Sentences with phrase «than a great school»

It's far easier to build a rocket than a great school that serves all students well.

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But this isn't a sport, it's business — the Great Game of Business, as practiced by Springfield Remanufacturing Corp. (SRC), the midsize Missouri company that may be having more effect on American management than any 10 of the nation's business schools have.

Women have largely flocked to medical and law schools in greater numbers over the past few years, but they are now turning to business school as well in part because business schools are mindful of the shortage of women students and are recruiting them more aggressively than they have before.

But according to a recent poll conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and NPR, Americans with health issues are more likely to experience a great deal of stress than anyone else.

Yale only trumps other schools because its expenditures per student are greater than other schools, Brian Leiter, a law professor at The University of Chicago, argued to National Jurist magazine in 2013.

The skyscrapers of 2033 will be unrecognizable, because the spatial capabilities of our 29 - year - old architects then will be exponentially greater than the old - school architects of now.

A great clarifying sheet mask for acne - prone skin, this one from Too Cool for School specifically targets larger - than - you'd - like pores and excess sebum.

At many schools, EMBA students are assuming greater levels of debt than even full - time MBAs even though they are in full - time jobs.

Because many borrowers have used Credible to refinance graduate school debt, the average loan balance for all users — $ 54,591 — is greater than the debt typically taken on by undergraduates.

He did not measure himself by the cultural standards of his day, as did some others, who scoffed at the fact that he was a carpenter (Mark 6:3), nor by the greatness of the order of the intellect (his education was that which could be gained at the local synagogue school) Some of the creatures made by the Word of God are greater in these respects than the one who is the Word of God incarnate, and that one is not ashamed of his inferiority.

The focus of the Jubilee Centre reminds us that we need to reach further back into history than we have been accustomed to if we are to revive Catholic education: in particular, we need to learn from the great Catholic schools and universities of the pre-Reformation era.

The deterioration of neighborhoods in our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risk.

It strikes me as a dangerous exaggeration that may seem to justify a differentiation in the pedagogies and the social policies that are enacted or applied within such neighborhoods, with greater emphasis on rigid discipline than on the informality and intellectual expansiveness that are familiar in the better schools that educate the children of rich people.

Schools that are racially integrated — assuming that the way integration is achieved promotes unity rather than division in the community — will have the greatest need and opportunity to provide those daily experiences that make this real for children.

Finally, outside the school system, technology has made a liberal education cheaper and more accessible than ever before --- witness, for example, the wild success of the Great Courses, usefully profiled by Heather Mac Donald in the City Journal.

Ed Pawson, chair of NATRE and head of RE at The King's School in Devon, added: «It is great news that teacher training bursaries for prospective secondary RE teachers have been brought back, although we are puzzled as to why the figure for RE graduates is less than 50 % of that offered to Geography or D&T graduates earning a 2:1 degree.

It takes more than a decade to get a high school diploma; it takes an additional four years for most people to get a college degree; it takes nearly a quarter - century to become a great physician.

[4] If a theological school wants more truly to understand God, surely it would be better — to make a counterproposal — to focus its study on that greater tradition than on individual congregations within it.

There is a great deal more to the teaching of English in Catholic schools than the teaching of literature written by Catholics.

The pressures for conformity exercised on young people by this culture are often greater than those exercised by parents or schools.

For more than twenty years, the food editors and chefs in the kitchens at MARTHA STEWART LIVING have produced dozens of bestselling cookbooks, including Martha Stewart's Cooking School, Martha's American Food, Martha's Baking Handbook, Everyday Food: Great Food Fast, and Power Foods.

I had no specific occasion for baking these cupcakes (rather than making a few friends at school very happy), but I've seen similar cupcakes around the blogosphere and knew they'd be a great Sunday afternoon recipe to tackle.

The WCAL just happens to include several schools not just that have been strong for the past 30 or 40 years, but a few that have great baseball traditions that stretch more than 100 years into the past, especially with Sacred Heart Cathedral (formerly just Sacred Heart) of San Francisco.

Rather than a «Tiger, tiger, burning bright / In the forests of the night,» Faulkner offers great sharks burning ghostly in the depths of the sea, flamboyant patterns of coral, tropical fish in patterned schools that are so glaringly colorful as to silence a man.

In a city of about 200,000 people, 93,000 youngsters and adults per week use the schools in afternoons, evenings and on Saturdays — a greater number than are enrolled for the regular school day.

Yes, high school fishing clubs and teams do exist, and in much greater numbers than one may expect.

The chances of a high school kid waking up and getting it are a lot greater than someone who is 24 years old and still doesn't get it changing who they are.

As richly rewarding as hosting young stars of the game can be (many ruggers who've played at past KOTs have gone on to play for, and even Captain, our USA National teams), there's no greater joy than watching U-8s and U-10s blossom into feisty U-12s and eventually become skillful, competitive Middle Schoolers!

«I think we were playing for something greater than other high school teams play for.

He's great in press conferences, but in the dugout he seems far too placid, clinging to his clipboard, and looking more like a school examiner than the manager of the world's best.

She lives in Austin, Texas, with her extremely tolerant husband of more than two decades, her two unconventional high schoolers, and her two dopey Great Danes.

The results of a recent randomized trial of CSRP showed that children who spent their prekindergarten year in a CSRP Head Start classroom had, at the end of the school year, substantially higher attention skills, greater impulse control, and better performance on executive - function tasks than did children in a control group.

High school boys had significantly greater odds of using protein powder / shades and other muscle - enhancing substances than those in middle school;

«I have great respect for the researchers at Harborview and think this was a good study, and was great to see somebody providing data on youth younger than high school age,» said Dawn Comstock, an epidemiologist at the Colorado School of Public Health who has studied extensively sports injuries at the high school school age,» said Dawn Comstock, an epidemiologist at the Colorado School of Public Health who has studied extensively sports injuries at the high school School of Public Health who has studied extensively sports injuries at the high school school level.

But it's still notable that people clearly perceive school food as healthier than it was pre-HHFKA, that they support (in broad strokes) what the HHFKA stood for, and that they would approve of greater funding to support schools with equipment and training.

Schools may choose to allow greater than the required minimums by offering self - serve salad bars or allowing second servings of these components.

This is unfortunate since, due to the demands of puberty and the childhood - to - teenage transition, middle schoolers tend to have greater psychological needs than younger students.

In recent years, parents of twins or multiples have begun to seek greater control in deciding what's best for their kids rather than allowing the school to do this for them.

In junior high and high school, adolescents develop passions for causes and ideals greater than themselves.

Multiple schools within a district are encouraged to apply, and must participate in NSLP and SBP; free / reduced eligibility must be greater than 40 percent to be eligible, and priority selection will be granted to schools with a student enrollment greater than 500 students.

My thought is that until society changes, it will be a up - hill battle to convince children that the healthful choices they see at school cafeterias are great when outside of school many are seeing and eating the less - than - healthful choices in many of the ways we've talked about here before: classrooms, athletic practices, homes because parents are busy, don't have access to fresh foods and more.

Under the heading, «better late than never,» I wanted to post about a great show that's been featured on Martha Stewart Radio, hosted by New York chef, public school parent and school food activist, Bill Telepan.

► More than half of parents report playing sports benefits their child a great deal or quite a bit in his / her social life (65 %), giving him / her skills to help in future schooling (56 %), and giving him / her skills to help in a future career (55 %).

► When parents were asked about the benefits that their middle school or high school aged child gets from playing sports, more than eight in ten say their child benefits a great deal or quite a bit in the following ways: physical health (88 %), it gives him / her something to do (83 %), or it helps him / her learn about discipline or dedication (81 %).

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There is no doubt that home - educated families have greater flexibility than public school families do when planning their schedules.

LINCOLN, MA — The Massachusetts Land Conservation Conference, convened annually by the Massachusetts Land Trust Coalition and taking place Saturday, March 22, at Worcester Technical High School, will feature more than 30 workshops designed to connect people with nature, including a presentation on greater access to the outdoors for individuals with disabilities.

The quandry is, kids actually have greater influence in the decision to buy or not to buy the school lunch, and they would rather eat chicken nuggets and tater tots than fruits and green vegetables.

Did you know that a study done over eight years, following sixty - five families, found that dinnertime is of greater value to a young child's development than school, story time and play time?

Reduce and Reuse — the great thing about school supplies is that some of them actually last longer than a year.