Sentences with phrase «more schools do»

I just can't fathom why more schools don't try to stay on top of this!

I'm so surprised more schools don't have that policy.

If these schools shared their best practices, we could have more schools doing amazing things and hopefully, eventually, all of them providing all kids with an excellent education.

The tools won't get better until there is more philanthropic investment and / or more aggregated demand (i.e., more schools doing things the same way) that drives investment.

«It's less palatable to become an affiliated charter, and so of course there were more schools doing it when there's money attached to it,» Lee said.

Why aren't more schools doing this?

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Last year, a high school in Ohio named more than 200 kids in the graduating class «valedictorians» because they didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings.

People today are entering the startup realm with far more formal education and experience in entrepreneurship than ever before, and they're doing so from many of the following schools whose degrees in entrepreneurship you might not have heard about yet:

People use online dating because they feel like they're not meeting enough of the right kind of people in their daily life, and if they were, then they wouldn't use an online dating site, that's why you don't use it when you're in college or a lot of people don't use it when they're in grad school because you meet so many great people all the time, I wouldn't join an online dating site, but it's when you don't have those opportunities to have those interactions that people feel the need and I think things like Hinge, and even Tinder to some extent, allow you to meet just a lot of people so that you don't have to go through that process, which is a lot more effort, to do an online dating site.

Of course, while you could engineer people to be more persuasive, «there's no way to shoot out a virus and make people do what you want,» NYU School of Medicine Director of Medical Ethics Arthur Caplan told Business Insider.

Being young and fresh out of school, it was definitely a challenge, but after six months, a year, 18 months went by, I started to realize that this felt more like home to me than anything I'd done before.

As for why more schools haven't followed her lead, Klawe said she didn't exactly know the answer.

Arguing that half of dropouts leave the educational system because their classes don't seem relevant to their lives, NuSkool bases its instructional materials on topics more likely to interest high school students.

Of the nine winners who did report challenges building their startups because of student - loan debt, only three left school owing more than $ 35,000, the average amount for class of 2015 graduates (the highest in U.S. history), according to a report by financial aid resource Edvisors.com.

He was interested in doing more than just owning buildings; he graduated from Carleton University's School of Architecture in 1997, at the age of 75, and later donated $ 5.5 million to the program.

And who knows how many people would have become more ill, or even died, had Riley waited until he was done with college, or grad school or spent years in the workforce before pursuing his goal?

The No. 1 thing they can do is to move to a location with good schools, great opportunities, and the chance to grow up with more privileged peers.

Among kids currently ages 8 to 14, 65 percent say they learn more about money from their parents than they do at school, according to a T. Rowe Price survey released last month.

Law professor James Kwok, for instance, recently cautioned on this blog that, while a humanities degree from a top - tier school often opens doors, if you don't come from the sort of background that allows you to study at an elite institution and undertake a few prestigious (probably unpaid) internships, then the calculus rapidly becomes much more difficult.

As Bloomberg notes, rival apparel companies like Under Armour (UA) and Adidas (ADS) are likely to enter the bidding for the lucrative Texas contract — which could be worth more than $ 15 million per year — once it comes up for grabs, which means Nike will face some fierce competition if it wants to keep doing business with the school.

As The Economist pointed out in 2006, when you look at the cream of capitalism's self - made crop, you are hard - pressed to find anyone who has «done more than deliver a speech at a business school.»

If schools don't adapt and move to a more blended style of instruction, Elmore said, America's schools could see a growing disinterest in traditional education.

Researchers Christine Exley of Harvard Business School, Muriel Niederle of Stanford University and Lise Vesterlund of the University of Pittsburgh recently did a set of experiments related to female aggression in on - the - job negotiations in which, as they write, «we saw that women hurt themselves financially when they followed a blanket recommendation to always ask for more.»

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.

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The University of Calgary's School of Public Policy recently pointed out that Canadian corporations actually do more taking over than getting swallowed.

And do they come from more or less wealthy background with parents who will be able to support them and the school?

She began working as soon as she was old enough, as a babysitter, waitress, table busser and switch - board operator — «name a crappy job [and] I've done it,» she jokes — and when her grades remained near - perfect despite all those extracurricular activities, she switched to a more challenging private school.

Everybody thinks it's old school; nobody focuses on it anymore, which provides more opportunity for those of us who do.

The company does offer team discounts for high school squads, though, and Marver says more than 400 teams around the country have placed orders for the upcoming season.

Hiding out in grad school for another year or two doesn't guarantee to open any more doors, either, sorry to say.

So if you're in love with a house in a «less good» neighborhood or within a «less good» school district, before you write it off as an option, do a little more digging.

Not only does the ability to capture and recall knowledge make it more likely that a child will excel at school, but having rich, vivid memories of everyday experiences also help children make sense of the world and their place in it, enriching their experiences and building essential life skills.

B - school grads are poised to earn more in 2015 than they did last year, as the median starting salary breaks into the six digits.

«Some people have that school of thought where fitness isn't enjoyable, but we're making it enjoyable, I think, by making it more fun, challenging, and engaging, rather than this boring thing that you have to do,» she says.

Sterling spent the next year creating the toy, studying gender differences and cognitive development in children, writing a business plan and doing in - home testing with a prototype with more than 100 boys and girls in three schools and more than 40 homes.

Todd Zenger, a professor at University of Utah's Eccles School of Business, wrote in the Harvard Business Review last year that pay transparency is «far from a panacea... [and] a double - edged sword, capable of doing as much — or more — damage as good.»

Women tend to give to more charitable causes and organizations than do men, according to research from the Women's Philanthropy Institute at the Indiana University's Lilly School of Philanthropy.

They've done more schooling than a herring and administered more shots than a Cancun bartender.

I think old - school tactics like the Three Cs of sales, pushy car salesman stuff doesn't work any more, especially not if you're selling a lifestyle or a dream, or millions or billions of dollars of real estate.

As Muhammed Chaudhry, CEO of the Silicon Valley Education Foundation, recently explained, schools across the country are rapidly transitioning to Common Core Standards, a more rigorous standard of instruction, and as they do, they're investing heavily in technology to help students meet those standards.

Ante Glavas, an associate professor with a specialization in organizational behaviour at Kedge Business School in Marseille, France, says employees of companies that promote social responsibility tend to feel more connected to their work: «They are more engaged, because instead of leaving values at the door when they leave home, they can feel like they are doing something good that aligns with who they are as a person.»

With access to the food these benefits provide, experts say these children are more likely to do better in school, have better health and do better economically as adults than children that live in chronically food - insecure households.

But just because no sort of CEO school could transform any candidate into a fully qualified CEO for life, doesn't mean that business schools or other training programs can't do more to prepare those hoping to occupy the top job in business, according to the executives interviewed.

Those who did work less were mostly parents with very young children and teenagers who otherwise would have spent more time in school or studying.

You'll save more this way since back - to - school sales don't last all year, and oftentimes buying in bulk is cheaper than buying an individual item multiple times.

Getting stronger There is a probably no more cited quote of Nietzsche (often misquoted, actually) as this, also from Twilight of the Idols: «Out of life's school of war: What does not kill me makes me stronger.»

As we worked on the project, we realized we actually felt more passionate about pursuing our company than we did about pursuing business school.

We haven't even touched upon how many people can save a ton of money going to a public school like I did or attend community college for two years and then transfer to a public school for even more savings.

Research indicates that those children who do have a set of chores have higher self - esteem, are more responsible, and are better able to deal with frustration and delay gratification, all of which contribute to greater success in school.