Sentences with phrase «earnest students»

The scene sparked a memory in him from their school days together, startlingly clear, of Mal, intent like this, sitting at a desk among fifty other earnest students in...

This earnest student teacher describes how he has prepared his room for Open House — including a tour of his student work displays and a quick peek at the slideshow he made.

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We watched the familiar pantomime of British Columbian environmental protesters outside Kinder Morganâ $ ™ s Burnaby pipeline terminal this weekâ $» earnest young students with the standard piercings, geri...

So the Old Testament is not just «background» material for the earnest bible student, in the way that the Dead Sea Scrolls or the writings of the first century Jew Josephus are.

After Forrest's testimony, the pro-Iverson whisper campaign began in earnest: Steele was friendly with the judge's family; there was another videotape somewhere showing Iverson running for his life; an unindicted Bethel student was about to confess that he, not Iverson, had struck Steele.

Unlike some brain regions, which have been swallowing up earnest grad students like quicksand for decades without yielding a clue to their functions, the hippocampus is well - explored territory.

PULLMAN — What do earnest, highly competitive graduate students do in their spare time?

In this entertaining biopic, we meet an earnest and promising young high school student at the crossroads of faith and doubt and follow him through his first major crusade in Los Angeles in 1949.

«Obvious Child» features Jenny Slate in an eye - opening turn as Donna Stern, a stand - up comic who loses her job, breaks up with her boyfriend and ends up getting pregnant after a one night stand with an earnest young business school student named Max, played by Jake Lacy.

Tony Stark / Iron Man's (Robert Downey Jr.) and Peter Parker / Spider - Man (Tom Holland) follow in the equivalent of hot pursuit (they stowaway about the ring - ship carrying Strange's unconscious body), allowing them to continue the fraught mentor - student / father - son relationship that began in earnest in last summer's Spider - Man: Homecoming reboot.

If a few tonal lurches make BlacKkKlansman a touch uneven, and a romantic subplot with Laura Harrier's student radical doesn't quite land, its comic beats give a flavor of what a Spike Lee Naked Gun might look like (awesome, by the way) and that welcome impassioned, earnest side of the director is never far from the surface.

Many of the actors just felt like they were playing the crooked bad guy or the earnest young law student trying to be on the winning team.

In Megasaki, an earnest exchange student (Greta Gerwig) working for the school paper tries to Woodward - and - Bernstein her way through the secret history of the dogs» mistreatment while a twelve - year - old aviator named Atari (Koyu Rankin) flies to the Isle of Dogs in search of his own beloved pet, who has also been sent there.

Despite 15 years of earnest efforts to improve public schools and raise student achievement, states haven't made much progress.

Educators should work in earnest to help students develop the skills and dispositions essential to building this trust in one another, in our institutions, and in the democratic process and to repair the damage caused by this campaign.

He returned an earnest, hard - working student, looking to change the people and the world around him.

Valorizing growth was an earnest attempt to measure schools» contributions to student learning, not merely demographics or zip code.

Two days after this year's votes were counted, Virginia's 1997 race for governor seemed to begin in earnest, when James S. Gilmore III, the state attorney general and the early Republican favorite for the top job, proposed a plan to provide millions of dollars in college scholarships to high school students.

The reporting about Lakewood belies any earnest effort to see that funding is equitably used for student services.

What's next: The PARCC tests start in earnest next spring, a pivotal juncture to determine how New Jersey students rank against not just other states but the state's own track record.

It was an earnest effort to help high - school teachers understand what students should learn, but content-wise it was pretty awful.

The bill, which is expected to be formally introduced next week and likely taken up in earnest before the Christmas holiday, returns to states authority to design and implement a wide variety of accountability and performance controls but maintains long - standing federal requirements on student testing.

I believe in holding all accountable - while empowering them — to serve students and families in earnest.

Ninety - eight percent of the 5,300 students — down by more than half since integration began in earnest — are black and 94 percent live in poverty.

While the crux of Rocketship's published mission — creating alternative, high - quality education choices for vulnerable students — is credited to Father Mateo Sheedy, pastor of San Jose's Sacred Heart Parish, who in 1999 began questioning the low performance rates of students in his parish, Rocketship began in earnest in 2006, when Father Sheedy's congregation set off to pursue his mission of improving outcomes for students in San Jose alongside John Danner and Preston Smith.

Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward, an earnest young history student at University College of London, who unexpectedly wooed and won her heart.

My understanding is that these efforts began in earnest in the year following 1976, when bankruptcy laws were changed and no longer allowed the discharge of student loans without exceptions.

«The exhibition John Graham: Maverick Modernist at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, Long Island, is a unique opportunity to explore the work of an artist who has hovered on the margins of the Modernist narrative for more than a half - century, when he isn't forgotten altogether... Maverick Modernist takes a deep dive into Graham's background as an artist, a career he began in earnest when, at the age of 35, he enrolled in the class of the Ashcan School painter John Sloan at the Art Students League in New York City.»

Womanhouse enlisted earnest art students who chafed at the limitations that domesticity and motherhood bode for them, and were intent on rejecting them.