Sentences with phrase «by promising graduates»

From the end of August until mid-September, MK Gallery will present four solo exhibitions by promising graduates from three local universities as part of Platform 2017.

Not exact matches

For instance, a new study led by a professor of marketing at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business finds that when hiring managers are given a choice between proven ability and apparent potential, they often opt for the excitement of the untested but promising candidate.

A group of unemployed graduates with disabilities have served notice they will embark on a nationwide demonstration by December 3, 2015, if government fails to fulfill its promise of giving them jobs.

In his speech last night to Congress, President Barack Obama promised that his education policies would help more people attend college, ensuring that «by 2020, America will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world.»

A $ 15 million boost in graduate research fellowships, to $ 122 million, would advance Obama's campaign promise to triple the number of such 3 - year awards, to 3000 per year, by 2013.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Jamie Foxx Riveting as Homeless Savant in Best Role since Ray Despite being raised in the «hood by a single - mom, child prodigy Nathaniel Ayers (Jamie Foxx) exhibited such promise on the cello that by the time he graduated from high school in 1970 he had earned a scholarship to Juilliard.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Reverential Bio-Pic Pays Tribute to Legendary H.S. Bandleader After graduating from Wiley College (of «The Great Debaters» fame) back in the Thirties, Conrad «Prof» Johnson (1915 - 2008) briefly embarked on a promising career as a jazz musician, joining big band orchestras led by the likes of Count Basie and Erskine Hawkins.

The bar has been set not by its critics but by KIPP itself: if KIPP and other No Excuses schools are to fulfill their promise as game changers in American education, and rewrite the script on reaching and teaching underserved kids, their graduates must not merely be accepted to college; they must demonstrate success once they get there.

This 2011 annual update on a November 2010 report by Civic Enterprises, The Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University, and America's Promise Alliance takes a look at the big picture.

Prior to the Promise, about 36 percent of the relevant population of KPS graduates earned any postsecondary credential within six years of high school graduation; the new research estimates that the Promise increased this credential attainment by over one - third, so that 48 percent of eligible KPS graduates post-Promise have earned a credential within six years of high school graduation.

In 2014, Tennessee governor Bill Haslam, a Republican, created the Tennessee Promise, which uses lottery funds to cover tuition and fees not covered by the Pell grant or other state assistance to make two years of community college more affordable for all Tennessean high - school graduates.

Agency by Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Education is investigating the «promises, practices, and pedagogies of maker - centered learning experiences.»

This report released by America's Promise Alliance and prepared by EPE Research Center, finds that approximately half of the students served by the principal school systems in the nation's 50 largest cities are graduating from high school.

Sunshine and schools like it promise students they can graduate more quickly by going at their own pace.

Microcredentials home in on a wide variety of competencies, from Teaching Practices for Deeper Learning (issued by Digital Promise) to more traditional pedagogical skills, such as Data Literacy and Wait Time (issued by the Relay Graduate School of Education).

The GradNation campaign is led by Civic Enterprises, the Everyone Graduates Center at the Johns Hopkins University, America's Promise Alliance and the Alliance for Excellent Education.

The Building a Grad Nation Report: Progress and Challenge in Ending the High School Dropout Epidemic, released annually, by the Alliance for Excellent Education, America's Promise Alliance, Civic Enterprises, and the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University, shows detailed progress toward the GradNation goal of a national average on - time high school graduation rate of 90 percent by 2020.

Agency by Design is an exploration of the promises, practices, and pedagogies of maker - centered learning, based at Project Zero, a research center at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Agency by Design Oakland is the Bay Area - based component of the Agency by Design research project — an exploration of the promises, practices, and pedagogies of maker - centered learning based at Project Zero, a research center at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Experts at the GradNation campaign — led by America's Promise Ailliance, Civic Enterprises, the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University and the Alliance for Excellent Education — provide this FAQ to help explain what's behind the increase in high school graduation rates.

Edward P. Clapp is a senior research manager and a member of the core research team working on the Agency by Design (AbD) initiative — an investigation of the promises, practices, and pedagogies of maker - centered learning — at Project Zero, an educational research center at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE).

Earlier this year, America's Promise Alliance, founded by former Gen. Colin Powell to improve the lives of young people, released a report showing that low - income students graduate at much lower rates than the typical student.

By 2013, although no class had yet graduated from the complete cradle to college pipeline (Baby College through Promise Academy), over 900 students had been enrolled in HCZ's College Success Office.

A data study run by MeasureOne Private Student Loan Consortium details promising feedback on private student loan performance of graduates and families throughout the United States.

When I first considered graduate school nearly seven years ago, I was excited by the promise of the Student Loan Forgiveness Program and what it had to offer.

Having successfully completed his studies at the Academy in 1956, he was accepted onto a scheme run by the Academy for promising graduates.

The following year he was selected for Fresh Faced and Wild Eyed 08 — the annual showcase of work by the «most promising recent graduates» at The Photographers» Gallery, London.

Upon promise of payment of many pigs, a Tanna or Ambrym Bigfella would erect a DC - 3 mock - up out of shrubbery, making up for the absence of engines in the woven wicker nacelles by having his entourage of virtual graduate students copy and append aerodynamically correct propeller blades, carved out of tree fern trunks.

No doubt about it: information technology is marching — no, sprinting — ahead, fueled by new products that promise to revolutionize law practice and make lawyers more efficient.16 But at the same time, the feedback about law graduates» research skills remains lackluster at best.17 Despite a literal surplus of available tools, recent law graduates generally lack the research skills employers expect.18

With this intriguing, informal nickname comes an increasingly high reputation; described by The Guardian writer Laura Paddison, they're the firms that promise «top graduates a glittering name on their CV, A-list corporate clients and excellent training».

Attorney Jeffrey J. Antonelli Mr. Antonelli has represented several students and graduates of medical assisting programs that were promised eligibility for the CMA (AAMA) Certification Examination by programs that were not CAAHEP or ABHES accredited.