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Fifty years ago, they were the latest thing in educational reform: big, modern, suburban high schools with students counted in the thousands.

And most noticeable of all, there is the phenomenon of large urban and suburban high schools that have split up into smaller units of a few hundred, generally housed in the same grounds that once boasted thousands of students all marching to the same band.

Although many of his specific conclusions have been 35 rejected or modified over the years, his ideas inspired thousands of studies by investigators all over the world.

Although many of his specific conclusions have been rejected or modified over the years, his ideas inspired thousands of studies by investigators all over the world.

In many European countries,where diesel vehicles have become more common in recent years, that number reaches tens of thousands.

On the other side are parents like Mike jia, one of the thousands of Asian-American professionals who have moved to the district in the past decade,who said Aderhold's reforms would amount to a "dumbing down,"of his children's education.

On the other side are parents like Mike Jia, one of the thousands of Asian-American professionals who have moved to the district in the past decade.

since the 1990s, the council has surveyed hundreds of thousands of knitters and crocheters, who routinely list stress relief and creative fulfillment as the activities' main benefits.

Thousands of bees left a town after landing on the back of a car when their queen got stuck in its boot.

When night falls, red and blue and other colors cast a hazy glow over a city lit up by tens of thousands of neon signs.

Still, at the most selective schools, where thousands of candidates may submit identically high grades and test scores, a marginal item like the essay may serve as a tie-breaker between two equally qualified candidates.

Traditional vocational training in public high schools is gradually declining, stranding thousands of young people who seek training for a craft without going to college.

Two weeks later, she arrived at Alaska, thousands of miles from her friends, her family and her past.

This exploitation has reached such extremes that presently it appears that some hundreds of thousands of species will be extinguished before the end of the century

As a young man, he began walking over tens of thousands of miles during his lifetime, through the south to Florida, the west to California and north to Alaska, where readers are taken a long and particularly hair-raising adventure on a large mass of floating ice

In a study analyzing data on thousands of Ohio State freshmen who lived in dorms, he found that black freshmen who came to college with high standardized test scores earned better grades if they had a white roommate — even if the roommate's test scores were low.

For hundreds of thousands of Cascadia residents, "The Big One" isn’t a question of if, only when.

In addition, thousands of fragments that fell off the walls have been recovered.

In thousands of ways, social workers help other people—people from every age, every background across the country.

Instead of flying thousands of miles in search of food, they make the waste sites their winter feeding grounds.

One impetus for the policy is that companies are already starting to build massive constellations, comprising hundreds or thousands of satellites with many moving parts among them.

Parents are being asked for thousands of pounds.

The company also embarked on a desperate cost-cutting program, which included the elimination of thousands of jobs.

The incandescent light bulb, invented by Thomas Edison, which came to be the symbol of inspiration, has been developed into hundreds, if not thousands, of forms.

These cultures have eating habits that developed over thousands of years.

This is a very sensible way for an animal to make decisions in the wild and would have been very helpful for humans for thousands of years.

Through regular regional educational meetings, a large annual meeting, individual farm visits and thousands of phone calls, the Amburghs pass on the principles of pasture management.

Whoever it was that created such magnificent pieces of art, they surely had no idea that their work would still be around thousands of year later.

And years later, she was proud that her son had read thousands of books, was awarded a PhD in literature, and authored his own books, articles, poetry and fiction.

Berger looked at how people spread a particular set of news stories: thousands of articles on the New York time's website.

Companies produce thousands of different kinds of disposable products: paper plates, plastic cups, and cameras, to name a few.

Languages have been coming and going for thousands of years, but in recent times there has been less coming and a lot more going.

People believed there was an ever-lasting supply and killed them by the thousands, commercial hunters attracted them to small clearings with grain.

People have used secret codes for thousands of years.

Evidence shows that thousands of teachers and parents know a good thing when they see it and recommend Toknow to their friends.

Thousands of spicy foods are on show in the fiery food and bbq festival.

To lift a big structure like the tremont hotel, pullman would place thousands of Jackscrews beneath the building's foundation.

TV Ears has helped thousands of people with various degrees of hearing loss hear the television clearly without turning up the volume.

We made our final offer, which still was thousands of dollars less than the other buyer's bid.

You might like to try a chocolate-covered habanero pepper—officially the hottest pepper in the world—or any one of the thousands of products that are on show.

Already, since 2010, drought and insects have killed over 100 million trees in California, most of them in 2016 alone, and wildfires have burned hundreds of thousands of acres.

Building on this basic truth about interpersonal influence, the researchers studied the dynamics of social influence by conducting thousands of computer simulations of populations, manipulating a number of variables relating to people's ability to influen

Despite trade competition and outsourcing, American manufacturing still needs to replace tens of thousands of retiring boomers every years.

Events are free, staffed by thousands of volunteers.

For example,the Long Now Foundation has as its flagship project a mechanical clock that is designed to still be marking time thousands of years hence.

In Wisconsin the unions have rallied thousands of supporters against Scott Walker, the hardline Republican governor.

Over the past decade, thousands of patents have been granted for what are called business methods.

Take a broader look at our species' place in the universe, and it becomes clear that we have an excellent chance of surviving for tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of years.

Thousands of Aztec artifacts came to light during the digging of the Mexico city subway in the 1970s.