Sentences with phrase «than high school work»

All six of these students did more than high school work.

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Most parents are aware that over the course of an adult's working life, high school graduates can expect, on average, to earn $ 1 million less than those with a bachelor's degree and are 50 percent more likely to be unemployed.

The OECD has estimated that 44 percent of American workers holding less than a high school degree work in jobs made up of «highly - automatable» tasks, while just 1 percent of Americans holding a bachelor's degree or higher hold such jobs.

Nearly 300 volunteers, including 42 from Dr Pepper Snapple Group and more than 40 students from Marquette University High School, eagerly got to work assembling the new playground, which featured a «Tripple» Racer Slide, stationery buttons, a range of climber and interactive panels, a playhouse and even a playdozer!

Less than two weeks after the worst mass school shooting in Florida history, teachers and staff returned to the campus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School for the first of two work days with a rainbow shining in the disschool shooting in Florida history, teachers and staff returned to the campus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School for the first of two work days with a rainbow shining in the disSchool for the first of two work days with a rainbow shining in the distance.

As the Jesuit high school where I work began to wind down for the year, I reached a point where I needed clarity, something to bring calm to the chaos of the closing weeks and to center me in a reality more timeless than the NBA playoffs.

What could be more important than working to get good food to our kids at school and high sugary flavored milk drinks out?

He's worked with 12 - year - olds, who compete against the radar gun as much as the batter, and tried to get through to high school and college hurlers who've been taught that a scholarship or professional contract depends more on M - P - H than E-R-A.

National Connections has developed a variety of methods to authenticate students» work, including pop quizzes and plagiarism checks, and NCAA associate director of High School Review, Mark Hicks, says it is easier to monitor electronic schools than brick - and - mortar ones.

Dave Krider has been rising before dawn every Saturday and Sunday during football season for 12 years, working the phones from 6 a.m. to reach the more than 50 high school coaches, college coaches and recruiting gurus he consults each week before determining the rankings.

If your child is doing more than 10 minutes or so per grade of homework in elementary school, an hour or so in middle school and 2 - 2 1/2 hours in high school then they are working past the point of homework providing any advantage.

Two - thirds of the football, girl's soccer, and boys» soccer coaches surveyed reported working at schools that employed an AT, and six in ten reported that the AT attended games most or all of the time, although the percentage was much higher for football than soccer (98.4 % versus 77.8 %).

The longest - running exhibition of African - American art in the U.S. features more than 100 dynamic works of art from amateur and professional African - American artists from around the nation, as well as a youth category which features work by a dozen area high school artists.

As a former college lacrosse and high school field hockey player, and a member of ASTM International's subcommittee on standards for headgear and helmets, which is working with US Lacrosse on developing a new standard for headgear in women's lacrosse, I have reservations about whether requiring female lacrosse players to wear helmets will make the sports safer, or, as a result of the phenomenon called risk compensation (also called the «gladiator effect»), will actually result in more, rather than fewer, head injuries.

He spent more money on his meals than the school district could spend, and brought in more (and better skilled) labor than the school district could afford — in fact, he basically opened a branch of one of his restaurants in a high school — which is in no way working «within the constraints.»

The last thing they want is too high a funding level that would enable schools to have working kitchens (rather than large ovens to heat up trays prepared in a central kitchen) and a skilled staff capable of serving healthy homemade meals.

Substantive research already exists showing nut free schools (not early childhood, but mid elementary onwards) actually do more harm than good, to the extent that the official anaphylaxis prevention guidelines have been updated by the Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy to explicitly state that food bans in upper primary and high schools do not work, and can actually cause problems.

Keep in mind that it is a guideline — some high school classes and advanced work classes may have more homework than the general guideline.

High school students are more responsible than ever for developing good study habits and organizations skills they will take with them to the college and the working world.

They are working with impossibly tight funding; they may face high turnover of labor; they may be at the bottom of the food chain within their school district, viewed as little more than an annoying adjunct department vaguely linked with mystery meat, ladies in hairnets, and the persistent complaint that «school food sucks.»

When I worked as a nutrition director for a small charter high school in Boston, I learned about a company called City Fresh, which somehow manages to make fresh, healthy meals that comply with US nutritional standards and cost only a little more than the average school lunch.

These included fathers» age in years, race and ethnicity, household poverty level (as a percentage of the federal poverty level), educational level (less than high school, high school or equivalent, some college or more), employment status (reporting regular work in the last week), and marital status with the child's mother.

He says the New York State Board of Elections alone has registered more than 500 high school students across the county, and there are also other organizations like the League of Women Voters, as well as candidate groups, that are working to get first time voters registered.

Personal Info Birthplace: Staten Island, NY High School: Brooklyn Tech High School (public - requires entrance exam) Higher Education: SUNY New Paltz, University of Buffalo Law School NY19 Connection: Attended SUNY New Paltz, 1970 - 1974; Returned to live in Kingston in 1981 and thereafter moved to Woodstock where he has resided through today Length of Residency in NY19: Kingston, NY and Woodstock, NY since 1983; greater than 34 years Prior Job History: Served as a Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) Volunteer working with Native American tribes in Nebraska, Western Nebraska Legal Services attorney between 1977 - 1980; Ulster County Public Defender's Office in the 1980s and early 1990s, Law Offices of Dave Clegg practicing predominantly personal injury law and elder abuse cases until present.

More than a decade ago while working at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Rodriguez, an endocrinologist, questioned why patients with high HDL levels were still having heart attacks.

«Potential interest [among Ph.D. s] in careers in secondary school science and mathematics education is much higher than the 0.8 % of Ph.D. s who currently work in K - 12 education,» says a 2000 report by the National Research Council called Attracting Science and Mathematics Ph.D. s to Secondary School Educschool science and mathematics education is much higher than the 0.8 % of Ph.D. s who currently work in K - 12 education,» says a 2000 report by the National Research Council called Attracting Science and Mathematics Ph.D. s to Secondary School EducSchool Education.

The research drew on data collected from the Edmonton Transitions Study, which has been tracking the transition of more than 900 Canadians from high school to work, and from adolescence into adulthood.

The report suggests that government efforts should be geared not only towards academically - minded young people, but also towards the large number of high school graduates who want to start working rather than go on studying.

AI is predicted to be better than us at translating languages by 2024, writing high - school essays by 2026, driving a truck by 2027, working in retail by 2031, writing a bestselling book by 2049 and surgery by 2053.

This year more than 70 current and recent college students and almost 20 high school and college instructors participated in a CSEE program, working with Berkeley Lab researchers on science projects spanning from cancer research to cosmology to biofuels.

«The rates among 1 - year - olds are 1.5 times higher than the highest rate of [eye] injury for working - age adults,» said Haring, a doctoral candidate at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.

The researchers also compared sugary ready - to - eat cereal to oatmeal and found oatmeal's nutritional advantage (more nourishing whole food meal) made it a better choice at improving brain power and encouraging better test scores.1 Additional stats show higher test grades and better school attendance in breakfast eaters than in non-breakfast eaters too.2 Bottom line: to excel in whatever we do, whether it be school, work, play or relationships, we need breakfast to be at the top of our mental game.

It's quite an accomplishment to complete two college semesters worth of work in less than a high school year.

There are a lot of things that I have worn more than 30 times as pieces (some from high school) and others I have realized do not work on me and I have gotten rid of.

So cool and would work a lot better with my grown up attire than my cowboy boots from high school in Texas.

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Sporting more baseball clichés than «Scarface» had swearwords is «Sandlot» creator David Mickey Evans's rote tale of a champion Iowa high school team working for one more victory before their school is closed.

I've always looked to his work because, more true for his films that he directed than those he just wrote, he told the story of high school teenagers better than most.

After more than a decade of working in television Down Under, he returns with this quirky comedy starring Nat Wolff («Paper Towns») as a high school student who befriends his next door neighbor (Mickey Rourke), who just happens to be a former CIA assassin.

By chance, Craig has just run into an old high school pal, Vince (Ethan Embry), who works as a collector for a loan shark and is more than ready to cut corners — among other things — en route to a big score.

The quality of student work speaks more eloquently about the good things going on at the local high school than anything else can.

Eighty - eight percent of the more than 1,000 students who participated in the survey said they would work harder if their high schools demanded more of them, set higher standards, and raised expectations.

In a previous regional water consumption programme water2business, working with over 500 schools, identified that more than 20 % of schools were considered «high users» and a number of institutions used up to nine times more than was needed.

And though I am now uno studente vecchio, an old student, and have to work harder at learning than I would have if, as a high school student, I'd understood the riches that were being offered.

More than 50 woodworking, metalworking, and drafting students from Shakamak High School worked together under the direction of their industrial - arts teacher, Jeff McNabb, to replicate the the Gibson Flying «V,» a classic electric guitar.

And it seems to be working: In spring 2007, Enota students scored higher in math on the Criterion - Referenced Competency Test (CRCT, Georgia's annual standardized exam) than any other school in the district.

Since then, and now more than ever, my professional goal has been to work to promote more reading in high schools, particularly for young people of color.

If industry would stop offering higher salaries and better working conditions than what schools do to the mathematically competent, we might attract and retain more excellent teachers of mathematics.

It is also instructive to note that teachers working in private schools quit teaching at a much higher rate than their counterparts in public schools, and almost two - thirds of these leavers rank an increase in salary to be very or extremely important in any possible decision to return to teaching.

They hold the same promise as my students, but of those who move on to high school, fewer than 10 % graduate with the skills to complete college - level work.