Sentences with phrase «more than small schools»

What matters to us more than small schools is a school that takes student voices seriously.

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A 2012 study of debt - payoff strategies from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management found that consumers paying off small balances first were more likely to have eliminated their entire debt than those focusing on other strategies.

The SBI program, sponsored by the U.S. Small Business Administration, pairs more than 500 business schools with small companies nationSmall Business Administration, pairs more than 500 business schools with small companies nationsmall companies nationwide.

I graduated in 1986, from a small state school in northern California, Humboldt State, known more for its partying than its studies.

To criticize Dartmouth's frats, which date back more than 150 years, is tantamount to criticizing Dartmouth itself, the smallest and most insular school in the Ivy League.

The iShares MSCI USA Small - Cap ESG Optimized ETF (ESML) is part of iShares» larger ESG ETF family, which, in the wake of the school massacre in Parkland, Florida, has altered its methodology to entirely exclude makers of civilian firearms or any retailer that earns more than $ 20 million or 5 % of their total revenue from the sale of civilian firearms.

Smaller schools have proven to be more effective than larger schools, especially with poor children.

I've spent far more time than I care to admit combing through complementarian literature, reading debates about whether women can read Scripture aloud in church, whether female missionaries should be permitted to give presentations on Sunday evenings, what age groups women should be allowed to teach in Sunday school, whether women can speak in small group Bible studies, what titles to bestow upon worship leaders and children's ministry coordinators so that they don't appear too authoritative, and on and on and on.

The girls are given a more focused education — the classrooms are much smaller than in the coed schools that pack upwards of a 100 students in one room — and they perform, on average, much better than the rest of Kakuma on Kenya's standardized testing for secondary schools.

Both schools pull in more athletic revenue than the majority of front - line Big 12 candidates, but they have way worse men's basketball programs, smaller fanbases, less academic funding, and lower university rankings than the league's averages.

The third is for the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA), a network of more than 100 small colleges inclusive of NCAA and NAIA schools.

Plus, only a small fraction of the athletes at FBS schools are worth more on the open market than the value of their scholarships.

For example, a contest between Alabama and Auburn may receive more than ten times the number of bets as a game between two smaller schools which greatly amplifies the impact of public betting.

Two years later, Harbaugh accepted a head coaching position at the University of San Diego, a small, non-scholarship school that had far more in common with Ivy League programs than with his alma mater, Michigan, or the school where he would later forge his reputation as a powerhouse head coach, Stanford.

I did go through a small rebellious phase as a high school and college student where I ate more junk food than my mother would have liked, and I've been moderately overweight in my lifetime, but I've never been obese.

Looking at 15 Kids LiveWell participating chains, researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that the average restaurant kid's meal in 2015 still contained twice the calories recommended for small children and more than 60 percent of their recommended daily allotment of sodium.

When I worked as a nutrition director for a small charter high school in Boston, I learned about a company called City Fresh, which somehow manages to make fresh, healthy meals that comply with US nutritional standards and cost only a little more than the average school lunch.

They have traveled farther afield and had many more life experiences than their high school classmates, many of whom married early and settled down near our small town.

Entries range from small residential schemes to hospitals, schools, iconic restoration projects and giant commercial programmes valued at more than # 100 million.

Traditionally, everyone had one public school to which they were assigned on the basis of where they lived with elementary schools being more numerous and in smaller geographic catchment areas than middle schools than high schools.

«It started as a small component of the capital budget but in the end we were spending more on it than on the maintenance and improvement of the entire school estate.»

For instance, if a school wants children to drink more white milk than chocolate milk, they can make white milk more convenient (put it in the front of the cooler), more attractive (sell it in a shapely bottle), or more normal (give it half of the cooler space instead of a small corner of the cooler).

Considering that children average more than 40 hours of screen time a week, not counting time spent on a computer at school, even small changes can make a difference, researchers said.

The 2009 swine H1N1 flu pandemic — responsible for more than 17,000 deaths worldwide — originated in pigs from a very small region in central Mexico, a research team headed by investigators at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is reporting.

«Kids persistently allergic to cow's milk are smaller than peers with nut allergies: Growth differences are more pronounced among school - aged kids.»

If you love coffee, do nt suck down a whole pot at once: sipping small amounts — about a quarter - cup every hour — will actually keep you more alert than that grande latte without ruining your sleep, according to a study from Harvard Medical School.

In response, I would first offer the argument, who do you think knows more about the small intestine and colon — a surgeon, who regularly operates on said organs, or some hippy who spent more time in high school biology class hitting the bong than paying attention to the material?

«In high school and college, there was nothing I found more embarrassing than my small boobs.

Seuss was quite unhappy when the anti-abortion movement latched onto the book's line of «a person's a person, no matter how small,» but this movie has touches of politics all over it that weren't in the book, including a town council more concerned with PR than safety and the injection of conservative culture - war rhetoric into the book's sour kangaroo (who now «pouch - schools» her joey.)

For Willie Morris (Frankie Muniz), an only child growing up in 1942 Mississippi, liking books more than football and being too small to intimidate school bullies leads to loneliness.

Tom Welling looked more like a Tiger Beat cover model than a small town farm boy, but his gentle blue eyes and aw - shucks smile made his high school freshman Clark Kent all innocence as his powers emerge as he grew up — not your usual problems with puberty.

At KIPP Empower, a blended - learning school in Los Angeles that turned eyes with its 991 API (out of a possible 1000), the school uses blended learning to allow students to work in small groups of no more than 10 students at a time with the teacher so that students have lots of opportunities to engage and interact.

Carter suggested that primary schools and small schools would struggle more with the conversion than larger secondary schools, as they require greater support to tackle issues such as maternity cover.

More than three years ago, schools in the small central Ohio city of Coshocton launched an experiment to pay elementary students for passing or scoring high on state exams.

As a teacher at a small Oakland, California public high school called Life Academy, where each teacher also holds a mixed - grade level advisory class of about 20 students, I began conducting home visits for my advisees as a way to clarify my relationship to them as more than a teacher.

Similarly, young people with small support networks, who don't have a large number of adults and other people who they can rely on, who they feel close to... they have worse health problems, they are much more likely to be bullied at school [and they have a] much lower view of their whole lives than young people with larger support networks.

Litky and his fellow small schoolers can make these claims more reasonably than other schools, since most small schools are schools of choice.

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Reform Means More Than Just Small Research has shown that smaller schools are more effective at meeting students» needs, but just breaking up a school into smaller parts does not necessarily change the climate, according to Indiana University researcher Thomas GregMore Than Just Small Research has shown that smaller schools are more effective at meeting students» needs, but just breaking up a school into smaller parts does not necessarily change the climate, according to Indiana University researcher Thomas Gregmore effective at meeting students» needs, but just breaking up a school into smaller parts does not necessarily change the climate, according to Indiana University researcher Thomas Gregory.

Yet the most striking result from these questions was the fact that the values current in the well - to - do suburban school... were no more oriented to scholastic success than those in the small - town school or the working - class school.

ASCEND is one of more than a dozen small, autonomous schools that have opened in Oakland, California, as part of a grassroots effort to reform the ailing school system.

The Total line includes an additional small category not shown here of students who attended more than one type of graduate school.

A host of new, small schools opening in Chicago will get more money than regular district schools, officials have decided.

In rural Ghana, a typical private school might consist of an open - air structure, often no more than a tin roof supported by wooden poles, on a small plot of land.

Such schools are generally perceived to be smaller, safer, friendlier, and, more often than not, a better place to learn than district schools.

In this four - year longitudinal class - size study, more than 7,000 students in 79 schools were randomly assigned to one of three classroom situations: small class (13 to 17 students per teacher), regular class (22 to 25 students per teacher), or regular class with a full - time teacher's aide.

Although I believe American schools have smaller class sizes and American teachers tend to move about the room more than our Japanese counterparts, I felt a strong bond with the teachers I saw, and I could say many of the comments listed above about American schools.

Just by cutting one to two hours out of my office day to spend a few minutes in each classroom and hallway of my small school district, I've learned more about the little (but often very important) things going on than I would have learned from email, phone calls or hearsay.

Our findings suggest that network schools in Chile are more effective than stand - alone schools, and that larger networks tend to outperform smaller networks.

We examined whether larger networks are more effective than smaller ones and found that, both with and without correcting for student and peer socioeconomic characteristics and selection bias, students at schools that are part of networks of three or more schools consistently outperform students at schools in networks of only two schools.