To finish the school, she needed to do something drastic.

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Maybe your church or your school has asked you to do something similar?

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We had left him at school but he had to do something prior to the excursion that was not part of the normal flow of the day.

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The second idea is to give disaffected pupils something to do outside school.

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The school board had no choice except to do something about it.

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Jamie Oliver, who campaigns for better school meals, urged the government "to do something positive with the data".

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Education should have a well-established, well-respected information system that yields varied and comprehensive indicators about kids, teachers, schools and school systems. (Any number of worthy organizations are trying to do something about that, including the Data Quality Campaign, the Council of Great City Schools, and GreatSchools.org).

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The school was something even harder, but she knew she could do it: she went to a very good college.

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