Nick got unsteadily to his feet and reached across to tap the student on the front of his embroidered doublet. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds, maybe thousands of students smaller than an academy. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The curriculum at Miss Preston's stresses loyalty, and I have to say that my dedication to my fellow students is incomparable. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The United States Army’s 101st Airborne Division para-troopers accompanied the students while an Army helicopter flew overhead. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, students were required to use their real first names, followed by a number, to differentiate them from other students with the same name. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

My friend Derrick remembers white students refusing to yield the sidewalk when he walked in their path. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Levanthal wanted to see what impact the different booklets had on the students’ attitudes toward tetanus and their likelihood of getting a shot. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What is it that the students object to?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

A bunch of Emerson students of all different races are shouting that Black lives matter. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The subject that grew out of this critical insight, analytic geometry, is essential to understanding calculus; yet our students are coming out of high school unable to graph straight lines or parabolas. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We need the money, Moose. If I get students, I have to take them....Can’t you play baseball here?” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every student in the class received an A. Not long afterward, both Harricks were relieved of their coaching duties. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

T may repeat each line a few times until students get the rhythm. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The four long House tables were packed with chattering students; at the top of the Hall, the staff sat along one side of a fifth table, facing their pupils. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The bell rang and students started to stream into classrooms up and down the hall. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Beginning in 1960, black high school and college students staged sit-in demonstrations at segregated lunch counters and restaurants in more than a hundred Southern cities. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second son, Ignatius, my classmate, was not my favorite, I discover now, because he was far and away the best student. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The teacher handed down assignments without explanation, curtly telling students where they would spend the rest of their lives. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, in the rest of the castle, the usual magnificent Christmas decorations had been put up, despite the fact that hardly any of the students remained to enjoy them. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

It’s nice to see that there are some students signing up who just want to show their support. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I don’t mind. I like the kinds of things you’re doing to keep students interested,” Tai says. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

The students used it as an excuse to act out, and she seemed to think only the worst of us. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Most students took a foreign language they might actually be able to use someday, like Mandarin, or Hindi, or Spanish. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

New students were admitted all the time, and Mr. Benedict had made every arrangement, had followed every proper procedure, but still.... The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was wrong for anyone, whether they were students or guardians, to punish him for it, or put pressure on him in any way. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rowan had never been an exceptional student—but that was by design. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

This being college rather than elementary school, I encouraged my students to take as many pins as they liked. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Well,” I said, “I was wondering if we could get into the main office and check a student’s file.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Over the course of his career, Schoenfeld has videotaped countless students as they worked on math problems. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The students of Booker T. Washington High, blacks and whites together, rise to cheer her. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m terribly sorry. Will you excuse me now? I have a student with me.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Our trip to Washington and Riley’s speech made the kids feel almost anything was possible, but the idea of going to college is completely foreign for a lot of my students. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I was hardly the promising student who had left him sixteen years earlier. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So something more compelling than a badger will create a more enlightened student body. Got it.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Then your whole high school is paid for and you have access to 800 of the smartest, most interesting students in the world—not to mention the teachers and visiting dignitaries. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Critical evidence: How the arts benefit student achievement. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The students grow quiet, following my every move. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Most students walk in and silently take seats. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“The newspapers and television say the Russian students are the best in the world,” he said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Seventy-six percent of high school students who began high school in Maryland completed. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

It met in a classroom at the nearby high school, and it was so popular that although I arrived ten minutes early, a new student had already taken my place. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

In the room, a female graduate student evidently immune to the smell sat working on a spectrograph, an instrument for measuring electromagnetic radiation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Mr. Gore’s a tall, thin man with thick glasses and a Jheri curl hairstyle that the other students relentlessly make fun of. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gigantic powder-blue carriage in which they had arrived had been parked two hundred yards from Hagrid’s front door, and the students were climbing back inside it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Ralph had noticed by then that she was pretty, or figured she must be, as about half the men with affairs to discuss with her didn’t seem to be foreign students. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Visual strategies are most significant to students whose hearing is compromised. It’s their primary means for receiving information.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

NOTE: For activities that introduce these concepts to young students, please see Consonance and Dissonance Activitiesll . Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

If zero were nothing, the student could claim that the grades for the courses he failed did not exist, and demand a 4.0 average. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Knowing: I was not disadvantaged like many of the new nonwhite students who were entering college, lacking good early schooling. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first-year students hurried from their shifts to their lectures, to their meals and to private study. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When the lights went on, and Mrs. Reynolds stormed on stage to scold the audience, Mrs. Olinski was able to wheel herself around to examine her students. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Most academics can effortlessly dispense this kind of sludge, and many students, like Zonker Harris in this Doonesbury cartoon, acquire the skill without having to be taught. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He thought it was a good idea to protect the students’ anonymity, too, but he was concerned that people might recognize one another’s handwriting. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Four hundred brand-new students made the auditorium of Xin-zha Junior High School even stuffier. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

That made no difference to the older students who were handing out our new clothing. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine that the administrators at Princeton didn’t love the fact that students of color largely stuck together. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I attended Benjamin Cardozo High School in Bayside, Queens, and while I had been a good student in the ninth grade, the following year I more or less dropped out. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

This suggests that a long, unbroken string of blank answers was broken not by the student but by the teacher. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Black students are hardly the only ones who suffer in bad schools. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

We took off running again, past students reading on the quad, weaving around a tour group and in between buildings, until we got to the Plaza. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Only Ms. Udell’s threat to cancel the play quieted the class, and even then, she struggled to wrangle her students through a morning of reading, journals, math, and vocabulary. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Except for Boobie, the students had their notebooks open, while the rip of an envelope and the shuffling of paper floated from his desk. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ruling allowed black students to anticipate a different future and emboldened a few of them to try to make it happen. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Everything otherwise was designed to accommodate our well-being as students. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I noticed more than a few of the surrounding students were watching the show from the nearby tables. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When these students were asked to read Of Mice and Men and complete a sentence beginning with “Although George,” many were stumped. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Many of us have filed complaints against Officers Long and Tate. There is video showing them physically assaulting a black student. Yet they were allowed back on the job. Why, Dr. Cook?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Marches were planned, demonstrations were held, and the black work force was urged to stop working in solidarity with student grievances. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A team of American medical students comes this morning with a truck full of clothes and shoes. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

"So you were a student at the college," he said to the vet. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

A student leaned to his friends and said, “I’ll convert. You think I can pass for Jewish?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

At first I could tell by the students’ expressions that they didn’t like what I was saying. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a student had made a similar mistake, he would be thought unfit to benefit from Cal Tech’s chemistry faculty. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The shuttle could pick me up from the student center at the university where Aaron coached, or it could pick me up from a downtown hotel. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I suppose if I were older,” he said, quietly enough to be speaking to himself, “I would say that you were being ridiculous. That our students are adults, not squabbling, bickersome boys.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Reverend Mokitimi, who was also Sotho-speaking, was much admired among students as a modern and enlightened fellow who understood our complaints. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several of the students stifled cries; Ron had thrown himself backward and almost toppled off his seat as the spider skidded toward him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

That boy must have snuck back in and stolen the paper, hoping I’d forget his name among the thirty thousand students I’m responsible for! Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

On the last day of school before spring vacation, she spotted a new student entering another classroom, an older Chinese girl with pigtails just like herself. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was, at the time, the largest African school below the equator, with more than a thousand students, both male and female. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not laughing when we pull into the student parking lot. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

She said nothing at all until the bus reached the oval around the school and the students began to file out. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

On the first day of photography class, the students had sat upright at their desks, each with a 35mm camera and two notebooks—as specified by the supplies list—in hand. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We tested the students in a quiet room. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It’s been a great year and you’ve been a wonderful group of students. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The bilingualists insist that a student should be reminded of his difference from others in mass society, his heritage. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s safe to say that when all other students in the class said “Ugghhh!” it was an assignment I was going to enjoy. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The opportunity to get on with it arrived when Lawrence’s graduate student Niels Edlefsen completed his doctoral work early in the new year. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

You weren't supposed to call students up late at night, but I had it all figured out. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

As the next day was Saturday, most students would normally have breakfasted late. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

If these students didn’t get help and find a way to succeed in school, they would fail out or simply get too old for high school, at which point they would be on their own. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He grabbed a seat next to Njemile just as the first bell rang and the students all slowly assembled into their seats. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Encouraged, the three students enthusiastically began cutting open the shoes. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an uneventful class otherwise, once Mrs. Torrance reined the students in, and they began their introductory lesson to Achebe. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I explained that I was a student from Fort Hare, and that I was only in Johan-nesburg temporarily. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Luce was correct in thinking that his conversations with colleagues and medical students were over my head. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The potbellied stove was already stoked with logs the older students chopped each afternoon. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He pulled his hand back and waved it through the air to sum up all the ways the San Antonio schools kept Mexican students apart from whites. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The school was once a fancy university, but after the dead rose up, most of the students fled. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Our education in the Bristol Township school district was not terrific, but neither was it so far removed from what a student in a wealthier public school district would have received. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

More experienced students knew shortcuts, of course: which workrooms and lecture halls to cut through to reach your destination. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. Smith, my assistant principal and neighbor, had seen my strengths as a student and furthermore trusted me with his own kids. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In our slipshod fashion, we students took notes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Because you’re not giving up your scholarship to pay student loans for the rest of eternity?” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The lovely Soledad proved herself to be the most brilliant student in the whole school. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer, who was Jewish, still had family in Germany, as well as Jewish friends from his student days. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Princeton Junction, New Jersey, college students laid flowers on the tracks. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He just barged in from his own little universe, all perky: “Greetings, fellow students.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

When the neighbors or students ask me my nationality, I tell them I came from a country that no longer exists. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Davis Square, with all its restaurants and college students walking around, seemed like a safe place for us to spend a few hours. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I doubt if he’s a student. I don’t think students spend their nights delivering pizzas the week before exams. Why don’t we just go back and ask Darlene?” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the school’s first year of operation, 167 students arrived for classes. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

But why would she meet a student at midnight? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Miss Beatty, who wore her glasses on a chain around her neck and had her hair done at the beauty parlor over in Winnemucca every week, told Mom she needed to discipline her students. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Guidance counselors and teachers would quietly pull a student aside and say that William and Mary, for example, did not accept blacks, so there was no need for you to apply. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

One student in the back row shouted, “There can be no school while our brothers and sisters are being murdered in Soweto!” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’d better watch yourself,” the guide warned as we moved at high speed through the hostile students. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recognized the flaming orange shade of the paper: it was the sheet Mrs. Port had sent home with her few remaining students days before. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

That he loved to watch ice skaters, for example, and surfers on TV, and that he could skip stones — one of his students had taught him how on a field trip. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As for being admitted at the same time,” he said, “that is a coincidence. But it’s no surprise that two good students should become good friends, especially if they’re roommates.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

They look exactly the same, just as a particular correct answer on a true-false test looks the same whether the test taker is a straight-A student or someone who’s guessing at every question. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Born in 1913 in Buffalo, New York, she had been a prizewinning graduate student in math. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I found it difficult to swallow the idea that I would sacrifice what I regarded as my obligation to the students for my own selfish interests. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She devoted time after the end of the school day to tutoring students who required extra help. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

As I spoke, I felt the subjective and defensive reactions of the American white students present—but gradually their hostilities lessened as I continued to present the unassailable facts. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Textbooks were rewritten to teach students that some races were Untermensch, meaning subhuman. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“But to answer your question, there is another student in your class who knows what I told you,” Dr. Wilkins said. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Many students came from working-class or poor families; Christine was one of the few at the school who did not receive assistance to cover the costs of tuition and board. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I listen in on the conversations at the tables around me, and pretend I’m a college student, even though I’m a lot older than they are. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The honor roll student reappeared as the layers of street life faded. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Berkeley attracted the most promising young graduate students, hosted the most eminent visiting lecturers, pocketed the largest contributions from research foundations and garnered the lion’s share of public interest and acclaim. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I was one of the best students in class. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was a student at a private school in Nairobi. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other students in Art and Archaeology are all girls but one, just as the professors are all men but one. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We don’t get many new students. Especially in the fifth grade.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe because students are getting away with an insane amount of PDA that would never be tolerated during normal school hours. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“But why do you want to keep the embryo below par?” asked an ingenuous student. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clusters of New York students and artisans paid them no mind as they made their way through Washington Square Park. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

At first it was assumed that his parents would shut up the house, or rent it out to students, and that his mother would go too. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes! I think her involvement will really get some of the more popular students to participate. By ‘popular,’ I mean those students that fit a construct of what high school-aged peers deem to be cool. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

They found the cleverness of their forebears’ music, with its fugues, its interweaving counterpoint, its layering upon layer of sounds, too academic and dry, rather like student exercises. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

There was a long wait after the last girl came back into the room, as Ms. Udell listened to the students from Mr. Jackson’s class. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

He attended Phenix High School, and in fact Mary Jackson had been one of his student teachers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

For whatever reason, the immediate goal had been accomplished: after decades of struggle, black students had finally gained a toehold in the most cherished white institutions of power and prestige. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

For some students perhaps these ideas provided a way of accepting benefits suddenly theirs, accruing simply to race. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the pep rally, in front of the Forrester student body, he got up and said his piece about all those past and present who’ve been forced off the field because of prejudice. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“You covered the basics very clearly, sir. The principles you mentioned today will lay a good foundation for the other students in the class.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When I enrolled, there were already two other students at my school with the first name Wade, so I’d been assigned the student ID of Wade3. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The students wouldn’t listen to me, and I felt like I didn’t have the tools to make anything better. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Some of the students who had been around the school longer, and had caught the full spirit of the end-of-the-year festivities, hugged and kissed and shook hands with each other; some even cried. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lobby was huge, marble floored, and echoing with excited chatter from all the students and exhibitors. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Newly appointed Minister of Magic, Rufus Scrimgeour, spoke today of the tough new measures taken by his Ministry to ensure the safety of students returning to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry this autumn. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

One of the pictures of the carnage showed a hacked white policeman near an overturned, burnt police car, surrounded by groups of students shouting defiant slogans, fists upraised in the black power salute. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The procession of black robes entering the room was replaced by a wave of forest green robes—the students trailed shortly after the faculty. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I watch the oozing lava and wish that other students were crowded around me oohing and ahhing and giggling. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fellow grad student, Pierce’s favorite, dropped out without warning, improving Ralph’s prospects. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told my friends that there was going to be room for a couple of more students in Ms. Gruwell’s class. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

A voice behind me says, “Meet me in the student parking lot.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The students were all wearing T-shirts with St. Lawrence University printed on them. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How do you explain your grades? It’s unlikely anyone is helping you. You’re brand-new, and other students naturally shun new kids, so they wouldn’t be helping you.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Now he’d been invited to Harvard to speak to the graduate students of Henry Kissinger, a professor of international relations. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Principal Marcelo comes onstage and says, “Thank you, sixth graders, for the brilliant performance. Well done! Now it’s time for the students to present cards they’ve made to their mothers.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a hand on my shoulder he says, “Attention, Fantasticos! I would like to announce that our student of the month is our own Ally Nickerson!” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Are there students out with the search parties?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I could see little more than the backs of the students’ heads. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

It feels odd to be here without other students. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Forks High School had a frightening total of only three hundred and fifty-seven — now fifty-eight — students; there were more than seven hundred people in my junior class alone back home. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

A handful of students gather around her desk, searching for more information. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Many of my classmates had parents who held jobs in factories, which made them look down on students whose parents did gardening. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, when the students didn’t find me so scary anymore. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

While other students casually worked to complete the worksheet, Boobie ate some candy and left blank the entire second page, which asked for definitions of certain genetic terms. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A number of students at Truman have the last name Patel, a common Indian name and one I never heard in my days in Levittown. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“You must have me confused with another student,” I told him. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He drew up a petition, had it signed by a hundred students, and demanded an all-school training workshop on consent. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“When you took a question to him,” one student remembered, “he would spend hours—until midnight perhaps—exploring every angle with you.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rowan led the way, passing other kids in the hall—students who, like him, were late, or were just on an errand. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I soon learned there were certain areas I was au-tomatically allowed to perform in: scholarship, athletics, and school-time activities like the yearbook, the newspaper, and student government. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am saying that our students should stop making noise. Asking David Hunt to go does not make sense. Give the man a chance and see if peace will come.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the fall of 1958, it felt to the high-school students of the United States as if the country was launching us in reply. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was the third BYU student ever to win a Gates scholarship, and the university was taking full advantage of the press. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Even though Zlata’s the same age as my students, she seems so much wiser. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Six or seven students turn to look, some sitting at terminals and some studying at tables by the windows. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forced to operate on a shoestring, one black school in Durham squeezed 51 students into a single classroom. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Only five students,” said Mother, shaking her head. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

White students were invited to stay and participate in all-white after-school social clubs. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The other kids in the class fidgeted, and even Mr. Roberts stopped every so often to dab at his forehead with an off-white handkerchief before continuing to lecture the disinterested, overheated students about biodiversity. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My first twelve years as a student were spent in Catholic schools where I could look up to the front of the room and see a crucifix hanging over the clock. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And so I looked at the headmaster,” María Carmen Corona Santiago said to Bennie as Sierra walked into the kitchen, “and I said, ‘Yes, my students will be reading that book today.’” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

This person looked only a few years older than the students who’d just walked out of the room. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Before my students found the safety of Room 203, many saw violence as a solution. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

When I arrived in my World History classroom, several students were already seated at their desks. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Or how one of those students, Aristotle, had his students following behind him, walking through the Lyceum. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom had the same problems she’d had in Battle Mountain with organizing her paperwork and disciplining her students. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The middle school has so few students left it can no longer field a baseball team. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The way I saw it, if my students were willing to pretend I was a teacher, the least I could do was return the favor and pretend that they were writers. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He’d also invited the group known as the Little Rock Nine, the nine black students who in 1957 had been among the first to test the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was a bulletin board, strictly for student use, always taped and tacked with messages and announcements. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The students start in first grade with meaningful, but not overwhelming, differences in their knowledge and ability. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Fin studied her student, with her serious expression and windblown hair. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Kvothe stared at his student for a long moment, his expression solemn. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

To the left of this paper sat another, which had been folded so that a story bearing the title ministry guarantees students’ safety was visible. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

However, now that I’m in, I am terrified because I feel that my writing capacity is not at the same level as the other students. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

We told him we were students and this was a big misunderstanding. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

My bunk lay outside the light of the other student’s candles and sympathy lamps. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I really wish that that “student” had never come to Beecher Prep! Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The scholarship boy is a very bad student. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The marchers that day were party workers, students and the laborers themselves. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, in order to be promoted, every student in third, sixth, and eighth grade had to manage a minimum score on the standardized, multiple-choice exam known as the Iowa Test of Basic Skills. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

But when the students were around the age of eight, real differences started to emerge. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

These people were afraid of my powers as the yachachisqa, the student of the mighty shaman, or perhaps they were scared of Sumac and his big beak. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

A few minutes before the bell rang, a student asked what role mental disorders might have played in separatist movements. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The Carter contingent said it would only consider playing there if the Permian band, Pepettes, and student section were moved from their normal location on the visitor’s side to the home side. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly all of the students searched and seized were students of color. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

This helps students internalize the beat and phrases of the song. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Especially in the early years of the Movement, one often heard nonwhite students complain of feeling lost on the campus. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The student who found the word the quickest would get a point, and, at the end of the week, the one with the most points would get a gold star. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Among all of Volpe’s students, Wayne is the best at describing his teacher’s directing, maybe because he sometimes struggles with it. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Through 1935, the twenty-seven-inch had exhibited a persistent tetchiness that kept grad students and technicians busy troubleshooting in its innards for hours on end. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Well now! Our new student seems to be all manner of clever.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Kansas State University is in Manhattan, and the two girls planned to enroll there as art students, and to room together. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lecturer called on the student who had studied at Oxford. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He was editor of the school magazine, president of his class, played half-back on the football team, and was an honor student. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

So many hands went up, Alex began to fear he was the only student who intended to stay in the city. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

One of her arms is wrapped around the waist of another student. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

No doubt there are some who become hopeless about their students’ abilities to learn. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

This raised a few eyebrows, but none in the Fishery where I’d proven myself to be a hard worker and a dedicated student. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Presently three of her dozen or so students are Asian. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea is to have the Freedom Writers be a “case study” for the graduate students, and in exchange, my grad students will help mentor them. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

We end up following Abby to the teacher parking lot, where a bunch of student council people have assembled around the junior class float. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Chef Morgan will offer advice and encouragement to all students taking part in the International Festival recipe showcase. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Talking to a few students at one of the top universities in the nation? A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

When he came to our high school and spoke to the student body, his words reverberated in my mind like drumbeats. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me guess. You want him to mentor you like every other female art student from The Institute.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

By this point, even the most thickheaded and grudging students were being forced to admit that my quick admittance to the Arcanum was something other than a fluke. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

None of my teachers or fellow students knew who I really was, and vice versa. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Right now, you are a “professional student,” so as you read the material below, apply the criteria to your behavior and professional as a student. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“I don’t believe there’s ever been such a clever student at my Institute as you. You have a shrewd, strong mind. I saw this at once. And you are a natural leader.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

On the campus, students emerged from the mustiness of Suzzallo Library and the dankness of their rented rooms, blinked warily, and looked about for a place to stretch out on a patch of grass. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

An indifferent high-school student from an unstable family, he went to the University of Texas at Arlington on an athletic scholarship. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Belligerent student protests were firing up the already hostile attitude inside the school. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To make matters worse, the online curriculum Dad had chosen required students to do their classwork on a certain schedule—but I was always in gym practice at those times. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When the bell rang for dismissal, the remaining students all poured out to the front of the school, and with no teachers to stop them, everyone was talking. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Still, he had often wondered what life might have been like at a school where the other students didn’t find him so odd. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The newspapers had pointed out that the fourolds were also reflected in clothing, and now high school students had taken responsibility for eliminating such dress. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The arts give students an opportunity to express and explore material in a medium to which they might not otherwise have access. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The medical student gave an unpleasant little snicker. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

An average student, or Satisfactory work were the usual comments that his teachers wrote in his Annual Progress Reports. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moment class was dismissed, the students swarmed toward the list. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

White high school students typically buy drugs from white classmates, friends, or older relatives. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I felt like shouting, “Obviously not, Ms. McCrea!” but I didn’t want to be the suffering kid there to teach the other students a life lesson. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

To get students to learn history, one teacher played a version of “Jeopardy.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wasn’t I one of the best students in school? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Volpe’s current students want his former ones to know that the tradition has been upheld. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

When she reached high school, her father created an after-school tutoring program for the students at Perkins and put Siobhan in charge of it. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Inside it there are long hallways with hardwood floors, stained and worn from generations of students in slushy winter boots, but still kept polished. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They clung to him as though he were the reincarnation of the Besht, as though he were their student tzaddik, so to speak. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Immediately Teacher and all fifty of the students rose to their feet. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Like French and German,” added another student, officiously showing off his learning. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mary made every effort to bring students from Hamptons public schools and from Hampton Institute into the Langley facilities for tours, to get an up-close and personal look at engineers at work. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The sophomore clay crew is a pretty good sampling of the CSA student body: freak-flags of every variety flying proud and loud. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She took his money and she went out with other men, and she lied to the student—who was certainly a fool. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He wasn't the best student or a star athlete or a musician or an artist. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

In Philadelphia at the time, black teachers were allowed to teach only in schools attended primarily by black students. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Frankie had heard Z wasn’t attending classes at the community college and no one at the other schools where students had enrolled had run into him. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

My brother keeps high-fiving students as we head outside. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

She saw herself in a house from The Cosby Show, in a school with students holding notebooks miraculously free of wear and crease. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I filled out the application, and in my cover letter I made it extremely clear to them that I was not applying for financial aid—that I was a one-hundred-percent cash-paying student. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I’d finally get to have the homecoming games and school dances, study groups and student clubs, and all the crazy spontaneous times with friends. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

On rainy evenings, when a student woke up in the middle of the night, no one wanted to trudge through the grass and mud to the outhouse. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minority student—that was the label I bore in college at Stanford, then in graduate school at Columbia and Berkeley: a nonwhite reader of Spenser and Milton and Austen. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good morning. I am Derrick Noble, president of the student body. Welcome to Central High School.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moss was unsure who he was yelling at, since the students passed by so quickly that it was impossible to get anyone’s attention. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Each desk had three inkwells and one drawer stuffed with schoolbooks, which the students weren’t allowed to take home without permission from the headmaster. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Parents, students, citizens, school officials, and public officials of these areas met their responsibilities in a dignified, law-abiding way. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The dining halls were open, though at that hour of the morning there were no students, only cafeteria workers and maintenance men eating breakfast before their shifts began. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Draco Malfoy, who was Snape’s favorite student, kept flicking puffer-fish eyes at Ron and Harry, who knew that if they retaliated they would get detention faster than you could say “Unfair.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“Goofc. I sometimes hear it from the students. I thought it was meant for Southeast Asians. I don’t get it.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Born in 1964 in the tiny farm town of Benjamin, Utah, the son of a plumber, Singleton was a nice kid but a poor student, shy, a follower, a practical joker. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Father Jack had provided Farmer and other financially strapped students with small rooms in the rectory. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The demand was so intense that only a handful of people were selected to join the class senior year; the majority of the students have had Ms. Gruwell since they were freshmen. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Claytor’s brusque manner intimidated most of his students, who couldn’t keep up as the professor furiously scribbled mathematical formulas on the chalkboard with one hand and just as quickly erased them with the other. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

For three thousand dollars additional, get the personalized electric-eye model that calls each student by name. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

In the early 1990s, by contrast, poorer students got 50 percent more aid on average than the wealthier ones, according to the College Board, the organization that runs the SAT entrance exams. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Walking on campus one day with my mother and father, I reEshed the surprised look on their faces when they saw some Hispanic students wearing serapes pass by. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has a long monologue to speak—twenty lines of type in the script, delivered as he walks the stage and leads a tour of first-year students. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Accidents in high-school chemistry were not unusual, but this student lived in Sunset Towers. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Jack answered for me by saying, “Ballet. My daughter is a dance student.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The two students made slicing motions with their sticks. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed back at The Student Code and said, “No, Paul. Their violation falls under the Level Three In-fractions, ‘fighting with another student.’ Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tasha's a straight-A student, and even though she always gave Noodles a whole bunch of lip, she was a cool girl. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The following day the students were given the same kinds of tests again, with questions that were different but of equal difficulty. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I barely reach the gate when a crowd of students rushes over to me, not just seventh graders but upperclass- men, too. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said, “Harvard. And if not Harvard, Princeton. And if not Princeton, Yale. And if not Yale, Columbia. And if not Columbia, Stanford. He was that caliber of student.” Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The classroom was empty, but Mr. Creedy often let students work on projects during lunch, so I expected we wouldn’t be alone for long. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

A school bus is the students' version of a teachers' lounge. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Someone said there’s like two thousand students who go here, though that seems like a lot. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She’d done this in a completely friendly way, and if some of the rest of us made a few noises too, it wasn’t anything more than the sort of thing students did the whole time. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colleges, though most have invested in massive bandwidth to give their students easy access to the Net, remain collective enterprises. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Cambridge, a group of young students gathered around Bateson to study the new science of heredity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Each year, the university holds a program for freshmen known as Odyssey, in which students explore social justice issues. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ang Dorje became an able student and achieved the equivalent of an eighth-grade education before quitting to go back to work in the mountaineering and trekking industry. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

As a high school sophomore, she traveled with Volpe and other students on a theater trip to New York. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

So I became a student once again, and learned about what keeps satellites in orbit, and about how weightlessness affects the human body, and about how to fly machines without wings. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1961, meanwhile, students meeting at a conference in Raleigh, North Carolina, agreed to form a new civil rights group. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The coffee shop buzzed, college students mingling like showy tropical fish with their brightly colored hair. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The men seemed to be Scholars; from the way the young woman was questioning them, Lyra took her to be a student of some kind. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

In the mid-1960s, with “dreams of working at NASA,” greater numbers of black college students found their way to Langley. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Oh yeah!” he answered, “people really do that. I’ve had students send me new precepts years after they’ve graduated from this school, actually. It’s pretty amazing.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Though he spent a lot of time on campus and led everyone to believe that he was a student, he was not. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

He’s been a great role model for my students. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I like to get to know my students.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I shuddered at the thought of what the students would say or do to her if she made it. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And just because Michigan’s minority students have lower scores on convergence tests doesn’t mean they don’t have that other critical trait in abundance. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Moss held on to his locker as he watched students swarm around Officer Hull, Shawna, and Mr. Jacobs. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Row after row of students, each one unlike the next. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, students would go down to the river and gather snails for their teacher. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Our own surveys said at least fifty percent of the student body watched any given show. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

A lot of them were time-sharers like stewardesses or nursing students, or guys running dispatch for gypsy cabs and escort services or telephone rigs like astrology or phone-sex parlors. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But keeping his shoulders squared and one hand behind his back, he did what no other student dared to do. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I got to meet a lot of students, and I made a lot of friends. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another person entered the room, a medical student whom Farmer had invited to join him on rounds. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I'm the only student whose mask hasn't melded to him yet—something my enemies enjoy pointing out. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The house has been rented to some American students his father has found through the university, an unmarried couple named Barbara and Steve. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Smoke filled the crowded room and the music stopped and the students dancing stopped and the DJ told them to quickly leave the building. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

You are not to let students out of your class unless it is an emergency.’” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

In fact, there is essentially no black-white test score gap within a bad school in the early years once you control for students’ backgrounds. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

After enduring all the rumors during my student teaching, I had been pretty hesitant to return to Wilson last fall. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

We integrating students shared many things in common. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I even wrung my hands a little, every bit the distraught student. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Maybe they are catching up with the rest from down campus,” Amaka said, after the students had passed. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

When other students asked where I was from, I said, “I’m from Idaho,” a phrase that, as many times as I’ve had to repeat it over the years, has never felt comfortable in my mouth. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When he saw I was serious and waiting for an answer, he said, “Yep, colleges like it when students do extra stuff at school, like running for student body office.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Another component of the method concerns improvisation, which helps students sharpen their spontaneous reactions and physical responses to music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I want to keep my lives separate—Virginia the poor indigena in Yana Urku, Virginia the rich indigena at queen rehearsals; Virginia the dishwasher at the hotel, Virginia the star student at school. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said, “Nicholas Allen, I have enjoyed having you as a student. Now you go out there and have a wonderful summer. And I expect to hear remarkable things about you, young man. ” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was holding up an orb light and drawing a picture of the sun on a chalkboard while his students took notes. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore started to clap; the students, following his lead, broke into applause too, many of them standing on tiptoe, the better to look at this woman. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I did not know at the time that the events surrounding a student election would create difficulties that would change the course of my life. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We cross to an empty station where the trainer seems pleased to have students. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

And now the students were recognized as legitimate representatives of the black community. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The hope was that all of us would mingle in heterogeneous harmony, deepening the quality of student life across the board. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And as the words roll off my tongue, I discover what the students are studying. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dammit!” he bellowed, and students stopped in their tracks, startled by his rage. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The only regret I had about being student body president was having lunch with the Rotary Club at the Santa Maria Inn. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He cuffs me on the head just like that sculptor did his students. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“I thought so. I’ve heard some grumbling that it’s not...appropriate for students to make political statements at school. What do you think about that?” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

He was beaming at the students, his arms opened wide, as if nothing could have pleased him more than to see them all there. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

There was a story about the murder of a New York City public school teacher, Jonathan Levin, by one or two former students who wanted money. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Heads of Houses moved among the students, marshaling them into position and breaking up arguments. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The music room next door is open, and a few students are practicing drums. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The evenings that I might have spent with Danny I spent instead at student council or committee meetings. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“And if it does fall into his grasp,” said Dumbledore, almost, it seemed, as an aside, “I have your word that you will do all in your power to protect the students of Hogwarts?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Why are they all staring?” demanded Albus as he and Rose craned around to look at the other students. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Would students living in areas of town that had been the nucleus of Permian talent suddenly find themselves in the Odessa High attendance district? Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lot of students agreed with this, but others were outraged by the idea. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they were given a questionnaire later, all the students appeared to be well educated about the dangers of tetanus. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henry had been a good student in elocution. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than a hundred students tried out for the Spring Revue. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

And there were always some Morehouse students ready to lend a hand for a pretty girl. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“I insist upon resubmitting the names of the rest of my students,” said Karkaroff. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

A high school student might be left out if you spoke about “monetary policy,” and a schoolchild might not even follow a conversation about “the economy.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Of a student body of 5,700, about 400 participate in one of three evangelical student groups—more than the number of active mainline Protestants, the campus chaplain says. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

And he had pictures of past students, probably kids who did excellent things. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Another faculty member was sure that I would be a valued counselor to incoming minority students. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the other students at Kabarak lived in the big cities; they’d be home within four or five hours of school closing. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

And this was something that soon spread beyond our little group to just about all the students in our year. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now...to our new students, welcome, to our old students, welcome back! Another year full of magical education awaits you...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Further encouragement for the existence of black holes came in 1967 with the discovery by a research student at Cambridge, Jocelyn Bell-Burnell, of objects in the sky that were emitting regular pulses of radio waves. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She also called teachers in other high schools who had sent students to the nationals, just to get some tips on how to prepare and present. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The students and friends he’d hung out with in Korea cared mostly about Korean nationalism or what college they were going to—preferably in the United States—and what degree they would earn. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Besides, we had been instructed not to make a big deal of reporting things in front of other students, lest we be labeled tattletales. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scientists use something called a correlation to measure how closely one factor predicts another, and overall, the students’ ratings correlated with the experts’ ratings by .55, which is quite a high correlation. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Some colleges, like Emory University in Atlanta, have climbed fast in the rankings over precisely the same period in which their percentage of low-income students has tumbled. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

You couldn’t help trusting Albus Dumbledore, and as Harry watched him beaming around at the students, he felt really calm for the first time since the dementor had entered the train compartment. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

At the foundation, we were treated like athletes, not students. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“As director of the junior choir, I’m listening to all the new students this week to assess their talent.” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“If one student in ten had half his fire I’d teach with a whip and chair instead of chalk and slate.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As I sat on a stone bench outside the Mews, passing students smiled in my direction. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He pushed aside two of the student handbooks and held the third one up. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Headmaster Clarkson got onstage and stared down the student body until the auditorium grew disconcertingly silent. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Upstairs, class photos showed rows and rows of student faces. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

As the war intensified, the town post office was awash in civil service job bulletins, competing for the eyes of locals and college students alike. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Moss was pushed, and he banged his elbow on his open locker door, and students poured out around them, some coming from open classroom doors, others from various hallways. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It may seem odd that I was constantly buying materials for my artificing over the river, but the truth was merchants near the University frequently took advantage of the students’ laziness and raised their prices. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Which of the boys had been students like me? Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Most whites who came were students and scholars. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, what does the average University of Georgia student get on the SAT?” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Yet they were following in the footsteps of their students. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Teachers bring up Shakespeare only to bore students to death. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The word essays has come to seem normal and natural to us—students write essays all the time. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I could sense a stirring in the student body. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

No students in the halls, no sounds from the classrooms. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The overall correlation was now down to .11, which for all intents and purposes means that the students’ evaluations had almost nothing at all to do with the experts’ evaluations. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

They were followed by thousands of women marching in groups representing college students, doctors, nurses, lawyers, business leaders, artists, educators, librarians, actresses, and musicians. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Typically the subject was a well-to-do immigrant supporting some potential insurgency in his old land, or else funding a fledgling trade union or radical student organization. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did warn me, however, that he could not allow his students to act irresponsibly, and he said that if I insisted on resigning, he would be compelled to expel me from Fort Hare. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But one of the students was fool enough to ask where the advantage lay. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its students score a good 10 to 15 percent higher on their entrance exams. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Many students began to feel embarrassed by their parents, who didn’t understand English and still lived by the old ways. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Consider now the answer strings from the students in two sixth-grade Chicago classrooms who took the identical math test. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

What are some ways to work with the specialists to benefit the student’s learning experience? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Teachers loved him without reservation which made it a law for students to hate and envy him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the students had their own seats, and no one had to sit on cigar boxes like they did back in San Antonio. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t mind students, Aza. It’s the parents that make my job hard.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The students and even the Director himself rose automatically to the tips of their toes. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were students of the expressions of young women as they went in to confession, and they saw them as they came out and read the nature of the sin. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first few carriages were already packed with students, some hanging out of the window to talk to their families, some fighting over seats. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

In 1943, she and the school’s music teacher, Altona Johns, put students through their paces in preparation for the year’s Christmas cantata, “The Light Still Shines.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

His students don’t know this—they know precious little of Volpe’s biography or his life outside the school. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The shortened school day didn’t bother some students. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Considering the importance of what he had found, Becquerel did a very strange thing: he turned the matter over to a graduate student for investigation. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“It’s my job to care about all my students, Jade. I have to be fair,” he tells me. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

But Carver High School said it wouldn’t graduate any student who had hair on his face. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Or what if I thought we had nothing in common but she, the other student, thought we did? Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Stuyvesant High School was ideally suited to the student interested in science or math. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Remora, I’m the student who posted about The Gold-Bug on Book Scavenger. I know Mr. Quisling gave it back to you, but I was wondering if I could look at it again.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Rutherford was an artist,” commented his former student A. S. Russell. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

As education minister, he had attempted to keep black students out of white universities. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day I was walking down Broadway with another student named Carol when I gave some change to a young homeless guy. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

By second grade, most students will be able to keep a steady beat, with a fair number able to do so by first grade. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Hard to avoid students who hate us,” I blurt. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The students were taught how to identify Jews by learning the physical traits that the Nazis claimed characterized “inferior” people. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

These students performed substantially better than they did in their old academic settings and graduated at a much higher rate than their past performance would have predicted. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I still wonder if I could have won the National Spelling Bee competition if black students had been allowed to compete. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Even though the acceptance letter had come in the mail weeks ago, she hadn’t allowed herself to really, fully believe it until her student log-in details had come via e-mail. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

My father expected me to attend an Ivy League university, where I'd make straight A's, play football, and spend my off-hours strumming guitar with the student jazz combo. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The starting point for Volpe is when you become his student. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Fort Hare had only one hundred fifty students, and I already knew a dozen or so of them from Clarkebury and Healdtown. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Nsukka, he had been the most popular student on campus; his beat-up Volkswagen Beetle parked outside a beer parlor lent the drinkers there an immediate cachet. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The sober young divinity student seemed an odd match for Judith’s high spirits. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

In the past, candidates for student body president had presented humorous skits before their speech. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

His name is Ongah, and he is an exchange student from Kenya who is writing a dissertation at N.Y.U. on the French symbolists of the 19th cent. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the student body at large, Raymond Studemacher did not have enough substance to trigger the opening of a supermarket door. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

She teased students and often made comments that made the class laugh. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

All morning long, students I hardly know are asking me to run for class president, begging me to join their clubs, their sports teams, to sit with them at lunch. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And a good teacher’s students carried over all their gains into the next grade. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Say what you like, but you can’t convince me that a jury box of poverty-level Vermonters would have the remotest bit of pity for four college students on trial for murdering one of their neighbors.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

We always got there early, before it filled up with college students. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I thought I wanted to teach students closer to my own age, but I loved helping my sisters learn. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

There were probably more students who needed the company of other writers, as well. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I’m a good student—I have a 9.4 grade level in reading. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the priests who taught at the school turned up at our classroom door and talked to our teacher for a minute, then started taking students from the classroom three at a time. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Gradually he had learned to change his behavior and to become one of Village’s happy children, and soon a good student. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Sleek black crows strutted among the students, hoping for a morsel of bologna or cheese left unguarded. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In 1983, I was a twenty-three-year-old student at Harvard Law School working in Georgia on an internship, eager and inexperienced and worried that I was in over my head. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In the tiny classrooms, students gathered around conference tables and critiqued the concept of America as a shining city on a hill, or compared the writings of Charles Darwin and Ursula K. Le Guin. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He told me that the annual fall chest X-ray showed he had caught TB and he was going off on a scholarship for medical students who caught TB to a TB place in the Adirondacks. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The last thing I needed to worry about was the student body thinking I was a bed wetter when they had formed such kind opinions of me already. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Other students are making their way out, too, and I try to spot Donna or Pri in the crowd. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

As we approached the stairs, we were greeted by taunting catcalls and the kind of behavior students had not dared to exhibit in the face of the 101st. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When there was just one person next door, listening, that person rushed to the student’s aid 85 percent of the time. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the students were biting their lips to keep from laughing. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Check whether you yourself are singing correctly and check that the students are singing correctly as well. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Another teacher in an honors English course, instead of having the students read The Scarlet Letter one year, showed them a video of it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of the other three students passed the audition, but this did not make me feel better. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fittingly, it falls to me, as someone who so awkwardly carried the label, to question it now, its juxtaposition of terms—minority, student. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I remembered something from my F student’s paper. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The following week, I gave talks at the gallery for high school students and refugee kids. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It explained that an email had been sent anonymously, depicting a student in the mascot’s image. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He had been a superintendent for a number of rural school districts in Mississippi, where he had spent his life forming busing systems and magnet schools to better integrate the black and white students. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

For campus officials came first to students like me with their numerous offers of aid. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Southern struggle had grown from a modest group of black students demonstrating peacefully at one lunch counter to the largest mass movement for racial reform and civil rights in the twentieth century. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It’s a tiny, cluttered one-bedroom affair furnished by the Salvation Army and done up in late seventies graduate student decor. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a great scraping and banging as all the students got to their feet and swarmed toward the double doors into the entrance hall. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

And after a few years students could embrace mean careerism. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several college students on the other side of the room were talking about a Latin class. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

That fall, Lori helped me find a public school where, instead of going to classes, the students signed up for internships all over the city. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I figured it had something to do with my duties as student body president. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

She almost forgot about them out there, those mostly female students of Carnegie Mellon. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

In 1920, Hermann Muller, the former student of Thomas Morgan’s, moved from New York to Texas to continue studying fly genetics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He exaggerates the difficulty of being a student, but his exaggeration reveals a general predicament. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were times when he visited taverns near campus and allowed himself to act gregarious and animated in the manner of younger students. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I attended, about 80 percent of the students were nonwhite. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

By the time the late arrivals straggled in at 7:52 and the bell for first period was ringing, the hallways were crammed with gleeful students, bewildered secretaries, and furious teachers. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I used Shabbat afternoons for reading, and by the first week of May I had caught up enough to be able to begin attending student council meetings again. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I wondered why some students were jubilant, almost celebrating. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my department that year there were five black graduate students. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took delight in student’s discomfort and did everything he could to badger and unsettle them. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“It ought to be possible,” Kennedy continued, “for American students of any color to attend any public institution they select without having to be backed up by troops.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They kept her printer hot with college, student loan, and financial aid applications. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Our students have been coming in early every morning for the past three weeks to work on our paper chain to add to yours. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

She didn’t care if her students were late or didn’t do their homework. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

History notes covered in doodles by an extremely bored student…he scanned them. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

A Trinity student spoke for the entire assemblage when he stood up and expressed the hope that there would soon be “complete understanding between white and colored races of the South.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“We all bite off too much sooner or later. But some students don’t know when to spit their mouthful. They burn out. They quit, or botch their exams. Some crack.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

At a table in front of the banner, students with hipster glasses and uncombed hair hung out, talking about whether Ferd Johnson was really the genius behind the 1920s comic strip Moon Mullins. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Finally, from the back of the room, a student said, “It’s the wrong size?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

That they were admitted peacefully on the campus is due in good measure to the conduct of the students of the University of Alabama, who met their responsibilities in a constructive way. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There is a student group the next day at George Washington University. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Between tasks, perhaps a dozen times a day, the students scrubbed their cracked and bleeding chilblained hands under freezing water. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mr. Roberts shouted a warning to them all to be careful, but it was drowned out as the remaining students all joined the flow of people heading toward the main entrance of the building. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Howard Fuller lived just across the street from the campus, and a contingent of students came to his door, to invite the respected activist to their meeting. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Some students dress up real funny, like hamburgers or other food and stuff. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

One of his graduate students must certainly know what his model looked like, and if there were obvious biological implications the rumor would have quickly reached us. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Adding to the cultural divide, my fellow students were pretty well off. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Moron received the girls in high style, attended by a staff composed of students from the school’s Home Economics Department. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The school year in Zimbabwe starts in January, when every student takes a placement test. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Truman students have a strong sense of being on the wrong side of a divide even without knowing the full dimensions of it. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“But-” “The candidates from the two parties will meet with me, as student council adviser, in this room after school on Thursday. Any questions?” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Thirteen thousand students in the three cities that had moved forward with integration—Front Royal, Charlottesville, and Norfolk—found themselves sitting at home in the fall of 1958. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“I hope you realize that we are willing to die for what we believe in,” one student said. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

My school is an easy ten-minute walk from my apartment, and on the first day of class I arrived early, watching as the returning students greeted one another in the school lobby. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He pointed at one of the students at random. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The bus picks up students in groups of four or five. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Critical evidence—How the arts benefit student achievement. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Fighting among students proved even worse in the community high school. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The parking lot pulses with students who mill around, catching up. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

At school, the entire student body seems to be in mourning. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

One year, they say, during the Vietnam War, Morrie gave all his male students A’s to help them keep their student deferments. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

While a student at the Eclectic Institute, he traveled to area Disciples of Christ churches, where he was paid to give Sunday sermons. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Today, about 12 percent of all student pilots in the United States are women. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Last week, he had a bunch of Boston College students talking about Run for a Cause on Catholic TV.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“You forget? I thought Stanford students were supposed to be smart. How are you going to get there if you don’t know where it is?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“The students with the six highest scores from all our preliminary rounds will make the final TV team. Sound fair?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

They forwarded leaflets to other like-minded students in Berlin, Stuttgart, Hamburg, and Vienna, who also distributed them. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The students would simultaneously shout to be heard, and I’d pound on something in order to silence them. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Now I live with two of the other Swiss Chalet girls, student workers like myself, in a corridor-shaped apartment on Harbord Street. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The verdict radicalized many students at Booker T. Washington High. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Instead I saw the negative publicity, the questions they asked students, the humiliation we would have to deal with when all of this chaos is over. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

On-screen, it reads “What it’s like being a student of color at Livingston Middle School.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

At the end of my second year teaching, I took a group of students and parents to Kenya during the summer vacation. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tables are crammed with doctors and nurses and nervous-looking medical students in short white jackets and stethoscopes so shiny that they look like toys. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, if a student could flunk every exam he took and still pass, how hard could it be? Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There have been a lot of changes in the community and a lot of changes with the students. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I just enjoyed the feeling and watched the once amorphous student body separate itself into hundreds of individuals. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

There must have been eighty students in that room, and I’ll bet ninety-five percent of them approached him at some point. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

A poor student, C.P. had quit school in the eighth grade and had gone to work at a service station, washing and greasing cars. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Hogwarts Express, a gleaming scarlet steam engine, was already there, clouds of steam billowing from it, through which the many Hogwarts students and parents on the platform appeared like dark ghosts. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, it’s as if that punch was the green light some students were waiting for. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Wilkins later maintained that the photograph had been given to him by Gosling, Franklin’s student—and therefore it was his to do with what he desired. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

During the day, students of all ages sit together in the biggest room in the house, learning. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

They did not speak, for all meals were taken in silence, but they looked at each other from their opposite corners of the sixth-form students’ table. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They talked about a devastating erosion in standards, how the students of today bore no resemblance to the students of even ten or fifteen years ago, how their preoccupations were with anything but school. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I parked in the student parking lot, parted ways with Mom, and then lined up to walk through the metal detectors. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Thus, for a few years, students could be lured by a romantic idea of their victimization. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she was one of the best students he’d ever had. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The assistants are graduate students who help Dr. Zamborska’s research while they study for advanced degrees. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, it had been arranged that I would first stop and address the faculty and the students at the American University of Beirut. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the North Carolina College campus in the southeastern part of Durham, where the spring semester was just underway, students compared class assignments and reading lists. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“If one is injured by reckless use of sympathy, the offending student will be whipped, singly, no more than seven times across the back.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They were all a jumble of frayed fabric and slack collars, the students at the party, all their clothes looked determinedly worn. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then, by hand, I copy a script for each student. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What do they do to students at the University who eavesdrop?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I would tell fellow graduate students about my outrageous good fortune. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 2010, high school students in Shanghai, China’s largest city, finished first in an international standardized test of math, science, and reading proficiency given to students in sixty-five nations. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

But he detects annoyance on the faces of some students and even some teachers who watch him. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Actually, I am a teacher of medical students,” she answered. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

But while he was a very poor student I was a pretty good athlete, and when everything was thrown into the scales they would in the end tilt definitely toward me. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d sacrificed a social life, free time, and my summers to make myself a well-rounded student who would be accepted into an elite university. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Now, Miss Gordon,” Mrs. Torrance said, the students’ chatter dropping away once she spoke, “how do you propose to deliver this book to your fellow students?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And at the top of the steps, just in front of the group of students, sat the two metal detectors. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

With his big briefcase practically dragging on the floor, Quentin couldn’t get anywhere too fast, but he caught me while I waited for the other students to file inside the door to history class. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It would show her that I am not only a star student with friends who love me but also a queen, a real, live queen. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

For one thing, he’d just finished his first year of law school, and normally we only hired second-year students for summer positions. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I went past Mr. Turner’s office, the last thing any tardy student wanted to do. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

At Chicago, the students hoarded their meager supplies of chemical reagents and worked behind closed doors. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Some became the object of hate for allegedly acting as informers and providing police with lists of student leaders. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jim Brady, one of his graduate students, was tinkering at his lab table on the second floor of LeConte when Ernest bounded in, dragged Brady to the blackboard, and sketched out the equations. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Even college students were having trouble finding decent jobs that summer, so Dad agreed that I could take the volunteer position at the adoption center on Wednesdays and Fridays. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Another dozen or so students had filtered in since I had arrived. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The line of students was beginning to pile up behind them, so they pushed ahead, finally throwing themselves into two open seats a few rows behind the girls they were admiring. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

At another school, a student who stepped outside the usual gender categories might have been the topic of gossip or debate or at least a few raised eyebrows. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I wish I had a lab notebook to write my observations in, the kind with graph paper like the colegio students have. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He goes from student to student, sometimes not saying a thing, sometimes exploding into praise. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He thought that Hong would order other students to pitch in and roll the cart. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I step toward her to get out of the way of incoming students. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I remembered my own photo in the student handbook when I was a first year. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like looking at all the students and wondering who’s had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report on top of that. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He asked one of the student trainers to dial the phone for him and call his girlfriend. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He quickly accessed the electronic file that he was required to complete after every interaction with a student. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“A PTO volunteer is needed to supervise the bleachers, please. I’m on the way to retrieve some students now.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The lion’s share of students boycotted the election, but twenty-five stu-dents, about one-sixth of the student body, showed up and elected six representatives, one of whom was myself. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in effect the sultry darkness into which the students now followed him was visible and crimson, like the darkness of closed eyes on a summer’s afternoon. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

With other students gathering around us, whispering, my stomach tightens, a little puke comes up, burning my throat. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

And in a third evasive maneuver, many students and politicians stay away from the pronouns I, me, and you. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Say, Andy, remember when Rob was tryin’ to go with that exchange student from Hong Kong because she was so good in math? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A pack of students thundered into the room. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She tasked the oldest students with looking up each reference from the song in the Bible and figuring out who were the “eight who stood at the gate,” then writing about one of them. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The kind of allegiance the young student might have given his mother and father only days earlier, he transfers to the teacher, the new figure of authority. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I assumed that a big part of his mission was to attract higher-quality students to Rider in order to elevate its profile and reputation, but his attitude toward Truman actually angered me. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He switches back to Arabic, takes the driver’s ID, tells the driver to transport us all—the old passengers, the young, the mothers, students, everyone—to the Military Rule Center. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Had I ever questioned Princeton's investments in South Africa or whether more could be done to recruit minority students? Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

All the students and teachers in the entire county—even the parents who were on school mailing lists—got this email. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“If you’re unhappy, why, feel free to go on any other project. Because I can get any number of graduate students to do what you are doing.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

What Volpe’s students gain from him is a passion and sense of self unrelated to anything having to do with money, power, or status. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

In another class, he asks students to bring in an object of some personal meaning and say something about it. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

A club where students actually have a voice. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

She knew that these classes were enhancing her students’ reading levels, their understanding of the world, their souls. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Middle-class white students expiating their guilt over the death of Martin Luther King—that was how many viewed the demonstrations. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve shared her story with students in every middle school I have visited since the book was published ten years ago, and with many parents and teachers as well. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

When some of the students laughed at her, she replied tartly, “What happened to Mr. Phillips is no laughing matter.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She talked to me like I was just like any other student, not a kid in a wheelchair. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

As the cleanup continued, Shin competed with many other students to find bodies. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Knowing: I was not really more socially disadvantaged than the white graduate students in my classes. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lawrence did not yet command a laboratory staff—only three graduate students, each already working on projects he had approved. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In 2011, I’d taken a group of thirty-seven girls from the school to visit the University of Oxford, bringing not the high achievers but students whose teachers thought they weren’t yet reaching their potential. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I always forget. Children are capable of such open rudeness. That’s all right, young man, I won’t hold it against you. We need students who aren’t afraid to speak the truth. What is your name?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Most fast-food jobs were taken by college students—or more accurately, by college graduates. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

But she needn’t have worried about losing the other students. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Every morning before the library filled with students, she perused the newspapers, taking in the events of the previous day. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Some students hiked eighteen miles to join the march. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Danny’s gloom and frustration grew worse day by day, despite the fact that the students in his Talmud class looked upon him with open-mouthed awe. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

That boy, I knew, was a college student from Welch. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

As much as I despised Jefferson, at least I was in the same boat as my fellow students, who were mostly poor like me. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The Bartlett Dirt has named the top ten suicidal students in school, and my phone is buzzing because Theodore Finch is number one on the list. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Volpe has a student in his drama program by the name of Rachel Greenberg. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Many were students both ambitious for academic success and accustomed to leisured life in the sun. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police tank continued on, and if it had meant to scare the students, it did the opposite. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The rest of the students file in and take their seats. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

In the third were students who were unlikely to ever play professionally and who intended to be music teachers in the public school system. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The glass in the lower windows was painted white so students couldn’t look out at the street. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

A vocational school student had sent a matchbook application to a correspondence law school along with the required, but now missing, dollar bill. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

By Friday I was able to recognize, if not name, almost all the students at school. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I tried not to feel intimidated when classroom conversation was dominated by male students, which it often was. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Then another 350 armed paratroopers circled the school building to protect the black students from violence. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The students spent the entire hour speaking in French about suntanning. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lowers her voice so the students around us can't hear. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Helene and I walk past the youngest students, four classes of maskless Yearlings, who will have the clearest view of the carnage. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The student body of the college was tense with suppressed violence. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

A recent influx of Hungarian Jews into our neighborhood had swelled their ranks, and they formed a small but highly vocal element of the school’s student population. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Black students made up less than 9 percent of my freshman class. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs,” he said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is what school government is about—students uniting to take on a tough problem that affects all of us. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He was on the verge of accepting me as a student. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In case you don’t remember, Ms. Antilly was the guidance counselor for students with last names beginningAthrough G.Later that year, she moved to another school district. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“I’m the student council president and, of course, captain of the basketball team.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

A few students call out their gratitude to Ms. Porter, and everyone is suddenly in motion, laughing with their friends, uncapping markers to write in each other’s yearbooks. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I tried to focus on the student but I couldn’t. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I found out that she was a high school junior, an honor student. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The students expected the militant Fuller to join them, but were surprised when he spoke against their idea. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I have a big new sign made for the entrance and hire a design student to work on our windows. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was the first sign I’d seen of any other students in the archives. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. Clifton waited until the door had shut behind the last student and then he said, “Is everything okay?” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

He looks sort of like a prep-school student, which will put him at a disadvantage in our school and make him stick out, because no one at our school has money, except drug dealers. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spotted some students from my school, walking toward the nearby football stadium, on their way to watch the game and root for our team. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

One student read Lady Macbeth’s soliloquies as raps. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The usual confusion and noise filled the corridors as the students began to disembark. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

My first semester I had only nine students. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Every student here today was handpicked for both academic and political excellence. You will represent all the teachers and students of our school when we celebrate the Communist Party Birthday on July first....” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Learning basic finger spelling to enhance musical activities with pitch and using sign language to enhance a song performance is very helpful. Sign language is a beautiful way to communicate; all students will benefit.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

For some of my students, my classroom is one of the only places where they feel safe. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

David: “If the class is debating, then each student has the right to say what’s on his mind.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed his books and walked out of the cafeteria, aware that the eyes of the other students were on him. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Because of Chapel Hill High School’s strict Zero Tolerance Policy toward drugs, the school nurse had to dispense all medications for Chapel Hill High School students. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“By the end of the interview he was sending me links for the best places to get food in town, and how to get student prices for the movies.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

To help the creative process, you might give students a short, simple rhythm to work with to create the motif. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Metias did pick me once—once—for a mission last year, when all third-year Drake students had to shadow an assigned military branch. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Instead, soon after he graduated, Vesalius went to Italy, where he enrolled as a graduate student at the University of Padua at the end of 1537. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Of course all the other students were screaming and cheering and all that, like I was putting on some kind of show. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Shanti, Jenna, and I are the first students on campus the next day, and we head straight for the locker room. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I have written over it. As one of Oppenheimer’s students put it: “Everyone sort of regarded him, very affectionately, as being sort of nuts.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a college out West in Ohio that took female students—a real college, not a young ladies’ seminary. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

A good daughter, one of Ms. Gruwell’s favorite students, and now I have an amazing new friend—but I’m lying to my mom, Ms. G, and Zlata. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Trios and pairs of students greet each other before disappearing inside a crowded lobby. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even Barry McCaffrey, former director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, once remarked, if your child bought drugs, “it was from a student of their own race generally.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Many of the professors used the Socratic method—direct, repetitive, and adversarial questioning—which had the incidental effect of humiliating unprepared students. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The students, however, remained seated quietly but resolutely on the lunch-counter stools until the store closed. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I only heard Dad’s end of the conversation when he called the head of the student sound studio. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many students near me ran away, while others tried desperately to hold on to walls, other people, a ledge—anything. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

His students and other actors used to defer to him so respectfully. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The seminar will have seventy-five graduate students who will each be paired up with two Freedom Writers. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The students and their guides stood watching her for a few moments in silence. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn toward her so that my back is to the stream of students. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

At 11 o’clock I left that building and crossed the Center Common where a few students were already lounging although it was still a little early in the season for that. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The “Mexican wing” of Crockett High School, which was really five dank and crowded basement rooms that no white student ever entered. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, I spoke to eight thousand students at the University of California, and the press there gave big coverage to what I said of the power and program of Mr. Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

As in 1934, at 1:00 p.m. a ferry—this year the MV Chippewa—departed the University of Washington’s Oceanographic Dock with a full load of students and the school’s marching band. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Some of the students are grumbling about it. Think you could convince Hafsa to give it a chance? You know how she rallies the others to her side. She’ll listen to you.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

In Connellsville, students from some of the other high schools wear sweatpants and sweatshirts to the workshops and performances—or even pajama bottoms. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I always volunteer to be a student guide on Open House night. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The principal threatened to have him arrested, but the students loved him. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

But American blacks, for whom death at the hands of the police was far from unprecedented, viewed the slaughter of its young college students as a moment of special ignominy. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Did the screening tell you that this student had something suspicious there?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She had an expired passport and an expired student visa. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Another student dove into the room, scrambled to their feet, and shut the door behind them. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“You play the part of the student who is learning how to read.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But because I missed the first few weeks of school, I also missed the first few weeks of work, and the bank filled my spot with another student. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Most students took at least a month of study before Cammar judged them ready to move on. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“It was terribly cold—below zero,” remembered Leona Woods, a twenty- three-year-old physics grad student. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I approach the other students with their practice swords, I hear my name whispered. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Similar to other sequenced learning approaches, such as Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development or scaffolding, Gordon’s approach relies on a gradual increase in skill level difficulty as the student progresses. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Panicked students in Georgia and North Carolina rushed to phones to call home. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The room was rarely full because students kept getting pulled away to do farmwork. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Between ninth and twelfth grades, their reading levels increased at a rate of 20 percent more than a cohort of similar students—as measured by academic ability and socioeconomics—who were not getting arts education. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

A nursing student pulls her up, she leaves her conga aside and starts wiggling her big butt in the middle of the circle—we yell out encouragement. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

A pretty blond student joins Richards at the podium, and he puts an arm around her. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

This is the student who sculpted those curvy, heavy ceramic containers? You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

One day I noticed that some of our longtime students had not returned. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Developing more positive attitudes about teaching students with behavior disorders goes a long way to reduce the stress of teaching them. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Ludo Bagman was beaming and winking at various students. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The morning of the play, the students of Room 205 chatted and laughed, leaving their bags on their desks and ignoring the assignment on the board. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Monday night’s homework always took forever, because the spelling words were also vocabulary words, and Ms. Udell insisted that each student write an official dictionary definition of each word before using it in a sentence. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, I coaxed Mrs. Diamant down from her chair and into the exercises I’d seen the students doing outside the gymnasium. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“My first real collecting as a student of natural history was done in Egypt on this journey,” Roosevelt recalled. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The nuns would praise student papers for being neat—the handwritten letters easy for others to read; they promised that my writing style would improve as I read more and more. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was an honor student at school who liked to tell people she wanted to go to Harvard someday. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“All graduating students have a counselor assigned to them?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They don’t believe he’s a graduate student in Astrophysics out chasing butterflies, they think he’s a spy, although they can’t figure out why he would have been so open about it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The everyday practice of boiling, scrubbing, buffing and wiping became the badge of the students’ professional pride, to which all personal comfort must be sacrificed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

McKissick and the black student leaders knew that such violence could only hurt their cause, and at 10 P.M. they persuaded the protesters to go home. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I knew she was a native of Detroit, and that she had been a student at Tuskegee Institute down in Alabama—an education major. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could a brand-new student, who didn’t know a soul in the place, get himself elected president? Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

It was a wonderful accomplishment for a school where the background of many students was far more economically disadvantaged than that of students attending Permian. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The students who sat there,” he says, “got no eye contact from me whatsoever.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

While I was a student at Syracuse University, I set up a foundation to help improve the lives of Sudanese refugees still in Africa, as well as Lost Boys who had moved to America. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The college students, by contrast, were willing to wait a bit, and they were prepared to wait more or less time depending on who the text was from. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Catherine asks me as Miss Gordon walks around the class talking to students about their projects. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

My middle school didn’t have much of a music program, so Mom found me a private teacher, a college student who came over once a week. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not a single student has emerged from the barracks. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“What’s wrong?” a student in the seat in front of me asked. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The student coordinator had blundered into the problem of syntactic ambiguity. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Are petty meanness and spite characteristics you approve of in students who seek to become arcanists? The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He always spoke respectfully and with a certain surprise of the positive response of white students to his lectures. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Proctor made its students pay for their own pathological specimens. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Again his eyes moved back and forth along the rows of students, and again he nodded, as if someone had confirmed what he’d said. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I talked to the black students afterward, and I asked them, ‘Did anything lower your performance?’” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

But it turns on a very simple fact, the same fact that runs through the tangled history of Harlan and the Michigan students. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“Here are some of the projects that 7th graders—students the same as you—have tackled over the past few years.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The scholarship pays for the top-scoring student in the region to study at a private boarding school in Kolkata. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s okay with me. And that reminds me, we might have a first student for your lessons, a little girl named Aisha. Her mother was inquiring at the Islamic Center.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Though it was a mostly Xhosa institution, there were also students from different tribes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Evers had attracted national attention back in the early 1960s when he led a store boycott in Jackson, Mississippi, and when he helped black student James Meredith enter the all-white University of Mississippi in 1962. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the first phase of Job Corps, students are tested to place them at the right level of GED training. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I decided to keep coaching at Columbia High School because I had developed a close bond with the students there and really grew to love them. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I was glad to get away from those students when I was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study in London. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every student at the Academy spent several hours each day working in the kitchens or the library, cleaning the practice hall or sweeping the corridors. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

As the drawing made its way around the class, the other students laughed hysterically. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

No matter how many times, I said, “You can go ahead of me,” there were more students. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

They were all looking away — away from each other, away from the other students, away from anything in particular as far as I could tell. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Instead, they surged forward, threatening to overrun the barricades and the police, demanding to see for themselves that only white students remained. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Summer classes have been over for more than two weeks and lots of the students who board are returning. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

And so she sat stiff-tongued, surrounded by students who were all folded easily on their seats, all flush with knowledge, not of the subject of the classes, but of how to he in the classes. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He strutted off toward a grassy area where students were gabbing in small groups. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Good schooling requires that any student alter early childhood habits. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He risked a glance; it was one of the advancing cops, their hands up, their focus not on any of the students, but on Daley. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Needless to say, I was overjoyed when I saw a pay phone next to a wooden bench near the student drop-off area. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Our work together flushing out the more dilettante students has made this school a safer, purer place — SCORPIUS: Has it? Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Although preliminary analysis by Clausen and a graduate student, Edward Treadwell, indicated the seeds contained traces of an alkaloid, subsequent, more thorough testing turned up no indication of any alkaloids whatsoever, toxic or otherwise. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Olinski said, "By the time they get to sixth grade, honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“This school. The students that come out of it. The things we do. It’s all wrong.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

A student called to ask him for suggestions about what to write on placards; another student was contacting the local TV stations. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She thought that if she were perfect in every way—if she were the best spire fighter, best student, perfect daughter, perfect everything—she'd be worthy enough for the light. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He was twenty-five, a sometime law student who spent his summers working around Spokane. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some accents were better than others, but the students exhibited an ease and confidence I found intimidating. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Shortly before the election, a meeting of all students was held to discuss problems and voice our grievances. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Virginia, Reggie had a good time, and was a decent student. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

When I was a student at the school, my coeditor of the high school newspaper got his girlfriend pregnant. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Just like the students I defended, I was being stereotyped. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

When Linus beckoned that they must go, I told Ava Helen that I would help her son adjust to the restricted life of the Cambridge research student. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Many Osage students at Mollie’s school tried to flee, but lawmen chased after them on horseback and bound them with ropes, hauling them back. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Someday, I said to myself, I will become a teacher, one who does not just teach, but also shows respect to all his Indian students and expects the best of everyone. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

There Rutherford held forth three times a week to an audience of about forty students, occasionally consulting a few loose pages of notes drawn from the inside pocket of his coat. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

They had no choice, said another student; the Executives never allowed it. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Come on,” I tell her, dragging her toward the other students. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I was probably no better than her other students, no less fumbling, but I was driven. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Boston was teeming with students, double-parked on side streets, unloading trunks. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surely she would not have to go in there with the students, she thought; surely he would open the faculty lounge soon and she could use the unisex restroom there, the one reserved for teachers. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I had always been a good student, but I began doing terribly in school. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

At that moment, he and Lawrence realized that Alvarez, their student and protege, was seeing them at their worst. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But for me at least, this non-appearance of Hailsham students just added to a feeling that Hailsham was now far away in the past, and that the ties binding our old crowd were fraying. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

During a parade in Berlin, the Hitler Youth attacked a visiting American student when he failed to salute their banner. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He just said, “I want to talk about 1 of my favorite students.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Rumors were flying from student to student like highly contagious germs: who was going to try for Hogwarts champion, what the tournament would involve, how the students from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang differed from themselves. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

With the answers in hand and lots of unanswered questions, the students had ample opportunity to cheat. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just wanted to go downstairs and demonstrate to my exacting great-aunt what a gifted girl I was, how it would take no effort at all for me to become her star student. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Outside, students wandering back to their dormitories were talking and laughing. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Like they were completely alone instead of in the middle of the sidewalk while students streamed around them, hurrying to class. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The school had an internationally famous music program and student choir. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

When the other students saw my creation, they clapped. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Behind them two students struck a gong and beat a drum. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The halls were mostly empty, but a few students were still straggling out. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike the other students, she didn’t get driven to school in a sleek black car. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She announced that once our lesson was finished and the class took “the test,” all the students who passed the exam would be eligible to attend a field trip to the Medieval Times restaurant. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Back in Durham, NCC student leaders contacted their counterparts at Shaw University in Raleigh and urged them to orchestrate their own sit-in and to pass the word along to other black schools. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She’s dressed in jeans, a gray hoodie, and Sperry’s, the unofficial uniform of Poplar Springs Middle School students. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“We have twenty-two universities and colleges with over two hundred thousand students in Dalian,” he explained. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Soap was sometimes distributed to students as a special reward for hard work. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“If you can beat my Shawn, I’d love to claim you as a student.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The only good thing about the meetings was that they allowed me to visit with my friends—the other students who would be integrating Central, i had known most of them all my life. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There must have been a thousand or so students in that huge room. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But an exceptionally clever student could take a book outside, thus bettering himself without fear of lessening his much-loved faculty of sight.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He managed: "I'm a new student. This is my first time here." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

If a student pleased her during a particular period, he could not count on special treatment in the next day’s class, and that was as true the other way around. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no necessity for the chocolate roll call now because most of the students were bringing their returns directly to Brian Cochran in the office. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a matter of a few months, half a dozen other students were working under him, and he’d put seven thousand dollars into his bank account. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It became so bad, Principal Jenkins said he would give detention to any student caught littering on school grounds. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Thus the students already at risk, already suffering, have become suspects, linked in various thoughtless ways to mass murder and—consequently—more alienated than before. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only when I tried to teach math, while Anatole was working with the older students, did they raise pandemonium. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I should have asked Zuccarini was the following: On the off chance a Truman student did qualify for your school, why would he or she want to pay $45,000 to go there? Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I followed Hugh into the mass migration of students heading out of the building at eleven fifteen. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

But the student easily coined the new word because of his very distance from Chicano culture. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the students were from other clans, very few from my village. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both schools could now count on tens of thousands of students, alumni, and excited citizens to turn out for their annual dual regattas in April, when they battled for preeminence in West Coast rowing. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

My school championed the carnival planning, led by Ms. Holly, who formed committees of students and volunteers from the local synagogue and Emily’s church. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The nursing students, who are all West Indian like Nurse Monica, and young, unlike her, absolutely adore him and give him big smiles, which increases his activity. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Eventually, all three students would quarrel fiercely, unleashing a cycle of envy and destructiveness that would blaze through the discipline of genetics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

In the remaining free minutes, hopeful students often took turns tugging at the door, which remained stubbornly closed. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing we said was of any help to the Moroccan student. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“With fifty students, sir, and my after-school tutoring, I can’t spend much time helping him. I grade his practice exams and assign him extra problems every day, but he doesn’t seem to be mastering it.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting in on a Berkeley seminar given by a group of Oppenheimer students in 1940, Fermi found himself unable to follow the mumbled discussion. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The page was crowded with thousands of comments and videos of Nicole, her pageant appearances, student council speeches, tennis matches, mash-up tributes cut to saccharin music. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Most of them were funny and nonathletic, chatty and rather alcoholic, college kids or art students. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Gosling began his experiment by doing a personality workup on eighty college students. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The good news was that more students were coming up to me, which was a chance for me to ask their names. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Honor students—black, white, or Asia Minor—tended to be nicer. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“It’s true, lady. I’ve had older students that would have loved to do half as well.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mixed in with all the college students and farm boys and out- of-work loggers, there were grizzled hard-rock miners from all over the West. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He had taken a Memorial Day weekend trip with a friend, another student at our school, and the friend’s father to Las Vegas. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the two years I spend with Volpe and his students, I sometimes wonder: Has he pushed it too far? Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I could never have possibly read over the illiteracies and misconceptions burbling from the dark minds of these students. It will be the same wherever I work.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The images on TV frightened me and caused me to ask myself, Could I do what these black students are doing.? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He stood at the head of the classroom as usual, arms crossed and occasionally nodding at students. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Her students were old enough that she rarely read aloud to them, but today she wanted them to be able to focus on what she called the “magnificent melancholy of Charlotte’s final moments.” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

This is what he did when he wanted his students to do the talking. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

When I told Ms. G about the fight, she told me about one of her students named Sharuad, who was teased because he had big lips. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

At first, black workers were supportive of the students and stayed away from jobs. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her daughter Marilyn was also a student at Hillside High School. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’m starting to get really annoyed with this line of questioning, especially since guidance has a student who says he’s from outer space in the next room. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was hard to miss: three times older than any of the other students with his wild hair and grizzled beard. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The years I’d spent helping Mom check spelling on her students’ homework had given me lots of practice for this line of work. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I told him on the way, pointedly enough, that I was a student of Buddhism. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

All new faces, all set like stone, all surveying the students as they entered. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Creative problem solving requires that you be able to see and manipulate your lesson material in unique ways to reach all types of student learners. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Leon would pick Bailey: one of the weak kids, high honor student, but shy, introverted, always reading, his eyes red- rimmed behind the glasses. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

To help her students learn, she engraved a series of elegant flower prints they could use as templates for their own work. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Questions were answered on a volunteer basis, and I was able to sit back and relax, confident that the same few students would do most of the talking. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Not a kid, not a student, but a professional piano player, ready for a concert performance. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Which was funny to think about, actually, considering the way she had favorite students. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was there in the social worker at Harper High School who made a point of shouting out her love and appreciation for students each time she passed them in the hall. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Most students of Titan agree that complex organic molecules are the most likely explanation. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

African Americans, Latinos, and Asians now make up the majority of the student body. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He constantly pesters students and teachers to properly dispose of their plastic water bottles. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

But when another strong earthquake hit within a few minutes of the first, the students were sent home. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But for Mr. Larson and his students, it was the last lesson in a unit about the most interesting subject they had ever studied. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Around that same time, the Arkansas Board of Education surprised us all by saying that seven state junior colleges would now be open to our undergraduate students. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When Mr. Bontaff calls everyone to attention and announces that it’s time for the student council election speeches, I stuff the note in my pocket. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

In addition to some understanding of algebra, geometry, and analytic geometry, high school students should be exposed to some of the most important ideas of so-called finite mathematics. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the classroom, I discover I’m the tallest student by at least a head or two. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marian’s grammar school, like her neighborhood, was racially mixed, with black students and white students, but all the teachers were white. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Rawiya locked arms with him as they paraded down the hallway, passing more classrooms, students emptying into the stream like the loosing of a dam. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The leaflets glided toward the first floor just as students burst out of the lecture halls. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

McKissick and student leaders had kept plans for the rally secret, fearing that more conservative blacks would tip off the authorities. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It has, on a few occasions, gone to a couple of students who’ve done a community service project together,” he answered, scratching his forehead. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Ask students how they might label such instruments. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

For instance, students were told they’ve received a text from their significant other. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Without any students, the hallway doesn’t look like a real middle school, it looks like a movie set of a middle school. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

For many Navajo students, this was the end of formal education. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the doubt that sat in my mind through student orientation, through my first sessions of high school biology and English, through my somewhat fumbling get-to-know-you conversations in the cafeteria with new friends. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It finally fell to two men from Cambridge University, a geophysicist named Drummond Matthews and a graduate student of his named Fred Vine, to draw all the strands together. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The first place he took Ged was the wardrobe room, where as a student of the school Ged might find himself another such cloak that fitted him, and any other clothing he might need. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

That day, the teachers and students in Henry Metelmann’s school were called together to listen to Adolf Hitler’s victory speech over the radio. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The student followed step for step, like his partner in a deadly dance. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mike persevered, a coach’s dream who worked hard and became a gifted student of the game of football, just as he had in baseball with his father. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just had to get up there in front of the entire student body and join the fan club. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

There were only about one hundred students in the whole school, right? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Oakland Police have a 16-year-old high school student in custody, based on video camera footage from the bus. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The returning student had recently come through a difficult divorce, and because her pain was significant, she wrongly insisted that her writing was significant as well. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

And if he looked at the difference between a student’s score in June and then in the following September, he could see how much that student learned over the course of the summer. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

That’s where we got our clothes, our toys, the special things that hadn’t been made by another student. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Booker T. Washington High, whose sports teams were known as the Yellow Jackets, was one of Montgomery’s two public high schools for black students, the other being George Washington Carver High. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

In the past, only a dramatically inept or difficult student was held back a grade. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

It was almost November, but the junior high school teachers were still out of the city establishing revolutionary ties, and no one could enroll us new students. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the students had gone out of their way to be nice and help me if I didn’t understand something. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

If there weren’t enough white students left in Detroit to go around, he would get them from somewhere else. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When teachers remind students of this, they are embarrassed. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The student turned around and looked me square in the face. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You sure you don’t want to start with treasurer? To see if you even like student council first?” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

It was surrounded by palm trees and banana trees, and, when the bananas ripened, the students all got free bananas at lunch. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She’s so old and forgetful that most of the time the students are the ones teaching the class. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

There were posters warning students about the dangers of drugs and STDs. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

There was no twelfth grade—students got a diploma and could go to college when they finished eleventh. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The call came on a Friday evening as I was lying in bed, grading student essays. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“A lot of times, students would come in here and he was like their little counselor. He would help them get through whatever was going on.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

You’d find the freelance thugs pushing off for rebounds, and the A students, quietly showing off silky jump shots and then running back downcourt eyes down, trying not to look too pleased with themselves. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

When I went back out to my truck, other students were starting to arrive. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The kids wandered around, lost for ten minutes before they ran into a student in plaid flannel pajama bottoms and boots that looked like house slippers. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

When Blanca saw her, her first reaction was that the grandfather’s predictions had been true and that the police had attacked the students with their clubs. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We students put down our hair texture and skin color all the time. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Finally, in late March, black ministers from the group not only gave their blessing to the action but joined students and other activists on the picket lines. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Teachers confronted with evidence of a student’s inadequate comprehension found it easiest to dispense a grade that moved a student toward meaningless graduation. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, while reciting his lines in a school play, Kanue was mocked by another student because of his accent. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The closest he had ever come to feeling like this had been during those months, in his second year, when a large part of the school had suspected him of attacking his fellow students. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The student from the other locker rounds the corner into the hall, almost colliding into Steve. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Then again, how many business or law students ever visit their old professors once they leave? Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told the old man with the politeness and modesty fitting to young men and students. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind Christoffel, the other students call for him to hurry up. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I hope to impart the same to my students.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

I stepped into the hallway, where students were rushing to get to their classes. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

They were the last students to pick up. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

All for wanting the key to what Central High School and the all-white schools across the South had kept locked away from black students like her. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“If I were the V.C., the students would not riot. They would have water and light.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was among fifteen girls nominated to walk out for inspection by the assembled student body on voting day. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The students heard the low voices of the mourners growing louder and louder as they approached. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The probationers and the second-year students worked twelve hours without rest. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

One day in the fall of 2015, two ninth-grade students sat in Biology class at Oakland High School watching a substitute teacher try in vain to control the classroom. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Grandma Rose is sipping her tea slowly, and I can almost sense her counting to ten—advice she gives to argumentative Carver students. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I knew that Dell Duke saw other students from the school district, but the sight of the two older kids made me uncomfortable. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

It was used by all twenty-five teachers to keep grade records and also to create a test bank of the various exams they gave to students. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone was there, every rabbi, student, and college teacher. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Finally, the instructions given by the experimenters to each student varied as well. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Quite a boast for a man without a sword," the student said. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

She said university women kept framed photos of their student days in Ibadan and Britain and America on their shelves. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The students gave me a standing ovation, All day long I met with small groups, and later I received letters, and what I heard over and over was this: “You told us the truth.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

First, before the experiment even started, they gave the students a questionnaire about why they had chosen to study theology. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So it happened: Academia accepted its so-called minority students. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

McNeil asked the other two students if they were chicken, and they, of course, said no. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It's something she's said to her students a hundred times—when we were exhausted from back-to-back training battles or we hadn’t slept in days. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Performing Arts, the write-up said, was an academic, as opposed to a vocational, public school that trained students wishing to pursue a career in theater, music, and dance. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

A student called out, “It doesn’t make sense!” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Sprinkled throughout, students play games on their phones. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Administrators at Amherst and Harvard have also recently said that they would redouble their efforts to take into account the obstacles students have overcome. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was Stirling, the wealthy one, who Blaine told her came from Boston old money; he and his father had been legacy students at Harvard. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was also unusual to find teachers who demanded from students their very best, who refused to succumb to the notion that there was no reason to challenge them because they simply didn’t care. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear the terrified cries of teachers and students, could see the blood cover the dance floor. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I wish I knew whether she says this to every student. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Everyone knows who we are and what we’re doing. Bringing it to the whole student body’s attention is why we formed this club and are making these videos. We should be allowed to share them.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It’s the best students who get the best teaching and most attention. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“She told Uncle Charley that having Mr. Schroeder clean up after students is sending the wrong signal. She thinks we need to learn to clean up after ourselves.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

What I know about her from Jupe: she does a lot of social justice stuff—organizes protest marches and goes around to high schools, ours included, to get students “active in their communities.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The instructor for her part believed that the text the students used, Adventures in English Literature, which contained selected works by Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, and Daniel Defoe among others, was too hard for them. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were given dedicated teachers, first Mr. Martinez and then Mr. Bennett, both gentle and good-humored African American men, both keenly focused on what their students had to say. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As he tries to melt into the background, the other students laugh. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

“Once, we bothered students with persistent annoyances,” he said. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

If that worked out they would begin integrating grades seven through nine, the junior high students. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We want to represent everybody in the school and will work hard to make all voices heard on the student council. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Hasidic students sulked, scowled, glowered, and then forgot it too. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The students around me seemed so sure of themselves that I despaired of ever being able to conduct myself as they did. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I was filling out the application, my competitive side kicked in and I was convinced that my students had to win! The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The video tribute to Coach Washington was a little less than ten minutes long, mostly consisting of interviews with past teachers and students and narration over old photos. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

High honor student and varsity guard on the football team. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, Annie’s naked photo had been sent to every student in school, shared on the school’s homework forums, and posted online. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The student body was, for the most part, a homogenous mass of about two thousand people who were apparently in love with basketball. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I was very excited by this idea and discussed it with one of my students, Ian Moss. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She does a double take. Many students would just let that fly by. Instead, she thought, ‘That doesn’t jibe with whatever I’m thinking. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I saw this vastness in the students chopping it up in front of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Hall, where Muhammad Ali had addressed their fathers and mothers in defiance of the Vietnam War. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She wrote Curtis MacDougall, a college professor she knew, and asked him to persuade his students to collect money for the appeal and write Claudette messages of support. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“Off you go, off you go, the bell rang five minutes ago, off to class, now,” he said, shooing some of the younger students away. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The best the school could do was to make it hot for any student caught going there. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

My performance as a law student was dismal. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next afternoon I take the bus home, because Tiny is busy at the student council meeting. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

“This is one of my students,” Mr. Reilly explains, over the thunk of the little girl doing judo kicks. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When Brother Jacques used the word a sixth time and a weary battalion of students struggled to their feet to perform their task, Obie saw a small smile play on the lips of the teacher. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I wanted to know what a teacher assigning the poem might want his or her students to discover. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“His students loved him. And not only because he wouldn’t beat them with rulers, like other teachers did. They respected him, you see, because he respected them. He was marvelous.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Well, good, then, because let’s not go to the student center. I didn’t want to go there.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

But I have no complaints, because this was the best student council meeting I’ve ever had. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Jutta brings the duffel up to the desk in her bedroom and sets it down on the floor and grades another of her students’ exams. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I can’t imagine fighting peasants in Vietnam,” one student said to him, “given everything I have learned about moral behavior over my lifetime.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

His inattentive students, longing for the end of the day, took little notice, I suspect, of the historic moment. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All students are to remain in their classes. Teachers, begin lockdown procedures. This is not a drill. The all clear will sound when lockdown is over.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The classroom had been crowded, but there were even more students outside. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had to have a good grade point average, good attendance, and take more classes than the average student. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

As a result, its students were dispersed across the railroad tracks to the remaining two high schools in town, Permian and Odessa High. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wrote circulars and articles about it, and the student union got involved. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I had studied Sweden’s progressive approach to the rehabilitation of criminal offenders as a graduate student and had long marveled at how focused on recovery their system appeared. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A student who was a neighbor of Sasha’s had heard they were in the hospital, but didn’t know why. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

At least I didn’t have one problem that bothered a lot of my fellow students: airsickness. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I joined a group of about twenty students from different grades, set off in a self-contained classroom apart from the rest of the school with our own recess, lunch, music, and gym schedules. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As they left to head toward the student union and grab a bite, they passed a pretty girl in sunglasses with shaggy blond hair, a nose ring, and sleeve tattoos. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Teachers could take their students on a virtual field trip every day, without ever leaving the school grounds. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

In arithmetic and later in mathematics he topped our grades, and in Latin he not only was a better student but he didn’t cheat. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore’s blue eyes swept over the students before he smiled once more. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

When we showed our movie to other English classes, lots of the students who had made fun of us for being in a remedial English class began asking how they could get into the class. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I have a student who needs to come with me for...um...for a locker search.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Schools at the time still punished students by whacking their hands or bottoms with straps or a long, thin piece of wood called a cane. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

She was hardly one of their favorite students. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Primary school students attended class six days a week. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I looked all around to make certain there were no Central students who might recognize me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I like to see my students applying themselves, but don’t mistake a few weeks of practice for years of it.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There are even a few teachers out there, trying—unsuccessfully—to herd their students back inside. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Jackson stared at Kate, amazed a student had spoken to him that way. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was a jangling mass of excitement as I watched other students slowly trickle into the room. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Lack of students, mostly. If you’re old enough to go to college, you’re old enough to be drafted. Even if that wasn’t the case, I doubt people can really afford it anymore.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I should have known the Commandant wouldn’t cancel classes, not even to honor the deaths of dozens of her students. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Monday at recess, I sell them to the students and teachers for two sucres apiece. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The male teachers and students still call the shots and get the serious attention and the fellowships that further their careers. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d moved through NYU’s campus at a brisk pace, our efficiency aided by the fact that it was still early and many students were not yet up for the day. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I wondered why the students needed so many toilets. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It was common for Shin and other students to take a chance. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Every time she cut one, she would glare at me, and I don’t think she was thinking thoughts about nurturing one of her students in wisdom and learning. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“You said Alexander’s student won the last challenge, what happened to him?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Moody began to beckon students forward in turn and put the Imperius Curse upon them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She’s the only female student at Blackcliff; in the black, close-fitting fatigues all students wear, her strong, slender form has always drawn admiring glances. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The air was filled with the buzz of a hundred students at recess, punctuated by yells, laughter, and, occasionally, Mrs. Fields’s piercing whistle. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Pedalian was squeezing between two nearby tables, where students were wincing and crying out as he passed. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

We had heard rumors of a planned student protest. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child’s blindness, added to a student’s thirst for knowledge. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

I always thought you were a great student and a gifted writer. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

A dozen students were scattered throughout the room, reading. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Across the country, the United States debated the quality of its schools, concerned with how American students matched up to the Soviets in math and the sciences. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Now which of these two students do you think is better suited to do the kind of brilliant, imaginative work that wins Nobel Prizes? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The farthest Buddy Willard ever went was buying us a bottle of Dubonnet, which he only did because he was trying to prove he could be aesthetic in spite of being a medical student. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I wasn’t that bad a student,” Matt murmured. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, students would stand on the veranda and urinate into the bushes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

John and I came up with a contract stipulating that once the computers arrived the 35 students with the highest grade point average would win a computer when they graduated. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It’d mainly be the same students I would have been teaching at Hall High.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They seemed to have returned at the head of what looked like the families and friends of every Hogwarts student who had remained to fight, along with the shopkeepers and homeowners of Hogsmeade. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Since there were so many kids and not much room, four students shared a desk meant for one. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

About a dozen students gathered in a circle in an empty classroom a few days later. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It must have been the lunch break because as we stepped into the courtyard there were about twenty students loitering around chatting in little groups. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rather, he would quietly appoint a committee to deliberate for eternity over exactly which door, and of what dimensions, would best facilitate the ingress and egress of all students. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Just before supper, however, Jackson and many of the other Executives would appear from inside the gym and let the students in. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

They were more accurate at measuring conscientiousness, and they were much more accurate at predicting both the students’ emotional stability and their openness to new experiences. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Link swore me to secrecy, so other than Mother and Grandmother, none of the other seven students knew he existed. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Come next Monday, I won’t be the only student with a clear-cut victory. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s the school where students are striking against the war and against racism.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

If they were to survive, they had to find customers, patrons, and students. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Two hundred juniors and seniors—about half white and half black, with a smattering of students from other racial and ethnic backgrounds—file into the school auditorium for a midmorning assembly. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

And then a few Asian students recount their experiences being asked if they understand English. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I also went to Cuba with a group of Johns Hopkins students to study the island’s arts and culture—a trip I used to try to find my long-lost great-aunt and other family members. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

At many colleges there are large groups of students who volunteer at the campus health center. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Each morning, as they headed to their school, the Mountain View students, most wearing leather shoes and woolen coats against the wind, would sometimes give them a wave as they passed by, sometimes not. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A transfer student, by the end of her first day she'd raised her hand so many times that her shoulder had given out. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Levin, at one point, went into a seventh-grade music class with seventy kids in it and asked for a show of hands on when the students woke up. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Although out here in the bright sun, which was reaching higher into the sky, the other students’ hair looked even blonder. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Through the eating club, she had friends who were white and wealthy, including a bona fide teenage movie star and a European student rumored to be a princess. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

By the end of his first year he would never again be known as the son of a Muggle-hater, but as nothing more or less than the most brilliant student ever seen at the school. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“He liked to tell how he fed some of his first heavy water to a fly,” recalled one student, “and it rolled over on his back and winked at him.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Nasser’s home, in the Broadmoor neighborhood adjacent to Uptown, had been flooded, and he’d come to the student association for shelter, knowing it was on higher ground. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“The brother and sister from World War Two who wrote all those pamphlets urging other German college students to resist the Nazis?” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He pulls up in front of the student drop-off. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

You probably wouldn’t even want to change answers on every student’s test—another tip-off. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m a straight-A student,” number fifty-nine says, a boy whose socks are pulled so high, he may’ve actually lost a bet with someone. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I shook my head, remembering a time when one of my student teachers invited me to play in a quartet. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

College students couldn’t find jobs, and thousands of people were being laid off from long-term careers. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“I’ll be there for sure. And I’m giving extra credit to students who go. I’ll announce that tomorrow,” he tells me. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A hundred students left the Arcanum every year, perhaps a quarter of them with their guilders. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Most students attend the University for several terms before being admitted into the Arcanum. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“And didn’t they consume transport?” asked the student. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clarkston High School became home to students from more than fifty countries. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

A simple task be-cause Brother Leon insisted that all kinds of cross- indexed lists be kept so that you could tell at a glance just where students stood. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two students run into class, giggling- I firm my muscles, ready for the giggles to explode into laughter thrown at me. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

School rules are made with the students’ best interests in mind. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Most of the other students came from well-off Massachusetts families, spared worries over rent or food. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I kept eyeing students who walked by, trying to see if they looked smart. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

As a Caltech graduate student, Carl Anderson spent several days in a packed lecture hall straining unsuccessfully to make sense of Oppenheimer’s class on quantum mechanics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Most students were headed to the gym to play games before supper, and Mr. Curtain was not in his favorite spot. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It has happened before. Potion ingredients have gone missing from my private store cupboard . . . students attempting illicit mixtures, no doubt. “Reckon they were after potion ingredients, eh?” said Moody. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Like chickens drinking, the students lifted their eyes towards the distant ceiling. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m convinced that they’re gonna make it through the whole student body by the end of the month. Don’t they do that down at Eastside?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

For the high school paper, Adina had covered a student council scandal in which the student body president had sold test answers in order to buy himself a new SUV. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It often involved solving practical problems or making something new, and that appealed to her considerable and burgeoning intellectual curiosity—a curiosity that had already made her an unusually proficient student at school, scholarly even. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Many white students went out of their way to make me feel welcome. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a small charter school, public, just 140 students, but U.S. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

After that beating, students who were younger and smaller than Shin began to insult his mother. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

High school students walking home hurled snowballs at them; the South Beach bus slid off the road shoulder just beyond Island Center. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ms. Gruwell took some of her students from Wilson to her college diversity seminar at National University. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Del Rio, the principal, stood outside the automatic sliding doors greeting his students with handshakes. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

She quickly realized it would be best not to tell the rest of her fellow students either. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scott Crutchfield, another gifted student ranked in the top ten who would end up going to Duke, said he had two to three hours of homework a week. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The paper doesn’t feature nearly enough profiles of student athletes. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

How much money did his students go on to make? Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Werfel, trying to make him feel better, said, “Oh, of course not—it’s in Old Goblinish. Very difficult even for goblin students to understand. Of course! Of course.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Hans was already a medical student at the University of Munich when war broke out in 1939. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tim wouldn’t be around to direct the press toward the evidence he’d planted that was supposed to point at one of the students who had previously been suspended for making threats. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The other students did know who he was. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

With a sense of humor, he also told off-color stories to the students he befriended. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Former all-white public schools had opened their doors to black students, as had department stores, restaurants, lunch counters, swimming pools, libraries, and other private and tax-supported facilities. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“We are not looking to make an example of any of our students,” Dr. Jansen answered. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Maybe she’s met kids like me before—other students who have obsessive routines and patterns. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

And for students there are sharks with the blood drained out and yellow and blue color substituted in veins and arteries, so that you may follow the systems with a scalpel. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unable to bear the cold and without the approval of his guard, he joined several other students who tried to wade out. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I had expected her to come home full of energy, gushing about the other students and her teacher and how much she had learned. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Students hoot and holler when one of their own—their drama teacher or a fellow student—is called forward or even just when the name of their school is mentioned. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

In the past few years, stereos have begun disappearing from college dorms as students attach speakers to their computers and play their MP3s. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was almost a fistfight, and the two students were kept apart with difficulty by members of their respective sides. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The experts and the students both agreed that Featherweight was number three. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The Munich students weren’t stirred to action, as Sophie had wished. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Most of the displaced white students have found somewhere to go to school. Like ninety percent or so.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sometimes look at a Facebook page devoted to Truman Drama, where Volpe’s former students communicate with one another and reminisce about what the program meant to them. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She had never been a good student, but now she thrived in the CAT classes. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

When called, Fred Gray’s student witnesses offered a very different story, of two police officers confronting a teenage girl with frightening force on a packed bus. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

He looks at their faces as if he can predict what will become of them, and in one sense he can, since teachers write thorough notations in their students' Party record books. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

In 1988 whites made up 69 percent and Hispanics 23 percent of the student body. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was led into a white classroom with thirty other students, who took their seats and placed their pencils on their desks. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He watched the class like a hawk, suspicious, searching out cheaters or daydreamers, probing for weaknesses in the students and then exploiting those weaknesses. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bunch of other students added their own dreams of what first they wanted to achieve. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It was a typical student apartment: prints of modern French paintings tacked onto the walls and books and papers piled on tables and chairs. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The student protests could “shake up the world,” Shuttlesworth reported excitedly. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I had not uttered a single syllable in my five sessions as a student, and I had no intention of doing so. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

A good student, she hadn’t even asked her mother about going on to junior high. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He told potential donors that many of the American-born students at Brown had never even been to church, to say nothing of the students from Asia or the Middle East. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

As with any high school on Friday, the anticipation of the weekend brought excitement, and this was a special Friday for Central High’s student body. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My life was unlike that of any other graduate student I knew. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the most famous resistance groups was the White Rose, headed by Hans Scholl and his close-knit group of fellow students who had grown disillusioned with the Nazi government and the war. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He graduated from this part of the course in 1591, second out of a class of fourteen, and moved on to his theological studies described by his tutors as an exceptional student. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I look below me and everyone is there, teachers and students, and my dad eating a hamburger raw, holding it up to the sky like he’s toasting me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But at Truman, somewhere close to half the students take at least one theater class before graduating, and those most keenly interested in theater take the whole progression. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Beside me, the student's eyes swam with a distorting cataract of tears, his features rigid as though he struggled within himself. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Evidently, every high school student would now have to perform community-service hours every semester in order to graduate, effective immediately. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few students had gathered at the edges of the plaza and in the rock garden, passing the time before supper. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Professor Joseph Hickey and his students at the University of Wisconsin, after careful comparative studies of sprayed and unsprayed areas, reported the robin mortality to be at least 86 to 88 per cent. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Citing exhaustion and, later, the effects of a recent and ongoing bout with hepatitis, Knight departed the campus, leaving the students no negotiating partner. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The students shriek with disgust at the sight of a tin pan hanging from the bottom of a wooden chair. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

During the 1988-89 school year, Odessa High also had a greater percentage of students than Permian pass the state- mandated test in math and English that was required for a diploma. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It underpinned the more difficult “quadrivium”—arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy— that students went on to learn; all seven subjects taken in toto being the so-called liberal arts. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

He turned to look with strangely guilty eyes at Jackson, who came marching toward him through the little clusters of students, all of whom flattened themselves against the walls to let him pass. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Miss Garcia was a student, a fifth grader. Her mother, all the parents came to pick up their kids.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

She would go from one student to the next, sit herself squarely before him or her, and say, Now put your hand on my throat. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often students believe that writing a lesson plan is only used in a classroom setting. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I walk down the hall in the other direction and watch as students zip by. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

All year long I had encouraged my students to avoid using labels like “all” and other gross generalizations. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Being in bed for a year gave me an advantage over the other students and school is easy for me. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I’m...flattered, sir. I’m sure you were a brilliant student.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

They were looking for the “fist” of those college students. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

When we walked out onto the university’s court, we were met by a packed house of students, faculty, parents, and friends clapping and screaming at higher decibels than I’d ever heard before. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Standing by the blackboard in his office at LeConte Hall, attended by his ever-present students, Oppenheimer declared promptly, “That’s impossible,” and proceeded to demonstrate mathematically why Hahn and Strassmann must have been mistaken. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

See, the All-City band needed a human service project, and a couple of the students came up with an amazing plan for one. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He still thought high school students were nice. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

From somewhere in the middle of the sea of students, Jetta’s hands shot into the air and she cried out a triumphant, “Mein Chef!” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

How could I be turning sweet sixteen in just a few days and be a student at Central High, I thought as I entered the side door of the school. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a nurse appeared at St. Tarkmanchatz without warning and plunged a clumsy cholera injection into the arm of each student, Liyana stayed home from school for days with a raging fever. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Harris, the principal who normally spent most of her time hiding from students in her office, offered to actually walk me to my locker. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Henry’s one of my best students. He’ll show you to your class.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

My older brother was a star student in elementary school. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Though obvious in principle, the consequences are sometimes resisted, as they were by the student of mine who maintained that human hair just didn’t grow in miles per hour. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

His words were not just something a student liked hearing; he or she needed to hear them at that moment. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Teachers often talked to their students about the Jews. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

This seems to violate some code, an unwritten pact between Volpe and his students. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Strange how when I’m in the college cafeteria and hear the students arguing about history or politics or religion, it all seems so childish. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

In 1921, students from white Trinity College paid their annual visit to black Wall Street Church. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The student must pay for the replacement or repair of the property.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Chinese executed women who disguised themselves as soldiers or students, no matter how bravely they fought or how high they scored on the examinations. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Until recently, given the students’ enthusiasm for the reading groups, I was able to play down that data,” she wrote. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Earlier in the day, an unusually temperate February morning, one of Dr. Atchley’s cognitive neuroscientist students had asked him about the scientific validity of intelligent design. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Not tattered and marked like the student workbooks. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“We are all aware that Jonas has been a top student throughout his school days. “ The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sidewalks are packed with students striding, skipping, slouching toward school. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Everywhere Robin looked, there were students, walking about or talking on street corners. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Lou went to Mass every Sunday, served as an altar boy, and attended BVM’s grammar school before moving on to Father Judge High School, which had three thousand students. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

"This paper was written by a student advanced in his years," continues Herr Meins. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Since I was the only one who could speak to war in Africa, I shared a little of my story with the students for the first time. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

That would be the icebreaker I needed to talk to Tina and make her aware that I was a cool guy into alternative music who went on weekend concert trips with college students. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, he said, many working-class students face obstacles they cannot overcome on their own. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Harassed by his teacher and fellow students, he could not find enough nourishment to maintain his weight. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The club’s camera didn’t work properly since so many students had fiddled with it over the years. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

She saw more of me than any other student and we shared a love of germ eradication. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

All white students, white coaches, and white parents watching from the bleachers. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

While King and Abernathy sat in jail, the city’s students were out in the streets protesting their arrests. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting there in the front row, like a student, turned around and smiling slightly. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

To the student of broad historical patterns, though, it makes no difference what the specific reasons were in each of those cases. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It is possible. In a town of immigrants, new students come all the time.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I explained to those students that progress is slow, that they couldn’t afford to simply sit and wait for change to come. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He asked some questions about Lake Windsor Highs student government, and about its National Honor Society. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was shocked by the student’s blatant disrespect and, honestly, I was a little bit worried too by the naked hostility emanating from these teens. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until we established a supportive classroom environment in Room 203 and were allowed freedom of expression that the students realized violence is never the answer. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

After class, I walked straight to the student body office. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, students with backgrounds like his have become ever scarcer on campus. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Some students in that school, especially after being beaten enough times for talking Indian, reached the point where it became hard for them to speak Navajo, even when they wanted to. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, a student brought in an empty Sparklet’s water jug and set it in the middle of the classroom. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Now, for the sake of comparison, consider the answers of another student from Hudson’s sample. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

And within a week, recalled one of his students, he had filled his office blackboard in LeConte Hall with “a drawing—very bad, an execrable drawing—of a bomb.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She’d seen this before, foreign students who could read and write and speak a little, but who just couldn’t get the conversation. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bell rang and streams of students filled the hall. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just can’t imagine my mom ever writing a student council election speech for me.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

A mob of students entered the classroom as the warning bell rang, and Marcus was among them. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Again and again Teacher disciplined his Class Five students for discussing her chances of survival instead of doing their classwork. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Once, when a high school teacher asked students to list their goals for the next decade, she wrote, “having a college degree” and “not being married.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

As the only black student at Carroll College in tiny Waukesha, Wisconsin, Fuller struggled to talk and act in ways that minimized the distance between himself and his classmates. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In all of my previous examples of bad writing I picked on easy marks: deadline-pressured journalists, stuffy academics, corporate hacks, the occasional inexperienced student. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I tried to meet his eyes, but he was already caught up in quiet, intense negotiations with a handful of other students. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Teachers who have done this activity with their students say that most of them draw the shape of the current United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Annie is a very special student,” she tells the class, “a refugee from a dictatorship.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The final afternoon bell has just sounded, and the room is beginning to fill up with students arriving to audition for the fall play. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

His friends and a huge crowd of students stood behind the assistant principal, their faces a mix of shock and worry. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My anger at how other students treated me now; how they pretended their original cruelty had never happened. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I joined the rest of the students shuffling into the auditorium and found my alphabetically assigned seat in the junior section. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

We also put a call out to local high schools for students who want to submit work. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A few students giggle, but most are busy with their own work. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Or the suburban high school student who has a drinking problem but keeps getting behind the wheel? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And If we’re elected, well, then you have to go to student council meetings, I guess. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Parents and students line up at the mics on each side of the room. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

If the students aren’t focused on the lesson, all of your preparatory work is for naught. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

As I say, the craze really took off that summer, and during the lunch breaks you’d see all these clusters of students lying about the grass around the Walkmans. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

University students complained about frivolous musicians and fluffhead actors, then lined up to pay for performances. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Every home is expected to have a good dictionary in it so that each student can do his or her homework properly. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hollows was simple and square, with stained glass windows showing Teccam in a classic pose: standing barefoot in the mouth of his cave, speaking to a group of students. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

On Monday, November 25, I prepared myself to speak to 250 students gathered for Central High’s early morning chapel service. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Juba and in other cities students protested against the government, and some were killed in the riots. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And for a student with your grades your attendance is atrocious!” he concluded. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The others were graduate students from Peru and the United States. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They say they want to make an effort to admit more low-income students, just as they now do for minorities and children of alumni. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He seemed unaware that fellow student Barbra Streisand, the future singer, had a secret schoolgirl crush on him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

After students have learned this, the old farmer selects a new farmer to be in the middle. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

A week later, under the light of a three-quarter moon, roughly 150 supporters, including students from both Maybeck and Oakland High Schools, marched along the route of the 57 bus. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They could let students learn with and compete against other students of the same maturity level. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

A jury eventually convicted all three of battery but acquitted one of the students of the hate-crime charge and deadlocked on the others. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Mr. Reed tells students they have to interview someone—a mother or father or grandparent—about their own portages, the moments in their lives when they’ve had to take a journey, literal or metaphorical. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

As if to emphasize how dangerous it was, a Hasidic student came into the bathroom just then, took one look at me, and chose the urinal farthest away from me. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

While books were being passed out, the principal came in with a new student. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

I have done jobs no Cambridge student would do. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The principal, Mother Lucy, wrote, “A brilliant, obedient student and a daughter to be proud of.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

In recent years, the scene was a weird mix of drunks, derelicts, and the occasional college students who showed up because the risk of getting a knife pulled on you sounded fun. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

In class we asked each other, “Would you want to sit next to a white student?” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“I am hurt by that image, as every student at Granger should be.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I knew nonwhite graduate students who were bewildered by the requirement to compose a term paper and who each day were humiliated when they couldn’t compete with other students in seminars. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought the same thing, Reshi. Being, of course, an exceptionally clever student.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Instead, at the beginning of the year, each student received a paper lunch bag to decorate with crayons and stickers and stamps. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“The student,” he says gravely, “has impaled the teacher.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Wilkins, Franklin, and her student, Ray Gosling, took the train down from King’s the next morning to inspect the Watson and Crick model. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Which is funny, because whoever designed the list forgot to mention drinking and sex—which would’ve been the most accurate response for most of our student body. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Then I went to find the student store, desperate for something else to wear in the meantime. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

At that moment, the bell rang, which meant all the students and faculty would be on their way to the auditorium for the morning assembly. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Supporters of bilingual education today imply that students like me miss a great deal by not being taught in their family’s language. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he said nothing and resumed patting down the next student. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

With tremendous good fortune and not a few connections they’d found a way to send their daughter abroad, on a student visa. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know better than that, Pri. If it involves two students within a few yards of the school, then fighting is grounds for suspension,” Ms. Stanley says. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Everything he worked for over almost twenty years has been left behind: the school he started from nothing, the school that now has three buildings and eleven hundred students. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Soon Ms. Platt paired me up with Destiny, the most advanced student in the class. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Medical student Charles Caldwell helped out for a few days and then left. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I watched the news unfold on TV with my mom: Trayvon, a black high school student, was walking home from a convenience store when a man named George Zimmerman began following him, deeming him suspicious. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But like at least one third of all the students who came to Howard, Prince was tired of having to represent to other people. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Instead, one hears proposals for increasing the self-esteem of students and encouraging early intellectual independence. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not a single student or teacher at this school will ever discover that I come from a poor, indigenous family. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I see our new student doesn’t agree,” she said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And during the near fistfight in the lunchroom, his face went rigid as stone, and I saw him look with hatred at the Hasidic student who had started the quarrel. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“But I thought you said they don’t give college students food stamps unless they have a job.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He heard a few students swear, which Mrs. Torrance usually did not tolerate. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He always thought over each question carefully, even the most foolish question from the youngest student. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

He looked around, all innocent-like, and she stomped over to her exchange- student buddies. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Your principal? The office staff? Any of the dozen students we passed in the hall?” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

No matter how sick a student might be, absences were not allowed. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He began to think about how he could protect his students from the ugliness of this situation. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

He slid down until they got a healthy distance away, in case any of the faculty or students were about. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

A man strode toward the cluster of students, keys jangling in his hand. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Our school has not had a winner of this competition in recent years, but your son, Neel, is the brightest student I have seen in my tenure here. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

There were no openly gay teachers at our school—I’m not even sure if that would have been professionally possible—and certainly no “out” students. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

My third student was a nun of the order of Sisters of St. Joseph, named Sister Irma, who taught “cooking and drawing” at a convent elementary school just outside Toronto. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Often during lectures he would get so lost in his own equations that he would give up halfway through and tell the students to work it out for themselves. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“We’ll send her once a week. The center will officially have a student, and the teacher will have something to do. Problem solved.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

In class, Mrs. Burroughs quizzed us one student at a time, holding up a series of large manila cards and asking us to read whatever word was printed in black letters on the front. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

From here on out, I'd order my students to open and close the door and let that remind me that I was in charge. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

With military discipline, the students marched down the block to the Kress building, an Art Deco structure which was, coincidentally, one of the most beautiful commercial buildings in Durham. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

A normal Blackcliff student would beat me for touching him without permission—and this is no student, but an Aspirant and the Commandant’s spawn. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Freddie was in the center, and I realized he had the most recent student handbook in front of him. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I have some of my students who know more about gangs, guns, and sex than I do, because they have observed things. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first, as a student, I wanted freedom only for myself, the transitory freedoms of being able to stay out at night, read what I pleased, and go where I chose. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if Sharaud, who graduated in June, could turn his life around, there is hope for these new students yet. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“We only have a little over six hundred students,” the principal reasons. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

"Perhaps had I overheard some of what I'm about to tell you when I was a student up there on the hill, I wouldn't be the casualty that I am." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The white Reverend Sisters stood with arms folded, or lightly touching the glass rosary beads that dangled at their waists, carefully watching to see that every student s lips moved. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It must be. And it sounds like the other students don’t know much about what the Messengers do—they don’t get these ‘secret privileges’ until they become top students. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Or in Russia, when Khrushchev was in power, he threatened to cancel the visas of black African students whose anti-discrimination demonstration said to the world, “Russia, too. . . .” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

My coworkers are one thing, but the students and teachers are another. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I didn’t know was that the hippie’s own quarters were properly heated, and that the students who had lived there in the past had come there well armed with space heaters and electric blankets. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Not until September, 1960, did the NAACP, with its tenacious legal work, force Central High to open to integration once more—but only two black students were permitted entry. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, more students come, and I shove an armband into everyone’s hand. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

On the third day, sixty students converged upon the Woolworth’s, and by the fourth, three hundred had joined the demonstration. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

One night, I was on duty when it was pouring rain, and I caught quite a few students — perhaps fifteen or so — relieving themselves from the veranda. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two-thirds of the students stayed home that day, even though we’d all vowed to be there for the last day. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A series of blank rectangles had been drawn beside each name which, Leon explained, would be filled in as each student sold his quota of chocolates. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It usually happens to students in their first year.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When the fast took place in the fall of 2011, students reflected afterward about their experience. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

"All the private schools are worried because they're losing students every year." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

His normal eye was fixed upon the sausages, but the blue eye was still darting restlessly around in its socket, taking in the Hall and the students. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I dive into the stream of fourth-period lunch students and swim down the hall to the cafeteria. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Blackcliff’s students are on leave, and the scrape of my sandals is the only sound to break the sinister quiet of the place. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

But the typical black student’s school has a far higher rate of troublesome indicators, such as gang problems, nonstudents loitering in front of the school, and lack of PTA funding. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

In addition to harder physical work, secondary school students spent more time finding fault with themselves and one another. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Lydia pointed to a flyer for an open mic night at the student union. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Flom was named to the Law Review—an honor reserved for the very top students in the class. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

When I rose and looked about, the two students were gone. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I kept my head down to avoid making eye contact with the stream of sullen university students filing past me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

For students like you, I do feel regret. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see a few other students late for school, gathering their books. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

None of the girl students wants to be an artist; instead they want to be teachers of art in high schools, or, in one case, a curator in a gallery. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But he came out of nowhere. I mean, no one had known him as a student or seen any of his previous work....” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His first students were in the vo-tech program—vocations and technology—and took half their classes in such disciplines as auto mechanics, carpentry, baking, welding, and hairdressing. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

In the time it took my stunned self to glance up at the clock, the masses of students around me had disappeared. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The other half of the students were asked to first sit and think about soccer hooligans. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

When I wrote Totally Joe, I had the Democrats win the student council election. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Older students fear word problems in part because they have not been asked to find solutions to such quantitative questions at the elementary level. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He studied literature and languages, with a concentration in Classics, and was described by fellow students as “a scholar.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

My grandparents, Rev. Dr. James Thomas and Winell Thomas, met when he was an eighteen-year-old ministerial student in a small Jamaican parish and she and her parents were newly arrived parishioners from Cuba. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

So they had tricks, as my students would say. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Madam Pomfrey, the nurse, was kept busy by a sudden spate of colds among the staff and students. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

You could easily memorize a short pattern of correct answers, and it would be a lot faster to erase and change that pattern than to go through each student’s answer sheet individually. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I was a minority student, wasn’t I? the lady behind the counter asked me rhetorically. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The honking of car horns from students cruising by sounded far away. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Chapter thirty for next time. And don’t forget there’s a screening of Meet the Patels tonight at the Cantor Film Center,” the professor calls as my fellow students and I gather our notebooks and backpacks. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The guys continued to argue over the numbers: They were rating the first-year girls by their head shots in the student handbook. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

This girl Maddie from student council lines us up behind the float in rows, and then someone passes down pieces of straw for us to hold in our teeth. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Now the students were to watch an episode and write what I referred to as a "guessay," a brief prediction of what might take place the following day. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

One, a student in a blue T-shirt, had a sweaty face, and every few seconds he wiped his forehead with his shirt. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Though he didn’t know it, he was a temporary person, like the college kids and art students who came over for dinner and were never seen again. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Everyone assumed that I would win the Beecher medal because I had organized the coat drive, and the medal usually went to the student who did the most community service. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Problem students often respond better to peer approval/disapproval. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“The students who signed the petition object to the soldier’s gun, sir,” Elle said. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

If they had not wrought a revolution, the students had at least forced the pace of social evolution. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Barrius screams, and the students howl in response, flinging jeers at him. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She did not appear to be dependent on her students. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

There was no formula below that one, the student pointed out. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Hitler’s superior Aryan-race theories were shattered by a young African-American college student named Jesse Owens, who won an unprecedented four gold medals in track events. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was mischievous and a terrible student, but he was hard to beat in an argument. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wild energy and diversity of the city had proven the perfect hatching place for his intellect and imagination years back when he was a student at Columbia. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Black newspapers and their readers wasted no time in making the link between America’s inadequacy in space and the dreadful conditions facing many black students in the South. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

After exchanging pleasantries with his former student, Davis revealed the motive for his visit. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It’s never clear who these women are paired with; occasionally they are other art students, dropping in to talk. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Usually, getting a new student in May meant something bad—like the kid had been expelled from another school because of drugs or fighting. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The Welch Daily News had stories all the time about Welch students going off to college and winning honors. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

X-Ray sold four more tickets to a couple of high school students from Westlake, and just like that, Armpit had another two hundred and seventy dollars. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The Mecca is a machine, crafted to capture and concentrate the dark energy of all African peoples and inject it directly into the student body. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The students were not about to squander their momentum, however, which had overnight grown greater than at any time since the lunch-counter movement had commenced over three years earlier. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Here is a scale warm-up that also helps prepare students to hold onto their part against another moving part. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

We found lodging in a student dormitory that had become a receiving center for refugees. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

On Friday nights, he is a host for a Bible-study and dinner party for seventy or eighty Christian students, who serve themselves heaping plates of pasta before breaking into study groups. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I can feel the excitement of the students, as he, without any hesitation, plows straight into the rock. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Inference learning occurs conceptually, where the student is able to identify, create, and improvise with musical materials already learned. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

There were more than 150 kids on the floor for their Saturday morning lessons and dozens of other adult students and coaches, so it took a moment for the noise level to die down. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Among those won over was a twenty-four-year-old physics grad student named Richard Feynman. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of black clergymen, journalists, civil rights activists, teachers, lawyers, students and anyone suspected of subversive acts had been detained. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look,” Obiora said, lowering his voice as if the group of about forty students jogging past could possibly hear him. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

—You had counselors who would talk to black students and see their point of view and help them out? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And my brother and both my sisters were very good students. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

One by one, the other students chose their jobs. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It first came to me watching this couple, Susie and Greg—probably the oldest students at the Cottages and generally thought to be “in charge” of the place. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beverly was engaged to a young biology student, of whom her father very much approved; invitations to the wedding, scheduled for Christmas Week, were already printed. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told her what we’d heard, the rumours about Hailsham students and deferrals; how we realised the rumours might not be accurate, and that we weren’t banking on anything. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

More students dashed out of the open door; the silence was terrible. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They honored me for being their oldest student. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was what Mr. Staphopoulos said to all his Lifesaving 101 students. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Donne met and talked with Galileo, or with Galileo’s English-speaking students; he certainly seems to have met Galileo’s close friend Paolo Sarpi. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In any case, that only 3 percent of students responded suggested that there was a long way to go to reach the goal. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Six of them were engineering students, so they took an engineer’s approach to the problem. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Chip furiously wrote on his palm as students began to sign out. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The student version had the answers in the back, but this one had them written out step-by-step. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Naheed was scanning the room for Eliza, but she began to notice the teachers standing around the outside of the circle of students, their expressions solemn. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I had taken a stand, and I did not want to appear to be a fraud in the eyes of my fellow students. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They passed an elementary school one day as it was letting out, and Citra had a sinking feeling that she would glean one of the students. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

For this we leave our homeroom group and meet with students from other homerooms. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She took the empty corridor behind the kitchens, avoiding the students at their work shifts. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Dell would have to come up with his own way of sorting through the weeds of messed-up students. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Elsewhere, the students have tangible advantages—better theaters, bigger stages, parents who buy them private voice lessons and put them in expensive theater camps. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He talked with a friend from down the hall, a fellow physics student who had also been recruited by the mysterious man from Washington. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were about a hundred students milling around, giving things an oddly festive air. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I entered the contest, and with more than four hundred other students participating, I won first place—out of my city, county, and state. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

At the University of Kansas, the journalism school does a periodic “media fast,” in which students aren’t allowed to use their devices for twenty-four hours. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He swallowed, his throat still raw and sore, and it reminded him that he wouldn’t be the only student roughed up that day. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mommy looked at the grades and said, “James is no C student.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The table is a poorly designed piece that Harold made in his student days. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were supposed to teach graduate students about diversity in the classroom because they were going to be the future teachers of America. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He placed us both in special classes for students with learning disabilities. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I look at her and she’s twisting up a flyer someone was handing out about some student council fundraiser. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Other students could afford to stroll through their studies. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It began when he was a graduate student at Cornell. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I caught my breath, said a few words about student government, and rushed back to my seat, wishing I could disappear. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

But her voice barely rises over the rumblings of the other students. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I yes-ma’amed her again and hurried down the hall as the last few students slipped inside their classrooms. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

And the white kids from the Flats, dishonor students, got bused in from the other direction. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

After the ceremony I stood alone on the lawn, watching the other students with their families. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

John Mark stops the truck in front of a large group of Black students. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

This wasn’t so crazy: we’d pass older students bent over chess sets, in window seats or on the grassy slopes, and Ruth would often pause to study a game. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t care what a Jew is professionally, doctor, merchant, housewife, student, or whatever—first he, or she, thinks Jew. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“School officials say there were concerns among students regarding recent security measures,” Sullivan says. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Muslim students were always demonstrating about one thing or the other, after all, and harassing people who were Western-dressed, but they always dispersed quickly enough. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

One reviewer there fretted, without any evident sense of irony, that Holmes presented his arguments so clearly and compellingly that students might actually come to believe them. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Eleven years old on his last birthday, Salva was a good student. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The odd thing was that in the classroom teachers reminded me of both my public identity and power as a student of literature. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Right! Marcus said he thought she was a teacher, because she said the word ‘students’ when they talked.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Hispanics made up 47 percent of the student population and blacks and other minorities the remaining 5 percent. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The following examples are helpful in preparing autistic students in advance for transitions. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

But I was increasingly annoyed by the fact that the white students who complained about affirmative action never bothered to complain that it was unfair to lower-class whites. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, Shirley, it seems you are not only a good student, but a good baseball player.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

As a student, frustrated by the limitations of conventional mathematics, he invented an entirely new form, the calculus, but then told no one about it for twenty-seven years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“The schools have already been closed almost two weeks. The students are the ones who are suffering.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He generally would answer patiently,” another student agreed, “unless the question was manifestly stupid, in which event his response was likely to be quite caustic.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other items on the list, Grabarek informed the students in his stiff speech, were negotiable. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

At the command of the governor, Orval Faubus, the Arkansas National Guard had been called out to prevent the black students from entering the school. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I wailed and gnashed my teeth over the fact that I had maligned a fellow student. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

That was because workers were clattering in to remake the lower floor for a display of American Indian art, and a Buddhist student group was chanting in the small sanctuary upstairs. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I was the proverbially overprepared student; I had to have a standby writing utensil. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

There was a fire, a determination, in students that I had never seen before. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The university’s professor of mathematics was Michael Maestlin, who dutifully taught his students in public the Ptolemaic system approved by the Reformed Church. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“And, Mr. Hobert,” the principal says to Stephen, “it sounds like you’ve been harassing younger students at this school. You will serve detention and community service for one week. We do not tolerate hateful language.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

They listen to music choices of their parents or siblings, and even the schools they attend often play music before the school day begins or in classrooms while students are working. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Along the winding hallway, near the door we had entered, I passed several clusters of students who stared at me, whispered obscenities, and pointed. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Olivia says, don’t freak out, but when you get to Pittsburgh, the Young Feminist Alliance club of a certain university is bringing you in to talk to some students. Wait, what? Tell her yourself!” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

To them, I am Virginia the scientist and singer and dancer and star student and advice giver. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glanced around—I only saw one other student and a couple of librarians. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Keneally was so impressed by my students that a few days later we got an invita-tion to meet Steven Spielberg at Universal Studios. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Despite the brutality, the students were committed to nonviolence and for the most part bore the insults and indignities without striking back. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

For this reason, I loved making recruiting trips to Cambridge, because it gave me some influence in which Harvard students got chosen for an interview. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It almost seemed to her and other teachers as if students were scared of it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When you’re a teacher, you always hope that your student will find something meaningful in the assignment to latch on to and that she’ll make it her own.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Welch students came from families with fathers who were doctors, lawyers, judges, businessmen, and bankers, and their high school was the newest, best-equipped school in the county. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’d rather you say, ‘I’m going to work. Be a good student.’ Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

After World War II, when the jet age started, I was a student in college, at West Point. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bracing himself, he followed the directions on the map to his homeroom, weaving through a sea of students. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

But one change worried us, especially students from the countryside. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, he added, the anti-Zionists among the Hasidic students looked upon him as their leader. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

It had long been a leader in education, establishing one of the first kindergartens and introducing practice teaching to further the studies of its students. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

At Sidley & Austin, I was part of the Chicago office’s recruiting team, tasked with interviewing Harvard Law School students for summer-associate jobs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

To admit the change in my life I must speak of years as a student, of losses, of gains. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charlotte and Morrie, who met as students, had been married forty-four years. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she introduced Mrs. Cole to the gifted and talented students and said they were a very special bunch of children. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is my daughter, Brianna, the student who was assaulted. May we have a moment of your time now since you won’t return my phone calls?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

"It was great! Straight-A student. Hanging around nerdy guys too scared to try anything. No wild side at all. You were every father's dream daughter." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a radical shift from the kind of assignment that dominates high school writing instruction today, in which students are asked to write memoirs and personal reflections. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

One obvious way of accomplishing deseg-regation would have been to shift students among these three schools and change the compositions of their respective enrollments. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next few classes Pauline treated Mia just like any other student. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Nobody ever asked to join her program—students were assigned to it after they’d missed so much school they were in danger of flunking out, dropping out, or getting kicked off the roster. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He also assigned him less arduous work and made certain that Shin had a warm place to sleep on the floor of the student dormitory. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I zipped past university students busy with their weight workouts and Zumba classes in full swing. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I’m the first of fifteen students competing, since each participating Islamic school program entered five top contestants. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The news of my clash with the principal had spread through the class and the students became openly critical of me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sounds like a student at roll call. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

By age twelve, I was officially an eighth-grader and was madly in love with my life as a student at Dunbar Junior and Senior High. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The truth was: black students without exception hated the language. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a student of war, with clear ideas about how his men ought to conduct themselves in combat. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

On the third night of the charrette, a group of militant black students took over the meeting and kicked out all the whites. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

As more and more nonwhite students arrived on campus, less well prepared, many of them chose to believe that they were, in some cultural sense, minorities. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Have the objectives evolved since the last time the students engaged with this subject matter? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

There were hardly any other Black students at my elementary school, and besides, I had Isabella and Julia. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

He made a shooing motion to forestall his student’s protest. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The person who combined these two ideas was a student of Gauss’s: Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The school’s long-term goals for students were implicit in what teachers never bothered to teach. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

All the students wore white uniforms, but they had different-colored belts-mostly white or yellow, but a few of them were orange or green. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In high school, Charles was still not a good student. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The docile, obedient student came home a shrill and precocious son who insisted on correcting and teaching his parents with the remark: ‘My teacher told us....’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her students did not “read from the expected perspective,” as she described it. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

As a high school student, Marina decided her favorite subjects were biology and chemistry. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Then as I was hurrying over to help him out, the lady asked: “Are you art students?” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

That means there will be a bunch of new students. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Such experiments were first performed in the early 1950’s by Stanley Miller, then a graduate student of the chemist Harold Urey. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My presence was noted each fall by the campus press office in its proud tally of Hispanic-American students enrolled; my progress was followed by HEW statisticians. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A third of the students at the local elementary school skip lunch during Ramadan. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

His activism surprised Ifemelu—he seemed a little too urbane, a little too cool, to be in the students' union government—but also impressed her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The restlessness that disturbed Christine’s home state in the form of student protests in Greensboro would follow her, and engage her, at Hampton Institute. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

At the funeral, an honor guard of female students from the University of Rochester stood next to Anthony’s body. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Some sat on the stone worktables to get a good view, while a dozen or so students gathered on the iron catwalks in the rafters among Kilvin’s hanging lamps. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The student body watched with glee as Leon’s stooges tried to scotch-tape the posters to the wall at the rear of the stage. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A toddler ambled up on his chubby bowed legs, attempting to embrace my teacher with ketchup-smeared fingers, while a party of elementary-school students openly stared in wonder. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

During that year, I was nominated to stand for the Student Representative Council, which was the highest student organization at Fort Hare. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked, when Raizel answered the third question in a row, drawing envious glances from the other students. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

And the university officials who so diligently took note of those students in their self-serving totals of entering minority students finally took no note of them when they left. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She attended the school career fair, where students wore awkward suits and serious expressions, and tried to look like adults worthy of real jobs. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure Jamison would rush out here with a box of chocolates and a featherbed if he knew there was a starveling half-cracked student living under his University. They’d crock her and you know it.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It plummeted to the ground and hit another student, having left a sizable hole in the wall. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden everyone seemed to know—as the professor of English had known—that I was a minority student. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And each year, Mrs. Bradley and the other teachers brought a bunch of students to the school board with examples of how we benefited from the class. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The authors theorized that the theater students benefited by spending time “reading and learning lines as actors, and possibly reading to carry out research about characters and their settings.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

There was a brief silence, during which I saw one of the Hasidic students grin and lean over to whisper something into another Hasidic student’s ear. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Elodin was simply making sure that I was genuinely interested before he accepted me as a student. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I remember my minority student years in graduate school and need to remember them also as years of white student protests. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Martin Luther King, Jr., at the Woolworth’s lunch counter in Durham, shut down by students protesting Jim Crow segregation on February 8, 1960. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The professors had declared an indefinite strike and the students had taken over all the buildings. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A bunch of us have been talking about how Long and Tate seem to target certain students more than others.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I’ve walked around the campuses nearby, seen all the buttoned-up students with their books and their satchels and their studious expressions. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Iona, relief teachers, student teachers, and work-experience kids were all fair game for students to pick on, but the kids at this school were just fine. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

A student came to me because she was extremely worried about you and didn’t know what to do. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because she made each of her students read aloud every day, Ugwu made his own class recite simple words aloud. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He wanted students to understand why it was vital for the United States to fight in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The boarding master received me without a blowing of trumpets and my fellow students did not bow and scrape before me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s find seats,” said Harry, and the three of them set off along the train through hordes of silently staring students. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

There could be terrible consequences for the students. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Using her as our muse, the students will begin compiling the diaries they’ve been keeping into a collaborative book. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I look around for the clearest exit, but most are flooded with students. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

For writing exercises, students were instructed to explain how they had failed to work hard and follow rules. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Positive liberty,” another student said, “is freedom from internal constraints.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They propose bilingual schooling as a way of helping students acquire the skills of the classroom crucial for public success. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had always been a wide path of empty chairs immediately surrounding our eating area because other students shunned us during the lunch period. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was as new to them as it was to me, for I was the only African student in the law faculty. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sandra is sitting next to me, peeling an old student council vote sticker off her desk with precision, lifting this end, then that corner, making her way around the edges carefully. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He never knew I had led three fellow students into becoming Animagi illegally. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

If they found food in a student’s pocket, they would sometimes deliver a couple of desultory whacks with a stick. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, Tonight, while I was sitting in Ms. G’s class at National University listening to other students’ stories about their families, I couldn’t help but remember my own. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Several students dozed in the back, overcome no doubt by the previous evening’s festivities. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I remembered graduation day, the briefcase, his tears at my departure, and I swallowed because I knew, deep down, that I was no longer the good, gift-bearing student he remembered. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His silvery-gray hair was cropped close to his skull, and icy-blue eyes watched each student enter and take a seat. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“We had a town hall meeting for students who needed to talk about it. I went,” Lee Lee tells me. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Most of the students I was close to at Hailsham ended up at the Cottages that summer. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

With high-stakes testing, a teacher whose students test poorly can be censured or passed over for a raise or promotion. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He was more boyish than the others, who looked like they could be in college, or even teachers here rather than students. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Most of the guys leaned against the wall, scanning the crowd of students as they passed by on their way to the door. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I am calm; I regard the antics of my fellow students, who act like the textbook, with a combination of scientific curiosity and almost matronly indulgence. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

At one point, Davon pointed to his school and told us about the metal detectors and how they locked all the students inside during classes. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The site includes music theory lessons for students between grades 1 and 5 in the form of tables, lists, and videos to help the student better understand the many parts of music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Even his bicycle has been saved, and the tin ear trumpet, nearly two feet long, which poor deaf Konstantin used to hold up to his ear for his students to speak into. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was not an exceptional student, but neither was he backward, nor particularly bad at anything. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officers of the town were first, then the ministers, the merchants, the mechanics, and the schoolmasters with their students. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I wanted to share my information about bomb shelters, most of the students stared at me as if I were from another planet. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Was she absentminded because she was thinking about her student? Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Master Dal managed to get all the students seated and quiet long enough to say a few words. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Further enticement was provided by a beautiful psychology grad student named Julia Mae Green, who after graduation would be returning to her native Virginia. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

We get to campus and it’s buzzing with students. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Even so, I went from a school with a few hundred students to one that had nearly a thousand. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

She never exactly said so, but I think I was her favorite student. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just now and again you run into a student you know—a carer or donor you recognise from the old days—but there’s never much time. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liz organized some students from Philander Smith College to provide rides to the polls on election day. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are twenty-two roles total, one for each student in the class. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I went to the office after lunch and asked to see the student council bylaws.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

The only other thing on the Island is a housing project of more than fifty two-story apartment buildings, from which Terrell draws its entire student body. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He joined Ricci’s students on an informal basis and began to study Euclid instead of his medical textbooks. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Tropical workers start being inoculated at Metre 150,” Mr. Foster explained to the students. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was an Outstanding Student, an Excellent Young Pioneer, and even the da-dui-zhang, the student chairman of the whole school. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“New students!” said the Fat Friar, smiling around at them. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“It is expected that outstanding students will be offered positions in this laboratory.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Her school was out there, too, waiting for the students to arrive the next morning. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Hull was young, perhaps not older than twenty-five, one of the few white faces in a sea of black and brown students. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Displays of temper were almost unheard of; no utterances of profanity are recorded in the extensive recollections of his students and colleagues. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“The citizenship test is really tough. Even high school students don’t know all the facts we’re tested on.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The last student gave him a pitying look and slipped into his classroom. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

There was, however, one group of students in Chicago who did see a dramatic change: those who entered a technical school or career academy. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

These were the books containing powerful Dark Magic never taught at Hogwarts, and only read by older students studying advanced Defense Against the Dark Arts. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Still, it was a special day, and no matter what the other students did or said to me, they couldn't break my spirit. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

During my college craze in October, I encouraged the students to apply for scholarships. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

And in standing at a lectern in front of students who were thinking about the future, I offered testament to the idea that it was possible, at least in some ways, to overcome invisibility. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Using the arts yourself to enhance your lesson provides opportunities for students to experience music during the school day in a non-content related way. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I mean, we had just seen them in class a couple of hours before, but now the cafeteria was a dance floor, and they weren’t girl students anymore, they were girl girls. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

We march into the amphitheater to the applause of family, students, city officials, the Emperor’s emissaries, and an honor guard of nearly two hundred legionnaires. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Thousands of students also rode the buses to school from the time they were little, learning the transfer points and schedules by heart. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

A large crowd of students from our school had gathered outside the school committee offices and shouted nonstop: “We—want—to be—Red Guards! We—want—to establish—revolutionary ties!” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that, a few other students rustled in their bags and took out their books or reading devices, too, and a roll of laughter rumbled through the room. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Though I was draft age as the Korean War began, I was exempt from service as long as I was enrolled as a student. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I spent a weekend visiting Craig at Princeton, where he seemed to have slipped into a productive rhythm of playing basketball, taking classes, and hanging out at a campus center designed for minority students. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Now—out of all the students, which one is the best?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I also heard how high the other students’ tuitions were set. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Our computer lab in the library only has twenty outdated computers for the entire student body. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I wonder if this is how the White Rose students felt. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Thousands of black students had fled the country to escape arrest. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the schools, periodic brawls broke out between white and black students, and I spent parts of my high school years with police and police dogs stationed in the corridors to keep the races apart. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“You have no right to photograph my students. You can’t use those pictures without permission, and believe me, you won’t get it.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

When you come across old students from Hailsham, you always find them, sooner or later, getting nostalgic about their collections. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vice Principal Marten patrols the parking lot between classes, making sure only students with passes escape. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Four out of five students from elementary age to high school attend afterschool cram courses. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I had no idea they had treated him that way because I was left in class to watch the carnage with the rest of the students in my grade. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Didn’t this look as though Malfoy had more important things on his mind than bullying younger students? Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

And a few of our older students would do well to remember that as well.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

All the news cameras cared about was bribing students to talk about Jeremy. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The crowd of parents and students behind us laughs. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Despite a decent library, few students had a love for reading. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The student filed a lawsuit against him, and his termination was recommended by the Jefferson Parish School District superintendent. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

On the Thursday afternoon of the second week in April, I was sitting at a meeting of the student council. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I got every possible student award from the Department of Zoology. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

A good book of this type will give the student a chance to improvise on many familiar tunes, and some also introduce the music theory involved. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

By staying, I’ll have the majority of the students I had last year. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe she was still a college student, working at the library for the summer. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Like nearly every guard in the camp, he was a nameless, bullish-looking man in his early thirties who demanded that students avert their eyes and bow their heads when they spoke to him. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Fortunately the student was a recent émigré from Poland named Marie Curie. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He became the drama and art critic for a student newspaper and wrote a review of the first play he ever attended. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Private meetings among regular students were the sort of thing strictly frowned upon at the Institute, where all secrets were reserved for Messengers and Executives. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

When we pulled into the student lot at Burnt Mill Creek High School on Monday morning, the campus had been made over, decorated with California flags and colorful banners. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Now she’s looking for a new job as a nurse, and works a lot of overtime to pay off student loans—and because we’re saving up to move out of Lola’s house. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

What student hangs out with a teacher on a Saturday? Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Her students then repeated, “The part of a sink that the water goes down is called a drain.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Most of the students at Middlefield Prep don’t look like me. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I told you only six students would be allowed in the class,” he said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, in neat rows, were the certificates of students who had passed the Fourth Grade Spring Benchmark Writing Test, a section of the Texas state exams. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

T plays or sings again if necessary, and students also sing. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

It was just that she wasn’t a very good teacher, and Ess wasn’t a very willing student. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Student leaders were chosen to lead the march to other schools in the area, where we planned to pick up more students for a rally at a nearby stadium. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

If there were a confrontation, I thought, I would assume my new persona of “disturbed” student and use it to bluff my way through. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

As a student, I knew if I struggled, I could find a tutor or take an extra class, and eventually I would catch on. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Many of my students say they live in fear and are constantly looking over their shoulders. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

A low whoosh of panic hit her stomach as the three students stared down at her and her Spider-Man pajamas. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The building didn’t look so big when I’d come in to register and take my placement test, but now that it was filled with students, I felt as if I were just a speck. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Hi, I’m a visiting student and I love books. Can you tell me where the library is?” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

With the help of family and friends in the Sudanese community, Shamsoun raised more than two thousand dollars so he could attend the inauguration of President Barack Obama with a student group. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Those outside Oppie’s charmed circle found it all rather bewildering— even Enrico Fermi, who should have recognized the behavior, since he was the object of similar veneration by his own students. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

No research student could live in, and so the only predictable consequences of being a Jesus man were bills for a Ph.D. that I would never acquire. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

There were only about a dozen people sitting quietly at Woolworth's L-shaped lunch counter when the four black students sat down and Blair ordered a cup of coffee. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Papa has some private students but only plays in the orchestra if someone's sick. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Boys and girls, I regret to inform you that one of our students has passed on. We will hold a memorial service for Michael Dobson during assembly this Friday.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Each hour of the day was regimented, and students were lined up and marched from point to point. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“When Mrs. Roosevelt spoke at the opening of the school she told the students to learn their history or they’d be ‘doomed to dust’ like one of the Lost Worlds.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

His most famous student, Alexander the Great, spread the doctrine as far east as India before Alexander’s untimely death in 323 BC. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

With that step, Ernest Lawrence became more than just another physics professor with a clutch of graduate students in his charge. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

His students walk right along with him, on a high wire, the “knife’s edge,” as Volpe likes to say. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Some of the students swarming around them were grumbling about the match being canceled; others looked worried. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Even though her students liked her, Mom hated teaching. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hillari glared at the speaker, then continued, “—some nutcase who stirs things up, then maybe all the little students will go to a game once in a while or join a club.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The students had all been grinning, because they had listened to Asher’s explanations so many times before. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

In some studies, students who have a high degree of synchrony with their teachers are happier, more enthused, interested, and easygoing. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why would the Freedom Writers want the most outrageous student in the whole group to represent them in front of someone who could change their lives forever? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She was a good student, quiet and polite, but she had a sense of fun as well, and it didn’t surprise him that she was working with Asher today. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

My teachers at Mercy didn’t treat me any differently than the other students, and I appreciated that. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

When it returned several years later, she continued to teach even when it was necessary for her students to carry her up the steps to her classroom. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, this has become the closest relationship I have with the other Drake students. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Jaime arrived at the end of the party because he had stayed late working in the clinic for the poor where he was undergoing his first training as a medical student. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Initially, I was shy of the black students—afraid of what they’d discover about me. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they turned around and marched two abreast to Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church, where a waiting crowd of students cheered and applauded. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, here’s what we know for sure. The final count: one hundred and seventeen students injured in total.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I was mostly doodling in my notebook while he talked, but every once in a while I would sneak a look at the other students. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“You should run for student council next year. I could use a tenacious spirit on my team.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

As for your other concerns regarding our new student August, please note that he does not have special needs. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Young students and beginning musicians should go through it with a teacher, in either a classroom or lesson setting. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Any students reported would then have to hand over their passwords to social media and email accounts or face suspension and a potential investigation by federal authorities. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z