Sentences with phrase «required by my high school»

The five - paragraph essays, multiple - choice exams, and short homework assignments required by my high school didn't fill my pockets with much college currency.

APA style term paper is the most common format required by high school and college tutors.

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This season, Florida is the first and only state in the U.S. to require girls lacrosse teams to wear protective headgear, thanks to a new requirement by the Florida High School Athletic Association.

Urgent action by the federal government is required to address the persistently low high - school completion rates among young First nation adults living on - reserve, according to a new C.D. Howe...

Specialized, pre-assembled first - aid kits are in high demand by schools, corporations, and industries that are required by law to have first - aid kits on site.

In a study by Thomas H. Holmes and Richard H. Rahe of the University of Washington medical school, surveying the opinions of 394 individuals on the amount of readjustment required to meet life events, the death of a spouse had been given the highest rating.

We go above and beyond what USDA requires in school meals by ensuring all our meals are free from artificial colors, flavors and sweeteners, ensuring that our food is delivered fresh to schools each day, and ensuring that the quality of the ingredients in everything we offer is of a high quality that we would (and do) serve to our own children.

If that isn't enough, Adu's accelerated high school program set up by IMG, the Edison Academic Center — through which he will earn his diploma next month — has included community service at a child - care center, which requires another form of superhero work: taking three - year - olds to the bathroom.

Concussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: Code 18 -2-25a (2013) requires the governing authority of each public and nonpublic elementary school, middle school, junior high school and high school, working through guidance approved by the department of health and communicated through the department of education, to do the following: (A) Adopt guidelines and other pertinent information and forms as approved by the department of health to inform and educate coaches, school administrators, youth athletes and their parents or guardians of the nature, risk and symptoms of concussion and head injury, including continuing to play after concussion or head injury; (B) Require annual completion by all coaches, whether the coach is employed or a volunteer, and by school athletic directors of a concussion recognition and head injury safety education course program approved by the department.

The program must require the testing of a statistically significant number of students multiple times throughout the year at approximately 30 percent of high schools that participate in athletic competitions sponsored by the League.

The survey also found that eight in ten support a requirement that an athlete be evaluated and cleared by a doctor before being allowed to return to play sports after suffering a concussion (as is now required by law, at least at the high school level, in virtually every state).

It will set higher nutritional standards for school meals by requiring more fruits, vegetables and whole grains while reducing fat and salt.

States received points on the rubric if associated policies were required or mandated to be followed by the state high school athletics association member schools in that respective state.

In 1998, Florida became the first state to require a class on relationships and marriage for high school students, part of a larger plan to encourage marriage skills by discounting marriage licenses for couples that take a premarital skills course.

However, nearly 75 % of coaches were required to review concussion information or follow the standards set by the National Federation of High School Associations (NFHS).

By charging $ 5.25 per meal and requiring payment in advance, these schools generate enough money to pay for their high end offerings, and the use of «school - mom volunteers» to run the cafeteria saves on labor costs.

Aside from lowering the voting age by a year, the bill would also require all pupils in the ninth grade or higher to receive at least eight full class periods of civics education and mandate that every New York high school provide each student with a voter registration form the year they turn 17.

State officials also are requiring the District to come up with a backup plan to phase out East High School in case Education Commissioner John King doesn't approve the takeover plan by the University of Rochester.

State officials also are requiring the city to come up with a backup plan to phase out East High School in case the education commissioner doesn't approve the takeover plan by the U of R.

High School seniors were to be required to pass new Regents exams in English and Math that incorporated the new Common Core standards by 2017.

The agency relies on high levels of compliance by schools, yet fewer than half of free schools submitted their required financial returns for 2011 - 12 to the agency on time.

In explaining the changes, city officials noted that some plans approved by Mr. Bloomberg would have required elementary school students to attend class inside high school buildings, and others would have required cutting programs for students with disabilities.

An article late last year in the Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required) alerted me to a study carried out by Jonathon Cummings, an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management, and Sara Kiesler, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University.

«Subsequent research aimed at understanding developmental aspects of this finding will require similarly strong commitment by local athletes, parents and high schools.»

Prival adds that most Noyce teachers choose to stay at a high - need school beyond what's required of them by the program.

«James Abrahamson, an independent consultant hired by NSF,» said that «NEON Inc. was like a high school team trying to tackle a job that requires the skills of the NBA [National Basketball Association] or the NFL [National Football League].

While not required by the National Federation of State High School Associations, both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Ophthalmology recommend that players wear eye protection with polycarbonate lenses.

Among other measures, the High School Sports Brain Injury Prevention Act would require student athletes to be cleared by a doctor before returning to play or practice.

by Guest Contributor Pamela Vetter Jules Verne's novels were required reading when I was in high school.

By requiring this interaction, we are telling parents it is OK to get involved with their teenager's high school education.

Invariably the song arouses emotion in my high school and college students, because» «Ea» describes historical and contemporary Hawaiian issues, including the loss of culture and the 50 percent blood quantum required to gain the very few Hawaiian rights that are offered by the government.

Like all the other students in Joanna Ecke's American - literature class at Wilton High School here, Sister M. Andrina Logan dutifully carries her textbook to class four days a week and does the required readings by Mark Twain, Henry David Thoreau, and Benjamin Franklin.

Two schools required urgent inspections by the Fire and Rescue Service following the Department for Education's (DfE) limited programme of cladding checks to identify school buildings which are 18 metres or higher, or providing residential accommodation, and which are fitted with Aluminium Composite Material cladding.

ESSA requires states to continue testing students in grades 3 - 8 and once in high school, and to disaggregate the results by student group.

I am a principal in Texas of one of the first grade 3 - 6 TEA approved Public school Virtual Academy - I would like some pointers when discussing accountability with potential parents who are opposed to high stakes testing and love our school this year but would rather their child not participate in the STAAR testing required by TEA.

By 2004, high - school graduates will be required to pass five Regents exams; many question whether this goal can be achieved without increasing the dropout rate.

I am a San Marino High School (CA) social studies teacher and for the past several years I have increasingly required my US Government students to think critically by engaging in a semester - long group project that culminates with an end - of term - presentation.

High school exit exams, which are required by nearly half the states, measure skills that students are usually taught in middle school or the first year of high schHigh school exit exams, which are required by nearly half the states, measure skills that students are usually taught in middle school or the first year of high schhigh school.

The ruling last month was the first by a state high court to allow a school condom - distribution plan to proceed without requiring parental consent, legal experts said.

For example, although the schools CMU chartered were required by law to administer the state testing system, the Michigan Educational Assessment Program or MEAP, the results were wholly inadequate for making high - stakes decisions like closing schools.

Either high schools will really have to embrace family incentives by becoming significantly smaller and more informal, or they will have to admit that they are large, modern organizations that require explicit systems of rewards and sanctions to enhance productivity.

Judge Clark had to find the KCMSD schools «segregated,» according to these higher - court decisions, and had to respond, limited by the Supreme Court decision that he could not require the suburbs to participate.

Carlisle High School did not go as far as banning jeans or requiring uniforms, but made certain students knew what they could wear to school by holding a fashion show during orientation in the late sSchool did not go as far as banning jeans or requiring uniforms, but made certain students knew what they could wear to school by holding a fashion show during orientation in the late sschool by holding a fashion show during orientation in the late summer.

Some use these tests to create «high stakes» for students (preventing them from advancing to the next grade or graduating) or for educators (taking over underperforming schools, requiring the schools to accept external assistance, or simply shaming them by identifying them as poor schools).

Obviously, attaining these critical goals will require substantial resource infusions, especially for the high - need schools that historically have been treated inequitably by state education finance systems.

By 2014 it requires all students in every grade level to get to proficiency in every year — even 3rd graders who are born into poverty, or high - school students who moved to the United States two years prior.

School districts in Maine are not required by the U.S. Constitution to pay tuition for students at religious high schools even when they pay for secular private schools.

The law also required annual statewide tests in grades 3 through 8, and again in high school, and states had to publish the performances of students on these tests for every school, breaking out the results by ethnicity, eligibility for a subsidized lunch, and a variety of other categories.

Under the bill, now before the full House, students in selected junior high and high schools across the state would be able to design a more flexible schedule, pursue internships, and enroll in college courses, but still attend school 180 days a year as required by state law.

Growing up in central Indiana, Russell says he was «one of those kids they didn't know what to do with,» too precocious for his tiny school district to accommodate, but kept in high school by state laws that typically require kids to sit through 40 or so courses to graduate.