Sentences with phrase «number of schools now»

I know that an increasing number of schools now have student advisory periods, a time when a group of students meet with a teacher for advisory help.

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That's now the case for hundreds of students at the University of South China, which according to a number of news outlets has essentially barred those who are in their second year of the school's civil - engineering program from selecting their specialties; the program is broken down into seven of them.

Women have largely flocked to medical and law schools in greater numbers over the past few years, but they are now turning to business school as well in part because business schools are mindful of the shortage of women students and are recruiting them more aggressively than they have before.

While USC's Marshall School is handing out the highest average MBA scholarships in the nation, MIT Sloan now offers the biggest financial aid packages of any business school that publicly reports these nuSchool is handing out the highest average MBA scholarships in the nation, MIT Sloan now offers the biggest financial aid packages of any business school that publicly reports these nuschool that publicly reports these numbers.

The study also found that a far larger number of business schools are now accepting GRE scores instead of the GMAT.

Over the past three decades, the number of homeschooled children has grown by at least 7 percent a year» the number may now exceed the number attending charter schools» and between 6 and 12 percent of all students are educated at home at some point between kindergarten and twelfth grade.

American Catholics to create a sort of parallel society in the 19th and 20th centuries, with the result that there are now over 6,800 Catholic schools (5 % of the national total); 630 hospitals (11 %) plus a similar number of smaller health facilities; and 244 colleges and universities.

The dreadful things that we now know about were still, though none of us knew it then, going on in many Irish schools (though the numbers given in the report indicate that they were in a minority).

Kingdom of the Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement by Mitchell L. Stevens Princeton University Press, 238 pages, $ 24.95 A recent government report documents a remarkable growth in the number of school - aged children now being educated at home and provides reassuring....

In all this health care discussion, another fact has been forgotten: many Catholic schools have been offering insurance that covered birth control for many years in a number of states, including New York where despite the recent brouhaha, not a peep was heard about this until now.

The Principal of Public School 244 in Queens, New York City, has revealed that his pupils now have longer attention spans, are getting better academic scores, and the number of overweight and obese students has dropped by two percent — all since the school went «Meat Free» back in JaSchool 244 in Queens, New York City, has revealed that his pupils now have longer attention spans, are getting better academic scores, and the number of overweight and obese students has dropped by two percent — all since the school went «Meat Free» back in Jaschool went «Meat Free» back in January.

Having a meat free day every week is now recommended in the government's School Food Standards guidance and an increasing number of schools are looking at ways to become greener.

An increasing number of restaurants, takeaways, pizzerias, canteens in schools, universities and hospitals are now offering gluten free meal options.

With Folsom now the marquee football program that Cordova once was back in the 1970s and 80s, the Lancers» numbers — of both players and wins — steadily decreased through the years as the best athletes in Cordova's enrollment area drove a few exits east on Highway 50 or simply abandoned the sport at the high school level.

More than 90 alumni of the BBSHK are now out in the world, preaching the Bryant football doctrine to the young at an equal number of schools.

With the addition of the new schools, the SEC can now double the number of top - 20 U.S. metro areas in which it can claim the most graduates.

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Although Tanner's goal is to have 75 percent of students eating the school lunch, that number is now 53 percent, 2 percent lower than last year.

Now, though, the Texas Department of Agriculture inexplicably wants to take a huge step backwards in child nutrition by proposing: a return of deep fat fryers to our schools; a six-fold increase in the number of allowed junk food fundraising days; and the abolition of the «time and place» competitive food restrictions that have served our children well for over a decade.

Two days ago, New York Times national education correspondent Sam Dillon had a front page story on the sharp increase in the number of formerly middle class households now taking advantage of free or reduced price school lunches for their children, a stark indicator of the nation's current economic woes.

The rate of concussions among U.S. high school athletes has more than doubled between 2005 and 2012, with numbers now as high as 300,000 per year, according to a study published this year in The American Journal of Sports Medicine.

The number of children who go to school because now there is a secondary school in their community?

The mayor also predicted dire consequences if he loses his showdown with state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, who wants to lift the cap on the number of privately run public schools in the city, now set at 23 new charters.

Among them is a measure to extend the New York City mayor's control of the public schools, which has now been linked to a number of diverse issues affecting people in the rest of the state.

Schools have improved in the last 13 years in many ways - in raw standards, in the number and percentage of pupils who now gain the magic five A * - C (or equivalent) GCSEs, in the quality of teaching and learning in our schools, in the quality of our school buildings, in the creativity and flexibility of the curriculum, and in the range and quality of specialist equipment in sSchools have improved in the last 13 years in many ways - in raw standards, in the number and percentage of pupils who now gain the magic five A * - C (or equivalent) GCSEs, in the quality of teaching and learning in our schools, in the quality of our school buildings, in the creativity and flexibility of the curriculum, and in the range and quality of specialist equipment in sschools, in the quality of our school buildings, in the creativity and flexibility of the curriculum, and in the range and quality of specialist equipment in schoolsschools.

Ghana has also remarkably attained gender parity in education, where the number of girls in school now matches the boys, and even higher than the boys in some areas of the country.

Now, in a second attempt, the new task force will review the Common Core standards, the state's curriculum guidance and the tests» quality, develop a process to ensure that tests fit the curriculum and standards, examine how schools can cut back on the length and number of tests and suggest reforms, according to a news release.

«The important point here is, if you look at the trend of improvements in schools, the numbers now succeeding at GCSE and accessing A-levels has been a success story of our education system,» he said.

As employers of more than a million New Yorkers, we urge you to act now to end the uncertainty about the future governance of our city schools and extend the current mayoral control law as well as expanding the number of charter schools.

A third of existing state - funded schools are religious, as are a similar proportion of new Free Schools that are being approved, and now it seems that an increasing number of schools with no previous religious character are at risk of having one forced uposchools are religious, as are a similar proportion of new Free Schools that are being approved, and now it seems that an increasing number of schools with no previous religious character are at risk of having one forced upoSchools that are being approved, and now it seems that an increasing number of schools with no previous religious character are at risk of having one forced uposchools with no previous religious character are at risk of having one forced upon them.

Democrats and Republicans are digging in on the remaining issues of 2017 including a measure to extend the New York City mayor's control of the public schools, which has now been linked to a number of diverse issues affecting people in the rest of the state.

«Thanks to Mayor de Blasio and his friends at the UFT, there are now roughly an equal number of students in community schools as there are in public charter schools,» said Families for Excellent Schools CEO Jeremiah Kitschools as there are in public charter schools,» said Families for Excellent Schools CEO Jeremiah Kitschools,» said Families for Excellent Schools CEO Jeremiah KitSchools CEO Jeremiah Kittredge.

What was once one of the best school systems in New York State is now facing declining enrollment as the number of young families with school - age children declines.

«Colombia is now only second to Brazil in the number of known Zika infections,» says study lead author Matthew Aliota, a research scientist in the UW - Madison School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM).

The number of people in graduate school now is up; however, at the other end of the pipeline, undergraduate enrollments are down the last few years, and that's a direct reflection of the economy.

The number of women has grown from 44 to 112 in the two schools since 1995, according to the new report, and women now comprise 17 % of the faculty.

Over the years, the program has expanded a great deal, and very quickly, in both public schools and charter schools, but it is not so clear that the same number of teachers who are prepared to implement the program are available now as there were during the first years the program was established in public schools.

The University of Pennsylvania offers a number of important resources for students and postdocs interested in biotechnology, with twelve graduate and professional schools, top - ranked business and medical schools, and an innovative postdoctoral training program that is now being emulated elsewhere.

Stanford University in California now requires companies to pool their money and fund a number of activities instead of funding individual courses, as is still allowed in most medical schools.

Nationally, our medical school ranks seventh in the number of graduates who are now engaged in academic medicine.

But all fifth grade teachers at Christi's school also now have classroom Scientific Method Posters in their rooms, thanks to support from Elmer's ® Products, Inc., which made a limited number of posters available to teachers last year.

«Colombia is now only second to Brazil in the number of known Zika infections,» says Matthew Aliota of the School of Veterinary Medicine.

I would Love to go to any number of these events but sadly I am in High School right now and I'm not allowed out late during the week plus I have a GCSE test this wednesday.

It's now 2009, and Caleb Koestler (Canterbury, Benjamin Button), a current student at the same school, receives the envelope to open, keeping the page of numbers, only to be found by his widower, alcoholic father, John (Cage, National Treasure 2), a professor of Astrophysics at MIT, who soon deciphers the meaning.

I don't know if you go to school now or have to take classes, but I know you can only work a certain number of hours.

About 1 million school - age children still can not go online at home and while that number is steadily reducing it remains an area of concern due to the growing assumptions that all children are now connected to the Internet.

Here at the Schools Music Association's office, we have received a worrying number of letters from distraught parents of musician - children, who, having chosen a secondary school because of its emphasis on music, now find that their school is no - longer offering GCSE Music.

Parents will now have their number - one question answered, because ESSA requires the inclusion on school report cards of the percentage of graduates who go on to college and how many needed remediation.

Historically, schools have often offered parking for big local events on a cash - per - car basis, but there are now a number of websites which allow you to rent out your spare spaces online - letting you access the much larger demand for parking outside of school hours, on weekends and during the holidays (as well as events), all year round.

However, an increasing number of schools and colleges are now looking to alternative income streams to supplement government funding — and actually boost the amount they have to spend.