Sentences with phrase «bright kids»

What really happens to nice, middle - class, well - educated, suburban, bright kids who get into drugs?

A lot of bright kids out there, just leaving school, would love to have your job one day.

There are plenty of other professions for bright kids with a vague interest in science.

They're all healthy — rarely ill, alert, active, bright kids with good color and muscle tone.

Too many bright kids coast through school and then crash when they get to college, because they've never learned to study or work hard.

«Born Into Brothels,» the story of children in the red - light district of Calcutta, is probably the favorite, because of the emotional subject matter, although the filmmakers were handicapped by the impossibility of filming most of the people in the area, and ended up with a film about bright kids taking photography classes.

«When you look at underachievement, the group that is really under achieving are the very bright kids because there is the greatest difference between what is offered of them and what they can do.»

After glimpses of three bright kids learning online in creative ways, Vander Ark writes, «These portraits represent how millions of students could be learning with tools that are currently available to schools,» as if the cases of three prove millions more.

She has authored many books including How to Parent So Children Will Learn and Why Bright Kids Get Poor Grades, both 2008 National Best Books award winners from USA Book News.

In Oppenheimer's account, Woody was a not particularly bright kid, «the ultimate frat boy,» according to one cousin.

Raising Superheroes, the follow - up title to The Real Meal Revolution, is a «real food» cookbook that provides parents with scientifically supported nutrition advice and delicious recipes to raise the healthiest, brightest kids possible.

Following eight bright kids as they prepare and participate in the competition, Blitz gives us a snapshot of American diversity and determination and the sad state of its educational system.

James is an obviously bright kid who had been through a wilderness program, a «lock - down facility,» and an alcoholism treatment center — and was now, he said, clean and sober.

Researchers generally divide truly bright kids into four categories: gifted learners score above 130 on IQ tests, the highly gifted score above 145, the exceptionally gifted above 160, and the profoundly gifted above 175.

«It is not just the relative wealth of parents that holds large numbers of bright kids back: it is postcode inequality too.»

That's Bob Davidson's mantra: Ability grouping «may fly in the face of closing the achievement gap,» but neglecting the country's brightest kids flies in the face of logic.

He was a master at teaching bright kids talented at math at warp speed and advancing them to their potential.

There's nothing better and it's so hard to replicate the enthusiasm and energy that comes from being around bright kids who love learning.»

In the «You Can't Win»em All» episode (season 4, episode 22), Cindy, the Extraordinarily Bright Kid (that designation wears off after this episode concludes) earns the right to appear on a TV quiz show.

This is a single mini-speaker and it's available in a range of bright kid - friendly colors.

Center for Bright Kids: Regional Talent Center A regional talent search of the Rocky Mountain states that provides access and opportunities for K - 12 students with high interest and / or high ability to quality enrichment and acceleration programming.

«These are our best and brightest kids taking the test in middle school,» Fallston Middle Principal Joe Mascari said Thursday.

Woodberry thinks of a 16 - year - old she treated, whose psychiatrist had overlooked emerging psychosis for years because «this was a very bright kid, and a very high - functioning family.

Bright kids from disadvantaged backgrounds have the biggest progress gaps.

Second, the brightest kids really do benefit from special opportunities.

«I thought John was probably just the brightest kid at UT,» says Kip Tindell, a college housemate of Mackey's and CEO of the Container Store (TCS), another company that's part of the conscious capitalism movement.

These bright kids were part of a special program that took them from this editing class right to a copy - editing job at the Missourian newspaper, a for - profit rag owned by the school.

You're a bright kid.

I went back to Asia several times and many times since, but you know if I was such a bright kid, I would have stayed in Asia in the 80s.

Fifteen years ago, Harvard's Ad Board faced a bright kid who seemed well - meaning despite a serious fuck - up.

A bright kid with robust appetites, he found himself at an early age with a full professorship at Harvard, without even having published a book.

Supercharged Food for Kids is my mission to change the way children eat so we can build stronger, healthier and brighter kids.

Cook is a bright kid and a good boy.

I started to pay attention to how happy they were, and the kind of relationship they shared with their mother, and I noticed that we have a messy house, and really happy, bright kids.

And if your child is ready, waiting until he's older to start school may cause a bright kid to be so bored that he'll slack off instead of excel in the classroom.

It is definitely a beginner's guide to living with bright kids.

Some of the brightest kids take the longest to potty train!

Just another sad, but unremarkable tale of a bright kid who squandered his potential and ruined his life by turning to a career in IT.

He arrived in 1969, «a bright kid who loved the ocean,» says Irvine.

Synopsis: North (Elijah Wood) is a talented and bright kid, but his mom (Julia Louis - Dreyfus) and dad (Jason Alexander) are utterly preoccupied with other th... [MORE]

Steven has it all: a great job; a nice house in a nice part of town; and a loving wife, Anna (Farrell's Beguiled costar Nicole Kidman), and two bright kids, teenage Kim (Raffey Cassidy) and preteen Bob (Sunny Suljic).

My only concern is that I found it hard to grasp all the information regarding spatial theories (I admit: I wasn't the brightest kid when it came to math and physics).

While he's a bright kid, he has a contempt for plans.

These two bright kids are miles apart from the cute little pint - sized goofballs in most family pictures.

Casey's just this bright kid who keeps getting into trouble — until she touches this weird pin and sees another, better place.

Murphy seems to have an ideal family life — a lovely wife, Anna (Nicole Kidman), plus two bright kids, Kim (Raffey Cassidy) and Bob (Sunny Suljic)-- even if they do all address each other in oddly stilted, near - robotic tones.