Sentences with phrase «students as a decade»

Today, they serve more than three million students nationwide — nearly three times as many students as a decade ago.

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University of Delaware professor Charles Elson and his graduate student, Craig Ferrere, have documented an annual, compounded structural 17 % increase in CEO pay over decades as a result of the way CEOs are paid at or above median and the marketing of peer group data by consultants.

As of 2014, the average student graduating with debt had borrowed $ 28,950, up from $ 18,550 a decade earlier, according to The Institute for College Access and Success.

Within the next decade, all public schools in New York City will be required to offer computer - science classes to all students as part of Computer Science For All, a new initiative by Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Singles Day was started in the 1990s by Chinese college students as a version of Valentine's Day for people without dates, but it has since been closely linked with Alibaba, which adopted it as a shopping event about a decade ago.

On Tuesday night, the state legislature refused to debate an outright ban on assault weapons as students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas watched and cried, but the teenagers» push for change is still expected to bring Florida's first limit on gun access in over a decade, according to CNN.

Buffet's study of investing goes back decades to his time as a student at Columbia when he studied with Ben Graham, author of The Intelligent Investor.

Over the last decade, anxiety has overtaken depression as the most common reason college students seek counseling services.

He is a prominent figure in the world of self - driving vehicles, having worked on the technology for more than a decade and achieving some degree of renown as a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2004, when he designed a self - driving motorcycle that was entered in the Pentagon's first contest for autonomous vehicles.

At Tesla, Elon has overseen product development and design from the beginning, including the all electric Tesla Roadster, Model S and Model X. Transitioning to a sustainable energy economy, in which electric vehicles play a pivotal role, has been one of his central interests for almost two decades, stemming from his time as a physics student working on ultracapacitors in Silicon Valley.

Released time to allow public school students to attend religious education at a church - owned building was specifically confirmed by the US Supreme Court as consistent with the First Amendment decades ago.

More than a decade ago, David Brooks described a generation of America's elite university students as «organization kids.»

As a frequent competitor in American Culinary Federation (ACF) competitions over the last decade — as well as a mentor for students preparing for competitions through organizations like ProStart and SkillsUSA — Nitahara sees competitions as vital to a young chef's educatioAs a frequent competitor in American Culinary Federation (ACF) competitions over the last decade — as well as a mentor for students preparing for competitions through organizations like ProStart and SkillsUSA — Nitahara sees competitions as vital to a young chef's educatioas well as a mentor for students preparing for competitions through organizations like ProStart and SkillsUSA — Nitahara sees competitions as vital to a young chef's educatioas a mentor for students preparing for competitions through organizations like ProStart and SkillsUSA — Nitahara sees competitions as vital to a young chef's educatioas vital to a young chef's education.

Seeing the students» comeback to visit him from all 3 decades to celebrate his career because of how he changed lives as a teacher was powerful.

After two decades in the classroom as a student and another two decades as a...

With more than a decade of experience as elementary school teacher and parent educator, Amanda Morin has discovered that teaching is more than just lesson plans, it's an interactive process that involves parents, teachers and students working together to create a base of knowledge.

State education officials said there has been an increased focus on providing fresh fruits and vegetables in student lunches, as the state noted a significant increase in the past decade in the number of students who require meals at school.

More than 31 million children in the United States participate in the National School Lunch Program, or NSLP, each school day, 1 and a large number of students consume up to half of their daily calories at school.2 Yet, many schools were built decades ago and face challenges as they strive to serve foods that meet children's dietary needs.

In fact I believe that over the past few decades school lunches have actually decreased in quality when I compare what I ate as a student to what is eaten at the school in which I work.

The Board also took the first step toward expanding its social worker program to meet the explosive student enrollment growth experienced by CCSD over the last two decades by hiring a third social worker: Dr. Tara Quinn - Schuldt, who has worked as a social worker in Carroll County's school system for 13 years.

Starting as an assistant, Suellen was promoted to assistant manager within two years and stayed in that position for more than a decade before transferring to Zephyrhills High and assuming her duties as cafeteria manager for 1500 students.

Control of the Senate, too, would ease the way for Democratic bills currently blocked by the GOP, including ones to increase firearm restrictions, allow early voting, authorize state financial aid to students who entered the country illegally as children, and extend the statute of limitations on child molestation to allow victims to sue for decades - old abuse.

In just two years we have taken on some challenges — such as reforming student finance and public sector pensions — which previous Conservative governments failed to tackle in decades.

In the last decade, the Early College High School model has become increasingly popular across the country as educators are finding new ways to prepare students to enter the job market.

Persistently struggling schools have scored low in student and teacher performance for nearly a decade while schools identified as struggling have only seen low marks over the past few years.

Business and academia wish to welcome foreign students to our universities and — as they rise to influence in their own countries — we then have willing partners in politics and business for decades to come.

Education Week is reporting on an Empire Center's report that says over the past decade «public schools hired nearly 15,000 teachers and almost 9,000 administrators, guidance counselors and other support workers over the last 10 years as enrollment dropped by more than 121,000 students.

Stringer described the initiative as a «terrific idea» that will take too long to implement, because the program is not designed to reach all city students until 2025, nearly a decade from now.

As a graduate student in paleobiology at UC Davis, Farmer had developed an interest in studying the paleoecology and preservation potential of fossils, something that would lie largely dormant over the next decade while he tried his hand at other things.

Wencui Han of the Department of Management Science and Systems at the University at Buffalo, New York and colleagues, explain how in the last two decades criminal incidents such as shootings on campus, assaults and robberies, natural disasters including tornadoes, hurricanes and snow storms and disease outbreaks have put students and staff at risk.

«Over the past decade we've been able to identify a growing number of educational interventions that have managed to have notable impacts on students» academic achievement as measured by standardized tests,» West says.

Bain moves on to the next question, briskly repeating the process of asking, answering and explaining as she and her students work through the decade of the 1960s.

One spring day some decades ago, while I was serving as a very junior faculty member at what was then called a predominantly Negro college, a student asked me for advice.

This scientific focus, he believes, is a potentially effective way to combat some of the problems Australian universities have had historically, such as inadequate financing and difficulty recruiting quality science students, which have weakened Australia's university system during the last decade.

Due to an aging scientific workforce within NOAA and fewer students going into the necessary fields of study for fish stock assessment, there could be as many as 180 vacancies within NMFS over the next decade, according to a 2008 report issued by the Departments of Commerce and Education.

In fact, I have been very active in these fields for four - plus decades in many ways — as a scientist working in a laboratory, as a professor teaching university students, as a businessman, as an author.

«With a specific emphasis on managing mood, Amy's book delivers dynamic insights and yoga - based practices that she has refined over decades of first - hand experience working with clients, students, and therapists, that relax, focus, and reduce the symptoms and causes of anxiety, depression, and stress, as well as prepare the mind and body for the integrative work of psychotherapy.»

Jeffrey Bland, PhD — Jeffrey Bland, PhD, is known as the father of functional medicine and for the past two decades, he has traveled the world, teaching the tenets of functional medicine to professional healthcare practitioners, students, and lay audiences.

Confidants and close friends ever since they met as students at the University of California in Berkeley, the duo spent a decade in «corporate» jobs — Leon as a design director at The Gap and then Burberry, and Lim as a management consultant.

A favorite new tv As part of our Road to Wigan Pier project, eight decades after the publication of George Orwell's essay, student Daniel Smith, explains why young workers

After more than a decade of working in television Down Under, he returns with this quirky comedy starring Nat Wolff («Paper Towns») as a high school student who befriends his next door neighbor (Mickey Rourke), who just happens to be a former CIA assassin.

May 3, 2012 • For decades, teachers, managers and parents have assumed that the performance of students and employees fits what's known as the bell curve — in most activities, we expect a few people to be very good, a few people to be very bad and most people to be average.

Working with director Barry Jenkins over more than a decade since they first met, as Florida State University students, cinematographer James Laxton has attracted due notice this season for his work in Jenkins» Moonlight, the director's first feature since 2008's Medicine for Melancholy.

There may be no more obvious premise for a Woody Allen movie this decade than Joaquin Phoenix as a possibly deranged philosophy professor who enters into a dangerous liaison with his student, spouting heady diatribes about Immanuel Kant in between bouts of unfulfilling sex and murderous schemes.

It's been more than a decade since Jake (Jason Sudeikis) and Lainey (Alison Brie) first met as students at Columbia University, where they lost their virginities to one another on the roof of Jake's college dorm before seemingly vanishing from each other's life forever.

As important, the analysis does not consider any measures of state policies except for exit exams, implying that any other policy changes for the three decades between 1971 and 2004 are either irrelevant for student performance or are not correlated with the introduction and use of exit exams.

Technology often affords the teacher extra time to have more one on one opportunities with their students as well as supporting the learning environment in very concrete substantive ways that didn't exist a decade ago.

The truth is that, after decades of progress in closing the outcome gaps between white students and students of color, the disparities are just as profound today as they were in the 1950's when the landmark case of Brown vs. Board of Education was decided.

When Pendoley enrolled at the Ed School as a Special Studies master's student in the fall of 2002, the term «gap year» was just entering the American vocabulary (mostly thanks to Prince William's high - profile, post-Eton stint teaching in Chile), but the phenomenon had been around under other names for decades.

«In these times of recession and pay - as - you - go sweeping the country, this seems like a great way to fund higher education for students, without further burdening taxpayers,» says Kanter, who came to Washington, D.C., in 2009 after working for three decades in the California community college system.