Sentences with phrase «take challenging courses»

The authors found that a majority of students lacked information about community colleges and were not encouraged to take challenging courses while in high school.
High School Allotment: Provides $ 275 per high school student in additional funding to districts to prepare students to go on to higher education, encourage students to take challenging course work, increase the rigor of academic courses, align secondary and postsecondary curriculum, and support promising high school reform initiatives in grades 6 through 12.

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In November, Jaguar allowed Business Insider's Benjamin Zhang to take a different F - PACE test car out on a mildly - challenging off road course.
We all know they take work, there are ups and downs and challenges, but sometimes a relationship simply runs its course and needs to end.
Of course, taking a scrappy Canadian startup public comes with its own set of challenges — how do you maintain the same energy and innovation when your staff is in the hundreds, instead of the dozens?
In one challenge to a $ 30.6 million golf - course deduction taken in 2002 — but not resolved until 2009 — a tax court judge allowed 94 % of the write - off.
The LEEKICO platform permits challenge groups to give attention to creating their resolution and expertise by taking good care of the ICO course of.
Of course, the powerful and politically connected are the ones undermining rule of law, but challenging them takes courage, which rights lawyers often derive from their faith.
Of course there were challenges but I was really struck by something that Judah Smith said when his dad first took on the church when he was a boy.
And we see the COACH taking on the challenge of rebuidling an urban Philly team, and he's confident, of course, that is talent and virtue will succeed in their transformative ways once again.
The group also challenged her to take the leap — at the risk of possible failure — by enrolling in one course to test and toughen flabby academic muscles.
Indeed, whatever his disguise, he can project for those who need it the commanding and challenging image of one who has taken the hard way and stayed the course — who, like Milton's Satan, will always choose heroic autonomy over «ignoble ease,» and who, like Twain's Satan and Lenny Bruce, knows bullshit when he sees it.
Of course, I took up the challenge.
The program will have seven stages, including a culinary arts competition in which teams of high school culinary arts students from throughout the country take on the challenge of creating a delicious, nutritious school meal for $ 1 per meal; a Healthy Eating Crockpot 8 - week cooking course for families, at the end of which participants and / or the individuals will receive a free crock pot; healthy recipe / healthy snack cook book and monthly newsletter by student chefs; and supporting student chefs in developing and growing their own home gardens.
(3) formation flexibility — it took 20 years for Wenger to return to a back 3 and now he can't seem to choose anything but that formation... the teams in the premiership and those we could face in the Europa will present vastly different tactics and we need to have a manager who can prepare this squad for this eventuality and have the fortitude to make the necessary adjustments throughout the season... I have seen nothing in the past 6 - 7 years to suggest that he is the man to take on this challenge... I can't even remember when he changed formations when he would replace a small, pacy striker, like during the Walcott experiment, with the lumbering Giroud... of course this is exactly why there is no other manager in the world that plays more players out of their natural positions (square peg in a round hole)
Each member of the World Golf Rankings» top 25 will be at the Royal Birkdale in England this week, taking on the challenge of one the golf world's most notoriously difficult courses.
Woods» T9 showing at last month's Hero World Challenge informed the prognostication by Mackay, who took a brief break from his duties as NBC / Golf Channel on - course reporter to caddie for Justin Thomas at the Sony Open.
It's easier said than done of course, and is challenging to transition while maintaining stability, but I am hopeful that is the direction the club is taking, and that the majority of the upheaval has already been done this summer.
At our school, grades in advanced courses are multiplied in the calculation of GPA, which attempts to both incentivize and «reward» those who take on challenging coursework.
It took me all this time to really know what I really wanted to do with it (which is, of course, the challenge of beginning to sew something without an end plan in mind.
If your child wants to take (or his or her program includes) German, Latin, Astronomy, Advanced Chemistry, British Literature, or any other challenging course that is outside your comfort zone, you have three choices.
Of course, many students take AP courses because they're genuinely interested in challenging themselves with what can be a rigorous course of study and because they're intellectually curious about the subject matter.
Designed by renowned golf course architect Geoffrey Cornish, the length and mountainous undulations of the course at Mount Snow provide unique challenges favored by local members and visitors alike, making this course a «must visit» for many who travel to the area to take in its scenic beauty while playing 18.
A babysitting course will make sure your child has the skill set to take on the challenges of babysitting, and give your tween the confidence she needs to make the most out of the experience.
Occasionally after taking the course, a parent will want individualized, custom help working through a specific feeding question or challenge they're facing.
Yet, once the course took me in, I was absorbed, inspired and challenged by its rhythm and exercises.
Once you've decided on a strategy, be sure you and everyone else who takes care of your child sticks to it — barring unexpected setbacks and other potty training challenges, of course.
Your teen should take the most challenging high school courses she can handle.
Why because I mean of course in life you want to over periods of time take up other challenges so ten years on the job, I thought would have been enough for me to take up another challenge... so my first choice would not have been to be Minister for Information and Presidential Spokesperson,» he stated.
That ought still to include a promise to force a Commons vote on it and thus challenge the Lib Dems, a promise to enable and require councils to build houses, a promise to restore the Agricultural Wages Board that the Lib Dems have abolished, a promise to reverse the dismantlement of England's NHS by Shirley Williams and other Lib Dems, a promise to reverse any privatisation of the Royal Mail and thus stop it because no buyer would take the risk, and a promise to renationalise the railways for free over the course of a Parliament by simply taking back each franchise as it came up for renewal.
Newbsanity course is owned by a father and his son who love overcoming obstacles and have been creating a family of their own with anyone willing to take on the challenge.
The LECOM Health Challenge, Web.com PGA Tour will take place at the Upper Course at the Peek»n Peak Resort in Clymer from Thursday through... [Read more...]
He told Our Crew that since he had already gone to challenge the exercise in court, he would allow the legal process to take its course and wished PDP goodluck in its endeavour.
It's a national security issue — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:42 We are confident these priorities will not only provide jobs but will improve the security of Ghanaians — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:41 Our job creation agenda will be driven by investment in human capital — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:40 The broad agenda for next year is to translate the stability into shared growth - Ken Ofori - Atta 10:33 We have restored macro stability and renewed confidence in the economy — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:32 We have achieved in one year, what seemed impossible to achieve in eight years — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:31 We have provided stable electricity supply — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:31 I am glad to report that we are on course to end the year with the fiscal deficit of 6.5 % — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:30 We are happy to note that our policies are yielding results that have brought back smiles to several Ghanaians — Ken Ofori Atta 10:29 We resolve to be fiscally discipline — Ken Ofori Atta 10:29 I'm happy to note that we have turned the economy around — Ken Ofori Atta 10:28 When I presented the budget in March, I indicated our commitment to take strategic steps to fix the challenges facing the economy and restore hope to Ghanaians — Ken Ofori Atta 10:25 I thank the august House for all the support that has brought us so far — Ken Ofori Atta 10:24 Speaker of Parliament invites the Finance Minister to present the 2018 budget
Since taking over from the rather more liberal, Kenneth Clarke Grayling has attacked human rights as «political correctness», proposed dramatic restrictions to the right of individuals to challenge the state through judicial review, imposed significant restrictions on access to lawyers with no - win no - fee cases, moved the government back on to the course of building more (and bigger) prisons — despite the evidence against them — and is set on dramatically privatising up to 70 % of the probation service ceding state responsibility for offenders to commercial enterprises.
Why because I mean of course in life you want to over periods of time take up other challenges so ten years on the job, I thought would have been enough for me to take up another challenge... so my first choice would not have been to be Minister for Information and Presidential Spokesperson.»
For the Web team of myself (the producer), four researchers, a technical manager, and six designers, the task in creating «Blue Planet Challenge» online was to connect a keen but casual audience with an attractive learning experience that could take them as far as they wanted to go, right through to enrolling on a marine biology course — a «learning journey».
And outside work, Sonntag and MaryAnn, who are now planning to take a sailing course, like to challenge themselves with new adventures.
My wife, meanwhile, fought her way through the usual challenges faced by young scientists working at small colleges: learning how to teach courses she never took; starting up a research program while managing an oppressive teaching load; dealing with tenure pressures and associated political shenanigans.
«Students can start by doing something as small scale as organizing graduate seminar groups as well as taking on larger management challenges of organizing courses or working on collaborative science projects,» says Matthews.
In the nine countries that agreed to participate in that third test, students taking the most challenging math and science courses in their senior year were found to have performed progressively worse as they moved from elementary to middle to high school.
Other, similar programs may offer you the option of taking challenging statistics and economics courses.
The report points out that «great strides have been made in enrolling more women in undergraduate courses, especially in the biological and chemical sciences (success has been more limited in the areas of physics, mathematics and engineering), there remains significant challenges in ensuring that the best women scientists are able to have fulfilling careers with increasing levels of responsibility, eventually taking up leadership and decision - making positions.»
«Of course, I took her up on the challenge and came up with this recipe.
Of course, part of the reason we go to class is to take in information, to be guided toward an experience of something pleasurable or uplifting or challenging, to be inspired by our teachers.
I found myself needing to take breaks in the craziness of my job, only to be faced with a new challenge that would forever change the course of my year.
I'll be setting up my year in my bullet journal, taking some courses, and developing a challenge for this coming January called «The Freedom of Less.»
I normally don't post on Saturdays, but last year I was a part of an A-Z Monthly Craft Challenge organized by Stephanie at Crafting in the Rain and of course I had to take part again this year.
Fashionably late of course (Haha), but I've decided to take part in this fun blogger photo project movement February Photo A Day challenge created by fabulous blogger Chantelle of Fat Mum Slim.
Ford Racing 3 takes this amazing range of vehicles, from the Model T Ford through to the latest concepts, and pits them against a huge variety of courses, cars and challenges.
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