Sentences with phrase «dozen students»

But a about four dozen students from area high schools have plans for improvement.

The cops regaled the few dozen students in the auditorium with statistics about the large number of young black men killed by gun violence, then admonished them against cursing in the presence of adults.

Peck, Roberts and Donato were among a half dozen students suspended as a result of the April 20 walkout, a national event that saw 2600 school districts and approximately 250,000 students participate, according to the National School Walkout website.

In 1993, for example, NatureMapping managed to enlist 23 teachers, 4 farmers, and several dozen students who were able to produce only 3,000 records.

More than two dozen student groups, including the Harvard Organization for Prison Education and Reform, the Undergraduate Council, and the Harvard Black Students Association, co-sponsored the list of demands.

Several dozen students at the Borough of Manhattan Community College staged a walkout Thursday.

At present, the initiative has 5,000 attorneys, as well as several dozen student volunteers, on hand ready to take on the cases of children facing deportation.

Although there are over two dozen student mentor programs currently available at the University of Toronto, this particular program is different in that it focuses on reaching out to those female students who feel they have been overlooked and forgotten on campus.

David M. Steiner ricochets from one media device to another in a classroom here, coaxing his two dozen students through a lecture on Plato with jottings in English and ancient Greek, a map of post-Classical Athens, and a stick - figure diagram of the philosopher's famous cave allegory.

At AltSchool's New York City campus, a few dozen students gather in a converted commercial space in downtown Brooklyn.

Under the banner of «working independently,» we tutor the same half - dozen students day after day, while the rest of the students get noisy.

BY JEFFERSON SIEGEL Just before lunchtime on May 8, several dozen students made their way to the office of Cooper Union President Jamshed Bharucha in what they described as a «nonviolent direct action.»

There's a few dozen students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School making their way through the Capitol today.

At least a half dozen students have entered Walden determined to write a novel, and the teachers have encouraged them; though none has finished more than a chapter or two, Schlein says, «to attempt to do something grand and fail — that's great learning.»

RAMS provides up to two dozen students with an opportunity to develop research skills by involving them in projects in computer science, math, computational biology, information technology, and materials science.

In this publication — a joint effort of WKCD, the Bronx New Century High Schools, and the Carnegie Corporation — two dozen students in Bronx, NY talk about their experiences planning and attending small schools and breaking down large high schools.

As gunshots rang out in the halls of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, a teacher guided a few dozen students into a tiny classroom near the culinary area.

Not ready to take their word for it, the researchers then did a more detailed content analysis of the home pages of several dozen students, followed by a rigorous «talkabout» with 11 students, in which researchers watched as students logged on and navigated their sites.

Last year, debate ignited after more than a dozen students left Stanford for a startup called Clinkle, backed and advised by a number of professors.

«I've got half a dozen students so far, and on the site I've uploaded video modules, old business plans and some worksheets,» he explains.

As a Haskayne student, you'll have access to more than a dozen student clubs, a state - of - the - art business library, and an invaluable co-op program, mentorship program, and a dedicated Career Centre that will be available exclusively for you as a Haskayne student and will provide you with personalized one - on - one help from dedicated career consultants.

A dozen students — all future scientists and health care workers — wound up in the course, representing seven different religions and traditions, from Christianity to Jainism to Judaism.

In 1987, he was accused by more than a dozen students of having forced them to participate in sex games, including sessions of sodomitical leap - frog.

A dozen students were seated in a circle with a couple of empty chairs.

Wearing thin gray sweats and a white COSS ATHLETICS tee, Coss talks quietly, heavily, with some of the dozen students, most of them white and wearing nice workout clothes, the 20 - something girls wearing their hair and makeup just right, and their outfits mixed and matched into perfect neon ensembles, ready for this cool new workout they've been hearing about.

He goes to the front, orders everyone — a dozen students total for this 10 a.m. session — into two lines of six across.

Although only about two dozen students have showed for the breakfast pilot program — for a meal of an egg muffin sandwich, hash browns, milk and juice for $ 1.50 — Hines - Newell is not discouraged.

P.S. 94, a special education school for children with autism that shares the Spruce building, has roughly two - dozen students.

In one case, after about a dozen students had worked intimately on a very difficult problem, I began by asking each of them, «If you were me and you could only hire one person from this class, and it couldn't be you, who would it be?»

Death Valley, Calif. — The dozen students and scientists spread over an area called Furnace Creek look like cyborgs in floppy hats scrabbling over the boulders.

Huddled in one corner of the lab amid microscopes, gas jets, and flasks, half a dozen students talk about their professor.

Widespread pertussis vaccine use at a Florida preschool failed to keep the disease away from about three dozen students, staff and family members

Our team of more than two dozen students and research scientists at Virginia Tech has spent much of the past year analyzing and publicizing unsafe drinking water in Flint, Michigan.

A dozen students signed up for the trip, recalls Paul «Alex» Rudd, who will receive his Ph.D. this spring.

In the project course «Computing for Good,» several dozen students, including Information Systems sophomore Xinwen Liu, used satellite imagery to detect illegal mines in the Congo, created apps to coordinate timely pickup of harvested crops in Colombia and designed an augmented reality system for farmers in Rwanda.

His grant - funded studies have supported more than a dozen student researchers who share his interest in examining the sociological laboratory of Las Vegas.

The reasons most yoga learners attribute to this success is that the Yogalaya teaches yoga in small groups of about a dozen students.

March 26, 2018 • Abreu began El Sistema in Venezuela in 1975 with fewer than a dozen students — 40 years later, his system has been used throughout the world to unite children through musical education.

Then a chant erupted from the middle of the cafeteria, where more than a dozen students had formed a circle around a boy who had swiped an empty «mocktail» bottle.

It's January 2, just a week after Christmas, and the dozen students sitting in a classroom in Larsen Hall are being asked to reach into a black Harvard tote, dubbed «the bag of fun,» and pull out an object.

As the main ELL teacher for around two dozen students, Chase says he tries to get his students talking about anything he can — breakfast, the weather, sports — so they keep practicing their language skills.

07, Ed.D.» 14, identified consistent themes discovered in their interviews with more than a dozen students with disabilities who gained admittance to and graduated from one of the world's most selective institutions.

Each fortnight, more than a dozen student volunteers from Kincumber High School walk down to their local creek to conduct water quality tests — monitoring the health and the quality of the waterway in their local community.