Sentence examples for schools drill from inspiring English sources

Many who demand that schools drill students more are themselves examples of how that method hasn't worked.

Edexcel's managing director, Jerry Jarvis, defended the move but accepted that it was likely to lead to more allegations of schools drilling pupils for their exams.

Some of the very changes that Chancellor Joel I. Klein has made his hallmark -- uniform programs in reading and math for most schools; drilling that helped produce citywide gains last spring on standardized tests; changes in rules for admission to programs for the gifted and talented, designed to make them more equitable -- have caused unease among that important constituency.

For years, business schools drilled the importance of sounding professional into students' heads.

A high-school drill team performs at the annual Bud Billiken Parade on Chicago's South Side.

When she was thirteen, and very shy, Copeland followed the lead of her older sister Erica and tried out for the middle-school drill team.

As in elementary school: That's when Gustafson learned to love the old-school drill that made her the scorer she is today.

In the end, she said, she and her husband will probably keep their son in his present nursery and then go through the private-school drill once more.

The shooting of Ms. Pendleton, who had recently returned with her high school drill team from Washington, where they had performed at President Obama's inauguration ceremonies, has fueled the debate on gun control and gun violence.

With three minutes to play in the third quarter, and defended by two Nets, Anthony Mason shuttled the ball back and forth between his legs as if he were doing a high school drill, and then found Hardaway in the corner.

The costumes, bouncers, treats, bands, and school drill teams were nowhere to be found.