Sentences with phrase «most high school lives»

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Most parents are aware that over the course of an adult's working life, high school graduates can expect, on average, to earn $ 1 million less than those with a bachelor's degree and are 50 percent more likely to be unemployed.

As one high school girl put it, after she had found this life style in a growth group led by her minister, «I'm really turned on to nature, books, music, and most all, people!

Though these two elements — integration and formation — are the most costly parts of college life, they are also the only reasons not to reduce the spendy, four - year residential model to a two - year, web - based, vocation - focused, trade - school model of higher education.

After she «accidentally» scored some 50 points in her first high school game, she was dubbed Moravia Molly and basketball became the most important thing in her life.

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Helping to prepare your teen for life after high school is one of the most important tasks you'll have as a parent.

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He was 3 or 4 when he started talking about Hannah Montana and High School Musical because one of his classmates (the most trashily dressed preschool girl I've seen in real life) was always talking about them.

She continues to live with learning disabilities and struggles with the issues that most teenagers face during the transition to young adulthood and life beyond high school.

What I liked most about the book is that it doesn't shy away from addressing the real - life challenges that can trip up the best - intentioned parent, whether it's the growing influence of peers as a child moves into elementary school, the «I don't need your advice» attitude of the high schooler, or the scheduling conflicts that can make healthy, communal eating seem impossible.

One of my daughter's high school friends told me the most stressful time in her life was when her father insisted on an 11 p.m. bedtime.

From the first sonogram to high school graduation, most parents in the 2010's are not shy - or conflicted - about sharing their children's lives online.

Most jobs require at least a high school education, and those that pay enough to earn a decent living require a college degree.

The students behind the March For Our Lives movement, which started after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Florida, sent a note of support, saying, «This is the most fatal shooting since the one at our school and tragedies like this will continue to happen unless action is taken.&School shooting in Florida, sent a note of support, saying, «This is the most fatal shooting since the one at our school and tragedies like this will continue to happen unless action is taken.&school and tragedies like this will continue to happen unless action is taken.»

The new unit will help develop students» understanding of energy transfer and conservation in both living and non-living systems so that they can explain fundamental processes in living organisms, a major topic in most high school biology courses.

Hallisey, currently a high school junior (right), lives in Greenwich, Conn. — far removed from the West African communities hit hardest by the most recent Ebola outbreak.

For me, widespread access to the internet and social media took off while I was in college, so while my first employers could have Googled me, the most they would have found is high school or college graduation announcements or achievements in my adult life.

«Most people outgrow it in their early teens, but it can come back later in life,» says Whitney High, MD, an associate professor of dermatology and pathology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, in Denver.

Because I spent most of my working life teaching high school... I did not have to contend with hot July days and what to wear to work.

Some people still marry their high school sweethearts, but most people today don't get married until later in life, such as in college or right after graduation.

I've lived in Trenton for most of my life, but halfway throughout my High School years I stayed with my sister in Burlington Township, New Jersey to receive a better education.

It is during this time of life that women attend college, hang out with old friends from high school and go to the most parties and events.

Like most of my 20 - something friends from high school now living... So what is dating in middle school like?

Like most of my 20 - something friends from high school now living... by Allison Davis Pro: His mom still thinks of you as the sweet girl she knew in high school who her son drove home after math club.

It tells the story of several romances in high school before the most romantic night of their lives, Prom night.

Contemporary high schooler Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) doesn't have the most pleasant of lives.

She played Jakki Kaan on YTV's action / suspense drama 2030 CE, Sue Miller on ABC's high school drama Life As We Know It, and Bekka on Canada's one of the most popular teen series, Edgemont.

In the most mature installment, alcoholic Gary King (Simon Pegg) lives in the past and manipulates his old high school friends Andrew Knightley (Nick Frost), Oliver «O - Man» Chamberlain (Martin Freeman), Steven Prince (Paddy Considine), and Peter Page (Eddie Marsan) into joining him on an epic pub crawl in their hometown.

In Persona 3 and 4, reality outside of the world of shadows was high school life, social links, and excursions that, for the most part, were enjoyable and light - hearted.

Though Winona Ryder made a bit of a splash in 1988 in Beetlejuice, in which she's hilariously deadpan (befitting a character who starts out more interested in death than life), she truly became a star when she landed the lead role in one of the most demented high - school comedies ever made.

After graduating from Longview High School in 1988 — where he was voted «Most Handsome» — McConaughey signed on for an exchange student program, spending a year living in New South Wales, Australia.

The class reunion is about to happen, so organizer Jack Black — the high school loser who stayed in town, married young and still can't get any respect — wrangles attendance confirmation from the most popular guy of their graduating class, an actor (James Marsden) now living in Los Angeles and appearing shirtless in a sunscreen commercial.

Charlie (Lerman) is only a freshman and he has already had a life most high schoolers have not experienced.

In the mid-1990s, after Look Who's Talking made her one of the most commercially successful women in filmmaking history, Amy Heckerling returned to the setting of her directing debut: contemporary high school life in sunny Southern California.

For her first advancement in China with the movie, «The Grand Master», «Hallyu Queen» Song Hye Kyo (28) is living life like a high school senior as she takes the most excellent measure in preparing for this project.

The Spectacular Now is based on the acclaimed book by Tim Tharp, a coming - of - age tale revolving around one of the most popular dudes in high school, Sutter Keely (Teller, Project X), who is widely known at school as the life of the party.

«Lady Bird» Writer - director Greta Gerwig assembled a roster of top - tier talent (most are regulars in the NYC theater scene) to bring to life her portrait of Sacramento, California, in 2002, and a high school senior (Saoirse Ronan) who believes the only interesting thing about the year is that it's a palindrome.

THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER Writer / Director: Stephen Chbosky Starring: Ezra Miller, Emma Watson, Logan Lerman, Mae Whitman, Paul Rudd, Kate Walsh, Dylan McDermott, Nina Dobrev Charlie (Lerman) is only a freshman and he has already had a life most high schoolers have not experienced.

Among students who had fun with their family most days, the likelihood of being in the group with higher life satisfaction was much greater if students also reported that a teacher or another adult at their school believed that they would be a success.

Perhaps most importantly, Goldstein knew that his tutors would have to be highly trained, integrated into the life of the school, and have «high - touch» with students (meaning that they would be present throughout the school day) if they were to be effective.

When asked which measures would most likely improve social mobility and help disadvantaged young people get on in life, almost half of respondents (47 per cent) chose «high - quality teaching in comprehensive schools», ahead of two social mobility policies adopted by the main parties in the recent election.

People who advocate more vocational education in our high schools miss the most fundamental fact of the new world we are living in: today, the best vocational education is academic education.

A school system with a 35 percent annual student mobility rate, with half of its students living at the poverty line, with most of their parents having only a high school education — with National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores among the highest in the U.S.?

In criticizing the federal regulation, for example, Weingarten claimed that «the flawed framework... will punish teacher - prep programs whose graduates go on to teach in our highest - needs schools, most often those with high concentrations of students who live in poverty and English language learners.»

«The most important thing is that children in Louisiana have gone back to school this year with high academic standards in place in their classrooms to help prepare them to succeed in college, career and life,» spokeswoman Dorie Nolt said.

These and other results suggest that some of the most prominent ideas that dominate current policy debates — from supporting vouchers to doubling down on high - stakes tests to cutting federal education funding — are out of step with parents» main concern: They want their children prepared for life after they complete high school.

We owe it to all students, including Sandra — who, if 90 percent of life is showing up, most assuredly deserves the «A» — to offer a broader menu of education options at the high school level.

Across the state most charter schools are living up to the promise to provide a high - quality public education to students.

The science continues to show how high quality, nourishing food sets students up for academic success, helps improve attention and focus during the school day, sow a greater appreciation and respect for food, and most importantly lays the foundation for life long healthy habits.

The empirical evidence simply does not support the use of one - size - fits - all curriculum standards and high stakes testing as effective tools to improve the education and life outcomes of over 56 million public school students in the third most populous country on the planet.