at the age of 12 and stepped into the role of breadwinner at a young age, supporting his parents and four siblings by, among other things, collecting heavy scrap metal for resale during brutally cold Canadian winters in New Brunswick.

But that is the case for Jakob Sperry, who along with six other young inventors recently presented their work at New York University's Tandon School of Engineering as part of Kid Inventor's Day, an event hosted by 3 - D design and engineering software maker Autodesk.

At 16, Musk and his younger brother Kimbal wanted to become entrepreneurs: They tried to open a video arcade near their school.

Two gangs, the Black Panthers — not the better - known political organization of the same name — and the Young Lords, seemed to hold sway at the school.

I came to see that the culture of schooling in America is radically at odds with a learning culture that produces young innovators in five essential respects.

Fitzgerald's less famous debut novel follows a privileged young man as he begins college at Princeton, which makes it the perfect book for the back - to - school season, claim Wang and Wolfson.

When we were raising our young kids at home, we would try to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary, just for the experience of it all — gingerbread house kits at Christmas, school projects on the kitchen table, taco night with all the fixings prepped in bowls.

When young adults do ask parents for their two cents on saving, they often do so with a heavy dose of skepticism, says Lisa Szykman, associate professor at William & Mary School of Business, who has run focus - group research exploring young adults» personal finance behavior.

Just being young, innovative and your own boss does not make you an entrepreneur, says Daniel Isenberg, an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School.

President - elect Donald Trump says he's moving to the White House soon, but his wife and young son will follow him at the end of the school year.

According to The New York Times, the young leader served as her school's student body president in high school, was the captain of her volleyball team, started her school's Black Student Union and spent her high school summers volunteering at an orphanage in the Dominican Republic.

Natalie Barden, a 16 - year - old sophomore at Newtown High School in Connecticut, was a preteen when she lost her younger brother, Daniel, in 2012, during the Sandy Hook shooting.

Zachary Cruz, the younger brother of school shooter Nikolas Cruz, was arrested and booked into the Palm Beach County jail at 6:41 p.m. Tuesday.

In its early years, a number of her students in the program were teenagers who had come to the country, unauthorized, at a young age and finished high school, but then could not obtain citizenship or receive any state or federal funds for college.

Disciplined repeatedly in school, treated for mental health issues, crushed after his mother died — more signs of unheeded red flags are emerging about the young man accused of murdering 17 students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas in Parkland this week.

The parents of Carmen Schentrup — a 16 - year - old junior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who lost her life in the school shooting on Feb. 14 — stood on the stage of the Hollywood Young Circle AmphithSchool who lost her life in the school shooting on Feb. 14 — stood on the stage of the Hollywood Young Circle Amphithschool shooting on Feb. 14 — stood on the stage of the Hollywood Young Circle Amphitheater.

Will Riley, a senior at Carlsbad High School in Carlsbad, New Mexico, launched «Stand for the Second» in an effort to speak out on behalf of young people who support gun rights.

At the young age of 3 years old, she began taking dance and continued to pursue her love of the art throughout high school.

We met plenty of smart young people straight out of great business schools, but they lacked the breadth of experience — actually building companies, developing technology and operations, taking products to market — that the team at Carrick had.

The lawyer for Zachary Cruz, younger brother of Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz, asked Friday that his client be assigned to another judge after the initial judge set bond for the teen at $ 500,000 for trespassing on the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School cschool shooter Nikolas Cruz, asked Friday that his client be assigned to another judge after the initial judge set bond for the teen at $ 500,000 for trespassing on the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School cSchool campus.

But after a Bushmaster rifle was used in 2012 to kill 26 people, most of them young children, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., public anger at Remington drove some investors to try to divest from the company.

Starbucks, Five Guys, HMSHost and other employers at the D.C. Opportunity Fair are committed to hiring, empowering teens, young adults who are not in school or working.

Not long after 20 young children and 6 adults were gunned down by a lone assailant at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut the U.S. Senate also rejected tighter background check legislation.

when Facebook market research in Australia engaged in sentiment analysis of more than 6.4 million Australian youth, including 1.9 million high schoolers as young as 14 years old, to estimate when those children were at their most vulnerable, experiencing feelings of being «worthless» or a «failure» as part of research conducted for marketers.

In 2010, Amit was recognized with an Outstanding Young Alumni Award by UNC's Kenan - Flagler Business School at its 12th annual Alumni Association Awards ceremony.

Barron is the youngest of the president's five children, and is a sixth - grader at a private school in Maryland.

Robert holds a bachelor's degree in international business from Brigham Young University and an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

the younger brother of Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz, was arrested Tuesday in Palm Beach County on a probation violation charge stemming from his March 19 arrest for trespassing at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

There have been lapses in this program, most notably last year when Facebook market research in Australia engaged in sentiment analysis of more than 6.4 million Australian youth, including 1.9 million high schoolers as young as 14 years old, to estimate when those children were at their most vulnerable, experiencing feelings of being «worthless» or a «failure» as part of research conducted for marketers.

On April 19, the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Orchestra will perform a free concert at Hollywood's Young Circle Amphitheater.