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Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you can do with illusions and working within the confines of the studio.

Cheerfully fessing up to our failures turns crazy mind off, humility and compassion on. I learned this in a karate dojo that had a strange tradition. Everyone there loved recounting failure stories, and after an evening of smacking one another, we'd sit and have a beer while the students swapped tales of martial arts disaster.

I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money.

As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction.

I'm a constant learner. You need to be a constant student because things change and you have to change and grow. And I emphasize the word 'grow'.

I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.

A lot of dumb pictures have made a lot of money, but that doesn't mean they're going to be anything cinema students will revel over in the future.

In 'Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education' and 'Why A Students Work for C Students,' I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

The only reason I can think of is that the students are happy with the job we have done.

The other students help us out, and it's a way to help them out in return. It helps me get closer to other students doing this.

The Perkins program is one of the most efficient ways to use federal resources -- schools partly match federal capital, and all the money is recycled into loans for future generations. Students need Perkins more than ever.

The perception is that Philadelphia firms come in with a chip on their shoulder and have this 'why Philadelphia?' mentality. I was told by more senior students not to tell them that I was interviewing in other cities. I think at one firm it really hurt me when I mentioned it. I know a lot of people leave those interviews frustrated that they have to prove their allegiance, and they don't want to work at those firms.

The perception among high school students and their parents is that the game is over, that all computing jobs are going overseas. It's an extraordinarily widely held misperception.

The point is to keep these kids safe. Unfortunately, there's always a handful of students drinking, and that makes it hard for everyone. We don't want something terrible to happen.

We appreciate out-of-state students and how they bring different perspectives.

We are proud to be a part of exposing area students to local and national celebrities that provide insight into career opportunities on and off the field. The Career in Sports panel underscores our ongoing commitment to the communities where we live and work.

We are proud that we have fine examples of athletic and academic excellence amongst our varsity football athletes, ... These students are examples for the entire student body at Cathedral City High School.

We are proud of the student who reported this. Students and staff are reacting just like we want. We tell them to take control of their campus.

We are proud and delighted to work with Chicago's educational and recreational leaders within the Latin American community. We are determined in our goals to help create a better environment for many gifted students and athletes through our Foundation and community programs so that they can enjoy a better and more productive life. The Hispanic community and the Mexican American community in particular have greatly supported us for nine years and we are happy to be able to give back.

We are properly placing kids so they can be challenged but not so challenged they shut down. Students should know going into this that it's serious business.

We've accelerated the time structure. The students are responding very well to the new system, and they like writing.

We utilize a high-speed Internet and a wireless networking system. The implementation of fiber will upgrade our network to allow teachers to stream video. Teachers will also have the opportunity to participate in online professional development programs, and the students will benefit from the integration of software programs into the curriculum. These programs will be used for student remediation and assessment.

We started this four years ago to expose high school students to engineering as a career.

We started rehearsing this backwards ... so that once the students were on the spot, they would be more confident with that.

We started participating in the program in 2004. We started with six students at the Rockledge hospital, and now we have 12 there and two in Melbourne.

We are losing students because they are becoming discouraged. It's hard to keep their interest when they don't have the facilities to practice.

We are looking toward students being disc jockeys and program directors in the near future. Who knows, the next great radio personality could come from Union County.

We are looking forward to being at home again. We have not played a home night game, so I hope there is a great electric atmosphere. I'm hoping we will get a lot of students out, which would be great.

We believe that one of those students is the shooter,

We are going to set up an account with the Community Foundation to provide scholarships to high school students who will attend UWSP to study music and to students who are pursuing degrees in music at UWSP. We also plan to help with music rental assistance.

There are common lessons for us to learn from our own UK study and from the study just released by the AAUW. First, these forms of victimization happen to far too many students: female and male, from all walks of life, and from all races and ethnicities. The second discomforting similarity is that most students who have these experiences do not tell.

There are some great people in education. The people I have worked with and the students I have met along the way have been amazing. On occasion, I run into kids and you get to see they have gone on with life and done well. It is nice to see that you really made a difference.

We strive to create the best possible experience for all students. Students have usually had a very positive response to the overall study abroad experience. As the student participation increases, staff support will be adjusted accordingly.

We're interested in hearing about supply chain and logistics ideas and problems from central Indiana manufacturers. We have resources to offer them in terms of the expertise of our professors and good students for internships and employment.

We're interested in doing something that expresses what the students on campus have to say. Those of us involved right now, we're not interested in doing a watered-down publication that is not a voice of the students.

We're in schools at least three or four times a week trying to teach students and parents about the dangers on the Internet. We try to impress upon them that the odds are in their favor. They most likely won't be a victim, but if they are, there can be severe consequences.

We're in a much better position than we were. This helps us to maintain the professionalism of our jobs and serve our students better.

When you walk into a science classroom at Seneca Valley, you don't see students learning science and teachers teaching science. You see scientists at work.

Until the issues for which she was arrested are addressed, she will have no professional contact with students of Manteca Unified.

Until now students take the tests and nothing is done with the information.

We believe that it's important to recognize the extraordinary achievements of these students at the most formative moments of their careers, ... As juniors and seniors, they have started to determine the role they would like to play in shaping the future. The scholars we honor at this year's ceremony are on the path to becoming tomorrow's leaders.

We believe that a stronger personal connection to the region will lead to enhanced perceptions of Lancaster, and ultimately create a greater willingness amongst college students to stay after graduation.

We believe that assisting students with their academic and real-world education helps strengthen our communities, one neighborhood at a time.

Watching the talent, enthusiasm and the dedication of all the students reinforced why I chose this profession 20 years ago.

When it comes down to it the city made the law and they need look at it how it's affecting college students in a negative, they're being put out on the street.

When it came to his students, he really cared about us. He genuinely cared about all of us. I never doubted that.

When I talk to college students about Spy, it's like I'm describing something that happened in the 19th century. We were very lucky. We started Spy at a time when our generation had arrived at full adulthood and wanted to connect to its anti-establishment youth.

We're going to the summit as students and community members to state our side and make our point of view known to the general community, seeing as the ONDCP isn't going to provide that perspective to the community.

We're going to talk about all reasonable possibilities that deal with safety for the players, students and fans. The conference is very concerned about Wilma, and we know we can't sit around here until Friday to make a decision.

We're going to take a look at all the qualifications that all of the students bring.

What we're really trying to do is build student activism and get students passionate about their community through arts and music, and other forms of outreach.

What this does is give us an opportunity to greatly increase the speed at which we can access the Internet, ... That's going to increase the number of ways in which our students can benefit from this technology.

When we got started, my colleague, Brad Williamson, said that we ought to get schools involved. I was skeptical that school kids could contribute, but we designed something that teachers could use to help students contribute data.

When we got our students back, the population of New Orleans increased by 10 to 20 percent. A lot of businesses pegged their openings to the return of our students. We expect the students to be a big part of rebuilding.

What a gift it's been to have students of that caliber of talent helping us out.

We would require more of students to graduate than traditional public schools.

We would prefer that students in the earliest grades have the benefits of a smaller class taught by a qualified teacher, and we are striving to make this happen.

We found out that it costs more to collect and refund these deposits than it does to just bill the students who might have damaged rooms.

We had 100 students our first year, and I didn't really know what to expect, ... I didn't know anything about JROTC, and I was learning right along with the students.

We guarantee that we are going to sit with each of our students, and the counselors at Escondido High School have 500-plus students each that we're responsible for.

We got two quality players that are good students that we think can play for us right away.

We felt like it was an important issue to talk about and an important issue for students to talk about so that we possibly can help someone that could be involved in that sort of a relationship.

We broke students into two groups. The first group could be accepted here as freshmen and full-time undergrads. The other 64 are enrolled in a continuing studies program, which they can do for a limited amount of time. They are people seeking temporary assistance.

We bring our students here each year to give them the chance to explore different careers to see all the things that are out there in engineering and science.

We are getting a huge proportion of those students staying in South Carolina today. If we didn't have this scholarship program, that might be a very different story. I don't think the value of this program can be overstated.

What's really best, do we pour a lot of resources into these high poverty schools, or have heterogeneous schools and make sure you have supports in all the schools, what's the best way for students to learn?

What's most troubling to teachers is the speed with which things are moving. We're worried that programs won't be in place and classrooms won't be ready by the time the students come back to school in late August.

We're going to make a major impact at this university. This hasn't been done before not because the students can't collaborate, but because they haven't had the opportunity to do it.

We're going to identify students who have the potential to succeed at selective universities.

We're going to have to figure out a way for students to go through school faster so more can come in.

We're keeping his desk in the classroom for the rest of the year. No one will sit there. Students can put anything on there they want to in remembrance of Tylor.

University Web development sits in between a generally conservative fiscally-minded administration and an extremely Web-savvy student body. The best university Web sites have been able to overcome this gap and provide a wide range of information and tools, such as online registration, to their students and perhaps even more importantly their perspective students.

Uniqueness of contribution will be a considered more often in the case of a tie between a few students. We also may have runners-up, depending on the number of nominations we get.

Very few people bring up the University House anymore. This is especially true for students who are not from the immediate area. We focus on the positive aspects of Eastern, not something that happened two or more years ago.

World language courses are developing students in a capacity in European and Asian languages and this gives them a deeper understanding of not only language, but culture. It brings prosperity and peace to this world.

With my method, you learn how to move your entire body as if it was one snowboarding unit instead of a person on a snowboard. It takes practice, the balancing techniques. You can almost call it a discipline. I would say my students learn quicker than what they'd learn in the conventional way. My method is that you are taught how to move as if the snowboard is a part of you.

We extended the event into May this year so more schools could participate after the FCAT test time, and students do get community service hours. It's all about getting people aware that litter is a problem and that there is something we can do about it and get involved with yearly.

We feel the immediate improvement will be greater numbers of African-American students this fall. The long-term impact will be better recruitment and graduation rates.

We feel the discipline is lax and that the safety of the students is in question.

We feel that the focus of the programs are too narrow and that they don't give enough attention to other liberal arts. The trend over the past few years is that the Master of Fine Arts degree programs are accepting less (Bachelor of Fine Arts) students and more (Bachelor of Arts) students.

We feel that students should remain in the school. We're very high on that and have consistently been publicly urging students to stay in school.

We're providing a service that's very valuable to students, ... It's free to students and free to schools with scholarships. We're filling an essential need.

We're finding that across the country that these tutoring programs, afternoon sessions are making a big difference. But we're also finding that not enough parents and students are knowledgeable about the options.

We're hoping that this will help with communication with staff, students and very much so with the parents.

We're hoping that everybody comes back. The students have had two weeks off. And we think that's sufficient time for winter break.

We're beginning to fall behind as a nation in technology. If (the Challenger Center) can stimulate students to become more interested in math, science and technology, we've done our job.

We're basically removing all of the procedural barriers--such as late fees--and speeding the admission and enrollment process for qualified students so they can enroll for fall semester. Whatever students need to make this happen, we're going to take care of it. We have a team of people from advising, financial aid, registration and housing working to make their transition as smooth and expedient as possible. Ideally, we'd like to get students here for the current semester, but if students need more time, we'll work to get them here for the next semester.

Through a Bible study we plan to discover and address the root issues behind smoking. We hope to raise awareness and teach the students about the affects and dangers of smoking.

Three years ago, I had 18 students, ... and this year I have 44.

Through its two-fold focus, the conference first encourages participants to critically reflect on theoretical ideas about institutionalized discrimination in higher education is and how it is perpetuated today. The conference then seeks to provide tools to help students enact policies and programs and found student organizations that combat systems of inequality in higher education.

We're reaching students who otherwise wouldn't have access to college, so I haven't seen any difference in their performance over the years.

We're quite pleased with most of the areas that the kids tested in. We made our goals that we set at the beginning of (last) year. Each teacher has to set a goal for each one of their students for improvement, and most of them were satisfied with how they did.

With these quarterly counts, we'll be able to see if students are moving from system to system or moving out of state.

With the self-service option at our dining centers, there's unlimited amounts of food. Having nutritional values available means students are less likely to overeat. Having the values available helps them make smarter food choices.

With the rising costs of higher education, these types of scholarships are critical for many of our students to pursue a college degree.

With the new, plan enrollment should be higher. The university has a mandate to try and get students to study more foreign languages. Logically, students are practical, and more career opportunities for students in Chinese, Korean, Arabic or Russian are in demand ... a fluent speaker of Arabic or Korean is in demand for government work as our relations improve with these countries.

With what the students can get into using the technology we are all concerned about it. There is so much good, and there is so much that can cause difficulties.

With what Louisiana has gone through in the last few months, the disasters that have hit, the state is looking at tightening up its belt budget wise. We still want to be able to meet the needs of our students and serve them at the same level or higher than we did before. We didn't want it to impact them.

We know how important it is for students to look at material, make inferences and look at the source of the material. Our speaker did a good job of showing how it's necessary to expand the borders of students' learning, but at the same time, be more deliberate in teaching critical thinking skills.

waiting until the end of the year and crossing our fingers and hoping that our students will pass.