In Cannon Falls, Minn. the teacher who oversees technology for the elementary school resorted to hiring the parent of one of his first graders to dust off machines at the high school to prevent frequent breakdowns there.
On a wall in the main foyer of this determinedly old-school resort, visited regularly by the Bush family, a clipboard held a list of daily arrivals.
When there are more applicants than places, some schools resort to lotteries, or "random allocations" to use the formal expression.
But when schools resort to suspending and expelling students for minor infractions or fail to offer second chances, they contribute to criminalizing adolescent behavior.
Table 3 shows that the top three sources used by the in-school girls are parents, teachers and public health campaigns whereas the out-of-school resorted to friends, Internet and boyfriends/girlfriend.
Struggling to maintain classroom discipline, some of the country's 160,000 primary school teachers resort to corporal punishment.
Families are forced to remove their children from school and resort to begging on the streets in despair and desperation".
But students seeking to change other admissions policies — for example, to favor applicants whose relatives attended the school — could resort to a variety of readily available means, including lobbying the admissions committee or the university's leaders.
If you are looking for a sign of how strapped the University of California, Los Angeles, is for cash, consider that its arts and architecture school may resort to holding a bake sale to raise money.
But Latino education advocates and authors say they do not want schools to resort to tokenism.
We may have to apply to some camp ourselves, or book a week at Rockywold-Deephaven Camps, an old-school camplike resort on Squam we discovered on one of our exploratory drives.
