Sentences with phrase «students say schools»

Though national reports show that crime and violence among youths continue to increase, some students say schools are less violent than they were two years ago.

Two months after a massacre in Parkland made security the top focus in Broward County schools, many parents and students say the school district is doing too little to ensure safety.

According to the Post article,» D.C. Students say School's Sex Education is Antiquated,» Mr. Catalina held a hearing yesterday as part of the Youth Sexual Habit Project.

Former Trump University students say their school duped them into paying as much as $ 35,000 for its real estate seminars.

The former student says the school violated her civil rights by failing to protect her from sexual assault in a «hypersexualized environment» where older students scored points for having sex with younger ones.

Related: New Orleans student says school leaders sometimes underestimate the value of career education

Not exact matches

The church - affiliated schools that in 2014 and 2015 obtained exemptions to a law that prohibits sex discrimination in educational settings collectively enroll more than 73,000 students, the Human Rights Campaign said in a report published Friday.

Some of those schools, however, have been accused of creating as much economic harm as help: students have reported falling deep into debt to pay for classes that they said had failed to deliver what they had promised.

But those universities that are left standing, he says, will have to do a much better job at identifying talented students, who can't afford to pay $ 61,000 a year for school.

«What we want students to know is schools are serious about this, that they have gone out of their way to make sure they have the legal ability to discriminate against LGBT students,» said Sarah Warbelow, the campaign's legal director.

«I think high school students understand this and it will be part of how they progress through their lives,» he says.

He said in contrast to «flavor - of - the - month» technology solutions in education, The Flatiron School is «bringing technology to service that relationship and not reinvent it in a way that is both compelling and effective for students, teachers, and employers.»

But when we ask people how did they hear about Figure 1 in our user interviews, they'd say «my med school classmate showed it to me,» or doctors who hear about it from residence and med students.

Tony Laing, senior graduate student services coordinator at the New School in New York City, says he has had the most success placing qualified interns at companies he has the most experience with.

«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.

«Turkey's strong STEM universities are churning out high - quality technical talent, and Turkish students from top - tier global schools are keen to return to their bustling hometowns,» says Cem Sertoglu, a partner at Earlybird Venture Capital who invested in Yemek Sepeti and GittiGidiyor.

Like, for instance, when he mentions that he was the first New Zealander to be selected as a Fulbright Scholar in entrepreneurship, or tells you he once spent two weeks in a coma after contracting malaria in Indonesia, or says he was among the highest - scoring secondary - school students on a national math exam.

The pair's solutions to the alleged problems of CEO - speak are greater government control of markets, more bureaucracy in the private and public sectors, an end to CEOs» duty of care to shareholders and — get this — more snore - inducing courses on critical textual analysis in business schools so students can know exactly how many times a CEO says «our company» versus «the company.»

On Friday, a group called «Student Walkout Against Gun Violence,» which appears to have been launched in response to the Florida shooting, said it is planning a nationwide walkout sometime next week in schools across the country to demand action.

Seaton said only four states require high school students take a personal finance course to graduate and another 16 mandate some financial literacy components in classwork.

I often say that if selling was so easy we'd be paying high school students minimum wage to do it instead of investing millions in training and methodology development, not to mention incentivizing our sales teams with highly leveraged, lucrative compensation plans.

John Payne, a professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, said the financial decisions being revealed in the CNBC Millionaire Survey reflect a basic behavioral finance lesson he has been drumming into the heads of business students for years.

Philadelphia school district CEO Paul Vallas says even home - schooled students may have online access to school resources.

The federal guidance said public schools must allow transgender students to use bathrooms, locker rooms and other intimate facilities that correspond with their gender identity or face the loss of federal funds.

And the school's emphasis on encouraging students to research and develop their own ideas may create a generation of more innovative entrepreneurs, Cullinane says.

Snyder said he will focus on strengthening SOM's faculty, student quality and reputation, as well as integrating the school into the rest of the Yale community.

«A ruling by a single judge in one circuit can not and does not undo the years of clear legal precedent nationwide establishing that transgender students have the right to go to school without being singled out for discrimination,» said a statement from five groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), that have filed «friend of the court» briefs on behalf of transgender students.

«I am delighted to make this gift that will bring together the Yale School of Management on a beautiful new campus, enlarge its student body, and propel it to the highest level in the 21st century,» Evans said in a statement.

The company says that in addition to funding expansion, optimizing its supply chain and tech, the $ 18.5 million will be put towards its «Sweetgreen in Schools» program that currently reaches 3,000 students across 14 different locations.

But teachers and staff in schools across the country say the spinners do nothing but distract the students, and schools now are banning them.

Wilson says that IHSNO and Francois» success exemplifies the fact that high schools do not need to be selective in order to show great student outcomes.

«As an open admission high school, students come to us from various schools throughout the metro New Orleans area and we don't necessarily know the academic acumen of students coming through the building,» he says.

Under the new standards, students will take their assessments online, which, Chaudhry says, means schools are investing more in technology infrastructure and providing one - to - one devices for students.

The 17 - year - old says he's looking for a school with a diverse student body and a strong criminal justice program.

A report issued by Deloitte in 2011 called for revamping the K - 12 curriculum to expose kids to entrepreneurial concepts, and Stuart says government officials and policy experts are even considering the possibility of specialized, innovation - focused schools.Programs like the lecture series currently offered at Toronto French School that brings in entrepreneurs to talk to students can make a difference, he says.

Parents and students should first determine their earliest deadlines for filing for aid and whether their school or state uses a first - come, first - served system for any of its aid, Chany said.

That means schools across the country will, for the first time, be giving students a uniform education and uniform assessments, which Muhammed Chaudhry, CEO of the Silicon Valley Education Foundation, says is a major opportunity for entrepreneurs to get a foot in the door.

«Look to your right; look to your left,» Tisch said at a recruiting event in early January, modifying the Harvard Law School warning to first - year students.

He said that while a school like Harvard might have only 6,000 students a year but some 50,000 alumni in the city, each one of those grads is getting contacted by 100 students or more, asking to meet or go for coffee.

Students shouldn't borrow more in loans than they'll make in their first year of employment, said Jeff Selingo, author of «There Is Life After College: What Parents and Students Should Know About Navigating School to Prepare for the Jobs of Tomorrow.»

«Our schools need to prepare the students of today to manage their lives and careers,» said one respondent.

«We're doing our students a disservice if we don't expose them to those truths and realities while they're still in school,» he says.

A student who attended the same alternative high school as Cruz after Cruz's expulsion said Cruz was known to have flaunted pictures of firearms on his phone.

This, she says, «mischaracterizes» her work, which she conducted with Allison Wood Brooks, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, and Caroline Ashley Wilmuth, a PhD student.

So says an enterprising young student at Aspen Heights elementary school in Red Deer, Alberta.

Jim Gard, a teacher at the school who taught Cruz, said that he was told Cruz «wasn't allowed on campus with a backpack on him» and that Cruz had threatened fellow students, the Miami Herald reported.

«Everyone was talking about why we couldn't do it here, since Pokemon is Japanese,» said Maho Ishikawa, a 16 - year - old high school student who said she had already captured a monster.

More students are accepting internships in these fields as well, as the school has offered more «industry focus» programs that expose students to careers in niche finance sectors, Fitch said.

At the McIntire School, 70 % of students have already secured full - time offers, up from 60 % at the same time last year, Fitch said.

That shift was also evident at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill's Kenan - Flagler Business School, where 18 students went into tech, up from 12 in 2013, said David Vogel, who leads career development and employer relations for the undergraduate business program.