Sentences with phrase «there at a local university»

My husband and I recently spent a week in Hong Kong visiting my little sister, who spent the summer teaching there at a local university.

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Clearly, traditional Christmas carols can't be sung (there's a large university near where I live that attracts graduate students from all over the world, as well as a substantial local Jewish community, and probably not more than 60 or 70 percent of the children at the school are from even nominally Christian households), so most of the singing is of songs of the saccharine - secular genre — songs like «White Christmas.»

Luton has had a renewed focus in Britain after it emerged that Taimour Abdulwahab, an Iraqi - born terrorist who blew himself up on a Stockholm street in December, had lived there over the past few years and studied at a local university.

Republican Nassau County executive candidate Jack Martins is calling on Nassau University Medical Center to apply for designation in a federal program that would allow local veterans to receive treatment there instead of at VA facilities in Suffolk County or New York City.

He has always been fascinated by politics and debating and after reading physics at university (now there is a rarity) gained experience as a local councillor in Croydon, where he was born and lived, then at CCHQ in research and campaigning and working with the young George Osborne as well as Lynton Crosby and Michael Ashcroft.

For every one child that might successfully make it through a grammar school and go on to university there will be many more left behind at the local secondary believing they weren't good enough.

The EMBS has local chapters throughout the United States and around the world, and there are a few student chapters based at American universities.

Tom Dillehay, an anthropologist at the University of Kentucky, says morphological anomalies don't necessarily prove there were earlier migrations: «They may indicate some genetic drift, or they could link to some parallel adaptations, or perhaps they resulted from interbreeding with other local populations.»

We didn't focus there on academic or professional - development programs at local universities and colleges such as Georgetown and George Mason.

We shot at a local university, they have this gazebo randomly on the edge of the property and we were crossing our fingers there wasn't a wedding being shot that day!

Following graduation, she got involved in local theater and from there studied fine arts at the Goodman Theater School of Drama at Chicago's DePaul University.

«When you look at the annals of state intervention in local school districts across the country... there's virtually no track record, nor extant examples of states effectively turning around academic performance in local school districts until Lawrence arrived on the scene,» says Paul Reville, a professor of education at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education.

There are a variety of resources that can assist university personnel, administrators, and coordinators of gifted programs at state and local levels in implementing the new CCSS for gifted learners, including assessments that measure the depth and breadth of a student's knowledge within a domain of talent development; curriculum units of study that are already differentiated and research - based; instructional strategies that employ the use of higher - order thinking skills; and programming options that include acceleration, enrichment, and extended learning beyond the classroom.

But, as Michael Rebell, a professor of law and education at Teachers College, Columbia University, convincingly shows in his new book, Courts and Kids: Pursuing Educational Equity through the State Courts, there is a pragmatic path to equality in the schools that avoids highly charged debates over racism and local control.

On the Democratic side, unions, pro-choice groups, and environmental groups plan major events and parties during this time and book prime local spaces well in advance (there were still spaces available at the university and at local libraries however).

During his time there, he used the company's tuition assistance benefit program which covered the cost of obtaining an M.S. degree at a local university.

There may be times when a major event in an area — the Super Bowl, say, or a graduation at a major university — depletes local hotel space.

There's loads of opportunities to get involved in print media at university: society newsletters, the student paper, departmental notices and announcements, even your local paper back home.