Sentences with phrase «students at a neighboring»

It's so bad that the college spent $ 2.5 million over the past two years to house students at neighboring schools.

He notes that 25 percent of WHEA students and 35 percent of students at a neighboring high school enter tenth grade believing they'll go to college.

She's worried about falling behind students at neighboring schools, with whom she will soon be competing for a slot at Mississippi State University.

An independent study by UCLA found that Green Dot students are nearly four times more likely to graduate and be ready for college than students at neighboring schools.

CWC students are consistently exceeding state targets and performing at a higher level of academic achievement than students at neighboring LAUSD schools.

An independent study by UCLA's National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) found that students attending the Green Dot - operated Locke are nearly four times more likely to graduate and be ready for college than students at neighboring schools.

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The local habitation for much of his life was Salem, Massachusetts, with important chapters elsewhere: as a boy along the idyllic shores of Lake Sebago, Maine; as a student at Maine's Bowdoin College; as a young idealist at the Brook Farm Utopian community west of Boston (1841); as a married man in Emerson's Concord (1842 — 45); as a summer neighbor of Herman Melville in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts (1850); as a mature writer and consular official in Liverpool, England (1853 — 58); and as a traveler and resident in Italy (1858 — 59)-- before a final period of ill health and death in Concord (1859 — 1864).

I read Ayn Rand years a ago when neighbors of mine contacted me, devastated by their children being brainwashed by some philosophy students at the local staterun university.

One seminary teacher tells of being at his greatest effectiveness during the days that he shared with his students the blow - by - blow account of his dealings with real estate people as he sold his house to a member of a minority group and tried, at the same time, to act responsibly toward his neighbors.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS — Efforts to build a playground for special education students at Miner School in Arlington Heights have been boosted by neighbors» contributions and a matching grant of up to $ 18,000 from Ronald McDonald House Charities.

Planning for the new Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics building at Erie Community College's North campus will continue to move forward as we work with our partners to create a campus that draws students to ECC North, rather than to community colleges in neighboring counties, for cutting - edge coursework in the sciences.

Plans for the protests circulated widely on social media on Saturday, as students, parents, teachers and neighbors gathered to express their grief over the fatal shooting of 14 students and three staff members at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

• $ 1.1 million to reconstruct existing buildings near Syracuse University, including Varsity Pizza and Faegans Pub, into a mixed - use property that includes eight floors of residential apartments, two floors of commercial space and tenant parking that will serve students and medical staff at the neighboring complex of academic and medical facilities.

There are some programs only offered at neighboring county colleges making it necessary for Erie County students to enroll there.

The $ 2 million center at Brooklyn's PS 188 will offer comprehensive eye exams, vision care and glasses to students from PS 188 and neighboring schools.

His neighbor, Gabby (Teresa Palmer, «Warm Bodies»), is a medical student who hates chill people but loves the seashell wind chimes she handcrafts in between studying sessions where many books are open on a table at the same time.

Other nice people are... EVERY STUDENT in the speech class taught by Julia Roberts, the L.A. scooter club that recruits Crowne, the Marine owner of a diner who hires Crowne, the lottery - winning neighbors of Crowne and the dean of students at the community college.

However, families are concerned about their children moving around the city and neighboring areas without some type of identification that signals to authorities (e.g., at checkpoints and other locations) that they are allowed to be there and should be recognized as students.

At Saturday sessions, students do some academic work, such as SAT practice, and also help teachers organize community activities, like a carnival on the athletic field and a door - to - door outreach campaign, both designed to build the school's relationship with its neighbors.

This should spread by choice, and we should be engaging people at the grassroots — students, parents, teachers, neighbors, and principals.

Clipboards in hand, a cadre of social - work students from the University of Alabama at Birmingham worked their way door to door through a section of the neighboring community of North Titusville.

The bus can hold 25 kids at a time and has served about 5,000 students at the district's elementary and middle schools, as well as in neighboring districts in the county.

That's listening at an open mic, or listening to a neighbor, or listening to my former students» loving voicemails, or listening to an artist at their gallery opening, or listening to my family crack jokes, or listening to Arabic music with my lovely friends at the Harvard Arab Student Association.

To nurture the same global citizenship in today's students, Berseth encourages educators and parents «to expose students to new cultures, whether through a trip to a neighboring U.S. state, a historic tour of Europe, hosting a cultural exchange student, or even engaging with a new community at home.»

This allows administrators to easily monitor student performance at specific schools, compare general progress among neighboring schools, or track an individual teacher's qualifications and workload.

I make any announcements or instructions needed at the beginning of class, and then announce that students have 45 seconds to get their pencils sharpened and to tell their neighbors a funny joke.

Building on the concept of a watershed, students use a field trip to a local body of water (a stream at a local park, for example) to conduct a detailed assessment of the water and surrounding land and then document their findings by mapping and profiling the water and the neighboring area.

At one point in the presentation, she said that students need to focus on the lesson instead of «just doodling» or «just talking» to their neighbor.

«That could mean having a conversation with a young neighbor or a relative, serving as a mentor, or volunteering at a local high school to help students fill out their college applications,» she said.

Public school choice offers students a chance to follow their interests, but it comes at a price, chipping away at the sense of community once common among neighbors.

In fact, Cambridge Public Schools received a zero on both the Isolation of Poverty Index and the Isolation of Wealth Index, meaning none of the district's students attend a school where at least 75 percent of their peers have the same economic status as they do.100 Students in Cambridge also outperform their peers in neighboring districts on standardized assessmstudents attend a school where at least 75 percent of their peers have the same economic status as they do.100 Students in Cambridge also outperform their peers in neighboring districts on standardized assessmStudents in Cambridge also outperform their peers in neighboring districts on standardized assessments.101

Although the percentage of London Elementary students performing at or above state standards in mathematics was acceptable (and high, relative to similar schools in neighboring districts), the principal «s goals emphasized the success of all students and the need to boost learning outcomes beyond those touched on by the tests.

About a third of the eligible students in the district's boundaries attend the charter; the others are at neighboring districts or other nearby charter schools.

The evidence of good learning and the fruition of excellence come when the tutee becomes a tutor to fellow students, to family members and at times even to neighboring teachers and administrators.

Parents are transferring their students from neighboring districts and telling us it is because they are hearing about the positive way students are treated at Camp Verde Middle School.»

In addition, student enrollments are beginning to climb again, and teacher attrition remains at a high level: At 8 % annually, it is about twice as high as teacher attrition rates in countries like Finland and Singapore, as well as in neighbors like Ontario, Canadat a high level: At 8 % annually, it is about twice as high as teacher attrition rates in countries like Finland and Singapore, as well as in neighbors like Ontario, CanadAt 8 % annually, it is about twice as high as teacher attrition rates in countries like Finland and Singapore, as well as in neighbors like Ontario, Canada.

While kids from neighboring schools are still finishing up their bowls of cereal or running out the door to meet the bus, students at Ferryway in Malden, a working class city just north of Boston, are already at their desks, ready for a new day of learning.

But two neighboring school districts declined to take the students before a third, Pittsburgh Public Schools, found room at one of the city's lowest - performing high schools, located in one of its poorest neighborhoods.

«The district's own report clearly shows that students at Celerity's schools are knocking it out of the park compared to students attending neighboring district schools,» said the CCSA's Mandell.

• Thomson has made the Recycling Honor Roll list for the last 2 years in recognition of our composting and recycling program • Being an International Baccalaureate School with a focus on action, our students raised over $ 1,000 last year to benefit D.C.'s homeless • The Thomson Choir performs each year at Zoo Lights, the Cherry Blossom Parade, as well as caroling with neighboring partners

Special education students make up 7 percent of enrollment, compared to 13 percent at neighboring district schools.

Be A Good Neighbor Character Education Prepare for National Good Neighbor Day on September 28 by brainstorming with your students ways in which they could be good neighbors at school or at home.

With the ability to choose what becomes part of the story, as opposed to fast - forwarding past videotape of students writing quietly at their desks or throwing spitwads at a neighbor, digital storytelling can offer teacher educators a new way to shape narratives about classrooms.

And the percentage of low - income students at Emeryville's high school is closer to 85 percent, due in part to an influx of economically disadvantaged students from its neighbor Oakland.

Likewise, only 8 % of UFT Charter's students had disabilities last year, while students with special needs made up approximately 22 % of those enrolled at neighboring schools.

Camino Nuevo Charter Academy operates a rigorous college preparatory program for more than 1,500 low - income students at four active central Los Angeles campuses that consistently out - perform neighboring district - run schools.

The Audubon Charter School community — parents, teachers and neighbors — got their first look Wednesday at what the Broadway campus will look like after expansion, even as officials continue to look for a temporary home for the Broadway students during the two - year construction project.

The districts are among at least 13 in the Pennsylvania counties neighboring Philadelphia that are either doing away with rank entirely; keeping it under wraps for a few select colleges, such as military academies that require it; or changing the system to show how students compare with others in their class without assigning numbers.

Opportunity scholarships could be used at private schools and neighboring public school districts, should those schools choose to accept scholarship students.

At George Washington Carver Middle School and our neighboring schools in South LA, we are trying to create a vision of opportunity most of our students have never truly seen or felt.