Sentences with phrase «high school years studying»

Yoli discovered joy in movement at a young age, spending her grade school and high school years studying classical ballet.

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Earlier this year, for example, Judy Zaichkowsky of Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business published a study indicating that the presence of just one woman on a company's board resulted in significantly higher standards of corporate governance (which has an established correlation to better financial performance).

After traveling to Costa Rica during my Junior year of high school, I was inspired to study abroad in college.

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«I think that we've all suffered enough, more than any kid should have to this year, and I think that having to study for a test that either lets you graduate high school or not is very unfair,» said Alexa Kitaygorodsky, a ninth grader who was in the freshman building when the shooting happened.

All this despite the fact that private schooling doesn't actually yield better outcomes for students, according to a recent Statistics Canada report (instead, the apparent academic success of private school student is due to their socioeconomic backgrounds).9 A UBC study also found that students from public schools scored higher in first - year university classes than their private school counterparts.10

Latorre is presently an accountant in a government agency, has taught Sunday School and Bible Studies for twenty four years, and is a Lay Speaker in the United Methodist Church, speaking to students at high school and adult levels in many churches, including hiSchool and Bible Studies for twenty four years, and is a Lay Speaker in the United Methodist Church, speaking to students at high school and adult levels in many churches, including hischool and adult levels in many churches, including his own.

Norbert to discuss theology during high school, and he was now in his first year of studies in philosophy at the University of Tulsa.

A study by LifeWay Research reveals that «more than two - thirds of young adults who attend a Protestant church for at least a year in high school will stop attending church...

In New York City, it is generously estimated that one out of ten poor children beginning first grade will graduate from high school prepared for a real college education --» real» meaning not majoring in «black studies» or some other pseudo-discipline, and not dropping out in the first or second year.

Yes I know, I took Spanish for 4 years in high school, 2 years in college and even studied abroad in Spain.

He left his hometown of Northridge, Calif. to spend his senior high school year at an American school in Tokyo and study gymnastics at Nihon University.

over the last seven months coaches from high school to Division I have studied the spread - option offense that carried Utah to a 12 — 0 season, helped Smith become the No. 1 pick in the 2005 NFL draft and landed Utes coach Urban Meyer, who first conceived the offense four years ago while he was Bowling Green's coach, a seven - year, $ 14 million deal from Florida.

«I have had to set priorities and budget my time between water polo, school, and a social life,» he said of balancing studies and sports with enjoying his senior year of high school.

Rader's 17 - year - old son, Matt, who attends high school near the family home in Florida, said he was thinking about quitting the wrestling team next winter to concentrate on his studies and on baseball.

Played at Hayward High School All HAAL, All East Bay, All State, All American, Pitcher of the year, 4th selection in 1991 Draft by Los Angeles Dodgers Played 10 years professionally (Dodgers, Braves, Brewers) Played Professional Baseball in Taiwan Coached by and studied pitching with Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale, Claude Osteen, Burt Hooten, Dave Wallace, and Luis Tiant.

She has spent four years in high school studying hard to keep her GPA high, playing sports, joining clubs and taking part in all aspects of high school life to build her resume in hopes that a college or university... [Read More...]

Jens Ludwig, an economist at the University of Chicago who oversees a research group there called the Crime Lab, has for the past few years been studying, along with some colleagues, a counseling program called Becoming A Man, or BAM, which operates inside 49 Chicago schools, mostly high schools in low - income neighborhoods.

Baseline pre-injury and post-injury neuropsychological or neurocognitive testing is now commonplace at the professional and collegiate level, and has become more and more common at the high school level as well, with a recent study showing computerized neuropsychological testing being used to assess fully 41.2 % of concussions at schools with at least one athletic trainer on staff in the 2009 - 2010 year, [2] an increase of 15.5 % from the 25.7 % of concussions in which such testing was used in assessing concussions during the 2008 - 2009 school year.

Later start - times: «The case study for this topic is Menlo - Atherton High School, which several years ago changed its school - start time from 7:55 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. (and 9:25 a.m. on Thursdays to allow for staff meetSchool, which several years ago changed its school - start time from 7:55 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. (and 9:25 a.m. on Thursdays to allow for staff meetschool - start time from 7:55 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. (and 9:25 a.m. on Thursdays to allow for staff meetings).

Trends in concussion incidence in high school sports: a prospective 11 - year study.

Bullying: Most Teens Have Hit Someone out of Anger Half of U.S. high schoolers say they have bullied or teased someone at least once in the past year, and nearly half say they have been bullied in that time, one of the largest studies ever on bullying finds.

Half of U.S. high schoolers say they have bullied or teased someone at least once in the past year, and nearly half say they have been bullied in that time, one of the largest studies ever on bullying finds.

For example, she studied brain activity and speech in a group of teenagers before, and three years after they entered high - school, and found music training in school significantly improved the auditory processing of phenomes (speech sounds) and had lasting effects on language skills.

Not surprisingly, the 9 - 12 year old players in the current study were found to experience linear acceleration magnitudes between those found in 7 - 8 year old players [2] and high school players, although, for rotational acceleration, the 95th percentile magnitude found in this study was less than that found previously in younger players.

As with magnitude, the impact frequency reported in the current study fell between those of 6 - to 9 - year - olds and high school athletes, with the average player experiencing 240 impacts over the course of a season compared to 107 impacts per season for 6 - to 9 - year - old players, and 565 for high school players.

Sadly, the fact is that, while they are one of the most - if not, the most - preventable of all catastrophic sports injuries, heat - related deaths among high school and college football players in the United States nearly tripled between 1994 and 2009, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Georgia, with an average of nearly three players dying each year during that time period versus about one death per year during the previous 15 years.

Each year for the last decade, students have planted more than 2.5 acres of prairie grasses near the high school, creating a living laboratory they can observe and study.

Improving the behavior of the parent or caregiver of children in high - risk situations actually changes their physical chemistry, according to the studies Tough cites, leading to fewer behavior problems and greater success in school, as well as measurably better health outcomes as years pass.

Most of the study sample was aged 25 to 34 years, white, married, and had education beyond high school (Table 1).

In Horwood's long - range study that followed children from birth to 18 years or the completion of high school, breastfed children were rated as more cooperative and socially better students the longer they were breastfed.17 When drop - out rates were calculated, the rate was higher among children who had been bottle - fed and lowest among those who had been breastfed equal to or longer than eight months, even when data were adjusted for maternal demographics.

One 7 - year followup study showed that children enrolled in a high - quality home visiting program were more likely to participate in a gifted program and less likely to receive special education services or report skipping school than were children in the control group.

The 3 year study involved 86 High School Athletic Trainers participating each year; 80/86 schools reporting had football as a Fall sport.

In 1971 the School's campus was expanded further when William Harrer gave his farm (Glen Brook) in Marlborough, New Hampshire, to Peter Curran (former principal of the high school), who in turn asked permission to give it to The Waldorf School for programs of study during the SchoolSchool's campus was expanded further when William Harrer gave his farm (Glen Brook) in Marlborough, New Hampshire, to Peter Curran (former principal of the high school), who in turn asked permission to give it to The Waldorf School for programs of study during the Schoolschool), who in turn asked permission to give it to The Waldorf School for programs of study during the SchoolSchool for programs of study during the SchoolSchool year.

A national study of concussions reported by high school athletes shows a dramatic increase over the last few years.

We are supposed to believe that obstetricians (with 8 years of higher education, extensive study of science and statistics, and four additional years of hands on experience caring for pregnant women), the people who actually DO the research that represents the corpus of scientific evidence, are ignoring their own findings while NCB advocates (generally high school graduates with no background in college science or statistics, let alone advanced study of these subjects, and limited experience of caring for pregnant women), the people who NEVER do scientific research, are assiduously scouring the scientific literature, reading the main obstetric journals each month, and changing their practice based on the latest scientific evidence.

The rate of concussions among U.S. high school athletes has more than doubled between 2005 and 2012, with numbers now as high as 300,000 per year, according to a study published this year in The American Journal of Sports Medicine.

We included control variables consistent with relevant studies: maternal age (18 — 24, 25 — 35, ≥ 35 years)[6, 11], marital status (married and unmarried)[6, 29], maternal education (high school graduate or less, some college education, and college graduate or higher)[19].

Long - term studies show once children get labeled in a group, clique or ladder on the social rung, that status tends to stick all the way through the high school years, Elias said.

Nicodemo, who's been Saunders Trades and Technical High School's head boys basketball coach for the last nine years and a social studies teacher for the last 13 years, is seeking a state seat that represents most of Yonkers.

A study he co-authored, published earlier this year, found when minimum wages go up in one state but not neighboring ones, as many as 1 in 5 people, ages 16 to 29 without high school degrees, lose work.

Coordinator of Post Graduates Programme of the Faculty of Education at the University for Development Studies (UDS), Dr. Ibrahim M. Gunu, has dismissed suggestions by some members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), that the free Senior High School programme may collapse within five years, if a sustainable plan is not put in place.

Students held back during their secondary education for non-performance will not be catered for in their extra year of study under the Free Senior High School education policy.

«THE STUDY FOUND THAT BLACK AND LATINO STUDENTS HAVE HALF THE NUMBER OF ADVANCED PLACEMENT CLASSES compared to their white and Asian peers, according to data from 353 high schools in the 2011 - 2012 academic year.

Cervical cancer rates in the United States are higher than previously believed, particularly among 65 - to 69 - year - old women and African - American women, according to a study led by a researcher at the University of Maryland School of Medicine published in the journal Cancer.

It will bring together talented high - school students from all over the Commonwealth to study advanced math and science year - round for college credit.

«This new study shows it is during the hectic middle and high school years — perhaps more than ever — that mothers must deliberately prioritize the regular receipt of «authentic connections» in their everyday lives.»

The 15 - year study showed medical school graduates involved in the program not only entered family practice residency training at higher rates than nonparticipants, but nearly half began their medical careers in rural locations.

«Concussion rate in high - school athletes more than doubled in 7 - year period, U.S. study finds.»

Recent studies by Sood and colleagues at USC Schaeffer Center, the USC Price School of Public Policy and the USC School of Pharmacy have found that most consumers on high - deductible plans are not comparing prices to find the best deals on services or on prescription drugs, even though the research indicates that some patients could potentially save hundreds or thousands of dollars per year.