Sentences with phrase «school gets tough»

Student loans are the easy way out — start now, and set yourself up for failure down the line when school gets tough.

Schools Get Tough on Attendance Cracking down on truancy is a growing concern for many administrators, as requirements increase and evidence mounts that children who are in school consistently learn more than students who are absent.

Since the competition to get into veterinary school gets tougher every year, this could be a way to stand out.

Not exact matches

When Kasia Urbaniak first started a new kind of power - training school for women, she had a tough time getting people to understand what the place was all about.

Tough says that people who test high in conscientiousness get better grades in school and college, commit fewer crimes, and stay married longer.

«I went to the Wharton School of Finance, the toughest place to get into.

Though the Ivies are notoriously tough to get into — their regular - admission acceptance rates range from 5.2 % to 13.96 % — you might be surprised to learn that other schools have even lower acceptance rates.

TOUGH ROAD: Michelle Sasaki has a big job «'' well, «big» is a huge understatement «'' ahead of her, but she's got credentials few high school coaches can match.

After LSU beat OSU, as Tigers chant not their school's name, but their conference's name, notice it's Meyer on set saying, «the SEC just got a little tougher,» as Jimmy Johnson praises LSU's region.

In the Southeast, it's tough to get into a lot of those SEC schools because they have restrictions where they will only be open for a week to scouts.»

«I think it's probably tougher for fathers because the sort of impression you get is that women are the people who go and take the kids to the doctor's, they pick them up from school.

The thinking goes like this: we live in a super-competitive world where getting a good job requires getting into a good school which requires getting good grades in tough classes... and building up a good, application - worthy slate of extracurriculars.

For many schools, getting ready will be a big challenge and some tough decisions will need to be made.

This may mean some late afternoon naps when they come home from school, or tough mornings getting them out of bed, but it's just like anything else in parenting — it will pass.

For now, our best hope is to get tough and insist that our school wellness policies be promoted and enforced.

TOUGH: So I would say - I'm not sure I've got all the fixes - but I would say that part of the answer is to, that we need to go beyond school.

Fundraising can appear to be a tough first hurdle when trying to get salad bars for your school district.

Getting everyone (including yourself) in the back to school mood can be tough.

As your child progresses in school, homework assignments get tougher and workloads get bigger.

Many of us have school children, and getting back into the swing of things can be tough on the whole family.

We have ABF and hormone - free meats and dairy in our school lunches at Choicelunch and I will say, it is * touogh * to get documentation from some foodservice partners... Tough but not impossible and things are getting easier.

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«It is going to be a tougher period for schools, but I'm clear I want to keep the number of teachers and teaching assistants we've got, to keep class sizes down,» he told the BBC.

School children to be forced to pick up litter, mop floors and even remove graffiti under plans by Michael Gove to get tough on disruptive pupils.

Traditionally, students tend to seek refuge in graduate school when it gets tough to find jobs.

«Higher priced products, like vegetables, may not be the food that gets packed first for vulnerable families that need to make tough choices about school lunches.»

The study's most disturbing finding, the authors say, is that neither boys nor girls get many tough math questions on state tests now required to measure a school district's progress under the 2002 federal No Child Left Behind law.

But then I think it's tough when you get to grad school, because so many jobs really are not interdisciplinary.

Another student may have a tough time focusing or paying attention at school and may feel down about getting into trouble all of the time.

Great quality, cute touches, good sales at Mini Boden It is tough to get pumped for serious back to school shopping for the kids when temps are in the 90s.

I seem to get a recharge in the fall / back to school time where January resolutions for me are so tough to keep going.

# 3 Getting through high school is tough.

Within weeks, he's picking Pita up from school (when one of the nuns there asks whether he ever sees «the hand of God» in what he does, he admits, «I'm the sheep that got lost»), coaching her at swimming («There's no such thing as tough, there's trained and untrained»), helping her with homework, and looking after her new dog, a present from dad, who's feeling guilty about the frequent, unspecified trips he takes with mom.

Tough as it is to believe (he's the school geek, after all), the pair hit it off and before long are something of an item — but Matt gets more than he bargained for when he and his class buds get dragged into the seedy - yet - strangely - appealing world of skin flicks, big bucks, and phallic - shaped statuettes.

And we decided that there just weren't enough private - eye movies and not enough old - school tough guys sorts... We managed to create something that over the years failed upwards until we got the right actors and 13 years later we came together.»

The kid who had such a tough time getting through high school in Easy A is having teenage misfit woes all over again in Norman, the second feature by director Jonathan Segal.

When the going gets tough, the tough turn from teaching high - school chemistry to cooking meth.

Thornton flirts and parties with willing coeds, gets NASA scientists and even Kurt Vonnegut (cameoing as himself) to do his homework for him, initiates a football team bar brawl with the help of his tough chauffeur (Rocky's Burt Young), catches the eye of the school's diving coach (M. Emmet Walsh), and sets his sights on his pretty English teacher (Sally Kellerman).

In middle school where you have 150 + students that you see just one period a day, it is tough to get to know them personally.

«I've worked in tough schools with all sorts of socio - economic challenges; the pressure on young people to «get an education» is fierce.

Later, teaching middle and high school history (an equally tough sell by the way), one of my goals was always to get kids jazzed about learning.

Cocreate a safe, supportive space: Circles work best if teachers invest time up front to build relationships, skills, and practices to draw on throughout the school year — especially if the going gets tough.

Thus an instructor in the toughest downtown high school gets paid the same as one teaching in the most serene of suburban - like elementary schools.

So from B.J. I learned that this grant - getting business is just as tough no matter where you work: getting a grant for work at the elementary - school level is at least as difficult as securing one at the university.

Gov. George W. Bush of Texas has launched his 1998 re-election bid with a get - tough pledge to make it harder for public school students to advance to the next grade before mastering basic academic skills.

He warned the future educators and administrators in the audience at the Harvard Graduate School of Education to get ready for the toughest fight of their lives, noting how his own work has been widely criticized by those who feel threatened by innovation.

... There was a very tough question in Round One, a very appropriate question, which was, All right, we get what you're trying to do, but how do you take it from the idea stage to the thousands of schools and the hundreds of thousands of classrooms?

Two Economists on School Reform: We Know (A Few) Things That Work Wall Street Journal, 3/19/14 «Professors [Greg] Duncan and [Richard] Murnane previously have argued that the economic forces of technology and globalization are driving a wedge between winners and losers in the U.S. economy and making it tough for schools to help children from low - income families to get the skills they need to compete.»

Urban schooling doesn't get much tougher than in Oakland.