Sentences with phrase «lower end of the school»

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When Alexandre Pestov, a strategic consultant and research associate at York University's Schulich School of Business, compared buying a two - bedroom Toronto condominium to renting it over the past 25 years, he found that the renter ended up $ 600,000 richer than the owner if he invested the spare cash in low - risk bonds.

For instance, in Weston, Mass., most homes lost value during the downturn, but a select few lower - priced homes maintained their value because the town has a very good school system and there's always demand at the low end of the market from families looking to move in, Weiss said.

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.

In those schools, a greater number of suspensions corresponded to lower end - of - semester math and reading scores for the students who were never suspended — even after correcting for various demographic indicators.

The new contract spells the end of the district's short - lived foray into the National School Lunch Program, which provides federal reimbursements in exchange for offering healthy free or reduced - cost meals to low - income students.

Describe best practices for how to assess the feasibility of implementing community eligibility in schools that qualify for the provision on the lower end of the identified student percentage range;

For instance, even if the chefs cook and donate free gourmet meals, they could end up losing money for the district by decreasing the number of kids who took the «official» school lunch, thus lowering the government meal reimbursement that goes to the district and to the caterer.

But at the same time, what I say at the end of the book is the programs I talk about are really small and represent just a small minority of the kinds of experiences kids — and especially low - income kids — are having in American schools today.

In this role, she is responsible for leading the efforts to improve public policies to end hunger, reduce poverty, promote nutrition and increase the availability of healthy affordable food in low - income areas; maximize participation in all federal nutrition programs (SNAP, school meals, early childhood nutrition, WIC, and summer meals); and educate the public about both the stark reality of hunger's existence in the nation's capital and the real opportunities for effective solutions.

At the other end of the economic spectrum, there are some schools which, because they have very low numbers of low income students, choose to forego participation in the Federal school meals programs altogether and just run their own meal program under their own rules.

Schneiderman's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit issued subpoenas last week to eight parties involved with the sale of Rivington House, which was once a school owned by the city and is now set to become a high - end residential complex on the Lower East Side.

At the same time, the school groups support ending the provision that essentially caps levy increases at less than 2 percent: Currently, the cap law limits increases to either the rate of inflation or 2 percent, whichever is lower.

Fourteen percent of the high school students transferred to other schools, with more than half ending up at another school with a grade of C or lower on its School Progress Rschool students transferred to other schools, with more than half ending up at another school with a grade of C or lower on its School Progress Rschool with a grade of C or lower on its School Progress RSchool Progress Report.

It's a unique field in that a large proportion of graduates end up in faculty posts — the jobs graduate school prepares them for — and yet its low postdoc numbers suggest that most graduates are placed in real jobs soon after receiving their Ph.D. s; few mathematicians, it seems, get stuck in the postdoctoral holding pattern.

«Activity levels at the end of adolescence were alarmingly low, and by age 19, they were comparable to 60 - year - olds,» says the study's senior author, Vadim Zipunnikov, assistant professor in the Bloomberg School's Department of Biostatistics.

The fact of the matter is, those who do not eat breakfast tend to exhibit lower productivity, they have poorer grades in school and ultimately end up experiencing higher unemployment rates than their breakfast noshing counterparts (fastcoexist.com).

Four black teenagers from Queens became a legitimate group near the end of their shared time at Lower Manhattan's Murray Bergtraum High School for Business Careers.

But she ends up blowing that off for the exact opposite of self - improvement, laying low instead with high - school student Annika (Chloë Grace Moretz), for whom she once purchased beer.

Useless to discuss at length, The Chorus is essentially another in a line of literally dozens of films in which an inspirational teacher changes the lives of a group of troubled / lower - class / underestimated children through will, kindness, and a rogue spark of crinkly - eyed genius that irks to no end the evil dean / headmaster / school board / community.

As for the Bond - homaging, a ski - resort interlude tugs its forelock towards the great 007 snow - scenes of yore, but ends with a runaway cablecar sequence that's straight from the Die Another Day school of leaden, low - stakes CGI.

The court voted 5 - 2 to end the Opportunity Scholarships program, which provides students who decide to leave some of the state's lowest - rated public schools with about $ 4,350 in tuition aid they can use in private or religious schools.

If we are in a situation where the details of the law end up identifying over half of the public schools as being low - performing or failing, then we've got a problem.

Among the remedies is to end the practice at many schools of blocking creativity - enabling websites, to make sure there's a computer maintenance staff on hand (or to allow tech - savvy students to do the troubleshooting), and to regulate telecommunications companies so they adopt open - Internet rules when it comes to low - income consumers.

Parents who earn $ 75,000 a year are more likely than parents at the low end of the income scale to volunteer in school, attend school meetings, or move so that their children can attend a better school, according to data gathered by Education Week in April.

A significantly lower proportion of children reach the expected level in their GCSEs than at the end of primary school (55.9 % vs. 78 % in 2014)

The end result of widespread low - quality high - school education in the U.S. compared to the secondary education in equally economically advanced countries is that a greater proportion of adults in the United States are woefully underprepared for today's jobs.

CPE's report investigates the 12 percent of high school graduates who didn't enroll in college, and it reveals some interesting, though not necessarily surprising, trends: They are more likely to be male, two out of three come from the lower end of the socioeconomic scale, and about half have parents whose highest level of education is a high school diploma or less.

Although we found substantial drops in achievement during middle school for both groups of students, the first - year drop and cumulative deficit were, respectively, 50 percent and more than 200 percent greater for students who start at the lower end of the achievement distribution.

Disruptive innovation theory would also posit that vendors who could get their broadband requirements down might successfully target pockets of nonconsumption and the low - end of the market, among schools whose current networks offer limited connectivity, but where teachers are still trying to integrate software into their classrooms.

Middle school students despise being viewed as different, especially when they are at the low end of the ability scale.

They identified 26 chains out of 48, more than half, where disadvantaged pupils with lower grades at the end of primary schools made more progress than in state schools generally.

Despite the higher average education level of their parents, charter school students exhibit lower levels of performance on end - of - grade tests in both reading and math.

Each unit pack includes: - 7 engaging lesson plans (one for each 10 - word section, plus a revision / sentence - building lesson for the end of the unit), written by qualified teachers and covering all 4 key skills - Ideas for adapting each lesson to suit your class, including extension activities, suggestions for differentiation, homework activities and substitutions for low - tech classrooms - Full timings and guidance for teachers to help you access all the resources easily - Printable resources to complement the lessons and save you time This unit pack is for Languagenut's Unit 7 - Going to school, covering morning routine, travel, transport, school subjects, classroom items and opinions.

Each unit pack includes: - 7 engaging lesson plans (one for each 10 - word section, plus a revision / sentence - building lesson for the end of the unit), written by qualified teachers and covering all 4 key skills - Ideas for adapting each lesson to suit your class, including extension activities, suggestions for differentiation, homework activities and substitutions for low - tech classrooms - Full timings and guidance for teachers to help you access all the resources easily - Printable resources to complement the lessons and save you time This unit pack is for Languagenut's Unit 19 - More about school, covering school rooms, prepositions, school subjects, break time and connectives.

However, far from a «Wild West» approach to charter oversight, his organization instead advocated for, and got, important accountability measures included in the law: mandatory closure for persistently low - performing charter schools, A — F grading of schools (both charter and public), and an end to so - called «authorizer shopping,» in which failing schools move to a new authorizer after their existing one withdraws its support.

Each unit pack includes: - 7 engaging lesson plans (one for each 10 - word section, plus a revision / sentence - building lesson for the end of the unit), written by qualified teachers and covering all 4 key skills - Ideas for adapting each lesson to suit your class, including extension activities, suggestions for differentiation, homework activities and substitutions for low - tech classrooms - Full timings and guidance for teachers to help you access all the resources easily - Printable resources to complement the lessons and save you time This unit pack is for Languagenut's Unit 17 - On the way to school, covering directions, journeys, buying tickets, local area, town features, crossing the road and asking for directions.

For example, students who entered in 6th grade score 0.23 standard deviations lower in math and 0.14 standard deviations lower in reading by the end of 8th grade than would have been expected had they attended a K - 8 school.

With the end of the school year in sight, it's tempting to fill class time with low - lift recreation that leaves us free to manage the administrative routines of June — while managing our own exhaustion.

Students continue to fall behind through the middle school years, and the outcome is even worse for those students who began middle school at the lower end of the performance spectrum.

At the end of the year, each student has a notebook filled with pages written in a variety of ink colors and pencils of varying degrees of sharpness that speak to the highs and lows of the school year.

This test is intended for low ability students at the beginning of term two in year 7, some schools may use it for their end of term 1 assessment too, based on the topics tested in this paper.

Taiwan is a bit of a hybrid, with no required testing in primary school, but a Basic Competency Test at the end of lower secondary (along with three required tests a year in each of three subjects during lower secondary) that determines admission to upper secondary school.

Much of of the focus of charter schools is on poor and minority students stuck on the lower end of the academic achievement gap.

Not to spoil the ending, but closing Catholic schools rends the fabrics of low income communities and can be linked to an increase in crime....

It could be that public school students who are at the lower end of the income threshold for free or reduced - price lunch are more inclined to seek the scholarship option.

Parents and many others have joined the AFT's efforts to end the overuse and misuse of standardized tests, and to fix — not close — struggling schools, something Weingarten has advocated since her involvement in the creation of New York City's Chancellor's District, which dramatically improved achievement in what had been some of the city's lowest - performing schools.

By the end of grammar school, low - income students had fallen nearly three grade levels behind, and summer was the biggest culprit.

This study evaluated the effectiveness of a low - cost and large - scale summer reading intervention that provided comprehension lessons at the end of the school year and stimulated home - based summer reading routines with narrative and informational books.

A more typical pattern among the top - performers is a required gateway exam, or an exam that allows a student to move on to the next phase of education, at the end of primary school, the end of lower secondary school and the end of upper secondary school.

In 2006, Ed Next published a study by Marcus Winters and Jay Greene, «Getting Ahead by Staying Behind,» that reviewed the efforts of several states and school districts to end social promotion and analyzed the impact of Florida's policy of requiring low - performing students to repeat a grade.