Sentences with phrase «boarding schools which»

Also, boarding schools which are not designed for troubled teens often will not take teens with poor academic records.

«It is through this philosophy that Durand has been able to found and fund the country's only free state boarding school which is offered for the use of all its pupils.»

The power of rote memory was brought home to me while I was at an English boarding school which, like many, specialized in sweaty - palms learning: we were instructed to learn in a day all of the prepositions in Latin that took the accusative and all that took the ablative.

Not exact matches

Earlier this year, for example, Judy Zaichkowsky of Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business published a study indicating that the presence of just one woman on a company's board resulted in significantly higher standards of corporate governance (which has an established correlation to better financial performance).

«I think it's a shock to see the school system getting on board with the changing Ireland we live in and it becoming the «norm,» which helps the cause against bullying so much,» Ryder told INSIDER.

He maintained a punishing travel schedule, which included commitments to at least 18 outside organizations at various times, such as the board of Xerox (XRX), the U.S. - China Business Council, and the Business Round table, as well as personal interests, such as chairing the board of visitors at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business (his two children are Duke alums).

Last year, Ontario imposed a contract on public - school teachers that eliminated bankable sick days, while back in June, Treasury Board president Tony Clement vowed to fight federal employee absenteeism, which he said was costing taxpayers millions.

«Listening to what other people are doing can spark an idea or conversation, and other opportunities can arise as well,» says the CEO of Alpharetta, Ga. - based School Growth, which provides professional development programming for schools and school bSchool Growth, which provides professional development programming for schools and school bschool boards.

The board will reopen its Beacon Hill school, which was untouched by flames but damaged by smoke.

Has served for the past dozen years on the board of the KIPP Academy charter school in the South Bronx, which is part of a national network of 200 college prep public charter schools in low - income communities in 20 states and the District of Columbia.

From executive search at the Caldwell Partners to leading a product team at job board giant Monster.com, to delivering career and outplacement services (both individually and corporately sponsored) since 2002 and more recently, acting as Director of Graduate Career Services at UBC Sauder School of Business which entailed engaging with hundreds of companies.

Liberal MLA Mary Polak (Langley) was instrumental as a Surrey School Board trustee in banning gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents about the morality of same - sex relationships, without considering the interest of same - sex parented families and the children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.&School Board trustee in banning gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents about the morality of same - sex relationships, without considering the interest of same - sex parented families and the children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.&school system.»

Mr. Hodgson currently sits on the boards of The Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments) where he chairs the Investment Committee which oversees net investments of $ 99.5 billion as at September 30, 2014, KGS - Alpha Capital Markets, The Global Risk Institute, The Ivey School of Business and The Next36.

«The clear difference between the Vancouver school board and others is the statements that they have been making about the changes that they propose to make this year, which they believe are unacceptable.»

He started the Education Freedom Fund, which awarded more than 4,000 scholarships to underprivileged children in Michigan, the West Michigan Aviation Academy, (a High School that aims to provide a rigorous educational program through an aviation focus), and has served on the State Board of Education.

So perhaps, before you go onto internet message boards trashing science, which you clearly do not understand, you should enroll in some remedial high school level science classes at your local community college.

Maybe this will be the catalyst for them to get on board with the idea of teaching for the sake of learning instead of teaching to get students to use their # 2 pencils to complete the answer pattern which will render the best financial results for the school district.

His schooling, which had started in «a one - room schoolhouse with a chunk stove» was continued at a boarding school in Manchester and then at Burr and Burton Seminary and Military College in Norwich.

That I was not aware, while working out my philosophy of religion, how much I was repeating some aspects of the paternal train of thought was partly a consequence of the facts that, from the age of fourteen on, I was much away from home at boarding school or college, in the army, studying in Europe, as instructor or research Fellow at Harvard, or otherwise occupied, all of which meant that I was seldom exposed to Father's sermons.

The variety ranges from cases in which faculty elect some members of the board of trustees from among their number, to cases in which faculty as a group is formally charged with certain responsibilities (say, nominating new faculty, or establishing policies governing the academic program of the school), to cases in which faculty effectively have neither responsibility, authority, nor power in the school's polity.

To be sure, there is the «hot, sweet Catholicism» of his aunt, the «stern and unyielding Calvinism» of the Presbyterian cook, the lukewarm Anglicanism of his boarding school («a religion that «Never Went Too Far»)-- all part of the warmed - over stew of a divided Christendom long past its prime, of which only the «warm gravy of Catholicism retains a little flavor.

Ms. Brown and those she has brought on board to create the new New Yorker are of the arrested adolescent school of journalism in which «creativity» never gets beyond self - congratulatory daring in defying putative taboos.

Barnard served many years as secretary of the Connecticut Board of Education, but his impact on the public school movement was perhaps greatest in the American Journal of Education, which he began in 1855 and edited for twenty - six years.

I imagined the incredible culture shock which most of the village youth must have experienced on their arrival at the boarding schools.

These began with one school board which adopted ordinances segregating Oriental students.

Until now only the Southern Baptist Sunday School Board has pioneered in providing their church schools with materials via a leased satellite which feeds local cable systems throughout the country, and, in some cases, is picked up directly by local churches.

In some cases this means continuing the author's lead in A Sort of Life, which, for instance, presents the horrors of boarding school (on the other side of the «green baize door» from his family quarters) as a season in hell, replete with demonic adversaries among the student body.

It once was said that the goal of busing was to force school boards to upgrade all - black schools which were getting academic leftovers.

This organization, led by Robert Simonds, claims to control 2,000 school boards already and seeks to control 5,000 by the end of the century, which is not all that far off.

I also think here of the passage from C. S. Lewis» Surprised by Joy in which he reflects on the homosexuality he witnessed at his boarding school in his adolescence.

In school board or city council elections, to which they are giving a great deal more attention, five or six percent, or even fewer, may provide the winning margin.

Therefore, what is now needed is some media - related equivalent of the local school board which can monitor the educational aspects of television in the community.

Instead of confronting the public school system or arguing before school boards for better teaching methods, we might do best by setting up small schools in which we try out our methods.

As for advocates of «intelligent design» — the media - savvy group that has brought its ideas to school boards and courtrooms — they aren't even worth a mention by AiG, which makes abundant references to Darwin himself at the museum in the course of doling out ammunition with which to attack him.

-- Pat Robertson, after the city of Dover, Pennsylvania voted to boot the current school board, which inst.i.tuted an intelligent design policy that led to a federal trial

The specially - selected participants from the Meridian School District departed from a festively decorated gate at BOI and boarded a 30 - minute United Airlines flight transporting them to the North Pole — another gate which was transformed into Santa's winter wonderland.

The past 5 months I've been at a folk high school (a kind of boarding school), which was incredible, but I haven't been cooking (almost) at all.

And # 2 the apparel companies have created their own market, they know what avenues to use — twitter, instagram, etc. to build up «excitement» and then point to all the recruits who love it, which in turn is a second reason for schools to get on board with it.

Minnesota Hockey has enhanced the penalties for checks from behind and boarding but not for contact to the head, which is a major penalty for high school hockey.

My guess — and hope — is that USDA is holding back pending the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act, which should result in an increase in school lunch reimbursements across the board.

The National School Boards Association has been particularly vocal about this point, saying that it will actually cost school districts an additional 11 to 25 cents to cover the Institute of Medicine's nutritional recommendations, which call for increasing the minimum amounts of fruits and vegetables as well as for weekly requirements for «dark green and orange vegetables.&School Boards Association has been particularly vocal about this point, saying that it will actually cost school districts an additional 11 to 25 cents to cover the Institute of Medicine's nutritional recommendations, which call for increasing the minimum amounts of fruits and vegetables as well as for weekly requirements for «dark green and orange vegetables.&school districts an additional 11 to 25 cents to cover the Institute of Medicine's nutritional recommendations, which call for increasing the minimum amounts of fruits and vegetables as well as for weekly requirements for «dark green and orange vegetables.»

(b) The school board shall appoint the members of the advisory council, which must include the following: (1) Parents.

Back in the spring, the PAC (which consists of public school parents selected by school board trustees from each district) was invited to a three - hour brainstorming session hosted by HISD / Aramark Food Services.

Today on my Houston ISD school food blog, The Spork Report, I describe two potentially encouraging developments which could presage the end of junk food in our cafeterias: the recent, courageous action of two of our school board trustees in objecting to the sale of these foods, as well as a fantastic Houston Chronicle editorial today in which the paper urges HISD to clean up its act.

School boards don't know which direction to go.

The reception, which was sponsored by Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, a CCSD Partner, gave School Board members the chance to meet and talk with

The National School Board Association (NSBA), long aligned with the SNA on these nutritional roll - backs, yesterday released the results of a survey of 650 school leaders which reportedly found that, since the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act regulations went into effect, «83.7 percent of school districts saw an increase in plate waste, 81.8 percent had an increase in cost, and 76.5 percent saw a decrease in participation by students.&School Board Association (NSBA), long aligned with the SNA on these nutritional roll - backs, yesterday released the results of a survey of 650 school leaders which reportedly found that, since the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act regulations went into effect, «83.7 percent of school districts saw an increase in plate waste, 81.8 percent had an increase in cost, and 76.5 percent saw a decrease in participation by students.&school leaders which reportedly found that, since the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act regulations went into effect, «83.7 percent of school districts saw an increase in plate waste, 81.8 percent had an increase in cost, and 76.5 percent saw a decrease in participation by students.&school districts saw an increase in plate waste, 81.8 percent had an increase in cost, and 76.5 percent saw a decrease in participation by students.»

Schools certainly feel the immediate costs of failing to prioritize wellness — poor test scores for students, lower standardized test scores school - wide, reduced funding resulting from absenteeism, which is why it is so important to share this report with school administrators and boards of education.

Two Illinois State Board of Education employees were indicted last year in the incident at Laraway Elementary School, which sent three dozen pupils to the hospital after they ate ammonia - tainted chicken tenders.

Monday was the last day for candidates to file nominating petitions for the April 13 election, which will feature races for various village positions as well as contests for school boards, park district boards and library boards.