Sentences with phrase «struggled as a young student»

«Events like this make science fun for children,» said Marcellus, contemplating how she struggled as a young student to understand and fend off boredom triggered by textbook descriptions of Escherichia coli or E. coli.

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A bright young student raised in a tradition of conservative Evangelical pietism, Mouw recalls that his pastors «often viewed the intellectual life against the background of a cosmic spiritual battle in which the human intellect, especially as it aligns itself with the cause of the academy, is inevitably on the wrong side of the struggle.»

The list becomes longer every day: the landless farmers in Brazil, salaried workers and the unemployed in some European countries, trade unions uniting the vast majority of salaried workers (such as in Korea or South Africa), the young and students encouraging the people of the towns (like in Indonesia), all are involved in the struggle.

In addition, students are responsible, whenever possible, for assessing themselves; twice a year, at report - card time, parents or other family members come in to the school for meetings known as student - led conferences, in which students as young as five narrate for their parents and teacher their achievements and struggles over the past semester.

Alison Chernick's documentary looks beyond the sublime musician to see the polio survivor whose parents emigrated from Poland to Israel, and the young man who struggled to be taken seriously as a music student when schools saw only his disability.

As a former teacher and principal, and now education researcher, I find it unbelievable that our taxes are being used to put religious (and overwhelmingly Christian) men and women into our mutli - cultural public schools to «help young students as they grow and struggle to find their place in life»As a former teacher and principal, and now education researcher, I find it unbelievable that our taxes are being used to put religious (and overwhelmingly Christian) men and women into our mutli - cultural public schools to «help young students as they grow and struggle to find their place in life»as they grow and struggle to find their place in life».

According to Mike Duggan, the executive director of Domus, their students are young people «who have struggled, mightily in the traditional public school system, as well as at home and in the community.»

As struggling students and students with disabilities are shed, scores may go up, but countless young people are being damaged as a resulAs struggling students and students with disabilities are shed, scores may go up, but countless young people are being damaged as a resulas a result.

One out of every five suburban fourth grade young men from middle - class backgrounds were reading Below Basic in 2011, according to Dropout Nation «s analysis of NAEP data, just three points better than levels of illiteracy four years earlier; big - city districts brought down the levels of illiteracy for their middle class students by four percentage points in that same period, with nearly as many students from those backgrounds struggling with reading.

Interwoven with Hannah's struggle to be recognized as an astronomer is her love affair with Isaac Martin, a young man whom she takes on as a student before developing a deeper relationship that threatens her standing in the community and changes her beliefs about work and love.

Today, most of the student loan attention revolves around the negatives for young student and graduate debtors, but their cosigners, often their parents, also struggle as a result of the student loan crisis.

Many bright young veterinarians succumb to profit over procedure, preferring supply rooms to satchels as they struggle desperately to repay student loans.

With this video about an ongoing climate lawsuit by a group of American high - school students against the government of United States of America, our participants observed how it is possible for young people to join decision - making processes as a part of the global climate change struggle.

I know, I've been there myself, as a young child of divorce, a struggling college student, a parent of 3 children, a spouse for over 17 years, a stressed employee, and business owner.

While steady employment helps, Equifax data also indicate that young workers struggle to make timely payments on their student loans even as late as four years into a job, where older workers see improvement in payment performance.