Sentences with phrase «best schools and academies»

These licensees are some of our very best schools and academies, together with universities and other training providers, who have proven track records in developing and supporting both current and future leaders.

Not exact matches

Springbank is also home to two of the city's most sought - after private schools, Webber Academy and Strathcona - Tweedsmuir School, as well as the prestigious Glencoe golf and country club, which Gull purported to have a five - year waiting list for new members.

Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer wrote in the journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, that, «Although most of the research and public pressure concerning sustainability has been focused on the effects of business and organizational activity on the physical environment, companies and their management practices profoundly affect the human and social environment as well.»

One way of acknowledging its revisability is to say that it can survive the critique laid for it by Wayne Proudfoot in his 1985 Religious Experience and, more importantly, by the postmodern culture for which Proudfoot speaks.13 If it ignores that kind of postmodern critique, I am suggesting, it will not deliver on the promise it has shown recently in the growth of The American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, in the founding of The Highlands Institute for American Religious Thought, in the resurgence of Columbia and Yale forms of neonaturalism and pragmatism in the work of Robert Corrington and William Shea, 14 and in the American Academy of Religion Group on Empiricism in American Religious Thought — as well as in the growing independent scholarship of those working out of the empirical side of process theology and the Chicago school.

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The latter, very well led by our Sabbatical Officer, Omar Mohsen, had five fixtures in Michaelmas, including three against local comprehensive schools (The Hill School, Phoenix Academy and Cherwell School) as part of OUAFC's strategy to increase the access opportunities we provide.

Sparks and Peekskill may be the «best prep school swimming team in the country,» but I'll string along with Williston Academy, Easthampton, Mass..

While four teen - age «observers» from a private military academy passed out pennants with the motto Por mejores jinetes con mejores caballos (for better horsemen with better horses), the general sat at his ease, dispensing radiant good will, autographs and tequila to his assorted fans and accepted with equal enthusiasm invitations from a grade school girl to address her class and from the mayor to accept the keys to the city.

This was during the first few years of the Harlem Children Zone's middle school, which were a struggle, and those KIPP schools, which had very good test results, were for the Promise Academy administrators both a standard to be aspired to and a frustrating reminder that their own students weren't performing at the same high level as KIPP's students.

Sorry if I want to send packed lunches I will do.If Gove wants better food in schools perhaps he had better control food more in academies and ask for more cash in the education budget.

Within Brighton & Hove, I also manage the free school meal eligibility checking service on behalf of all of our schools, colleges, free schools and academies, so I am well placed to collect information that will be relevant to both the caterer and our schools.

One of Tough's collaborators, Dominic Randolph, head of school at an elite academy in upstate NY, surmised that «the best way for a young person to build character is for him to attempt something where there is a real and serious possibility of failure.

The minor gains that NYC students made on state reading and math tests aren't good enough, according to Eva Moskowitz, the Success Academy charter school founder, who blasted Mayor de Blasio for the incremental improvements at a press conference in her Wall Street headquarters.

Justifying his decision, he will claim that «academies and free schools are most likely to be good or outstanding,» adding that they «do not just help the performance of their pupils, but pupils in surrounding schools».

Construction has been completed on the Basketball Arena Construction has been completed on the Copper Box Construction has been completed on the Velodrome Construction has been completed on the Aquatics Centre Construction has been completed on the Lee Valley White Water Centre More than three - quarters of the residential plots are structurally complete, the structure of the Chobham Academy school is nearing completion and work is well underway on the state - of - the - art polyclinic.

My dear friends, I have a dream that our Academy and our University will continue to grow and prosper, but in my dream, they are surrounded by thousandsof public and private schools and universitiesthat share our civic commitment, that emulate our thirst for knowledge, and that compete for the best and brightest students.Because those students they deserve to have a choice, and because there are too many problems for us to solve, and because we can't solve them and have a future unless our youth believe they can build one.

We believe that our academy and free school reforms will empower schools and teachers by freeing them from local authority control and government interference to do what they do best - educate.

The independent expenditure effort was heavily supported by charter school supporters like Paul Singer, a wealthy hedge - fund manager and investor who supports charter school expansion, as well Daniel Loeb, a director at Success Academy and Dan Senor, a former Bush administration official who is married to former CNN anchor Campbell Brown, a critic of teacher tenure.

About 95 percent of the students in Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy network are black and Hispanic, yet their schools often rank among the very best in the state.

Eva Moskowitz, the Success Academy chief executive and a frequent foil of the mayor's, accepted Mr. Loeb's apology as «appropriate and necessary» in a statement, and said «there are electeds who in good faith hold differing positions on schooling.»

«Look at the free schools and academies that are bringing in diverse providers to create more excellent school places and getting some of the best results at GCSE.

Hoping to shift the focus away from controversy and onto academics, Success Academy Charter Schools intends to start posting its lesson plans online this summer, going so far as to specify what type of snail is the best for kindergartners» science experiments.

More effective regulation of academies and free schools and better local coordination of education must be at the heart of political parties» manifesto commitments ahead of the General Election.

«Working with parents, teachers and MPs across the House we have forced the Government to drop their detrimental plans to force all good and outstanding schools to become academies.

Shadow Education Secretary will be visiting a Trafford grammar school as well as an Academy, faith - based and high schools during a visit to North West England today.

Your friend Tristram Hunt of course is guilty of the same Neo-Liberal agenda, he supported free schools right up to the point where they started to fail in Sweden, then rapidly reversed to just supporting the Academies which the teaching profession reject and only work with it from imposition, even that now has turned into mass protest forcing the numskull Tories to publicly retreat, although they will secretly use the inspectors to rig the system, where good schools are deemed poor by their diktat.

Commenting on today's speech by the Prime Minister, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union said: «Yet again we see the myth being peddled that the academies and Free Schools programmes are the answer to a good education in this country.

It also featured promises of more education reforms, with the «best headteachers» working in more than one school as trusts, academies and federations are expanded.

Parents will be joined by Citizen Action and alliance for quality education as well as community members in a rally before Wednesday's school board meeting take place at the Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts.

Technically, the authorizers in this case are the State University of New York trustees, who recognize the value of locking in renewals now and asked the Regents to OK them: Doing so will give the schools, Bronx Better Learning and eight Success Academy charters, certainty about their futures, particularly as they consider expansions.

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Both Roger Liddle and Andrew Adonis advised Blair after a spell in the Lib Dems, though Adonis, after being a rather good Labour Transport Secretary, now backs Michael Gove on Academy schools.

This confused system is made up of state schools that continue to be maintained by Local Education Authorities (LEAs), as well as academies and free schools, which are free from LEA control.

Success Charter Network's first school, Harlem Success Academy I on West 118th Street, scored better on the DOE's 2009 - 10 school progress reports than both P.S. 199 and the well - regarded P.S. 87.

Her honors and awards include membership in the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as honorary doctoral degrees from Colorado College, the University of Minnesota, Monmouth University, and the Colorado School of Mines.

In fact, according to the report from the academies» National Research Council, there's no good evidence that students are any more likely to graduate from college with a STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) degree or pursue a scientific career if they attend a specialty science and math school than a regular school.

This is something which has been very well documented and mourned in a report from the National Academy of Sciences that was issued by a committee headed by Norman Augustine just a few months ago and this report — which is called «he Gathering Storm» — lays out in some detail the concern that that [leaves us] with a long hole over the next couple of decades, because of weaknesses in [the] way we fund basic physical sciences, the way we are training people to do physical sciences, the way we treat science in elementary and high - school programs — all of those factors, the way we pay teachers, the way we use the patent system where we try to provide incentives in some of the physical sciences; we are losing our leadership gradually to other countries, especially in Europe and [of] particular concern in Asia, where the rise of science in, particularly China, to a certain extent India and other parts of Southeast Asia, are cause for long - term concern.

In a paper appearing online this week in the early edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, scientists who invented the photoswitch therapy and veterinary colleagues at the School of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) report that blind mice regained the ability to navigate a water maze as well as normal mice.

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«When kids feel safe, supported, and calm, they can focus better on the challenging tasks they have to complete,» says Dawn Brooks DeCosta, principal of Thurgood Marshall Academy Lower School in New York City.

Co-founding the Silver Spring Stage and the Maryland Academy of Dramatic Arts, with his wife Madolyn in the late»60s, Tabakin worked in the Washington, D.C. and Baltimore - area theater communities as a director and acting coach, as well as directing the Jewish Community Center of Washington's drama school.

Gerwig's movie is up for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and the writer - director's Catholic high school is throwing its own «Lady Bird» - themed Oscar party.

In 1992, the USC film school alumnus became both the youngest person and the first African - American ever to land an Academy Award nomination in the Best Director category for Boyz N the Hood.

Two years later, Gosling was honored with winning Best Male Lead from the Independent Spirit Awards and earned his first Academy and Screen Actors Guild nominations as Best Leading Actor, for portraying a junior high school teacher in the independent film Half Nelson (2006).

«Lady Bird» - which saw Greta nominated for Best Director at this year's upcoming Academy Awards - follows outspoken teenager Christine who must navigate a loving but turbulent relationship with her strong - willed mother over the course of an eventful and poignant senior year of high school.

Freida Pinto Pinto was a model and television host who had done no acting apart from a few school plays when, after her first six months of auditioning, she landed the role of a lifetime — the female lead in Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire which went on to win Best Picture at the 2009 Academy Awards.

«With more than 80 per cent of council maintained schools currently rated as good or outstanding by Ofsted, and only three of the 20 largest academy chains viable to take on additional schools, high performing maintained schools should also be able to sponsor struggling schools, without having to go through academy status first.

While he concedes that kids who go to the new crop of academically rigorous inner - city schools, like the KIPP Academy, may do better on tests than his kids, he is confident that Hyde students will be likelier to stay in college and succeed in life.

The more academies that sign up, the more children will have access to healthy food at school — food that will help them to eat better and do better.

«If proposals within the Education White Paper go forward and all schools convert to academies, councils must be given powers to force schools to expand where this is in the best interests of new and existing pupils.