Sentences with phrase «of the few students who»

Tony Blake was conspicuous in his absence, one of the few students who had entered in the fall of 1989 and were not getting their degree.

I went right into college as a biology major, and I was one of the few students who didn't change their major.

Once again, I was one of few students who wasn't white or Asian and, as I was now noticing, wealthy.

Lisa Guy is a hard worker, and one of few students who regularly attended her English ECA remediation class.

Of the few students who answered «no» to question 4, many commented that they appreciated learning about mediation, but «it's not for me.»

Not exact matches

All of the interviewed students who knew Minassian found the news of his arrest surprising, though a few described him to The Globe and Mail as having trouble speaking and physical tics.

Notably, many of her students are millennials who have worked for a few years and are back in school before returning to the workforce, Weiss explains.

A few of the many things that jump off of the pages for me are that it doesn't seem to support working families with kids (it REPEALS the up to $ 5,000 exclusion from gross income for dependent care assistance that many working parents use to subsidize the skyrocketing costs of child care while they work) or even those who (like my fantastic law students at UNLV) are pursuing and paying for higher education.

You may have seen a few weeks ago how she took to Twitter and just started paying the student loans of anyone who could send her a verifiable 4.0 GPA.

Yes, there's nothing more principled than a candidate like Ron Paul who wants to further cut taxes for the rich, get rid of subsidies for student loans, get rid of the department of education and the environmental protection agency, and end aid to starving countries in Africa, just to name a few.

You and I might be able to agree that there was some intervention by God when I find that I am advising a Catholic student who brings up the Holy Spirit's work out of the blue, and I just happen to have bought a Catholic Bible (of no particular us to me) a few days before.

Students rioting and destroying property because a a few men who knew the ugly truth of what was happening and turned thier backs.

Every student who graduates constitutes a triumph; so few Ecuadorians complete college - level education that the title Licenciado («One with a college degree») is still used in front of people's names with as much solemnity as others might use «Doctor.»

Of course, such research invariably means less time in the classroom and mentoring only those few elite students who research alongside the scholars.

For example, students for the priesthood who could be expected in due course to engage in a more profound analysis of many, if not all, of the «ages» would find Fr Vidmar to be a helpful guide at little more than a few sittings.

While few of us who were seminarians and graduate students in the late «50s and early 60s are still Barthians, many of us, were then, and whether we stayed with Barth or, more commonly, departed from him, the in - depth exposure to his Church Dogmatics left its mark.

(To be sure, few would want to go so far as a seminary classmate of mine who regularly, and without acknowledging his source, preached Fosdick's sermons in his student church because he figured that his little congregation «deserved the best.»

During ten years in high school and college ministry and education, including two years of ministry in a residence hall of undergraduates, I met very few students who wrestled with the claims of the New Atheists in any depth.

The life of one student, who shouted out for the autonomy, self - reliance, and reunification of a divided land and for the democratization of military dictatorships, was chemically reduced to a few grams of calcium, nitrogen, and so on.

In a few cases this will undoubtedly be true, but if the general run of readers of the book — and it is not designed for specialists in the field — are anything at all like the students who, across the years, have enrolled in the writer's courses in the Bible, then it is fairly safe to assume that their knowledge of the book is not too extensive or detailed.

HOW NOT TO CLIMB A MOUNTAIN Sirs: Last fall you published a few paragraphs on the tragic death of two students who attempted to scale the Profile face near the Old Man of the Mountain in New Hampshire (EVENTS & DISCOVERIES, Sept. 7).

She is one of the few teachers who take students around the borough playing against other schools.

Notably, directors who prepared more foods from scratch and increased their use of salad bars were more likely to report that student participation either increased or remain unchanged, while declines in participation were seen most often by directors who purchased more pre-made foods or had fewer menu options.

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of being in on an amazing call with finance expert Suze Orman, who provided sage advice on everything from women in business, to student loans, to saving for your child's education, to home and personal finances.

To me, the solution to the attrition issue, whether it's at a KIPP middle school or the Promise Academy middle school, is the Harlem Children's Zone's «conveyor belt» model, which provides continuous, high - quality early - childhood and elementary education to precisely those «disengaged families and students,» so that when those children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first few years.

Nationwide, fewer than half of students who take advantage of free - and reduced - price lunches also participate in the School Breakfast Program and that is also true in Utah.

These are just a few examples of how breakfast - in - the - classroom has been used as a creative tool for administrators and educators to address food insecurity, disciplinary issues, tardiness and absenteeism, and trips to the school nurse — and that's on top of improved academic outcomes for students who eat school breakfast!

In the last few weeks I've been surprised to find myself in the role of School Food Reform Naysayer, which isn't what you'd expect from someone who serves on her district's Food Services Parent Advisory Committee and its Student Health Advisory Council and who is a daily kid - and - food blogger.

Quite a few of you shared with me this recent interview on Fox News in which a school counselor said it was fine to deprive students of their lunch to create a «teaching moment» for parents who had neglected to refill their lunch accounts.

In the last few weeks I've been surprised to find myself in the role of School Food Reform Naysayer, which isn't what you'd expect from someone who serves on her district's Food Services Parent Advisory Committee and its Student Health Advisory... [Continue reading]

``... Students who eat breakfast score significantly higher on tests, miss fewer days of school and face fewer health problems related to hunger.»

Research shows that students who eat breakfast score significantly higher on tests, miss fewer days of school and face fewer health problems related to hunger.

In 2004, the Christ child was stolen again, this time by a 19 - year - old student at the Art Institute of Chicago who was caught a few blocks from the plaza and charged with misdemeanor theft.

However, did you know that fewer than half of students who are eligible for a free or reduced price lunch also participate in the SBP?

At right and below are a few profiles of some of those enterprising student chefs who participated in the competition.

Prince William officials said that although 90 to 95 percent of students eligible for free lunches eat every day, 85 percent or fewer of those who qualify for the reduced price eat a school lunch.

Since I started blogging, I've become better acquainted with two school nurses (one a new friend, one who serves with me on Houston's Student Health Advisory Council) and now realize that it's often school nurses who are on the front lines of the childhood obesity crisis, conducting diabetes screenings and BMI evaluations, and using those few precious minutes with students to try to educate them as much as they can about nutrition and health.

A recent time to eat study, «Impact of School Lunch Period Length on Meal Consumption», found that compared with students who had a least 25 minutes to eat their meal, students with fewer than 20 minutes to eat were significantly less likely to select a fruit (44 % vs. 57 %).

These are just a few examples of where breakfast - in - the - classroom has become a tool for administrators and educators to address food insecurity, disciplinary issues, tardies and absences, and trips to the school nurse — and that's on top of improved academic outcomes for students who eat school breakfast!

Fewer than half of students who eat free - and reduced - price lunches also take advantage of the School Breakfast Program.

To give a few examples, apart from those from outside the European Economic Area who can not lawfully work at all, there have been restrictions on migrants from new EU members states (to self - employment for a period of seven years), those on Tier 2 visas (to a named employer), on students (who may work, but not full time or in a profession), and on domestic workers (who may not seek another employer even if abused).

The proposal would ease admissions rules for a few of the higher - performing schools with the intent of attracting more minority students, and parents who fear that their children will lose out are pushing back.

There are a few students, some young women who say they have never voted before but will for Corbyn, a disabled woman in a wheelchair, some local party activists, and a number of parents with children.

In the speech, delivered inside The Mall at Bay Plaza in Baychester, Diaz described the number of Latino and black students admitted to the city's prestigious Stuyvesant High School over the past few years as unacceptably low and called for the creation of new high schools in each borough that would use a portfolio of the students» grades and schoolwork rather than a specialized test to determine who gets in.

Moskowitz, who has pledged to build out the Success network to 100 schools, is likely to continue on the warpath against de Blasio, accusing him of depriving poor and minority students of educational opportunities, as she will do at a march over the Brooklyn Bridge in a few weeks.

It also creates opportunity for people to be part of the mobile economy, people who are students who need to make a few extra dollars.

Tara DePorte of the Lower East Side Ecology Center said her organization has been training students and quite a few New Yorkers who have lost their jobs to help restaurants reduce their impact on the environment.

I suggest that labour - uncut, goes off, thinks up a few sensible policies, that are relevant to a government of 2020, maybe has a few ideas on the EU referendum, and accepts that the Corbyn fans of Students who read a article about how, capitalism is bad, because there was enough money for everyone in the 80's, and the Tories only got in because people who voted for them were dumb and read the Daily mail, because you're not going to convince anyone that labour Will be destroyed in 2020 ′ because the Tories may implode over infighting like they did with Westland or ousting Thatcher, but win in 87 ′ and 92 ′ anyway

One of the best tips I was ever given was «ask the student to evaluate you after a few lectures and then adjust your lectures according to their responses / comments» (I forgot who gave me that advice and I am so sorry for that as it helps me every semester improve as a teacher.

Many students and postdocs are ill - equipped to make informed decisions about whether to pursue academic careers, while those students who are set on a career outside of academia lament the few opportunities readily available.