Sentences with phrase «like changing schools»

Keep in mind that some choices, like changing schools and majors, taking longer than prescribed to complete your program, or studying abroad, could increase your costs of school.

Addressing statewide inequities would require policies like changing school funding formulas to drive more money to poorer schools.

What does not work might be a surprise: harsh, zero - tolerance policies, added security equipment and patrolmen — in the absence of the other interventions like changing the school climate and getting kids to practice positive interventions — do little or nothing, and sometimes actually increase rates of bullying.

Not exact matches

If one child decides not to go to school, goes to a cheaper school than expected, gets a full scholarship (more on that in a minute), or for some other reason doesn't use all of the money, you can simply change the beneficiary on the account and give those funds to another child... or even to yourself, if you'd like to go back to school.

But Andrei Sulzenko, a fellow at University of Calgary's School of Public Policy, who has worked on and studied expert - advice panels like the Jenkins committee, says any proposal that demands a «machinery of government» change is bound to meet stiff resistance.

This weekend pays tribute to a specific era, 1985 - 89, and features a host of initiatives like cars with old - school car paint schemes, commemorative ticket and program designs, specially - designed apparel, retro food offerings at the track... unlike, say, baseball or football throw - back games where the only real change is the team's uniforms, Darlington and its partners goes all in.

One example: Old - school fluorescent lighting could be replaced by LED lights that can easily change color throughout the day to reflect subtle changes in the sky outside, like those lights on many airliners now that simulate dawn, midday, and dusk for long - distance travelers.

«I thought, I'm not liking grad school too much, and this girl just broke my heart, so I decided to change my life,» says Brezina, 28.

So far most of the government apps seem modest in scope (think: Mapping crime reports or finding out when the next train will come), but O'Reilly suggested that this is only the beginning and that the approach can work for big problems like rising health care costs, poorly performing schools, and climate change.

What we should be doing is somehow changing the middle school computer science curriculum or something like that.

Old - school wet shavers used to turn up their noses at synthetic brushes, but times have changed: New synthetics like the Fendrihan shaving brush are capable of offering a feel similar to badger in softness while still providing enough backbone to whip up a great lather.

If the material were to be presented in a manner which melded training with causes that truly interest students like Global Warming, species extinction, and catastrophic weather changes, it is more likely that they will be able to find time outside of school to learn more of the necessary techniques.

«Right now is a time that change seems like it's so close, and the youth, all these high schoolers across the country, are the ones that are going to push us over that line.»

«As Hunter's President and a graduate of Hunter College High School myself, I know the critical difference a major gift like this can make in bringing positive change to campus,» said Hunter College President Jennifer J. Raab.

I remember watching his science videos in elementary school but now whenever I see him on the news talking about science it seems like he is politicizing science (when it comes to climate change) and promoting evolution as the only option to the creation of the world to try and discredit the religious community.

Set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, shortly after the massive changes ushered in by the modernizing Vatican II conference in Rome, the story quickly sets up a conflict between the old - school nun who serves as principal and runs the school like a prison (played by Meryl Streep) and the young, new priest (Philip Seymour Hoffman) who wants to shake things up by treating the students as fully rounded young people who deserve doses of freedom and respect as well.

everything is made up of atoms (don't believe me do some research) its the different variables of heat and light and things like that that cause different reactions to make different things and these things when they interact can create something completely different and you and slowly the process of mitosis or miosis starts to work and form stuff hell i learnt that in high school and it was a catholic one at that a millions of years ago i bet the universe was completely different and had things in it that our minds cant even imagine that have since changed over time from action and reaction to what we have today and in another million years who knows with all the different gases we pump into the air and the weather getting more intense on both ends of the scale life as we know it will be different the human race will have to evolve to survive and will probibly form into a slightly different species hell maybe well evolve into 2 different species like in the movie time machine

I then somehow changed this caring, loving man, into something that was more comfortable to me (Don't do it like this; Do it like this) Then at almost 18, I went back to school, got my GED and graduated as a Medical Assistant, with a 3.9; I was determined to be what I wanted to be and get my life back!..

As schools like the University of LaVerne model the needed changes at institutional and curricular levels, and as more and more faculty are helped to think about how their own teaching can be greened, the pace of change can increase.

My body and I had become unacquainted over the years — it was like meeting someone you went to school with years ago: you kind of recognize each other but really all you see are the changes.

There is no guarantee that investment in youth ministry, after - school programs, or other such efforts will necessarily change the fate of people like Tracy and Evie.

for the man that says prayer is for the weak Harvard medical school researchers show prayer absolutely changes brain waves, much like running.

Yep you are right, I moved down here in the state of Mississippi, north of Crystal Springs from Chicago when I was ten years old but still I visit once in a while, now it's twenty years and sad to not much has change, like the parts you said about non-whites discrimatory or rasicts at other non-whites, when I went to school here they treated me as a alien from another galaxy, they pick at my voice cause I didn't had that southern dialog, unlike them I said my words correctly, but not just me, they even hated at others who had better intelect I am not picking at them, It is what I went through all these years, Mississippi and mainly this small town of Crystal Springs see America in a crazy awful view, They don't like difference that even within they own race, ther not that politcal, when some one say God they got there vote, I don't to say much to waste your time, I still remember when I was ten years old I had a constanct back ground check on me to see were I really come from evn though I had the paper saying Chicago Illinois barely no jobs but a church on every street for a town barely under five Thousand, till this very day, they look at me like I am a alien, did you ever had that experiance down here damn my keybroad mess up,

See they can teach evolution in schools, not due it being a conspiracy against the poor persecuted christards like you but due to it being based on solid acceptable evidence... regardless of how stupid you may wish to continue to be on the subject, you don't change the facts.

Women, like blacks and members of other oppressed groups, must break their inner bondage and gain self - esteem if they are to use fully their potential in collective efforts to change the systems of injustice (discriminatory laws, pay scales, admissions policies to professional schools, among others).

This would effectively stop all the changes like no prayer in school and in the military since its a religious organization is wanting the change.

You mean like complaining and outlawing a «moment of silence» in schools, or changing the pledge or complaining about Santa and Christmas, [which is actually pagan not christian] Making it so you can wear any other symbol but one of Christianity on school grounds... etc?

They may be able to choose the school or university where they want to pursue their studies, and may even be in a position to change career if the one they take up is not to their liking.

ive been wrestling since i was 9 years old and when i went into high school i had to wrestle a girl... growing up learning to wrestle i had ended up having violent style, i never was dirty or broke rules but i was taught to do anything in your power to win whehter it was to club down the head or grab the throat to gain position etc. unfortunately i was in the postion to wrestle a girl once and at the time i did nt care who you were boy / girl, white / black / purple it did nt matter im was going to go out there bounce your head of the mat and bury you, so i went out there and wreslted the same way i always wrestled, 110 % and always to put your oppenents back through the mat i dditn change my style at all bc she was a girl i wrestled the same against everyone but after i pinned her in the first minute i did nt even realize that i broke her ribs when i power doubled through her, now after that for the rest of the tournament i was heckled and berated for forcefully beating a girl ppl were telling my parents «hey, looks like you raised a wife beater» etc. etc.... ever since then i refused to wrestle girls and thank go i eventually grew out of the lower weights, moral of the story is that is great and all that girls are wrestling but they shouldnt wrestle boys even if they know what they are getting into because 1.

Such is the first, superficial impression: our schools, like our churches and our ministers, have no clear conception of what they are doing but are carrying on traditional actions, making separate responses to various pressures exerted by churches and society, contriving uneasy compromises among many values, engaging in little quarrels symptomatic of undefined issues, trying to improve their work by adjusting minor parts of the academic machine or by changing the specifications of the raw material to be treated.

So when said husband encouraged me to go on a health and wellness retreat last week, I frantically packed my bags before he could change his mind and ran out the door (OK that's not true, I argued with him about the what, when, where for each kid and the logistics of leaving a 9 month old who's nursing around the clock and a 9 year old who's out of school for weeks because her teachers are on a strike that seems like it will never end.

Standing in the crowded school hallway, the bell ringing to signal the changing of classes, it smelled like rain and dirt and people.

It's horrible to believe something like that, but in my vulnerable teenage years — between adapting to physical changes due to puberty and trying to fit in at school — my self image was definitely not a pretty one.

I just can't believe that we have become a joke we always start the season well then have a bumpy December and by the time Feb comes our form has taken a dip and we get kicked out of all competitions except for that valuable top 4 that the board loves so much... ultimately if Arsenal want to compete again we need changes from the bottom up... Kroenke and his board need to go cause clearly for them profits matter more than trophies... Wenger needs to go for his lack of tactical naus guy has been using the same fornation since I was in high school and I'm doing my honours in accounting now... our medical team must all go our players always get injured and they never come back in time (take a look at Santi) players like Coquelin Theo Mesut Gabriel Gibbs Giroud just to name a few need to go they're just not good enough seriously these players lack fight tactical Discipline and tactical awareness... at the end of the day change needs to happen things can't keep going like this for us....

I remember that 91 team well i had just graduated high school that year.In the 90 season i saw they changed to black uniforms i was like that's my team.I was like i got to have one of those black jerseys and i went to the mall right after xmas in 90 and what do i find a number 21 black jersey sitting on the clearence rack with a host of other teams jerseys that was the only Falcons one left.So i bought it and wore that at school the next week and i told people this is my team win lose or draw.That 91 team was exciting to watch and that's how it all started for me being a fan of this team.

Like many traditional Navajo families, the Begays visit their spiritual guide on various occasions: the beginning of school, a change of season, even after a particularly bad dream.

Does this mean that NorCal schools like Marysville (Indians), Napa (Indians), Sequoia - Redwood City (Cherokees), Justin - Siena - Napa (Braves), Ripon (Indians) Palma - Salinas (Chieftains) and Armijo - Fairfield (Indians) should change?

«A lot of my friends are protesting in Washington, D.C., right now, and I see them on TV and it's like we've changed from these high schoolers living our daily lives to revolutionaries, starting this whole entire movement,» Shanahan said.

I volunteer a lot at school and I see a lot I don't like and I speak up to have things changed.

It has created a model for creating change in our schools that is based on research and solid foundational principles like communication, creativity, and compassion.

In fact the authors point out that there are no studies of meditationamong children in a general school population that are designed well enough to meet the standards of the gatekeeping organizations — like CASEL (Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning), the Department of Education, or the Society for Prevention Research — that would endorse program changes in schools.

School food, and the changes that are being made, is such a huge mountain to climb that it is helpful to have the tools and information parents like me need to provide to our own schools so that they can better understand the big picture as well.

-- we can not achieve the level of improvement we would like for our kids without major changes to the whole federal school meal program.

Imagine that you've been crowned Food Services Director for a huge urban school district (say, Houston) and can change the menus any way you like.

Like any great change, helping teens feel good at school is going to take attitude shifts, policy changes, funding, and more.

School menu changes or lessons on eating better are like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

The calorie cap and daily fruit / veg requirement weren't effective in limiting added sugar and I think this change will make it even worse: http://cironline.org/reports/school-meals-face-rules-fat-meat-veggies-%E2%80%93-no-limits-sugar-5323 It seems like Pepsi was primed for this change in order to swoop in to «help» schools with a menu that has chips every other day: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/237635317811764733/

Things I'm thinking about could be things like having his seat changed in class so he's next to someone he has conflict with, learning new skills at school that he's not confident about and is struggling with, some new kind of food he's ingesting at school that has something that's irritating his system (artificial dyes or sweeteners would be my first guesses), something other kids are talking about that are scaring him (movies or tv shows or stories).

You can't just get in good with some head honcho and expect to make major changes to an establishment like the national school lunch program or the LAUSD's food program with the snap of your fingers because you're a celebrity with lots of energy and a go - getter attitude or a hoard of parents behind you with picket signs.

Like the parent you spoke of today, I was also shocked at the reaction I got when I tried to change things at my school.