Sentences with phrase «other high schools where»

While I find students are generally strong in recognizing alternative perspectives in an academic way — for example, analyzing different arguments on why the American Revolution took place — I think there is a shortfall when it comes to empathizing with people outside their demographic,» he says, adding that he saw the same pattern at other high schools where he has taught in the past.

Not exact matches

«It really comes down to this combination of funding and mentoring — the two key areas high - growth startups need,» says Michael Goldberg, visiting assistant professor of design and innovation at Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management where he created an online course that uses Cleveland as a model for other communities.

The other was an 18 - year - old high school student, a competitive skeet shooter now unable to compete as he awaits a final hearing where his attorney will argue he should get his gun rights back.

American high schools have been described as places where «individuals of the same age group define each other's world.»

So, I arrived at San Gabriel High School where Mosaic meets on Sunday mornings and parked the porn mobile in the parking lot with all the other cars.

Back and forth across the Carolinas and Virginias, where college basketball rates higher than barbecue, the schools of the Southern Conference torment each other with diabolic defenses, home - court advantages and 6 - foot 11 - inch carpetbaggers.

John Rosengren is the author of «Blades of Glory: The True Story of a Young Team Bred to Win» about high school hockey in Minnesota, where the average teenage boy thinks about sex once every seven seconds and hockey the other six.

Williams would love to coach again at his old school, Chaneyville (now Northeast) High, in Zachary, La., the town of 10,380 where he grew up, where he owns a home, where his mother, Laura, his four brothers, his two sisters and other relatives live, where his father, Robert Sr., is buried.

In other words, a student with a 1300 SAT score at a public high school where the average SAT score is 1000 will have an admissions edge over an equal student at a private school where 1300 is the average SAT score.

«THE SMARTEST TEAM» begins where other concussion documentaries leave off, not simply identifying the risks of long - term brain injury in football but offering youth and high school programs across the country specific ways to minimize those risks, through a focus on what de Lench calls the «Six Pillars» of a comprehensive concussion risk management program:

While we know that not every camp can engage in a large evaluation process, we hope that our findings will be useful to others and inspire reflection about how camps can excel as high quality learning environments where kids can practice many of the essential skills they need for school, job, and relationship success.

I also remember exactly where I was where I heard about several other shootings: Columbine, when I was a junior in high school and my mother was a high school teacher, and I was more fearful for her than for myself.

In his 27 - year tenure as a social worker at Buffalo Grove High School, «he could make a connection with them where other people couldn't,» said Trisha Dean, an assistant principal at the sSchool, «he could make a connection with them where other people couldn't,» said Trisha Dean, an assistant principal at the schoolschool.

In college is where I found the language for what I had already been doing since middle and high school: supporting others through trauma.

That's very different situation from a high school like Holy Trinity where kids have no other lunch options (besides lunch from home), keeping the level of federal reimbursement dollars higher.

The Smartest Team begins where other concussion documentaries leave off, not simply identifying the risks of long - term brain injury in football but offering youth and high school programs across the country specific ways to minimize those risks, through a focus on what de Lench calls the «Six PillarsTM» of a comprehensive concussion risk management program:

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

Addressing a press conference in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region on Wednesday, Nana Akufo - Addo stated that, at several places where he campaigned, Ghanaians were asking for roads and school projects among others; an indication that the Mahama - led administration has little to show for its eight years of stewardship in the highest office of the land.

This was said during the first Senate committee hearing on the controversial gun and school safety measure that was crafted in the wake of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre where 17 were killed and many others were inschool safety measure that was crafted in the wake of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre where 17 were killed and many others were inSchool massacre where 17 were killed and many others were injured.

Questions during the Q&A portion of the press conference included his plans during his scheduled visit to Albany on March 4th, why he expects to convince legislators who he has not convinced, whether he's concerned that the middle school program will be pushed aside if there is a pre-K funding mechanism other than his proposed tax, where the money to fund the middle school program will come from, how he counters the argument that his tax proposal is unfair to cities that do not have a high earner tax base, how he will measure the success of the program absent additional standardized testing, whether he expects to meet with Governor Cuomo or Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos during his March 4th trip, what he would say to a parent whose child planned on attending one of the charter schools that his administration refused to allow, whether he doubts Governor Cuomo's commitment or ability to deliver on the funding the governor has promised, what are the major hurdles in trying to convince the state senate to approve his tax proposal, whether there's an absolute deadline for getting his tax proposal approved, whether he can promise parents pre-K spots should Governor Cuomo's proposal gointo effect, and why he has not met with Congressman Michael Grimm since taking office.

He launched into a list of nearly a dozen other names that Kiernan had murmured to him during the VetoThon: his high school, his law school, his father's alma mater, the hospital where his mother served on the board, programs his children attended — even his aunt's church.

At this point, realizing that I must have either slept through or forgotten the high school physics class where it was explained how magnets manage that singular feat of interacting with each other at a distance, I set out on what I assumed would be a minutes - long odyssey to understand the phenomenon.

She and her fellow researchers defined higher SES areas as those areas where at least 85 percent of the population had graduated from high school; all other areas were considered lower SES areas.

This is something which has been very well documented and mourned in a report from the National Academy of Sciences that was issued by a committee headed by Norman Augustine just a few months ago and this report — which is called «he Gathering Storm» — lays out in some detail the concern that that [leaves us] with a long hole over the next couple of decades, because of weaknesses in [the] way we fund basic physical sciences, the way we are training people to do physical sciences, the way we treat science in elementary and high - school programs — all of those factors, the way we pay teachers, the way we use the patent system where we try to provide incentives in some of the physical sciences; we are losing our leadership gradually to other countries, especially in Europe and [of] particular concern in Asia, where the rise of science in, particularly China, to a certain extent India and other parts of Southeast Asia, are cause for long - term concern.

Some studies found that high school seniors in states where pot was decriminalized tended to drink less, while other research found that college students who used pot also drank more.

It's kind of like a stereotypical high school movie where the nerds all sit at one table and the jocks all sit at another and generally hate each other.

A thoughtful high school teacher who came to yoga class recently put it so well: «Summer was a time where I was learning to be with myself in a healthy way... now my challenge is to be with other people again and this is when my yoga practice is really important.»

I've only been out of high school 8 years (although even that feels crazy), but I already feel like we're all getting to the point where we can laugh about old drama and really appreciate each other as adults.

The best part about my high school friends is that no matter how long we go without seeing each other, we're always able to pick up right where we last left off.

However, if you live near where you went to high school, you might already know everyone who will show up (and you really don't want that creepy kid from Algebra sending you winks or other flirty messages).

Where all relationships end up... It might have started in primary school: you sent each other notes, and called each other «girlfriend» and In the Darwinian world of high - school dating, freshman girls and senior boys have the highest chances of successfully partnering up.

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Among many other experiences, he follows a large group of Israeli high school students on a journey to Poland's death camps, where some admit to being afraid of leaving their hotel rooms, so frightened are they by the remarks of teachers and Secret Service agents on the dangers of anti-Semitism.

The setting is Bloomington, Indiana, where four lifelong friends have graduated high school and spend their days just hanging out with each other, committed to never break up their friendship or way of life for anything.

I definitely saw bits of myself as a teen in Lady Bird — I was also a theater kid in high school, so seeing that in the film was a total treat, but also remembering that as a time in your life where you could try on different versions of yourself to see who you want to be, and what other people respond to.

They are wary of a world where gap years become like French horn solos, spots on the fencing team, or any of the other feats privileged high schoolers use to pad their resumes: «one more thing,» Savitz - Romer says, «for less - advantaged students not to know about and not to have.»

It'll boost their reading scores; prepare them to succeed in middle school, high school, and beyond, where U.S. test scores (and other metrics) crash; and equalize opportunity in American society in ways that no anti-poverty or compensatory education program can possibly do.

Consideration should be first given to collaboration, sharing resources across other schools and how to best deliver other high cost budgetary items like sickness cover and energy costs, where significant savings can be made.

Also through her internship, Andi strings rackets (and now has her own stringing business), accompanies Goldthreate at high school speaking events and meetings with the Park Board or the Congress, plays in tournaments, puts on fundraisers, studies for her classes, and attends events like the PTR Symposium, where she networks with other tennis professionals, sharing what they do at their tennis associations, clubs, and PTR offices.

An under - utilized high school library becomes a constant learning organization and a place of cloud literacy where students present to each other and collaborate via their avatars inside 3 - D virtual classrooms.

That is so motivating to me, to see 130 eighth graders preparing to go into high school, where they'll take African American history and then other history classes and have a sense of who they are and what they stand for.

The report, two years in the making, calls on America's high schools to evolve into smaller communities where students and adults know each other well, the curriculum emphasizes depth over breadth, and a flexible, active learning process replaces the factory - era model of teachers lecturing to rows of students.

Importantly, these results are from a highly competitive institution where student grades directly influence employment opportunities at graduation — in other words, a school where the incentives to pay attention in class are especially high.

Among schools where high - SES students neither gain relative ground nor fall back relative to their statewide peers, there are some schools where low - SES students gain around 0.05 standard deviation of relative ground, and others where low - SES students lose 0.24 standard deviations of relative ground.

It did open the door to such an approach in high school, where kids are already taking lots of other tests.

Among schools where high - SES students fall back around 0.2 standard deviations relative to the state average between third and fifth grades, there are some schools where low - SES students lose only around 0.1 standard deviation of relative ground, and others where low - SES students lose nearly 0.4 standard deviations of relative ground.

In other words, there are schools where low - SES students score higher than do high - SES students at numerous other schools.

Then we have only one more year to get the evaluation model done for all the other teachers, from music teachers to high school physics teachers — where we don't have annual tests.

Countries where more people choose to invest in private schools may have other attributes, such as more income or a greater commitment to education, that lead to higher levels of achievement.

At Montpelier High School in Vermont, students participate in a daily «Unplugged» session where they can challenge each other in board games, work on art projects, play music, and meditate.