Sentences with phrase «because old student»

Late immersion may be more efficient just because older students are better learners, and are generally more likely to have had a say in choosing the immersion program — thus they're also more motivated to learn.

Because older students become the de facto role models for younger students, «The Wapiti Way» encourages positive interactions between the Lower and Middle Schools.

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Because this new private loan replaces your old ones, you'll essentially no longer have federal student loans.

According to the CFPB, the number of borrowers age 65 or older who had their Social Security benefits seized — or «offset,» as it's called — because of defaulted student loans increased from 8,700 to 40,000 between 2005 and 2015.

This is NOT about Rush who the Dems are loving right now because they do not have to talk about taxpayers subsidizing another victim group (30 year old college students who want someone else to pay for their birth control).

When I asked the 21 - year - old student leader of the trip what was the chief motivation behind him and his fellow undergraduates making the journey, he replied that it was primarily a spiritual motivation: «Because it is an overwhelming experience to be united with so many other young people in praying together and witnessing to the joy of being pro-life.

Maybe it's because I take after him so much temperamentally (bookish hardcore introvert) and theologically (I absorbed a lot of that from his seminary student days when I was 10 - 13 years old, but I'm more radical in a lot of ways — for instance, he was a bit of a prude and I know I'm more «morally liberal»), but all that public heart - on - sleeve stuff just makes my skin crawl.

Such a system had serious drawbacks because the teaching materials were several centuries old, the study of Arabic — and no Chinese — was inadequate, so the students could read only a limited amount and could not speak the language, there was no general educational background for the religious courses, and the freedom allowed to the students often led them to form bad habits.

The current division of theological studies into Bible, history, theology, ethics and practical theology reflects a very old Theological Encyclopedia, but one whose foundations in a theology of the Word, of teaching office, of church and ministry, if not discredited, are at least invisible to present - day students — probably because many of them simply do not share the old consensus about the church which produced this Theological Encyclopedia.

He's on my side of the bed and I'm on his, my ratty old t - shirt bearing the legend ORU Freshman Councilis a castoff from my politically - minded sister more than 10 years ago (because I was not the one in student government, oh,...

Progressive Catholic groups vented outrage Friday over the decision of a Roman Catholic school in Massachusetts to rescind the admission of an 8 - year - old student because his parents are lesbians.

I hate strength of schedule arguments more than I hate red zone fade routes, five - hour football games, and that this dumbass sport I love continues to get away with a bunch of nonsense because of a cynical, decades - old definition of «student athlete.»

As the students get older, I love nuts because they are high in protein, high in healthy oils and have a variety of vitamins and minerals.

This is not always possible, and for a good reason: just because an 18 - year - old starts college with as many credits as a third - year college student does not necessarily mean they are ready for upperclass coursework, academically or developmentally.

A cause of death hasn't been determined for a 22 - year - old college student who was detained for nearly a year and a half in North Korea before being sent home in a coma, an Ohio coroner's office said, in part because the family has refused an autopsy.

I'm not surprise this happened because in 2012, during the 75th Anniversary, the Old Students faced same unfair treatment except that this time there were Policemen involvement.

Angelica Salgado, 40, said her 6 - year - old son, Pablo Ramirez, eats lunch at 9:50 a.m. because there isn't enough space to fit all the students into the cafeteria at a more appropriate time.

For years, Buffalo has had high school students scattered through the district who are unlikely to graduate because they are much older than their fellow students.

«I didn't like the old system because 15,000 was too low a threshold; poor student support was rubbish; and universities didn't provide enough information on what students get for their cash.

Lead by 17 - year - old senior, Anna Wysocki, who served as spokesperson for the student panel cited the governors endorsement of the ban on hydraulic fracturing in New York State because of the danger the drilling process posed to the safety of drinking water.

They add that veterans feel separate from the rest of the student body because of their extended gap between high school and college, older average age, and deployment experiences, thus creating additional challenges for them to integrate with the rest of the classroom.

Because they are successful college students — not that much older than the kids they present to — who go to school in West Virginia, SPOT ambassadors make a huge impression on the K - 12 students they visit.

«I opt for low - fat foods because they generally taste the same as the alternatives, and I think many of them are better for you,» says Carla, a 23 - year - old student.

When I teach my college class, I try to look business formal because I want the students to think I'm much older than them and -LSB-...]

When I teach my college class, I try to look business formal because I want the students to think I'm much older than them and not just a peer.

I am an older college student because I have had my secondary education interrupted a few times by the military.

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But what do you do, for example, when a student does nt bring materials to class because her older brother hid them or threw them away to torment her?

The pressure to inflate grades, bogus credit - recovery courses, and plain - old D.C. - style fraud don't happen just because school districts are under pressure to graduate students, contends Greene.

After telling your class of six - and seven - year - olds that children in Africa are dying because of lack of clean water, one of your students is so moved that he has to do something.

«My greatest fear was that because I am an older student, I would not fit in or be able to keep up academically with my younger, more energized peers,» says the master's candidate in the Language and Literacy (L&L) Program's Reading Specialist strand.

Because a few of the photographs depict graphic images of the war, this site is most appropriate for older students.

Commissioner Gordon M. Ambach said his department was studying the proposal, under which most graduating students would be 16 years old, because schools need «bold thinking» to deal with demographic changes and declining revenues.

[3] The old conventional wisdom may be intuitively appealing because aggregate disability rates — with no adjustments for family income or other student characteristics — are higher for students who are black (1.4 times) or Native American (1.7), and lower for whites (0.9) and Asians (0.5), with Hispanic students about as likely to be identified as the rest of the population.

This may be because schools make judgments about retention and referrals based on a student's relative achievement within a grade, and by virtue of their age, older students are less likely to have very low achievement.

A Japanese scholar is also invoked to assure us that his countrymen do «not attach great importance to students» rankings because the exams measure skills valued by the old education system, not the new.»

This is a problem familiar to education reformers: a voluntary 25 - year - old program that sends minority students from Boston to surrounding suburban districts has a waiting list that exceeds 12,000 kids because the receiving schools say they don't have enough space to accept more children.

Useful information for students, art teachers and older pupils; because Braque's painter quotes illustrate clearly his view on Cubism and the early start.

Despite my imperfect efforts to be engaging and dynamic, I was constrained because I was operating in a learning model over 100 years old that required I teach the same lessons to a group of same - aged students.

If your students roll their eyes at the sight of yet another health and safety video featuring the neck and back, then consider a short segment showing an old man in agony because he didn't take care of his back.

Using the old - fashioned method — one that is held in disdain because it uses rote memorization and is not discovered by the student — the boy delivered the correct answer.

Some teachers at a high school did talk about safety concerns, but this was possibly because the students were older.»

Voter turnout is the most commonly used measure of civic engagement, but it is inadequate here because very few secondary - school students are old enough to vote.

The balance of old and new math works because the project is so hands on that students can see connections between previous understanding and new challenges.

The authors surmise that students in grades 6 - 8 who remain in K - 8 schools «may benefit from being among the oldest students in a school setting that includes very young students, perhaps because they have greater opportunity to take on leadership roles.»

As Isabella, an 11 - year - old student who previously attended a nearby public school, said, «Here it's different from my old school because you're doing your own playlist and you have more projects.»

One of the participants, Oli Maskrey, a 20 - year - old Science student from the University of Exeter, said: «I love rowing because it gets me out on the water.

So this [could be] with acoustic treatments, how it's designed, the number of classes and students [that] should be in an area, and we also need to look at the age of the children, because children are going to be able to cope with noise differently when they get older.

Several years ago, for example, a Houston - area judge jailed a 17 - year - old honor - roll student who had missed school because she was working two jobs to support her siblings after her parents divorced and moved out of state.

Because such an impairment typically keeps them in school beyond age 18, the students are too old to compete under regulations governing interscholastic athletics.