Sentences with phrase «of desperate students»

But at the same time I felt like unpaid work is taking advantage of desperate students,» said one.

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The ACCESS school was in desperate need of a new playground to better serve the students here, and through the Let's Play initiative they were able to provide the students in this community with a resource they badly needed.

Consider not just the appalling record of the twentieth century; consider as well the sullenness of so many high school students today, the emptiness of their elders in college, the despair of the underclass, the desperate fun - seeking of the jet set, the divorce rate, the incidence of child abuse, and on and on.

But most of the students who plagiarized did so because they were desperate or scared, or both.

We had all, as medical students, been inculcated with the idea that these mothers were inadequate, if not downright incompetent, and in desperate need of our advice.

He advised parents, guardians and families of FUOYE students to prevail on their wards to shun this Greek gift and avoid being used by desperate politicians.

The party, desperate for votes, then fell into a trap set by the National Union of Students.

The desperate students also say their academic work has stalled and their living conditions are worsening due to the non-payment of their allowances.

FG issues security alert on planned Boko Haram abductions for ransom The Federal Government on Friday issued a security alert that Boko Haram terrorists were planning another sensational abduction of pupils / students or foreigners in a desperate effort to raise funds through ransom.

Lawyers believe the Home Office is desperate for none of their claims to be tested in court because the evidence against the students would not be strong enough.

Independent charters are particularly desperate for facilities funding, while large charters — mostly sited in co-located public school space — are focusing on increasing the amount of public money each charter school student receives.

Take the desperate situation involving the school district in East Ramapo, where a school board dominated by Orthodox Jewish members is at odds with the parents of a student body that is largely black and Hispanic, in a situation that seemed to be crying out for some resolution at the state level.

I learned the hard way, as a desperate Ph.D. student nearing the end of my second year with no tangible results.

When Andrew Kennedy was a neuroscience graduate student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, a group of desperate parents reached out to his mentor, then - UAB neurobiologist David Sweatt.

Days at the retreat are spent sitting inside a giant meditation hall, totally barren except for the ground, which is scattered with pillows, blankets, and meditation stools — desperate attempts by students to find at least minimal comfort during the long days of meditation spent sitting on the floor.

However, know that she is not looking for all night fraternity parties but probably is looking for someone to take care of If you're a student, be a good student, if you're just starting your career, have passion and if you're unemployed, have something useful to occupy your time but don't be desperate.

The UK students shouldn't enter this kind of sugar baby lifestyle if they are in desperate need.

This English listening Web site created by Randall Davis helps ESL / EFL students improve their listening comprehension skills through practice with self Speed dating - Desperate to find the man of her dreams, sweet and plain Ava tries a last ditch effort, speed dating.

Acting alongside Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson, he played a high school basketball player who was desperate enough for a high SAT to join a band of students intent on stealing the answers.

Meg Murry (Storm Reid) is a typical middle school student struggling with issues of self - worth who is desperate to fit in.

«Students were desperate to take that class,» she says, «both because of the force of David's personality and the convincingness of the work itself.»

But the bottom line seems to be that for inner city students, charter schools offer some systematic long - term improvement, which accounts for the long - waiting lists of students desperate to escape the public school monopoly.

This points to a desperate need to move toward a competency - based learning system that measures and rewards individual student growth, as well as an underlying shared learning infrastructure that allows the country to identify each unique student in a consistent way — so that when he or she moves geographies, the student's record does as well — and to keep track of what that student knows and can do in a consistent way across geographies.

Whether the change is needed to match disruption in the workplace and consumer marketplace, or because of rampant inequalities in the system is somewhat inconsequential — only somewhat because inequalities stemming from socioeconomic disparity are in desperate need of institutional address — because both are keeping students from reaching their full potential.

Every time I sit face - to - face with a student who seems desperate to please, a momentary urge comes over me to take the pen out of her hand and write for her.

Our secondary education system, designed largely in and for the industrial era, is in desperate need of revision if it is to remain effective in preparing students for their adult lives.

When used on a regular basis, students will come to empathize with the character of Joe who struggles with spelling and who is in desperate need of advice as exams appear on the horizon.

Some of the lowest - performing urban public - school systems are also those that spend the most money per pupil — but despite Catholic schools» record of helping disadvantaged students learn, and despite their desperate need for financial resources, these institutions are denied any direct public support.

Francisco is a first - grade student in the Bronx whose mother (a social worker with a graduate degree) is desperate to get him out of the New York City public schools and into a charter school; she applies to Harlem Success Academy where he is one of 792 applicants for forty places.

«I don't think we're going to learn a lot by looking at states with only six charter schools that started last year,» she says, noting that in their first year or two, charter schools can be «oddball» places, operating out of makeshift facilities and populated by students whose parents are either very experimental or desperate to improve their child's failing performance.

The Corporate Education Reformers and their allies in the charter school industry are so desperate to hijack the voices of public schools students that they actually create front groups with names like Students For Educationstudents that they actually create front groups with names like Students For EducationStudents For Education Reform.

Instead of focusing on improvements in student learning, the trending topic is NJEA leaders» desperate attempt to unseat Senate President Steve Sweeney because he acted in a statesmanlike manner and made the astute decision to pull back...

Instead of focusing on improvements in student learning, the trending topic is NJEA leaders» desperate attempt to unseat Senate President Steve Sweeney because he acted in a statesmanlike manner and made the astute decision to pull back a referendum on an amendment that would require the state to make $ 20 billion in pension payments over the next five years.

Inspire your students with the untold story of American upstanders who risked their lives to help desperate refugees.

With the evident benefits for those students most in need, the strong appeal to parents desperate for better educational opportunities for their children (with an admission waiting list of one million names nationally) and the predominantly non-union academic faculty, charter schools represent a powerful threat to the economic and political hegemony of the unions.

Alex connects his own desperate attempts to connect with his students to the lessons he learned along his journey to becoming one of America's top teachers.

Our schools are in desperate need of upgrades and repairs to keep our students safe and ensure they have facilities where they can learn.

Few parents have the time, energy or education policy experience to go hunting for the facts on which schools are actually helping all their students learn, which ones are in desperate need of support, and which ones are eking it out for affluent kids but still failing to deliver an equal education to every child.

Many of the students that come to us for help are rather desperate: they are trying to balance their work, their personal life, and their academic career all at the same time, and the teachers judging their work are often giving them more assignments than ever before, making it harder and harder to succeed.

The writing service industry has evolved, however, as crafty entrepreneurs continue to take advantage of unsuspecting and desperate students.

No, we're not psychic - at least not that we know of - but we know that students only seek out My Custom Essay if they're in desperate need of essay writing services.

Each of the characters is damaged in some way; a grieving widow, a desperate mother, a tormented teenager, and a teacher whose dedication to his students creates chasms in his marriage.

That's 17 % of student borrowers who are desperate and may never dig their way out.

Just because you aren't necessarily desperate for a lower student loan payment doesn't mean you can't take advantage of savings and work smarter instead of harder.

While the UK's student debt situation lacks the magnitude of its American counterpart, student debt in the UK is seemingly on its way to becoming a much more significant and desperate issue, especially after considering the relative impact on a smaller nation.

Fighting a collective debt of $ 1.41 trillion, graduates in this country are facing a tremendous problem, and we hope this study demonstrates just how desperate some of them are to erase their student debt.

When you're desperate to get a job so you can start paying off those hefty student loans, you may be tempted to stretch yourself in terms of where you apply.

Some millennials have resorted to desperate measures, accepting jobs with low pay in hopes of student loan forgiveness, including seeking employment at Red Lobster in mistaken hopes of eliminating student debt.

Without getting into a discussion of why the prices are so high, we can all agree that there are a few desperate students out there who would steal a textbook if they had the opportunity because they can't afford or don't want to pay for their own copy.

Some college graduates collect an overwhelming amount of student loan debt and become desperate to...