Sentences with phrase «whose high school days»

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Twenty - six percent of U.S. parents whose children in high school play sports hope their child will become a professional athlete one day.

I recall from high school days a book on the history of science whose section on the Middle Ages consisted of four blank pages!

The daughter of a maths teacher and a chemical plant operator, Simmons grew up in Houston and attended a high school whose Career Day speakers she still recalls vividly.

Circumstance — Life in modern day Iran is dramatized through the story of two high school girls whose sexuality and inhibitions lead them down a terrible path.

Students whose parents reported «spending time just talking to my child», «eating the main meal with my child around a table» or «discussing how well my child is doing at school» daily or nearly every day were between 22 per cent and 39 per cent more likely to report high levels of life satisfaction.

In D.C., an automated call notifies parents whose kids were absent that day and, for high schoolers, which class periods they missed.

Hedy Chang, who heads a research project called Attendance Counts, has calculated that children living in homes without enough food missed two days more than better - fed kids, children whose mothers are unemployed missed two more days than those whose moms had jobs, children whose mothers had less than a high - school education missed 1.5 more days, and those whose mothers are in poor health missed two days more.

In Sweden, for example, whose students were among the high performers at the senior - high level, the school year is only 170 days long.

Mississippi ranks near the bottom among all states in a number of markers including children ages 1 through 5 whose families read to them more than 3 days a week, fourth - and eighth - grade reading and math levels, on - time high - school graduation and average composite ACT scores.

Growing up outside Chicago, Julio César Contreras, whose immigrant parents did not graduate from high school and whose father speaks little English to this day, once had a guidance counselor tell him not to go to college because of his grades.

For example, in one school with a high percentage of students whose families are immigrants from Mexico, teams ask parents to plan celebrations for holidays like Day of the Dead.

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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.

The idea for «Moments and Decisions» came about after a group of students from a Jewish day school in Mexico visited Prepa Ibero, a Jesuit high school whose mission encourages social awareness and citizenship.

«Spider - Man is maybe my all - time favorite character, and I'm really excited to get to tell new stories about his high - school days — and to finally get a chance to work with Todd Nauck, whose art in this story is the best I've ever seen from him (which is saying a lot).»

They were investigating the rape and murder of high school student Kimberly Simon, whose body had been found days before, on the side of a muddy dirt road.

Emma Gonzalez, whose speech in favor of gun control went viral four days after 17 people were killed by a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, spoke out against her state's Republican senator, Marco Rubio, who has doubted that proposed gun laws would have prevented the massacre.

Here are the stories of the heroic police officers, paramedics and dispatchers whose lives were impacted by the Valentine's Day mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that left 17 people dead and more than a dozen others injured.

Studies show that children whose families take an interest in their education earn higher grades and test scores, miss fewer days of school, complete more homework, behave better and enjoy school more, and are more likely to graduate and matriculate to college.