Sentences with phrase «year than classmates»

High school dropouts unable to compete for high - paying, high - skilled jobs, earn roughly $ 9,000 less a year than classmates who graduate.

Not exact matches

So after hustling nonstop to get a Silicon Valley internship of his own, he took matters into his own hands and started personally brokering intros for his classmates to Bay Area companies, earning $ 60k in referral bonuses in less than one year and paying his way through college.

So he was more than a little jazzed about the prospect of pastry program director and chef Nicole Plue handing over her favorite cookie recipe — honed over years of working as a pastry chef — and letting him and his eight classmates run wild with it.

I was not only older than my classmates (and most of the professors) but had been steeped in the evolutionary aspects of biology for many years, both as a biology teacher and as a wife and mother of biologists.

The film directed by J.A. Bayona (who will direct Jurassic World 2 next) is based on the book of the same name by Patrick Ness and follows a 12 - year - old boy (Lewis MacDougall) who in dealing with his mother's (Felicity Jones) terminal illness, his less - than sympathetic grandmother (Sigourney Weaver), and bullying classmates, finds a friend in a nocturnal monster (voiced by Liam Neeson).

«12 - year - old Conor (Lewis MacDougall), who is dealing with his mother's (Felicity Jones) illness, a less - than - sympathetic grandmother (Sigourney Weaver), and bullying classmates.

Like Happy Death Day, many of the year's highlights, which toyed with or injected life into often - tired subgenres, came in smaller packages, such as the home - invasion thrillers Better Watch Out, The Babysitter (another Netflix original), and Jackals; the clever zombie - in - the - desert flick It Stains the Sands Red (much better than the silly cannibal - in - the - desert - flick The Bad Batch); the flesh - eating family drama Raw; the blood - sucking confused - teen drama The Transfiguration; the sci - fi / fantasy / horror hybrids The Void, The Untamed, and The Lure, which also had elements of the musical; and the ultra-disturbing tale of youth Super Dark Times, about the unraveling of a group of friends after the accidental killing of a classmate, which offers a significantly more satisfying experience than It.

There is one obvious difference, however, between this student and the teenagers in this class: At 78, Sister Logan has more than 60 years on her younger classmates here.

Across all four districts, which together serve more than 465,000 students, the researchers found new elementary teachers were assigned students who had performed.1 to.3 of a standard deviation below their peers who were assigned to teachers with four years of experience or more — meaning that these students were about three to nine months of schooling behind their classmates.

School officials said the 6 - year - old, who weighs slightly more than 100 pounds, hit and bit his teacher, threw chairs and desks, hit his classmates, and kicked staff members at Circle View Elementary School.

Graduations Up, Dropouts Down in LAUSD, Statewide High school graduation rates for Los Angeles Unified and districts across California increased last year, with Latino students showing larger gains than their white and Asian classmates, the state Department of Education said Tuesday.

Results of national tests known as Sats taken by 10 and 11 - year - olds in England show that children on free school meals do less well than their classmates, and the pattern continues to GCSE level.

In a career spanning more than 30 years, Gail Hochman has come a long way since editing her classmates» college papers and becoming an «accidental» agent.

She was created for a purpose so revolutionary, someone was willing to kill for it.Seventeen - year - old Lexi Matthews keeps two secrets from her elite boarding school classmates she s the daughter of a famous and controversial geneticist, and she can influence people s thoughts.But after new student Jack DeWeese heals her broken arm with an anything - but - simple touch, he forces Lexi to face a new reality her abilities reach much further than speaking to the minds of others.After Lexi s father goes missing and she receives threatening emails, she can t decide whether to fall into Jack s arms or run and hide.As Lexi seeks answers to what she and Jack are, she discovers a truth more unsettling than anything her science books can teach.

At this point, she was almost 20 years older than many of her classmates and already knew many of her professors from her previous life at Ferus.

«Early on, Schapiro earned a reputation among his classmates for being more knowledgeable than many of their professors and certainly more diligent,» wrote Helen Epstein of his years as a Columbia undergraduate in her profile of Schapiro, which appeared in ARTnews in 1983.

He's only 15 years old, but when the shooting began on Feb. 14, Anthony transformed from a normal teenager into an extraordinary hero who saved the lives of more than 20 of his classmates.

The gap between mature and non-mature business students is even wider, with older university leavers earning almost # 5,000 a year more than their younger classmates.

A child can be seen as successful in school when she or he: (a) develops positive attitudes and feelings about school and learning, (b) establishes supportive social ties with teachers and classmates, (c) feels comfortable and relatively happy in the classroom rather than anxious, lonely or upset, (d) is interested and motivated to learn and take part in classroom activities (participation, engagement), and (e) achieves and progresses academically each school year.

Witnesses who have information that bears upon your relationship with your child are more important than testimony from your high school classmate saying you were a wonderful person when she last saw you 15 years ago.

In 50 years of evaluation, PCHP has documented important longitudinal impacts for program participants: graduates enter school as well or better prepared than their classmates, perform significantly better than their socioeconomic peers and as well as or better than the overall population on school readiness measures in kindergarten and first grade, and are reading and doing math on grade level in third grade.

And what's funny is my kids now (still in nycboe) have MORE homework but within months they are so much happier and have experienced more as classmates and schoolmates together than they did the 4 years at 116.