Sentences with phrase «schoolers of a certain kind»

«We do have people living the more totally organic life around here: aging hippies, home schoolers of a certain kind, a few professors, and others too.

Not exact matches

«When everyone thinks that [a certain kind] of advertising is the «right» thing to do, that's when it has a terrible rate of return,» says Scott Galloway, a marketing professor at the Stern School of Business.

I ate up studies (from Facebook and others) that argued the site actually encouraged a certain kind of information diversity, because your Facebook friends are likely drawn from a wider group of people (the guy you went to middle school with, your mom's neighbor, that rando you met that weekend at the beach) than the people you discuss news with in real life.

Following the 2012 shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, that left 20 children and six adults dead, Dick's suspended the sale of certain kinds of semiautomatic rifles.

My wife and I were last night called by a family friend to pray with her about her daughter who would disappear from home and when she re-appears, she is kind of confused, claiming to have been followed by a certain girl they met in school and tried recruiting her to devil worship.

Perhaps we should, in our schools, churches, families and so on, refrain from honoring certain kinds of accomplishments, since the implications might confuse others — or even ourselves — about our values.

A constant danger is that schools will train faculty and excite students regarding a certain kind of technology, only to discover that the school can not afford the resources to sustain the work.

The research of James S. Coleman and his colleagues confirms the finding of the Kauai group that, for a child whose family is weak or broken, a certain kind of school can make a remarkable difference.

There are certain key jobs that should be sought: teaching in schools of education, serving as organizers in unions, as lawyers and doctors for the poor, as clergy in various kinds of churches, as city planners, as journalists.

Some kinds of change may be plausible if they involve a strengthening of a commitment to be a certain type of community which is already dominant in a school, but other kinds of change may be much less plausible precisely because they would involve a change in the type of community a school already is or a change in the current equilibrium among contrasting types of community.

Over and over I go back once more to the same memories, none available in this way to any other stream of experiences; always, if I want to, I can recall that I had such and such a mother and father, brothers and sister, went to such and such schools, read certain books, etc., etc., through countless items of the kind.

In a world of school supplies that all look the same, patterned pencils, notebooks with cats, or a certain kind of binder in a favorite color let students express their individuality beyond the basics on the school supply list.

Just as with the seemingly impossible smoking areas of flights long gone, parents traveling with children of a certain age would be forced to sit with their own kind in what would become a veritable nursery school at 32,000 feet.

«This is an issue we're trying to resolve,» said Michael Cook, a spokesman for the Las Cruces, N.M., Public School District, which he said was trying to make certain that any student who can't afford the main meal on the menu «is served some kind of alternative» rather than go hungry.

The Department of Education introduced the funding formula almost a decade ago to dole out resources not simply based on a school's student body size, but also accounting for extra resources needed to support certain kinds of students, like English language learners and students with special needs.

«Time is truly of the essence when it comes to certain kinds of injuries and our analysis suggests that, for penetrating injuries such as knife and gun wounds, it might be better to just get to a trauma center as soon as possible in whatever way possible,» says Elliott Haut, M.D., Ph.D., an associate professor of surgery and emergency medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the paper's senior author.

Like many schools, Christi says that her school limits access to certain kinds of sites, including Pinterest.

Brock: Not really, there's definitely a lot of genetics like we talked about just the size of the individuals and the length of the hamstrings and Achilles tendon and stuff like that are just more built for that sort of a, for a running activity and in certain populations but yeah, I mean you hear people talk about how in Africa they run everywhere like they just have to do that to get to school or to do whatever so they're just sort of born running but I have heard, I think it was Haile Gebrselassie that was interviewed and he was talking about how that's kind of a myth that they don't really run everywhere, they take busses and stuff just like everybody else unless needed.

A man implies that he has been convicted of some kind of assault or molestation of children (he's not allowed within a certain number of feet from a school).

For a certain kind of old - school film fan, someone who believes in shapely, classical proportions and an epic yarn told over time, it will be the revelation of the year.

As a side effect, it was exactly the kind of book that a certain kind of brooding, pretentious dude got a little too obsessed with in high school.

Not only did the district, the largest in the country, take on a student population that had come to symbolize the impossibility of educating a certain kind of child — the urban poor who entered high school two and three grades behind — but it succeeded in getting those students to graduation.

Localities would also need to cultivate a spirit of tolerance so that certain kinds of schools were not prevented from opening because of local majority bias.

A new law in New Jersey will require that schools obtain parents» written consent before asking students certain kinds of personal questions in surveys.

Causality in the Classroom US News & World Report, August 24, 2012» «We walk around and see certain kinds of patterns and relationships, but our attention is constrained in each of these instances,» says Tina Grotzer, associate professor of education at Harvard's graduate school of education and director of the Understandings of Consequence Project.»

Maurice Van Lowe, a 4th grader at Burning Tree Elementary School in Bethesda, Md., reads in his classroom using Bookshare, a nonprofit electronic service that converts books into more accessible formats for students with certain kinds of disabilities.

«The question, and one that needs to be empirically investigated, is «Are we overproducing certain kinds of teachers school districts aren't looking for and under - producing certain types of teachers that schools and other types of employers are desperately looking for?»»

That law, signed by President George W. Bush in 2002, says that in order to get certain kinds of federal education funding, states must test their students every year in grades three through eight and once in high school.

... so there's not this choice aspect that just kind of requires certain placement in certain schools That's how you leverage policy to ensure you see more

Persons requesting certain kinds of data from the Park City School District may be required to sign a confidentiality agreement.

In the competitive, market - based view of public education, schools compete by promoting a brand that will appeal to certain kinds of students.

Her son goes to Colfax Elementary, an Affiliated Charter School, a kind of district school that enjoys certain autonomies and local coSchool, a kind of district school that enjoys certain autonomies and local coschool that enjoys certain autonomies and local control.

But if his selection to be the department's chief academic officer offers any hint of the direction of the city's schools, one thing seems certain: Mr. Polakow - Suransky will continue the same kind of data - driven reform embraced by Joel I. Klein, whom Ms. Black is expected to succeed as the city's schools chancellor.

While not every dollar a school spends directly improves academic outcomes, a new report from Rutgers school - finance expert Bruce Baker finds certain kinds of money very much do matter: extra funding for higher teacher salaries and more equitable distribution of resources between rich and poor districts, for example, are correlated with higher student achievement, especially for the neediest kids.

If certain proposals to control homeschooling families were to be fair and not an unwarranted profiling of those who choose home education rather than public or private schooling, then the same kinds of mandated home visits by government - approved agents would need to be imposed on all families with children of all ages and on all public and private school personnel.

Ofsted's national director of education, Sean Harford, has even said the inspectorate would research the link between certain kinds of curriculum and social mobility, and use any findings when inspecting the curriculums schools choose for their pupils.

(1999) The Council of Chief State School Officers states that «character education holds that certain core values form the basis of «good character,» i.e., the kinds of attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that the school wants from, and is therefore committed to teach to, its children.&School Officers states that «character education holds that certain core values form the basis of «good character,» i.e., the kinds of attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that the school wants from, and is therefore committed to teach to, its children.&school wants from, and is therefore committed to teach to, its children.»

You have been upfront about your belief that more choice will put pressure on schools to improve and adapt, in large part because of parents» demand for certain kinds of schools in an education marketplace.

I said that I supported certain kinds of charter schools, in certain contexts, so I'm not sure how this amounts to writing off «the entire model.»

-- SLJ, starred review»... Miles is a witty narrator who manages to be credible as the overlooked kid, but he's also an articulate spokesperson for the legions of teen searching for life meaning (his taste for famous last words is a believable and entertaining quirk), and the Colonel's smarts, clannish loyalties, and relentlessly methodological approach to problems make him a true original... There's a certain recursive fitness here, since this is exactly the kind of book that makes kids like Miles certain that boarding school will bring them their destiny, but perceptive readers may also realize that their own lives await the discovery of meaning even as they vicariously experience Miles» quest.»

Moreover, to have this survey also be her first solo exhibition in Los Angeles highlights the possibility that there is still a certain kind of painting that New York provokes best, and that Brooklyn - born - and - based Pensato has turned out to be — along with partner - in - crime Christopher Wool — one of a few painters capable of keeping the New York School relevant.

[20] Though the usage of the term as a kind of shorthand to designate the work of certain Post-war «schools» employing relatively specific material and generic techniques has become conventional since the mid-1980s, the theoretical underpinnings of Postmodernism as an epochal or epistemic division are still very much in controversy.

Next week I will have the opportunity to join with a number of colleagues on a panel to discuss with law school students the importance of legal research and writing, largely in anticipation of them becoming lawyers on graduation and needing to have certain skills in order to excel in their profession (and I think it is great that this law school is making this kind of session available to students).

This kind of coverage makes sense when the family wants additional protection for a certain period of time, such as until the home mortgage is paid off or the children are out of school and on their own.