Sentences with phrase «so small a high school»

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The Gunnery (never properly referred to as the Gunnery School) is an ancient institution of high repute, so small that the absence of eight students in an eight - oared shell would seriously deplete the student body.

Great schools like Colchester High School and their associated schools offer a great learning environment with small classes so your child can get the attention they deserve.

The hundred or so parents and teens packed into the small high school cafeteria lounge were nominally assembled for a track information session, to meet the coaches and discuss logistics.

So, upon graduating from high school, I chose to attend the smallest of the majority institutions that offered me a full scholarship, assuming that it would offer me smaller classes and a more close - knit environment.

Another question I would ask is what about if some eats an old school, «Diet for a Small Planet» meal that combines different plant protein sources and so ends up with a «high quality» amino acid balance, like beans and whole grains together?

In 1989 I graduated from high school in a small town in Texas and couldn't wait to hit the big college city so I could begin to live my own life.

When dating mature men, keep in mind that they are used to being independent, so calling them every half an hours, just to check on them or have small talk, sending them texts and being all over them all the time, just like in high school, is not a suitable method.

So Mavis» big idea is to head back to her small Minnesota hometown in a distinctly misguided attempt to reclaim high school sweetheart Buddy Slade (Patrick Wilson).

The verisimilitude she creates in putting small town Sacramento California life on screen, the specificity of the Catholic high school experience, it all makes Lay Bird feel so lively, and another wonderful performance from Saoirse Ronan and an excellent supporting cast (Lucas Hedges, Tracy Letts, Timothee Chalamet, Lois Smith, Beanie Feldstein, etc etc) is the topping on the cake.

So, on a mild spring evening, I make my way to Hayward, California, to stand on the darkened field of the Impact Academy of Arts and Technology, a small, brand - new charter high school where Medina's students are ready to exhibit their creations.

The number of students in each lottery is relatively small, so my analysis combines data from all of the middle - school and all of the high - school lotteries.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

But the strategy clearly is to make high schools as small as many elementary schools so that they will acquire more family - like qualities.

Grier grew up in Fairmont, a rural town that was so small, he laughs, «Our high school football team didn't have enough players to scrimmage.»

07, is wrapping up his third year as principal of Newberg High School's Yellow School, one of four small schools that have 400 students or so in Newberg, Ore. «It can be a little bit daunting to sit in front of a staff of 25 and realize most of them are as old as your parents — if not older — and think of yourself as their boss,» he says.

What is clear about Green Dot is its commitment to small high schools, and so the reorganized Locke consisted of six schools.

Their small sample of schools was further stretched so as to compare private versus public sponsorship, elementary versus middle schools (the sample included no high schools), and higher - versus lower - income student populations.

Those of us without the time or inclination to relive high school can choose from a small range of books published over the past several years by noneducators (usually journalists) who, provoked by events at Columbine, piqued by their own children's high - school experience, or simply in need of a job, took a semester or a year off to revisit the scene of so much youthful Sturm und Drang.

As a public school, Aviation High School receives basic state education funding, but, because the school is so small, that funding does not adequately cover all the necessary operating costs and capital improveschool, Aviation High School receives basic state education funding, but, because the school is so small, that funding does not adequately cover all the necessary operating costs and capital improveSchool receives basic state education funding, but, because the school is so small, that funding does not adequately cover all the necessary operating costs and capital improveschool is so small, that funding does not adequately cover all the necessary operating costs and capital improvements.

He cites the landmark Perry preschool experiment of the 1960s, which was costly and of high quality, with well - trained teachers earning public school teachers» salaries and working with remarkably small classes of five children or so.

Apparently, the AP program hasn't so much raised the level of the curriculum in the American high school as it has created an escape hatch that lets a small number of ambitious students get out of the low - demand environment for a few hours.

What's so different about a small high school, compared to a large one?

Three teachers in a small rural high school transformed their grading system so that it better reflected student learning.

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We also need a plan to evaluate and scale these assessments up along the way, starting with small pilots in a few schools, with incentives to build demand so that successful ideas reach more students in more districts and become worthy alternatives to current high - stakes testing.

June Jordan, under some special regulations that SFUSD adopted when small schools were the miracle fad du jour a few years ago, is exempt from many teacher hiring rules, so that the administrators have far more control over who teaches there than at other high schools.

So says Robert Hughes, who has been at the center of creating and supervising more than 100 small high schools since he became president of New Visions for Public Schools ischools since he became president of New Visions for Public Schools iSchools in 2000.

The small schools were rolled out so quickly that, in some parts of the city, there was no system in place for the thousands of students who would have enrolled at the big high schools.

Green Dot had a vision of creating small, successful charter schools and in doing so, demonstrating to the school district and the public - at - large that there was a more effective way to provide public education to low - income, high - risk youth.

So without a lecture to listen to, he and his classmates at Segerstrom Fundamental High School spend class time doing practice problems in small groups, taking quizzes, explaining the concept to other students, reciting equation formulas in a loud chorus, and making their own videos while teacher Crystal Kirch buzzes from desk to desk to help pupils who are having trouble.

While promising trends include innovation, energy, momentum, and new high school options, there is concern regarding whether adequate resources and the necessary flexibility are available to fully implement small high schools so they can have a considerable impact on student achievement.

At the same time we are making funding fairer, consulting on proposals for a new national funding formula so that areas with the highest need attract the most funding — including plans for a lump sum payment to meet school costs, with extra funding for our smallest and most remote schools.»

So, if a New Haven resident wants a high school with the benefits of a small, specialized program and an excellent AP program, they have to win the lottery and receive a spot at COOP or HRC, which are two of the most highly sought after high schools in the city.

Boys from all walks of life, including boys who seem to have made it — the suburban high school football captain, the seventh - grade prep school class president, the small - town police chief's son, the inner - city student who is an outstanding cartoonist and son of a welfare mother — all were feeling so alone that f worried that they often seemed to channel their despair into rage not only toward others but toward themselves.

Jen invested money in a managed fund so her daughter would have a small nest egg when she finished high school.

I attended Benedictine Academy a small all girl's Catholic high school that my older sister went to, and so did my mother back in the 1940's.

«That's why art education is so important to me,» said Mr. Solow, who has taught classes at Guild Hall, the Art Barge, the Ross School, in a Saturday - morning program at Pierson High School in Sag Harbor, and now to a small group of high school students who congregate at his sSchool, in a Saturday - morning program at Pierson High School in Sag Harbor, and now to a small group of high school students who congregate at his stuHigh School in Sag Harbor, and now to a small group of high school students who congregate at his sSchool in Sag Harbor, and now to a small group of high school students who congregate at his stuhigh school students who congregate at his sschool students who congregate at his studio.

«Small Heath School is in an area that has a very high rate of road accidents so the more we can do to educate young people on the importance of road safety the better.

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