With early admission deadlines looming for hundreds of thousands of students, the new version of the online Common Application shared by more than 500 colleges and universities has been plagued by numerous malfunctions, alarming students and parents and putting admissions offices weeks behind schedule.
Instead of arming schools and alarming students in anticipation of such rare events, we need to address the lesser and much more frequent expressions of aggression, like bullying and sexual harassment, and we need to include students in our efforts to create more supportive, trusting and child-centered schools.
This also makes it easier for administrative and security staff to communicate with a teacher, quickly and efficiently, without entering a classroom and interrupting or alarming students.
A professor who taught a Comparative American Studies seminar that was required for majors went on leave, and, as she was replaced by one substitute and then another, Kozol noticed something alarming: the students had started seating themselves by race.
Originals by Adam Grant To succeed in a future workforce where entire industries are expanding and contracting at an alarming pace, students will need to learn how to navigate the ambiguity of life and unleash their originality as lifelong learners.
I put it to you that this Cambrian explosion of tools and techniques, coupled with our increasing complex interconnectivity of systems (while both excellent things in and of themselves, in many ways!) can and often do make it all too easy for our collective technical debt to grow to alarming levels, like student loans in America.
The pursuit of perfect scores may be the trigger behind an alarming spike in student suicides.
But after accumulating alarming amounts of student loan debt from pursuing an undergraduate degree, it's understandably difficult to consider seeking further education like grad school.
Alarming numbers of students pursue careers in the law on the basis of childhood exposure to legal TV dramas.
Every year, from 20 to 200 standardized tests are flagged by graders and sent back to the state Department of Education because they contain alarming writing by students.
