Sentences with phrase «school center whose»

James Merriman, CEO of the New York City Charter School Center whose group is considered more moderate than advocacy groups that focus exclusively on large charter networks, praised the collaboration.

Not exact matches

I attended a spectacular conference Friday at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, whose Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State hosts an annual discussion of antitrust and competition issues.

Resistance also requires a constant effort to withstand the doublespeak of the Re-education Center, a nightmare Sunday school whose lessons she must unlearn (such as the wonderful revisionary slogan said to be in Acts: «From each according to her ability; to each according to his needs» [p. 117]-RRB- At lunch they hear new Beatitudes she knows are «wrong, and they left things out, too, but there was no way of checking» (p. 89) except through memory and moral imagination.

Although many philosophers in history have written from a process perspective, the term today is reserved for a particular school of thought centered around the works of Alfred North Whitehead, whose philosophical writings spanned the two decades of the 1920's and 1930's and the two countries of England and the United States.

I worry that lost amidst the hoopla about the new CTE study is the fact that not every football player whose brain was donated to the CTE Center for pathological scrutiny was found to have the disease, and, that it was not detected in either the brains donated by the families of football players who died before they got to high school, and in only three of fourteen of high school players (and, in those, the disease had not progressed beyond the «mild» stage).

Just ask the parents of an Edgewater, Florida, first grader whose life - threatening peanut allergies recently put her at the center of protests by other parents who wanted the child to be home schooled so that their children wouldn't be inconvenienced by taking extra safety precautions.

Officials lauded the performing arts program at the high school, whose theater program has won several national awards over the years, and said the new center will help students develop their talents more.

Rev. Thomas J. McCarthy, 76, whose apartment is about a five - minute walk to West Middle School on Center Road in West Seneca;

Moskowitz has the support of the New York City Charter School Center, whose CEO James Merriman released a statement Thursday claiming that the law makes clear that the city can not have oversight over charters.

«Down the road, we hope to be able to treat pregnant women whose babies are at risk for this type of neurologic damage and prevent it from happening,» says study leader Irina Burd, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of gynecology and obstetrics and neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of the Integrated Research Center for Fetal Medicine.

«Our results indicate that this simple intervention could be an effective and scalable approach to use the design of electronic health records to increase the rate of flu vaccinations, which are estimated to prevent millions of flu cases and tens of thousands of related hospitalizations every year,» said study lead author Mitesh S. Patel, MD, MBA, MS, an assistant professor of Medicine and Health Care Management in Penn's Perelman School of Medicine and The Wharton School, a staff physician at the Crescenz VA Medical Center, and director of the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit, whose work is supported by the Penn Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics.

«This study opens the door for combination therapy with BRAF inhibitors and autophagy inhibitors, which haven't been explored deeply as a therapeutic option for patients whose tumors are resistant,» said Ravi K. Amaravadi, MD, assistant professor of Medicine in the division of Hematology / Oncology at the Perelman School of Medicine and co-leader of the Cancer Therapeutics Program at Penn Medicine's Abramson Cancer Center.

«By helping us understand that lower levels of RNF125 confer resistance to BRAF inhibitors, we have a new strategy to stratify patients for currently approved therapy versus participation for human clinical trials to investigate whether targeting JAK1 will be more effective in patients whose tumors exhibit reduced RNF125,» said Keith T. Flaherty, M.D., associate professor, Harvard Medical School, and director of Developmental Therapeutics, Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, and co-author of the study.

Young children in deep poverty, whose family income is below 50 percent of the federal poverty line, fare even worse on health and development indicators than children in poverty, according to a study released by the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.

In addition to Choi and Cahill — whose work was supported by the Army Research Office MURI program — co-authors of the paper include Byoung - Chul Min, Center for Spintronics Research, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul; and Kyung - Jin Lee, Department of Materials Science and Engineering and KU - KIST Graduate School of Converging Science and Technology, Korea University, Seoul.

The company paid scientists at Duke University School of Medicine and Florida Clinical Research Center to run a four - week study involving 80 children ages eight to 12 — 40 with ADHD who were not taking medications and 40 neurotypical, or those whose functions were within a normal range.

Privacy advocates at organizations such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Center for Democracy & Technology and Fight for the Future; tech industry groups, including the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA), whose members include Facebook, Google and Yahoo; and more than a dozen cybersecurity experts, including Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Ronald Rivest (the «R» in the RSA cryptography protocol) and Bruce Schneier, a fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

«What we see is an association between shorter periods of progression - free survival and overall survival in patients whose blood has higher levels of hypermethylated DNA, and we can see this very early on, after just four weeks of treatment,» says Sara Sukumar, Ph.D., professor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and member of the Kimmel Cancer Center, who developed the test with Johns Hopkins scientist Mary Jo Fackler, Ph.D., and others.

Brett Ratner's contribution centers on a just - dumped, involuntarily chaste high school boy (Star Trek's Anton Yelchin), whose avuncular pharmacist (James Caan) sets him up with his wheelchair - bound daughter (Juno's Olivia Thirlby) for a long prom night that ends with a number of twists and thrusts.

This centers on a teenage girl whose life is torn apart after the release of a disturbing video at her small - town high school.

Hala is a spoiled, self - centered high school dropout whose reckless sexual experimentation predictably leads to pregnancy.

This trend has presented particular problems for some elementary school teachers, whose pedagogy has typically centered around literacy.

The Elementary School Performance and Adjustment of Children Who Enter Kindergarten Late or Repeat Kindergarten: Findings from National Surveys This National Center for Education Statistics report analyzes the elementary school performance of children whose entry into kindergarten is delayed or who repeat kindergSchool Performance and Adjustment of Children Who Enter Kindergarten Late or Repeat Kindergarten: Findings from National Surveys This National Center for Education Statistics report analyzes the elementary school performance of children whose entry into kindergarten is delayed or who repeat kindergschool performance of children whose entry into kindergarten is delayed or who repeat kindergarten.

Rather, its recipe deals with them, as with other kids, via inclusive, child - centered instruction delivered in similar schools by exceptionally well - prepared teachers whose skills are supposed to include differentiating their instruction according to the needs, capacities, and prior achievement of all their pupils.

The centers, now funded at $ 981 million, were among several key after - school programs whose funding was not increased or that were targeted for elimination in the president's proposal.

And while building these basic skills is not the only job of our K — 12 system — or even of our elementary and middle schools, whose students» performance is what we'll see in forthcoming fourth grade and eighth grade results — they are surely at the center of the enterprise.

Gold notes, for example, how the demand that urban schools intervene directly to overcome the effects of poverty on achievement results in a proliferation of site - based social - service programs — clinics, counseling, rehab centers, family interventions — whose maintenance can overwhelm the instructional mission of the school.

The Supreme Court case involved a student, Endrew F., whose parents had enrolled him in the Firefly Center after his learning stalled in a public school in the Douglas County (Colorado) School Disschool in the Douglas County (Colorado) School DisSchool District.

Its summary, written by Chester Finn and Amber Winkler, tells us that «many proponents of private school choice... take [this] for granted,» citing two examples — one of them being the Cato Institute, whose Center for Educational Freedom I direct.

The use of mean scores places the focus on improving the academic achievement of all students within a school and not just those whose performance is around the state proficiency cut score (Center for Education Policy, 2011).

The case centered on a child with autism and attention deficit disorder whose parents removed him from public school in fifth grade.

This article is reprinted with permission of the First Amendment Center, whose original Religious Holidays in Public Schools guide was put together with contributions from First Amendment experts, religious groups and leading education organizations.

The Silicon Schools Fund in the San Francisco Bay Area supports several schools whose visions center on blended learning and differentiated instrSchools Fund in the San Francisco Bay Area supports several schools whose visions center on blended learning and differentiated instrschools whose visions center on blended learning and differentiated instruction.

Most practitioners and growing research supports the idea that districts need to dedicate an office or executive level leader whose role and concomitant authority is to insure that each school receives the various and individualized supports it may require (Center for School Turnaround, 2014; Morando Rhim, 2011; Shea & Liu, school receives the various and individualized supports it may require (Center for School Turnaround, 2014; Morando Rhim, 2011; Shea & Liu, School Turnaround, 2014; Morando Rhim, 2011; Shea & Liu, 2010).

On their side is their union, whose governing documents clearly state: «NEA deplores prepublishing censorship, book - burning crusades, and attempts to ban books from school library media centers and school curricula,» and resolves that «Teachers and school library media specialists must have the right to select and use materials and techniques without censorship or legislative interference.»

I attended the EdSource symposium with teachers from across California at the invitation of the Center for Teaching Quality, a national nonprofit whose mission is to mobilize teacher leaders to transform schools.

As a teacher at Walden Middle School in Atlanta, Georgia, whose student body was 100 percent black and poor, her school's rigorous curriculum was centered on black culture, and her students were engaged and insSchool in Atlanta, Georgia, whose student body was 100 percent black and poor, her school's rigorous curriculum was centered on black culture, and her students were engaged and insschool's rigorous curriculum was centered on black culture, and her students were engaged and inspired.

Other members of the Connecticut Center for School Change include the former CEO of People's Bank; Elsa Nuñez, the Vice President of Malloy's Board of Regents and President of Eastern Connecticut State University; Richard Sugarman, Founder and President of The Connecticut Forum whose son just «won» a lucrative contract from Pryor and the State Board of Education to set up an «Our Piece of the Pie» charter school in Windham ConnecSchool Change include the former CEO of People's Bank; Elsa Nuñez, the Vice President of Malloy's Board of Regents and President of Eastern Connecticut State University; Richard Sugarman, Founder and President of The Connecticut Forum whose son just «won» a lucrative contract from Pryor and the State Board of Education to set up an «Our Piece of the Pie» charter school in Windham Connecschool in Windham Connecticut.

EL author Dan Hoffman (p. 30) is Director of the Ohio Center for Essential School Reform, whose mission is

He created Project S.A.M.E. a US - Soviet Youth Exchange that brought students from the US and USSR together to advocate for peace; founded Students Concerned about Bias in Society (SCABS) who fought for implementation of Title IX in Maine schools; directed the University of Maine Aspirations Project and launched 35 statewide student leadership teams to bring students» voices to educational reform; conducted program evaluation research on the effects of the Maine Civil Rights Teams Project whose 50 student teams fought against bigotry and intolerance in Maine communities; founded the Center for School Climate and Learning and worked in hundreds of schools supporting students, teachers and administrators to bring youth voice to school reform in the US; co-authored two books, The Respectful School, and Transforming School Climate and Learning to share what I have leSchool Climate and Learning and worked in hundreds of schools supporting students, teachers and administrators to bring youth voice to school reform in the US; co-authored two books, The Respectful School, and Transforming School Climate and Learning to share what I have leschool reform in the US; co-authored two books, The Respectful School, and Transforming School Climate and Learning to share what I have leSchool, and Transforming School Climate and Learning to share what I have leSchool Climate and Learning to share what I have learned.

«For us, it is really about the vision that instead of investing billions of dollars in a wall that divides our community, what we really should be doing is investing heavily in great public schools for our children,» said Blair, whose coalition represents groups like the Advancement Project and the Center for Popular Democracy.

The school has partnerships with several arts organizations, including the New York Philharmonic, Vital Theatre, Lincoln Center Institute and National Dance Institute, whose teaching artists work with each of the 4th - grade classes once a week.

A nonprofit development consultant whose clients have included Jamestown and the San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center, Shannon Cogen chairs the board of trustees of the San Francisco Friends School and is a trustee of Urban High School.

Another ambitious investigation, conducted by the National Center for Educational Achievement (2009), sent teams of researchers to 26 public schools in five states that had a high percentage of low - income students, and whose students had made significant gains on math and science exams in a three - year period.

Currently, Burney is a Governance Solutions trainer for the Center for Reform of School Systems and an education consultant whose sole mission is to empower, motivate, and inspire all children to unleash their inner greatness.

ACE - 21st Century Community Learning Centers is a federal grant program issued by the state whose purpose is to establish or expand community learning centers that provide students with academic enrichment opportunities along with activities designed to complement the students» regular academic program during after school hours.

The Center for Collaborative Education (CCE) in Boston, a nonprofit whose mission is to transform schools to ensure all students achieve and contribute to a democratic society, participated in the Emerging Harbormaster Network.

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 30, 2016 — For homeless students with nowhere to go after school and low - income students whose families can't afford computers or internet access, free afterschool homework centers in 34 branches of the Los Angeles Public Library across the city provide a safe haven.

«Charter schools give parents an option and cultivate a culture that enhances children,» said plaintiff Russell Bell, whose three children attend King Center Charter School in Buffalo.

Laurel is one of 16,000 students whose schools» futures were imperiled by the May court decision reaffirmed Monday, throwing these students into the center of a national debate about the viability of charter schools — schools that are publicly funded but can be privately run — and the role they play in public education.