semester

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The teenager was enrolled in a virtual learning academy at the San Diego Unified School District and was on track to graduate high school this semester, according to district spokesperson James Canning.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

The number of students declaring a SCiLL minor increased 90% in the second semester this year.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

In 1970, during her last semester of undergrad, Leath married Ed Dossett, whom she met at East Tennessee State before he moved on to law school.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

This time along with Rossen Ventzislavov, an educator who brought me out to Woodbury University last spring as a fellow to teach a one-of-a-kind semester on Black modernism in architecture, design and popular culture.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

Then Ambady compared those snap judgments of teacher effectiveness with evaluations of those same professors made by their students after a full semester of classes, and she found that they were also essentially the same.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell