Sentences with phrase «one's high school years»

If you took a German class in high school years ago, it doesn't really count as an asset.

Parents may be up to speed on what vaccines their children need for kindergarten, but may be less sure during high school years, a new national poll suggests.

I went back to school; I had dropped out of high school years before.

I'm 18 years old, and I'll be graduating from high school this year moving onto college.

I graduated high school a year early, which led me to begin college at 17.

My kids are graduating high school this year and we will have that flexibility to travel off peak.

Adding to a 529 plan in the later high school years means fewer years of tax - free growth.

The authors compared job loss rates during middle and high school years with college attendance rates a few years later, at 19 years of age.

My youngest also started high school this year, we left this parenting thing a bit late in life!

I spent my middle and high school years convinced that I just didn't have the gift for math.

I wrote two novels in my middle school thru high school years, now this blog.

This mother's heart wishes that her life lessons could make her teen's high school years easier — but she knows they won't listen.

Our two oldest will be seniors in high school this year.

In addition, more than 1.2 million American students drop out of high school every year.

I'm 18 years old and graduating from high school this year.

During my late high school years I discovered gaming on computers and by the time I finished school in 2001 it was clear my future would lay within the industry.

I can't believe my youngest is starting high school this year.

I have an 18 year old son with autism who will be graduating high school this year.

He left his hometown of Northridge, Calif. to spend his senior high school year at an American school in Tokyo and study gymnastics at Nihon University.

Twenty - five - year - old journalist Josie Geller (Drew Barrymore) gets a chance to relive, and hopefully improve, her senior high school year when the newspaper she works for sends her on an undercover assignment.

Beautiful Glitch and Those Awesome Guys» Monster Prom is letting you relive those awkward high school years in their multiplayer party dating sim.

Those involved in helping students prepare for the test say a lower bar to passing is an imperfect solution to a genuinely difficult problem — how to create an exam that is aligned to the tougher standards now being implemented in high schools, while addressing the fact that most of those trying to pass the exam — both young people who dropped out of high school years ago and adults — never had any exposure to the Common Core.

«Look, there might be a cautionary lesson in LeBron for kids: this is what happens when you attempt to leave high school a year early to join the NBA.»

His mother's death capped troubled high school years that ended with his expulsion from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Donn's high school years brought good grades and a lot of sports — tennis, basketball and football.

This is a story not just about one low - performing high school in D.C. but rather a cautionary tale about what can happen anywhere when administrators and teachers are pressured to do the impossible: ensure that students who enter high school years behind grade level nevertheless graduate within four years.

Maybe I was influenced by Charlotte York and watching too much SATC during formative high school years, but my work style has always been a little influenced by the «museum curator» look.

Minorities often diverge from the scientific pipeline during middle and high school years due to their placement in noncollege preparatory tracks characterized by low teacher expectations, lacking rigor and cultivation of problem solving and critical thinking skills (Oakes, 1990; Rendon, 1985).

KIPP Atlanta Collegiate received the fifth highest completion rate in Atlanta Public Schools with more than 91 percent of KIPP Atlanta Collegiate students finishing high school this year.

He and their older son Michael built a wheelchair - accessible house in Belize for a paralyzed woman who couldn't be helped in the U.S. Michael and younger brother Cory each spent a month in Belize during their senior high school year for a service project.

Dr. Matthew Jamison implemented Professional Learning Communities in Ocean City High School years before their inclusion in AchieveNJ teacher evaluation.

Providing statewide outreach, ICAN helps more than 500,000 students, parents and education professionals prepare for life after high school each year.

Middle School and Early High School Years Parents are often worried or confused by changes in their teenagers.

Quigley has deep pockets and spends lavishly on things he cares about, like a new roof for Coleman Catholic High School some years ago and his 2008 campaign.

It's end of High School year time and it's prank night!!

Oakland started the program at two of its seven comprehensive high schools this year — Skyline and Castlemont — where a majority of students are low - income and / or African - American or Latino.

Since the start of this school season — my daughter's junior high school year — a big focus in our household has been on SAT preparation.

My friend, Tim, graduated for University City High School this year and invited me to attend his ceremony.

But of the estimated 65,000 undocumented students who graduate from U.S. high school each year, only 5 to 10 percent continue their education, according the U.S. Department of Education.

Yoli discovered joy in movement at a young age, spending her grade school and high school years studying classical ballet.

One was a new high school, but we'll also open a new high school every year for the next three years.»

I was a Girl Scout throughout my elementary, junior and even high school years.

So I chuckled when I heard that song, I remembered driving down Deerfoot Trail in Calgary in my dad's car, speeding towards curfew, holding hands over the console, listening to someone rap and sing that entire song out loud as practice for a someday - stage, and it made me feel very tender towards those weird high school years, very tender towards my old self, all of our old selves.

In my more mature high school years I gorged on Raisin Bran Crunch and Honey Bunches of Oats.

Alcott was graduated from Pacific Palisades High School a year ago.

Not only does Verdadera give students an outlet to express their innermost feelings during the turbulent high school years, but Wei also encourages parents to pay careful attention to their children's emotional lives.

When I told my son last night we were having a snow day because of the blizzard, he jumped up and down cheering and all my local pals and I chatted on Facebook about our snow day plans, just like high school years ago!