Sentences with phrase «like giving a grade»

And you won't be disappointed with their prowess when it comes to things like giving a grade - A blowjob.

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The board's researchers gave Canada a grade of D on an innovation report card, putting it 14th among 17 industrialized nations, placing behind the likes of the United States, Japan and Germany.

I think the CSWBG movement might have evolved through a scenario rather like this: probably under the mistaken truism that more expensive is automatically better in all things, somebody started buying high - grade steak and carefully hand - slicing it into tiny, uniform, fat - free cubes, then sauteeing them into a rich gravy without too much of those old Mexican spices that have given chili such a good (or bad) name over the years.

Given the fact that I spend the majority of my time in our residence, a place has to actually feel like a home to me, and many places just do NOT make the grade.

The effectiveness of the Arsenal academy has been under question in recent years, with many of our graduates failing to make the grade and move on, but if Coquelin keeps it up he will have given it a massive boost and will join the likes of Wilshere, Gibbs, Szczesny and Bellerin in the current first team.

Alright, so using the standard grading system, we give the A - a 3.7, the B + a 3.3, the B a... looks like this pennant race gets a 3.18 GPA.

CBS is giving the Vikes lousy grades on these picks... «C's»... It's like they're letting the janitor take care of the late round picks that we stockpiled so jealously?

If the supplemental home schooling goes well and I feel like she could learn from me and if I don't fall in love with her school over the next several months, then we might give home schooling a try for first grade.

The question becomes whether or not it can be implemented given the competing demands of factors like AP classes, college applications, grades and SAT scores.

It was like having a revered teacher give you a failing grade in the course you love the most.

Or she might insist the teacher who gave her a poor grade doesn't like her.

Looking back on something like a memory book that contains both their academic records and snapshots of their work samples throughout the years will give them good memories of what they've achieved kindergarten through 12th grade.

In early grade school, children tend to give up the concept of an imaginary friend, or at least keep it in their private thoughts (much the way adults have mental figures they think about privately — religious figures, like saints or guardian angels, or deceased relatives and friends).

With other great features like border wire, hospital grade covers, and air vents, Pure Harmony will give you more for your money with its long lasting baby mattresses.

These drinks seemed like a good compromise at the time, given that we were dealing with a student population who had believed since 6th grade that getting soda at school was their «right.»

You should give her a good grade if your most - disliked candidate has a strong chance to win (to avoid a catastrophe), and a bad grade if your most - liked candidate has a strong chance to win (to avoid rivalry, i.e. risking a victory of your candidate 2 whereas your candidate 1 could win).

My sister gave it to me when I was in like fifth or six grade; it was the first glitter polish I ever owned.

For Tully, Theron gained 50 pounds: she looks pregnant — the baby, Marlo's third, is born shortly into the film — and then she looks like a woman who has just given birth and is too exhausted, mentally and physically, what with a newborn and two grade - schoolers to take care of, to do a damn thing about «getting into shape.»

While complaints about the look and feel of the device are few, detractors include Engadget, which feels that the «controller gives off a relatively low - grade impression; it looks and feels like a toy.»

The Playlist gives the «largely harmless and tame, but also shallow and uninvolving» film a «C» grade, and Indiewire seconds that, claiming «The story comes across like a quest to turn history into entertainment, and as a result it lacks any lasting value.»

Given that «I haven't been fucked like that since grade school» is Marla Singer's most memorable line in Fight Club, it's easy to think she's a bohemian femme fatale, a token designed to titillate in an otherwise all - male cast.

While I'm ultimately giving it a passable grade, it certainly should find its share of ardent fans, especially among those who like creepy, original films that hold their attention.

I liked Barbershop and gave Barbershop 2 a passing grade, but enough is enough.

I have to admit, I like Circle of Iron more than I give it credit for, and despite my giving it just a passing grade, it's one of those movies that I have enjoyed on multiple occasions.

If you like escapist espionage thrillers with lots of action, perhaps there's enough quality actors, superb stunt work, and nice location shoots to give The November Man a passable grade, especially because the R - rated action can be quite brutal compared to a James Bond flick.

Warners is hoping that more of those older female Wonder Woman fans come out, just like they did for her June solo outing: Females over 25 are giving Justice League its best grades at 90 %, but they're still in the minority among the pic's headcount repping only 18 % of the audience.

But, Im grading on a curve here, as the cast gives 100 % making this a magical movie that can be enjoyed by most members of the family... as long as they like Jack Black.

«We feel like the more interventions we can give kids in those early years, when they're learning to read and not reading to learn, then we're going to catch them before they get to third grade.»

Additionally, you can alleviate the strain of grading by giving students the technological resources to do better work.For example, I will regularly give my students the chance to use grammar checking websites like Grammarly or Paper Rater before turning in their writing.

Like in the case of elementary grades, minority and disadvantaged students, who tend to blindly trust the information given out by schools, will be particularly hardly hit by this fog of doublespeak about college readiness.

My work is like the work I happily gave myself in third grade when I was obsessed with making doll clothes.

The teachers also liked the new model better, saying that it felt less like they were defending the grades they gave students and more like a conversation about the students» learning.

Something like, «Shake your head if you remember the ABC grading program we used last year,» gives teachers a chance to voice a little concern and laugh off some frustration.

As state chief of Indiana schools, Tony Bennett implemented an A-F grading system, giving the schools a letter grade, just like students.

The Fordham Foundation has given passing grades to the proposed standards, but frankly it is not particularly persuasive to gather a group of your like - minded friends experts and ask them to give grades to something you favor — especially if the grades given by the experts might be changed if they are at odds with Fordham's predisposition.

Though they get tested and graded like any other public school in the state, state laws give charter schools more «flexibility» to set programming and curriculum as they see fit.

Rural principals can also take advantage of recent innovations such as virtual networks that give teachers access to educators in like grades or subjects in other districts, rural regions, or states.

By grading lawmakers on a scale of A-F, just like students and schools, Empower Mississippi's Education Report Card gives a clear and comprehensive assessment of who is truly keeping the promise of a quality education in the Magnolia State.

The issues which should be scrutinized is the environment which was created that made these teachers feel like changing grades and giving students the correct answer were the right things to do.

But given a different test recently introduced to help evaluate more teachers like her, again in the primary grades for which no other state - level tests exist (like in grades 3 - 8), just this year she «received a growth score of 1, [after which she] was placed on a list of ineffective teachers needing additional coaching.»

Factoring student performance on tests like the ACT into school grades is puzzling, given that the high school curriculum is not developed around the ACT specifically and students who excel on these tests are often able to take advantage of test preparation coursework outside of school.

These worksheets will put middle grade or middle school students to work on the first days of school, and give them a platform to talk about who they are and what they like.

For example, college readiness measures like Advanced Placement classes and college entrance exams are available in most high schools but not elementary or middle schools, and student or academic progress data that looks at year - over-year progress may be less likely to be available in a high school where state standardized tests are only given in one grade.

I would still like to get at least one more classroom set of laptop computers to be shared by our sixth - grade teachers in order to maximize students» exposure and give them the opportunity to work on some basic keyboarding skills that will be necessary for typing open - ended responses.

A bill under consideration in the California legislature would allow local school boards to replace standardized tests given in 11th grade with a college entrance exam like the SAT or...

Standards like the research standard in English Language Arts and the data interpretation standard in Mathematics lend themselves to differentiated interpretation through demonstrating what a typical learner on grade level might be able to do at a given stage of development versus what a gifted learner might be able to do.

And while the findings reinforce that most public school parents (62 percent) like their local schools — more give their community schools an A grade than at any time in more than 40 years of PDK polling — there is also considerable demand among the general public for schools to provide more work readiness via career skills classes, licensing and certificate programs, and technology and engineering classes.

The move is supported by UTLA President Waren Fletcher, who told the Daily News» Barbara Jones on Friday, «When you look at simplifying the analysis of a teacher's work down to a single score — like the (health) grade you'd give a restaurant — that isn't going to help any teacher get better at their job.»

Various grades of high - tensile steel reduce weight versus previous platforms while additional enhancements like an all - new multi-link rear suspension design, rack - mounted electric power steering and a V - brace mounted behind the rear seat gave the engineers the flexibility to tune the ES with a newfound level of precision.

It's like daydreaming, like that second just before you fall asleep, but for hours, they said, for the whole of eighth grade, their eyes glazed with the shine of the newly converted, and by tenth grade they gave up and now, start of junior year, it was habit to make fun of him every time there was occasion, every time they circled up to light and puff and smoke, these friends.