Sentences with phrase «well past your school years»

If you're well past your school years, you can get a car insurance discount if you go back to the classroom for a defensive driving course, also known as a motor vehicle accident prevention course.

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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.

Both are fairly small, intimate experiences with the school entering less than 100 students in each of the past two years — and both are filled with a good bit of experiential learning opportunities to offset the younger age of the students here who tend to have a bit less work experience.

Well past the midway mark on the veterans and military hiring front, Starbucks is also expanding its efforts to hire Opportunity Youth — 16 - to 24 - year - olds who are neither employed or in school; an estimated 5.4 million young Americans.

It also will recognize the best in high school theater in the past school year, with 42 categories for performers, designers, technicians and critics.

Name: Kelly Blackett Title: Executive Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Communications Areas of responsibility: Human resources, learning and development, corporate communications Years with CWB Financial Group: 3 Career history: 17 years with General Electric in Canada holding a series of progressively responsible human resources leadership roles at GE Capital and GE Corporate, supporting businesses within Canada as well as globally Education: Bachelor of Commerce with Distinction from the University of Alberta Community involvement: Sits on the Board of Trustees for the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation, member of the MacEwan Business School Advisory Board, and past mentor with MORE, a program providing cross-business mentorship to female leaders in Edmonton's business commYears with CWB Financial Group: 3 Career history: 17 years with General Electric in Canada holding a series of progressively responsible human resources leadership roles at GE Capital and GE Corporate, supporting businesses within Canada as well as globally Education: Bachelor of Commerce with Distinction from the University of Alberta Community involvement: Sits on the Board of Trustees for the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation, member of the MacEwan Business School Advisory Board, and past mentor with MORE, a program providing cross-business mentorship to female leaders in Edmonton's business commyears with General Electric in Canada holding a series of progressively responsible human resources leadership roles at GE Capital and GE Corporate, supporting businesses within Canada as well as globally Education: Bachelor of Commerce with Distinction from the University of Alberta Community involvement: Sits on the Board of Trustees for the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation, member of the MacEwan Business School Advisory Board, and past mentor with MORE, a program providing cross-business mentorship to female leaders in Edmonton's business community

Back to School Festival has provided over 16,000 book bags filled with school supplies to Milwaukee's children over the past 18 years,» said Christine Specht - Palmert, president and COO at Cousins Subs and president of the Make It Better FoundSchool Festival has provided over 16,000 book bags filled with school supplies to Milwaukee's children over the past 18 years,» said Christine Specht - Palmert, president and COO at Cousins Subs and president of the Make It Better Foundschool supplies to Milwaukee's children over the past 18 years,» said Christine Specht - Palmert, president and COO at Cousins Subs and president of the Make It Better Foundation.

The one thing that Nova has had for the past 5 - 10 years is 2 things — 1 an awful on - campus arena and 2) the hope and / or potential that the smart leadership of Villanova would see the limitations of the current situation and then fight to get a much better situation for the school.

«I have a pretty serious back problem and at the beginning of my junior year my family and I decided that it would be in my best interest to not continue playing past high school.

Going through our photo archives from the past nine months obviously brought out a lot of memories and underscored just how good a year Bay Area high schools had in 2013 - 14.

The VOL has won six of seven state title games in the past five years, including two in 2015, when perhaps the best team in Central Catholic history won the small - school open division game, and Sierra - Manteca took Division IV - A.

She has homeschooled her own children as well as others, was a founder of a private Waldorf School (Sanderling School in Carlsbad, CA) and now strives through the Charter movement to bring Waldorf education to all children at Journey School where she has worked for the past 14 years.

In the past year, we have seen many different people from across the school food sector — and beyond — coming together to help build on the good work that has been done already.

Anyone who has worked with teenagers these past few years is well aware of the abuse that is going on, regardless of predictable disclaimers from drug company officials or school administrators.

Stacy: While I have in the past pushed my district to end its arrangement with Aramark (including a 2011 op - ed in the Houston Chronicle, I'll admit that in more recent years I've become less certain that Aramark has been the obstacle to bettering our school food.

For that reason, and because of the multitude of community projects that I have been responsible for, such as: construction of low - income housing; repair of train stations; re-pavement of streets; Implementation of charter schools; services for senior citizens, immigrants, non-medallion taxi car drivers, and many more initiatives, I believe that the residents of the 32nd Senatorial District in Bronx County have been well represented during the past 15 years,» he said.

As a public school teacher for the past twenty - four years, I know first - hand what is working in our education system and I know all too well what desperately needs fixing.

«I have a very clear vision that our children deserve the best schools that they possibly can have for all of the years they are in school — to prepare them for a world they are going into, which is more complex than it has been in the past,» she added, «I want to do much better job of reaching out to the community in tandem to work together to assure our children a better future.»

During his campaign and his past eight years in office, Vallone has emphasized reducing crime rates and battling graffiti as well as improving district schools and environmental issues.

«For that reason, and because of the multitude of community projects that I have been responsible for, such as: construction of low - income housing; repair of train stations; re-pavement of streets; implementation of charter schools; services for senior citizens, immigrants, non-medallion taxi car drivers, and many more initiatives, I believe that the residents of the 32nd Senatorial District in Bronx County have been well represented during the past 15 years.

«For the past few years, my office had one Deputy dedicated as an SRO for all of these school districts, but today I am very pleased to say we can better serve these schools and communities with an additional SRO.

For the past 16 years, Jim has been helping pro athletes from the NFL and UFC, as well as, high school and collegiate athletes achieve their strength and performance goals.

hapens to me all the time i think about how i fd up in school and get depresed at times u just got to remember the past is the past and look to making the next year better that wont make it go away but it will make it eayzer to go through without you know killing yourself.

You might think that antiques don't fit in there very well, but Autumn for me is a time of reminiscing of years past, growing up as a child with new school years, and over time to the school years of my own child.

While I've been dreading his high school graduation for the past year (and thinking I would be a crying mess the whole time), it was by far the best graduation we've ever been to.

Even though we're well past our school days, we always talk about how we can't help but feel the start of something new this time of year, and that has to be because in our younger days Labor Day weekend always symbolized heading back to school.

Charlotte, NC About Blog Dr. Paul Smolen has been a practicing pediatrician in Charlotte, N.C as well as serving as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine - Chapel Hill for the past 35 years.

These teachings have served him well enough for the past 15 years but they put him at odds with the cruel «real» world when he travels across the country to attend a prestigious prep school, gets involved with a girl and reconnects with his estranged father.

Following dinner and more unexpected visits from Gordo when Robyn is home alone with their family dog, Simon thinks it's best if the couple's relationship with Gordo should end, telling his wife that kids used to call him «Gordo the Weirdo» in school, and that his somewhat strange personality hasn't really changed much in the past 25 years.

Independence Day — Bill Pullman This one almost made my 10 best list, but I couldn't look past the ridiculousness of Top Gun's Tom Maverick graduating flight school and becoming President, oh and not to mention marrying Stands with a Fist — who seems twenty years his senior.

Despite a wave of patriotic fervor washing over the country during the past year, most Americans expect schools to teach children the bad as well as the good about U.S. history and government, a survey by Public Agenda reveals.

During the past few years, the Los Angeles school district has engaged in overwhelming, intentionally harassing audits, which go well beyond any reasonable accountability and have cost the taxpayers millions of dollars.

For the past three years, I have been working on the implementation of arts@newman — an alternative, arts - based program for grades 7 - 8 designed to better engage some of those students who find themselves hanging out at the edges of this place we call school.

From James Coleman's early observational studies of high schools to the experimental voucher evaluations of the past 15 years, researchers have routinely found that similar students do at least as well and, at times, better academically in private schools than in public schools.

It's because they've got a system, and it's a system that works so well, it has propelled Mesquite to Arizona's highest school rating, «excelling,» for the past eight years and has twice won it the prestigious A + School of Excellence Award from the Arizona Educational Foundschool rating, «excelling,» for the past eight years and has twice won it the prestigious A + School of Excellence Award from the Arizona Educational FoundSchool of Excellence Award from the Arizona Educational Foundation.

Four of those feeder schools collectively became the first Opportunity Culture site, and for the past year, each school's design team worked diligently to discern which of the more than 20 Opportunity Culture school models would work best at their school.

Improvements in primary schools over the past few years mean that the gap between the proportion of disadvantaged pupils with at least a good pass in English and maths and all other pupils is set to reduce from 24 percentage points (ppts) to 21.5 between 2017 and 2021.

Take some time to reflect on what went well and what didn't during the past school year.

If one were to place bets based on past evidence, the odds favor America's public schools to operate next year with at least as much and probably with somewhat more money and a larger and (modestly) better - paid labor force than they had in 2009.

The Head Start program has needed a radical overhaul for the past 45 years, i.e. ever since its founding and its near - immediate demonstration that it doesn't do much lasting good by way of readying poor kids to succeed in school.

Critics point out that none of the few dozen Success Academy 8th graders who took the entrance exam over the past two years did well enough to get into one of the city's eight selective public high schools.

Mr. Doherty has helped implement highly structured curriculum programs, such as Direct Instruction and Core Knowledge, in Baltimore as well as in schools in Chicago, Kenya, and Warsaw, Poland, over the past seven years.

While some earlier studies questioned the role of grade configuration in school success and student achievement, including the 2008 National Forum «Policy Statement on Grade Configuration» and a 2010 study by EdSource, «Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades: Why Some Schools Do Better» in California, «the evidence on academic benefits has become much stronger in the past two years,» West says.

During the past decade, virtual K - 12 schools have developed from far - flung hatchlings to a full - fledged industry that has allowed high school students to make excellent use of their high school years by cherry picking among the best teachers in several states.

Over the past year, to better understand how these barriers play out on the ground and how charter schools serve preschoolers, we visited charter pre-K programs in several states.

Over the past 20 years, the accountability movement's reliance on data to quantify student learning has transformed pedagogical practice and opened up educational practice to show the public how well students are achieving — or not achieving — in their public schools.

Although the overall incidence of criminal activity in schools has dropped in the past few years — thanks to increased awareness amongst staff and parents, as well as the introduction of sturdier security measures — acts of theft, vandalism and especially arson are still a reality.

The good news is that school breakfast participation is up significantly over the past few years.

The aim of RTM UK has always been to deliver the best to its grantees and highlights of the past few years have seen Masterclasses at Steinway, as well as the annual Battle of the Bands to showcase every school's talent and composition skills.

The words «interactive whiteboard» or «smartboard» have been tossed around in school board meetings and classrooms frequently for the better part of a decade, but only in the past few years have these modernized chalkboards really caught on in actual classrooms.