Sentences with phrase «from small high schools»

On college - related variables — entrance examination scores, acceptance rates, grade point averages — students from small high schools match or exceed those from large ones.

I graduated from a small high school, where the principal was very much interested in the poor and the hungry, and in public policy; he taught us how to be an advocate for the helpless people in our community and in our state.»

Not exact matches

Instead of competing over the same small number of hyper - talented players as his neighbors, he decided to innovate: He became one of the first college coaches to track and pursue high school recruits from across the country.

From there, he began a small service - based business that was profitable while he was in high school.

MOVING from the security of the small primary school class group can often cause considerable anxiety to students starting high school.

He has a position on the board of the student achievement and has the vision to start building smaller high schools to alleviate some of the stress that is placed on the public schools due from overcrowding and a shortage of money.

Other work - from - home ideas include catering services for birthday parties, small weddings and anniversaries; a babysitting service, which may require licensing from local health and child welfare services; a pet - sitting service, which may require approvals from your landlord and potentially your neighbors; and tutoring services for middle and high - school students.

Dallas (CNN)-- Cheerleaders from a small eastern Texas town have won the first battle in their crusade to display Christian religious messages on banners at their high school's football games.

We visited a small Korean restaurant, a stone's throw from the high school where we both fell in love with foreign languages and culture.

A native of Mitchell, S.Dak., small forward Mike Miller played his high school games in the Corn Palace, a 3,500 - seat amphitheater whose exterior murals are made from 300,000 ears of maize.

He was, after all, from a small town in Vermont, a state not exactly known for the quality of its high school football.

Pro and major - college sports, with their cheering throngs in big - time stadiums, were not to be played anywhere in the U.S. Away from the New York metropolitan area, it was deemed acceptable to play most small - college and high school sports, which went on as scheduled, accompanied usually by a pregame prayer, moment of silence and patriotic salute by the school band.

Michael Joseph went from «scrawny high school bench - warmer to the nation's top small - school defender.»

Candy the Elf watched over students from on top of the basketball hoop at Midwest Central High School in Manito (IL)-- and at 5 inches tall, that was no small feat!

With community support, we eliminated high - fructose drinks from school vending machines and banned sweets from classroom parties (a hard swallow for those drinking the same sugary punch as Cookie Crusader Sarah Palin); changed the tuition - based preschool food offerings to allergy - free, healthful choices; successfully lobbied for a salad bar and then taught kids how to use it; enlisted Gourmet Gorilla, a small independent company, to provide affordable, healthy, locally sourced, organic snacks after - school and boxed lunches; built a teaching kitchen to house an afterschool cooking program; and convinced teachers to give - up a union - mandated planning period in order to supervise daily outdoor recess.

Despite a disruption from a small protest, U.S. Rep. Bob Turner (R - Kew Gardens) was inaugurated Sunday at Metropolitan High School in Forest Hills before an enthusiastic crowd.

High - profile members of that profession ejected from their Commons seats on May 7 included business secretary Vince Cable, pensions minister Steve Webb, schools minister David Laws and — in a small - hour moment that signalled the turning tide — shadow chancellor Ed Balls.

Coming from a high school with a graduating class of about 60 students, I opted for a small undergraduate college rather than a university.

So, upon graduating from high school, I chose to attend the smallest of the majority institutions that offered me a full scholarship, assuming that it would offer me smaller classes and a more close - knit environment.

For most schools, it adds, the likelihood of «raising significant revenue» from patents is small, the probability of disappointment is high, and the risk of «distorting and narrowing» the use of new knowledge is great.

Titled «Prevalence of Sport Specialization in High School Athletics,» this one - year observational study found that high school athletes from a smaller school were less likely to specialize in a sport than those attending a large schHigh School Athletics,» this one - year observational study found that high school athletes from a smaller school were less likely to specialize in a sport than those attending a large sSchool Athletics,» this one - year observational study found that high school athletes from a smaller school were less likely to specialize in a sport than those attending a large schhigh school athletes from a smaller school were less likely to specialize in a sport than those attending a large sschool athletes from a smaller school were less likely to specialize in a sport than those attending a large sschool were less likely to specialize in a sport than those attending a large schoolschool.

The surveys found that athletes from the small school were more likely to be classified in the low specialization group (low, 43 percent; moderate, 32 percent; high, 25 percent) compared with those from the large school (low, 26 percent; moderate, 26 percent; high, 48 percent).

Matt Pollard, Lead STEM Teacher at Paradise Creek Regional High School in Moscow and an enthusiastic advocate of the program expressed, «It's been fun to watch the growth of Science After Hours from a small loose knit group of friends and colleagues to a larger get - there - early - to - get - a-seat affair; its growth has been spectacular, warranting larger venues.

After graduating from Bowdoin with a major in neuroscience and a minor in Spanish, Claire spent five months teaching English at a small high school in Chile.

In 1989 I graduated from high school in a small town in Texas and couldn't wait to hit the big college city so I could begin to live my own life.

Over the years my personal style has ranged from wearing all black (junior high) to wearing an assortment of items that were too big or too small (high school) to basic jeans or black pants and a plain shirt.

On Wednesday, I went out to dinner at The Vault — a small brewing company in Bucks County, Pennsylvania — with Mary and Rebecca, two of my very best girlfriends from high school.

A small - town Canadian waitress pining for the attention of the former high - school football star finds her affections returned from the least likely of places in this entry into the 2005 Vancouver Film Festival from director Vic Sarin.

A man (Hackman) gets a last - chance job coaching a small - town Indiana high - school basketball team and faces the dual challenge of bringing this underdog team to the 1951 state championship and redeeming himself from a mysterious past.

Ren's a big - city high school rebel who relocates to a small town, takes up the right to dance to loud, groovin» music as his cause (laws on the books forbid it), and eventually wins over everyone from the town preacher's trouble - making daughter, Ariel (Julianne Hough), to the reverend himself (Dennis Quaid).

WHAT: A documentary crew tracks a massive storm to the small town of Silverton, where an endless barrage of tornados wreak havoc on its inhabitants, including a father (Richard Armitage) and his two sons (Max Deacon and Nathan Kress), a pair of redneck daredevils, and students from the local high school.

I come from a small town that has a deep passion for its high school football but it was never something I understood.

It begins in a small town in Texas, where Grace (Selena Gomez) works as a waitress at a local diner with her best friend Emma (Katie Cassidy) and is about to graduate from high school.

He's reminiscing about the night he and his four best friends from high school tried the Golden Mile, a legendary 12 - pub crawl in their small village of Newton Haven.

Based on a true story adapted from H.G. Bissinger's book, «Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Dream and a Team», director and co-screenwriter Peter Berg (Very Bad Things, The Rundown) uses shaky camera work to give the effect of realism, mixed with a stylized delivery of high school football action that takes this simple small - town story and makes it feel important, like Hoosiers for football fans.

In addition to its broader themes and character types, Fargo scatters small, Easter Eggy callbacks to the Coens» picture — another hand injury in need of «unguent,» an off - screen character who may or may not suffer from leukemia, an awkward restaurant meeting with an old high - school friend.

Ashby is perhaps a few minutes too long, less confident when dealing with hitman stuff than High School shenanigans, and doesn't nail the ending, but none of the small issues take away from an otherwise mostly satisfying little flick.

The verisimilitude she creates in putting small town Sacramento California life on screen, the specificity of the Catholic high school experience, it all makes Lay Bird feel so lively, and another wonderful performance from Saoirse Ronan and an excellent supporting cast (Lucas Hedges, Tracy Letts, Timothee Chalamet, Lois Smith, Beanie Feldstein, etc etc) is the topping on the cake.

A coming - of - age film about a California high school student who seeks to escape from her family and small town by going to college in New York.

by Bill Chambers Appealing newcomer Nick Cannon stars in Drumline as Devon, a Harlem high - school graduate making the transition from a big fish in a small pond to a guppy in the ocean that is Atlanta A&T.

It starts as Megan is a teenager living in a small town in New York, lost and depressed after graduating from high school.

At the same time, the movie considers things like what the future holds for high school jocks and how one breaks free from small town limitations.

In this new drama from Lynn Shelton (Your Sister's Sister), an ex-con (Jay Duplass) struggling to readjust to life in his small town forms an intense bond with his former high - school teacher (Edie Falco).

The result is that African - American students who switched from public to private schools scored, on average, 6.3 points higher than their public school peers; by contrast, Krueger reports effects of between 9.1 and 9.8 points for African - Americans placed in smaller classes.

The number of students in each lottery is relatively small, so my analysis combines data from all of the middle - school and all of the high - school lotteries.

While we find only small effects for children from nonpoor families, for low - income children, a 10 percent increase in per - pupil spending each year for all 12 years of public school is associated with roughly 0.5 additional years of completed education, 9.6 percent higher wages, and a 6.1 - percentage - point reduction in the annual incidence of adult poverty.

From directors Jean - Michel Dissard and Gitte Peng, I Learn America follows five students through one school year at International High School at Lafayette, a small, public, alternative high school in Brooklyn, New York, dedicated to teaching foreign - born, non-native English speakers who are newly arrived to the United Sschool year at International High School at Lafayette, a small, public, alternative high school in Brooklyn, New York, dedicated to teaching foreign - born, non-native English speakers who are newly arrived to the United StaHigh School at Lafayette, a small, public, alternative high school in Brooklyn, New York, dedicated to teaching foreign - born, non-native English speakers who are newly arrived to the United SSchool at Lafayette, a small, public, alternative high school in Brooklyn, New York, dedicated to teaching foreign - born, non-native English speakers who are newly arrived to the United Stahigh school in Brooklyn, New York, dedicated to teaching foreign - born, non-native English speakers who are newly arrived to the United Sschool in Brooklyn, New York, dedicated to teaching foreign - born, non-native English speakers who are newly arrived to the United States.

This resulted from closing 30 large schools, shrinking others (such as Kennedy), and creating dozens of small, themed high schools, with 100 students per grade instead of 1,000.

The lessons cover everything from creating a budget, saving and investing, and smart shopping, to responsible use of credit, how to buy a car, and how to afford education beyond high school — even how to buy a home and how to establish a small business.

After graduating from a very small high school on Long Island, New York, I attended Salisbury State University in Maryland.