Sentences with phrase «now in the hands of students»

If knowledge is power, and that power is now in the hands of students, shouldn't that change power relationships in schools?

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The kids tell me the food sucks now lol but they do nt see the bigger picture either... while it was a different era for us when us parents were in school; the fundamental rights shouldve remained the same... which is give the kids their choices... the Federal Gov can INCLUDE nutritious items on the free lunch menus while including more choices for them instead of reducing them to avoid social stigmas within the student body of the schools... Kids can be so cruel... Ive lived that first hand... I'm wondering who to contact to protest these changes.

Matthew Levy, once a graduate student of Miller's and now a molecular biologist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, recalls being handed one of the 25 - year - old samples to work on.

Trained first in astrophysics, Horodyskyj is now a graduate student at the University of Colorado Boulder, a school where rock climbing and glaciology go hand in hand.

Hogwarts is now in the malevolent hands of the sinister Severus Snape (hissing, sniveling Alan Rickman), who is holding students and staff hostage as they wait for Harry to rescue them.

These systems, such as virtual reality, ultimately derive from gaming, but it is now being used in lecture theatres, classrooms, and in the hands of students looking for university places.

Although the dream of having students prepare and eat their own organically grown, healthy lunches is still a work in progress, the school's garden and kitchen are now a world - famous success story — a model for schools throughout the country (and the world, really) that want to provide students with an integrated, hands - on gardening curriculum.

Whether they are connecting multimedia to their curriculum or differentiating an assignment for groups, it's now easier than ever to put high - quality information in the hands of students.

The Pine Tree State set a new standard for teaching 21st - century skills when lawmakers agreed to put laptop computers in the hands of every middle school student and teacher — a program that's now being expanded into high schools.

Now comes the hard part: With the money in hand, the 11 states and the District of Columbia must deliver on those goals, which often involve making leaps in student achievement at a record - setting pace.

A student in Durham using an iPad to Google her way to Wikipedia to find a description of the Harlem Renaissance is learning no more than did a student twenty - five years ago who used an encyclopedia to find the same information (though, the fact that it's now easy to cut - and - paste rather than hand - copy the information can make it even easier for a student to avoid absorbing new knowledge).

The plan for rapid expansion in LA Unified is now in the hands of a Broad offshoot, Great Public Schools Now, which intends to raise $ 400 million to invest in new charters and high - performing public schools that serve low - income studennow in the hands of a Broad offshoot, Great Public Schools Now, which intends to raise $ 400 million to invest in new charters and high - performing public schools that serve low - income studenNow, which intends to raise $ 400 million to invest in new charters and high - performing public schools that serve low - income students.

Now, with responsibility for accountability largely in the hands of states under the updated federal education law, the question looms: Will California reinstate real accountability to protect its 6.2 million students who are overwhelmingly low - income and Spanish - speaking, or will it remain in the shadows?

Now, a growing body of research shows that high - quality curricula in the hands of effective teachers have a positive impact on student learning.

Now the White House is moving ahead with an absurd and misguided plan to place guns in teachers» hands — in close proximity of our students.

State assessments, on the other hand, clearly have important consequences for schools and in a number of states they also have significant consequences for individual students» and now teachers.

On October 26, 2015, viewers of the PBS News Hour heard host Gwen Ifill say: «In a policy reversal the Obama Administration, which has supported assessment of students and teachers, has reversed its policy and now says standardized testing has gotten out of hand.»

Now it's time to allow students to draw in the hands of the clock.

The company is now taking a direct hand in grooming the kids of today for the jobs of tomorrow by offering students who have demonstrated a passion for education and technology an opportunity to get real - world training and experience via its Student Ambassador program.

When I decided to go to college to better take care of my family I was told that even though I had an income of only 1000.00 a month I did not qualify or fafsa because I made too much, so I was forced to take put student loans that I can't pay back because I still can't get a job doing what I went to school for and I feel the school I went to did not do all they could to help me, other people who went to the school got their loans wiped clean, but I don't know how they did it so now I am 15000.00 in debt to the loan company who actually changed hands a couple of years ago, I was told because of that I could get mine wiped clean because they never informed me but how I don't know.

«In the past, a veterinarian could graduate without having any hands - on experience treating an ill fish, but now many universities are offering classes to veterinary students and practicing veterinarians,» says Gay Zambrano, DVM, of Zambrano Consulting Mobile Services in Stanton, Calif. «Many veterinarians think it would be too difficult to treat a fish, and they wouldn't even know where to start when it comes to surgerIn the past, a veterinarian could graduate without having any hands - on experience treating an ill fish, but now many universities are offering classes to veterinary students and practicing veterinarians,» says Gay Zambrano, DVM, of Zambrano Consulting Mobile Services in Stanton, Calif. «Many veterinarians think it would be too difficult to treat a fish, and they wouldn't even know where to start when it comes to surgerin Stanton, Calif. «Many veterinarians think it would be too difficult to treat a fish, and they wouldn't even know where to start when it comes to surgery.

In bringing this out - of - the - ordinary topic into the classroom, I often explain myself to the students by explaining that I have come, if only lately, to realize that sending them out into that grand exercise of intellectual property rights known as the global economy without the basics of this legal regime in hand now strikes me as educationally irresponsible, bordering on negligenIn bringing this out - of - the - ordinary topic into the classroom, I often explain myself to the students by explaining that I have come, if only lately, to realize that sending them out into that grand exercise of intellectual property rights known as the global economy without the basics of this legal regime in hand now strikes me as educationally irresponsible, bordering on negligenin hand now strikes me as educationally irresponsible, bordering on negligent.