Sentences with phrase «smarter kids in»

It is not a matter of popularity contest and having parents put the smarter kids in the popular teachers class.

Still, you probably remember a time in your childhood when you believed the smart kids in school were less fit and the jocks were less smart, or something like that.

But also it takes an awareness that you don't have to be the smartest kid in the class to work in a science field, and I think to get kids interested, that's important.

-- These people were once shooting spitwads at the smart kids in science class — and they're still doing it.

Previously published commentaries by Dr. Doroghazi focused on other negative trends, including high student debt, high CEO salaries, long training periods, and the controversy involving Maintenance of Certification requirements and the American Board of Internal Medicine, as factors that discourage the smartest kids in the class from choosing medicine as a career.

My father instilled in me as a child that I did not have to be the smartest kid in my class to earn an «A,» but I did have to work and study hard to get one.

It's the smartest kid in class, but it's not uppity about it.

«If you are a really smart kid in a backwater town in Mississippi — I don't care if you're white or black — this has never been a better time for you,» he said at our event.

I met Lee Ju - Ho, the former Minister of Education, Science, and Technology and now a professor at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management, to understand his efforts to improve the Korean education system In the book The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley, Lee comes across as a forward - minded thinker about the challenges facing Korean education and the need to make changes to the status quo of how education is regulated, managed, and delivered.

In The Smartest Kids in the World, we have a fascinating book to help us ponder just what has driven educational achievement in the countries of East Asia and, surprisingly, Finland, which stands at the top in achievement in Europe.

Heroic efforts at fundraising, various scholarships, plus help from grandparents, and off she went to Finland, which she had read had the smartest kids in the world.

Why aren't smart kids in Germany sharing in the gains?

In The Smartest Kids In the World, she spells out what is distinctly different — and surprisingly logical — about the way these three counties approach education.

Amanda Ripley, a nationally acclaimed journalist and author of The Smartest Kids in the World, shared her observations from traveling the world speaking to parents, students and educators.

Amanda Ripley's book, The Smartest Kids in the World provides some good examples.

Amanda Ripley, who studied education systems in other countries for her 2013 book, «The Smartest Kids in the World,» said there's an irony that parents are protesting just as the Common Core tests are being introduced, given the hope among many educators that the new tests will spur richer instruction.

Sometimes the kids get down on themselves and think the obstacles might be too large to overcome, but Mr. Moe reminds them that he came from a poor background, too, and even though he might not have been the smartest kid in school, he was one of the hardest working.

The use of calculators was just one of many differences the students highlighted during the hour - long discussion led by journalist and author Amanda Ripley who wrote the 2013 book, «The Smartest Kids in the World — and How They Got That Way.»

Authored by well - known journalist Amanda Ripley, «The Smartest Kids in the World — and How They Got That Way» is a New York Times bestseller and hailed as one of the most notable books of 2013.

Some of the featured education policy books include Reign of Error by Diane Ravitch, The School Revolution by Ron Paul, and The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley.

This type of school culture is found in ordinary schools in high - achieving countries like South Korea, Finland, and Poland, according to Amanda Ripley's fine recent book, The Smartest Kids in the World.

Out - of - school activities in the United States also often include school sports, which are unfairly attacked in The Smartest Kids in the World, Ripley tells anecdotal stories about touring private schools with groups of parents who do not question the guide admitting the math program was weak but balk at the same statement about the football program.

In human terms, it's akin to a mashup of Muhammad Ali and Dr. Stephen Hawking; it punches like a prizefighter that's also the smartest kid in class.

I think Henry Kissinger grew up with that odd mix of ego and insecurity that comes from being the smartest kid in the class.

She's the smartest kid in her whole school - but no one knows it, because Melody can't talk.

There's this idea that every smart kid in the world needs to go to college to succeed at life, but I really don't see any shame in becoming a plumber or a pipefitter or anything like that.

Meyer captures personalities with each depiction; instead of merely stating that Isaac was the smartest kid in his grade, Meyer reveals Isaac's intelligence in the distinction between his words and Poe's.

As a child he was known for his web - feet, his pockmarks, his lame gait and a left arm shorter than the right - a vicious little urchin, and a natural leader, he was constantly in street fights, but he also wrote poetry, had the best voice in the choir and was the smartest kid in class.

Some of the possible solutions included bashfully asking the smart kid in the class for help, searching the library for any wisp of inspiration and of course, the dreaded plead for an extension with no valid excuse.

She is the author, most recently, of THE SMARTEST KIDS IN THE WORLD — and How They Got That Way.

Alarmists like you seem to assume to be the smartest kids in town, whereas their understanding of science and scientific methodology is rather underdeveloped like your eyeballing - methodology.

«The effect, predictably, is that of the class clown mocking the smartest kid in the room.

She encourages the students with positive reinforcement for instance last night my daughter told me that the principal told them that she felt very lucky to have the smartest kids in her school.

In the age of Tiger Moms and raising the Smartest Kids in the World, getting the best education for their kids has become a borderline obsession for American parents.

Not exact matches

«I used to kid around that I went from being a really smart person to the least smart person in the room,» Rahn said.

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Put a different way, if you're a smart kid growing up in the suburbs of Dallas, Texas, in 2017, you have access to learning opportunities and information your parents never dreamed of.

Your kids should try hard because putting in that effort will make them smarter and better at whatever they put their minds to.

And in some cases, «Hey, I have / I was a smart kid.

As commercial real estate and other late adopter industries launch into their first - ever contextual marketing programs, smart marketers recognize that approaching data science like a kid in a candy store is not the most effective way to win over audiences.

Or, as Quora respondent Brent C.J. Britton puts in, labeling kids smart, athletic, or artistic creates «a dynamic where the child is afraid to fail for fear of losing the label.

In «Clark Smart Parents, Clark Smart Kids,» he addresses everything from allowances — when and how much to give — to teaching teens about credit cards and navigating the purchase of a first car — how to get it, pay for it, and insure it — to saving for college, paying off loans, staying out of debt, and much more!

We all want our kids to learn the skills necessary to make smart financial decisions in the future, and we are always on the lookout for teaching opportunities.

While claiming early can be a smart financial decision in certain situations — whether you're in poor health, have underage kids that could boost your payout or just need the cash — doing so does reduce your monthly benefit.

If this kid is smart and in the slightest way open - minded, he'll realize it is all crap and live for this life... the only one he is guaranteed of.

Mindful parenting advocates preach that maintaining awareness while taking care of the kids results in kinder, smarter, more responsive parents.

When Christians are persecuted, terrorized and executed in communist or Muslim countries this is a matter for serious discussion and action, not witty repartee to prove who is the smartest kid on the block.

We have the smartest kids on the planet in America.

We're sitting in the corner watching you make fools of yourselves, and hoping your kids are smart enought to no follow in your footsteps, so our kids don't have to deal with so much crazy.

«displaying a cross or crucifix is not imposing ones beliefs on another» It sure is, and by doing it in a school you're telling the kids from families who don't believe that «we're smarter then you, we're trying to educate you, you must be wrong,» and by putting it in government buildings says the government supports THAT religion.