Sentences with phrase «on arming their students»

The teachers at King are narrowly focused on arming their students with the skills they need to meet the particular challenges of higher education.

Not exact matches

As the online program is a streamlined one aimed at students already armed with accounting fundamentals, those enrolled generally complete the online degree, which has no on - campus requirement, in 15 months.

«We should be focused on arming law enforcement,» said Mr. Scott, who has proposed helping school districts pay for an armed police officer or sheriff's deputy at every school, and for every 1,000 students in large high schools.

On Feb. 14, 2018, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School became synonymous with tragedy when a former student entered the school armed and began firing.

One person is dead after an armed student shot two other students at Great Mills High School in Maryland on Tuesday morning, according to St. Mary's County Sheriff Tim Cameron.

PARKLAND, Fla. — A heavily armed 19 - year - old who had been expelled from a South Florida high school opened fire on campus shortly before classes let out Wednesday, killing 17 people while terrified students barricaded themselves inside classrooms, police said.

Go into the parking lot on any given day and you will see: College students lugging heavy cases of bottled water, men in wife - beaters with their brown left arms hanging out the windows of their souped - up pick - up trucks, women in cotton dresses driving a team of horses to the hitching rail (yes, our Wal - Mart has a hitching rail).

If something happened on campus and we didn't have armed police there to protect students, would that make us liable?

With all of the activities at the three day event that is being planned, students and coaches understand that participating in The Honor Bowl is more than a win or a loss; it is a time to reflect on what our military has done and continues to do for the freedom America's Armed Forces provide us.

Abdul - Jabbar says he started thinking about coaching a few years ago when the Philadelphia 76ers brought him in to work with then rookie center Shawn Bradley, and he saw that his student, though eager to learn, «didn't know certain things that every pivot man should have tattooed on the back of his arm.»

One of Elthes's teaching methods is to hit students with the sword on the arm or the leg when they make a mistake.

More than 100 police officers, some heavily armed in camouflage uniforms, searched neighborhoods near Central Michigan University on Friday for a 19 - year - old student suspected of killing his parents at a dormitory and then running from campus.

The president and Congress have been struggling to respond to public demands to stop mass shootings at schools since a former student armed with an AR -15-style rifle killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on Feb. 14.

It will focus on four main areas: security of buildings themselves; training for teachers and students; creating better communication regarding mental health assessments and other issues, like arming teachers.

On educational maintenance allowances, another issue which the student community is up in arms about, Hughes will «contribute the views of young people and input to the policy development work».

Students of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State on Thursday took to the streets of the state capital over the attack on their hostel by armed robbers.

SANTA FE, Tex. — A nation plagued by a wrenching loop of mass school shootings watched the latest horror play out in this small Southeast Texas town Friday morning, as a young man armed with a shotgun and a.38 revolver smuggled under his coat opened fire on his high school campus, killing 10 people, many of them his fellow students, and wounding 10 more, the authorities said.

On the one hand, there is the camp of Michael Gove armed with the old argument that it is the low quality of teaching in primary and secondary schools in deprived communities that prevents many students from competing with their more fortunate peers.

On Friday, National Rifle Association president Wayne LaPierre called for more guns in the wake of last week's shooting, proposing to put an armed guard in all schools to protect students and staff.

The National Union of Benue State Students on Thursday, thronged the major streets of Makurdi, the state capital to express their outrage over the killing of one of their colleagues by armed herdsmen last weekend.

The printer is fitted out with a robotic arm that holds eight slots for frozen food cartridges; the students are now working on incorporating an infrared heating element into the arm.

Given that the armed services put a high value on technical skills in recruiting and training, the proportion of science and engineering student - veterans is likely to be even higher.

IBRinfo is a nonprofit arm of the Project on Student Debt that helps medical students navigate two new federal loan programs: Income - Based Repayment and Public Service Loan Forgiveness.

One of Oden's student groups began working on designing a non-electric wheelchair that could be propelled by a young man who had limited use of his arms.

This rare two - armed spiral structure was discovered by Kevin — as a first - year graduate student — back in 2015 (and covered in a popular press release) using the SPHERE extreme adaptive optics system on the Very Large Telescope in Chile, in observations carried out in our Scorpion Survey.

EOS talk: «Extreme - AO Imaging of Disks around Intermediate - Mass Stars: Discovery of a Two - Armed Spiral Disk and a Warped Edge - on Debris Disk» by Kevin Wagner, grad student, Steward Observatory

On Wednesday, August 23, 2017, Joan Harper - Neely, STEM Education Specialist for NASA eClips ™, and Christian Mouton, student producer from Hampton High School, attended the Armed Forces Communication and Electronics Association (AFCEA) STEM Mixer.

Have the students inhale their arms up the air, exhale extend forward touching their toes, inhale arms back up and then on an exhale, slowly lower all the way down onto their backs, with their feet still connected in the middle.

When students focus on pushing their arms down into the floor they often lock their elbows, which also brings the shoulder heads forward.

Although the well - meaning educator is forced to add a cautionary note to his counsel after one student causes uproar on campus, his philosophy does arm his students with the insight to look beyond the traditional approach to poetry.

The dramedy about a high school student who is basically strong - armed into befriending a classmate with cancer earned a standing ovation when it debuted at the Sundance Film Festival on Sunday.

In a time when students come to school armed, and sometimes use their weapons on teachers, and when both teachers and students see school as a dangerous place, how can trust have a role?

It's their hope that if they arm students with hands - on learning opportunities, those students will become more active, informed citizens — prepared to vote, volunteer, and engage in civic life.

students attach thick glow sticks to their catapults» arms, ready to launch them at targets marked by glowing hula hoops on the field.

Perhaps implementing new software on your existing 2 - to - 1 or 3 - to - 1 devices will show greater gains in student outcomes than arming each student with his own device?

Rather than lecturing or delivering whole - class instruction though, the teacher, who can be armed with data about where students are in their learning, can meet one - on - one with each student and have meaningful conversations about the work she is doing.

«Data such as this is vital in arming students with the necessary information on the performance of institutions and how courses are viewed by prospective employers to help them make more informed choices on what career paths to follow,» he said.

Share their stories with your students as the United States observes Armed Forces Day on May 18, once again a country anxious for news of troops overseas.

Students will share their coats of arms with the class and explain the symbolism included on them.

So, armed with that information, she did a crazy thing after she submitted her application to CU — she applied to Stanford and Harvard and Yale, and she got in to Stanford, where she is now on the polo team, with a 4.0 GPA working for El Centro Hispano, and about to spend eight weeks in Ecuador tutoring elementary school kids while she works on launching her startup idea to create DreamIn circles for Dreamers, undocumented students, support circles based on Lean In.

«I am proud of all of the major policy accomplishments on which I worked, but I'm probably most passionate about consumer information in higher education, and arming families and students with the tools to make good decisions about college.»

Students need scaffolding through a variety of instructional activities that will arm them with the skills and content they'll need to be successful on the project.

The report by Congress» investigative arm, «School Vouchers: Characteristics of Privately Funded Programs,» focuses on 78 such programs operating around the country that together serve 46,000 students and provide $ 60 million in tuition assistance.

Be on the lookout for signs of computer - related injury in students: warning signs include pain, tingling or heaviness in the neck, shoulders, back, arms, elbows, wrists or hands.

Students are encouraged to wear red, white and blue clothing on the day and donate # 1 each to help support the three national charities of the Armed Forces — The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity, ABF The Soldiers» Charity and the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund.

They can be pushed back from the edge of the desk to allow the forearms to rest on the desk to allow the student's neck, shoulders and arms to relax more.

Let me start out by assuring readers that I'm not suggesting it takes a magical coat of arms to survive life on a predominantly white campus if you're a student of color.

Armed with this information, staff members at the school district, city, and partner organizations have been developing strategies and practices that give both dropouts and at - risk students a web of increased support and services, including providing dropout - prevention specialists in several high schools, establishing accelerated - learning programs for older students who are behind on credits, and implementing reading programs for older students whose skills are well below grade level.

To monitor the efficacy of the implementation of the strategies, Dryden - Peterson and a team of several doctoral and master's students enrolled in her class on Education in Armed Conflict have worked with 14 UNHCR priority countries — Bangladesh, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Kenya, Lebanon, Malaysia, Pakistan, South Sudan, Sudan, Rwanda, Uganda, and Yemen — to track progress.

For example, a middle school student who broke his arm was permitted to take tests on a computer in the classroom.