Sentences with phrase «school crowding into»

One fifth grader made an emotional plea as she expressed how upset she was at the idea of a charter school crowding into her school — P.S. 308 in Bedford Stuyvesant.

BLUFFDALE — On Friday morning, hundreds of students from Bluffdale Elementary School crowded into their school's gymnasium to make a video conference call.

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Advocates for a school choice bill that faces a do - or - die vote this week crowded into the Legislative Office Building on Tuesday to make their case.

A student journalist interviewed his classmates as they crowded into the dark closet of their culinary classroom — one interviewee expressed as much disbelief over our country's resignation to school shootings as she did over the shooting happening outside the door.

Two minutes into his solo, the Williamstown High School band joined in, marching in formation through the crowd of 7,000 people who had come to bear witness to the ribbon - cutting of Ark Encounter, a Christian theme park featuring a replica of Noah's ark built using the dimensions God gave to Noah in Genesis 6.

Do you remember that shy girl in school who always depended on friends to draw her into a crowd?

To put that number into perspective, the Crush TRAINFIGHT crowd would not fit into the football stadiums at the following schools:

America «s ever - vigilant tofu and bean sprouts crowd wants to make school lunches so «healthy «that kids toss them into the garbage can.

When she told this story the other night to an auditorium packed with moms and dads at Glen Ellyn's Glenbard South High School, the crowd broke into nervous titters.

On Thursday night, more than 100 residents from Lincoln Park and the Gold Coast crowded into the Lincoln Park Library to express their anger over construction of the $ 2 million field, most of the money for which is being provided by the private Latin School of Chicago.

About 150 concerned parents crowded into the Forest Glen School gymnasium Monday to hear about and question proposed changes to instruction in Glen Ellyn District 41 elementary schools.

Opponents of Harlem Success Academy's plan to move into P.S. 145 on West 105th Street and Amsterdam Avenue say District 3 schools are already too crowded and can't handle the new students the charter school would attract.

Yet despite the ritual purity he maintained, he was also able to embrace, without judgment, several generations of Westerners who crowded into his yoga school year after year, who more often than not, myself included, started off with him as hapless quasi hippies.

In a high school setting a group of teens carry a naked male student from the shower room into a crowded gymnasium and throw him on the floor.

That's why movies like Assassination of a High School President, Elephant or even the crowd pleasing Heathers are such an attraction to me; it's the visceral, evocative explorations into the pain of what it's like to be a teen and misunderstood as hormones crackle like sparklers.

Six Acts: Sure, you've got American indies like The To - Do List providing a cheeky take on a young woman's sexual education, but this Israeli drama also takes into account the blows that her reputation takes as she uses her feminine wiles to infiltrate the popular crowd at her new school.

Sergey falls in with the wrong crowd and gets initiated into the high school gang that is headed by two teachers.

January 31, 2013 • More than 200 people crowded into a Senate building on Wednesday for the first hearing on gun violence since the tragic shootings at a Connecticut elementary school.

Education requires the cultivation of critique, or critical consciousness, and in my teenage high school years, being intelligent or able to conscript concepts into the service of sustained analysis was not something that earned one a lot of attention with one's peers, and I was culturally shallow enough to want to be part of the popular crowd, so I would often hide my intellectual curiosity about life, mostly during moments of grinding loneliness.

This series of three videos shows how designers and community volunteers helped a teacher at Roosevelt Middle School in San Francisco transform his crowded classroom into a space that fosters collaboration, creativity, and active student learning.

Instead, school districts, eager to be perceived as plugged in and afraid of being penalized for low test scores, have bought into expensive drill - and - kill software — the kind that costs a fortune and displays a silly animation of fireworks or cheering crowds for every five correct answers — with only minimal improvements on test scores and scant evidence of long - term progress among students.

According to Matthew Lee, Managing Partner at Bishop Fleming: «At a time when schools find it increasingly difficult to squeeze an understanding of business into the crowded curriculum, «Young Enterprise» is a superb way for schools to engage their pupils with the world of work.

A crowd of protesters gathered on the sidewalk outside a government building in Lower Manhattan last June, collectively demanding that the city and state reach an agreement on how to pump billions of new dollars into New York City schools - and settle its contentious, decade - long school adequacy lawsuit.

Looking for fresh ideas to share with teachers heading into the new school year, I joined a sold - out crowd of 300 earlier this summer for a symposium called Play, the Arts, and Education for Democracy.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Millions who, in the past, were more likely to stay home or go out to work than sit in a classroom — especially girls and poor youngsters — now are crowding into government schools.

The «opt out of testing» and anti-choice crowd believes that Black families should only exercise school choice and opt into testing when it applies to selective magnet schools.

But in an era of regular testing and crowded schedules, schools in Tennessee have been struggling to figure out how to work recess into the day.

On the evening of January 28th, a crowd filed into the 21st Century Charter School @ Gary gym for the mid-year Gary Middle College graduation.

In reality, anyone interested in offering something different has to squeeze into a crowded marketplace that already may have more schools than needed.

At a time when the rest of the world is racing to out - educate America, these cuts force our kids into crowded classrooms, cancel programs for preschoolers and kindergarteners, and shorten the school week and the school year.

In high school, Leo mixes with a socially diverse crowd that includes Starla and Niles Whitehead, a pair of impoverished orphans from Appalachia; Ike Jefferson, one of the first black students integrated into Leo's school; and twins Sheba and Trevor Poe — seemingly picture - perfect Southern siblings.

Joan assessed the crowd, lighting upon the most interesting: young men turning white T - shirts into art, pinching the material tight and rubber - banding each section until they looked like porcupines being dipped into huge steaming vats of colored dyes; the young woman with a bird's nest of purple hair sitting at a potter's wheel, slamming down hunks of clay, her hands moving nearly as fast as the wheel, cups, vases, plates, bowls, trays, appearing like magic; the elderly man in a worn blue linen suit, a jaunty straw boater on his head, a smeared palette tight in his hand, painting a mammoth canvas of people on a beach staring out at an ocean where a sailboat bobbed in the distance, though he himself was standing in a mowed field; the handsome young man at an old - fashioned school desk, a manual typewriter in front of him, a stack of paper to the side.

When Katie and her new «wrong crowd» get into significant trouble at school, she finds her punishment is restoring a historic theater with a crazy grandma who goes by the name of Mad Maxine.

Medical School Essays One of the important things you need to do to get into a first - class medical school is to create a persuasive essay that stands out from the School Essays One of the important things you need to do to get into a first - class medical school is to create a persuasive essay that stands out from the school is to create a persuasive essay that stands out from the crowd.

To get away from the crowds head to isolated Gili Trawangan in Indonesia where cars are forbidden, snorkeling is aplenty, and given the hippyish vibe here you may run into that long - lost English teacher you had in high school who used to listen to the Dead and drove a beat - up station wagon.

 As they went into round three, this time against Corozal Heats, a large crowd gathered at San Pedro High School Angel Nunez Auditorium. As the Tigersharks took the game with a 79 - 54 win, there was a huge celebration.

Falling into the wrong crowd almost instantly, we find ourselves slinging textbooks in exchange for knowledge on how to be popular and powerful, learning to fight our way to the root of the dark danger that threatens the school.

Transform your living room into a wrestling ring and train with Hulk Hogan as he schools you on the best jaw - dropping moves and stunts to win over the crowd and defeat your opponent in spectacular style.

The old school academicians, those who remain alive, are crowded into a relatively small corner.

The potent temblor that hit China's Sichuan province also exacted an outsize toll on schoolchildren, as several crowded schools pancaked into rubble.

«Our task this week,» he told the SRO crowd packed into the law school's Ames Courtroom, «is to try to persuade him to stay.»