Sentences with phrase «big urban systems»

«I wanted to do what I was doing in a big urban system to prove all these programs were scalable and transferable,» he says.

Not exact matches

The biggest shares of foundation aid go to school systems in New York City and other urban and poor suburban areas.

Instead, he argues, the state should pool its financial resources to tackle big issues - highways, bridges and, yes, aging urban water systems.

The researchers sifted through an extensive amount of data on many urban systems — mostly big American cities, but also European (primarily German) and Chinese urban areas.

«The reduction in size means all sorts of systems could easily adopt it,» he says, particularly treatment plants in urban areas, where both space and smell are big issues.

«In the dismal gallery of failing urban school systems,» wrote Associated Press reporter Adam Nossiter in April of 2005, several months before Katrina, «New Orleans may be the biggest horror of them all.»

Simply put, the problems confronting urban school districts are bigger, costlier, more numerous, and tougher to overcome than those facing most rural and suburban systems.

A closer look at graduation numbers reveals a concentrated dropout crisis in big - city districts, as well as odds - defying success in 21 urban systems.

The organization of state superintendents and the organization of big urban school districts will work together to audit the number and types of tests administered and develop new systems that are leaner and more integrated.

Part of my fellowship was to look at how a big urban school system tries to make sense of reform.

The report is chilling in its description of how school closures and privatization are destroying America's big cities and turning urban public school systems into institutions of last resort.

Big urban transit systems and the profit motive aren't a good fit for each other.

But the big change is the 5 - inch Touchscreen system, which we've seen in the top variants of the Punto Evo and the Linea, which is now available, as part of standard equipment, in the Avventura Urban Cross.

Clark's original plan to build a functional field research station on the grounds grew, after visiting Milwaukee and many of its urban farms last year, to include an aquaponic system (incorporating fathead minnows from Lynden's Big Lake) and a trial garden.

The big winner of the day was ShadowMaps, a GPS - related system developed by UCSB engineering students to overcome the «shadow effect» in which tall buildings in urban areas can «confuse» GPS systems and create errors in cell - phone GPS location.

And while we're seeing a resurgence of interest in so - called «real food» or slow food and local food, it's going to take a lot more than a few urban rooftop farms in big cities, or the expansion of certified organic shipping container farms, or an explosion in countertop gardening units to go from our current wasteful food and agriculture system to a model that is ultimately sustainable and future - focused.

«Opioid use disorder or addiction to prescription pain relievers or heroin is a disease that touches too many of our communities, big and small, urban and rural, and devastates families all while straining the capacity of law enforcement and the health care system.»