Sentences with phrase «by schools at all levels»

They're an important ally for Amazon to have, since Blackboard software is widely used by schools at all levels of education as the primary means of supplying course materials online.

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Before Dan Price caused a media firestorm by establishing a $ 70,000 minimum wage at his Seattle company, Gravity Payments... before Hollywood agents, reality - show producers, and book publishers began throwing elbows for a piece of the hip, 31 - year - old entrepreneur with the shoulder - length hair and Brad Pitt looks... before Rush Limbaugh called him a socialist and Harvard Business School professors asked to study his radical experiment in paying workers... an entry - level Gravity employee named Jason Haley got really pissed off at him.

She points to a 2011 study by the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, which found that students who started school at 8:30 a.m. got almost an hour more sleep and performed better on tests measuring attention levels than peers who started at 7:30 a.m.

Rounding out the new ships is a Ripcord by iFly indoor skydiving school and a Northstar observation tower, which lifts up to 14 guests at a time 300 feet above sea level for a 360 - degree view.

Roy D. Simon, a professor emeritus of legal ethics at Hofstra University School of Law, suggested that the practice has helped «level the playing field» by providing resources for people to mount cases against big institutions that would be impossible otherwise.

Established by the Jarislowsky Foundation in 2006, the Jarislowsky Fellowship in Business Management is intended to increase the depth and breadth of the learning experience at the Haskayne School of Business by providing students with access to professionals with real and relevant senior - level business experience.

The Best Employers in Canada study measures the level of employee engagement at participating organizations and is based on results from a national survey conducted by Aon Hewitt, in association with the Queen's Centre for Business Venturing at the Queen's University School of Business.

Kevin Wozniak, a sociologist at UMass Boston, reviewed polls after the Newtown school shooting in 2012 and found that the event coincided with a temporary spike in support for gun control, followed by a leveling off and return to pre-mass shooting opinion by the end of 2013.

One recent paper read at a meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (again, by a scholar from one of Lindsell's «safe» schools) vigorously defended the inerrancy doctrine but then rushed on to the hermeneutical level to distinguish between the timebound Weltbild of Scripture which may be discarded and the eternal Weltanschauung of Scripture which must be preserved.

These principles also indicate the standards to be used in sex education — the basic ideals to be inculcated by explicit instruction in homes and at appropriate levels in schools, and even more essentially by the complex of accepted acts built into social and cultural patterns.

However, at the high school level, football is far and away the most popular sport according to a recent report by the National Federation of State High School Associations, which found that more than 1,085,000 students played during the 2015 - 2016 sschool level, football is far and away the most popular sport according to a recent report by the National Federation of State High School Associations, which found that more than 1,085,000 students played during the 2015 - 2016 sSchool Associations, which found that more than 1,085,000 students played during the 2015 - 2016 season.

As a sophomore, Ayton was named the best long - term prospect at the high school level by Scout.com — over seniors like Ben Simmons and Jaylen Brown and juniors like Jayson Tatum and Josh Jackson.

First, football is by far the most popular American sport, and it's also by far the biggest sport at the high school level.

Although he was not sought after by Pac - 12 programs and other Power 5 conference schools, the mature Hurst had a different perspective when evaluating where he would play and study at the next level.

Our San Diego football training camp at Academy by the Sea has been engineered to accelerate the development of players at every skill level, from youth to middle school to high school and beyond.

At the high school and grassroots level, Williamson is by far the most talented player on his team.

According to a 2012 survey by the National Federation of State High School Associations, volleyball is the third - highest sport for female participation at the high school level behind basketball and outdoor track and School Associations, volleyball is the third - highest sport for female participation at the high school level behind basketball and outdoor track and school level behind basketball and outdoor track and field.

Football is the No. 1 participatory sport for boys at the high school level with 1,121,744 participants in the 2011 - 12 school year, according to the High School Athletics Participation Survey conducted by the NFHS through its member state associaschool level with 1,121,744 participants in the 2011 - 12 school year, according to the High School Athletics Participation Survey conducted by the NFHS through its member state associaschool year, according to the High School Athletics Participation Survey conducted by the NFHS through its member state associaSchool Athletics Participation Survey conducted by the NFHS through its member state associations.

These are essentially questions of public policy, and if real solutions are going to be found to the problems of disadvantaged children, these questions will need to be addressed, in a creative and committed way, by public officials at all levels — by school superintendents, school - board members, mayors, governors, and cabinet secretaries — as well as by individual citizens, community groups, and philanthropists across the country.

game officials be given, and a power conferred on game officials by laws at the state level in only 12 states, and by rule at the high school level by the National Federation of State High School Associschool level by the National Federation of State High School AssociSchool Associations

It's a test that is published by the Educational Records Bureau that is utilized to compare students apply to independent schools at the Sixth Grade level, the Middle School level, and the High School level.

Modeled on the community - centric approach to improving youth sports safety highlighted in MomsTEAM's PBS documentary, «The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer», the program will award SmartTeam status to youth sports organizations which have demonstrated a commitment to minimizing the risk of physical, psychological and sexual injury to young athletes by implementing a comprehensive set of health and safety best practices, providing safety - conscious sports parents a level of assurance that they have made health and safety an important priority, not to be sacrificed at the altar of team or individual success.

«This document outlines essential elements that should be recognized by the athletes themselves, along with their parents, school and sports officials, and policymakers at all levels.»

Additional Accountability Requirements: The Statewide School Wellness Policy (2005) adopted by the State Board of Education requires school districts to report annually to the state on the implementation of their local wellness policies at the district and individual school School Wellness Policy (2005) adopted by the State Board of Education requires school districts to report annually to the state on the implementation of their local wellness policies at the district and individual school school districts to report annually to the state on the implementation of their local wellness policies at the district and individual school school level.

What we'd like to see with the passage of the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act is a concerted effort by schools — whether at the state or local level — to find the best practices that work for their system, their resources, and the type of programs they already have in place.

Kate: I agree there's an age at which we can expect kids to exercise their own judgment, bolstered by messages at home, though I still object at any grade level to the infiltration in schools of Big Food corporate interests, the sale of junk by the school itself, etc..

The survey also found that eight in ten support a requirement that an athlete be evaluated and cleared by a doctor before being allowed to return to play sports after suffering a concussion (as is now required by law, at least at the high school level, in virtually every state).

It outlines essential elements that should be recognized by the athletes themselves, along with their parents, school and sports officials and policymakers at all levels.

There is an obvious disparity between the funds made available by the federal government to support free meals for low - income students and the revenue collected by school districts (from federal «paid» meal reimbursements and student payments) to support the very same meals when served to children at higher income levels.

It could do so by requiring school districts that charge lower prices to increase prices gradually so that, when combined with the federal subsidy provided for such meals, they eventually at least equal the federal reimbursement level for free meals.

The School Nutrition Department credits the new garden as doubling vegetable consumption across all grade levels and increasing the sale of salads at school lunch by School Nutrition Department credits the new garden as doubling vegetable consumption across all grade levels and increasing the sale of salads at school lunch by school lunch by 300 %!

School food efforts — governed at the district, state and federal level and implemented by each separate district — must intersect and connect with local food, public health, hunger and access, education and agriculture efforts for farm to school to suSchool food efforts — governed at the district, state and federal level and implemented by each separate district — must intersect and connect with local food, public health, hunger and access, education and agriculture efforts for farm to school to suschool to succeed.

In the last four years, 55 CPS employees have now been accused of defrauding the federal school lunch program by enrolling ineligible children for free or reduced - price lunches, a pattern of abuse that highlights problems at every level of the program, Sullivan said.

But when viewed against the entire array of what's served by the district — the amount of processed, prepackaged food, the predominance of «kid food» like chicken nuggets and hamburgers, the sub-par «a la carte» offerings (especially at the middle and high school levels)-- these improvements don't seem terribly significant.

It seems to me that the most promising mechanisms for real change are at the federal level, by influencing Congress at it considers the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act, and at the most local of levels — the individual school — where parents and sympathetic principals can work together to, for example, eliminate treats in the classroom or the sale of objectionable a la carte foods.

I've come to recognize that «school food» is a behemoth of an issue, with longstanding, complex problems that are rooted primarily at a federal — not district or school — level, and which are compounded by much larger societal issues relating to food production and consumption.

All of us involved in youth sports - from parents, to coaches, from athletic trainers to school athletic directors to the athletes themselves - have a responsibility to do what we can to make contact and collision sports safer, whether it by reducing the number of hits to the head a player receives over the course of a season (such as N.F.L. and the Ivy League are doing in limiting full - contact practices, and the Sports Legacy Institute recently proposed be considered at the youth and high school level in its Hit Count program), teaching football players how to tackle without using their head (as former pro football player Bobby Hosea has long advocated), changing the rules (as the governing body for high school hockey in Minnesota did in the aftermath of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend).

As high school students mull which classes to take next fall, many are hoping to get a leg up in the college admissions race by choosing «dual enrollment» courses — university - level academics offered at their schools that earn them actual college credit.

Due to the nature of competitive sports at the high school level, there is an elevated risk of infectious diseases being spread by skin - to - skin contact and contaminated equipment shared by athletes.

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Modern parenting is defined by an unprecedented level of overprotectiveness: parents who rush to school at the whim of a phone call to deliver forgotten assignments, who challenge teachers on report card disappointments, mastermind children's friendships, and interfere on the playing field.

The structure provided by attending classes at a language school once or twice a week takes language learning to another level.

Modern parenting is defined by an unprecedented level of overprotectiveness: parents who rush to school at the whim of a phone call to deliver forgotten assignments, who challenge teachers on report - card disappointments, mastermind children's friendships, and interfere on the playing field.

Linden Waldorf School's tuition is highly competitive and is set by the Board of Trustees at a level to meet the cost of operations.

At the state level, the programs typically are overseen by state education or agriculture departments, which operate the programs through agreements with local school districts or other school food authorities.

-LSB-...] mechanisms for real change are at the federal level, by influencing Congress at it considers the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act, and at the most local of levels — the individual school — where parents and -LSB-...]

By making small tweaks to the menu to feature student favorites, and moving assembly to the front of the house, participation at the high school has increased by 100 - 125 breakfasts per day; breakfast - in - the - classroom is increasing participation at the elementary and middle school level as well — it's up 55 percent at Lake ElementarBy making small tweaks to the menu to feature student favorites, and moving assembly to the front of the house, participation at the high school has increased by 100 - 125 breakfasts per day; breakfast - in - the - classroom is increasing participation at the elementary and middle school level as well — it's up 55 percent at Lake Elementarby 100 - 125 breakfasts per day; breakfast - in - the - classroom is increasing participation at the elementary and middle school level as well — it's up 55 percent at Lake Elementary!

A bill to reform concussion management and treatment at the high school and youth sports levels was defeated by the state House of Representatives on Tuesday, despite earlier passing through the state Senate with ease and gaining headway in a House committee.

A trial court in Rensselaer County has thrown out a union challenge to a pair of programs started by Cuomo — the Empire and Excelsior Service fellowships — that recruits young professionals and those just getting out of school, to work at high level jobs in state government for two year periods.

«By Free SHS, we mean that, in addition to tuition, which is already free, there will be no admission fees, no library fees, no science centre fees, no computer lab fees, no examination fees, no utility fees; there will be free textbooks, free boarding and free meals, and day students will get a meal at school for free», he explained, adding that, «Free SHS will also cover agricultural, vocational and technical institutions at the high school level.