Sentences with word «bellwether»

Through an extensive display of ephemera, including letters to Hugh Hefner and private collectors, glossy magazine advertisements, personal musings and sketches, My American Dream appears as a kind of bellwether for the art world's symbiotic relationship with consumerism, corporate sponsorship (a relic of another economy), and the market — political and ethical concerns that could not have been expressed in the sculptural objects she had made up until that point.

«The fact that it shows both that KIPP pre-K on its own and then the combination of KIPP pre-K and KIPP early elementary have positive effects on children's learning outcomes is a big deal, particularly given some of the past research on pre-K and fade - out,» said Ashley LiBetti Mitchel, a senior analyst focused on early education at Bellwether Education Partners.

by Walter Chaw As abortion dramedies go, this year's already seen Todd Solondz's far superior Palindromes and will soon see the abhorrent right - wing stem cell flick The Island, and for bellwethers of such things, there's still Hal Hartley's timeless Trust from fifteen years back.

Andy Smarick, a partner at Bellwether Education Partners, a nonprofit education reform organization, said Mr. Cuomo was unusual among current and recent Democratic governors of big states in his fidelity to reform priorities, noting that Martin O'Malley, the departing governor of Maryland, and Deval L. Patrick, the former governor of Massachusetts, were closer to teachers» unions.

Around this time of year, major critics organizations begin to organize the Best in cinema, with multiple groups serving as bellwethers for the developing Oscar season.

I remember a series of really incisive shows he curated at Bellwether in the mid 2000's.

Lina Bankert is a partner with Bellwether Education Partners and co-leads the Strategic Advising practice area.

This powerful debut is the winner of the 2016 PEN / Bellwether Prize for fiction, awarded by Barbara Kingsolver for a novel that addresses issues of social justice.

But Bob Sewell, president and CEO of Bellwether Investment Management, based in Oakville, Ont., thinks the positives of gamification outweigh the negatives.

Early trails, also known as bellwether trials, help the parties determine the strength of the cases and set the tone for future trials.

They are represented by Bellwether Gallery in New York City.

The new polls, a second source said, showed Trump's support, even without Bloomberg in the race, was «surprisingly strong» in Westchester and on Long Island, the key suburbs often viewed as crucial swing bellwethers on how statewide elections will turn out.

Coaching has surfaced as a key quality improvement strategy for early childhood instruction, according to a recent report by Bellwether Education Partners.

Recently, she participated extensively in discovery on bellwether cases in a multidistrict product liability litigation.

(CNN)- A new poll suggests a virtual tie in the Senate battle in the important bellwether state of Ohio.

Independent lawyers and midsize firms need to place higher value on technology and efficiency measures in order to survive the challenges ahead, the latest LexisNexis Bellwether report suggests.

In 2011, Steve Meehan joined Bellwether as Vice Chairman and was appointed Chairman in 2013.

Because wine grapes are a particularly good bellwether for other crops, similar issues may soon arise for producers of coffee, chocolate, hops and a host of other products, Jones says.

(A recent report from Bellwether Education Partners suggested that personalized learning, like the program in Columbus, is especially promising for rural students because they can access more courses and opportunities like dual enrollment).

* Andy's Bellwether colleague, Sara Mead, is a member of the PCSB.

Elsewhere the party lost Nuneaton and Bedworth - often seen as bellwether seats - while it fell short of gaining control in areas like Swindon, Dudley and Walsall, where they hoped to establish middle England strongholds.

John Powell is executive vice president and director of agency production at Bellwether Enterprise with over 40 years of experience in commercial real estate finance, loan origination, asset and portfolio management, underwriting and workouts.

Surrounded by fellow Czechs and doted on by his coach, an invigoratedJaromir Jagr is the key to the postseason for the league's bellwether team

His work has been the subject of important solo and group exhibitions at galleries and museums throughout the world including Bellwether Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, Galerie Nachst St. Stephan, Vienna; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, the New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York; and the Tate Britain, London.

Amy Wilson's «The Global Appeal of Liberty» ran at Bellwether through May 19, 2005, «CHOPLOGIC» through August 11, 2006.

Tesla doesn't sell even 100,000 cars a year yet, but is in the lead in the electric car market, making it an important bellwether of future chip sales in that area.

When one follows this path of edu - jargon they will quickly come across groups like Bellwether Education Partners, Education Cities and similar corporate - funded organizations that are working to remove the term public from public education.

«Based on bellwether markets across the country, where sales volume has been decreasing often for several months, I would expect sales volume nationally also to slow down in 2017,» Blomquist said.

People are only dimly aware when they take place, nobody cares who wins — least of all the winners — and they manage to be irrelevant both as serious film awards and as Oscar bellwethers.

Of the above five, only Margot Robbie isn't repping a Best Picture nominee, and given I, Tonya «s Best Editing nomination (usually a reliable bellwether for Best Picture success), you have to figure her film came close too.

Officials at Bellwether Housing, the city's largest nonprofit manager of affordable housing, at 2,000 units, report a vacancy rate of 1 percent.

The retailer is considered an economic bellwether, with the company accounting for nearly 10 per cent of nonautomotive retail spending in the U.S.

Natasha is the principal consultant at Bellwether Strategies in Vancouver where she works with law firms and legal organizations on strategic planning, reputation management and business development initiatives.

The first bellwether trial for a Lipitor diabetes lawsuit is in July.

* Asian shares were under pressure on Wednesday, with a rise in U.S. bond yields above the 3 - percent threshold and warnings from bellwether U.S. companies of higher costs driving fears that corporate earnings growth may peak soon.

Here's how it will work: You provide a swab from your cheek or a blood sample, and the test will examine the telomeres in white blood cells — which are part of the immune system and thus bellwethers when it comes to certain health problems — and compare their length with those of other individuals of about the same age.

Table 10's chef de cuisine James Richards has updated the «Taste of Table 10» four course $ 48 menu with seasonal summer favorites including ahi tuna tartare with wasabi clouds, organic scarlett spinach salad with pickled rhubarb and local strawberries; sweet corn soup with pickled sweet corn and crispy jalapenos; stuffed conchiglie with Bellwether Farms ricotta and black summer truffles; or lemon and herb roasted chicken with roasted potatoes and artichokes.

Having worked at mature tech companies like Google and Microsoft, and having advised several young startup founders, Dan Shapiro says that people at the tech bellwethers don't look kindly on brogrammer antics.

Ironically, the very term bellwether derives from the bell around the neck of a castrated ram.

Given its African American director, Ryan Coogler, and 10 leading black stars, «Black Panther» has especially been embraced by the African American community, who see the movie's success has a potential bellwether for Hollywood to embrace more films by and featuring people of color.

Which may make Bellwether Education honcho Andy Smarick's argument for not undertaking any effort to reauthorize No Child a sensible one.

Bellwether provides only high quality equity and fixed income securities that meet investor's long term requirements and risk tolerance.

Swindon is a classic political bellwether area, its parliamentary seat — split into two seats in 1997 — tending for decades to almost exactly track the national election result.

The defeat, by a vote of 53.5 percent to 46.5 percent, in a state that is seen as a political bellwether also was considered a blow to a national effort under way to get similar «paycheck protection» measures passed in other states and by the U.S. Congress.

A new poll by Bellwether Research shows the Governor's race between John Gregg and Mike Pence is still a close one.

«Seven percent of Title I, that's a billion dollars,» says Bellwether's Chad Aldeman.

Bellwether auctions next month in New York — where big ticket offerings include Alberto Giacometti's chariot sculpture valued at more than $ 100 million at Sotheby's — will be a better indicator of whether art prices are peaking or if economic uncertainty is trickling down to the art market, they said.