"It was a nightmare scene, a big school bus on its side with shattered glass everywhere, " he said.
Accordingly, I pulled numbers for several of the top student fee recipients, both in terms of dollars and percentage, an SEC school, a Big Ten school and Cal-Berkeley because of their recent fundraising efforts to save five sports.
Or you could spend it as a congressional staffer, walking away from the balance on a big law school debt and into a law firm partnership.
Robert Joss, dean of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, has been a top corporate executive, but says that running a big business school is one of the most demanding jobs imaginable, requiring academic leadership, managerial skills and money-raising flair.
Yet voters have sent no one from a Big Ten school to the White House.
One reason the poor learn so little is that a big chunk of school spending is wasted.
Many kids, especially bright students, want to go to a big-name school.
But accountability is likely to remain a big part of school reform.
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There are so many options, and it's a mistake for a student to say, 'A big-name school is the only place for me.
"Everyone has to rethink all the old models that we believed in, the model where you go to school and then a big firm, " said McGrath, who graduated from Fordham University School of Law School in 1998, a time when law jobs were abundant.
For a highly trained professional coming out of medical school with a big debt to pay, rural postings are not the most attractive.
Some classes of as many as 100 students are conducted under a big tree near the school buildings.
The rising birth rate is driving a big expansion in primary school places, with many temporary classrooms being added, and this is set to move through to the secondary school population.
The world's best, the Hubble Space Telescope, is as big as a school bus and sits out in orbit, while its successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, will be roughly the size of a Boeing 737.
And yet, what appears to be the next big high school signing by a European team barely registers on the big-time recruiting radar.
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Rutgers has certainly played well against Big East opposition this year, but nobody is expecting either school to compete for a Big Ten championship or BCS berth anytime soon.
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If you're looking for a big paycheck straight out of school, think about an engineering degree.
Winfrey, meanwhile, is mulling her next big move: a school in the U.S., possibly in her home state of Mississippi.
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No doubt, Butler and VCU have much lesser budgets, in large part because neither school has a big-time football program, which is where the REAL money is made.
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And I want to get into some details about this because I want you, as parents, as well as the educators, to understand what the data and the science and the studies and the research show actually make a big difference in terms of school improvement -- because that's what we are basing this stuff on.
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Gilbert, the inventor of the Erector Set, was also a professional magician, a graduate of Yale Medical School, an Olympic athlete and a big-game hunter.
"We have gone from being a highly regarded regional business school to a business school that is playing in the big leagues, " Mr. Salbu says.
But the large meals, combined with a lack of physical activity and the junk food Breanna ate at school, continued to create a big problem.
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In business, in particular (I work in a business school) we are big on demanding innovation.
The lack of quality school leadership is a big reason that experienced teachers leave their schools, Ursetta said.
Parents can make their own cases for special treatment but usually hire lawyers if they are going after a big-ticket item like private school tuition.
Vivian Hudson-Davis, principal of the Mason school, is a big fan of Legacy, yet she predicts that Legacy will face its share of challenges on this front.
David Bailey, a professor of international business strategy and economics at Coventry University Business School, said Geely "is a big player" that is "growing quickly" and that there is a chance there for them to put resources into developing new models.
There have been some successes here too: a task force headed by Nord Anglia has played a big role in helping turn round St George's, a London school where the headmaster was killed protecting a pupil from attack.
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Paul goes on to make a pretty big deal over how Ron had a part-time job painting the school during a summer holiday and delivering furniture for a store.
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