Sentences with phrase «of school figures»

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Richard Branson is an iconic entrepreneurial figure, a high school drop - out whose knack for seizing opportunities, taking risks, spotting opportunities, and betting on himself and the people around him to build businesses in a variety of industries.

Howard asked MBAs Across America team to help him figure out how to incorporate technology into his business model without disrupting the intimate, old - school feel of his business.

After years in which the number of children being excluded from schools declined, the latest figures that slipped out Thursday reveal that the number is starting to rise again.

Some of the schools that didn't reply might also have spinner bans, so the 32 % figure is an at least point.

Linda Brown, who at the age of 9 became the cornerstone figure in the landmark Supreme Court case that struck down segregation in the nation's schools, has died.

Recent figures on who took the high - school AP exam in computer science paint a picture of a professional field that appears to be moving backward, not forward.

«I really haven't decided between the two of those yet, and that's something I'm looking to figure out more in grad school.»

That's not just a reflection of Ivy League nerds trying to belatedly figure out the mysteries of high school social success, Prinstein told the Atlantic's Megan Garber.

As a PhD candidate at Weill Cornell Medical School, Piraye Beim spent much of her time trying to figure out why a particular cancer drug was lifesaving for some patients but useless — or worse — for most.

«Right now, it's really hard to get a firm handle on a total figure [for] what kind of economic activity the sharing economy encompasses in Canada,» notes Sunil Johal, policy director at the Mowat Centre, an Ontario - focused public policy think - tank at the University of Toronto's School of Public Policy and Governance.

He read the Billings Gazette and the St. Paul Pioneer Press to figure out which high school students were putting up big points in rural parts of the country.

In the meantime, you innovators out there — and, hopefully, that will include some of the med school graduating class of» 17 — now is your chance to figure out a better way.

Thomas based all of these changes on recommendations from a faculty committee set up to figure out where the school could improve.

Meanwhile, Celenza, who continues to scout for new marketing «properties» to replace BioSteel Camp, figured the firm could sponsor a Canadian high school all - star basketball game, modelled on a similar event McDonald's sponsors in the U.S. Celenza met with organizers at Canada Basketball and offered product instead of money.

The six - figure burden ranges from a high of $ 122,370 at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School to $ 100,083 at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business.

Knowledge - based authentication doesn't replace user names and passwords; it's an extra layer of security on top of such schemes, since hackers who stumble across your log - in credentials won't easily figure out the name of your high - school sweetheart.

Prizes from business contests run the gamut: A seemingly infinite number of local and business - school competitions offer small - change awards of $ 5,000 to $ 15,000; meanwhile, Rice University doles out six - figure prizes annually, as do accelerators MassChallenge and TechStars.

Non-Jewish doctors cite these figures as proof of the danger of Jewish aggressiveness and commercialism in the profession while Jewish doctors cite them as proof of discrimination, arguing that if there are a disproportionate number of Jews in medical schools the reason may be that Jews are brighter than non-Jews.

To celebrate back - to - school season, here are 10 jobs that made our list of Canada's Best Jobs and figure prominently on most kids» list of their dream jobs.

As an organization, we view it as part of our mission to up how we interface with all of the other incredible stakeholders in this ecosystem, especially teachers and schools, to figure out how we educate students together, not just all from one site.

The figure below shows kernel density distributions of hourly wages for male high school graduates and bachelor's degree holders in 1998 and 2018.

Note: We sorted this list by full - time tuition only, and for the sake of comparison, used out - of - province tuition figures for Quebec and Nova Scotia schools, which often offer lower fees for residents.

Having medical school loans and figuring out how to best repay them can be complicated, and most medical school graduates do not start making high salaries until several years out of medical school.

Max Lance dug himself out of six figures of student loan debt and travels to colleges and high schools around the country teaching people about financial literacy.

To find a high - ranked school offering one of these executive MBAs for under six - figures, you have to reach down to the No. 9th ranked University of Texas at Austin which has an EMBA program for a bargain rate of $ 80,169 — less than half the cost of either Wharton program (See the full list of the top 50 Executive MBA programs in North America on the next page).

«Although the headline ranking figures show changes in the data year to year, the pattern of clustering among the schools is equally significant,» admits the FT in the footnote.

Failed to address homophobia through Safe Schools Task Force: In 2003, then Education Minister Christy Clark convened a «Safe Schools Task Force» — their report acknowledged that concerns about homophobia figured prominently in submissions and that attempts to raise the issue of homophobia in schools often met with resiSchools Task Force: In 2003, then Education Minister Christy Clark convened a «Safe Schools Task Force» — their report acknowledged that concerns about homophobia figured prominently in submissions and that attempts to raise the issue of homophobia in schools often met with resiSchools Task Force» — their report acknowledged that concerns about homophobia figured prominently in submissions and that attempts to raise the issue of homophobia in schools often met with resischools often met with resistance.

That makes support for elite private schools an effective wedge issue that works for parties like Mr. Kenney's UCP — as long as no one figures out the impact of this level of support on public schools.

Nearly 40 per cent of indigenous Canadians do not graduate from high school, and the figure is nearly 60 per cent for First Nations people on reserves, rates that far exceed the Canadian average.

According to the College Board, tuition and fees for the 2016 — 2017 school year cost an average of $ 33,480 at private colleges, $ 9,650 at public in - state colleges, and $ 24,930 at public out - of - state colleges.3 And those figures don't even include room and board.

When Kyle Kashuv, one of the more prominent figures in the ongoing debate about what to do to reduce high school mass shootings, went to a shooting range with his father last Friday, the first thing he did was post some pictures and some pro-Second Amendment comments on Twitter.

Although largely a local media figure, Allman's remarks drew national attention both because of how out - of - line they were and because they exemplified a broader pattern in conservative media of personally attacking Hogg, Emma Gonzalez, and other survivors of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which killed 17 people.

Beginning with Columbine 19 years ago, more than 150,000 students attending at least 170 primary or secondary schools have experienced a shooting on campus, according to a Washington Post analysis of online archives, state and federal enrollment figures, and news stories.

Statistics have for decades shown that children are far, far, far, far more likely to be abused by a family member or by a school authority figure than they are by a member of the clergy of any religion.

If you can't name him right away, check Google... for reliability use Google to find out a report made public by the Johns Hopkins Universiity Blloomberg School of Public Health about the estimated figures on civilian casualties during the Iraq invasion... Just so you be aware that we too in America have our «Hitler», so publicly paraded in San Francisco, Rome and other places in the world during the height of the Iraqi invasion and make your own conclusion...

Willett, who taught at the University of Chicago Divinity School and who was later to become a controversial figure in the battle over the new «higher biblical criticism,» was already an editor at The Christian Century.

A well known figure among leaders in the United Methodist Church, Dr. Castuera is a graduate of the School of Theology in Claremont, California..

The Association of Theological Schools (ATS), which includes more than 270 institutions in the US and Canada, found that extension enrollment has dipped by about 26 percent over the past decade, according to self - reported and adjusted figures, while online numbers have more than doubled.

Let's go to preschool graduations and high school graduations and university graduations, and then let's stand in our empty nest house someday and cry because it went too fast and try to figure out the rest of it, and then laugh because there is still so much life ahead, who are we kidding?

If we struggled in school, we were expected to show up for extra tutoring and studying until we figured it out (chemistry was nearly the death of me).

«Al - Sistani was apparently referring to Abdullah bin Jabrain, a key member of Saudi Arabia's clerical establishment, who last month joined a chorus of other senior figures from the hardline Wahhabi school of Sunni Islam that regards Shiites as infidels.

The figures cited indicate that 35 per cent of the UU ministers trained in schools not funded by the UUA (Harvard, to be sure, is also not funded by the UUA, but there are some long - standing historical associations and loyalties).

Some of the key figures in this school of thought, who have taken Marx's critique of religion seriously, are: Jurgen Moltmann, Theology of Hope, Trans.

Because he is a religious authority figure, people spontaneously project on him a rich variety of associations from their early life, including powerful feelings about such matters as God, heaven, hell, sex, parents, Sunday school, death, sin, and guilt.

As we approach the end of the twentieth century, it becomes both possible and appropriate to identify pathfinding figures and schools of thought which have contributed significantly to the spirit and style of the times.

Teachers in Ecuador's public schools often must contend with overcrowding (60 students per class), a dearth of books — even at the university level — and students fainting from hunger (according to the government's own figures, half the nation's children suffer from malnutrition)

Von Balthasar often commented that be found more vitality and originality in the writings of literary figures like Georges Bernanos (author of Diary of a Country Priest) than in much of the neoscholastic theology he was taught at school.

Besides Sowell, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University, other prominent figures in the black conservative movement are Glenn C. Loury, a professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government; Walter E. Williams, a professor of economics at George Mason University; I A. Parker, president of the Lincoln Institute for Research and Education, Inc.; Robert Woodson, president of the National Association of Neighborhood Enterprises; and Joseph Perkins, editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal.

During the great battles on the legalization of divorce and homosexual acts, the notable campaigners then were really distinguished public figures, for example: Bruce Arnold, mentioned above, Prof. Richard Humphries of the University College Dublin School of Law, historian Prof. John A. Murphy mentioned above, of University College Cork, the journalist Kevin Myers, the literary critic Prof. David Norris of Trinity College Dublin, former Reid Professor of Laws at Trinity College Dublin, later President of the Republic, Mary Robinson.

Of course the television world does not completely exclude the real world, but families watch more than 45 hours each week, and in households with cable and subscription services the figure jumps to 58 hours, while most adults spend only 40 hours at work and children spend only 30 hours in school.2.