On special occasions one of the three quivers is carried to signify the roll's importance in the life of the school.

As of 2005 the school no longer maintains a gender preference policy and undergraduate enrollment is split nearly evenly between the sexes, though males outnumber females about 2: 1 at the graduate level, exclusive of Humanities.

Susan was sent to attend a local district school, where a teacher refused to teach her long division because of her gender.

The family is certainly important in reinforcing gender roles, but so are one ’ s friends, school, work and the mass media.

South African law has not required gender neutrality in school dress codes and a distinction between girls ' and boys ' uniforms remains.

One " trait " that has not yet attracted as much attention is the gender difference: nearly all school shootings are perpetrated by young males, and in some instances the violence has clearly been gender-specific.

" Rather the review notes that the findings of previous studies suggested the ,"... suicide attempts were significantly associated with psychosocial stressors, including gender nonconformity, early awareness of being gay, victimization, lack of support, school dropout, family problems, acquaintances ' suicide attempts, homelessness, substance abuse, and other psychiatric disorders.

Using a gender quota to enforce Title IX in high school sports would put those young athletes at risk of losing their opportunity to play .” High school participation rates substantiate this claim.

The school system is 99. 9 % white and has a 51 % ( female ) to 48 % ( male ) split for gender.

The use of " he " to refer to a person of unknown gender was prescribed by manuals of style and school textbooks from the early 18th century until around the 1960s, an early example of which is Anne Fisher's 1745 grammar book " A New Grammar ".

Many U. S. states now require passing a high school graduation examination to ensure that students across all ethnic, gender and income groups possess the same skills.

It is one of the original nine Clarendon Schools ( including Eton College, Harrow and Charterhouse School ) that were defined by the Public Schools Act 1868 Originally a boarding school for boys, girls have been admitted into the Sixth Form since 2008 and its mixed gender roll of around 720 includes approximately 130 day pupils.

The use of " he " to refer to a person of unknown gender was often prescribed by manuals of style and school textbooks from the early 18th century until around the 1960s, an early example of which is Anne Fisher's 1745 grammar book " A New Grammar ".

The authors noted “ a very well-determined and monotonically positive effect defined over Social Classes I to V ” whereby, for both men and women, “ ceteris paribus, academic performance at university is better the more advantaged is the student's home background .” but they also observed that a student educated at an independent school was on average 6 % less likely to receive a first or an upper second class degree than a student from the same social class background, of the same gender, who had achieved the same A-level score at a state school.

The same study found wide variations between independent school, suggesting that students from a few of them were in fact significantly more likely to obtain the better degrees than state students of the same gender and class background having the same A-level score.

Partington's summary specified that " questions of school background and gender " ... " make only a marginal difference and the pattern – particularly in relation to school background – is in any case inconsistent.

The law states that federal funds can be withdrawn from a school engaging in intentional gender discrimination in the provision of curriculum, counseling, academic support, or general educational opportunities ; this includes interscholastic or varsity sports.

According to UNICEF there are now more children in school than ever before, with significant improvements in gender equality in education.

Conflicts between extremist ultra-Orthodox Jewish men reported to belong to a group called the Sikrikim in some media and other residents of the town have centered around gender separation, for example at the city's health clinics, and so called ‘ mehadrin buses ’ where men sit in the front and women in the back, so called ‘ modest dress ’ as well as a dispute centering around the opening of a national-religious girls ’ school, located facing the windows of a haredi neighborhood.

Islamic ritual purification is particularly centred on the preparation for ritual prayer ; theoretically ritual purification would remain valid throughout the day, but is treated as invalid on the occurrence of certain acts, flatulence, sleep, contact with the opposite gender ( depending on which school of thought ), unconsciousness, and the emission of blood, semen, or vomit.

In middle school, races are more serious and are divided by grade and gender.

Jules Ferry got a law passed on 9 August 1879 in order to force each department to establish and fund an institution to train primary school teachers for each gender ( école normale de garçons and école normale de filles ).

The goal of most gay – straight alliances is to make their school community safe, facilitate activism on campus, and create a welcoming environment for all students regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.

He learned to play the cello with ease, but the pedantic severity of Mattei's views on counterpoint only served to drive the young composer's views toward a freer school of composition.

Justin uses material from the Synoptic Gospels ( Matthew, Mark, and Luke ) in the composition of the First Apology and the Dialogue, either directly, as in the case of Matthew, or indirectly through the use of a gospel harmony, which may have been composed by Justin or his school.

" The Darmstadt school of twelve tone composition was dominant during the time that Adams was receiving his college education, and he compared class to a " mausoleum where we would sit and count tone-rows in Webern.

He studied composition at the Munich Academy in the 1920s with Joseph Haas, a pupil of Max Reger, and later he received enormous intellectual stimulus and encouragement from the conductor Hermann Scherchen, an ally of the Schoenberg school, with whom he had a nearly lifelong mentor-protégé relationship.

Although Orbison recorded and wrote standard structure songs before " Only the Lonely ", he claimed never to have learned how to write them: " I'm sure we had to study composition or something like that at school, and they'd say ' This is the way you do it ,' and that's the way I would have done it, so being blessed again with not knowing what was wrong or what was right, I went on my own way .... So the structure sometimes has the chorus at the end of the song, and sometimes there is no chorus, it just goes ... But that's always after the fact — as I'm writing, it all sounds natural and in sequence to me.

Sondheim told biographer Meryle Secrest, " I just wanted to study composition, theory, and harmony without the attendant musicology that comes in graduate school.

However Karin Westerman drew parallels with 1990s Britain: a class system that was breaking down but defended by those whose power and status it upheld ; the multi-ethnic composition of Hogwarts ' students ; the racial tensions between the various intelligent species ; and school bullying.

He began composition at school, writing piano pieces, organ voluntaries, songs, anthems and a Symphony in C minor ( from 1892 ).

Brandon Boyd enrolled in a university art program in Los Angeles, while guitarist Mike Einziger went to Harvard music school to study composition.

The principal members of the school, besides Schoenberg, were Alban Berg and Anton Webern, who were among his first composition pupils.

Though the school included highly distinct musical personalities ( the styles of Berg and Webern are in fact very different from each other, and from Schoenberg — for example, only the works of Webern conform to the rule stated by Schoenberg that only a single row be used throughout all movements of a composition — while Gerhard and Skalkottas were closely involved with the folk music of their respective countries ) the impression of cohesiveness was enhanced by the literary efforts of some of its members.

Wellesz wrote the first book on Schoenberg, who was also the subject of several Festschriften put together by his friends and pupils ; Rufer and Spinner both wrote books on the technique of twelve-tone composition ; and Leibowitz's influential study of Schoenberg, Berg and Webern, Schoenberg et son école, helped to establish the image of a school in the period immediately after World War II in France and abroad.

( p. 62 – 64 ) His 1753 book initiated the school known as higher criticism that culminated in Julius Wellhausen formalising the documentary hypothesis in the 1870s, which in various modified forms still dominates understanding of the composition of the historical narratives.

His school lasted for over fifty years and taught the basis of liberal arts education as we know it today, including oratory, composition, history, citizenship, culture and morality.

In addition to seven original songs, the album included three covers: " Lilac Wine ", based on the version by Nina Simone ; " Corpus Christi Carol ", from Benjamin Britten's A Boy Was Born, Op. 3, a composition that Buckley was introduced to in high school, based on a 15th century hymn ; and " Hallelujah " by Leonard Cohen, based on John Cale's recording from the Cohen tribute album, I'm Your Fan.

It also was home to an important school of medieval music composition, which is usually called the St.

At the invitation of amateurs and professional friends he opened a school of composition at which several celebrated musicians were trained ; as a teacher he consistently declared his preference for the traditions of the old Roman school of composition.

Born in Smyrna, he attended school in Constantinople and studied piano and composition in Vienna.

While his younger brother Anton entered cadet school in Vienna to become a professional officer, Franz studied violin and composition at the Prague Conservatory, where his violin teacher was Antonín Bennewitz, but was advised by Antonín Dvořák to focus on composing music.

The 2007 freshman class had an acceptance rate of 86 percent, and the enrolled freshman class had the following composition: students graduating in the top 10 percent of their high school class ( 57 percent ); the top 25 percent of their high school class ( 91 percent ); the top 50 percent of their high school class ( 99 percent ).