Sentences with phrase «hearing about the schools»

N & W 1000 When was the last time you heard about school kids, college students, movies theaters, shopping malls, etc., being shot up by some mad man.

People want World Cup in America, yet you hear about school shootings and cops killing citizens about every few weeks there.

Finding the words to comfort your child when he or she hears about school violence tragedies is never easy.

Whenever I hear about schools using BMI as a measurement of their success in providing greater nutrition, I feel very conflicted.

When I hear about school teenagers hanging out and chatting together and doing activities amicably, learning from each other, I'm glad about it.

I'm always really interested in hearing about the schools meal programs (or lack thereof) in other countries.

Worryingly, we are already hearing about schools sending home letters to parents asking them to declare the nationality of their children.

hearing all about her school and classmates makes me feel old!

But it saddens me when I hear about schools abandoning the arts and social studies for more test preparation.

Several years ago, I heard about a school that was growing its own grove of miniature apple trees.

Arne Duncan also heard some harsh words at Wednesday's hearing about the School Improvement Grant program.

A principal's messages to members of his or her internal public — the immediate school family — set the tone for what all others hear about the school.

«This gives parents a chance to know what to expect, hear about our school's goals, and get those questions answered that new parents always seem to have.»

Two months into the home - visit program, 600 people came to school for a potluck dinner and to hear about the school - improvement plan.

Seeing how much her students learn with the help of technology, Venosdale admits she «cringes» when she hears about schools that block access to digital tools.

«I'm hearing about school district superintendents getting very interested in things like character and grit, and wanting to evaluate teachers based on them.»

This was also a chance for invited guests to hear about the school's progress and how charter schools are faring across the state.

When asked for all of the sources from which they heard about their chosen private school, most parents said they were told by friends or relatives (52 percent) or had heard about the school through church (47 percent).

We hear about schools in low - income neighborhoods that somehow «beat the odds.»

Recently, Duckworth heard about the school that was instituting a Grit Week in order to boost its students standardized testing scores, a goal she 100 percent would not have picked, for one simple reason: Who ever heard of a teenager being passionate about standardized tests?

We often hear about school districts with high poverty, terrible test scores and budget problems.

I recently heard about school and community safety issues from members of the New York State Sheriff's Association.

Now, their main tasks revolve around making teacher tenure decisions, conducting «Quality Reviews» of school's internal organizational structures, attending public hearings about schools in their districts, and putting out fires when they arise.

So, I learned about the parking meter largesse as I was looking at the charter school's web site to confirm something disturbing I heard about the school the other night.

If you would like to hear about schools in your area please do get in touch or take a look at our interactive Subscriber Feedback Map.

on 36 hours Uptown: NOPD marches against Riverbend crime; Lower Garden District hears about school site

The school board also heard about the school's recent «A +» rating from the state, and received a clean report from its auditor.

I heard about schools that closed midyear, leaving families to fend for themselves.

I heard about schools that didn't offer any counseling or special education services to students who come from severely distressed neighborhoods.

Our monthly Principal's Coffee Chat is an informal meeting for parents to hear about school updates or ask the principal any questions.

Erin if you're interested to hear about the school initiative in Vaughan let me know ([email protected]) and I can introduce you to the locals there.

Not exact matches

NYU Launchpad came to fruition in March, after Rimalovski and others started hearing students grumble about balancing a startup with school.

People today are entering the startup realm with far more formal education and experience in entrepreneurship than ever before, and they're doing so from many of the following schools whose degrees in entrepreneurship you might not have heard about yet:

But when we ask people how did they hear about Figure 1 in our user interviews, they'd say «my med school classmate showed it to me,» or doctors who hear about it from residence and med students.

«I hear this a lot about modernizing HIPAA, but no one actually gives a recommendation for what they would do,» said Valerie Montgomery Rice, president and dean of the Morehouse School of Medicine.

We talked for a few minutes about William's childhood (he dropped out of high school in Amsterdam at 15 to become a DJ), his past work experience (he was a party planner for years), and how he had heard about us (he attended Hustle Con last year).

Almost 80 per cent of Western Australians have doubts about the mass media according to a recent study by the School of Marketing at Curtin Business School.More than two - thirds (77 per cent) of respondents said they had at some time heard or read a...

This rolling application deadline means you can wait to hear back from schools about their various financial aid packages and apply for a private student loan in the middle of a semester.

A Senate Judiciary Committee hearing examined law enforcement agencies» failure to heed multiple warnings about the Parkland school shooter who killed 17 people, as well as the long record of failed gun control measures in Congress.

Did you hear about the red wine science out of UConn medical school?

When Santorum or Rick Perry was the nominee it was all about social issues and bringing us back to being a «Christian nation» in good standing with God for the Republicans, we heard a never ending drumbeat about abortion, prayer in schools, teaching creationism, and trying to end funding for planned parenthood, even stopping the funding of birth control.

And did you hear the recent story about a school that tried to watch «A Charlie Brown Christmas» but an atheist mom complained and it became nationwide news?

The stories they heard in law school about independence, public service, and professionalism don't match up with their everyday experiences.

You've heard the horror stories about the schools: kindergartens with a dose of amoral sex education; teachers sowing gender confusion with the hearty support of administrators; violence and widespread drug use in the tony prep schools that train tomorrow's elites; depression, eating disorders,....

I was perfectly prepared to skim through the end of the chapter, seeing as I had heard about Blind Bartimaeus since a small child perched nicely in my Sunday School chair.

Stark: Metaphors an the sense of the stuff we heard about in high school, such as «smell metaphors,» and «touch metaphors,» and so on.

Is this the New Math I hear about taught in schools?

About five years later, a director of music in the Catholic Diocese of Austin asked me to come hear some elementary school kids sing.

Back in high school I heard a pastor teach about heaping burning coals on the heads of our enemies.

They will have heard something about Christianity at school and will have holidays at the Christian festivals of Christmas and Easter.