Sentences with phrase «difficult years of high school»

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But it was right after my senior year in high school, after difficult emotional struggles and some substance abuse, that I prayed in the quietness of my room: «God, if you're out there, I believe in you and I want to commit my life to you.»

It doesn't have the best reputation «cause it is considered to be a bit simple, that is, you know, we teach it to either, you know, advanced high school students or, you know, if you take it in first year university it would be near the beginning of the semester, because it really is not meant to be a very difficult play compared to Hamlet or certainly King Lear.

The middle and high school years are the most difficult times to be introverted, because when hundreds of kids are crammed together in a single building it can feel as if the only way to gain respect and friendship is through vivacity and visibility.

Directed by Greta Gerwig, Catholic high school teenager Lady Bird (Saoirse Ronan) navigates a loving but difficult relationship with her strong - willed mother (Laurie Metcalf) over the course of her senior year of high school.

Notably absent the kind of condescension that can occur when an experienced filmmaker takes on a high school story, here Famuyiwa doesn't just reorient the high school film around the experience of a young black self - confessed geek, but riffs on social and class issues, and the riddles of perception versus reality during those difficult teenage years too.

Weir went on: «While this has been a difficult sell with teachers who are used to exercising a high level of autonomy, it has been well received by the involved parents, and it becomes a little easier with each passing year as it becomes part of the school culture.»

As the school year slows to a crawl through these dark, cold days of winter, it can be difficult to sustain the high energy required to accomplish the many daily tasks presented by our colleagues, our students, their parents, and the curriculum.

«I received a beautiful letter from the mother of a student who succeeded at my school after very difficult years elsewhere,» Jackie Hastings of Middletown (Connecticut) High School told Education school after very difficult years elsewhere,» Jackie Hastings of Middletown (Connecticut) High School told Education School told Education World.

Finally, it is possible that the introduction of more difficult GED examinations in 2002, which resulted in a temporary decline in the number of 16 - to 18 - year - olds obtaining the credential, contributed to the increase in the high school graduation rate during the decade ending in 2010.

As difficult as it is to close a school, that is what is required to ensure that California's charter movement fulfills its promises to students and the state, and maintains the high level of achievement required to continue to play a transformational role in the education system for years to come.

Jim O'Connor, principal of the KIPP Ascend middle school in Chicago, told me this month that five students from his last year's eighth grade who are in regular public high schools are having the most difficult time, because their schools lack the focus on strong academic results they found at KIPP.

It may also be difficult to translate work done in this small school, where in any given year a quarter to 40 percent of students are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch, a federal measure of poverty, to larger, urban schools with higher concentrations of low - income students.

But states and districts have had a difficult time collecting reliable data; therefore, educators have been using estimates to tell the full story of how many students graduate from high school with a standard diploma within four years.

The seventeen - year - old Sacramento Charter High senior opened the program by talking to hundreds of attendees about his experience attending a charter school, his sometimes difficult past, and his path to the future.

However, data from the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics showed that the percentage of public high schools that reported difficult - to - staff teaching positions (i.e., positions principals reported were very difficult to fill or could not be filled in a specific subject area) were lower in every subject area over a 10 - year period.

Without the support of my principal, teachers, counselor and school community, especially during the difficult times during my high school years, I would not be going to college this fall.»

Those involved in helping students prepare for the test say a lower bar to passing is an imperfect solution to a genuinely difficult problem — how to create an exam that is aligned to the tougher standards now being implemented in high schools, while addressing the fact that most of those trying to pass the exam — both young people who dropped out of high school years ago and adults — never had any exposure to the Common Core.

According to a 2014 report of graduates of NCTR programs, 87 percent of teachers were still teaching after three years.82 A study done from 2011 to 2012 found that new teachers stayed in the classroom after three years at the same rate as NCTR teachers, 83 but teachers in NCTR programs work in schools that are difficult to staff in high - needs areas, where teacher retention is especially problematic.

Constance Steinkuehler, a games researcher at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, asked middle and high school students who were struggling readers to choose a game topic they were interested in, and then she picked texts from game sites for them to read — some as difficult as first - year - college language.

It's difficult to put a firm number on the economic value of an education, of course, but if high school graduates earn 33 percent more than high school dropouts, a 1 percent per year increase seems conservative.