Sentences with phrase «higher in particular schools»

Chronic absence can be much higher in particular schools than district - wide.

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What sets the Basic School apart from other training institutions — and in particular, from an M.B.A. program, to which the Basic School in some ways roughly corresponds — is that it unabashedly favors breeding generic, high - speed, chaos - proof leadership over imparting specific skills.

As part of the Innovation Policy Lab research for the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs» Creating Digital Opportunity (CDO) project, this report looks at Canadian high - tech companies in Asia, in particular the «micro-multinationals,» or companies that apart from Asia have locations in either the U.S. or Europe, or both.

Over the past three years, «Chris» (let's call him) has experienced a pronounced attraction to other males — for one old friend from high school in particular.

Young pitchers in particular tend to stray from the fastball, a habit formed in high school and college where hitters whip 28 - ounce aluminum bats.

The big two are the Under Armour All - American game and the U.S. Army All - American Game, but there are other regional all - star games that happen throughout the country involving the best high school players in a particular state.

One Cowboy wrestling family member in particular, I have had the honor and privilege to coach, as well as mentor beyond high school is 1996 alumni Joe Iacono, a true student - athlete motivated by sheer determination to follow and achieve his dreams.

Middle and high school students, in particular, are learning how to look at the week ahead, predict which days will be packed and which may be free, and should be allowed to work on tasks in their own schedule.

Teens who are involved in high school athletics, in particular, will find personal fitness a breeze.

In the end, it all comes back to education: In the ideal world, a parent's decision about whether to allow a child to start playing or continue playing collision sports before high school under current rules of play (which are evolving in the direction of safety, fortunately, as seen, for instance, in USA Hockey's ban on body checking at the Pee Wee hockey level and below, and limits on full - contact practices instituted at every level of football, from Pop Warner, to high school, college, and the NFL), will be a conscious one; a decision in which the risks of participating in a particular sport - provided it is based on the most up - to - date information about those risks and a consideration of other risk factors that might come into play for their child, such as pre-existing learning disabilities (e.g. ADHD), chronic health conditions (e.g., a history of history of multiple concussions or seizures, history of migraines), or a reckless and overly aggressive style of play - are balanced against the benefits to the child of participatinIn the end, it all comes back to education: In the ideal world, a parent's decision about whether to allow a child to start playing or continue playing collision sports before high school under current rules of play (which are evolving in the direction of safety, fortunately, as seen, for instance, in USA Hockey's ban on body checking at the Pee Wee hockey level and below, and limits on full - contact practices instituted at every level of football, from Pop Warner, to high school, college, and the NFL), will be a conscious one; a decision in which the risks of participating in a particular sport - provided it is based on the most up - to - date information about those risks and a consideration of other risk factors that might come into play for their child, such as pre-existing learning disabilities (e.g. ADHD), chronic health conditions (e.g., a history of history of multiple concussions or seizures, history of migraines), or a reckless and overly aggressive style of play - are balanced against the benefits to the child of participatinIn the ideal world, a parent's decision about whether to allow a child to start playing or continue playing collision sports before high school under current rules of play (which are evolving in the direction of safety, fortunately, as seen, for instance, in USA Hockey's ban on body checking at the Pee Wee hockey level and below, and limits on full - contact practices instituted at every level of football, from Pop Warner, to high school, college, and the NFL), will be a conscious one; a decision in which the risks of participating in a particular sport - provided it is based on the most up - to - date information about those risks and a consideration of other risk factors that might come into play for their child, such as pre-existing learning disabilities (e.g. ADHD), chronic health conditions (e.g., a history of history of multiple concussions or seizures, history of migraines), or a reckless and overly aggressive style of play - are balanced against the benefits to the child of participatinin the direction of safety, fortunately, as seen, for instance, in USA Hockey's ban on body checking at the Pee Wee hockey level and below, and limits on full - contact practices instituted at every level of football, from Pop Warner, to high school, college, and the NFL), will be a conscious one; a decision in which the risks of participating in a particular sport - provided it is based on the most up - to - date information about those risks and a consideration of other risk factors that might come into play for their child, such as pre-existing learning disabilities (e.g. ADHD), chronic health conditions (e.g., a history of history of multiple concussions or seizures, history of migraines), or a reckless and overly aggressive style of play - are balanced against the benefits to the child of participatinin USA Hockey's ban on body checking at the Pee Wee hockey level and below, and limits on full - contact practices instituted at every level of football, from Pop Warner, to high school, college, and the NFL), will be a conscious one; a decision in which the risks of participating in a particular sport - provided it is based on the most up - to - date information about those risks and a consideration of other risk factors that might come into play for their child, such as pre-existing learning disabilities (e.g. ADHD), chronic health conditions (e.g., a history of history of multiple concussions or seizures, history of migraines), or a reckless and overly aggressive style of play - are balanced against the benefits to the child of participatinin which the risks of participating in a particular sport - provided it is based on the most up - to - date information about those risks and a consideration of other risk factors that might come into play for their child, such as pre-existing learning disabilities (e.g. ADHD), chronic health conditions (e.g., a history of history of multiple concussions or seizures, history of migraines), or a reckless and overly aggressive style of play - are balanced against the benefits to the child of participatinin a particular sport - provided it is based on the most up - to - date information about those risks and a consideration of other risk factors that might come into play for their child, such as pre-existing learning disabilities (e.g. ADHD), chronic health conditions (e.g., a history of history of multiple concussions or seizures, history of migraines), or a reckless and overly aggressive style of play - are balanced against the benefits to the child of participating.

In particular, such stressors compromise the higher order thinking skills that allow students to sort out complex and seemingly contradictory information such as when the letter C is pronounced like K (what psychologists call «executive functioning»), and their ability to keep a lot of information in their heads at once, a skill known as «working memory» that's crucial to success in school, college, and worIn particular, such stressors compromise the higher order thinking skills that allow students to sort out complex and seemingly contradictory information such as when the letter C is pronounced like K (what psychologists call «executive functioning»), and their ability to keep a lot of information in their heads at once, a skill known as «working memory» that's crucial to success in school, college, and worin their heads at once, a skill known as «working memory» that's crucial to success in school, college, and worin school, college, and work.

Hooray!This is one for folks with school - aged kids and jr. high & high - schoolers in particular.

There are a couple of experimental classroom interventions that I think seem particularly promising, including Tools of the Mind, which uses extended make - believe play and other teaching strategies to develop self - regulation in 4 - and 5 - year - olds, and OneGoal, the Chicago - based high school program that teaches juniors and seniors a particular set of non-cognitive skills designed to help them persist in college.

A randomized controlled trial of another program demonstrated high participation in school or training compared to the rate of the control group; a particular benefit of this program was the setting of concrete goals with the mothers for their education and professional development.

In particular, there were significant adjusted associations between duration of exclusive breastfeeding and high school outcomes measured at age 18.

«Based on the relatively high competence of Waldorf pupils in natural science, combined with exceptionally high indicators of motivation and reflective cognition in these subjects as well as the different pedagogical principles, it is reasonable to conclude that public education can learn from the Steiner Waldorf schools, in particular with regard to being able to concretely apply knowledge in natural science.»

One lunch lady in particular stood out and in the end, became the winner of the Chopped «Class Acts» edition: Cheryl Barbara, head cook at High School in the Community in New Haven, Connecticut.

In this brief excerpt, the candidates focus on their love for a particular high school.

A dramatic spike in the use of a particular type of electronic cigarette among middle and high school students has local parents, educators and activists, clamoring for action.

Ms. Moskowitz proudly touted the success of Success, noting with real joy how three students at the school in Bed - Stuy had achieved a perfect score on an international math test «out of 30 or 40 worldwide» and taking particular pride in how many of the schools» high achievers are «black and brown» and from neighborhoods that face enormous disadvantages.

This summer, in the Kingston City School District and in particular at Kingston High School, the beginning of a new school year isn't just marked by the perennial questions about class schedules, homework and where the locker wiSchool District and in particular at Kingston High School, the beginning of a new school year isn't just marked by the perennial questions about class schedules, homework and where the locker wiSchool, the beginning of a new school year isn't just marked by the perennial questions about class schedules, homework and where the locker wischool year isn't just marked by the perennial questions about class schedules, homework and where the locker will be.

In particular, he hit the governor over his failure to deliver the billions of dollars that the state's highest court determined Albany owed New York City schools in the 2003 Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. State casIn particular, he hit the governor over his failure to deliver the billions of dollars that the state's highest court determined Albany owed New York City schools in the 2003 Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. State casin the 2003 Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. State case.

«My lab currently has a vibrant outreach program that offers direct hands - on molecular genetic experiences to the general public and, in particular, to the high school community,» says Ng.

Writing in a linked Comment, Dr Shabbar Jaffar, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK, says: «The prevalence of diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa has increased rapidly in the past 10 years or so, affecting people in all sectors of society but, in particular, and disproportionally compared with high - income settings, affecting younger people, with substantial economic effects.

Each map, such as those for Natural Selection and Statistical Reasoning, shows how students» understanding of a particular topic might progress from the simplest ideas in kindergarten to more sophisticated ideas in high school.

Some 1,200 young people in Sweden attend a national sports high school, where they combine their regular studies with elite sports in order to attain an international standard in their particular activity.

He was thinking in particular of one school bordering his district, the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia, that has earned the top ranking in media assessments of the nation's best scschool bordering his district, the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia, that has earned the top ranking in media assessments of the nation's best scSchool for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia, that has earned the top ranking in media assessments of the nation's best schools.

This is something which has been very well documented and mourned in a report from the National Academy of Sciences that was issued by a committee headed by Norman Augustine just a few months ago and this report — which is called «he Gathering Storm» — lays out in some detail the concern that that [leaves us] with a long hole over the next couple of decades, because of weaknesses in [the] way we fund basic physical sciences, the way we are training people to do physical sciences, the way we treat science in elementary and high - school programs — all of those factors, the way we pay teachers, the way we use the patent system where we try to provide incentives in some of the physical sciences; we are losing our leadership gradually to other countries, especially in Europe and [of] particular concern in Asia, where the rise of science in, particularly China, to a certain extent India and other parts of Southeast Asia, are cause for long - term concern.

The joint NSCL / JINA program, the Physics of Atomic Nuclei, is for both high school students and science teachers and designed to get them excited about science and, in particular, nuclear astrophysics.

Outreach is the process by which the excitement and importance of the research we do in Auger is presented to the general public, and in particular to (high --RRB- school students.

Mike has been able to track his buddies from high school and college and watch their progression; in particular, one friend has piqued his interest, and «seeing him now crushing group rides, having a blast, and winning races as a master's racer is really cool!»

Similar to the «dosage» problem, the high degree of heterogeneity of yoga program types made it difficult to compare results across studies, or to understand which particular aspects of yoga were most effective in schools.

A pair of Wisconsin convicts gain local fame for almost escaping prison using dental floss; high school students pose for smiley yearbook snapshots, which capture nothing of the drama in their lives; a man with a 30 - year obsession with one particular bird unveils the grainy, Big Foot - style video evidence that he actually saw it.

Telltale signposts will be familiar to any millennial who attended high school — in particular, Catholic high school — during that time.

Agent Carter ended up being a fun, if slim, brace of period - isms and classy action with a decidedly enhanced visual style over the pictorially - lifeless S.H.I.E.L.D. Hayley Atwell was better than the show she was in, but the series» widely - spaced high points - in particular, a visit to the Black Widow training school for young evil - doers in Soviet Russia - were pretty high.

In Jennifer's Body, stuck - up high school hottie Jennifer (Megan Fox) is brutalized and wreaks hideous vengeance on men in general and the perpetrators in particulaIn Jennifer's Body, stuck - up high school hottie Jennifer (Megan Fox) is brutalized and wreaks hideous vengeance on men in general and the perpetrators in particulain general and the perpetrators in particulain particular.

One of the patients in particular catches her eye, Luke Martin (Voight, Runaway Train), an old schoolmate of hers from high school.

In particular, it is not known whether teachers leave schools with high concentrations of disadvantaged and low - achieving populations for financial reasons or because of the working conditions associated with serving these students.

Lessons in Space Inside Higher Ed, 6/18/15 «Lecturer and Project Zero Director Daniel Wilson at the Harvard Graduate School of Education commented, «space is simply a context for human behavior,» it does not necessarily motivate particular kinds of behavior (learning or otherwise) on its own.»

What complicated the matters even more in the eyes of ths particular student population was that George Bush had attended my high school.

A 2006 study by the U.S. Department of Education, for example, found that success in high school algebra, and algebra II in particular, was highly correlated with college attendance and graduation.

Free Online Courses Impact Models of Higher Learning The Retriever Weekly (University of Maryland - Baltimore County), November 5, 2013» «Everyone in the research field agrees that, for the particular purpose of replacing on - campus education, the evidence is ambiguous at best,» said Andrew Ho, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.»

In particular, they will be looking to support teachers in schools serving communities with the highest levels of social and economic disadvantagIn particular, they will be looking to support teachers in schools serving communities with the highest levels of social and economic disadvantagin schools serving communities with the highest levels of social and economic disadvantage.

Murphy imagines a hypothetical model program called Administrative Leaders for Learning — ALL for short — that would be organized to spotlight and connect three overlapping domains of knowledge: instructional practice and learning theory, with a particular focus on high achievement for all students; the education sector, with a particular focus on schooling in context; and matters of leadership and management.

In particular, I examine 1) whether a child was below grade for age while still of school age (a proxy for grade retention); 2) three indicators of adult educational attainment (high school dropout, high school degree only, and some college); 3) adult wage and salary earnings and indicators of employment and receipt of public assistance income; and 4) an indicator for residence in institutionalized group quarters, a widely used proxy for incarceratioIn particular, I examine 1) whether a child was below grade for age while still of school age (a proxy for grade retention); 2) three indicators of adult educational attainment (high school dropout, high school degree only, and some college); 3) adult wage and salary earnings and indicators of employment and receipt of public assistance income; and 4) an indicator for residence in institutionalized group quarters, a widely used proxy for incarceratioin institutionalized group quarters, a widely used proxy for incarceration.

IT infrastructure, in particular, is one area that is increasingly central to the provision of modern, high quality teaching and, consequently, requires consistent renewal - something which is beyond the average school or college IT budget.

«In history,» high school Webmaster Fred Holmes said, «a teacher might assign students to research different areas of a particular subject.

In particular, independent research — once viewed as controversial but now increasingly acknowledged by elected and appointed officials in the highest levels of government — has revealed a state of affairs in which three in ten students fail to finish high school with a diploma and in which barely half of historically disadvantaged minority students graduatIn particular, independent research — once viewed as controversial but now increasingly acknowledged by elected and appointed officials in the highest levels of government — has revealed a state of affairs in which three in ten students fail to finish high school with a diploma and in which barely half of historically disadvantaged minority students graduatin the highest levels of government — has revealed a state of affairs in which three in ten students fail to finish high school with a diploma and in which barely half of historically disadvantaged minority students graduatin which three in ten students fail to finish high school with a diploma and in which barely half of historically disadvantaged minority students graduatin ten students fail to finish high school with a diploma and in which barely half of historically disadvantaged minority students graduatin which barely half of historically disadvantaged minority students graduate.

They often resemble a dysfunctional family, composed of three unlovable types: 1) aspiring politicians for whom this is a rung on the ladder to higher office; 2) former employees of the school system with a score to settle; and 3) single - minded advocates of one dubious cause or another who yearn to use the public schools to impose their particular hang - up on all the kids in town.

In particular, because schools that serve difficult populations are likely to have higher student / teacher turnover, higher remediation rates, and lower attendance, these measures are likely to be biased if the goal of the system is to gauge school performance fairly.