Sentences with word «schoolmate»

It is a regression in which student achievement is explained by a combination of school inputs (resources such as funding per student, class size, teacher qualifications, etc.) and the characteristics of peers (percentage of schoolmates who are white and who are black, etc.), families (race, ethnicity, parents» education, number of siblings, etc.), and neighborhoods (the share of households who rent versus own, etc.).

In the case of a high school offering the use of free social media to keep alumni up to date with school events and connect with former schoolmates in exchange for authentic user profiles - that is, using real names and authentic records - which will be used to deliver targeted advertisements, 51 percent are opposed to the idea.

He can't help but mess things up with his landlord, his ex, and even the old schoolmate who tracks him down (Malcom Shields).

An old schoolmate of Khan from Louisiana and MIT — another child of South Asian immigrants — was persuaded to leave McKinsey & Company to head the rapidly growing enterprise, which now includes, as one can see on the Internet, a few dozen young enthusiasts who seem a cross section of Silicon Valley.

A clique of girls target their male schoolmates with arsenic - laced lunches in Sofia Coppola's 1998 short, Lick the Star.

And today Cameron does not have to look hard to find former schoolmates in the ranks of the new Tories.

Forty years after we met as schoolmates, the «Black Singles» website provided the path to meet again, and to recognize each other as our original soul - mates.

-- Schoolmates.co.uk can be used by anyone who attended school in the last 100 years and is designed to be the number one place for schoolmates to keep in touch.

CBS12, based in West Palm Beach, reported that Woods» caddie Joe LaCava learned of the presence on the practice range of Kevin Shanahan, a long - time volunteer at the PGA Tour event in Palm Beach Gardens, which is about an hour's drive north of the school where a gunman killed 17 of Shanahan's schoolmates on February 14.

In his introduction to his dormitory, Charles has a bizarre first impression made on him by schoolmate Sebastian Flyte (Ben Whishaw); the inebriated Sebastian vomits into Charles» open ground - level window.

Those are precisely the words numerous former schoolmates at Stoneman Douglas used to describe Cruz.

When I was young, an older schoolmate told me paper gum wrappers were edible.

Asked if Mr Cameron could see his former Eton schoolmate make a comeback as a Member of Parliament at the next election, he replied:

As a kid in the»60s, Michael Peterson (Tom Hardy) enjoyed beating up fellow schoolmates for no good reason, and as a married father, he decided to saw off a shotgun (with wife and baby in the other room) and rob a jewelry store, a heist that netted him little cash but seven years in prison.

Texas sales associate Jacquelyn Foreman turned a chance meeting with a former schoolmate into an opportunity to make her first sale.

There are some characters missing from the final battle, which in the book was pretty much a review of every living person left in the series, but seeing old standbys like schoolmates Seamus and Dean Jordan are a welcome connection to the series» history.

Last week, at his graduation from Breckinridge County High School in Hardinsburg, he was voted the Rotary Club's Citizenship Award by his mostly white schoolmates.

So she decides to move back into her small town childhood home, where she reunites with former schoolmate Oscar (Jason Sudeikis).

So is Ben's old schoolmate David (Eddie Kaye Thomas), a socially inept hedge - fund guy.

The other day, a message popped up in the Facebook group from an old schoolmate called Jackie: «Tomorrow I am seeing Larry Coombes» mother.

Maybe that's why one - time schoolmate Oscar (Jason Sudeikis) recognizes her.

In the very next scene, one of Sally Draper's schoolmates points out the ambiguity of the term: «[My mother] says, «You look like a working girl,» and I thought she meant I looked «low - class,» like a secretary.

They spotted three other schoolmates who had wandered away from the school searching for a safe place.

This includes speculative asides, such as his highly stylized vision of how the town (his female schoolmates in particular) will mourn his untimely death.

Derek Jacobi and Anne Reid play schoolmates who reunite after 60 years and fall in love in «Last Tango in Halifax.»

The story follows outcast teen Meg Murry (Storm Reid), who gets transported across space, along with her younger brother Charles Wallace and schoolmate Calvin, thanks to the intervention of three supernatural women, Mrs. Whatsit (Reese Witherspoon), Mrs. Which (Oprah Winfrey), and Mrs.. Who (Mindy Kaling).

The children required to attend a school after school feel put upon when they look upon their carefree American schoolmates.

Desegregation efforts in the 1960s and 1970s did help middle class blacks gain greater access to society; but they, like their white middle class schoolmates, were already guaranteed some level of it.

The poster even said he / she didn't have any problems until the parents of her kids schoolmates found out they didn't go to church and then started a hate campaign against them.

But Australian writer - star - director Joel Edgerton goes all in with this tale about an alpha yuppie (Jason Bateman, exuding impish charm in a non-comedic role) struggling to deal with his forlorn wife (Rebecca Hall) and the relentless friendliness of a long - lost schoolmate (Edgerton).

She's taking care of her senile, misanthropic mother Molly (Judy Davis), who sent her daughter away at a young age after Tilly was accused of murdering schoolmate Stuart Pettyman (Rory Potter), son of town councilman Evan Pettyman (Shane Bourne).

This is where Smith started Qualtrics in 2002 with his cofounders: his father, a former BYU marketing professor; his brother Jared, an early Google employee goog; and Stuart Orgill, a BYU schoolmate.

Tyler, along with his brother Cameron, entered the national spotlight after suing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, their Harvard schoolmate, for allegedly stealing their business plan.

Former Stoneman Douglas schoolmates told BuzzFeed News that the transfer came after Cruz got into fights at school with a one - time classmate, Enea Sabadini, whom he accused of «stealing» his girlfriend.

I did not envy my seminarian schoolmates» vocation, but I did envy their brotherhood.

And yet, the Millers are finally driven from their Eden by the destructive behavior of their son toward a black schoolmate.

In her home of Letlhakane, a village of mud huts and thatched roofs, schoolmates post themselves at 100 - meter intervals when she trains, to urge her on her way.

But then i started noticing my Spuds schoolmates through high school, I absolutely despised those gobby losers.

To be sure, he didn't go into everything — how he'd take lunch money off schoolmates in Bessemer, Ala. and lend it back to them, with interest; how he'd pay one kid to beat up on another; how he hit a cousin, a girl, with a baseball bat when she tried to take away a Ping - Pong paddle; or how he helped stone to death a local minister's pig.

If what your kids like is the opposite of healthy, you've got some work to do because even kids who are accustomed to healthy foods will crave schoolmates» junk food and ask for it in their lunch too.

This is also inspite of the fact that many of her private schoolmates snub her lunches and eat really unhealthy foods (especially pizza pockets) which dd said were yucky when given one to try!

Let's just hope that your child's future schoolmates won't take it too far and mock your child by saying «A River runs through it,» or «Cry me a River.»

The young man, for a second time, decided not to accept the honour but pass it on to a native schoolmate instead.

Malloy has owned this honor since 2006, and it could be argued that the last eight years of Connecticut history have been one huge non-menstrual retelling of «Carrie» — a fiery redemption after his suffering at the hands of pitiless schoolmates and scornful teachers.

A few hours before his rampage, Bosse e-mailed a scanned copy of his diary to several schoolmates and wrote in a suicide note: «Because I know that the fascist police won't publish my videos, notebooks, or diaries or anything else, I've taken care of that myself.»

But Spencer Lucas, a former Yale schoolmate of Olsen's and now a renowned Triassic authority at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History, disputes its very existence.

He attended the prestigious Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School on a scholarship — «My mother went over and pleaded for them to take me,» Weiss says — but he sometimes cut classes, and teachers compared him unfavorably with his older schoolmate Murray Gell - Mann, who went on to win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1969.