Sentences with phrase «students speak up»

The gap that is created by adult bias is as obvious as what happens every day in every classroom, where some students speak up while others look away, and other students are acknowledged for their contributions while others are punished for not being involved.

K - 12 students speak up about technology and learning: Are we listening?

When students speak up, they learn to express their ideas in ways others can understand.

Then one student spoke up: «The gaze should be steady.»

In the hubbub when it seems that nearly the whole class has noticed a silly mistake of mine, I usually don't have a clue who caught me first, but the students nearly always agree on which one or two students spoke up first.

The forum, Many Voices: Students Speaking Up, will take place during Education Week in 2015 - 16.

After an expelled student killed 17 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the students spoke up.

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Michael Dell was speaking to an entrepreneurship class at the University of Texas business school when a bold student stood up and asked the young multi-billionaire why he still kept going to work.

We heard our students speak, sing and show us adults how democracy is done, from the bottom up.

While speaking at the Austin, Texas, student march for gun control on Saturday actor Matthew McConaughey urged law - abiding gun owners to «take one for the team» and give up their «assault weapons.»

With the March for Our Lives in March and school walkouts on Friday, students with highly sympathetic stories are speaking up.

In Parkland, «while the students and parents speaking up were no more passionate than the young people of, say, the Black Lives Matter movement, it was clear that the political establishment was going to receive them a different way,» New Yorker contributor Emily Witt noted last week.

Nevertheless, if an employer - student loan repayment program is important to you, then speak up.

At almost every event we hold in the office of First Things, I end up speaking with a college student who expresses a deep gratitude for this magazine.

Years ago, when our son, Eric, was a student at Oberlin College, he rang up to tell me that «your friend, Neuhaus, will be speaking on campus.»

I have taken guys aside and spoken harsly to them about the way that have treated women, in one case the guy beating up on his wife who was a theology student and the son od a church leader of all things.

«Christian students in particular should be bold in speaking up to oppose that kind of behavior because it goes completely against the model Christ gave us.»

In speaking of clinical training for theological students, Reuel Howe says: «They will be plunged deeply into life, many of them for the first time, and come up gasping and dripping, ready to learn about life.»

Many curriculums and pedagogics follow this assumption: that one begins with foundational courses that provide introductory materials and then directs students up the ladder, so to speak, in more and more advanced mastery of the subject matter.

When I spoke at Wheaton College during a public conversation on Christian and Muslim perspectives on religious diversity, I was impressed again and again by the students who stood up during the Q&A session and shared experiences they'd had meeting deeply religious peers of other traditions.

I think we should clear up the notion that lots of people seem to have that Bill Nye somehow needs the publicity of this statement and that he's somehow not qualified to speak on this subject: Bill Nye is a noted astrophysicist who designed planes for Boeing, was a student and friend of Carl Sagan, and helped design parts of the Mars Rover.

Before Lurie spoke up, no one had ever put the two policies together: «Unless a student is Christian, he or she may not be an officer of HRCF,» Lurie said.

The group choreography, the moods of the intervals and types of music all are designed to speak to the growing children and open them up to be better students.

Children with peer challenges might need some assertiveness training — a lot of kids don't know how to speak up respectfully when another student offends them.

Who is speaking up for a student's right to EAT in the middle of a long day of studies?

McCoy spoke with parents and students to see what they liked and disliked about the school — the food was brought up again and again as an area that could use improvement.

But chances are that other students witnessing the bullying behavior feel as uncomfortable as you do — they just don't speak up.

There was a part in the documentary where Ruth Bader Ginsburg spoke of how she was called in while studying at Harvard and asked, along with the other female students, why they were taking up a good seat when they were males who could use that seat.

I was also lucky to find a variety of other characters in Harlem, from teachers and administrators to students and parents, who really opened up to me, speaking candidly and eloquently about their own hopes and fears for their children and their futures.

And in a bit of a twist, student - athlete Jessica Potter invited her brother - in - law, minor league baseball player Jerry Sullivan, to speak at her high school about the importance of a healthy diet and physical activity — we love the personal touch this Fuel Up to Play 60 student leader added to her event!

Then there are the foreign students — all those young Chinese and Koreans studying at Central St Martin's University of the Arts in King's Cross, the European students on Erasmus exchange programmes around the country (doubly bad no doubt in Mr Farage's eyes since it's an EU scheme, that also sends Britons to the Continent, where they might too pick up the habit of speaking these foreign languages), the students from the Indian sub-continent studying engineering and computer science, students from around the globe trying to acquire or improve their grasp of the English language that can be their passport to a good job wherever in the globe they come from.

We spoke to some of the students refusing to pay up about why rent prices are such a problem for both education and society.

«Shelley proudly supported the students who chose to stand up to the NRA and speak out against the Republicans» continued blocking of common sense gun laws.»

Established in 1996, The Education Trust speaks up for students, especially those whose needs and potential are often overlooked.

«I applaud those students for speaking up, I applaud the students for taking action and I think the calls of the students and parents have captured the attention of the administration of the Buffalo Public Schools and the teacher's union and I'm hoping that those two entities can come together in the best interest of the education of the children at City Honors,» he said.

Whether to credit the new athletic director or students and parents speaking up, these requested increases have been approved by the BOE.

School authorities are yet to comment on the incident but some of the students who spoke on condition of anonymity said they are afraid to go up the Opoku Ware house where the incident happened.

The dispute is complicated by the fact the public school population is increasingly made up of low - income families, immigrants who do not speak English and students with disabilities.

Two federal lawmakers who represent Western New Yorkers are praising the Florida high school students who have spoken up and demanded change following a mass shooting Feb. 14 in Parkland.

«As a postdoc, you are seen as a senior member of the group and may be called upon to make a decision or speak up,» says Natalie Lundsteen, assistant director, Graduate Student Career Services at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Global Education & Career Development.

As she grew up, she lost the ability to speak French fluently; although she took French in college, she was no more fluent than any other college student who has had some classes.

The education is going to make people think twice about their right to speak up as employees of the university, not just as academics or students.»

I was actually asked by a wide - eyed PhD student what my poster (yes, poster: members of tiny start - ups don't often get asked to speak at the podium) could possibly be about: «Are you going to try to sell us some new medication?»

Some students may not speak up in class because they don't want to look stupid in front of other students.

Jacob grew up in a Yiddish - speaking family in Chelsea, Mass., and attended Harvard in the 1930s and»40s as an undergraduate and for medical school, when universities had quotas for Jewish students.

Many grad students fear being labeled a troublemaker for speaking up about issues that concern them.

Fast - forward to today, and Testa has spoken to crowds of over 400 people («You can't even tell she's nervous up there; she's awesome,» beams her dad), accepted more «Student of the Year» and «Eco-Ambassador» awards than you can count, and traveled the country spreading a plastic - free message — all by the ripe old age of 14.

When I was speaking with the student we joked about how even for teachers sometimes the hardest part of yoga is just showing up.

As a university student I would happily stand up and speak to a room full of hundreds of strangers.

The genocide is a sloppy cover up, those who perpetrated the genocide are still in power, and young students are taught that communists are horrible adulterers.This film fleshes out the story of just one of the families affected and begs the question, how many tens of millions of family have similar stories but remain silent in fear of what the current regime would do if they spoke out.