Sentences with phrase «not been successful in school»

«Many of the parents in a high - poverty environment have not been successful in school, so school is not the place they're most excited about,» Paula said.

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Her mother told her, «Olga, if you want to be successful in the entertainment business, you'll have to work soooo hard if you don't want to go to school.»

«Just because you know an industry is underperforming and you have a lot of money doesn't mean you have a successful strategy,» said Leemore Dafny, a professor at Harvard Business School, in an email.

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And Amar and others such as his colleague Bruce Ackerman (leaders of what Wills terms the «Yale school of nullification») have been arguing that the Federalists were not altogether successful, leaving room in our constitutional government for exceptional moments of popular intervention on behalf of a fundamental reorientation of American politics.

The Importance of True Practice Some have found it strange that a school which is successful, not least in following its mandate to carry out parental wishes, is not being allowed to continue along its pre-determined path.

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In all likelihood, the trends of people leaving top schools the minute they don't get playing time, and people leaving mid-majors as soon as they are successful, would accelerate.

When he was told that he wouldn't have a successful career in football, he tried medical school and left after he failed again.

While this case only names one of its member schools, the NCAA should hope that no more allegations arise from the proceedings and that McAdoo is not ultimately successful in proving that UNC did not live up to its end of the deal in giving him an education.

If he's successful, and this appears to be a viable path for players who want to turn pro out of high school, this could be a positive development for the NBA — which doesn't want to change the age limit, but does want talent in the G League — and for college basketball.

A point worth remembering is that successful handicappers usually have some skill at this and most groups of professional bettors have at least one «number cruncher» among them who didn't muck around at the back of the class and paid attention in school during math lessons.

Not only will you be giving your child priceless memories, but reading to our children is considered one of the best ways we can help our children become successful in school.

My daughter is more like me, she's not in love with reading but she is mastering the skills to be successful in school.

As Geoffrey Canada put it in one conversation I quote in my book, «The question is, can you build a system where kids in middle school won't need these kinds of interventions in order to be successful?

It remains to be seen if SNA's efforts to weaken school meal standards are successful, something we may not be able to fully assess until the Child Nutrition Reauthorization is completed in 2015.

I can't say I'm successful all the time but I am getting my kindergartener to eat school lunch about 3 - 4 days a week and my daughter in high school will eat school lunch about 1 - 2 times a week.

Even though the school's students are parents or soon - to - be parents, this does not diminish the important role that the teen students» parents and families play in creating a successful learning experience for the students.

As well as being the first time in recent memory that meals have been made from scratch in D.C. Public Schools, the program represents the culmination of innovative efforts by D.C. Central Kitchen to build a successful economic model around concepts that don't normally associate in the public mind: local farming, job training for the down - and - out, and feeding the indigent.

To this day, the most important thing a child can learn in school is how to take care of their bodies, because they can not be successful if their bodies break down.

One of the primary justifications for removing this so - called 50 % cap on religious selection is that it has not been successful in boosting integration in religious free schools.

It was not one of the Chuckle Brothers whom we invited to open a free school in Rotherham, but the vice-principal of a very successful school in the north - east.

Taxpayer - funded charter schools should not have the right to choose to educate fewer high - needs students than public schools and then point to how successful they are in comparison.

According to a New York Daily News editorial, New York City should not be shutting down successful charter schools in the first place.

Councilmember Greenfield, a former vice president of the Sephardic Community Federation, heads an outside organization that is dedicated to securing government funds for religious schools, and he boasts in his online Council bio that he has been successful in securing $ 600 million in tax credits for parents of school children not in the public schools.

Damisa Henry, who has a child at a Success Academy in Crown Heights, said, «If this lawsuit is successful my daughter will not be able to continue to attend a school she loves.

Being in a band didn't hurt John Hall in his successful runs for the county legislature, the school board, and then Congress.

David Bloomfield, a professor of education at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, said going to the Capitol for funding assistance is a «predictable and potentially successful strategy in that it doesn't implicate New York City public school buildings.»

Lawmakers were not successful in restoring the $ 250 million in state school aid for New York City schools lost when Mayor Bloomberg refused to sign a teacher evaluation agreement.

«It's been successful in restraining local school revenue, but has been a failure in controlling costs,» he said, adding it caps revenues, but not expenses.

However, a new study by University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers suggests that, despite promising results in clinical trials, smoking cessation drugs alone may not be improving the chances of successful quitting among smokers in general.

«Thirty four percent of people who are trying to quit smoking use pharmaceutical aids and yet most are not successful,» said senior study author John P. Pierce, PhD, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health at UC San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center.

«We've known anecdotally for some time that African Americans are not as successful at getting R01s,» the type of NIH grant typically held by independent investigators, says Wayne Riley, president of Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, and chair of the Association of Minority Health Professions Schools.

Prof Sharon Peacock, from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: «These findings suggest that the emergence of new types of E. coli is not uncommon, and is necessarily followed by successful competition with other types to become a dominant cause of infection in humans.

«This is the first study of its kind to show that if patients enrolled in intensive lifestyle intervention treatments aren't successful in losing weight after the first two months of treatment, they aren't likely to be successful using this approach alone long - term,» said lead author Jessica L. Unick, PhD, of the Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center, The Miriam Hospital and Brown Medical School, Providence, RI.

Groups around the country have tried to create cell and animal models of ACC but haven't been successful,» says Katja Kiseljak - Vassiliades, DO, CU Cancer Center investigator and assistant professor in the CU School of Medicine Division of Endocrinology.

Because they are successful college students — not that much older than the kids they present to — who go to school in West Virginia, SPOT ambassadors make a huge impression on the K - 12 students they visit.

I know that, as we all learned in high school, the most popular kid isn't always the most successful or the most hard - working.

I met up with one of those high school friends a few weeks ago, and in some ways yes, I felt like I had lived my life wrong, or backward, or wasn't successful, but she said that she felt that way too.

Telling sugar babies how to be successful in these kind of relationships wouldn't be as bad if there were a sugar daddy finishing school, for all the rough male diamonds that need to be refined.

The Lottery (Unrated) «Ticket out of the ghetto» documentary follows the diverging fortunes of four NYC families who feel their children's prospects in life depend on whether or not their names are drawn in the lottery admitting students to a phenomenally - successful, Harlem charter school.

After receiving her first Black Belt at the ripe old age of thirteen, she went on to compete in the Canadian Nationals, opened a handful of highly - successful Tae Kwon Do schools in and around Toronto, and - as if all that was not enough - eventually trained to become a licensed bodyguard.

Shabazz is one of the oldest alternative schools in the nation, established in 1971 to educate Madison students whose circumstances, attitudes, and conduct are often not conducive to successful academic work in a traditional school setting.

In the community, you'll sometimes hear that this is the school for the bad kids, because they're the kids who were not successful at the traditional high school.

Like successful business executives, winning coaches, and triumphant politicians, good school leaders have traditionally been viewed as standouts — not because of their expertise in instructional practice (which, after all, is what their business is all about), but because of their individual character traits and actions, «in the heroic American tradition of charismatic leadership,» exlains Elmore.

Practical tips These insights, useful as they are, do not offer the practical strategies and tools that school leaders and teachers have found to be successful and would love to share with others to improve observation and feedback in schools.

Successful schools couldn't even add grade levels and were stalling out in their growth.

In the world of schooling, the majority of highly successful turnaround cases seem to be those where an individual educator had not only the right idea about instruction, but also the tenacity to bend or break those rules that would have prevented meaningful changes at the school level.

Also, many school districts across the country not only have successful induction programs in place, they also are more than willing to share their successes with others.

Future First research shows almost half of young people receiving Free School Meals don't know anyone in a job they would like to do and that three quarters of them don't believe that they can be successful.