Sentences with phrase «going students in the family»

If you have a couple of college - going students in the family, they will have to learn to drive sooner or later.

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Focus on the Family said that the Day of Dialogue «will boast a new name while maintaining the same goal it's had since its 2005 inception: encouraging honest and respectful conversation among students about God's design for sexuality,» in a press release that is scheduled to go out Thursday.

From that shocking conviction of faith, Luther was able to go forth teaching, preaching, raising a family, running from authorities, sulking in protective custody in two castles, translating the Bible, writing hymns, eating and drinking with students and colleagues, maladministering the new congregations of evangelicals, struggling for freedom, devising pragmatic polities for the churches, becoming a public and political figure, defying pope and emperor and developing a Christ - centered theology.

In and out went young students and old students, fellow lecturers and their families, preachers and pastors and their families, men from the Elector, men from the local Council local residents, men and women with their various problems.

I was fortunate enough to go to France on a student exchange in highschool and my host family made something like this for dinner one night.

These fruits, intead of going in the trash are left for students to grab a healthy afternoon school snack or are used in the backpack program for families with hunger issues.

While they suggest that kids (of all ages) should have a good amount of downtime every day — part of the Challenge Success «PDF» mantra (playtime, downtime, family time)-- the reality is that many students today go from school to activities to homework with substantial reductions in daily downtime.

«As the first in my family to go to college, I understand the message that initiatives like SAT School Day and College Awareness Day send to our students — we believe they have the potential to go to college, and we're going to give them the support and resources to get there,» Fariña said.

While Zimpher praised the five - year plan as providing a predictable increase in funding, Frederick Kowal of United University Professions, the union that represents SUNY professors and other employees, said that state support has gone down over the long term, placing more of a burden on students and their families.

Bringing the cap on university fees down to # 6,000 would make a real dent in the awful levels of student debt this Government is going to im - pose on families.

In a statement, Dr Bawumia said: «My heart goes out to the families of the 4 promising students who have lost their life through the outbreak of the swine flu.

«We've been changing every single route; so we see reductions in family visas, we see reductions in student visas, we've been rooting out abuse - there are 750 colleges now that can't bring overseas students in - but it is, of course, unlikely that we're going to reach the tens of thousands by the end of the Parliament.

In announcing his plan last week to cover the tuition of students accepted at a state or city college or university — provided their families earn no more than $ 125,000 a year — Governor Cuomo said: «This is a message that is going to provide hope and optimism for working - class families all across the state.»

An illegal war Uncontrolled immigration # billions leaking every year via new quangos Students (in England) now have to mortgage their futures to get to University 24 hour binge drinking breakdown of the family vast increase in licensed gambling External debt quadrupled to $ 11 Trillion making us the second largest debtor nation in the world after the USA at $ 12 Trillion (we may overtake them later this year) Pension funds pillaged for # 5Bn a year Gold reserves sold for a pittance Children leaving school unable to read or write NHS a basket case - 1 in 10 leave hospital sicker than when they went in.

Tuition assistance, which goes into effect this fall, would apply students in families with household incomes of no more than $ 100,000 a year.

The CUNY Professional Staff Congress said it is attempting to provide legal help to Saira Rafiee, an Iranian graduate student who was visiting family in her home country last week when Donald Trump's executive order went into effect.

Some students go straight into grad school after completing their undergraduate studies, and others become part of the work force to even determine if they want to pursue a grad degree in the field they began, or some individuals start to work AND get married and start families before enrolling and completing grad school (me).

As part of this, students go out and engage with friends and family on these topics and reflect on their own reactions to ways the topics get presented in the media.

Using film to facilitate therapy sessions can help families see things from a different perspective, providing a new way to discuss what's going on, says Turns, a doctoral student in the Marriage and Family Therapy program at Texas Tech University.

«I'm sure the institutions believe that these types of messages are going to have positive effects for all the families — for the low - SES students and their families and for the other members of the university community,» said Mesmin Destin, senior author of the studies and assistant professor of human development and social policy in the School of Education and Social Policy and of psychology in Weinberg.

A few of us went home to spend the much - needed Christmas break with our families, but most students stayed to enjoy their spare time in Tokyo.

But if a student or the family is interested — and that's the other thing that the fair deals with, is for the parents, for the community that they have to go back to their schools and tell them that «My son and daughter is interested in science» and so then the teachers contact us.

«It's not unusual for the disease to go undiscovered in a family until a young, relatively healthy person drops dead,» Saffitz tells Science News for Students.

I'm a very out going girl I take care of my family and stay true to my faith I'm proud of the woman I've become I understand that mistakes Happen in life but I never let them define me I am currently a full time college student and a dancer no not the kind that involves a poll lol I like to have...

:) Im student in college, but thinking about going to military to continue family tradition.

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.

Many University Park students are the first in their families to go to college and don't have experience with the college application process.

JDO: Magnolia graduates 97 percent of its students, and 65 percent of your college - going students are the first in their families to do so.

«Students, especially those from low - income families, may have no one in their immediate friends or family network who has gone to or graduated from college, or they may not have access to information about the colleges that are the right match for their career goals, talents, and interests,» says Greenhow, an associate professor at Michigan State University.

Regardless of their specific plans, however, all students need to be proficient in the range of fundamental skills and knowledge in math, English language arts, science, and history / social science if they are to go forward with postsecondary learning that prepares them for good jobs, healthy families, and contributing citizenship.

Starting college preparation early is especially critical for WHEELS students, say staff, who emphasize that developing habits like a growth mindset and grit and setting high personal expectations can take time for kids who will be the first in their family to go to college.

The latest study — coming from Milwaukee — shows that the 9th graders from low income families who used vouchers to go to Catholic schools were much more likely to complete high school within four years than similar students who were in the city's public schools.

During the discussion in Weissbourd's Developing Effective School and Community Interventions for At - Risk Children course, Menino shared his opinion that the biggest challenge facing education is changing the focus from teachers or schools needing money to what's going on at home with students and their families.

Most Urban Prep students are the first in their families to go to college.

They include Jim Barksdale, the former chief operating officer of Netscape, who gave $ 100 million to establish an institute to improve reading instruction in Mississippi; Eli Broad, the home builder and retirement investment titan, whose foundation works on a range of management, governance, and leadership issues; Michael Dell, the founder of Dell Computers, whose family foundation is valued at $ 1.2 billion and is a major supporter of a program that boosts college going among students of potential but middling accomplishment; financier and buyout specialist Theodore J. Forstmann, who gave $ 50 million of his own money to help poor kids attend private schools; David Packard, a former classics professor who also is a scion of one of the founders of Hewlett - Packard and has given $ 75 million to help California school districts improve reading instruction; and the Walton Family Foundation, which benefits from the fortune of the founder of Wal - Mart, and which is the nation's largest supporter of charter schools and private school scholarships (see «A Tribute to John Walton,&rafamily foundation is valued at $ 1.2 billion and is a major supporter of a program that boosts college going among students of potential but middling accomplishment; financier and buyout specialist Theodore J. Forstmann, who gave $ 50 million of his own money to help poor kids attend private schools; David Packard, a former classics professor who also is a scion of one of the founders of Hewlett - Packard and has given $ 75 million to help California school districts improve reading instruction; and the Walton Family Foundation, which benefits from the fortune of the founder of Wal - Mart, and which is the nation's largest supporter of charter schools and private school scholarships (see «A Tribute to John Walton,&raFamily Foundation, which benefits from the fortune of the founder of Wal - Mart, and which is the nation's largest supporter of charter schools and private school scholarships (see «A Tribute to John Walton,»).

It can also help to build students confidence and skills in science, as one student described the change that participating in CREST had made to their future plans: «CREST gave me the confidence to think that I could actually achieve a career in science and be the first one in my family to go to university.»

The Carlston Family Foundation was recognizing six outstanding California teachers, nominated by their former students who graduated from high schools in high poverty / high risk environments and went on to succeed at prestigious universities.

So the idea behind Digital Equalizer is to target students who would otherwise have no choice but to go into the same low - paying sectors their families have been working in generation after generation.»

Most of the students at King will be the first in their family to go to college.

For years, pioneering charter school networks like KIPP, YES Prep, and others won legions of admirers by ensuring that nearly every student they graduated went to college, usually the first in their families to do so.

Though students in small schools are mostly positive about their experiences, the vast majority of students and families aren't ready to let go of their vision of the all - American high school — regardless of how dysfunctional it may actually be.

Doug Pratt of the Michigan Education Association protested, «When you walk into a building in the middle of winter, the flu bug that's going around and sidelining students and staff can spread like wildfire... Do you want a teacher whose parent or partner is undergoing chemotherapy that morning — and because of the reasonable amount of time they've bargained — gets to be with their family member and take care of what they need to?

Indeed, as documented in several recent studies, a well - qualified student from a low - income family has a lower chance of going to college than a poorly qualified student from a high - income family.

If schools and families do not have the resources to help their students, the theory goes, then the community can fill in the gaps.

Early on, we also became involved in multi-year projects targeted at youth learning and perspectives: going to college when you are the first in the family to go, the conditions of learning that help students thrive, diversity, social and emotional learning, global understanding, service learning, school reform, and more.

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«The proposed increase in the budget through giving thousands of charter schools the funding needed to open new charter schools, and expand and replicate their successful models will go a long way toward providing those students and their families with a much - needed, high - quality public school education.

College Matters: Supporting Low - Income and First Generation Students What does it take to get to college, especially if you are the first in your family to go?

Direct - to - student programs and changes in instructional practices have been linked to long - term gains in academic performance and reductions in achievement gaps on the basis of race / ethnicity, gender, and being the first in one's family to go to college.

It went on to highlight the report's finding that «[d] ifferences in state scores for students with similar families can be explained, in part, by per - pupil expenditures and how these funds are allocated.»