Sentences with phrase «of all high school students took»

Fewer than 25 percent of high school students take any family and consumer science classes, formerly known as home economics, and those classes are often the first to go when school budgets are trimmed.

A group of high school students takes centre stage in Jenny Gage's seen - it - all - before documentary.

Just 13 percent of high school students took strong, comprehensive courses, according to the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress; this included a mere seven percent of black students and six percent of their Latino schoolmates.

With less than 10 % of all high school students taking an engineering technology course, few students are being prepared for well - paying, stable careers in the STEM workforce (Frase et al., 2016).

North Carolina is below the national average in the number of high school students taking upper - level science and mathematics courses — and girls and minorities are least likely to take high - level science and math courses.

«Of the high school students taking AP exams, nearly half fail to earn what is considered a passing score.

Campus officials point to more courses, a new downtown location and an increased number of high school students taking courses.

Not exact matches

The Backstory: The son of a Boston furniture maker, Kalin flunked out of high school, briefly enrolled in an art school, and then faked an MIT student ID so he could take classes on the sly.

«I can't tell you how many high school students in their first year of college taking my IT courses have never opened an Excel spreadsheet,» Boyer says.

A 16 - year - old high school student who said he was frustrated with his teachers unleashed an attack on the Osaka Board of Education server that took 444 elementary, junior high and high school networks offline, investigators said.

Cadie McNaboe, a 17 - year - old senior at Philip Barbour High School, said the gun culture in her area is something she had to take into account, which is why the students will observe a moment of silence and release balloons.

The shooter, a 19 - year - old expelled former student of the high school, has been taken into custody by authorities.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students David and Lauren Hogg respond to Rick Santorum's comments that instead of students protesting for gun control legislation, they should take CPR classes.

A student took this video of classmates hiding in a classroom at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, as a gunman opens fire.

Even YouTube's decision to remove the video smearing Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student David Hogg has a downside because, CNN's Brian Stelter argues, «the notion that a giant corporation took down the video plays right into the hands of conspiracy - mongers who say they're being censored.»

This past Friday, students across the country walked out of their classroom to protest gun violence and while students were participating, walking out at Flour Bluff High School three seniors there decided to take another position.

After the shooting on Wednesday, Mr. Gard said that several students told him that Mr. Cruz was taken with a girl at Stoneman Douglas High School «to the point of stalking her.»

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The properly measured economic return to community college has to take into account the counterfactual outcomes that entrants would face in the absence of community college, rather than compare community college entrants to students who enter university programs after high school.

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«If they continue to ignore us, to only pretend to listen, then we will take action where it counts,» Delaney Tarr, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, where a gunman killed 17 people last month, told tens of thousands rallying in Washington.

One of the students who survived Wednesday's deadly shooting at a Florida high school called for stricter gun regulations and took aim at President Donald Trump and other Republicans for their inaction on the matter on Saturday.

Biden told the crowd of college students, «If we were in high school, I'd take him behind the gym and beat the h *** out of him,» and said men who disrespected women are «usually the fattest, ugliest S.O.B. in the room.»

Twice each year, I take two bus - loads of high school students on retreats at which they worship, walk labyrinths, talk in small groups with adults who care about them, and «hang out» in Christian community.

So I guess you would be fine with a student at a high school graduation getting up to the podium and saying «I would like to take this moment to reflect on how strength of will and character helped all of us to graduate today, and please join with me for a moment of reflection at how amazingly the human race has evolved, to this point of passing on our collective knowledge to each new class, and to hope that we add to it, for if we do not, the future may be very dim.

I try to encourage my high school students to take care of future them but I'm not sure they believe that it's important.

The program will have seven stages, including a culinary arts competition in which teams of high school culinary arts students from throughout the country take on the challenge of creating a delicious, nutritious school meal for $ 1 per meal; a Healthy Eating Crockpot 8 - week cooking course for families, at the end of which participants and / or the individuals will receive a free crock pot; healthy recipe / healthy snack cook book and monthly newsletter by student chefs; and supporting student chefs in developing and growing their own home gardens.

It's a fact, however, that there are only so many spots on varsity and junior varsity teams, so there's a limit to how many high school students can take advantage of the benefits of interscholastic sports.

We want students in middle school and high school to be able to persevere, to be resilient, to be tenacious when faced with obstacles — but we don't often stop to consider the deep roots of those skills, the steps that every child must take, developmentally, to get there.

Today's digital technology is taking high school students to a whole new level of learning.

«How to Succeed takes readers on a high - speed tour of experimental schools and new research, all peppered with anecdotes about disadvantaged youths overcoming the odds, and affluent students meeting enough resistance to develop character strengths.»

We spend a lot of time with high school students, and there is one thing we know for sure: they don't want the college application to take over their lives and result in non-stop strife in their families, but they just don't know how to avoid it, and, frequently, neither do their parents.

Pressure to play needs to be taken off kids in order for them to feel comfortable reporting their signs and symptoms of a possible concussion,» says Tamara Valovich McLeod,, PhD, ATC, FNATA, Professor in the Athletic Training Program and Directors of the Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory and Athletic Training Practice - Based Research Network in the Department of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences at A.T. Still University in Mesa, Arizona, co-author of the attitude study, and lead author of an earlier study [3] on attitudes on concussions among high school students.

I think about the debates around how many AP courses a high school student should take or whether to apply to 8 schools or 10 and realize the luxury of worrying about problems like these.

High school students often can buy bottled water and juices in the lunchroom at their own expense but can not take them as part of a federally funded lunch.

In August the company took over operations from Aramark and began serving daily meals of sustainable, local and organic food to 4,700 students at Niles North and Niles West high schools in Skokie.

Many middle schools offer gifted or high achieving students the option of taking high school courses before high school even begins.

The college I attended had a program where students, ranging in age from 16 - 18, could live on campus and take their last two years of high school simultaneously with their first two years of college.

At high school, we price our entrees the same as our meals, so that it behooves the student to take a meal instead of just the entree (i.e. a complete meal (entree, two 1/2 fruit, 1/2 cup veg, trip through salad bar, and milk) is $ 2.00... a deli turkey wrap is $ 2.00.

But with increasing dissatisfaction over the high - stakes testing currently consuming mainstream education; the growing recognition of the many benefits a child receives through experiences with art, movement, and nature; a concern over a reliance on technology by younger and younger students; and the news that leaders in the high - tech industry are touting the lifelong benefits of low - tech Waldorf schools in educating their own children, more and more parents and educators are taking a closer look at the Waldorf approach and what it has to offer.

In doing so, Boston is taking advantage of the «community eligibility option» in the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010, which allows schools with relatively high populations of socioeconomically disadvantaged students (40 % or more) to do away with individual paperwork filings and simply provide free meals to all.

This action was taken despite the fact that our state ranks fifth in the nation for obesity among high school students, and despite public comments reportedly opposing the TDA's plan by an astounding margin of 105 to 8.

Students from dozens of schools across the city are planning to take part in a 17 - minute walkout Wednesday morning, with each minute representing a life lost during the Feb. 14 mass shooting at a Florida high school.

Reading the comment carefully, you understand that the father (and child) feel less shame about taking advantage of school meals at breakfast, where the service is universal (available to all regardless of economic need) versus at lunch, where there is often a more visible distinction between paying and nonpaying students, or between students on the federally reimbursable lunch line versus those who can purchase for - cash (and often more desirable) «a la carte» food, or (in the case of high schoolers) between students who can go off campus to buy lunch at convenience stores and restaurants versus those with no money in their pockets.

To graduate high school, Wisconsin students have to take a health class worth half a credit that may or may not include nutrition; if it does, a bill recently signed into law by Gov. Scott Walker says nutrition instruction has to be based on guidelines that are updated every five years by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Our Youth to Youth Program, MIND YOUR MELON, takes high school athletes who have healed from concussions to speak to groups of middle and high school students.

This article touches on some of the safety issues high school students face and some of the approaches they can take to stay safe.

That's why so much of my time is taken up in trying to publicize just how important it is for our lowest income and most vulnerable students to have access to the highest possible quality of food at school.

Milestones End - of - Grade (EOG) exams are administered every spring in Grades 3 - 8 in the subjects of English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies; Milestones End - of - Course (EOC) exams are administered for designated high school courses... and, middle school students who are taking any of those courses for high school credit must also take the EOC for that subject.

Accordingly, rather than force children to take the whole meal and throw out much of it, in 1975, Congress passed an amendment to the School Lunch Act allowing high schools to still receive federal reimbursement for meals so long as students selected at least three out of five options served, including milk.