Sentences with phrase «from rich students»

Outraged at the injustice, Willa begins stealing from rich students to give to those poorer.

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Most of the students who graduate from Columbia Business School are going to be somewhere between wealthy and rich.

Some of the students come from very rich families, but many are from families that make immense sacrifices to send their children to study in American universities where they tend to major in STEM or business degrees, he said.

I taught in Riobamba, Quito and Cuenca, but always the students were from families who were more or less rich.

It was so impressive that on my return from the association meeting, I immediately convened a panel of graduate students at the University of Virginia to further mine this rich data set and allow it to speak in all of its nuance.

As a result of the typical student «lifestyle», we are often fatally led into purchasing calorie - rich foods from cheap fast - food outlets, especially in campuses based in the city centre, such as MMU.

Now the organization has set its sights on getting the USDA to back off from requiring students to take servings of fruit or vegetables with their school meals, and on preventing implementation of regulations that would, as of July 1st, require all grains to meet «whole grain - rich criteria ``.

Indeed, a rich body of research suggests homework might benefit older students, and, even then, that there is no strong evidence that homework improves academic achievement (as discussed in this article from the Center for Public Education).

Students in grades 1 3 also receive letters from me about good food choices and the importance of calcium rich foods to build strong bones and teeth.

Register now to participate, and hear from our panel of experts — including your fellow child nutrition professionals, and industry representatives — on how to create a menu of whole grain - rich recipes that your students will love!

Richard Reeves, a former adviser to the Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, chastised me for sins varying from my opposition to the coalition Government's threefold increase in student fees to my suggestion that British society is the second most dysfunctional in the rich developed world.

A spokesman for Cuomo, Rich Azzopardi, said in a statement that «transgendered students are protected under the Dignity for All Students Act and while we continue to support legislation to enact GENDA and we're proud of the executive action we've taken to protect transgendered New Yorkers and the LBGTQ community from discrimination and harmstudents are protected under the Dignity for All Students Act and while we continue to support legislation to enact GENDA and we're proud of the executive action we've taken to protect transgendered New Yorkers and the LBGTQ community from discrimination and harmStudents Act and while we continue to support legislation to enact GENDA and we're proud of the executive action we've taken to protect transgendered New Yorkers and the LBGTQ community from discrimination and harm.»

Overall, students from richer schools score higher on the tests, around half are considered to have passed the exams.

Jeremy Vine: Just on the priority question though, isn't it rather strange that the Lib Dems, with all this money you're going to be collecting from supposedly rich people, are going to give that money as a first priority, to middle class students.

Landman investigates the iron - rich glauconite rocks here with his colleagues and students from the museum's graduate school, using iron spikes and sledgehammers to knock off slabs that are picked apart with screwdrivers and fingers.

28 Six students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology fly to Las Vegas for a weekend of blackjack and return to college hundreds of thousands of dollars richer.

In addition, poor students are 25 times less likely to attend a highly prestigious college than students from rich families.

Deian Stefan, lead PhD student on the project at Stanford, said: «What we've achieved in COWL is a system that lets web developers build feature - rich applications that combine data from different web sites without requiring that users share their login details directly with third - party web applications, all while ensuring that the user's sensitive data seen by such an application doesn't leave the browser.

After receiving a biology degree from Cornell University in 1988, Rich was a feckless graduate student in biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania before discovering his true calling as a science writer.

Perimeter Institute offers a rich environment for PhD students with exceptional opportunities to interact with research leaders from around the world, while laying the foundation for a future career in physics.

Knowing from previous expeditions to the area that the rocks were rich with fossils, Tarduno kept an eye out for them and was rewarded when Stephanie Mason, one of his undergraduate students, uncovered the amazingly well preserved shell of a turtle.

ASSOCIATED PRESS - Oct 26 - Paris city hall has called an ad for a dating site linking students with rich men and women «shameful,» and said officials will work with police to remove it from the city.

If statistics are taken into consideration, about 84 percent of female users found on these websites are college students who seek decent allowance from rich men in order to fulfill their needs of accommodation and tuition.

Paris City Hall last month called an ad for a dating website linking students with rich men and women «shameful» and said officials would work with police to remove it from the city.

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Help students learn the rich tradition of mariachi with the right equipment like instruments, music, and accessories from West Music!

There's a fantastic supporting cast of rich characters and there's plenty to enjoy all round even if the 16 - year old Juno's comments and references are far removed from the reality of most modern day high school students.

The EEE program started in 2011 as a way to bridge a growing achievement gap for students in an increasingly diverse district, which spans the high - income suburbs outside Washington, DC, and the immigrant - rich, economically challenged communities farther from the capital.

Through this commenting feature, students can learn from each other's insights as well as from the instructor's direction and feedback, providing a rich community for students to learn from one another.

The book includes stories, advice, and how - to articles designed to help high school teachers and their students shift from classrooms that are isolated and teacher - centered to digitally rich environments where learning is student - driven and constantly connected to the global internet.

«From the development of the RIB all those years ago, to the potentially ground - breaking ideas coming from the students on this project, UWC Atlantic College has a rich history of contributing to lifesaving at From the development of the RIB all those years ago, to the potentially ground - breaking ideas coming from the students on this project, UWC Atlantic College has a rich history of contributing to lifesaving at from the students on this project, UWC Atlantic College has a rich history of contributing to lifesaving at sea.

The program allows experts from all over the world to work closely with the MIT BLOSSOMS Team to create culturally rich STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) content - for high school teachers and students, which educators can then access for free.

As social learning continues to gain traction, students can connect themselves to teachers, other students and a wide variety of experts in a wide variety of settings — from one - on - one sessions to rich communities regardless of where they live — to collaborate on a variety of educational projects.

There is no salad in the world as wonderful as the one you grow yourself, especially for students who have never tasted a homegrown tomato or pulled lettuce and other salad fixings from the rich earth.

It is certainly true that students from poorer or less - educated families accumulate more debt than those from richer or more highly educated families.

NRICH Rich - media math resources from Cambridge for students grades 3 - 12.

The unit I observed offered students rich content plus interesting and complex assignments and projects from which students could map their learning.

«When close reading is done well, you have weak readers who never would never have had the chance to deal with rich, complex text in the ballgame, grasping it, learning from it, and feeling good about it,» notes reading specialist David Liben of Student Achievement Partners.

What would be great to see is Microsoft move away from just focusing on the content creation marketplace of its traditional Office suite and instead leverage its acquisition of LinkedIn and Lynda.com to do three things: support competency - based learning — through badges, portfolios, and rich profiles for all students; invest in building students» social capital — a key determinant of life success that education typically ignores — in a deliberate way; and, through both of these efforts, help students discover and cultivate their true passions.

But before Common Core, such balance was far less likely, too often denying our most needy students the opportunity to read, enjoy, and benefit from a full range of rich texts.

This rich dataset allows us to study students» math and reading test - score growth from year to year in grades four through eight (where end of year and prior year tests are available), while also taking account of differences in student backgrounds.

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They help students to organize their thinking, examine (and learn tolerance for) other points of view, and draw richer understanding from the materials they read.

Disparities in so - called «non-cognitive skills» appear to contribute to the academic achievement gap separating rich from poor students.

«I believe that creating community in the classroom and fostering a safe environment in which students are empowered to make choices, provides the rich ground from which confident, self - directed, successful students thrive and grow,» Donna Styles tells Education World.

The Giraffe Heroes Web site has a wonderful collection of Giraffe Profiles that is rich in stories of real people who personify good character and would be an ideal library from which to select tales to share with students.

Students from rich and poor neighborhoods have access to the same online schools, an opportunity that brick - and - mortar charter schools can not duplicate.

REVIEW: History teachers and students will find this to be a rich resource for developing thinking skills using primary documents from the American Memory Collection.

The goals included: narrowing the gap in literacy and numeracy achievement in primary schools and at GCSE; ensuring young people develop key strengths such as character and good mental health; narrowing the gulf in the numbers of youngsters continuing their education and training after GCSEs; and narrowing the gap between rich and poor students graduating from university.

Large high schools, instead of enabling every student to find a comfortable niche, tend to be places where the most driven and outgoing — and often the most privileged — students benefit from the rich array of resources and opportunities.