Sentences with phrase «schools asked students»

In light of reports in today's Albany Times Union that a 10th grade teacher at Albany High School asked students to make a persuasive argument blaming Jews for the problems of Nazi Germany as part of a writing assignment, Councilman David G. Greenfield is calling on the school district to immediately terminate the teacher in question.

New York City Schools Ask Students to «Bring Your Own Device» WNYC: The Department of Education now encourages schools to leverage students» devices — such as smartphones, laptops and tablets — as instructional tools by asking students to «Bring Your Own Devices,» a program referred to as «BYOD.»

(For example, the popular Raz - Kids reading program used in many elementary schools asks students a series of multiple choice comprehension questions about each book.

Summary: This article provides information on a research project involving 7th graders at 1000 California middle schools asking the students to report on various aspects of school climate.

Every year, on the first day of school I asked my students what the goal of reading is... with great enthusiasm they always respond,...

Every year, on the first day of school I asked my students what the goal of reading is... with great enthusiasm they always respond, «To read FAST!»

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When students at an international school in China were asked to delve into the question «How does an iPad know where it is?»

Uber's black cars (and regular cars and SUVs and taxis) offered free rides for families and students to and from any Boston public school, no promo codes required or questions asked, according to VentureBeat.

Vanbots had done work for Branksome in the past, and Gillam's sister attended the school as a student; the school asked whether he wanted to bid on the project.

It's a question parents, teachers and students have been urgently asking since the latest school shooting tragedy in Parkland Florida that left 17 dead.

Michael Dell was speaking to an entrepreneurship class at the University of Texas business school when a bold student stood up and asked the young multi-billionaire why he still kept going to work.

But when we ask people how did they hear about Figure 1 in our user interviews, they'd say «my med school classmate showed it to me,» or doctors who hear about it from residence and med students.

He added that he would ask for $ 500 million in mental - health and school - safety initiatives, and he called for a law - enforcement officer in every public school and for mandatory «active - shooter training» for students and faculty.

The biggest portion (40 percent) comes from a survey of recruiters, who are asked about how well the schools prepared the students for jobs.

He said that while a school like Harvard might have only 6,000 students a year but some 50,000 alumni in the city, each one of those grads is getting contacted by 100 students or more, asking to meet or go for coffee.

These are obvious questions to ask, but according to a massive new analysis of more than 45 million public school students nationwide from Stanford's Sean Reardon (hat tip to Business Insider for the pointer), they can actually be misleading cues to focus on.

«We respectfully ask all parents to acknowledge that students need to be in class every day to benefit from the education they are guaranteed and to avoid falling behind in school and life,» Albuquerque Public Schools principals wrote in a letter to parents, USA Today reports.

A high school student getting up the courage to ask someone on a date and then crushed with an «I'm busy».

He told me that when he taught at Tufts University's Fletcher School, he would ask his students what was best — a knife, a fork, or a spoon?

The most unnerving incident was when one of Kleinfeld's daughters, a student at Harvard Business School, was approached on campus by someone who asked to «friend» her on Facebook; the person also spoke to her friends, fishing for information about her family.

On April 5, high - school student Carter Wilkerson asked Wendy's how many retweets he would need to get free chicken nuggets for a year.

Each semester I ask my students at the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland to construct policy to solve this problem.

When Bernstein used to teach at New York University's Stern School of Business, he would ask his students what the difference was between gold and wampum, the shell beads American Indians used to trade.

High school students and parents who had just buried their friends and children asked agonizing questions to lawmakers, ones often repeated after mass tragedies: Why did this happen, and what can be done to prevent it?

Instead, they agreed to a symbolic payment of $ 1 each and asked the city to fund $ 200,000 for a grant program for high school students aspiring to become entrepreneurs.

Wade — whose return to Miami at February's trade deadline came just before the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., and who worked to pay tribute to the fallen students there and engage with the survivors after that tragedy — asked Shaw what he hoped would come of his experience at the Waffle House and its aftermath.

After that, students will complete an online application which asks for demographic, financial, and school information.

The Broward school district is also asking the state to exempt Stoneman Douglas students from the testing requirements.

Moren Leveque, a professor at the Schulich School of Business asked me to speak to her students later this week...

2017.02.03 RBC announces 30 Black History Month Student Essay Competition scholarship winners As Canada prepares to celebrate its 150th birthday, RBC asked high school students to reflect on the contribution of black Canadians over the past 150 years and what future generations can learn from them...

During a press conference, sophomore Lydia Hester from Madison East High School asked state lawmakers, «How do you expect students to be successful when kids have to worry about themselves, their friends, and their teachers being shot?»

Alex Wind, a student activist at Stoneman Douglas, asked Superintendent Robert Runcie, «Will you do everything in your power to prevent this from happening again at any other school?»

Of the 52 Facebook comments, the remaining five included one asking whether the clear backpacks were just at Stoneman Douglas or were countywide (Answer: Just Stoneman Douglas); two that weren't understandable; and two that maintained minor students have no rights in public school, so the complaints about the loss of rights by students were meaningless.

«After a mass shooting at a school, you don't have to be the sharpest tack in the box to understand when another student posts a photo of an assault weapon why school security personnel and police might ask questions,» tweeted Pittman, who said he owns two guns but no assault rifles.

«The NRA,» Pamela Flores, a 17 - year - old student from Oakton High School in Vienna, Virginia, outside DC, said, when asked whom she blames for why a March for Our Lives has to exist.

In a February 21 town hall hosted by CNN after the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, Stoneman Douglas student Cameron Kasky asked Rubio if he would promise to not to take another dollar from the National Rifle Association.

Asked about the vest, the student explained he had carried it with him to school because his father is a police officer, Mackenzie recalled.

When black students are unable to gain admission at the same rate as whites to the elite public exam school in Boston, let's ask a federal judge to mandate black excellence.

They asked an average of 324 student at each school.

If the data were acquired by asking students about their own college, then especially at schools with strong denominational ties there are almost certainly social pressure on individual students to maintain the appearance of piety.

Talk to any audience of Catholics, whether adults or high - school students, and ask them what name comes to mind when they think of the relation of the Catholic Church to science and the result is always the same: «Galileo!»

As a divinity school student, I had just started working as a student chaplain at a cancer hospital when my professor asked me about my work.

She asked how many women were in his medical school class, and he replied that there were only three out of a hundred students.

Do the folks who write intelligent design school textbooks ever ask students to work out which of the creator gods / beings might be the most likely candidate?

I teach an adult Sunday School class and have begun asking my students that.

They point also to the rapid expansion of knowledge and technical skill required for effective living in the modern age, and they ask how the schools, with their limited share of the student's time, can afford to spend any of it on instruction in recreation, which they believe he either does not need or can get outside of school.

The students, particularly girls, said they were too suspicious or embarrassed to talk to school nurses about sex or ask about condoms.

When I asked whether the neighbors think Rutba is weird, Jonathan said, «You should hear [the high school student] tell his friends where he lives.

A month later, a high - school student in the church asked me about this sin.

I remember that it was around this time that some of my students at Boston College Law School began to ask me if I was a feminist.