Sentences with phrase «tough high school days»

We had a humble lab at the university, without much high - tech equipment, certainly not as good as I had dreamed of during those tough high school days.

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Paul Tough, author of How Children Succeed: Rethinking Character and Intelligence, and Russell Shaw, head of Georgetown Day School, argue that poor high school preparation and a lack of student ownership have contributed to the world's highest college dropoutSchool, argue that poor high school preparation and a lack of student ownership have contributed to the world's highest college dropoutschool preparation and a lack of student ownership have contributed to the world's highest college dropout rate.

The authors of Risk believed that the system was mainly in need of internal reforms: tougher coursework and graduation requirements, higher and more flexible salaries for teachers, a longer school day and year.

Ms. Pittman describes observing high schoolers across two Tacoma high schools tackling tough life issues with each other in their classrooms, empowered by their teacher to integrate their lived experiences into their day - to - day school lives.

Kirk Carapezza, a reporter from WGBH, spent a day at Match High School where he followed around and interviewed seniors, parents, and school staff about the college process and making the tough decision on where students will enroll nextSchool where he followed around and interviewed seniors, parents, and school staff about the college process and making the tough decision on where students will enroll nextschool staff about the college process and making the tough decision on where students will enroll next fall.

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I remember being in high school, going through tough times and wanting to do nothing but art all day long.

People gathered for a rally at the Broward County Federal Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale to call for tougher guns laws three days after a gunman opened fire with a AR - 15 rifle at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, killing 17 people.

Over the course of two snowy days last week, I visited several classrooms in a middle and high school, and met with a group of teachers who are teaching a fast - expanding course in social and emotional learning they are calling «Techniques for Tough Times» (TTT), coauthored by Leigh VandenAkker and Gayle Threet.