Sentences with phrase «rather than a high school»

The process of earning a Division I golf scholarship goes through junior amateur tournaments rather than high school matches, but Laskin wants to enjoy his final season as a Marauder with his teammates.

Which is one reason my target weight's 140 (I'm 5» 6 ″) rather than my high school weight because I didn't have enough muscle mass back then.

Finally, the open letter with public policy recommendations says, «At least two years of community college rather than a high school degree should be the minimum educational goal.»

Yes, I know, there are other factors that contribute to their better score on the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)-- longer school days, advanced science and math starting earlier in elementary school rather than high school, extra tutoring in Korean hagwons, less to learn with a more focused curriculum, no non-essential learning activities such as sports, home ec or computer applications courses.

Not exact matches

Cohen has long viewed his legal career through a pragmatic rather than high - minded lens, said former Cooley Law School classmate Greg Crockett, now an attorney in Okemos, Michigan.

Millenials» unique media habits show up in other ways: Nowadays, for example, high schoolers do their initial research into potential colleges and universities on the Internet rather than during an actual trip to a campus; and young media users rely on YouTube videos to learn everything from magic tricks and hair and makeup tips, to cooking secrets.

We had a similar approach on my tennis team in high school — we'd rather be lucky than good.

The properly measured economic return to community college has to take into account the counterfactual outcomes that entrants would face in the absence of community college, rather than compare community college entrants to students who enter university programs after high school.

Rather than trying to attach the recent rise of the horror genre to September 11, 2001, your article ought to have looked at April 20, 1999, the day of the Columbine High School shooting.

Rather than the skinny torsos of 15 - year - olds still going through puberty, the screen shows impossibly fit 20 - something actors standing in for high school students.

I also learned that Edison High School holds another tragic record - the most graduates to be killed in the Vietnam War of any high school in America (54 kids), no coincidence that it is located in North Philly rather than the subuHigh School holds another tragic record - the most graduates to be killed in the Vietnam War of any high school in America (54 kids), no coincidence that it is located in North Philly rather than the suSchool holds another tragic record - the most graduates to be killed in the Vietnam War of any high school in America (54 kids), no coincidence that it is located in North Philly rather than the subuhigh school in America (54 kids), no coincidence that it is located in North Philly rather than the suschool in America (54 kids), no coincidence that it is located in North Philly rather than the suburbs.

Note: I enjoyed this book in spite of the narration on audible - the narrator's tone sounded like a high class 40 year old rather than a middle school / high school kid.

Mize is 2 to 3 years from MLB, rather than 5 to 6 like a high schooler.

Rather than sign with a club team, as is the fashion for many high school athletes, she's true to her roots.

Even then, its smattering of opponents were mostly infant club programs rather than other high school teams.

Mauk threw for more yards than any high school quarterback ever has and operated from a spread offense rather similar to Missouri's.

Cooperstown is going to become even more of a bland high - school - history textbook than it already is, distilled to names, numbers, and nothing more, with prominent figures and events removed to keep the idea of sanctity alive and well, rather than risk telling a story someone might not want to recall.

Marcus Davenport showed up at the University of Texas at San Antonio — which played its first game in 2011 — weighing less than 200 pounds, having switched positions late in high school and viewing football as a means to a good education rather than a potential lifelong pursuit.

But seniors fill out college applications and the reality slowly starts sinking in that this whole high school thing — sports and all — is going to end sooner rather than later.

«I would rather see all those high schools go out and even if they shared an athletic trainer, I'd rather see that than see them all go out and spend money on sensors,» Dawn Comstock, a leading concussion researcher, professor at University of Colorado's School of Public Health, and member of MomsTEAM Institute's Board of Advisors, told SI.

I believe that an equal playing or significant playing time should be the rule rather than the exception, at least up until high school varsity or until players are playing at the highest levels of their sport.

But, as a former college lacrosse and high school field hockey player, I have reservations about whether requiring female lacrosse and field hockey players to wear helmets will make the sports safer, or, as a result of the phenomenon called risk compensation, actually result in more, rather than fewer, head injuries.

Rather than preach reform in the way parents and schools prepare students for higher education, Stanford and its fellow institutions could quickly improve student well being by basing admissions on finding the appropriate students rather than on generating statistics the school can use to promote its Rather than preach reform in the way parents and schools prepare students for higher education, Stanford and its fellow institutions could quickly improve student well being by basing admissions on finding the appropriate students rather than on generating statistics the school can use to promote its rather than on generating statistics the school can use to promote its brand.

I feared he thought he may be responsible for a child with a disability, and would feel as if he had to remain with us once finishing high school, rather than leave for college.

As a former college lacrosse and high school field hockey player, and a member of ASTM International's subcommittee on standards for headgear and helmets, which is working with US Lacrosse on developing a new standard for headgear in women's lacrosse, I have reservations about whether requiring female lacrosse players to wear helmets will make the sports safer, or, as a result of the phenomenon called risk compensation (also called the «gladiator effect»), will actually result in more, rather than fewer, head injuries.

But, as a former college lacrosse and high school field hockey player, I have reservations about whether requiring female lacrosse and field hockey players to wear helmets will make the sports safer, or, as a result of risk compensation, actually result in more, rather than fewer, head injuries.

They largely refused to acknowledge that poverty rather than school quality was the root cause of the educational problems of disadvantaged kids, for fear that saying so would merely reinforce a long - standing belief among public educators that students unlucky enough to live in poverty shouldn't be expected to achieve at high levels — and public educators shouldn't be expected to get them there.

The last thing they want is too high a funding level that would enable schools to have working kitchens (rather than large ovens to heat up trays prepared in a central kitchen) and a skilled staff capable of serving healthy homemade meals.

Not surprisingly, students in these schools are willing to forego lunch entirely, rather than risk this sort of high - tech social ostracism.

The two high school friends reunited in 2010 with the common goal to redefine screentime: to create media for kids that would benefit (rather than harm them) and help promote lessons that lay the social - emotional foundation essential for a happy, healthy life.

a DEM or CPM is basically the same thing In Australia a DEM is someone that completes their midwifery education in a 3 year university degree level direct from high school rather than completing nurse education first.

«I would rather see all those high schools go out and even if they shared an athletic trainer, I'd rather see that than see them all go out and spend money on sensors,» Comstock says.

Accordingly, rather than force children to take the whole meal and throw out much of it, in 1975, Congress passed an amendment to the School Lunch Act allowing high schools to still receive federal reimbursement for meals so long as students selected at least three out of five options served, including milk.

But should you be dealing with a zoo, rather than a bedroom (aka a room with multiple children), consider stealing the elementary school idea and using it in your own house by installing wainscot and painting it with gloss or even high - gloss paint.

The redesigned School Quality Reports give high marks to schools with pass rates in the single digits because the administration would rather give parents a falsely rosy picture than admit schools are not performing.

The policy group highlighted North Carolina's state community college system as having established a new mechanism to place students in courses based in part on high school performance, rather than just through testing.

In the speech, delivered inside The Mall at Bay Plaza in Baychester, Diaz described the number of Latino and black students admitted to the city's prestigious Stuyvesant High School over the past few years as unacceptably low and called for the creation of new high schools in each borough that would use a portfolio of the students» grades and schoolwork rather than a specialized test to determine who getsHigh School over the past few years as unacceptably low and called for the creation of new high schools in each borough that would use a portfolio of the students» grades and schoolwork rather than a specialized test to determine who getshigh schools in each borough that would use a portfolio of the students» grades and schoolwork rather than a specialized test to determine who gets in.

Pensions and health costs for teachers and other staff are substantially higher for the traditional, unionized public schools compared to charters, which offer their employees 401ks rather than more generous defined benefit plans.

The city, though, plans to expand Millennium in Brooklyn rather than lower Manhattan, because Brooklyn has a greater need for selective high school seats.

So rather than give up on school he enrolled in the Buffalo school district's Career Collegiate Institute, where he will earn a high school equivalency degree while taking classes to prepare him for college.

Coming from a high school with a graduating class of about 60 students, I opted for a small undergraduate college rather than a university.

Rather than obsessively checking my e-mail or keeping up with journal articles, I laid around and read bad fiction, hung out with my family, caught up with friends from high school, and marveled at how much everything had changed since I started graduate school.

Opponents of affirmative action are requesting admissions data from institutions of higher learning to make sure the schools are adhering to the policy of using race as one of many factors rather than having it be the determining factor.

Preventing a tragedy is understandable and good, but we have to do this in ways that are sensible rather than just reactionary,» says Kupchik, an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware, Newark, who is leading a study of discipline in American public high schools.

But in a new study by a Johns Hopkins Carey Business School professor, evaluators using a balanced scorecard (BSC) in different case scenarios tended to award high ratings and bonuses to employees who performed well financially, rather than to those who scored well in corporate social responsibility (CSR).

STEM - focused high schools are important because they constitute the first U.S. science and mathematics reform that requires whole - school transformation rather than tinkering with peripheral components of an outmoded educational system or serving just a small, select segment of the public school population.

Rather than focusing solely on students who are gifted and talented, these schools recruit a broad swath of students who choose to attend a STEM high school.

Scientists thus seemed to prefer to either anticipate or postpone such professional moves rather than relocate the family when they had children in high school, the paper says.

The report suggests that government efforts should be geared not only towards academically - minded young people, but also towards the large number of high school graduates who want to start working rather than go on studying.

A study published earlier this year found that self - reported physical health quality was higher among people who practiced yoga in a school or studio setting rather than alone at home.