Sentences with phrase «american schools effort»

For the Strong American Schools effort, the Gates and Broad foundations have committed up to $ 60 million to push education issues to the center of the stage for the 2008 presidential campaign.

Bob Slavin, who chairs the board of the Success for All Foundation at Johns Hopkins University, remembered that during the New American Schools effort there were «people who had done this kind of thing before, who were professionals at it, and knew what needed to be done.»

Not exact matches

Whether the president's efforts to strike a better deal for America results in redemption or disaster, a Wharton School researcher recently uncovered evidence that it may have already altered how Americans — and American men in particular — approach negotiations.

«Since the tragedy in Parkland, Florida, a number of companies have decided to sever their relationship with the NRA, in an effort to punish our members who are doctors, farmers, law enforcement officers, fire fighters, nurses, shop owners and school teachers that live in every American community,» the NRA said in a statement.

JPMorgan is also «making a special effort» to bring on more African - Americans by setting up a separate group to focus on school recruiting, retention and hiring «more senior African - American talent,» Dimon said.

Well past the midway mark on the veterans and military hiring front, Starbucks is also expanding its efforts to hire Opportunity Youth — 16 - to 24 - year - olds who are neither employed or in school; an estimated 5.4 million young Americans.

Successful efforts have been made to raise and maintain standards through the formation of the American Association of Theological Schools and its system of accreditation.

Because of our work, 18,000 American schools are providing kids with healthy food choices in an effort to eradicate childhood obesity; 21,000 African farmers have improved their crops to feed 30,000 people; 248 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions are being reduced in cities worldwide; more than 5,000 people have been trained in marketable job skills in Colombia; more than 5 million people have benefited from lifesaving HIV / AIDS medications; and members of the Clinton Global Initiative have made nearly 2,300 Commitments to Action to improve more than 400 million lives around the world.

American school lunches have no taste because minimal effort is put into their preparation.

Last summer the American Heart Association conducted a workshop for the food managers of the 12 Chicago school districts under the AHA's Hearty School Lunch Program, a national effort to educate lunchroom staff in creating more healthful school districts under the AHA's Hearty School Lunch Program, a national effort to educate lunchroom staff in creating more healthful School Lunch Program, a national effort to educate lunchroom staff in creating more healthful meals.

Teaching children the importance of a balanced diet requires consistent, long - term efforts, but considerable evidence shows that schools have — and are seizing — the opportunity to help young Americans develop healthy eating habits.

We therefore, support the proposal presented in the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Policy Statement, «School Start Times for Adolescents», to delay school start times in an effort to address this public health School Start Times for Adolescents», to delay school start times in an effort to address this public health school start times in an effort to address this public health issue.

But if Sweetgreen's goal was to raise awareness about school nutrition (and not just garner a lot of publicity for its restaurants, which it did in spades), I fail to see what it accomplished by holding American schools up to an unrealistic international standard — whether the standard is unrealistic because it's inaccurate (Greece) or because the country in question invests far more time, money and effort than the United States in feeding its children (France.)

In this post from last January, I told you how Dr. Sean Lucan published an open letter in the Journal of the American Medical Association describing his efforts to get junk food out of his child's school.

In a statement issued on Tuesday, White House threatened to veto the spending bill if it contains the school meal waiver, saying that such a bill would be «a major step backwards for the health of American children by undermining the effort to provide kids with more nutritious food.»

The report is a joint effort of the National Dairy Council, GENYOUth Foundation, American College of Sports Medicine, and American School Health Association and is available for review online.

A national survey commissioned by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation — an independent private foundation focused on the optimal development of children — reveals that 9 out of 10 Americans support current federal efforts to keep school meals healthy.

In an effort to halt the rising rates of childhood obesity, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) policy statement, Snacks, Sweetened Beverages, Added Sugars, and Schools, recommends families take a broader approach to nutrition, considering children's whole diet pattern — rather than simply the amount of sugar, fat, or specific nutrients in individual foods.

«I've always believed in the need for more independent leadership, and this new effort will support candidates and causes that will help protect Americans from the scourge of gun violence, improve our schools, and advance our freedoms.»

A coalition of education leaders joined DonorsChoose.org founder Charles Best to announce the effort, including state Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor; Newtown Superintendent of Schools Janet Robinson; U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan; Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers; Melodie Peters, president of AFT Connecticut; and Tom Kuroski, president of the Newtown Federation of Teachers.

Similar efforts are taking place nationwide, such as a coalition of African - Americans and Latinos stopping a sewage treatment plant from being built in their Northern Manhattan neighborhood, and a multicultural group in Boston helping local communities fight, among other things, a diesel power plant slated to be built next to an elementary school.

The findings remind Rena Subotnik, director of the Center for Psychology in Schools and Education for the American Psychological Association, of a recent effort in New Jersey to put a medical clinic in the neighborhood with the greatest need for services.

For example, policy - level strategies include recent efforts to delay high school start times, an approach that has been recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics and other professional organizations.

Indiana is at the forefront of providing mental health screening and services to juvenile offenders, but more efforts are needed to improve the services provided to detained youths, according to Indiana University School of Medicine research findings published in the October issue of the American Journal of Public Health.

This collaborative effort among Baylor, the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School is described in the latest online edition of the American Journal of Human Genetics.

Efforts are being focused on programs that provide research opportunities for Native Americans in high school and at Tribal Colleges and for research efforts based in their commuEfforts are being focused on programs that provide research opportunities for Native Americans in high school and at Tribal Colleges and for research efforts based in their commuefforts based in their communities.

Now, the school will take those efforts to a new level, after being awarded a $ 1.1 million grant from the American Medical Association in a national competition aimed at accelerating change in medical education.

A mindfulness practitioner and a long - time champion of efforts to improve the health and well - being of American families and children, Congressman Ryan is also a public advocate for mindfulness - based programs in schools, the military, and the health - care system.

American Association of Naturopathic Medical Colleges The Association of Accredited Naturopathic Medical Colleges (AANMC) was established in February 2001 to propel and foster the naturopathic medical profession by actively supporting the academic efforts of accredited and recognized schools of naturopathic medicine.

A fairly interminable teen comedy, American Pie follows four high school buddies (Jason Biggs» Jim, Chris Klein's Oz, Thomas Ian Nicholas» Kevin, and Eddie Kaye Thomas» Finch) as they vow to lose their respective virginities by prom night - with the film detailing the foursome's expectedly flamboyant and over-the-top efforts at accomplishing this feat.

The American is very much a thriller from the old school; it has a very 70s, continental vibe that reminded me a little of The Day Of The Jackal as the low key, almost laid back approach is a million miles away from the wobbly - cam and SFX orientated efforts of the ADHD generation.

Preer starred as Sylvia Landry, an African - American woman who travels north in an effort to raise money for a rural school in the Deep South for poor black children.

School of Life actually premiered on an American cable network earlier this year, and is now receiving a theatrical release here in Canada (presumably in an effort to capitalize on Ryan Reynolds» burgeoning success).

Since the 2001 passage of the No Child Left Behind Act, test - based accountability has been an organizing principle — perhaps the organizing principle — of efforts to improve American schools.

Especially significant was the Third Plenary Council, which met in Baltimore in 1884 and saw schools as central to their effort to meet the challenges facing American Catholicism.

A wide range of efforts aimed at getting high school dropouts back in school are outlined in a report by the Washington - based American Youth Policy Forum.

In February, the school will be raising money for the American Heart Association; in March, efforts will benefit a local charity; and students will focus on the environment and recycling in April.

Native Americans in Virginia and North Carolina have founded home - school organizations in an effort to escape assimilationist public schools and preserve their traditional values.

The findings, which were released here last week during the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, are part of a larger research effort sponsored by the National Science Foundation to explore how the organization of schools and classrooms affects student achievement.

In an effort to lower chronic absenteeism among its Native American elementary school students, the district worked with the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde to hire a coordinator who worked with families to address transportation, bullying, and other issues that were keeping kids out of school.

Today, American Education Week, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education and 12 national organizations, continues that effort by providing opportunities for strengthening the spirit of community within schools and developing partnerships between schools and local communities.

The scholarship is part of a $ 2 million effort to compensate Ms. Moseley, 57, and other African - Americans who were denied portions of their K - 12 education when some Virginia schools resisted desegregation orders in the 1950s and 1960s by closing their doors.

The most prominent effort to promote innovation during my brief stint in the Department of Education was the creation of the New American Schools Development Corporation, now known as New American Schools (see Jeffrey Mirel, «Unrequited Promise,» in the Summer 2002 issue of Education Next, telling how New American Schools grew from a feisty start - up to a consummate Washington insider).

The project, Changing the Subject: The New Urban High School Project, builds on the U.S. Department of Education's New American High Schools program, which this past spring recognized 10 high schools for their efforts to integrate vocational and academic learning throughout the curSchools program, which this past spring recognized 10 high schools for their efforts to integrate vocational and academic learning throughout the curschools for their efforts to integrate vocational and academic learning throughout the curricula.

Shanker's efforts had a significant impact on American public schools, but certain aspects of his legacy may be difficult to maintain.

When it comes to the crown jewel of its $ 110 billion in education stimulus spending and the foundation of its efforts to reshape American schooling, an administration rocked by public outcry against backroom deals wants to hide the judging table from the public?

School programs and efforts to support the success of girls are the same as many of the techniques advocated by the school - reform movement, says the report by the American Association of University Women Educational FoundSchool programs and efforts to support the success of girls are the same as many of the techniques advocated by the school - reform movement, says the report by the American Association of University Women Educational Foundschool - reform movement, says the report by the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation.

Senior editor Chester Finn in «Selective Reporting» wonders whether Education Week «s annual effort to survey the quality of American schools has the objectivity one should expect.

According to a discussion guide created to accompany 180 Days: Hartsville, «viewers will experience a year in the life of one Southern town's efforts to address the urgent demand for reform in American public schools.»

I told this story to a group of two dozen or so of my fellow ed reformers last week at an American Enterprise Institute convening on «race, social justice, and school reform» because I wanted to make two simple (some will say simplistic) points: our expensive and aggressive ed reform efforts still focus far too little on what kids do in school all day; and we don't all have the same ideas about what it means to serve the cause of social justice — or whether it is even appropriate to place social justice issues at the heart of our efforts to improve outcomes for kids.