Sentences with phrase «on school reading»

Our results indicate that while the pilot evaluation system led to large short - term, positive effects on school reading performance, these effects were concentrated in schools that, on average, served higher - achieving and less - disadvantaged students.

We've already hit some of the books on our school reading list and we have a couple of kids who arealways looking for the latest read.

Not exact matches

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The study, headed by Professor Edward Guinan of the school's astronomy and astrophysics department, initially looked at which crops would thrive in soil that is similar to that found on Mars (based on readings taken by the Phoenix Mars lander and samples recreated on earth).

My boss was telling me the other day about a t - shirt that read, «I Got a B + on My Daughter's School Project.»

I was also glad to see Travis Kalanik, the CEO of «Private Driver (read: not a taxi) service» Uber, stand on stage yesterday at Startup School and announce Uber TAXI, a cheaper, more taxi - like service.

Although she doesn't run right to the office upon waking up at 4:30 a.m., Warrior spends an hour on email, reads the news, works out and gets her son ready for school.

It found that children of American homeowners scored no better on math and reading tests than renters» kids, nor did they have lower high - school dropout rates.

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Haskayne Reads is the Haskayne School of Business reading circle that piloted in the 2015 - 2016 academic year following a focus on enhancing student experience at the autumn faculty and staff retreat.

Economic Value Management has been selected as a Featured Book Recommendation or «Recommended Read» by numerous publications including, among others, Harvard Business School's HBS Working Knowledge, CEO Refresher, Directors Monthly, Global CEO, The Corporate Board, The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, Valuation Issues, On Philanthropy, Accounting Today, Cost Management, and The Journal of Accounting and Finance.

The Florida Department of Children and Families released further details after a judge granted an order to unseal a confidential report into Parkland school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz's past that details him cutting his arms on... Read More

Read the letter sent to school board officials throughout the state of Florida by Governor Rick Scott outlining the action taken by law makers since the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feschool board officials throughout the state of Florida by Governor Rick Scott outlining the action taken by law makers since the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on FeSchool on Feb. 17.

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The FBI's failure to act on this tip comes on the heels of questions over a YouTube comment posted last fall by someone named «nikolas cruz» that read «Im going to be a professional school shooter.»

I had been reading a high school senior's blog post on different tactics he used to get a Silicon Valley internship.

Read the piece on her in New York Mag and tell me you're not rooting for her new eponymous firm, which also aims to go old school, with clients who will actually pay for her research and execute trades with her shop.

«People were trying to get the news on their phones, and they started reading that there were 20 kids dead somewhere at the school.»

As I recall, Plymouth actually stayed rather small and insular for some time while the Boston Bay Company took off with their colonies in what's now called Boston, New Bedford, and I believe the Cape Ann area but I'd have to re-read a book I read while going to school down on Cape Cod a few years back.

Bible Studies, Priests reading passages or directing you to specific cherry - picked passages, Sunday School, Bible School, and so on — these are not the best ways to read the Bible — these are forms of indoctrination, not enlightenment.

Those who say that my life is rotten and that i need Jesus when it's perfectly acceptable to go to Alain de Botton's School of Life page and read up on being human and / or spiritual can go eat shit

As I read that, it struck me that, years before my Mississippi elementary school was integrated via busing, I'd seen African - American and Latino characters (such as «Gordon» and «Maria») functioning as equal members of a society, on the television screen of my home.

That's what I think too and based on his really bad reading comprehension skills this kid really needs to stay in school.

Of course, you also have to understand that a student can't involve others without consent, meaning that they can not pray out loud, can not read their bible out loud, can not proselytize on school grounds, etc..

In her latest book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, she charges that the state reading and math tests mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act lower the bar, produce inconsistent results, lack content, promote cheating, and encourage teachers to waste time on test - taking strategies.

Reflecting on Kevin Kiley's article «Long Reads» at Inside Higher Ed, Erin O'Connor writes: Teaching high school for a year at a very interesting little Berkshire boarding school got me onto shared class reading projects — the kids I was teaching were very smart, but, like....

If anybody still takes this guy seriously, he's the one who forced the school board of Plano Texas to put up an additional website just to refute his charge that they were part of the «war on Christmas» by forbidding students to wear read or green.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

All this has attracted the attention of one Barry Sheerman, chairman of the parliamentary cross-party committee on children, schools and families, who now wants to haul offending bishops (the good news is that there are at least two) in front of his committee for an inquisitorial going - over (which by the time you read this may have taken place).

I shouldn't have been so surprised to recognize God when I gloated over sleeping children or nursed through cluster feeds or washed soiled sheets in the middle of the night or clapped until my fingers tingled over Christmas carols in school gyms or read aloud childish stories printed on construction paper or welcomed friends for sleepovers.

Well considering your writing sucks, your reading comprehension is worse and your facts are completely wrong (starting with the US being the world's lowest and ending with Hitler wanting to only kill jews) I was insinuating that your education was so terrible it must have been on another planet because I have more faith that a public school in Rwanda could give a person a better education than the one you apparently received.

He desires here to record his deep appreciation of the service of these men: Dr. Henry E. Allen, University of Minnesota, read the chapter on Moslem Sacred Literature; John Clark Archer of Yale University, on the Sikh Scriptures; Swami Akhilananda of the Ramakrishna Vedanta Society of Boston, and Swami Vishwananda of the Vedanta Society of Chicago, on Hindu Scriptures; Dr. Chan Wing - Tsit (W. T. Chan), Dartmouth College, on the Chinese Literature; Dr. Clarence H. Hamilton, of Oberlin Graduate School of Theology, on Buddhist Scriptures; Dr. D. C. Holtom, on the Japanese Sacred Books; Dr. Charles F. Kraft, of Garrett Biblical Institute, on the Old Testament; Dr. George E. Mendenhall, of Hamma Divinity School, on the Babylonian Literature; Dr. Ernest W. Saunders of Garrett Biblical Institute, on the New Testament; and Dr. John A. Wilson of the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, on the Egyptian Literature.

Orthodox intellectual life in America has long been centered at St. Vladimir's, where John Meyendorff and Alexander Schmemann produced writings on liturgy and theology that remain must - reading for theologians, and at Holy Cross School of Theology in Brookline, Massachusetts.

But the larger incongruity for me were the stickers professing affiliation with churches and Christian schools bearing names like Good Shepherd alongside the oval sticker on the rear window which read «Proud Member of the Angry Mob.»

I was a public school teacher so I became familiar with the general impact of poor reading skills on learning in any field.

«Treatise on the Gods» is read in High School.

If anyone would like a little more insight into what it is like in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and what is REALLY going on there, please read «Three Cups of Tea» and «Stones into Schools» by Greg Mortenson — 3 Cups of Tea is now required reading for US State Dept officials and Greg Mortenson has been a consultant to many of the top US Generals in command of the War in Afghanistan.

angelis If the kids won't encounter these words in school (where they are supposed to get basic learning / guidance on society & culture), I wonder how it'll be like for them someday if they hear / read these «banned» words elsewhere?

At first when I started reading this I felt it was unfair on the part of the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools (TAPPS), but reading until the end, I have to agree with their decision.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

One recent paper read at a meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (again, by a scholar from one of Lindsell's «safe» schools) vigorously defended the inerrancy doctrine but then rushed on to the hermeneutical level to distinguish between the timebound Weltbild of Scripture which may be discarded and the eternal Weltanschauung of Scripture which must be preserved.

He is joined in this emphasis by Sir Herbert Read, who reports in Education Through Art that his visits to the art classes in a great many schools have shown that good results depend on right atmosphere and that right atmosphere is the creation of the teacher.

Millions of women are mutilated when they reach puberty, many little girls have lost their faces and eyes on their way to school just because they are trying to learn how to read and write, the minimal education, yet they are still punished.

Dee... please read again, they are pushing for two Muslim holidays in just New York city, a place where Yaum kippur and Rosh Hashanah are already on school calender.

Text: One of my graduate school professors, commenting on a historian famous for his prolific reading and reviewing of recent work in American history, said, «We should be grateful to him.

I still remember the student who said that she left church for good when she was 12, right after she read the Bible for herself and discovered what a colossal snow job her Sunday school teachers had done on her.

This country was founded on the Christian God and if you dare to read real hisotry books and not those in public schools, you will get quite a shock.

So I don't doubt that Yale Law School has taken notice of the Catholic tradition of legal and social teaching, the tradition that five sitting justices have explicitly acknowledged as important in their own thinking» even to the point of reading Pope Benedict XVI, giving a seminar on Catholic social thought, and (imagine!)

Private school students, on average, score better than public school students in reading, math and a host of other subject areas, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress.