Sentences with phrase «of the school day on»

Students in classrooms across the United States spend an estimated 85 percent of their school day on assignments that require reading texts.

The meeting was set up to consider the parent's request that his children be able to participate in congregational prayers at a mosque during the final period of the school day on...

Forms must be turned in by end of the school day on May 11th to any Head Coach or the High School Office.

When I listen to some charter network leaders talk about their models, they often openly state that they spend disproportionate amounts of the school day on tested subjects (English and math).

The survey was administered again in North Carolina in 2004 but moved online and expanded to include 72 questions that not only captured teachers» perceptions of working conditions but also actual conditions of work (e.g., the number of hours spent outside of the school day on instruction and types of professional development courses taken).

With those lazy days of summer soon to be gone and the promise of school days on the horizon, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and the Texas Parent Teacher Association have teamed up to distribute funding to clean the air and protect

With those lazy days of summer soon to be gone and the promise of school days on the horizon, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and the Texas Parent Teacher Association have teamed up to distribute funding to clean the air and protect school children from harmful particulate matter by retrofitting school buses.

Not exact matches

A recent study from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School found such «intertemporal markers» help motivate us in two ways: offering an opportunity to separate ourselves from past «misbehaviour» and disrupting our attention from day - to - day details to focus on the big picture.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Dig Deeper: How to Build a Culture of Employee Appreciation How to Create a Company Philosophy: School New Hires on Company History Even if you ask some pointed or provocative questions in the interview and get the answers you're looking for, your newest recruit isn't going to be integrated into the company culture on day one.

On one of Branson's last days at school, his headmaster is reported to have told him he would either end up in prison or become a millionaire.

Back in the day, before I was recording any of The School of Greatness episodes on video, I made a random video about the top 10 ways to make money online.

I called today a victory because both of my kids brushed their teeth the first time I asked and haven't killed each other yet on this, the fifth day of their week off from school.

It comes from my days of making friends based on how I wanted to make them feel rather than show them how smart I was in school (because I wasn't smart at all).

The attack on Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is the 18th school shooting in the U.S. within the first 45 days ofSchool is the 18th school shooting in the U.S. within the first 45 days ofschool shooting in the U.S. within the first 45 days of 2018.

Saloner, citing the wrongful termination lawsuit by a former professor who alleges the dean railroaded him out of the business school while sleeping with his wife, announced his resignation last month, on the same day Poets & Quants published a lengthy expose based on the lawsuit and the professors» divorce.

The Darden School of Business offers one of the top MBA entrepreneurship programs among b - schools, awarding over $ 1 million in scholarships annually and offering highly specialized training like Venture Capital Bootcamp, a three - day workshop focused on early - stage investing.

«I would like my legacy to be represented in the fact that no one inside of McDonough doubts that we are a premier school, and every day we wake up and behave that way, not with arrogance but with a focus on being the best.»

On the second day of South by Southwest Interactive hoards of hungover techies and early birds streamed into the Hilton Austin to hear marketing expert and Wharton School professor Jonah Berger.

On Ash Whitaker's second to last day of high school, he learned that he had won a major civil rights case at a federal appeals court.

Business schools spend a lot of time on brainstorming these days.

Atticus is speaking specifically about Scout's young, inexperienced teacher, who on the first day of school, found herself flustered by the habits and manners of the children of Maycomb, Alabama.

But when I was in medical school, I got called to the dean's office one day — and I had bought one of those Motorola brick phones — and I would go out of surgery, and I would call the office and check what's going on.

I grew up in West Vancouver, and on the last day of school each summer I'd go to the barbershop and get my hair shaved off, so I wouldn't have to worry about ticks.

The rest of my time is spent working on launching a beer school series in Toronto and preparing to speak at beer festivals — the latter of which involves coming up with fun ways to talk about beer to people who've been drinking it all day, which is challenging.

But this Presidents Day weekend, the commander - in - chief fired off an unprecedented 14 tweets about the Russia investigation — declaring his innocence, suggesting the FBI could have prevented last week's Florida school shooting if it hadn't been working on the investigation, blaming Democrats and former President Barack Obama for Russia's interference in the election, and accusing the former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton of colluding with Russia.

In the summer of 2013, high school friends Tim Hwang, Gerald Yao, Jonathan Chen, and Dev Shah camped out in a Motel 6 room in Sunnyvale, California, laboring seven days a week to put the finishing touches on the artificial intelligence platform that ultimately became the flagship product for FiscalNote.

And proponents say they're already hitting such speed bumps, including municipalities that have confined marijuana companies to tiny industrial districts on the edge of town, or have implemented large buffers around schools and day cares that, drawn out on a map, cover nearly all of their territory.

Every kid loves being able to put on that new outfit for the first day of school.

However, possession on the grounds of a school, day care center, or youth center while children are present remains illegal.

The need for achievability is reinforced by Harvard Business School professor Teresa Amabile's findings on the power of progress: When Amabile analyzed 12,000 diary entries of employees from a variety of industries, she found that 76 % of people reported that their best days involved making progress toward goals.

As long as you have a valid email address on file and at least one unsubsidized loan, we will send you a quarterly email while you are in school detailing the amount of interest that accrues each day on your loans.

Pierre Poilievre apologized in 2008, when he made similarly cruel comments about the expense of compensation on the day that Harper delivered his formal apology for what happened at the schools.

Powerful budget committees in the State House and Senate signed off on a package of bills on Tuesday that would raise the minimum age to purchase a firearm to 21 from 18, mandate a three - day waiting period for most gun purchases, and increase funding for school safety measures and access to mental health care.

On that same day, he also was within 25 feet of the west parking lot of Park Vista Community High School in Lake Worth.

On the morning of the shooting, he told the Sneads he wasn't going to school because it was Valentine's Day.

There exists a myriad of learning opportunities available to students outside of the regular school day, whether on campus, through local museums and science centers, or elsewhere in communities across the country.

Do you remember that feeling being a kid on a warm summer night, the grass under your bare feet, and the freeing feeling of not having to go to school the next day?

Students who were absent on Feb. 14, the day Nikolas Cruz killed 17 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, face a different set of challenges from their peers who were at school thaSchool, face a different set of challenges from their peers who were at school thaschool that day.

Lemann would soon move his family to Switzerland, but on the day of the shooting his children did not miss school.

Six days after a school shooting in Parkland, Fla., the front pages of the New York Times, The Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday featured continuing coverage.

Since the Parkland, Florida, school shooting on Valentine's Day, there have been at least 12 reports of other incidents involving a threat to a school or a weapon on a school campus.

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«We have to remind ourselves at the end of the day we did the best we could, we helped who we could,» said Lt. Frank Pekora, one of the first firefighter paramedics who responded to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14.

He does so in front of school kids and that's a clue: Primary education is a provincial responsibility, but it was symbolic of where much federal attention is focused these days, on funding matters in, or of relevance to the provinces.

His previous communications director, Dimitri Soudas, and his wife had three children during his nine years on Harper's staff; he made a point of resigning in time to walk his daughter Georgia to her first day of school on Sept. 6.

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In regard to primary and secondary education, initiatives include imposing caps on class sizes; ensuring schools have the necessary support staff; funding full - day kindergarten and half - day junior kindergarten for vulnerable children; eliminating fees and fundraising for learning essentials, such as computers; phasing out private schools and bringing charter schools under the jurisdiction of school boards; and providing breakfast and lunch programs.

A survey by PwC about future workforce trends found that 63 percent of respondents believe the old - school eight - hour workday may soon become obsolete.What's more, the survey found, 48 percent of employees who worked from home at least one day a week were more likely to rate their jobs a «10» on a scale of one to 10.

They survived the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School this past Valentine's Day that killed 17 of their peers and teachers and have since appeared on countless cable - news segments and magazine covers calling for stricter gun legislation.