Sentences with phrase «smaller than colleges»

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«Paradoxically, big get - togethers can be easier to prioritize than smaller ones,» writes Vanderkam, offering the example of a busy professor who plans an annual getaway for her old college friends and their families.

I grew up in a rural area in a town with a population smaller than my first college dormitory!

Say I am talking about baseball, and different leagues in different countries and I'm comparing and contrasting various types of equipment used in those leagues (aluminum bats in college, only wood in the pros, etc.) and the topic of baseball size comes up, and it's noted that the baseballs in Japan are smaller than the balls used in Major League Baseball.

More than anything else, what transformed the small colleges of the 1870s into the research universities of the 1920s and then into the multi-universities of the late twentieth century was money from industry and government for technical research and development.

I quickly learned that changed in college when the «smaller» linebackers and DB's figured out that delivering the hit was easier to handle than taking the hit and they started laughing about knocking people out with their «big hits.»

The third is for the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA), a network of more than 100 small colleges inclusive of NCAA and NAIA schools.

Collins» Temple will probably look a lot like Rhule's come Saturday — pro-style on offense with spread as needed, and a defense that's he's shifted from small colleges to the SEC with no real overlying schematic theme other than fearlessness and a penchant for blitzing.

I did go through a small rebellious phase as a high school and college student where I ate more junk food than my mother would have liked, and I've been moderately overweight in my lifetime, but I've never been obese.

A teacher trainee of the Accra College of Education who spoke to the Daily Graphic on condition of anonymity, while applauding the government for restoring the allowance, however, said the amount was smaller than expected.

Another administration source said Roche, the retired D'Youville College president appointed by Cuomo in 2016 to head the NFTA board of commissioners, settled on raises slightly smaller than figures that first surfaced in December from the consultant's recommendations.

Coming from a high school with a graduating class of about 60 students, I opted for a small undergraduate college rather than a university.

After my first year as a faculty member in the chemistry department of a small liberal arts college, I felt more certain than ever that my strong desire to remain childless was even more of an advantage than I had previously realized.

Faced with declining enrollment and rising costs, some small liberal arts colleges have added professional and vocational majors, a decision University of Iowa researchers say has strengthened rather than undermined the mission of the schools.

In one small study of 104 college students, more than half unlocked their phones an average of 60 times a day and spent upward of 3 1/2 hours on the devices.

But a tiny soil mite smaller than a pinhead has reevolved the ability to mate, according to a study by evolutionary geneticists Katja Domes of the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, and Roy Norton of the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse.

Female mice deprived of dietary zinc for a relatively short time before conception experienced fertility and pregnancy problems and had smaller, less - developed fetuses than mice that ingested zinc during the same times, according to researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.

A college football player who has been diagnosed with a concussion is likely to have a smaller hippocampus, the memory center of the brain, than a player who hasn't been so diagnosed, a new study finds.

TAKING A HIT The memory center of the brain is smaller in college football players than in other men who don't play football or soccer, apparently due to head trauma, a study finds.

New Ph.D. researchers with «stronger academic ability,» as indicated by having received university support in the form of a fellowship or assistantship or by having at least one parent with a college degree (which, especially in poor or middle - income countries, places the family among an educated class that is much smaller than in a rich country) are likelier to stay than those who lack these presumed correlates of academic strength.

A new study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology found that heart patients with a large waist size (greater than 35 inches for women and 40 for men) were 70 percent more likely to die during the study than those with smaller waists.

«In high school and college, there was nothing I found more embarrassing than my small boobs.

Frances Ha unsurprisingly follows Frances (Gerwig), a somewhat more than recent college graduate, who is trying to maintain her dream of becoming a dancer in a small dance company.

From Harvard and Dartmouth to small community colleges, more than 70 U.S. institutions of higher learning have weighed in, signing formal statements asserting that competency - based transcripts will not hurt students in the admissions process.

Using the new tables, which have not been updated for more than a decade, could cause nearly 90,000 students to lose their federal college - tuition grants, and 1.2 million students to get smaller grants.

The Urban study also finds evidence that schools that serve a smaller percentage of FTC students have larger positive impacts on college enrollment than schools where a majority of students are on scholarship.

A meta - analysis comparing small - group work to individual work in K - 12 and college classrooms also found that students working in small groups achieved significantly more than students working individually, and optimal groups for learning tended to be three - to four - member teams with lower - ability students working best in mixed groups and medium - ability students doing best in homogeneous groups.

College attendance also increased among whites, but by a smaller amount than the dropout rate.

At less than $ 3,000, the funds were a relatively small portion of the total cost of a college education.

Grier promoted Cruz to assistant superintendent for college readiness, allowing him to shift from a small nonprofit effort at a couple of schools to a role where he could help more than 200,000 students across 300 schools.

Schools in the college town of Oxford, Miss., get more than 30 times the bandwidth, for a small fraction of the price.

Like some college education departments, Teach for America's Institute has suffered from a lack of subject - specific training and from short student - teaching stints with much smaller class sizes than teachers are apt to encounter in the real world.

Students who graduate from high schools located in the South or in a rural community or small town are less likely to attend college than their peers in other settings.

The gap between the immediate college enrollment rates for students from high - income and low - income families was 14 percentage points smaller in 2016 (16 percentage points) than in 2000 (30 percentage points).

Additionally, schools that had a larger share of FTC students and were therefore more financially dependent on the FTC program had a smaller positive effect on low - income students» college - going rates than schools with a smaller percentage of FTC students.

With just more than 4,000 enrolled students, Eastern New Mexico is a small institution, suitable for students who desire a cozier, more personable college experience.

Shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Rachel Reeves said the «extra funding for new free schools will be smaller than the huge cuts he made two years ago to school and college buildings.»

The latest installment of the study, released this week by the nonprofit research group MDRC, contains even more impressive news: The disadvantaged students who make up a vast majority of the small - school enrollment are also more likely than those in the control group to enroll in college.

This common problem, which surfaces in school after school, led us to consult some of the most successful urban educators we know — teachers and principals who have been involved in founding new, small high schools in New York City and Boston, Massachusetts.1 These schools, which serve low - income, minority communities, have begun to routinely graduate and send to college more than 90 percent of their students.

But there are heightened concerns over the viability of 16 - 19 free schools as their rolls tend to be smaller than standalone sixth - form colleges.

However, comprehensives studies show Consortium Schools have higher graduation rates, better college attendance rates, and smaller gaps in outcomes between students of color and their white peers than the rest of New York's public schools.

Last month, for example, a study by the nonprofit research group MDRC said that disadvantaged students who enrolled in small schools were more likely to go to college than their peers.

Table 1 Charters with Highest Administrative Costs Per pupil Charter School Enrollment October 1, 2014 Report Administration / Pupil Kaizen Tempe 25 $ 7,554 Pinnacle Education - Tempe, Inc. 57 $ 7,283 SRPMIC COMMUNITY SCHOOLS 240 $ 7,102 Edkey, Inc. 64 $ 5,993 Deer Valley Charter School 29 $ 5,692 PS Charter School Inc. 71 $ 5,382 Lifelong Learning Research Institute Inc. 34 $ 5,378 SC Jensen Corporation 67 $ 5,060 Kaizen Skyview 51 $ 4,936 Eastpointe High School, Inc. 143 $ 4,874 Arizona Call - A-Teen Youth Resources, Inc. 78 $ 4,681 Intelli - School Charter High School 105 $ 4,348 StrengthBuilding Partners 42 $ 4,301 PAS Charter, Inc. 229 $ 4,139 Park View School, Inc. 228 $ 3,977 Institute for Transformatived Education, Inc. 62 $ 3,946 Madison Highland Prep 101 $ 3,646 Skyline Gila River Schools, LLC 106 $ 3,626 Kaizen EL Dorado 185 $ 3,604 Imagine Superst Elem 179 $ 3,568 Ha: San Educational Services 137 $ 3,454 Kaizen Ad U 49 $ 3,255 Edkey, Inc. 574 $ 3,165 Imagine Superst Mid 93 $ 3,081 Graysmark Schools Corporation 46 $ 3,077 Florence Crittenton Services of AZ 141 $ 3,050 Rising School 66 $ 3,041 Arizona Autism Charter Schools Inc. 87 $ 3,012 Victory High School, Inc. 20 $ 2,908 Foothill College Preparatory Academy 336 $ 2,833 Carpe Diem Collegiate High School 118 $ 2,811 Eagle South Mountain Charter, Inc. 106 $ 2,788 Concordia Charter School Inc 146 $ 2,786 Imagine Prep Surprise 248 $ 2,784 BASIS Phoenix 725 $ 2,747 E-Institute Charter Schools, Inc 800 $ 2,715 Pima County 106 $ 2,704 Genesis Academy 151 $ 2,692 BASIS Chandler 731 $ 2,681 The FARM at Mission Montessori 32 $ 2,680 Imagine Tempe 280 $ 2,659 Pace Preparatory Academy, Inc. 95 $ 2,607 Daisy Sonoran Davis Moth 193 $ 2,604 American Virtual Academy 3488 $ 2,595 Paramount Education Studies Inc 338 $ 2,586 Eagle South Mountain Charter, Inc. 127 $ 2,578 StarShine Academy 325 $ 2,576 Keystone Montessori Charter School, Inc. 228 $ 2,558 BASIS Peoria 746 $ 2,549 BASIS Prescott 369 $ 2,537 Many small charters have low administrative costs Sixteen of the 30 charters with the lowest administrative have less than 400 pupils.

That's no surprise, however, given that the Metris was designed to handle small European roads with even more harrowingly hairy scenarios than in a Midwestern college town.

Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II.

I would really like to see handwriting done as if it were on college ruled paper (so way smaller than what is normally displayed in peoples videos).

Juliet, Naked follows the intertwining stories of Duncan, a college professor in a small English town whose one passion is for the music of Tucker Crowe; Duncan's girlfriend Annie, who is beginning to realize how angry she is that she's just spent 15 years with a man who loves Tucker Crowe more than her; and Tucker Crowe himself, who has been in near - seclusion in rural Pennsylvania since shortly after the release of his greatest album, Juliet, in 1986.

Conclusion Writing Conclusion writing is a small part of your college essay, but not less important than introduction.

Conclusion writing is a small part of your college essay, but not less important than introduction.

Despite the city's small size, there are more than ten higher education institutions located within 50 miles of Eureka, including Eureka College and Illinois State University.

Take money out in smaller chunks, rather than a big pay out, and use it for anything like repairs, renovations, or college tuition.