Sentence examples for backing students from inspiring English sources

"Four years is too late," Mr. Freston said of his reasons for backing students for short stints, rather than a full four-year education.

He derided anti-Communist red baiters in backing students who in 1949 marched on Springfield against state legislation that made a Communist Party member ineligible for public office or teaching "in any school, college or university".

The Southern Alberta Institute of Technology is backing student-led innovations in green building technology.

New York plans to hold back students who fail to meet required standards at the end of summer school.

Even critics of policies to hold back students do not endorse social promotion.

SPORTSSATURDAY, PAGE D1 THIS WEEKEND A Child Held Behind Holding back students is increasingly popular.

And it hasn't held back students in Singapore, which overhauled its maths teaching in the Eighties.

Many schools would try to inflate the percentage of students who passed by holding back students teachers thought would fail.

Colleges are also pulling back students from study-abroad programs in these areas and have canceled summer programs.

Mr. Newsom's supporters say that he has always backed students' causes, and that his outspokenness underscores his integrity and his image as an iconoclast.

Local schools once again threw open their doors and welcomed back students from another year of learning.