as in pupils
one who attends a school
a straight-A student at the local high school
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Recent Examples of students
Instead, school libraries have long served as vehicles to expose students to a broad array of ideas from authors who express unique, personal points of view.
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Jim Saunders, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2024
The long-term goal is to turn the 30-acre campus into a humming technology and innovation hub for students, startups, the company’s electric vehicle program and old-fashioned brick-and-mortar ventures like anchor tenant Yellow Light, the station’s first indoor eatery since 1988.
—Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024
To prepare, students have mandatory culture classes.
—La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2024
The students leave for the nine-day journey in May.
—La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2024
The program grew to include 60 participants from each side, then expanded to include Arab and Jewish students in northern Israel.
—Hessie Jones, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
While the charges are welcome in this case, unfortunately, President Biden has resisted using the levers available to him through the Department of Education and the Department of Justice’s civil rights division to protect Jewish students and tamp down on anti-American radicalism on campus.
—The Editors, National Review, 24 Dec. 2024
No matter how heinous the actions of the protesters, they have been framed as coming from idealistic students expressing genuine humanitarian concern for the people of Gaza, and as mere criticism of Israel.
—The Editors, National Review, 24 Dec. 2024
Peter Ferry was passionately an author and teacher, inspiring decades of students in his English and writing classes at Lake Forest High School, a youthful crowd of many thousands that included such later famous people as actor Vince Vaughn and author Dave Eggers.
—Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 24 Dec. 2024
Jim Saunders, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2024
The long-term goal is to turn the 30-acre campus into a humming technology and innovation hub for students, startups, the company’s electric vehicle program and old-fashioned brick-and-mortar ventures like anchor tenant Yellow Light, the station’s first indoor eatery since 1988.
—Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024
To prepare, students have mandatory culture classes.
—La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2024
The students leave for the nine-day journey in May.
—La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2024
The program grew to include 60 participants from each side, then expanded to include Arab and Jewish students in northern Israel.
—Hessie Jones, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
While the charges are welcome in this case, unfortunately, President Biden has resisted using the levers available to him through the Department of Education and the Department of Justice’s civil rights division to protect Jewish students and tamp down on anti-American radicalism on campus.
—The Editors, National Review, 24 Dec. 2024
No matter how heinous the actions of the protesters, they have been framed as coming from idealistic students expressing genuine humanitarian concern for the people of Gaza, and as mere criticism of Israel.
—The Editors, National Review, 24 Dec. 2024
Peter Ferry was passionately an author and teacher, inspiring decades of students in his English and writing classes at Lake Forest High School, a youthful crowd of many thousands that included such later famous people as actor Vince Vaughn and author Dave Eggers.
—Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 24 Dec. 2024
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