Sentences with phrase «of girl schooling»

Lowry has worked as an editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and as the deputy headmistress of a girls school.

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Entrepreneurs» daydreams of this nurturing, Yoda - like mentor may be as natural as school girls mooning over Justin Bieber, but it's still entirely wrong, according to a recent post on the HBR blogs by author and training pro Jodi Glickman.
Girls, for example, now make up about half of the enrollment in high - school science and math classes and are scoring almost identically to their male classmates on standardized tests.
She is also a craft beer enthusiast and homebrewer, and a mentor with the Digital Mentoring Program at Girls Write Now — an organization that fosters a community of mentorship between professional writers and high school - aged girls in New Girls Write Now — an organization that fosters a community of mentorship between professional writers and high school - aged girls in New girls in New York.
Buy a water bottle, and you're helping a nonprofit called Charity Water dig a well near a school, enabling young girls to attend school and bring home potable water instead of spending their days going to remote wells.
One girl, who declined to be identified, told WSVN she was a graduate of the school and had returned on Wednesday to visit a teacher.
And so Narodick, formerly a straight - A student voted girl most likely to succeed in Clinton (Massachusetts) High School's class of 1962, set out on a remedial course.
As the co-founder of the IRIS - IN program for girls in partnership with the Ghetto Film School,, Olde is nurturing the next generation of diverse women to tell the silver screen's greatest stories.
Her only trip out of Jacksonville until that point was to Savannah, Ga., on a girls trip in high school.
Yousafzai has been advocating for Pakistani women and children since the age of 11, when she documented in a BBC blog life in the Swat Valley under Taliban rule during a time when girls in the region were prohibited from going to school.
Six out of seven Ugandan girls leave school early, translating to about $ 10 billion dollars in lost potential earnings.
In addition to the academic losses, not showing up to school increases the chances a girl will drop out of school entirely, contract HIV and get pregnant.
After the school band played and Joel spoke, this young girl came up to me with her new saxophone and said, «Thank you for thinking I'm worthy of an instrument like this.»
When their grandfather died, in 1996, and their grandmother grew sick, the two girls, then in high school, moved in to take care of her.
The second type of popularity is the type you remember from high school and Mean Girls.
According to GirlsWhoCode, 74 percent of middle - school girls express interest in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields, yet only 0.4 percent of high - school girls plan to study computer science as a major in college.
Moreover, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has indicated that Intel plans to get involved on a primary - school level with the intention of giving girls a clear path to becoming engineers from a young age.
Rather, when clients looked at their agenda and saw that they had a meeting with the Wexley School for Girls, McAllister wanted them to get excited and to know that it would be the best part of their day.
Last June, the internet giant debuted its Made with Code campaign in an effort to get young women excited about computer science — a field that less than one percent of high school girls think of as part of their future.
In March, we profiled upstart ad agency Wexley School for Girls, which has thrived, thanks to a combination of new - media savvy and old - fashioned irreverence.
• Has invested more than $ 10 million in STEM education programs for girls in elementary through high schools across the US, with partners Code.org, Black Girls Code, Institute of Play, and Digital Progirls in elementary through high schools across the US, with partners Code.org, Black Girls Code, Institute of Play, and Digital ProGirls Code, Institute of Play, and Digital Promise.
To understand why graduation rates in computer science are so low for women, we only need to answer one question: Why do 74 % of high school girls report affinity for STEM subjects in school and yet, according to a report by the Girl Scout Research Institute, only about 20 % pursue STEM - related undergraduate degrees?
According to the TD report, recent research indicates that boys demonstrate more confidence in math and more voluntary participation in high school and university math classes, implying that more effective methods of «developing numeracy skills and confidence» in young girls are needed.
«To all of you that have something nasty to say about me or other women who are built like me, women whose names you know, women whose names you don't, women who've been picked on, women whose husbands put them down, women at work or girls in school, I have one thing to say to you: kiss my fat ass,» she said.
Summary: «The unexpected arrival of a wounded Union soldier at a girls» school in Virginia during the American Civil War leads to jealousy and betrayal.»
Terms like Key Performance Indicator sound boring, and Cost Per Like sounds like the priority of a middle school girl.
Christine is also a Trustee of the Westridge School for Girls in Pasadena, California and a member of the Board of Advisors for UCLA Anderson.
High school students could then access all the information for free and come away with a pretty good idea of, say, the academics, the cafeteria, or how hot (or not) the girls and guys were.
The inventors, juniors and seniors at San Fernando High School in California, are part of a nonprofit organization called DIY Girls that aims to inspire girls to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and Girls that aims to inspire girls to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and girls to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.
One study found that while 60 % of elementary school girls say they are «happy the way I am,» only 29 % of high school girls agree with that statement.
«If you think about what Canadians like in their brands, it's that sense that they're the boy and girl next door,» says Alan Middleton, assistant professor of marketing at the Schulich School of Business.
As the rest of the world has rushed to embrace all things digital, the Girl Scouts has remained resolutely old school.
Russ Girling — President, Pipelines, of TransCanada Corporation — is the winner of the Haskayne School of Business's 2008 Management Alumni Excellence (MAX) Award.
Ms. Jurjevich is Principal of Branksome Hall, a leading private International Baccalaureate (IB) World School for girls located in Toronto, and is also the CEO and Principal of Branksome Hall Global.
After everyone was done sorting over $ 65,000 worth of sports equipment, the items went directly to the three organizations - the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Nevada, the YMCA of Southern Nevada, and After - School All - Stars.
But what kind of man has the power to undress another man's well - cared - for daughter, to unleash the hidden sexual eagerness of all the beautiful, spurning girls who walk the high - school corridors of this country, emerging into respectable professions before being snapped up by wealthy doctors and lawyers and becoming the soccer moms of tomorrow?
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.»
Teena the High School Girl has a peck of problems.
He was part of President Clinton's task force on school violence, and today he works with some of the biggest celebrities like Lebron James, Denzel Washington and Jennifer Lopez just to name a few as vice president of sports and entertainment and alumni development for the Boys and Girls Club.
Baroness Sharon Bowles, Member, House of Lords; Nonexecutive Director, London Stock Exchange Miriam Gonzalez Durantez, Partner, Dechert LLP; Leader, Inspiring Girls Campaign Baroness Jennifer Jones, Member, House of Lords Moderator: Ngaire Woods, Founding Dean, Blavatnik School of Government; Professor of Global Economic Governance, University of Oxford
She is an active volunteer in her local school system, has served on the Board of Directors of the Southwestern Connecticut Girl Scout Council, and in 2010 was the recipient of the William J. Alcorn Leadership Award.
Miami elementary school teacher Justin James House is accused of having sex with a 16 - year - old girl five years ago when she was attending the Frost Musician's Summer Camp at the University of Miami and he was a 26 - year - old counselor, Miami - Dade detectives say.
A survivor of the Parkland school shooting has shared a senior prom night to remember with a Nebraska girl.
Teenage girls, women and even older men are writing to the Parkland school shooter and sending photographs — some suggestive — tucked inside cute greeting cards and attached to notebook paper with offers of friendship and encouragement.
Classmates said they were concerned he fit the profile of a school shooter and Fort Lauderdale police sought the order after, they said, he wrote an essay describing a home invasion and murder at the home of a girl who did not return his affections.
The deserving organizations were the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Nevada, the After - School All - Stars of Las Vegas, and the YMCA of Southern Nevada.
A school district in Virginia is being warned by a team of lawyers that the presentation of explicit sex videos to classes of 14 - year - old girls likely were felony violations of state and federal laws.
He reminds me of some colleagues I had in my school years that memorized some sentences to impress the girls.
My first experience with Boys & Girls Club of Canada (BGCC) happened when I was in high school — and what I had learned that summer never left me.
The narcissism epidemic is the common denominator underneath many contemporary trends — from grade inflation, to the crass and aggressive tone of so much entertainment, to birthday gifts for high school girls that stupefy the imagination.
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