Sentences with phrase «school reading books»

Children love messy rooms, right up to the moment when they can't find their school reading book or mobile phone.

A student in the Washoe County public schools reads a book about George Washington.

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«School libraries around the country are being shuttered,» Soeiro, a school librarian in Cambridge, wrote on the Horn Book's Family ReadingSchool libraries around the country are being shuttered,» Soeiro, a school librarian in Cambridge, wrote on the Horn Book's Family Readingschool librarian in Cambridge, wrote on the Horn Book's Family Reading blog.

But if you're looking for reading inspiration from a host of super smart, business - savvy book enthusiasts, then Stanford Graduate School of Business is here to help.

I don't have a lot of time in between my business and school to pick up and read physical books.

I read the actual book a few years ago, and it's definitely one that I wish I could go back and tell my seventh - grade self is worth reading, especially since I liked «Brave New World» so much when I read it in high school.

The book, Swimmy, by Leo Lionni, which Kalin read with the careful intonation of an elementary school teacher, is about a small fish that bands together with other fish to scare away a hungry tuna.

She plans to run her business from home and personally market her books in hospitals, day - care centers, schools, libraries and bookstores, where she will read her stories to children and sell the books to parents.

'' [This] is a book I read during my time at Stanford Business School.

I read books about the female brain, met with science and math elementary school teachers and nonprofit educators who were doing programs to get kids interested in STEM.

«This is a book I read during my time at Stanford Business School.

The 35 - year - old has many interests in life — in high school he played every sport he could try out for, and at home, he'd watch every movie and read every comic book he came across — but his chief interest is simply listening to his mind wander.

Having already read the book and shared some of its hiring tips, I knew Finkelstein, professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, gave Hillary Clinton high marks as a superboss, especially for her ability to develop a vast network of talent.

Researchers at the New School for Social Research in New York have determined that reading literary fiction — books that have literary merit and don't fit into a genre — enhances what scientists call «Theory of Mind (ToM), or an ability to understand the mental states of others.

«This book should be required reading for school, college, and university students who need to improve their communication skills, especially those preparing for a career in business.»

Economic Value Management has been selected as a Featured Book Recommendation or «Recommended Read» by numerous publications including, among others, Harvard Business School's HBS Working Knowledge, CEO Refresher, Directors Monthly, Global CEO, The Corporate Board, The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, Valuation Issues, On Philanthropy, Accounting Today, Cost Management, and The Journal of Accounting and Finance.

I hadn't taken any personal finance classes, read any investing books, and surely didn't learn anything about managing money in high school or college.

As I recall, Plymouth actually stayed rather small and insular for some time while the Boston Bay Company took off with their colonies in what's now called Boston, New Bedford, and I believe the Cape Ann area but I'd have to re-read a book I read while going to school down on Cape Cod a few years back.

You know most of us read a book called the Crucible in grade school.

He was arrested in 2009 after he lodged a protest with local education officials after learning his child was being forced to read from the Quran, the Muslim holy book, in school.

The fact that it was revealed to a person who was not schooled and could not read or write, but still being a book that covers so many subjects so precisely is a miracle.

In her latest book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, she charges that the state reading and math tests mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act lower the bar, produce inconsistent results, lack content, promote cheating, and encourage teachers to waste time on test - taking strategies.

Oratory School's Geographical and Ecclesial Position Dear Father Editor, As the Chaplain to the Oratory School, I was both interested and delighted to read Fr Andrew Byrne's review of Paul Shrimpton's book The Catholic Eton.

The books are published by the Oxford University Press as a direct response to something that has been worrying educationalists for some while - the fact that boys vastly outnumber girls in illiteracy rates, and that many start secondary schools with very poor reading skills and no apparent interest in acquiring any.

She's been reading aloud to her six kids (preschool to high school) ever since, and has spent the last few years chatting with experts, authors, parents, and leaders, discovering how a simple choice to pull a book off a shelf and share it with a child is one of the very best decisions a parent can make.

I'm concerned about Tony's theology, whose philosophical foundations I criticized pretty consistently while I was involved in EC in 2004 - 7 before bowing out because Tony seemed more into pushing with some arrogance a pomo philosophy he never really studied in school than he was into fostering dialogue (I went back to just reading the wonderful books of Brian McLaren which is how I got involved in the first place).

There are so many different people and age groups who read that book but I hear from you all most: the late - teens and twenty - something women, the ones in high school, university or college, sometimes you're newly married, rarely do you have children yet.

We even may find an official Government Commission discovering what publishers have just restated and parents and teachers have always noticed: boys and girls prefer different sorts of books, and school reading schemes could and should reflect this.

He attended a boarding secondary school (Lancing College), read history at Oxford, published his first book (a....

Name 3 books I've read since High School that's not the movie version?

He desires here to record his deep appreciation of the service of these men: Dr. Henry E. Allen, University of Minnesota, read the chapter on Moslem Sacred Literature; John Clark Archer of Yale University, on the Sikh Scriptures; Swami Akhilananda of the Ramakrishna Vedanta Society of Boston, and Swami Vishwananda of the Vedanta Society of Chicago, on Hindu Scriptures; Dr. Chan Wing - Tsit (W. T. Chan), Dartmouth College, on the Chinese Literature; Dr. Clarence H. Hamilton, of Oberlin Graduate School of Theology, on Buddhist Scriptures; Dr. D. C. Holtom, on the Japanese Sacred Books; Dr. Charles F. Kraft, of Garrett Biblical Institute, on the Old Testament; Dr. George E. Mendenhall, of Hamma Divinity School, on the Babylonian Literature; Dr. Ernest W. Saunders of Garrett Biblical Institute, on the New Testament; and Dr. John A. Wilson of the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, on the Egyptian Literature.

Or you might start by inviting a small group you're already in (church, school class, club, youth group, professional association, etc.) to read and discuss this book.

Schools, Libraries, Book stores... yes, all of those are switiching to becoming electronically centered — which by the way was your original argument if I recall (that people have stopped reading because bookstores are closing).

The fact that other members of the Divinity faculty and their colleagues in other theological schools who had read the book felt likewise lessened the embarrassment, but it hardly lessened the irritation.

So what if the Professor admitted he had never read the book and was just going off what his Professor had told him when he was in school?

when i was in grade school i constantly read science books, i knew the position of the planets, their distances from the sun, diameters, etc. however, by the time i graduated high school, 50 % of the scientific knowledge i had gained had already been proved untrue.

I think I would enjoy Dylans book, I have only been reading books for a short time now, my friend from church, loaned me Angels in my hair, by Lorna byrne, I was hooked straight away,,,, Not having much schooling as a child this is also helping me with reading skills....

This country was founded on the Christian God and if you dare to read real hisotry books and not those in public schools, you will get quite a shock.

Read books that didn't come from the Texas School Board and you'll see that the consti.tution has separation of church and state — because of the religious intolerance the early settlers has experienced in Europe.

Go back to school and try to read more than one book for a change.

I keep thinking I'd read the book her mother and father would write — how did they possibly let their barely - graduated high school daughter take up solitary residence in Uganda without losing their minds?

read the introduction in any high school science text book - congratulations, you now have more knowledge than is in all of the bible.

Last week, Louizandre Dauphin, a 33 - year - old former high school English teacher, decided to relax by reading Mere Christianity and another book by pastor Timothy Keller at a nearby wharf.

I do hope that teachers will read this book as well as governors, those important people whose powers are being stolen in many Catholic maintained schools by local authority and - dare one say - diocesan bureaucrats.

I'm reminded of a book that was required reading back in Bible School.

Almost all Jews knew the Old Testament and were schooled and trained in the Old Testament, and so whenever we read a book of the New Testament, like Matthew, or Hebrews, or James that was written specifically to Jewish believers, we must make sure we have a proper understanding of the Old Testament also.

@LionlyLamb: You believe that the public school system's education is «outdated,» and yet you continue to read your 2,000 - year - old book of nonsense, which has not been updated since it's inception, and you believe that the Bible should re-enter the school system, because you believe that the 2,000 - year - old book of nonsense is a reliable source of truth and knowledge?

In that place you'll hopefully find people who'll visit you in the hospital when you're there, give you good books to read, watch some games at the local bar with you, maybe volunteer beside you somewhere, or take your kids to Sunday school when you aren't up for it.

And a whole bunch of plays / scripts for the forensics / speech team I coach at my high school... (I read books / blogs about atheism all the time, so when I get a chance, it's nice to read things that are totally different.)

Read the book and cheer for the 25 percent of college students in private schools, but then weep for the majority who attend public universities where Big Questions are largely off the table.