Sentences with phrase «past year in school»

Much controversy the past year in school districts across the state centered around Common Core Learning Standards.

We asked our Principal Files team to reflect on the past year in their schools and to share with us the biggest achievements — the «success stories» — of the year.

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When Alexandre Pestov, a strategic consultant and research associate at York University's Schulich School of Business, compared buying a two - bedroom Toronto condominium to renting it over the past 25 years, he found that the renter ended up $ 600,000 richer than the owner if he invested the spare cash in low - risk bonds.

In his book «The All - or - Nothing Marriage,» Eli Finkel, a psychologist at Northwestern University and a professor at the Kellogg School of Management, made a similar argument: Modern spouses look to each other for friendship, sexual fulfillment, intellectual growth — not just financial stability, like they did in years pasIn his book «The All - or - Nothing Marriage,» Eli Finkel, a psychologist at Northwestern University and a professor at the Kellogg School of Management, made a similar argument: Modern spouses look to each other for friendship, sexual fulfillment, intellectual growth — not just financial stability, like they did in years pasin years past.

Women have largely flocked to medical and law schools in greater numbers over the past few years, but they are now turning to business school as well in part because business schools are mindful of the shortage of women students and are recruiting them more aggressively than they have before.

Across the three academies, reports of sexual assault increased 30 % in the past school year.

The recent college graduate is about to experience something they haven't experienced in the past 16 years... the lack of dread that the summer is over and the new school year has begun.

We talked for a few minutes about William's childhood (he dropped out of high school in Amsterdam at 15 to become a DJ), his past work experience (he was a party planner for years), and how he had heard about us (he attended Hustle Con last year).

But in the past three years, the GRE has been marketed to the business school community as a viable alternative.

Both are fairly small, intimate experiences with the school entering less than 100 students in each of the past two years — and both are filled with a good bit of experiential learning opportunities to offset the younger age of the students here who tend to have a bit less work experience.

Well past the midway mark on the veterans and military hiring front, Starbucks is also expanding its efforts to hire Opportunity Youth — 16 - to 24 - year - olds who are neither employed or in school; an estimated 5.4 million young Americans.

Having spent the past 12 years living and working in 10 countries on four continents, she is spending a year as an international student attending the executive MBA program at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management.

It also will recognize the best in high school theater in the past school year, with 42 categories for performers, designers, technicians and critics.

Late Wednesday, detectives were digging into the past of the 19 - year - old who had no previous arrests but had displayed plenty of troubling behavior before officers took him into custody after what ranks as the third - deadliest school shooting in American history.

The returns have been scary - bad, not even keeping up with the pace of the schools» spending in the past year.

Has served for the past dozen years on the board of the KIPP Academy charter school in the South Bronx, which is part of a national network of 200 college prep public charter schools in low - income communities in 20 states and the District of Columbia.

A September study published by the Brookings Institution found that a large share of the growth in the number of students struggling to pay off their loans over the past several years is tied to students borrowing to go to for - profit schools and to a smaller extent two - year community college.

«Poland's economic performance in the past five years has been nothing short of amazing,» Witold Orlowski, former chief economist to the president of Poland and chief economic adviser at PwC, wrote in a blog for the London School of Economics last September.

I also wonder if there is more of a focus in the past couple years on writing in biz schools.

Name: Kelly Blackett Title: Executive Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Communications Areas of responsibility: Human resources, learning and development, corporate communications Years with CWB Financial Group: 3 Career history: 17 years with General Electric in Canada holding a series of progressively responsible human resources leadership roles at GE Capital and GE Corporate, supporting businesses within Canada as well as globally Education: Bachelor of Commerce with Distinction from the University of Alberta Community involvement: Sits on the Board of Trustees for the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation, member of the MacEwan Business School Advisory Board, and past mentor with MORE, a program providing cross-business mentorship to female leaders in Edmonton's business commYears with CWB Financial Group: 3 Career history: 17 years with General Electric in Canada holding a series of progressively responsible human resources leadership roles at GE Capital and GE Corporate, supporting businesses within Canada as well as globally Education: Bachelor of Commerce with Distinction from the University of Alberta Community involvement: Sits on the Board of Trustees for the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation, member of the MacEwan Business School Advisory Board, and past mentor with MORE, a program providing cross-business mentorship to female leaders in Edmonton's business commyears with General Electric in Canada holding a series of progressively responsible human resources leadership roles at GE Capital and GE Corporate, supporting businesses within Canada as well as globally Education: Bachelor of Commerce with Distinction from the University of Alberta Community involvement: Sits on the Board of Trustees for the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation, member of the MacEwan Business School Advisory Board, and past mentor with MORE, a program providing cross-business mentorship to female leaders in Edmonton's business community

Here's a look at some recent U.S. school shootings, and some of the deadliest of years past: — Feb. 14, 2018: A former student is accused of killing 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Flschool shootings, and some of the deadliest of years past: — Feb. 14, 2018: A former student is accused of killing 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FlSchool in Parkland, Florida.

«There are more cases of imported yellow fever [from travelers] in the past two years than in the previous 20 years,» said Duane Gubler, a leading researcher of mosquito - borne diseases at Duke - NUS Medical School.

(Even the relatively serious denominations in which I've spent the past 10 - 15 years can't seem to produce demanding and engaging Sunday School curricula for young people.)

The Archdiocesan of NY is amongst the wealthiest in the nation yet they have closed down close to 40 schools in the past two years alone.

◾ About two - thirds of LGBT students reported having ever been sexually harassed (e.g., sexual remarks made, being touched inappropriately) in school in the past year.

In recent years enrolment has shrunk to just 68,000, and in the past decade nearly 40 schools have already beencloseIn recent years enrolment has shrunk to just 68,000, and in the past decade nearly 40 schools have already beenclosein the past decade nearly 40 schools have already beenclosed.

Mark, I can, off the top of my head, count on one hand the number of churches that have closed in the past two years in just one diocese, on top of that, several elementary schools and one high school.

(Indeed, fascinating histories might be written of major changes in the identities of both denominational and university - related theological schools that came about over the past thirty years not by grand vision and masterful decision but through the accumulated impact of individual decisions about particular proposed courses, programs for this and centers for that.)

You never got past freshman year in high school, did you?

Now, on the other side, look up what the Texas board of education has been trying to do in Texas public schools for the past several years.

Over the past three years, «Chris» (let's call him) has experienced a pronounced attraction to other males — for one old friend from high school in particular.

Indeed the past thirty years, and the past twenty - three years since the publication of Fr Purnell's work have seen the virtual complete failure of this approach in catechetics and in religious education in our schools.

Also, 38 percent say they have become more involved in their children's school in the past year in an effort to protect their children.

290k cases reported in the past 13 years in schools.

Silverton Friends Church, for instance, (where my co-author John Pattison is a member) gathered a diverse group of its members and spent most of the past school year reading about the LGBT community and discussing how they would respond together to tensions about sexuality in their congregation and their denomination.

It is useful to recall a simple fact: in years past, much Christian education, including the teaching of the catechism, took place in a wide range of institutions: the home, common school, congregation and university.

D'Souza had led The King's College, a small but prestigious evangelical school in Manhattan, for the past two years.

The Holy Father set in motion these past two years of contention and, one hopes, constructive dialogue in the Church because he knows that marriage and the family are in deep trouble throughout the world, just as he knows that marriage, rightly understood, and the family, rightly understood, are the basic building blocks of a humane society: the family is the first school of freedom, because it is there that we first learn that freedom is not mere willfulness; marriage, for its part, is the lifelong school in which we learn the full, challenging meaning of the law of self - giving built into the human heart.

If you are in high school or have been in high school within the past 15 years, watch My Generation at your own risk.

When two major classical Pentecostal bodies in the past dozen years established graduate theological schools, both avoided the term «theological seminary.»

We've got teams going to Costa Rica, medical mission trips to Haiti, Jamaica, and Colombia, and have raised $ 5 million in the past seven years to build clean water yard facilities, new schools and provided seed, grains and tool to help the Sudanese get back on their feet.

The company has always been strong in the Chicagoland market, but it's seen a major boost in business in the past few years as the healthy eating trend trickles down from the larger food industry into school lunches.

In the past seven years, we've learned how to create gluten - free versions of our favorite foods and traditional Jewish foods and how to navigate through restaurants, school and birthday parties gluten - free.

For example, in the past 10 years we've funded polio vaccines, school equipment, road repairs and medical clinics in global growing regions.

She has dedicated her career to working in schools throughout Ohio and has spent the past seven years heading up the food program for Cloverleaf Local Schools, a small school district nestled in rural Lodi, about an hour southwest of Cleschools throughout Ohio and has spent the past seven years heading up the food program for Cloverleaf Local Schools, a small school district nestled in rural Lodi, about an hour southwest of CleSchools, a small school district nestled in rural Lodi, about an hour southwest of Cleveland.

Over the past three years just here in Northern California, the youth playing community (Under 8s through High School) has grown 24 percent to a solid number of right around 5,000 registered players in 2014.

That is the startling conclusion of a team of experts after exhaustive research into heatstroke cases that took the lives of nine high school and college football players in the past five years

Mannings been running scared from Big Bad Brady Belichick and Bob for the past 13 years and he's avoiding them like the kid with asthma avoids Presidental Physical Fitness test day in school.

Then - commissioner David Stern, who pushed for the creation of the age minimum in 2005, wanted to extend it to age 20 or two years past high school graduation.

Developed by a Boston - based company, SmartSports, the SmartKage has been in a trial stage over the past year «'' which led to its installation at the Concord baseball school, one of just 100 test sites chosen across the country.