Sentences with phrase «high school demands»

Susan was chief architect of the American Diploma Project Benchmarks, precursors to the Common Core State Standards that were designed to close the gap between high school demands and postsecondary expectations.

But even beyond these pragmatic arguments, success in middle and high school demands that students «read to learn.»

Eighty - eight percent of the more than 1,000 students who participated in the survey said they would work harder if their high schools demanded more of them, set higher standards, and raised expectations.

Though U.S. high schools demand attention, too, preschool and K - 8 education are far from what they need to be.

Looking ahead: Promises of action, from the White House, Congress and Tallahassee were made in recent days, as students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School demanded action.

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This is a high demand area with families as the excellent schools are the biggest draw to this community.

The associate professor of human resources and management at McMaster University's DeGroote School of Business studies the demands that high - pressure workplaces make on people's time, and how they respond.

He also married Kristie Lewellyn, a high school sweetheart whose strict Christian parents demanded, when Price was 16, that he commit to marriage or stop seeing her.

Demand tends to be higher as parents look to fill the gap between summer camps and activities, and the start of the new school year, she said.

There's a high demand for babysitting and childcare services, whether it's regularly picking up and dropping off children at school for two - parent working families or accompanying a family on a trip as a childcare provider.

Thousands of high school students and other gun - control advocates gathered in Washington and across the U.S. Saturday to demand tougher firearms restrictions from an older generation that's delivered little change after years of mass shootings.

The increasing demand for high - tech skills is putting a greater emphasis on tech boot camps as the new trade schools.

The study, which followed 10,000 Wisconsin residents who had graduated from high school in 1957, sought to explore how job demands, deadlines, job control, and decision making affected workers as a way of predicting early death.

Students and activists have rallied in the week after a gunman killed 17 at a Florida high school to demand lawmakers take action on gun control.

Sheriff Scott Israel demanded gun law changes at a vigil for the victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High school shooting held in Parkland Thursday night.

Despite heavy spending by a handful of top universities for the most talented, grant - winning researchers, most schools aren't seeing big wage pressures, largely because teaching jobs are in high demand.

(CNN) Nearly a week after a gunman stormed the hallways of their school in a deadly rampage, students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School are heading to Florida's state Capitol to demand lawmakers take action on gun coschool in a deadly rampage, students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School are heading to Florida's state Capitol to demand lawmakers take action on gun coSchool are heading to Florida's state Capitol to demand lawmakers take action on gun control.

Local high school students are planning several walkouts to demand that Congress cracks down on gun violence in America, according to Cleveland 19 News, with similar demonstrations ongoing in Columbus, Ohio, as well.

High school students across Florida staged walkouts and protests to show solidarity and demand tougher state and federal gun laws.

In the days following the February 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, students who witnessed the deaths of their peers traveled to the Florida State Capitol to demand stricter gun control laws.

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Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students Julia Salomone, 18, and sister Lindsey, 15, celebrate with other students as their bus leaves Coral Springs bound for Tallahassee on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018, to demand stronger gun control.

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Specialized, pre-assembled first - aid kits are in high demand by schools, corporations, and industries that are required by law to have first - aid kits on site.

A group of students from Littleton High School held a protest Wednesday morning demanding action — with dozens saying they shouldn't have to fear going to sSchool held a protest Wednesday morning demanding action — with dozens saying they shouldn't have to fear going to schoolschool.

For more than a week, the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have held the country's attention as they join with peers across the country to demand a change in America's gun laws.

Survivors of last week's Florida high school massacre have announced a march on Washington and other major U.S. cities next month to demand tangible action so to prevent future school shootings.

Tariffs imposed on China would have the same effect as a tax on suppliers, increasing suppliers» costs and leading to higher prices, suppressed demand, lower production and decreased efficiency, said Roger Kashlak, a professor of international business at Loyola University Maryland's Sellinger School of Business.

In the aftermath of the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., elected and law enforcement officials ramped up their demands for expanded authority over the mentally ill who pose a danger, although some of the officials never mentioned curbing access to guns.

In its own statement demanding the inclusion of RE in the English «Baccalaureate», the CES professes quite a high - flown idea of what is to be gained from this subject, a vision which I suspect that many of those who have undergone the reality in other words, have direct experience of what is actually on offer in our Catholic Schools, will be hard put to recognise:

«When it isn't just poor kids who couldn't get health insurance who are over there,» Hedges told the group of sober - faced teenagers on bean - bag chairs, «but when it's kids like you, kids from Wellesley High School, who are dying, I can guarantee there will be outrage and demands for the war to end,» After that, they asked him no more questions.

Designed to meet the demands of «Boise's growing numbers of affluent families, who sought high - status schools filled with high - status children,» it is a school «created by elites for the children of elites.»

After the founding of the Republic, in response to the progressive demands of the period, several new style schools were founded for religious education, of which the three best were the Cheng. - tai Normal School at Peking, the Islam Normal School at Shanghai, and the Ming - teh High School at Kunming.

Sometime in the late «60s or early «70s you were in a grammar school or high school religion class, and on Friday the nun or brother, dressed in habit or clerical garb, was demanding verbatim catechism answers that were fully self - contained and highly rational.

Accordingly, the common life of a theological school that educates those who lead and nurture communities of Christians in that life must in high moral seriousness focus above all on the nature and demands of that activity and on analysis of the society in which it must be lived.

Human resource professionals are in big demand from businesses and have high earning potential, says Strathclyde Business School.

He fought because we went to Northwestern High School, a Detroit Public School, that demanded you know how to defend yourself.

Melinda demanded her son keep his grades high in addition to playing saxophone and trumpet (in middle school) and excelling at football, wrestling, track and soccer * in high school.

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Even high school students need the form and discipline of daily requirements to reach the ultimate goal of setting themselves demanding tasks as adults.

To me, the solution to the attrition issue, whether it's at a KIPP middle school or the Promise Academy middle school, is the Harlem Children's Zone's «conveyor belt» model, which provides continuous, high - quality early - childhood and elementary education to precisely those «disengaged families and students,» so that when those children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first few years.

Indeed, for a while Houston and other districts were having real trouble sourcing any fresh fruit at all, from any part of the country, due to the higher demand created by the new school food regulations, which resulted in USDA actually canceling confirmed orders for commodity fresh fruit.

After 28 years working to get kids into college, Thacker left his job as a high school counselor in 2004 to write «College Unranked: Ending the College Admissions Frenzy» and found the Education Conservancy, through which he is building a broad - based reform coalition of educators at both the supply (high school) and demand (college) sides of the equation.

A solid work ethic will serve our children well as they grow up in an era of multitasking, demand for achievement, rigorous school workload, and a college admissions process that places a high priority on extracurricular activities.

Typically before - and after - school care costs more because those hours are in higher demand.

Village Manager Bill Balling said Buffalo Grove High lets juniors park in the school lot and thus can accommodate the demand.

Village Manager Bill Balling said Buffalo Grove High School allows juniors to park in the school lot and thus can accommodate the dSchool allows juniors to park in the school lot and thus can accommodate the dschool lot and thus can accommodate the demand.

Introducing your child to fun, hands - on experiences with math today can make a lifetime of impact, from greater success in school, to high - demand careers.

With the increasing necessity for healthful snacks and beverages in schools due to the USDA's new «Smart Snacks In School» rules and the growth in corporate wellness programs, the market demand for healthy vending machines and micro-markets has never been higher.

Previous studies all looked at adults, but never at the 7.8 million high school athletes in the nation — yet nutrition is especially important for these young athletes, whose bodies are still growing while also handling the heavy physical demands of athletics.