Sentences with phrase «of high school students wanting»

Additional adjunct faculty members have been hired to accommodate the increase in the number of high school students wanting to take the college's courses.

In 1959, Coleman found that 40 percent of high school students wanted to be «star athletes» while less than 30 percent valued being «brilliant students.»

Not exact matches

The result: Stanford tends to attract a very high percentage of prospective students who want to do their own thing and, once in Silicon Valley, the school serves up enough opportunities to push the odds in their favor.

«We want to pass something great, and to me the something great has to be where we prevent it from happening again,» Trump said, referring to the shooting deaths of 17 students and faculty members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14.

«We have a fantastic development pipeline for students who want to compete at this high level and this framework allows our school to succeed,» explains competitor Ian McKenzie of the selection and training process unique to the UCalgary teams.

Now, you heard one of the students say they're not going to feel safe going back to school when the doors eventually open at Douglas High, because they want to see some change, they want to see some action.

Even though I believed this with the core of my being — and I desperately wanted my high school students to hear this truth — I said most of this to my shoes.

I remember this myth being thrown in my face little more than ten years after the Holocaust, when, as a Jewish teenager, I was confronted in our Chicago high school by another Jewish student — Sam, who screamed at me for wanting «to be chosen by that god,» after most of his family in Europe was murdered in Auschwitz.

It's about the value of high school sports, and that value applies equally to every student who wants to put on a uniform and go out and try to do his or her best.

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.

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.

A majority of the more than 1,385 high school students, 3,600 parents and 520 teachers of all grade levels who returned a questionnaire after this change was piloted in Palo Alto said, «If I controlled the school calendar, I would want first - semester finals to occur before winter break»; this included more than 85 percent of the high school students, according to Challenge Success.

Local school districts have been improving the quality of food they've been serving for years, but Tanner wanted to see the district leverage its considerable buying power to serve higher quality food to more students, more consistently.

If your school district does not have any guidelines, policy or procedures for students with food allergies, then you will likely not only want, but need a 504 Plan to ensure your child is included in all activities with the highest level of safety.

The Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom worked in conjunction with the Ohio Education Association, Ohio Association of Elementary School Administrators, School Nutrition Association of Ohio, and Children's Hunger Alliance to identify schools that had a high percentage of students who qualify for free or reduced - price meals and wanted to increase their daily participation in the school breakfast prSchool Administrators, School Nutrition Association of Ohio, and Children's Hunger Alliance to identify schools that had a high percentage of students who qualify for free or reduced - price meals and wanted to increase their daily participation in the school breakfast prSchool Nutrition Association of Ohio, and Children's Hunger Alliance to identify schools that had a high percentage of students who qualify for free or reduced - price meals and wanted to increase their daily participation in the school breakfast prschool breakfast program.

«We want to prevent mass shootings from happening and while this could have happened with other types of weapons, NeverAgain believes school safety should be priority right now, not just background checks,» said Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Kali Clougherty, 18, referring to a campaign for gun coschool safety should be priority right now, not just background checks,» said Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Kali Clougherty, 18, referring to a campaign for gun coSchool student Kali Clougherty, 18, referring to a campaign for gun control.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo indicated Wednesday he wants to harness the student activism in the wake of the high school shooting in Florida that killed 17 people as a vehicle for new gun control legislation.

Mayor de Blasio doesn't seem to want to have that discussion and just wants a rubber stamp renewal, but when 8 out of 10 students who walk across a stage and receive a New York City high school diploma need remediation in college, how can we say that this public school system is doing its job?»

«Literally we could have schools boards that could say we don't want to do pre-K, we don't think it's the right use of space, we don't want to do Advanced Placement classes for high school students,» de Blasio said.

«I want to be known for something at New Dorp High School, and now knowing that future students are going to enjoy the field lights because of this opportunity we've been given, it's such an amazing feeling,» she said.

Confronted with public high school students in a jam with the law, NYC wants to connect these students with legal support and help them stay out of trouble in the first place.

The youth at Pathway, a school within East that works with students to help them graduate on time, went to support the Florida students who want a national ban on the sales of assault - style rifles and high - capacity magazines and want to close loopholes about sales of firearms at gun shows and on the Internet.

And the tension is, you want to strike a balance between a thoughtful pace of implementation and the very real reality that there are students today sitting in remedial courses because their preparation at the high school level was inadequate.»

«We want to make some slight modifications and assess the systems with operations that have higher rates of SSI and see if we can have an impact on lowering the incidence of that complication,» according to lead author and second year MD - PhD student Christopher Chermside - Scabbo at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Mo..

For instance, a school may have higher tolerance for false alarms — students will lose a few minutes of instruction by ducking under their desks — but a railroad or a machinery assembly line may want to shut down operations only for the most high - certainty alerts.

We have helped people with a wide variety of things from losing the unwanted fat to look good at the beach to high school students wanting to get stronger for football.

Philippe Delambre, the now - adult son of The Fly, does some BRIDGEPORT - Caught masturbating a male student in the classroom, a former Harding High School substitute teacher told a judge Friday he just wants to go

As Ross used to tell his fourth grade students, «In middle and high school, when all of your friends are messing around on social media, I want you to be using it to grow your own businesses!»

If my student wants a high school diploma, I can help them understand how each block of time in class or each completed project adds up toward their graduation requirements.

In the context of our summer melt work, these are students who have applied to college, been accepted, and made an active choice at the end of high school about where they want to enroll.

In Making school meaningful for Indigenous learners Ailsa MacFie uses a body of research, plus her own experiences as a teacher in a high Aboriginal population boarding school in the Northern Territory, to provide practical tools for teachers wanting to improve educational outcomes for Indigenous students.

The state also wants 84 percent of high school students to graduate by 2022.

When students graduate from high school, there is a collection of important (or core) skills we want them to possess.

One of my teachers told me about how he was admitted to Cornell, a really hot Ivy League school, but chose the University of Rochester because he'd felt lost in a 4,000 - student high school and wanted a small college where he thought he'd have more opportunities.

And by the end of the legislative session, he got just about everything he wanted in a school reform plan: expansion of charter schools, private school vouchers, and college scholarships for students who graduate high school early.

Similarly, because growth measures may do a poor job of capturing the progress of high - achieving students, some states may want the weights assigned to achievement and growth to vary based on the level at which a school's students are achieving.

In 1989, my dream of attending college on a football and track scholarship was shattered when I graduated high school with a 1.56 GPA, a ranking of 413 out of 435 students in my senior class, an 820 on the SAT, a 19 on the ACT, a dismal attendance record, and absolutely no idea about what I wanted to do with my life.

When Anne is not dealing with parents who want their child labeled as ADD (attention deficit disorder) to get extra privileges or with a student who is thinking of transferring to a nearby high school to improve her class ranking, she is coping with the shock of once again meeting her lost love, who has enrolled his nephew in Fenimore High Schhigh school to improve her class ranking, she is coping with the shock of once again meeting her lost love, who has enrolled his nephew in Fenimore High Sschool to improve her class ranking, she is coping with the shock of once again meeting her lost love, who has enrolled his nephew in Fenimore High SchHigh SchoolSchool.

Schools will leverage online learning for academics, which means they will be able to act as community centers in essence and focus far more on providing well - kept facilities that students want to attend with great face - to - face supports, high - quality meals, and a range of athletic, musical, and artistic programs — things that receive short shrift all too often today.

This 27 page pack has been designed by a sculptor with 20 years of teaching experience for teachers who want to know more about sculpture and how to teach it as part of a broad Art and Design curriculum for Secondary / High School students.

As a high - school student, I planned someday to join their ranks and to do my small part to make the purpose of public schools educating students, not just providing an education to «those few who want it.»

Specifically, students should have the opportunity to decide whether they want to take a course in the classroom or online as part of their pursuit of a high school diploma.

At the urging of district officials, about 35 students at Poughkeepsie High School coordinated a schoolwide survey to find out what their peers wanted to see in their sSchool coordinated a schoolwide survey to find out what their peers wanted to see in their schoolschool.

If we want to nurture high standards, if we want teachers to take responsibility for the quality of instruction and for student outcomes, we need public policies and school organizations that demand that teacher unions behave differently.

The Burlington High School Student Help Desk is entering its second season, and I wanted to share our course outline, pathways and some of the opportunities we'll be creating for the school faculty and School Student Help Desk is entering its second season, and I wanted to share our course outline, pathways and some of the opportunities we'll be creating for the school faculty and school faculty and staff.

For example, 96 % of students at Kenya High School, one of the pilot schools, said Future First alumni careers event made them want to work harder at sSchool, one of the pilot schools, said Future First alumni careers event made them want to work harder at schoolschool.

School districts that want to start pay - for - performance programs for school leaders should look beyond high - stakes student tests as the primary measure for awarding bonuses, a position paper released last week by the National Association of Secondary School PrincipalsSchool districts that want to start pay - for - performance programs for school leaders should look beyond high - stakes student tests as the primary measure for awarding bonuses, a position paper released last week by the National Association of Secondary School Principalsschool leaders should look beyond high - stakes student tests as the primary measure for awarding bonuses, a position paper released last week by the National Association of Secondary School PrincipalsSchool Principals says.

Standing before an audience of high - school students in New Hampshire early this year, George Bush made a proclamation that would become a hallmark of his campaign for the White House: «I want to be the education President.»

Concerned that high - stakes testing was narrowing student assessment down to a few scores, teachers and administrators in one Illinois district developed a system to assess a range of skills — including critical thinking and social - emotional skills — they wanted students to master by the time they left school.

EW: One of the student comments I noticed at the end of the book is that students want to continue in a similar style in high school.