Sentences with phrase «which young high school student»

This Spidey is more of a throwback to themes of the original comic books, in which young high school student Peter Parker is a socially outcast science whiz who gets bitten by a radioactive spider and finds he can climb walls, lift cars and sense impending danger.

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A lot of young people that I know in Beijing — high school and college students, young professionals, musicians, etc. — were horrified by the violence that occurred in Paris and very eager to express a real sympathy for Parisians, which they did in the ways that young people express themselves today, via smart phones, social media, and all the other things that wouldn't have occurred to me.

Not surprisingly, data released this month from the the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's Investor Education Foundation, which seeks to promote financial literacy, reveal high school students who are required to take personal finance courses have better average credit scores and lower debt delinquency rates as young adults.

Larry Bird chose my high school to do his student teaching after the ISU Sycamores run to the NCAA championship game and several of us from orchestra kids got to shoot around with him at what would have been our fourth hour orchestra class which was delayed half an hour for one semester while the teacher had younger students from the new middle school built together with the high.

The NorCal League which began at Berkeley High School has truly morphed into a nationwide movement that continues to grow and inspire young student - athletes to get out there and ride their bikes for fun, health, and competition.

I would be restless too if I saw a way by which one third of American high school students, and others even younger, could become more mentally capable, more competitive and more successful.

For example, Strawberry Thomas, a senior at the Cristo Rey New York High School, wears a young version of business casual — a button - down shirt, blouse and slacks or a knee - length skirt — for her program, which requires students to participate in work study in an outside professional setting one day a week.

But this year's slate also featured several films centered on relationships between older women and younger men: Hannah Fidel's A Teacher, which concerns an affair between a high school teacher and a student; Liz W. Garcia's The Lifeguard, in which Kristen Bell takes up with a teenage boy; and Two Mothers, in which Robin Wright and Naomi Watts are friends who each get with the other's teenage son.

Very few were actually bad — and several were very good, especially Forever Young — in which a busload of high school students and their driver were hurt.

Similarly, in Las Vegas, students at Cowan Sunset Southeast High School's campus can attend classes in the late afternoon and early evening to accommodate work schedules, and they may be eligible for child care, which is offered on a limited basis to help young parents continue their education.

In effect, the nation's urban high schools, which served increasing numbers of young people from poor and immigrant families, were arguably providing the best academic and, for a smaller number of students, vocational education available in the United States at that time.

We focus on this three - year window (the exact dates of which vary according to the student's grade when enrolling in the study) because the most recent enrollment data available are for fall 2011 and the youngest cohort was expected to graduate high school in 2009.

By 1920 most big - city high schools in the country were offering four high - school tracks: college preparatory, commercial (which prepared students, mostly young women, for office work), vocational (industrial arts and home economics), and general (which offered a high - school diploma without any specific preparation for future educational or vocational endeavors).

Washington — Although the nation's proprietary schools — which prepare young people for a wide variety of skilled jobs — enroll a higher proportion of disadvantaged students than do other sectors of the postsecondary - education system, a lower proportion of the schools» students receive financial aid than do students at private colleges and universities.

Seek out «dual» enrollment programs for younger undocumented students, in which they take courses and earn college credit in high school.

Cross-age mentoring programs are peer helping programs in which high school students serve as mentors to younger children.

College Decision Day, which mimics the NCAA's National Signing Day for athletes, celebrates high school seniors who are going to college while encouraging younger students and families to prepare for continuing their postsecondary education.

These were the last students to have experienced Locke as a public school, back when they were freshmen, and the last to represent Locke High School as a whole; younger students have been placed in small, individual academies on campus, each of which reports separately to the school, back when they were freshmen, and the last to represent Locke High School as a whole; younger students have been placed in small, individual academies on campus, each of which reports separately to the School as a whole; younger students have been placed in small, individual academies on campus, each of which reports separately to the state.

Sixteen percent of students do not graduate from high school, which means that hundreds of thousands of young people nationwide currently do not have a diploma.

Unlike most charters — which prefer to start with younger kids and build a network of feeder elementary schools before venturing into high school — Collegiate only works with high school students.

In 2003, North Carolina enacted the Innovative Education Initiatives Act of 2003 (updated in 2005), which allowed policy waivers regarding seat time requirements and limited age restrictions for younger students enrolling in institutions of higher education, thus leading to the creation of innovative high school models including Learn and Earn high schools.

The campaign, which seeks to focus on homeless students at every stage of academic development, set three goals for the country: young children experiencing homelessness will participate in quality early childhood programs at the same rate as their housed peers by 2026, high school students will reach a graduation rate of 90 percent by 2030, and post-secondary students will reach an attainment rate of 60 percent by 2034.

Considering that young men make up three out of every five children who drop out, account for two out of every three students aged 5 to 21 relegated to special ed ghettos, and, among young men who are high school seniors, read a grade level behind their female peers, it would make sense to make sure that any new accountability system address those issues, something for which Richard Whitmire and I have argued over the past two years.

«After no longer tolerating this one bad apple, the charter school community rallied together to ensure that their former students have a soft landing into high - quality programs,» said Caprice Young, chief executive of California Charter Schools Assn., which has no affiliation with the California Charter Academy.

Williams - Bolar would end up spending 10 days in jail for placing her two daughters in the relatively high - performing (and, more important to her, safe) Copley - Fairlawn school district (where few of the black students drop out) instead of keeping them in the woeful, more - dangerous Akron district (whose Balfanz rate for young black men and women, respectively, is 62 percent and 76 percent) in which her family resided.

New series launches include HONEY SO SWEET, a romantic comedy about an unlikely relationship that blossoms between a pair of seemingly mismatched high school students, along with SAVING LIFE, which tells the story about a young man's driven determination to stand on his own.

She served as the Co-President of the Women's Law Association, Vice-Justice of Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, and Mentor Recruitment Coordinator for the Young Lawyers Program in which she helped organize mock trials for high school students in low income communities.

The result of this accident was the loss of life of 10 individuals, many of which were young high school students.