Sentences with phrase «of upper school»

Tyler is also the former head of the upper school at Mount Vernon Presbyterian School in Atlanta, a co-founder and board member of Chattahoochee Hills Charter School in southwest Atlanta, and a former Spanish teacher in the Gwinnett County, Ga., public schools.

Caroline Metcalfe, Learning and Development Manager at Yorkshire Water, said: «We really want to encourage girls in primary school and Year 7 of upper school to consider a career in engineering.

The addition of the upper school, which opened programming to students in grades 10 - 12 for the 2015 - 16 school year, makes Hershey Montessori School the first in the world to fully implement Dr. Maria Montessori's vision for educating children from birth through 18 years, with an adolescent residential program on a working farm.

Not exact matches

The number of states that require high school students to complete a course in economics has dropped over the last two years, and mandates for personal finance education in the upper grades remain stagnant, a new survey shows.

On the upper classes in the school I found they were just like protestants and catolics, fighting about who of them were right.

The deterioration of neighborhoods in our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risk.

One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

Meta - analyses also indicate that young people of low socioeconomic status benefit more from attending these schools than do students from the middle and upper classes.

The schools are good there, they said, which is true, and also a euphemism for an incalculable range of social and cultural benefits that flow from being raised in the upper middle class.

Charlie Himmelstein was 19, lived in an upper - middle class neighborhood in Brooklyn, a nursery school teacher and college dropout, when he lost in the novice division of the New York Golden Gloves.

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For blue - chip talent in the secondary since the SEC schools and upper - crust ACC schools have a lengthy history of getting those guys (and getting them to the NFL).

Even after his high school career Cust seemed destined forgreatness, blasting balls into the upper deck of Yankee Stadium during atryout.

And while the Science authors found instruction to be basic and repetitive even in American schools with a mostly middle - class or upper - middle - class student population, they found that the situation was considerably worse in schools that enrolled a lot of low - income children.

Michael D'Aleo left a career in engineering to become an upper grades class teacher before helping to found the high school at the Waldorf School of Saratoga Spschool at the Waldorf School of Saratoga SpSchool of Saratoga Springs.

In addition, the early middle school grades typically provide less independence to students than do the upper levels of elementary schools.

Substantive research already exists showing nut free schools (not early childhood, but mid elementary onwards) actually do more harm than good, to the extent that the official anaphylaxis prevention guidelines have been updated by the Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy to explicitly state that food bans in upper primary and high schools do not work, and can actually cause problems.

The upper school will graduate its first class of seniors in June 2018.

It takes a lot of maturity to let teasing roll off your back, so don't always expect a stiff upper lip from your grade - schooler.

The Waldorf School of Princeton is seeking class teachers for upper and lower grades positions, beginning July 2018.

Born in New York City to wealthy upper - middle class English parents, Johnson was educated at the European School of Brussels, Ashdown House School, and Eton College.

«Our Nigerian Law School would rather be glued to the archaic tradition of the colonial past being jettisoned by the British themselves and punish a second upper graduate for wearing a headscarf that the Nigerian Constitution guarantees her than toe the path of rationality.

UPPER WEST SIDE — Community Board 7 asked for a sweeping list of demands from Extell Development Company on Thursday night, suggesting that the developer build everything from a playground and school to a rental car facility at the proposed Riverside Center.

UPPER EAST SIDE — Parents and community education advocates are demanding that the Department of Education put a middle school in P.S. 158's vacant space.

UPPER WEST SIDE — A state senator's use of the n - word is adding fire to an already heated debate about Harlem Success Academy's plans to open an Upper West Side charter school.

Critics of former Schneiderman Chief of Staff Micah Lasher, who is in a four - way state Senate Democratic primary in upper Manhattan, are digging back to his high school days for their opposition research.

It's that time of year again, when upper - middle class white parents get worked up about tests in school.

UPPER WEST SIDE — Parents from two local schools clashed Monday over the Department of Education's plan to sell the space above P.S. 191 and P.S. 199 to a developer who would then rebuild them at the base of new luxury developments.

UPPER WEST SIDE — Education leaders and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer are calling on the Department of Education to revise the construction timetable for the new Beacon High School in Hell's Kitchen, saying the proposed move - in dates a week before classes begin don't provide enough wiggle room.

«The poorest children are already eligible for free school meals — the main beneficiaries of this new universal benefit will be middle and upper - income households, who really don't need a public subsidy.»

CEP's own work on English primary schools finds effects at the upper end of the range.

In 2011, 20 % of Swedish school children attended free schools at upper secondary level and 10 % attended free schools at primary or lower secondary level.

GOP leaders in the state's upper house introduced another proposal to re-authorize mayoral control of the state's largest school system, offering New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio an additional three years but pairing it with a tax credit for donations to private school scholarships — a known poison pill for Heastie and the Democratic conference he leads.

Amedore appeared headed to the upper chamber in the New York state Legislature after leading with 54 percent of the vote nearly three hours after polls closed Tuesday night, but Democrat Cecilia Tkaczyk, a Duanesberg school board member, claimed victory too.

UPPER EAST SIDE — Critics of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's controversial choice for schools chancellor are calling into question the independence of a state - picked panel that will convene Tuesday to determine whether she is qualified for the job.

Now, scientists from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania reveal that the release of AMPs is partially controlled by bitter taste receptors in the upper airway on a cell previously identified in animals and only recently in humans known as solitary chemosensory cells (SCCs).

One major school of thought suggests there is an upper limit on how many interacting gluons can be packed into a given volume: when this saturation point is reached during a collision, no more new debris particles should therefore be produced.

While the effect of moving from a lower - to a middle - tier school or from a middle - to an upper - tier school was found to be positive, it was so small as to be barely measurable.

According to a recent study, parental support for the autonomy of young people promotes the well - being of the latter in all major educational transitions: from primary to lower secondary school, from basic education to upper secondary school, and from upper secondary school to university.

Co-author, Dr Katerina Michaelides, from the School of Geographical Sciences and Cabot Institute at the University of Bristol, said: «Our findings are consistent with previous research in the Colorado Basin which has revealed a decline in runoff in the upper part of the Basin.

In middle and high school, increased opportunities such as science camps like SciGirls, recruitment of girls to participate in upper level science courses or extracurricular activities, informal science learning experiences and increasing visibility and access to women scientists both fictional and real are other methods to sustain girls interest and engagement in so called «hard science» fields.

Recently published findings from a team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Mass., suggest that a modified form of this CRISPR gene - editing technology may eventually result in a cure for facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD), a form of the disease that leads to progressive muscular degeneration in the face, shoulder blades and upper arms.

By examining the cooling rate of rocks that formed more than 10 miles beneath the Earth's surface, scientists led by The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences have found that water probably penetrates deep into the crust and upper mantle at mid-ocean spreading zones, the places where new crust is made.

At the Origins Field School, students can earn 15 upper - division Stony Brook credits studying in the very place the Leakey family and their colleagues have made, and continue to make, unprecedented discoveries in the field of human prehistory.

A 1995 study looked at school children for an entire cold / flu season and found a «lowering of the number of cases with acute or chronic symptoms, and decrease and sometimes suppression of the viral - microbial flora carriage of the upper airways» with the use of bee propolis.

So now I do a total of 100 reps for each exercise and 3 exercises per upper body part... and the pump is unreal and I feel like I'm getting 10,000 times more out of doing it this way than the old school method I used to do.

Joan Roberts provided an update of her work on a nutrition curriculum, a textbook for upper level high school and junior college.

The researchers, from the University School of Physical Education in Krakow, Poland, showed in 11 patients with mild to moderate Parkinson's symptoms that eight weeks of HIIT, three times a week, on a stationary bike had a global benefit, improving both lower and upper body function.

It was a school trip, and we were in the very last row of seats in the upper balcony.