Sentences with phrase «such high aspirations»

In order to achieve such high aspirations, we must abandon failures of the past and address the difficult, persistent questions confounding our education system: Why do children of poverty continue to struggle and experience limited success in school?

Far from Heaven is indeed a great movie because it has such high aspirations - a movie from 2002 that dares to style itself after a 50's drama and to do so via (gasp) a subtle script rather than relying on special effects and things blowing up etc..

I had such high aspirations to bake 2 types of cupcakes this weekend.

Not exact matches

Our «highest spiritual ideals and aspirations also threaten to lay the most crushing burdens on humankind,» and Taylor therefore finds it quite understandable that the modern self might turn from such lofty aspirations to the goods of ordinary life and the satisfactions of creative self - fulfillment.

As it stands, this squad is fairly well positioned to compete for the Wenger Cup and make a deep run in the Europa, if and only if we play first stringers in Europe and use the bench for the League and FA Cups... that being said, and based on the fragility of the manager and the team in recent campaigns, it's more likely that Wenger will focus on a top 4 finish and the FA Cup... while the reasons for such an approach may appear logical, it would confirm a rather disturbing trend and appear counter intuitive for any team which claims to have higher aspirations... I feel that Wenger simply can't afford to put all his eggs in the Europa basket because if he fails the potential backlash could cripple any top 4 chances due to the aforementioned fragile psyche that tends to rear it's ugly head like our own personal groundhog day each and every February... furthermore, can you even imagine Wenger bringing in the necessary recruits to adequately supply top quality lineups in a Thursday / Sunday dominated schedule; based on everything I've seen in recent years, I can't see that happening... in fact, mark my words, it's more likely that we see Lacazette playing out wide in Alexis's position with Giroud at striker, than we see Wenger make the necessary moves to right this ship... god, I hope I'm wrong but is it really that far - fetched considering what we've witnessed for past several years

This is a result of activities to raise aspirations such as the «Sky High Challenge» question set in all lessons».

Participation in afterschool programs is influencing academic performance in a number of ways, including better attitudes toward school and higher educational aspirations; higher school attendance rates and lower tardiness rates; less disciplinary action, such as suspension; lower dropout rates; better performance in school, as measured by achievement test scores and grades; significant gains in academic achievement test scores; greater on - time promotion; improved homework completion; and deeper engagement in learning.

As a region with a large coastline, Mr Herrington said that the big challenge for the area was to tackle underperformance in coastal towns, where factors such as low participation in higher education and high joblessness have been seen to create barriers to aspiration.

Schools are fortunate indeed to have such valuable sources of inspiration for pupils» higher levels of learning and aspirations for higher education.»

«We are calling for a moratorium on the expansion of the charter schools at least until such time as: (1) Charter schools are subject to the same transparency and accountability standards as public schools; (2) public funds are not diverted to charter schools at the expense of the public school systems; (3) charter schools cease expelling students that public schools have a duty to educate and; (4) cease to perpetuate de facto segregation of the highest performing children from those whose aspirations may be high but whose talents are not yet as obvious.»

While over forty years after the establishment of such formal teaching of Hawaiian in the public high schools, the new aspirations of Kamehameha to become a college preparatory school, Ms. Kahananui's seriousness of purpose, and the strong interest of a core group of students makes this course a stepping stone to a new level of Hawaiian language teaching.

Multiple - choice tests can not assess some of our highest aspirations for children, such as curiosity, a love of learning, and resourcefulness.

Selected chrome accents such as the «Clubman» inscription, the MINI emblem on the left - hand door and the door handles are specific details which emphasise the high - quality aspiration of the MINI Clubman Concept.

The high aspiration quotient of such cars does not get dented by the challenges the Indian roads pose.

Other works play on the association of basketball and young black men, such as drawings made by repeatedly bouncing a dirty basketball on huge sheets of clean white paper set on the floor; a series of larger - than - life basketball hoops, meticulously decorated with bottle caps, evoking Islamic mosaic and design; and Higher Goals (1986), where an ordinary basketball hoop, net, and backboard are set on a three - story high pole - commenting on the almost impossible aspirations of sports stardom as a way out of the ghetto.

Most started out with high aspirations for all the good they could do in the world as a lawyer, only to discover so much of the job is just doing the bidding of some of the sorriest SOBs on the planet (such as you).