"I can remember sitting there doing high school football games on a Friday night and using three-paragraph formulas, " Smith said.
One in five cars on the road at 08:50 on a weekday is doing the school run, according to sustainable transport charity Sustrans Cymru.
Some may be doing poorly in school, others may have mental health or emotional problems.
And keep playing hard, working hard, doing well in school, and eat your vegetables. (Laughter.) All right?
As my grades started to drop I decided to drop out rather than ruin my hopes of doing well in school.
Those kids are more attractive anyway, because they are often doing better in school, and so they end up with a huge leg up.
The skills and life lessons that teens gain in early work situations can create just as much if not more satisfaction and self-confidence than doing well in school.
Two possible explanations are that dyslexics learn early in life to delegate certain tasks to trustworthy people, and that they do well in business to make up for doing badly at school.
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What were you doing in high school?
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Instead we need to be doing what an increasing number of schools like another Arizona-based school, the Carpe Diem Collegiate High School and Middle School, are doing and disrupting that flawed paradigm by implementing online learning to create a student-centric system not to increase costs for the community through bond measures or otherwise, as the article reports but to use existing resources to prioritize student learning and achieve great results.
If a school were not doing the job, Mom could remove her child and place him in another school -- public, private or parochial.
During those eight days, Wei, Tong and the other students met in Philadelphia's Chinatown neighborhood during school hours, doing their schoolwork, holding rallies, and talking about ways to deal with violence at the school.
Maybe they should be in school or doing their homework instead of being out earning.
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Nothing wrong with parents complaining if their school is doing badly compared to others within the same group.
So on that new measure the school is doing well by its pupils.
Professor Morgan argues that many children in South East Asia spend long hours studying at school and doing their homework.
For the next six months he worked as a full-time volunteer at the Storefront School, doing everything from fundraising to substitute teaching.
Why are they doing less well in school than they used to?
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He accused the centre-left government of doing a deal on school reform with the local authority organisation KL, which pre-empted negotiations with the national teachers' union.
This suggests the birthdate effect (like some other inequalities) is already present in influencing which pupils are doing well enough at school to apply to Oxbridge.
Free school meals are a standard poverty indicator - used by the inspectorate, Ofsted, to judge how well one school is doing compared with others "in similar circumstances".
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He describes himself in an autobiography as a hot-and-cold student in high school, doing well when he studied but suffering plummeting grades after he skipped class to smoke and drink with friends.
Ms Kiernan's research suggests that girls who meet five criteria, including doing progressively worse at school and being the children of a single mother, have a 60% chance of becoming single mothers themselves.
We ought to have school children doing it.
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One thing I worry about, and what my last post on the matter hinted at, is that unions will team up first with whatever schools are unionized rather than with whatever school is doing the best job at teaching kids.
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On the way to JFK for my flight back to London, I think about the high-octane, perfectionist approach that seems to be necessary if poor children are to have any chance of doing as well in school as well-off ones.
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