Sentences with phrase «year of high school suggested»

Her English teacher during her freshman year of high school suggested she consider writing as a profession.

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might I suggest taking a high school history course once you finish your 3rd year of 8th grade?

Shepherd is a lot better than his small school would suggest, but he might end up this year's version of Tanoh Kpassagnon: a small school building project with a high upside.

It's not hyperbole to suggest that the 6» 2, 205 - pounder would be starting for a number of major schools this fall if he could somehow skip his senior year of high school.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

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A grade fixing scandal at a NYC high school has prompted some state lawmakers to suggest de Blasio's control of the city school system shouldn't be renewed next year.

Referring to the fracas over the messages, Mr. Jacobs, in his statement, asked whether Mr. Paladino was «racist, misogynist as his e-mails suggest he is or is he just a high school boy in the body of a 64 - year - old man?»

But not really, if you count Cuomo surrogates like state Democratic Party chairman Jay Jacobs, who yesterday released a flyer depicting Paladino as a pig man feeding at the trough (of government), and asked rhetorically whether Paladino was «racist [and] misogynist as his e-mails suggest he is or is he just a high school boy in the body of a 64 - year - old man?»

One frequently cited estimate suggests that 1 out of every 200,000 high school athletes dies suddenly in the United States each year.

I used to suggest that being within a couple of inches of ones high school graduation belt size is a good general measure — but in recent years the epidemic of overfat children makes that notion obsolete.

There's been a backlash against these films in recent years (partly levelled at the public school, Oxbridge provenance of the filmmakers), but the fact that most of them ride high on this list suggests they're still credited with initiating a new age of storytelling in British cinema, both in terms of the range, social and geographical, of subjects and a style of filmmaking that honours realism above all else.

On one hand, the higher rates of preschool participation among children today suggest that any positive long - term effects of extending universal public schooling to four - year - olds may be even smaller than those estimated here for kindergarten.

An analysis by the National School Boards Association's Center for Public Education (CPE) suggests that «yes, we do,» revealing that (at least in recent years) the percentage of high school graduates who don't go on to a two - or four - year college is surprisingly School Boards Association's Center for Public Education (CPE) suggests that «yes, we do,» revealing that (at least in recent years) the percentage of high school graduates who don't go on to a two - or four - year college is surprisingly school graduates who don't go on to a two - or four - year college is surprisingly small.

When it comes to high school graduation rates nationwide, the best available estimates from the U.S. Department of Education suggest that roughly 75 percent of those who enter 9th grade graduate within four years, a far cry from the goal of universal high school completion to which the president of the United States and all 50 governors in 1989 committed themselves to reaching by the year 2000.

The Institute of Fiscal Studies estimates that schools in the UK will face up to 12 per cent real term cuts over the next Parliament while forecasts suggest pupil numbers will increase by seven per cent, a result of rising immigration and higher birth rates over the next five years.

Almost half of the teachers in Ohio's charter schools quit their schools in the four - year period between 2000 and 2004, in comparison with about 8 percent in conventional public schools and 12 percent in high - poverty, urban public schools, suggesting that new organizations are not a magic formula for school stability.

While policymakers and researchers alike have focused on improving students» transition into high school, a new study of Florida schools suggests the critical transition problem may happen years before, when students enter middle school.

Official estimates of the problem have varied widely, but in March this year; reports by the BBC suggested the figure could be as high as nine out of ten schools.

A sampling of the findings suggests that high quality preschool results in fewer years of special education, less grade retention, a higher percentage of high school completion, decreased chance of being arrested or spending time in jail, fewer sexual partners and abortions, higher adult monthly earnings, and less time spent on welfare.

Kimberly Brittingham, Charles Phiefer, and Justine Wood suggested the idea during a national high - school science contest sponsored by the Seiko Corporation of America last year.

We find positive and substantial longer - run impacts of double - dose algebra on college entrance exam scores, high school graduation rates, and college enrollment rates, suggesting that the policy had significant benefits that were not easily observable in the first couple of years of its existence.

I would further resign myself to concluding that 17 - year - olds across all three major racial sub-groups have shown little to no improvement in terms of NAEP scores over the last 30 + years, which suggests that public high schools are not doing a more effective job with a student population that has, over time, come to school less - prepared to be academically successful.

But according to NEA, the reforms suggested by DFER (and many other groups) have «acquired a bit of a stench over the last few years, as the ideas with which it is most closely associated — high stakes accountability, vouchers, merit pay, charter schools, not to mention teacher bashing — have not worn well with much of the public.»

Recent enrollment data suggests that twenty years after the start of New Haven's interdistrict magnet program, only one of the city's interdistrict magnet high schools, ESUMS, is currently meeting the city's objectives of creating racially diverse schools with a minimum of 25 % white enrollment.

Nearly 7 million Americans have gone at least a year without making a payment on their federal student loans, a high level of default that suggests a widening swath of households are unable or unwilling to pay back their school debt.

Researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine earlier this year announced findings that suggest a link between increased use of pesticides and higher levels of premature births.

I have to assume that somebody in the process suggested that the post-high school education factor simply be described by some phrasing indicating that the school will take into account the number of post high - school years and what was taken, without suggesting some sort of necessary advantage in having more years.

But the published articles in this area — over a long period of time and across schools and publications — appear to have a high degree of overlap on the types of email assignments that have been used, suggesting that it is representative of the types of assignments that are most common in first - year writing programs.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS • Singlehandedly created and implemented an after school program for a group of special needs children, with different learning abilities • Incorporated remedial programs into afterschool activities, resulting in a high number of students excelling in regular education • Trained 42 new teachers (within a span of 5 years) to successfully implement after school programs in 5 different community schools • Suggested introduction of organic snacks for students during after school activities, which resulted in students opting for healthy food for all their meals

To take just two examples, studies of hypothetical dilemmas requiring adolescents to choose between antisocial behavior suggested by their peers and positive social behavior of their own choosing show that peer influences increase between childhood and early adolescence as adolescents begin to separate from parental control, peak at age fourteen, and then decline slowly during the high school years.

Studies consistently suggest that exposure to trauma or chronic early life stress may impair the development of executive function skills.6, 7,9,10,11 These skills appear to provide the foundation for school readiness through cognition and behaviour.3, 12 Children with better executive function skills may be more teachable.3 Indeed, in a high - risk sample, children with better executive function skills at the beginning of kindergarten showed greater gains in literacy and numeracy than children with poorer initial skills.12 Considering there is evidence that the achievement gap persists and may even widen across the school years, 16,17 it is critical that high - risk children begin school with as successful of a start as possible.