Sentence examples for barely taught from inspiring English sources

Duflo, unfamiliar with development economics, which was barely taught in France, took Abhijit Banerjee's class.

Some restaurants brought butchery into their kitchens, even though it's a skill barely taught in culinary school.

Today, it's barely taught by art schools, but that's a liberation for the rest of us: we can draw without having to judge the results as art.

The Web site ArtsJournal features a media file with the deliberately ridiculous name Death of Classical Music Archive, whose articles recycle a familiar litany of problems: record companies are curtailing their classical divisions; orchestras are facing deficits; the music is barely taught in public schools, almost invisible on television, ignored or mocked by Hollywood.

His decade in Africa in the 1960s made him feel "in more vainglorious moments" that he was a black-Africa buff and an old Kalahari hand, but he approached the place humbly: at his school at Shashe River he dug fields and scrubbed latrines with the rest.Perhaps his biggest innovation there was a course in development studies, which was then barely taught anywhere.

This encourages teachers to focus on 'teaching to the test' and many schools now exclusively focus on teaching English and Math skills and barely teach Social Studies, the Sciences, Music, Art and Physical Education due to focus of the standardized tests required by NCLB.

It's barely even taught in school textbooks.

During his two decades of exile in Europe, he had lived in virtual poverty, supporting himself and his family, barely, by teaching private lessons in tennis, languages, and boxing.

When Atlas was barely twenty, D'Amato taught him how to train fighters and then entrusted him with Tyson.

If he had a grand dream, it was to use his police career as a springboard to law school, so he might go back to a homeland he barely knew and teach his countrymen the ways of American justice.

Yet, we have an education system now that barely bothers to teach our children poetry or grammar anymore, but instead is forcing educators to focus on just meeting the narrow requirements for improving test scores.