Sentences with phrase «people at the school less»

Hogg, a 17 - year - old student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, has been one of the most prominent student advocates for gun control legislation after a gunman killed 17 people at the school less than two weeks ago.

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Trump's move comes less than a week after a shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, left 17 people dead.

According to a study by Michael Norton of Harvard Business School and two colleagues from the University of British Columbia, the amount of money people earn has less influence on their happiness than how they spend it, and those who spend at least some of their money on others are happier than those who do not.

Less - well - off people who attend state schools, community colleges, or no college at all are already way behind the entrepreneurship curve before they've even hit their 20s.

His six - person sales team at Lincoln, Neb. - based Facts Management, which sells tuition processing tools to private K - 12 schools throughout the U.S., needed something less expensive.

The Florida state House has voted down a motion to take up a bill that would ban assault rifles, less than a week after 17 people were fatally shot at a Florida high school.

Less than a week after 17 people were fatally shot at a Florida high school, the state House has voted down a motion to take up a bill that would ban assault rifles, effectively killing the measure for this session.

Bitcoin has become a popular alternative option that brings more safety and less cost to people and businesses, according to a new white paper by the Chamber of Digital Commerce and the Georgetwon Center for Financial Markets and Policy at the McDonough School of Business.

But at least an all inclusive school won't teach that your religion is better than another person's, and therefore they are lesser people for it and less worthy of life.

This entails a closer look at major events already presented by Greene and now fleshed out with the accounts of other people: his life in and around the Berkhamstead School, where his father was headmaster; the more or less serious attempts at teenage suicide; the startling decision of the family to respond to this crisis by sending the boy to board with a psychoanalyst in London; later games of Russian roulette played all alone in an effort to beat boredom and make existence seem precious; and his conversion to Roman Catholicism.

What a securely attached child - OR ADULT - looks like: competent, self - confident, resilient, cheerful much of the time, anticipating people's needs (not from a co-dependent place), empathic, humorous, playful, tries harder in the face of adversity; not vulnerable to approach by strangers because won't go to strangers (as adult, out - going without being foolhardy), good self - esteem, achieving, able to use all mental, physical, emotional resources fully, responsive, affectionate, able to make deep commitments as appropriate, able to be self - disclosing as appropriate, able to be available emotionally as appropriate, able to interact well with others at school and in jobs / careers, likely to be more physically healthy throughout life, self - responsible, giving from a «good heart» place of compassion, has true autonomy, no co-dependent self, because of well developed internal modulation system, less likely to turn to external «devices» (addictions) to modulate affect

This is probably because of a number of factors, including that there is a lot less conformity and rigidity at home which encourages thinking, they have time to explore things more, they have more conversation with adults, etc., but whatever the cause, it's strong enough that even non-home schooling people, including many university professors, have observed it.

Also at 10 a.m., NYC Councilman Ruben Wills, Assemblyman Michael Miller, and local advocates announce town hall to address transitional the facility and drop - in site proposal for street homeless people located less than 250 feet from a local high school, 100 - 32 Atlantic Ave., Queens.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

While only 22 % percent of New Yorkers think the recently enacted state budget is either excellent or good for the people of the state, at least 71 % agree that creating a $ 2.5 billion clean water infrastructure fund, increasing aid to local school districts by $ 1.1 billion, allowing ride - sharing services to operate in the state, and making SUNY / CUNY tuition free for families making less than $ 125,000 will make New York better, according to a new Siena College poll of New York State registered voters released early Monday morning.

With the rising tuition at most schools for undergraduate education, the increasing length of time spent in grad school, and the meager postdoc salaries people are getting for two, three, even four postdocs, it's a wonder anyone has money for a beer, much less for a retirement plan.

«Our research suggests that attractive people may be discriminated against in selection for relatively less desirable jobs,» said lead author Margaret Lee, a doctoral candidate at the London Business School.

They were less likely to school and swim along with other tadpoles (a tadpole proxy for socialization, which is impaired in autism); they weren't as good at avoiding contact with animated images projected on to the bottom of their petri dishes; they didn't habituate to startling noises (another analog to autism in people); and induced seizures were more frequent and shorter than in normal tadpoles.

Thanks to a breakthrough led by researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, treatment for hemophilia can now be administered via a biodegradable system, a capsule, giving people affected by the hereditary bleeding disorder hope for a less expensive, less painful treatment option than conventional injections or infusions.

By spending less than $ 5 per person on essential health care services such as contraception, medication for serious illnesses and nutritional supplements, millions of maternal and child lives could be saved every year, according to a new analysis led by Robert Black, PhD, a professor of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

A study by Emily Hunter and Cindy Wu at Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business found that people who took morning breaks at work reported feeling more energized, more able to concentrate and more motivated, and were less likely to report symptoms like headaches and lower back pain.

But they add to the «strong, consistent evidence» that people who drink in moderation are less likely than nondrinkers or heavy drinkers to experience health problems such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and dementia, says Qi Sun, MD, the lead author of the study and a nutrition researcher at the Harvard School of Public Health, in Boston.

In a 2008 study, scientists at the Peninsula Medical School in the U.K. assessed the well - being of nearly 10,000 people over the age of 50 and found that smokers in the group reported lower - than - average levels of pleasure and less satisfaction with their lives than the nonsmokers.

The new findings bolster evidence that it matters less what particular diet composition people follow and more whether a person sticks with that diet, said Linda Van Horn, a professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, who wrote an editorial about the new study.

In an interview with John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health, she said: «When people cook most of their meals at home, they consume fewer carbohydrates, less sugar and less fat than those who cook less or not at all.»

Chronic Pain: A study at the West Virginia University School of Medicine found that, after practicing yoga for three months, people reported 70 % less lower - back pain, and 88 % of them reduced or stopped taking pain medication.

«People who received a high - saturated - fat, high - sugar diet showed a change in their ApoE, such that the ApoE would be less able to help clear the amyloid,» said research team member Suzanne Craft, a professor of medicine at Wake Forest School of Medicine.

People who met on eHarmony were 66.6 % less likely to get divorced, those who met through school were 41.1 % less likely to get divorced, those who met through some other means were 16 % more likely to get divorced, and those who met at a bar were 24 % more likely to get divorced.

6 Surprising Things American Parents Really Think about Education Deseret News, 9/2/16 «It's no surprise that people think teachers are paid less than they are, says Marty West, an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, since there is a constant drumbeat suggesting otherwise.

«Evidence shows that only in 40 % of schools do young people have an encounter with an employer once a year, despite the fact that those who have more encounters while at school are significantly less likely to be NEET and earn, on average, 18 % more than peers who have not.

Another became principal at the high school from which he graduated less than 15 years before; he would supervise people who had been his teachers.

After having worked for three months at a school that provided education for the most elite of Haiti's population, I knew that I had to expand my efforts to reach the other 80 percent of Haiti, the people that live on less than $ 2 a day.

It may look very attractive to governments to say we can pay a lot less if we give five schools to each person silly enough to put their hand up to say I'll be a principal at that situation.

Referencing Prime Minister Thera May's comments that those at state schools are less likely to reach the top professions, the charity warns that without a focus on education in areas of the country being left behind, thousands of young people risk losing out.

It's no surprise that people think teachers are paid less than they are, says Marty West, an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, since there is a constant drumbeat suggesting otherwise.

Students in integrated schools are more tolerant and less prejudiced, measured by the tendency to accept and connect with people of other races versus holding them at a distance and turning them into negative stereotypes.

At its height, according to its superintendent, Patrick Dobard, Louisiana's RSD central office employed around 500 people, but has slimmed down to less than a 100 since converting the remainder of its schools to charters in 2014.

Let's be absolutely clear: a donation of a million dollars will be subsidized by tax payers to the tune of $ 750,000 for scholarships that might go to people earning $ 300,000 annually while genuinely needy families will get a $ 500 coupon for tuition (which is about 1/24 the average cost of tuition at a Catholic school in the United States) and teachers will get slightly less than the cost of 10 packs of multi-colored Sharpies.

Less than two months ago, hundreds of local students and community members gathered in First Ward Park, to protest gun violence in schools after 17 people were killed at one in Parkland.

Every school always has an agenda, some items of which can put at risk the ability to provide the best education possible, but when one of your top items is to make a profit, it definitely seems to make the education aspect a lot less important, no matter what rhetoric they might spew to try to convince people otherwise.

Compiled by the National Center for Access to Justice at Cardozo Law School, the Justice Index 2016 paints a dramatic picture of the nation's justice gap, including the finding that there is less than one civil legal aid attorney for every 10,000 poor people in the United States.

The national Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters notes in its final report that only about 6.5 % of legal problems ever make it to court, but it is unlikely in the extreme that so many of the people with high school diplomas or less are bundled into the 93.5 % who manage to resolve their legal issues outside of court, especially when we know that for people with low incomes, legal issues tend not come one at a time but cluster and multiply into other areas of the law.

Plus, since they won't be paying such high tuition (because there are more law schools and because some people won't go to school at all to become lawyers), students will graduate with much less (or no) debt, removing another reason many people now go to BigLaw.

(b) Reductions in premiums shall be available if all named drivers who are 25 years of age or older: (1) Have committed no traffic offenses for the prior three years or since the date of licensure, whichever is shorter; (2) Have had no claims based on fault against an insurer for the prior three years; and (3) Complete one of the following types of driving courses: (A) A course in defensive driving of not less than six hours from a driver improvement clinic or commercial or noncommercial driving school approved by and under the jurisdiction of the Department of Driver Services; (B) An emergency vehicles operations course at the Georgia Public Safety Training Center; (C) A course in defensive driving of not less than six hours from a driver improvement program which is administered by a nonprofit organization such as the American Association of Retired People, the American Automobile Association, the National Safety Council, or a comparable organization and which meets the standards promulgated by the Department of Driver Services pursuant to subsection (f) of this Code section; or (D) A course in defensive driving of not less than six hours offered by an employer to its employees and their immediate families, which course has been approved by the Department of Driver Services.

The team won the Florida state title on Feb. 25, less than two weeks after 17 people were killed in a mass shooting at the school on Feb. 14.

The scramble by lawmakers to react to the deaths of 17 people Wednesday at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School comes with less than three weeks remaining in the annual legislative session and as students from Parkland, along with their counterparts from Leon County, are expected to flood the Capitol this week demanding gun control.

The Florida state House has voted down a motion to take up a bill that would ban assault rifles, less than a week after 17 people were fatally shot at a Florida high school.

The new products should be announced at Apple's education - themed event on Tuesday at Lane Tech College Prep High School in Chicago.Apple is also said to be working on a new, lower - priced notebook, likely to replace the MacBook Air with a sub - $ 1,000 price in the United States: A new, cheaper MacBook laptop is in the works and likely destined to replace the MacBook Air at a price less than $ 1,000, but it probably won't be ready in time for next week, the people said.

Less than a week after 17 people were fatally shot at a Florida high school, the state House has voted down a motion to take up a bill that would ban assault rifles, effectively killing the measure for this session.

Compare that to people with less than a high school diploma, for whom the unemployment rate stands at 8.5 %, which is a startling increase of almost one whole percentage point compared to the same time last year.