Sentences with phrase «school years i experimented»

Throughout my school years I experimented with different kinds of writing, often illustrated.

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Before Dan Price caused a media firestorm by establishing a $ 70,000 minimum wage at his Seattle company, Gravity Payments... before Hollywood agents, reality - show producers, and book publishers began throwing elbows for a piece of the hip, 31 - year - old entrepreneur with the shoulder - length hair and Brad Pitt looks... before Rush Limbaugh called him a socialist and Harvard Business School professors asked to study his radical experiment in paying workers... an entry - level Gravity employee named Jason Haley got really pissed off at him.

From Uganda, the site of the ICC's prosecutorial experiments, comes the story of Charlotte, abducted from her Catholic boarding school by the LRA in 1996 when she was thirteen years old.

If a dozen different public school systems were to embark on a five - year experiment as part of a larger nation - wide experiment encouraged by federal dollars, local teams of educators, parents and community leaders would need to devise appropriate local models.

Recent analysis of the widely followed voucher experiment in Milwaukee shows that low - income minority students who attended private schools scored substantially better in reading and math after four years than those who remained in public schools.

It is very possible that the people killed in the last few years as the result of «school shootings» may in fact be the first victims / results of this experiment.

Eight years of experiment and study as a professor of religion and the church at Emory University's Candler School of Theology have convinced Hopewell that «the congregation is as central to theological education as the human body is to medical education.»

The school must not be undertaken, that is, as a brief experiment only; it must be a genuine part of a long - range parish program over several years, with the definite intention of continuing the school so that it will be accepted in time as a normal and expected part of the total life of the congregation.

We do these experiments every day of every year for their entire high school experience, with the children praying each day that the result will be different.

Indeed, that same year I shared here a mathematical experiment in which I proved that a child could easily gain weight from eating HISD's school meals.

Before joining the faculty this past year, McKenna taught at Pomona College in California, where he collaborated with neurologist Sarah Mosko of the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine for 15 years on a series of experiments looking into what happens physiologically when babies sleep with their mothers instead of alone.

Although Zoe hasn't officially started school yet, we loosely began last fall and have been experimenting with various curriculums, trying to figure out what will work best for our family and the official «first day of kindergarten» later this year.

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And my 1 year old really still needs to be held all the time and he needs full on attention so I have experimented with having some high school students come in for 2 hours to be there.

As part of our science lessons this school year, we are trying out all kinds of really neat science experiments and activities.

We at Sherwood Elementary school are experimenting and completed to pilots this year.

Before the mayor had even finished testifying in the four - hour hearing before a joint Senate and Assembly panel, Mr. Cuomo had said he opposed Mr. de Blasio's push for permanent control over schools, calling the arrangement an «experiment» and saying it should be renewed in three - year spurts.

At a press conference Wednesday Mayor de Blasio was asked whether Governor Cuomo's characterization of mayoral control of schools as an «experiment» and his proposal that mayoral control be renewed for a shortened three year period «raises questions about whether or not he's a true reformer on education.»

He now calls it an experiment worthy of just a three year - extension, but it wasn't that long ago that Cuomo hailed mayoral control of the NYC schools as the ultimate form of accountability.

He calls it an experiment worthy of just a three year - extension — but it wasn't that long ago that Gov. Cuomo hailed mayoral control of schools as the ultimate form of accountability.

The experiment began in the late 1960s at Stanford University's Bing Nursery School, where more than 500 4 - year - olds were given the dreaded «marshmallow test.»

Nearly two years to the day after the Deepwater Horizon incident, scientists from the Consortium for Advanced Research on Transport of Hydrocarbon in the Environment (CARTHE), based at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, conducted a drifter experiment in the northern Gulf of Mexico spill site to study small - scale ocean currents ranging from 100 meters to 100 kilometers.

«Interestingly, the effect of precipitation variability was amplified over the six years the experiment lasted and we still don't know its end point,» said Laureano Gherardi, a School of Life Sciences postdoctoral research associate and co-author of the paper.

For years, Pearson struggled to carve out a niche for himself in his community, dropping out of school, fathering a child while still very young, experimenting with drugs, and moving from low - level job to low - level job.

Of the many oddities in the case of Japanese researcher Hisashi Moriguchi, who admitted over the weekend to lying about a startling stem cell experiment, is how for years he managed to claim an affiliation with Harvard Medical School in Boston that did not exist.

Reexamining data from his 20 - year - old NASA experiment involving the repeated freezing and melting of high - purity materials in microgravity, Martin Glicksman, research professor in materials science and the Allen Henry Chair at Florida Institute of Technology, working with Kumar Ankit at the School of Matter, Transport and Energy at Arizona State University, discovered the way nature guides formation of complex patterns in materials that crystallize.

A few years later, however, at the age of 13, he fell in love — not with biology, but with physics, when he realized that mathematics could predict the outcome of high school experiments.

So off I went in my fourth year of graduate school to South Africa to set up my first experiment on the question of whether microlending is effective.

This was more than 15 years ago in a public school in Colombia; I did not have access to computers at that time and my text books were not advanced enough to have all the explanations for all the experiments we conducted in the lab.

Seventeen age -, IQ -, and parental socioeconomic status - matched typically developing adult males who served as controls in Experiment 1 were college students, graduate school students, hospital staff and their acquaintances (30.4 ± 5.6 years old; Table 1)(Hollingshead, 1957).

In addition to saving 42 million gallons of water over the course of the year, the school had $ 42,000 more in its pocket by the end of the experiment — which it plans to spend on more locally grown fruits, vegetables, legumes, and organic pastured beef.

According to new research out of the University of Edinburgh, two big contributing factors to longevity include education (each year of school added a year of life in this particular experiment) and maintaining a healthy weight.

After years of reading obsessively about nutrition, experimenting with adding and eliminating different foods from my diet, and ultimately returning to school to become a Holistic Nutritionist, I am still working on improving my health everyday.

A dietary experiment producing dramatic success in teenage athletics, academics and morale over a ten year period in the 1960s at Helix High School in San Diego County, California, has been preserved on video.5 This documentary gives specific recommendations for improving cafeteria lunches, and suggests that the money saved reducing athletic injuries and insurance costs was significant.

My clothes were VERY bright, patterned and colourful a few years ago as I studied at an arts school so I could experiment.

School and college life is the time of the year when a person experiments a lot and wear different styles of clothing to see which ones match your style.

There's a little bit of biographical information (she gives a a nice tour of the music school she spent 15 years growing up at, we see her packing her luggage) but mostly it's only interesting for her performances: Most of a Korngold Violin Concerto, a rehearsal of a Mozart Sonata for Piano and Violin, a really cool performance at a bar that's experimenting with classical music concerts in a club setting.

Anime ReLIFE, which follows the story of a 27 year - old man who turned into a high school student thanks to a scientific experiment, is getting a live - action movie version.

Karen Hessel: Many schools have experimented with «buddy system» programs for years.

The experiment, which ran during the 2007 - 2008 and 2008 - 2009 school years, was the brainchild of Harvard professor Roland Fryer, CEO of EdLabs.

More than three years ago, schools in the small central Ohio city of Coshocton launched an experiment to pay elementary students for passing or scoring high on state exams.

«Results of a School Voucher Experiment: The Case of Washington, D.C., after Two Years.»

Since he founded the Harlem Children's Zone as a one - block experiment in 1997, he has expanded it to include parenting classes (Baby College and Three - Year - Old Journey), a full - day preschool (Harlem Gems), two elementary schools (Promise Academy I and II), and a middle school (Promise Academy).

In the D.C. voucher experiment, African - American students in grades 2 through 5 reportedly increased their scores by an average of 10 national percentile points in mathematics and 8.6 points in reading after two years of private schooling.

Back in 2004, Spencer Hsu told the story of how the first federal voucher program was launched, when George W. Bush signed legislation providing grants worth as much as $ 7,500 each to children from dozens of public schools in the District of Columbia for their use at private or religious schools in a five - year experiment.

Melissa Zaikos began experimenting with online learning in the Chicago Public Schools, where she spent nine years as a Broad Fellow, most notably, running a group of high - performing schools on the southwest side of thSchools, where she spent nine years as a Broad Fellow, most notably, running a group of high - performing schools on the southwest side of thschools on the southwest side of the city.

Members of both groups attended all three types of schools — private, public charter, and traditional public — in year 3 of the voucher experiment, although the proportions that attended each type differed markedly based on whether or not they won the scholarship lottery (see Figure 2).

The first complex TD experiment started in 2008 at the «Moise Nicoară» National College, from Arad, Romania and it was carried out as it is described in the book published in 2010.15 The project was carried out for two years, involving activities attended by high school students and teachers.

«It's a wonderful First Form or primary school experiment and they use a more sophisticated version when they're in Year 12.

Fryer's study, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, describes a two - year, randomized field experiment in grades three, four, and five at 50 traditional public schools in Houston.