Sentences with phrase «excellent schools in»

Those who have kids will appreciate having excellent schools in their neighborhood.

Instead of proposing to cream off a tiny proportion of children to attend «elite» schools at eleven, a Government truly committed to all children would follow PISA's advice: countries should «strive to have excellent schools in every neighbourhood and make them accessible to all students».

Andrew Doba, Governor Dannel Malloy's former mouthpiece, who also served as Hartford mayoral candidate Luke Bronin's spokesman, is the lead consultant for Families for Excellent Schools in Connecticut.

In his first year as superintendent, Elliot has established a clear sense of urgency around the need for excellent schools in South Carolina.

According to the foundation's reports, «The Walton Family Foundation supports Families for Excellent Schools in its work to train parents to create and run advocacy efforts to improve school quality and give every student access to an excellent education.»

At a recent town hall held by Great Public Schools Now, Myrna Castrejón, the leader of the nonprofit seeking to expand excellent schools in Los Angeles, waded into the audience of parents, community members and LA Unified officials to ask what kind of schools they wanted for their kids.

That was how he stumbled upon Building Excellent Schools in the mid-2000's.

Which candidate will fight the hardest for excellent schools in every zip code?

«IPS is excited to partner with The Mind Trust to help ensure outstanding education leaders have the opportunity to start excellent schools in the district,» Ferebee said.

«I urge everyone to read the statement in full but in essence it comes down to this: we have many excellent schools in this country — schools with great leaders, great teachers.

«Among the many excellent schools in Rhode Island, these 17 schools have demonstrated high achievement for the school as a whole and for all student groups.

«It also contradicts Nicky Morgan's recent statement in which she said «Academies are just one part of the picture, and their work is complemented by thousands of excellent schools in the maintained sector.»

And let's stay open to the possibility that excellent schools in disadvantaged communities and excellent schools in affluent locales might continue to do things differently — without pernicious motivations or consequences.

Senator Ruben Diaz Sr., Assemblymen Marcos Crespo, Michael Blake, and Mark Gjonaj Call for More Excellent Schools in the Bronx

There are some excellent schools in your district and some in need of help.

Senator Ruben Diaz Sr., Assemblymen Marcos Crespo, Michael Blake, and Mark Gjonaj Call for More Excellent Schools in the Bronx 65,000 Bronx Children Trapped in Failing Schools BRONX, NY — A coalition of Bronx elected officials led by Senator Ruben Diaz -LSB-...]

UChicago Impact was launched in response to the need for better tools to establish excellent schooling in urban America.

Not exact matches

While we believe the 10 programs featured on our list are excellent schools, this list doesn't provide a full picture of the Canadian MBA landscape, nor does it factor in individual needs.

«We actually looked to distillers and suppliers in several countries to partner with on making an old school Carta Blanca rum, like the ones that came from Cuba during Prohibition, There were distillers that make excellent rum and were willing to work with us, but didn't have the knowledge and capabilities for the style we wanted to create.»

A reporter for French radio France Info went to the town in Tunisia where Bouhlel grew up and spoke to his family, who told him that he had been an excellent pupil all through high school.

If you have kids or are planning on starting a family, you've likely thought about how you can position yourself in an area with excellent public schools.

With an excellent credit score (I have a solid 755 + and pay balances in full each month for nearly 10 years), a degree from an accredited school and steady income, this doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

Brian Bushee from the Wharton School of Business wrote an excellent paper back in 2005 that highlighted the behavioral differences among institutional investors.

People who belong to the 800 Club have demonstrated excellent credit habits — and that's a little like having a permanent hall pass in high school.

Its concreteness in part consists of its own internal arrangements of power and status, and its schooling is excellent to the extent that built into those institutionalized arrangements are mechanisms fostering ideology critique within the school.

Late - twentieth - century theological schools in North America, however, exhibit the strain of trying to appropriate two quite different models of excellent schooling, both of which are by this time traditional in our cultural setting.

There is, as the excellent Mrs Daphne McLeod has pointed out, a «total failure to teach the authentic Catholic Faith in Catholic schools, resulting in a staggering 90 \ % lapsation rate among school leavers».

[14] In his view, excellent theological schooling is in conversation with its host culture not only by learning from it but also by contributing to the host culture's arts and letterIn his view, excellent theological schooling is in conversation with its host culture not only by learning from it but also by contributing to the host culture's arts and letterin conversation with its host culture not only by learning from it but also by contributing to the host culture's arts and letters.

As we saw in chapter 2, North American theological schools are located on various «Roads» and «Streets,» all of which in one way or another have historically taken paideia as the model of excellent schooling.

A second set of marks of excellence in theological schooling comes into view when we turn to reflect on the concreteness of a theological school: Its concreteness consists in part in its having institutionalized practices of governance, and its schooling is excellent to the extent that its polity leaves room so that the effort to understand God can be genuine by being free to err.

In this chapter the author names two quite different models of excellent schooling.

Similarly, although many schools do excellent work promoting knowledge and understanding of racism and poverty, it is much rarer to find even Catholic schools having Pro-life Awareness Weeks as a standard annual whole - school activity in which pupils are encouraged to understand the justice and coherence of Church teaching on abortion and related issues.

Its concreteness in part consists of its transactions with its immediate host community, and its schooling is excellent to the extent that its transactions are deliberately and self - critically shaped in such a way that what they symbolize to the immediate neighborhood and what they teach members of the school community itself are consonant with the concepts taught and learned in its central practices.

or the first time, more than 100,000 engineers are graduating from American schools every year, and we're on track to accomplish my goal of training 100,000 excellent new STEM teachers in a decade.

In accord with the «Athens» type, Wood insists that what makes theological schooling excellent schooling is that it shapes sound theological judgment; through this paideia we acquire a habitus, albeit a habitus for action that is self - critical in the modern sense of «critique» — a sense that ancient Athens knew nothing oIn accord with the «Athens» type, Wood insists that what makes theological schooling excellent schooling is that it shapes sound theological judgment; through this paideia we acquire a habitus, albeit a habitus for action that is self - critical in the modern sense of «critique» — a sense that ancient Athens knew nothing oin the modern sense of «critique» — a sense that ancient Athens knew nothing of.

Traveling from ducks to insects to people, the «if» method of the Stanislavsky school of acting is also excellent for limbering up one's imagination to the point where «the sufferings of the Chinese» (or, in our own day, the people of the Sahel) become real to one.

Can we reconceive theological education in such a way that (1) it clearly pertains to the totality of human life, in the public sphere as well as the private, because it bears on all of our powers; (2) it is adequate to genuine pluralism, both of the «Christian thing» and of the worlds in which the «Christian thing» is lived, by avoiding naiveté about historical and cultural conditioning without lapsing into relativism; (3) it can be the unifying overarching goal of theological education without requiring the tacit assumption that there is a universal structure or essence to education in general, or theological inquiry in particular, which inescapably denies genuine pluralism by claiming to be the universal common denominator to which everything may be reduced as variations on a theme; and (4) it can retrieve the strengths of both the «Athens» and the «Berlin» types of excellent schooling, without unintentionally subordinating one to the other?

Each chapter discusses an aspect of the one theme that the central purpose of all education — whether in homes, schools, churches, business organizations, community agencies, or the mass media, and whatever the area of learning, whether science, art, health, or international relations — should be the transformation of persons from the life of self - centered desire to that of devoted service of the excellent, and at the same time the creation of a democratic commonwealth established in justice and fraternal regard rather than in expediency.

At the same time, Catholic professors criticized their institutions for intellectual mediocrity, redefined «academic excellence» in line with the standards of leading graduate schools, and turned (with equivocal success) to theology to provide what Holy Cross historian David O'Brien has termed «the bridge between the older Catholic identity and the newer, more excellent version of Catholic higher education.»

One of the main reasons for the establishment of these excellent schools was to train an adequate number of preachers to remedy the problem of the large and increasing numbers of people who were given to ignorance and decadence in this country.

He had done very well in school and had received excellent grades.

«We are working hard to ensure that the excellent practice in these high - performing schools is hared across our network and beyond, so that all schools can achieve the best for their pupils.»

It furnishes us with a clear and authentic statement of Catholic teaching on education and provides excellent guidance and suggestions for its implementation in Catholic schools.

might suggest that, with its roots in «Jerusalem,» Christianity in fact theologically mandates a third type of excellent schooling altogether, one hitherto ignored by major Christian communities.

Both types of excellent schooling are deeply institutionalized in the practices that constitute American theological education of all sorts; neither one can simply be abandoned by a faculty vote!

The BBC journalists did an excellent job on revealing some of the negative consequences of faith - based schools in England.

Its universities in the United States have larger enrollments and more academic prestige than ever before, Jesuit high schools are attracting large numbers of excellent students, and some Jesuit publications and parishes are very successful.

But nothing is more concrete than the differences among the racial, gender, and socioeconomic locations of persons involved in theological schooling, nor more concrete than the differences among the practices through which persons have sought to understand God, nor more concrete than the differences between the ways in which models of excellent schooling have been institutionalized.

• that the «Berlin» model's bipolar picture of excellent theological schooling, both wissenschaftlich and aimed at preparing leadership for «professional ministry,» is a deeply institutionalized reality in American Protestant theological schools and can not be changed or left behind easily;

Thus Niebuhr moves to correct the problem in the revisions of the «Berlin» model of excellent theological schooling that we noted in the earlier reflections of Harper, Kelly, and Brown on North American Protestant theological education.