Sentences with phrase «students at a given school»

Depending on how many students at a given school live in poverty, strong parental networks have a favorable or inhibiting effect on the academic achievements of their children.

A: It's vital that report cards include information on the rate at which students at a given school are improving.

Payment to Louisiana Scholarship schools is variable and is based on the tuition and fees charged to each non-Scholarship student at a given school.

GreatSchools conveys this testing data through bar graphs depicting the percentage of students at a given school who tested as proficient or better in each subject.

Not exact matches

«We have dramatically increased access to school options for Newark families, provided grants directly to teachers at 37 schools, given 300,000 books to Newark students through the My Very Own Library program, and just recently, we committed to a $ 1 million initiative to improve early childhood education in Newark,» the foundation said in a statement to CNBC.

The release of the If iPad app comes at a time when schools are increasingly experimenting with giving tablets to students, a trend that could be a major opportunity for education technology startups.

In December 2009 Mark Onetto, chief of operations and customer relations at Amazon and a close collaborator of Bezos, gave an hourlong lecture on the Amazon Way to master's of business administration students at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the ruling on Friday, saying the family had not persuaded the three - judge panel «that the individual prayers or other remarks to be given by students at graduation are, in fact, school - sponsored.»

An elephant dressed in a Santa Claus costume gives gifts to students ahead of the Christmas festival at a school in Ayutthaya province on December 24, 2012.

Kim looks at SGKAs who are students at one highly selective public university and asks why, given their proficiency in English, impressive educational credentials earned in interracial high schools, and rosy occupational prospects — the attributes that make them «whiz kids» or a «model minority» in the eyes of some — they so often prefer to worship with their own kind.

It is a pleasure to recall the gracious hospitality and the thoughtful attention given by President Edwin McNeill Poteat and the faculty, students, and alumni of Colgate - Rochester Divinity School, when the lectures were given at Easter time in 1947.

Hold infants at your local church nursery while the parents attend service; participate in a house build with Habitat for Humanity; mentor a student at a nearby school a few times a month; sponsor a missionary overseas; give wildly beyond the tithe.

@LeftCoastTex: No, what they're saying, Tex, is that, as the principal of the school, he did not know what each and every student (there can be upwards of 200 seminarians enrolled at any given time) was doing at all times of the day and night.

Having a very good basketball program is fine but I believe schools that emphasize football and are good at it (which, currently, we definitely are not) have higher student applications and higher alumni giving..

So on a purely moral, ethical plane, all outstanding teams at a given school should receive the same level of student, administrative and community support.

«As a school we have been attending for several years now and hope to continue giving our students such a wonderful experience of this majestic match for years to come» — Martyn Bagwell (Head of PE at St Osmunds Middle Sschool we have been attending for several years now and hope to continue giving our students such a wonderful experience of this majestic match for years to come» — Martyn Bagwell (Head of PE at St Osmunds Middle SchoolSchool)

Testing provides, sort of a snapshot, of a child's skill set and abilities at a given time, and allows a parent and a school to develop more appropriate expectations of the students; whether it's performance in school or ability to learn.

Durham - based nonprofit Goodwill Community Foundation recently gave school supply kits to 420 students at Falkland Elementary School in Pitt Cschool supply kits to 420 students at Falkland Elementary School in Pitt CSchool in Pitt County.

Hey Bettina: I meant to send you a message for a long time — I wanted to let you know that we formed a group of parents to control the unhealthy food given to students for celebrations, fundraisers and rewards at our school.

My issue is wanting to find a way to give the leftovers to the kids AT SCHOOL throughout the school day... THEY WANT THE FRUIT over the candybar, and it gives me chills up and down my arms when a student asks me for SCHOOL throughout the school day... THEY WANT THE FRUIT over the candybar, and it gives me chills up and down my arms when a student asks me for school day... THEY WANT THE FRUIT over the candybar, and it gives me chills up and down my arms when a student asks me for fruit.

According to CBS, students at Pennridge High School in Perkasie, Pennsylvania, were given a math worksheet that included a question about sexual assault.

The Kathleen Stitt Award, presented annually by the School Nutrition Foundation, is given to a graduate student or faculty member participating in the Child Nutrition Showcase at the Annual National Conference.

Second grade elementary students from Statham Elementary partnered with high school students at the Sims Academy of Plant Sciences Program for a live streaming event in which Academy students gave the second graders a virtual tour of their greenhouse.

The Gardening and Horticulture Program at the Waldorf School of Garden City aims to give students the experience and practical skills to grow their own food in a healthy sustainable way; not only for their bodies, but for the health and vitality of our planet earth.

At a school for difficult children, Mr. Davis, a teacher who taught eleven - and twelve - year olds, asked me if I could come to his class and give him some advice on cleaning up the foul language his students used.

Hello Bettina, I am a teacher who has attempted to advocate for our at - risk students in requesting that colleagues stop giving candy as a «reward» to our middle and high school students.

Students at South Middle School in Arlington Heights gave an enthusiastic welcome to restaurant owners from China during a tour of the cafeteria on Monday, May 19.

When our community gives at or close to 100 % — that means all families of students in our school make a donation of any amount — we are at our strongest.

Admission is based on a review of many factors, including strong prior academic performance, positive teacher reports, a successful interview at our School, and the student's ability to give something back to our School community.

Such programs - with at least 16 under way in Illinois and others planned - provide children with creative and fun ways to spend their time, while giving schools a means to deal with students who show up early each day or stay long after classes are over.

The following tips are written specifically for a k - 12 grade student preparing for a standardized test given at their school to test grade level skills and knowledge.

All of the students were able to stay at Wiley for the school year due to the McKinney - Vento Act, federal legislation that gives those kids at least one safe, stable, nurturing place.

Again in British Columbia, it is equally interesting to look at the awards and honors given to a high - school teacher and basketball coach, who according to investigative journalist Robert Cribb's March 2015 article, «Teachers» bullying scarred us say Student Athletes,» in the Toronto Star had multiple athletes report that he was bullying them (3).

I know many of us parents say, «If I could be a fly on the wall of their classroom...» While it would be kind of silly to see one of us sitting in an elementary school desk or hiding under our college student's dorm room bed, there are plenty of ways that our kids can «take us with them» to school, or at least the most important advice we can give them.

Some colleges like to see that students have taken AP courses when these classes are offered at their high schools; some give extra points to student GPA's when they take AP courses; some give credit for passing scores on the AP exams, while others do not.

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There are moments in students» lives, when they are unable to cope with all the work and assignments given at school / university: either it is an essay, term paper, research paper, book report, speech, or dissertation.

Students are given healthy choices on a lunch line at Draper Middle School in Rotterdam, N.Y., in 2012.

«They're afraid that we'll all bring in greasy food instead of healthy food and it won't be as good as what they give us at school,» said student Yesenia Gutierrez.

What they gave the USDA was a modeled prediction based on all sorts of data the firm collected from 2,314 students at 398 schools that year, including the types of food served, the amount of time kids were given to eat, prices charged, and interviews with children and their parents revealing what the kids typically ate in the course of a day and family income.

So according to these statistics, if your teen's high school class has 100 students in it, 20 of them will suffer from depression at some point before they become adults, 10 to 15 of them will show signs of teen depression at any given time - whether or not these signs develop into depression - and 5 of them will suffer from major depression.

In 2016, donations to the food pantry were so generous that Vicki decided to give the excess to food - insecure students at a local elementary school.

Mary O`Connor, the cafeteria manager at Hoffman Estates High, said the main advantage is that the computer can generate a report at the end of each school day that gives a total of each item selected by students.

The class visit will give your child an impression of what it is like to be a student at the Waldorf School of Princeton.

Thus, at schools inspired by Waldorf education, students are not bombarded with a barrage of facts, but rather they are given a richer, fuller experience based on a direct experience that whets the child's appetite for more exploration.

In far too many school districts, there are students who would qualify for free meals, except for the fact that their family never fills out the form, either because they forget, or they don't understand that it is important, or (more often) the child is too embarrassed to self - identify as poor in front of his classmates, and so he either doesn't give his parents the form or doesn't turn it in at school.

These drinks seemed like a good compromise at the time, given that we were dealing with a student population who had believed since 6th grade that getting soda at school was their «right.»

Here are some of the pros and cons of a single - gender school: Pros «From my experience in the schools and students I've encountered, an all - girls school gives the best all - around educational experience for most students,» says Alexis Browsh, who teaches at and graduated from a private girls» school outside of Philadelphia and owns the tutoring company Ready Tutors.

Schools have tended to defend their menus as giving students what they want, but students at the meeting said those foods are sickening.

These included not allowing students with no religion to be admitted, if the school was undersubscribed — something the school has now changed; and having a «Catholic service criterion», which gives priority to parents who, for at least three years, have carried out activities including «Assisting in the Liturgy: for example by reading, singing in the choir or playing an instrument, altar serving, flower arranging.»