Sentences with phrase «in school fights»

So if blacks are 2.2 times more likely to be involved in school fights, and 3 times as likely to be suspended, one could conjecture that differences in behavior make up close to three quarters of the suspensions gap.

Not exact matches

Remember when the kids picked teams back in grade school, and all the captains fought for the school's star athlete?

Snubbed by a computer science professor at her dream school, Erica Joy Baker fought her way back to top engineering jobs in Silicon Valley.

It's not unusual for world class faculty to be paid so generously, but the highest paid business school professors tend to be widely known and publicly visible figures at universities that can afford them, not at a troubled school that has been in a long - term fight for survival.

«If we were smart, not only would we be focusing on encouraging the best technologists in school to go down this path — with programs designed and incentivized — we would be fighting to become the place where the brainpower of the world wants to come to live.

A new study by professors at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management strongly suggests that it's important in any creative endeavor to fight through blocks or fatigue.

«The problem is, I don't know whether I'm going to get the mensch or the schmuck,» Joele Frank, of the eponymous public relations firm that has helped companies fight Elliott and other activists, commented at a panel at a Tulane law school event in March.

«I was picked on in middle school and one thing I learned was, if you're dealing with a bully you've got to fight them and you've got to punch them in the face,» he says.

Last year, Ontario imposed a contract on public - school teachers that eliminated bankable sick days, while back in June, Treasury Board president Tony Clement vowed to fight federal employee absenteeism, which he said was costing taxpayers millions.

They donated $ 25 million in the fight against Ebola last year, and they gave $ 100 million worth of Facebook shares toward improving a New Jersey public - school system.

They have joined leagues of other young people fighting for what seems like common sense: safety in schools.

In the aftermath of the Stoneman Douglas shooting that claimed the lives of 17 students and staffers — including her 14 - year - old daughter Alyssa — Lori Alhadeff has become a leading advocate in the fight for school safetIn the aftermath of the Stoneman Douglas shooting that claimed the lives of 17 students and staffers — including her 14 - year - old daughter Alyssa — Lori Alhadeff has become a leading advocate in the fight for school safetin the fight for school safety.

Broward County School Board members are ready to fight back against what they call an increase in fake news.

According to Austrian school business cycle theory these declines in markets are the inevitable consequences of an expanding money supply, sold as the answer to fighting a recession.

We have christians fighting to make public school give them time to pray and have church clubs, but when jews or muslims do it in a public place it requires a call to the FBI and they claim the jews are being insensitive?

I'd prefer to fight the battles worth fighting — getting proper education in science and history into all American schools, for one.

I had fought in the Golden Gloves in high school and I usually had a very aggressive manner in my lifestyle.

In interviews with CNN, religious leaders from Newtown, the site of last year's school shooting where 20 children and six adults were killed, said that a recent gun control agreement does not do enough to fight gun violence, leading one rabbi to doubt whether Congress was actually working for the American people.

In February 2012, at the height of the battle over the HHS mandate, William Thierfelder, the president of Belmont Abbey College, was interviewed by the Washington Post about the school's legal fight against the mandate.

Other churches are fighting on different fronts: Beacon Church Brixton has seen many young men give their lives to Christ and come off the streets thanks to the passion of a teacher in their congregation; Ecclesia Church is partnering with an education charity to provide support for young people excluded from school; and Emmanuel Pentecostal church has organised successful youth events where Christian ex-offenders share their testimonies.

Why would you fight against teaching the Egyptian mythology or the Greek or roman mythologies in schools as if they were actually just as valid as the xian mythology?

Although a certain amount of fighting is normal for school age boys, Alex's problem sounds severe and reflects a definite change in his personality.

He led a group of middle school boys in a Bible study about «the great fights of the Bible,» which was the only subject he could find that kept their attention.

A Christian children's charity has revealed that children who have fled fighting in Syria are suffering further brutality at school.

In the new imperial division of labor on display in Afghanistan, the Americans do most of the fighting while the Europeans, who have no ideological problems with big government but don't like fighting, are only too happy to take on the soft sides of nation - building: roads, schools, sanitation and wateIn the new imperial division of labor on display in Afghanistan, the Americans do most of the fighting while the Europeans, who have no ideological problems with big government but don't like fighting, are only too happy to take on the soft sides of nation - building: roads, schools, sanitation and watein Afghanistan, the Americans do most of the fighting while the Europeans, who have no ideological problems with big government but don't like fighting, are only too happy to take on the soft sides of nation - building: roads, schools, sanitation and water.

In elementary school, I was painfully shy, and even as an adult I've had to fight against a deeply - ingrained desire for everyone to like me.

make a long story short, he fought the little Prix with the dean of the school and while he left that job was given another in a different department.

It doesn't work to fight against them about their belief, to make them wonder if we are safe (and considering several of us have kids in schools now) or if we are going to do something against them.

Before meeting Pauline, I had survived a life of considerable loss, first at the hands of parents who viciously abused all three of their children and then in a fight with cancer while in law school.

The ACLU fights every day against the teaching of Creationism in school's for a valid reason.

Regardless of our homes — our experiences in high school or college or as a kid — all of us have pasts filled with mistakes and hurt, seasons of pain, friendships lost, fights unresolved, maybe even regret.

When I accepted the invitation to join the faculty of the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge I had two compelling reasons: Aware of the Vatican's repression and removal of creative theologians in West German universities, I anticipated a similar development in the U.S. I made therefore a conscious decision not to remain in an academic situation where I would have to spend the rest of my career fighting ecclesiastical backlash.

Lady Gaga signed an open letter from the advocacy organization ONE to fight for the right of girls living in poverty to have access to schooling.

Combativeness may appear in a gunman, swaggering, contentious and violent, or in an educator who has declared war on the ignorance of a Chinese province, and against all obstacles is building schools with which to win his fight.

On the upper classes in the school I found they were just like protestants and catolics, fighting about who of them were right.

I'm only 40 and I had a cross burned in my yard when I was toddler and I had the occasional fight in school because of my religeon.

As this magazine has chronicled, they largely surrendered in the fight against compulsory sex education (of a profoundly corrupting kind), most especially concerning non-Catholic schools.

It's available in English and Spanish and can help the students learn more about their rights, how to fight for changes in school policy and where they can get help if the policies are indeed targeting.

Why else do they spend so much time and money on campaigns to overturn abortion laws, and fighting proper s.ex ed in high schools?

But goals are also needed defining the next step which needs to be taken in any given area of human activity, whether it be in the local schools, in dealing with poverty, in fighting pollution, in combating racial discrimination, in ending the war in Vietnam, and so on.

The battle of the bumper stickers between conservatives and liberals in the late «60s and early «70s predictably was fought from such Sunday school formations; evangelicals, fundamentalists and charismatics fired volleys of «Christ is the Answer!

Missing also will be any mention of the fact that Falwell and other conservative evangelicals fought tooth and nail against the 1978 ruling that stripped tax - exempt status from all - white private schools formed in reaction to integration, calling it a violation of their religious freedom.

There are various ways in which the church has entered the lists on the side of humanity and fought for better health systems, schools, mental health programs, and the like.

Busy schedules, long workdays, school, sporting events and a myriad other activities fight for time and energy in our lives.

We will also fight to make sure that real, honest science is taught in our school, because ignorance like yours is bad for children and for the nation as a whole.

On my first day at school I was offered a fight by the hardest lad in the year.

As much as we might fight against prayers in public schools, churches on city property and political leaders who have the nerve to declare that this is a Christian country, we must accept the fact that we are a minority.

They are fighting to walk around naked in front of an elementary school in San Francisco.

Correctly presenting itself as the guardian of the First Amendment's non-abridgment clause, the church fought Illinois, Oregon and Wisconsin statutes that would have given the government a foothold in church - related schools.

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