Sentences with phrase «city students in»

Frieze Education Engages New York City Students in Year - Round Exploration of Contemporary Art Field

«We are grateful to NewSchools Venture Fund for supporting Purdue's vision of creating a bridge for center - city students in Indianapolis to obtain a world - class, rigorous education and prepare themselves for success in college and career,» Jordan said.

Prior to those positions, she was a founding staff member at READ Alliance, a literacy and youth development organization which grew to become a thriving nonprofit serving thousands of New York City students in partnership with dozens of K - 12 schools.

Looking across ELA and math scores on state exams for New York City students in grades three through eight in 2003, the achievement gap separating black and Latino students from white and Asian students was.74 of a standard deviation.

RocRead is a collaborative, community - wide effort to engage city students in reading.

It identifies city students in high school who would make great teachers.

NSW's Aurora College is using virtual reality technology to address the growing gap in achievement between rural and city students in New South Wales schools.

Those top fashion designers, along with several others, are donating surplus materials and their staffs» time to help hundreds of New York City students in the «BID for Kids» program.

Stories like this have driven Waldo since his post-college job teaching English and improvisational acting to inner - city students in Providence, R.I. «It's incredibly powerful to see the kinds of sacrifices that parents and children are willing to make to get a quality education,» he says.

New York City students in grades 3 through eight made modest gains on the state's annual math and English exams, outstripping gains made by students in the rest of the state, according to statistics released on Aug. 8 by the state Education Department.

Some 100,000 city students in grades 3 - 8 fell below proficiency on the tougher 2010 tests after passing in 2009.

Not exact matches

The company is pursuing a range of growth opportunities, including a Sydney city campus for Macquarie University and a new business in Hong Kong to recruit students in China on behalf of education institutions in Australia and the UK.

• CommonBond, a New York City - based online student lender, raised $ 50 million in Series D funding.

Students have two options when it comes to an EMBA at Rotman — a one - year program in the heart of downtown Toronto, or an 18 - month global stream that takes place in cities around the world.

Tony Laing, senior graduate student services coordinator at the New School in New York City, says he has had the most success placing qualified interns at companies he has the most experience with.

«There are a lot of studies which have shown that lighting can actually impact on the mood of the students in their education and in their learning,» she told CNBC's Innovation Cities.

Over the last 5 years, over 50 students from the city of St. Louis have worked diligently to fundraise over $ 100,000 to become the first in their families to travel internationally.

He said that while a school like Harvard might have only 6,000 students a year but some 50,000 alumni in the city, each one of those grads is getting contacted by 100 students or more, asking to meet or go for coffee.

Two hundred students in their early teens voluntarily attended a recent weekend student conference in a midwestern city.

Students can earn an MBA as a full — time student, as part of a 26 — month program that requires a July residency, or as part of a weekend program that takes place in five cities in Canada.

«Most of my students have never touched flour in their lives,» the New York City native says.

Today, a student with an internet connection in Buenos Aires or Lagos can log on, interact with, and learn from an academic in New York City or London.

The Brooklyn - based attorney was in the news two years ago for filing complaints against New York City schools for actions taken against female students who'd alleged sexual attacks by male students.

If you have no connections and you need school to help facilitate that opportunity or help you move to the city you want to be in and you are willing to take the risk of student loans for that opportunity?

Bellhops hires City Managers from major colleges and universities throughout the country and then contracts directly with recruited students, or «Bellhops,» to execute small residential moving jobs in their cCity Managers from major colleges and universities throughout the country and then contracts directly with recruited students, or «Bellhops,» to execute small residential moving jobs in their citycity.

In 1965, 23 - year - old Johnson, a former graduate student in anthropology, became Nike's first employee, while toiling full - time as a social worker for the city of Los AngeleIn 1965, 23 - year - old Johnson, a former graduate student in anthropology, became Nike's first employee, while toiling full - time as a social worker for the city of Los Angelein anthropology, became Nike's first employee, while toiling full - time as a social worker for the city of Los Angeles.

Every year, Pace University and the MIT Enterprise Forum of New York City host the Annual Pace Pitch Contest, which launched in 2004 and is open to any current or recently graduated college student.

These days the company publishes its freebie unofficial student guides for 70 colleges in 35 cities, with a total circulation of one million.

The piece draws a comparison to Virginia's Fairfax County, which is similar in many ways to Westchester: They're both suburbs of big cities (New York and Washington, D.C.), they have similarly high home values, and they educate about the same number of students in public schools, which in both places have a good reputation.

Today the city schools have the highest percentage of ESL students in Virginia.

Summary: «Peter Parker tries to balance his life as an ordinary high school student in Queens with his superhero alter - ego Spider - Man, and must confront a new menace prowling the skies of New York City.»

The students learned that incubators in New York have trouble finding and retaining networks of industry experts, speakers and mentors, that they are short on staff for outreach and marketing, and that they struggle to offer opportunities in poorer areas of the city.

The MBA also gives students the option of pursuing a six - credit summer course in finance in New York City in collaboration with SUNY's Levin Institute.

That was the scenario a few days ago at Hero City in San Mateo, where Adam Draper, founder of the Bitcoin - focused startup accelerator Boost, interviewed four members of his family before an audience of Boost participants and Draper University students.

Indeed, in a 1999 study, Rolf Reber and Norbert Schwarz found that college students were significantly more likely to believe that statements that a particular city was in a particular town («Osorno is in Chile») were true when they were presented in highly visible shades of red and blue than when they were presented in moderately visible shades of green, yellow, and light blue.

Soon after the news broke, «Ken Eats Gainseville» food blogger Ken Peng posted to Facebook a heartfelt tribute to Greenberg, whom the Sun had referred to as a pioneer in the city's student startup movement.

From the city's point of view, the process of presenting a challenge and being offered an in - depth solution by a group of enthusiastic, creative students seemed like a big win.

A graduating student of the City College of New York wears a message on his cap during the College's commencement ceremony in the Harlem section of Manhattan.

The city of just over 33,000 people is located near the shores of Lake Michigan in the western part of the state, about a half - hour drive from Michigan's second most - populated city, Grand Rapids, and roughly an hour from Kalamazoo, the home of Western Michigan University, which has an enrollment of nearly 23,000 students.

John Kapetaneas managed to pay off $ 111,000 of student loans and credit card debt in 24 months — and the New York City - based journalist did it with zero savings and as a freelancer.

Within the next decade, all public schools in New York City will be required to offer computer - science classes to all students as part of Computer Science For All, a new initiative by Mayor Bill de Blasio.

As a cofounder at New York - based General Assembly, Hargreaves noticed a growing housing crisis affecting the tech education provider's students, many of whom couldn't meet the rigorous rental requirements stipulated by landlords in New York City.

The trips include stopovers in major cities where students will learn firsthand what it is like to do business while participating in a number of cultural and tourist activities.

Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson worked with the city of Philadelphia on a grant for public high school students interested in entrepreneurship.

While the business opportunity in smaller cities is large, limited Internet connectivity and reluctance among parents and students to pay for online education hamper adoption of online supplementary education platforms, it said.

Mr. Mulroney marvelled that 600 people in the Western city came out to support his alma mater — the tiny university with a student population of only 5,000 tucked away in a remote corner of Nova Scotia.

The Regional Household Debt and Credit Snapshot includes data about mortgages, student loans, credit cards, auto loans and delinquencies for New York City and its boroughs, as well as various metro areas in New York State, northern New Jersey and western Connecticut.

In Miami's Liberty City neighborhood, where the debate over guns is old and fraught, protesting the shooting death of a student proved far more challenging than his classmates expected.

As part of his inquiry, Paulsen helped create a public event, bringing together a container company manager, architects, art students, city planners and regulatory officials to brainstorm solutions in a design charette that drew wider media coverage.

Students who graduated from my program last year have founded ventures focused on healthy, affordable frozen meals, college preparedness in inner cities, and carbon footprint management software for energy consumers.