Sentences with phrase «much less school»

In 1999, achievement gaps based on race and socioeconomic status were large and persistent, and there were few examples of schools, much less school systems, that defied this trend.

«But handing out uncountable millions to operators who would be given a free hand was also like putting a big sign out by the highway that says «Welcome Charlatans, Grifters, Credential - Fakers, Cherry - Pickers, Stat - Jukers, Cult of Personality Freaks and People Who Have No Business Running a Dairy Queen, Much Less a School.»

So the legislature is not even fully funding the classroom, much less school administrators.

Not exact matches

Even in its best years, its acceptance rate — often hovering in the 70 % to 80 % range — was much higher than the major business schools, which accept less than 20 % of their applicants.

John Kirton, co-director of the G - 20 Research Group at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs, called the summit a «very solid success,» pointing to broad agreement on the agenda, much of it focusing on less controversial issues such as women's empowerment and promoting digitalization.

As a college graduate schooled in accounting, working on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was not my idea of a job, much less a career.

They are mostly male, grew up in a farm family, tend to be high school educated and are much less likely to be running a sustainable or organic farm.

Even when they had the White House (George W) and both Houses of Congress the GOP never even introduced, much less voted on, any bill banning abortion, allowing prayer in school, banning gay marriage or any other of the wedge issues they use to attract a certain mentally deranged segment of the population to their side by pretending to defend those things that are important to Christian conservatives.

It seems to me they have much bigger fish to fry like: The Taliban treating women as less than human, stoning people to death, 60 year old men marrying teenage girls, cutting off an 18 year old girl's nose because she left her abusive husband (see TIME magazine a month ago), destroying over 125 schools because girls attend, suicidal Islamic fanatical cowards on every continent killing thousands of INNOCENT people, and these clowns are worried about their precious Koran being burned by a nutjob.

At secondary level, they still feature, though much less prominently — largely because there are far fewer faith - based secondary schools.

For me, it truly is try to eat much less; move far more, like heaps of cardio and strength schooling.

I get confused about what excellence can mean from institution to institution, given the American practice of grading colleges; even the much less than superlative schools claim to be excellent.

God, you're so feckin» stupid I can't figure out how you even graduated from high school, much less got into a college.

Further, older students are more than twice as likely as younger students to have attended a vocational or technical high school or a two - year or community college, and much less likely to have attended a private, nonreligious grade and high school.

They are some of the most elemental bits of knowledge that any middle school student should know off the top of their head much less guess the answer on a multiple choice basis!

Poor children are less healthy, less involved in school, more likely to drop out of school, more likely to get in trouble with the law, and much more likely to die prematurely.

ANYONE who graduated from college, much less high school, knows there would be no comma between «now» and «they».

Public schools do not even allow for Christmas to be mentioned, much less taught anymore.

As a culture we have accepted this (more or less) and therefore it would not make sense to now add a holiday for another religion when these people have spent so much time and effort to remove all religion from school.

It is important to remember that the parents in Tennessee and in Alabama were not asking that their own religious beliefs be taught in the schools, much less seeking to «control religious impulses and reshape spiritual sensibilities» for the children of other parents.

Inner - city Catholic schools (the Church in America's most effective social welfare program) demonstrate that time and again: They spend less than the government schools, and their students learn much more — and not just in quantifiable, standardized - testing terms.

Even people with less than a high school education today recognize the priority of the brain over the blood, so much so in fact, that in the movie, Hannibal (about a cannibalistic serial killer), the thought of slicing out tiny parts of a person's brain, cooking them in a pan, and serving the pieces to that person to eat has become in the public's mind a more disturbing image than, say, serving a person a glass of their own blood to drink, which appears relatively tame in comparison.

The difficulties with «strongly religious» colleges even today, much less between 1870 and 1920, are sometimes buried in Marsden's notes, as when he admits that academic due process is often absent from such schools and «dictatorial rule is particularly common.»

Now they have much less conflict over schooling than we have grown accustomed to in the U.S.

When young people grow up in a more or less homogeneous society, where parents, religious leaders, and schools all confidently communicate traditional values, they may rebel to some extent, but they are also likely to assimilate much of the tradition.

Some kinds of change may be plausible if they involve a strengthening of a commitment to be a certain type of community which is already dominant in a school, but other kinds of change may be much less plausible precisely because they would involve a change in the type of community a school already is or a change in the current equilibrium among contrasting types of community.

My ordination means that my hometown church, where I first heard God speak to me, made my profession of faith, was baptized, and made my commitment to vocational Christian service, will not permit me even to speak to a Sunday school class, much less preach.

My friends make fun of me for it, but it makes the mornings go by so much nicer and less grumpy especially now that we are in Middle School.

But working (or going to school, much less med school) with a baby is exhausting.

Not only are you factually wrong in several spots, but it appears you certainly didn't attend college, much less journalism school.

From birth through high school through college through a 12 - year major - league career, he got to stay in the same area of the country, a luxury that most Americans never have, much less baseball players.

Tech is a specialized school, and the chances of boneheads surviving there are much less than at a number of liberal arts schools.

Getting an active child to sit down for a meal of any kind, much less a well - balanced, made - from - scratch meal with the entire family, as he rushes off to or home from school, sports practices or games, or other activities that cram virtually every nook and cranny of a child's day, has become virtually impossible for many families, especially those headed by single parents.

They are full of student discussions and group activities large and small; teachers guide the conversation, but they spend much less time lecturing than most public school teachers do.

It is vital to learn these lessons in high school as the adult world is much less forgiving than high school — and young adults with behavioral or developmental problems often experience deeper feelings of failure as they move into their adult identity.

(or a class of «behavior challenged» Middle Schoolers who could care less about taking a test) Sad that this is what education has come to in an effort to make sure that no child is «left behind»... This is the underlying issue right here ~ too much emphasis on penciling in the correct letter circle and not enough student driven cirriculum.

I'm not sure how sensitive these sensors are supposed to be, but if the general public's boobs move around as much as mine do, those bras are going to feel less like support and more like your first boyfriend after the middle school dance.

Studies show most home school students have fewer «problem behaviours,» when in mixed groups (of home schooled children and non-home schooled children), and home schooled children are much more likely to be better developed socially, more capable of functioning in the real adult world, and less affected by negative peer pressure.

Many home educators belong to sports teams or play in orchestras, and are generally far more relaxed about these things than their schooled contemporaries because they have so much more time available — and less need to compete.

I was somewhat reassured to see, when visiting some secondary comprehensive schools in the UK, that their science labs were smaller and much less well - equipped than the ones I could remember.

Consider Civic or Youth Organizations: While it's true that many after school activities can cost hundreds, even thousands of dollars to participate, there are a number of options that are much less expensive.

Cosmas, the Buffalo Grove mother of two, was instrumental in getting her school district and park district together after an acquaintance, a single father, told her how much less he was paying for child care through a school - park program in a neighboring community.

We're only talking the first 6 months of their lives much less where they will attend school, when they will be allowed to date, and how much money will we shell out for their college tuition.

What a securely attached child - OR ADULT - looks like: competent, self - confident, resilient, cheerful much of the time, anticipating people's needs (not from a co-dependent place), empathic, humorous, playful, tries harder in the face of adversity; not vulnerable to approach by strangers because won't go to strangers (as adult, out - going without being foolhardy), good self - esteem, achieving, able to use all mental, physical, emotional resources fully, responsive, affectionate, able to make deep commitments as appropriate, able to be self - disclosing as appropriate, able to be available emotionally as appropriate, able to interact well with others at school and in jobs / careers, likely to be more physically healthy throughout life, self - responsible, giving from a «good heart» place of compassion, has true autonomy, no co-dependent self, because of well developed internal modulation system, less likely to turn to external «devices» (addictions) to modulate affect

I want to thank the reporter, Claudia Feldman, for taking time to speak with me about issues I — and most of you — care so much about: trying hard to feed our kids well in a less - than - healthy food environment; improving school food; and yes, my pet peeve of food in the classroom for birthday treats or performance rewards.

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There are generally a lot more children in an elementary school, multiple classrooms where your child will be, and likely a playground that is much further away from the office (where medications may be kept) and less monitoring on the playground.

This may appear to be a cheaper method of dealing with a food service provider, but in fact the school district would have much less control over the individual meal items Aramark is serving.

Here in Britain, however, Tough's central tenet appears less radical; our Public School system is founded on the importance of character, so much so that rounded individuals are fast becoming a key national export, as foreign students flock here and schools open satellite campuses overseas.

In the end analysis, the elimination of this much vilified product will result in less lean offerings at much higher prices to consumers, including the taxpayer who ultimately foots the bill for school lunches and other government procurement.