Sentences with phrase «high schools around the country»

Max Lance dug himself out of six figures of student loan debt and travels to colleges and high schools around the country teaching people about financial literacy.

So she was thrilled to find the national nonprofit HealthCorps, which places young people in high schools around the country for two - year terms as health & wellness coordinators.

Although the jury is still out on that question, high schools around the country are experimenting with adding MOOCs to their offerings.

In a growing number of high schools around the country, however, ninth and tenth graders are being organized into interdisciplinary academic teams, with advisory programs not unlike middle schools.

But such demands are also the norm at a particular brand of high school around the country: math and science academies, which offer students with superior talent in those subjects a demanding, highly concentrated academic environment.

Gladden Middle School, for example, has 32 student - led clubs, more than many high schools around the country.

Through the reauthorization, Congress has an important opportunity to strengthen CTE offerings in high schools around the country.

The 2008 recession may seem like a long time ago, hitting before Barack Obama began his presidency, but public elementary, middle and high schools around the country are still feeling the pinch from it.

Like most high schools around the country, this school has issues that parents don't always like seen displayed so graphically.

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The app, which allows users to post anything they want for anyone within 2 miles of their location to see, was crazy popular at high schools and colleges around the country.

The company does offer team discounts for high school squads, though, and Marver says more than 400 teams around the country have placed orders for the upcoming season.

«We are also praying for the entire Great Mills High School family and young people around this country.

A few dozen companies around the country have ended or scaled back promotions for members of the NRA after the Feb. 14 shooting that killed 17 at a Parkland, Fla., high school.

But there are signs that this time could be different, as the high school survivors of the Parkland shooting are keeping up the pressure on Congress and planning mass protests around the country to end gun violence.

In the midst of the national conversation about arming teachers and right before high school students around the country walked out to protest gun control laws, a high school teacher...

Kaepernick was the first player to demonstrate during the National Anthem during the NFL's preseason, but has since been joined by athletes around the country, including at high school games and other professional sporting events.

From Rachel: When I think about what the «Christian» music industry was like back when Caedmon's Call was playing all around the country (when I was in high school / college) and what it is like today, it's really kind of mind - blowing.

There are wooded options up island as well (we used to run loops around Peaked Hill for cross country practice in high school) but they're harder to find and not as convenient as down island.

Eagle, ID, August 17, 2010 — Over 500 volunteers gathered at American Falls High School in American Falls, Idaho for the first mobile Manna Pack packing event to help assemble 300,000 Manna Pack ™ - Potato meals that will be shipped to countries around the world to help malnourished children, including those in Haiti.

As a Single Parent / Mother of a high school student at Detroit Cass Tech (Donovan People - Jones) here in the City of Detroit I am initiating this Petition on behalf of all students and parents around the country and even Canada.

His story strains credulity: After graduating from high school, he turned down a scholarship to Texas A&M and swore off the game; underwent treatment for drug abuse and depression; embarked on a four - year odyssey around the country in search of spiritual understanding before he was led back to baseball; was drafted in the 23rd round in 2010; then made the Braves» Opening Day roster a year after starting the»12 season in high A ball.

After watching Maura play at Miami Christian High School that weekend, Alvarez convinced his parents to stay longer for a tournament the following week in Las Vegas, where K.J. would be seen by at least 100 college basketball coaches from around the country.

The Stockton (CA) High School junior is one of 80 junior golfers from The First Tee program chosen from around the country to play alongside legendary PGA Tour Champions golfers.

Jackson now gets the daily basketball instruction normally reserved for that short period of time during the high school off - season when elite players are not traveling to events around the country.

Concord is fortunate to be the selected host for the West Coast Jamboree — the largest high school girls» basketball tournament in the country, welcoming 128 teams from around the country.

The Washington Post ranking of US high schools has just been released and, as you can imagine, parents around the country are either congratulating themselves on the grea...

In private sessions Saturday, 22 school teams from around the country will toss around ideas on how schools can help to broaden the rigid notion of «success» that has taken hold on so many hyper - competitive campuses — high grades, top test scores and acceptance into prestigious colleges.

This week, at the U.S. Department of Education, eight teams of high school culinary students from around the country served up their vision for healthy, delicious school food as part of the Cooking up Change ® healthy cooking contest national finals.

Here in HISD and in many districts around the country, it is not uncommon to see on high school campuses numerous, daily fundraisers conducted during the lunch hour, most of which offer foods of poor nutritional value.

It proposes providing free further and higher education for those who have served six years and protecting access to schools for families posted around the country.

Students across the region will join others around the country in a national student walkout Wednesday to mark the one - month anniversary of the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla..

«Our once proud state has become a laughing stock around the country, with the highest taxes, the worst business climate, high energy costs, a failing transportation and infrastructure system, failing schools and rising unemployment in every region of the state, except New York City,» DeFrancisco said.

High school girls from around the country take part in a unique engineering workshop taught by Union College faculty with the assistance of local high school teachHigh school girls from around the country take part in a unique engineering workshop taught by Union College faculty with the assistance of local high school teachhigh school teachers.

The assessment materials, used to measure students» understanding of the sciences in middle and early high school, will be amplified by Naiku, a Minnesota - based company whose assessment platform reaches teachers around the country, and a Canadian consortium that includes McGill University in Montreal.

Their slender and long - legged green - or brown - spotted bodies were long familiar not only outdoors, but also on the dissection tables of high school science labs around the country.

The study of nearly 40,000 youth around the country also found that e-cigarette use among middle and high school students doubled between 2011 and 2012, from 3.1 percent to 6.5 percent.

Any active scientist can judge one of the thousands of middle and high school science fairs that take place around the country each year.

For more than 30 years, the lecture series has attracted hundreds of science enthusiasts ranging from high school students to retirees, who climb out of bed early on cold winter mornings to hear lectures from top scientists from Princeton University and around the country.

At the Global Youth Institute, Proctor was one of the 200 high school students from around the country that meet each year with international experts and global leaders in food security to discuss agricultural issues.

I joined 10 other «REUs» from around the country and eight Seattle - area high school students who were participating in the CSNE's Young Scholars Program.

I traveled around the country thanks to the sport, including stops in Orlando where my team achieved our high school's first national championship (and air time on ESPN!)

Pressure Cooker (Unrated) Uplifting documentary chronicles the efforts of Wilma Stephenson, a demanding Culinary Arts teacher at an inner city, Philadelphia public high school, as she inspires underprivileged students to apply themselves in her class in order to earn college scholarships to some of the most prestigious cooking institutes around the country.

Hello, I have been teaching for 20 years (High School Math) and I have been a Project Learning Consultant to schools around the country (and occasionally internationally) for 8 years.

«While the media hyperventilate about MOOCs and higher education, and K 12 school districts around the country form technology committees, the nation's preschoolers have the situation well in hand.»

Taking a cue from a number of public and charter high schools across the country, administrators in charge of the eleven high schools in California's capital city opted to reorganize the system around a school - to - career theme.

While these statistics reveal unacceptably high levels of school bullying, research in a number of countries has begun to show antibullying programs and intervention strategies have actually worked, with bullying reduced by «around 20 per cent in schools where they have been employed and rigor ously monitored» (Rigby, 2010).

Teams of educators and experts came together from around the country to create new high - school designs for the competition.

The Metropolitan Opera's Live in High Definition series, which transmits liveperformances to movie theaters around the world, is now available freeto students in New York City schools, as well as at select theaters inregions across the country.

Like KIPP and EdVisions, part of High Tech High's scale - up work involves helping others found similar schools in nine sites around the country.

This spring, multimedia case studies from a Boston high school and elementary school will be used to train educators from around the country and world on how to use data wisely.