I went to a bunch of schools, and that was story enough, in that there were five schools, spanning a pretty wide educational spectrum, and I kept kind of flunking out of each one.
That's no easy task considering that, as the Times reported, the Los Angeles Unified School District is home to more than 640,000 students in nearly 1000 schools spanning hundreds of square miles.
The problems were different from the ones from school, spanning different branches of math and highlighting the connections among them.
The most brilliant era of Beirut's law school, spanning the century between 400 and 500, was known as the era of the "Ecumenical Masters" (Greek: τῆς οἰκουμένης διδάσκαλοι).
Further, their enrolment in the school spans over several months and they may change of practice location during the first months of their training programme.
The data on charter schools, which span three years of test scores, is also limited because the schools participated in the initiative at different times.
In contrast, much of the rest of rural New York, though just as beautiful, is economically depressed; jobs are scarce, services minimal, many former village centers have been all but abandoned, and school districts span enormous distances.
Harvard's athletic director, Bill Cleary, will retire next year, ending an association with the school that spans more than 50 years as a student, coach and administrator.
For example, in a study investigating the impact of classroom assessment practice on the attitudes, comprehension, and attributions of 304 public school students (spanning grades 4 to 11), Evans and Engelberg (1988) discovered that simple grading concepts were better understood by those aged 11 or older.
When the school year spanned more than one season, the data collection period was split into phases to ensure that different seasons were covered.
