Sentences with phrase «first public performance»

In September 2013, Dominique Lévy Gallery opened its Manhattan space with the exhibition Audible Presence: Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Cy Twombly, which was accompanied by the first public performance in New York of Yves Klein's seminal Monotone Silence Symphony.

VB64 is Vanessa Beecroft's first public performance in New York since 2000 and an accompanying exhibition of new sculpture at Deitch Studios on the East River in Long Island City.

VB64 is Vanessa Beecroft's first public performance in New York since 2000 and an accompanying exhibition of new sculpture at...

In conjunction with the exhibition, Dominique Lévy presented New York City's first public performance of Yves Klein's Monotone - Silence Symphony, which was performed only once during the artist's brief lifetime, on the night of March 9, 1960 as one part of the happening Anthropometries de l'époque bleue at the Galerie internationale d'art contemporain in Paris.

BLIND TEST In one of the unexpected segues that makes life so interesting, and GAMEHOTEL so unique, the REPLAY segment was followed by the first public performance of the infamous Tanguy Ukulele Orchestra.

A self - taught musician, he began playing the piano at the age of four and gave his first public performance of his own compositions a mere two years later.

Not exact matches

If Shake Shack's early pop holds until the end of the day, it will have reported the best first - day performance among the seven restaurant chains that have gone public over the last 10 years.

Meanwhile, Snap founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy entered the list for the first time despite the under whelming performance of the tech firm since going public earlier this year.

Despite the fact that the San Francisco - based business reviews site had yet to turn a profit since it was founded in 2004, Yelp (YELP) managed to log a strong first - day performance in the public markets.

All students, faculty and supervisors gather for a public presentation or performance (the first semester ends with a jazz vespers) preceding the small - group discussions.

Beyonce took the stage and executed the most Grammy - worthy performance in her first public appearance since announcing that she was pregnant with twins.

While Quintilian's Institutes were designed to train the orator of the first century CE, they do present principles that set the standard for a variety of modes of oral performance, including the public performance of an apostolic letter or an oral gospel.

STAPLES Center's sixteen years have also been marked with performances and special events that brought international stature to the downtown Los Angeles venue including concerts by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band (who played the arena's first - ever public event on October 17, 1999), Mana, Prince, U2, Paul McCartney, Garth Brooks, Usher, Jay - Z, Kanye West, Taylor Swift, Roger Waters, Britney Spears, Beyonce, Katy Perry, Sade and Justin Timberlake, as well as world championship boxing, family shows and special events.

Our first article studied the performance of SI's «Bet Against the Public» strategy on the NBA, near the midpoint of last year's season.

The first two columns are the indicators which best cover a state's ability to deliver on bread and butter economic issues; the Poverty and Economic Performance category includes variables such as unemployment, GDP growth, inflation, and government debt, while the Provision of Public Services category includes infrastructure, energy reliability, education, and policing.

But Mark Green, the former New York City public advocate who was a member of Mr. Cuomo's first Moreland Commission, which investigated the performance of the state's power utilities after Hurricane Sandy, said the advertisement ran the risk of politicizing the new panel.

It noted that one of the first Cincy schools to adopt the model ranked 3,218 th out of the 3,456 public schools in Ohio in terms of academic performance.

To better understand segregation's impact on student performance, FPG scientists looked at nearly 4000 first graders in public schools nationwide.

In fact, the panel is charged with providing «recommendations as to actions that can be taken to improve the safety and environmental performance of shale gas extraction processes and other steps to ensure protection of public health and safety,» according to Chu's memo (pdf) laying out its mission, which must deliver «immediate steps to be taken to improve the safety and environmental performance of fracking» within 90 days of its first meeting.

And for the first time we had a Batman movie that was actually about Batman, with Christian Bale giving three distinct and excellent performances: Bruce Wayne in private, wounded and still grieving and furious; Bruce Wayne in public, the drunken, irresponsible playboy; and the Batman, a terrifying force of nature.

There will also be an exclusive special guest performance by four - time Oscar - nominated Danny Elfman himself, making his first public singing performance in 18 years.

The suburban Denver schools in which we work are among the first large, comprehensive public high schools in the nation to convert to a performance - based system.

I sat in the audience of a fifty - two - year - old woman who had worked with a voice coach for two years to become a more fluent and compelling public speaker, watched the dress rehearsal of a play written by a sixty - three - year - old new playwright, and enjoyed the debut performance of a fifty - eight - year - old former schoolteacher at the conclusion of his first year of studying acting.

She also led Breakthrough for Learning, the first pay - for - performance system in the New York City Public Schools.

The first teachers» union contract approved for one of Massachusetts» 57 charter schools that operate outside a local public school district will allow performance - based teacher pay and a longer school day.

Although a recent union election cast doubt on the durability of the arrangement, Cincinnati has become the first public school district in the country to scrap the traditional salary schedule in favor of a system that pays teachers according to their classroom performance.

by Brett Wigdortz, founder and CEO, Teach First; Fair access: Making school choice and admissions work for all by Rebecca Allen, reader in the economics of education at the Institute of Education, University of London; School accountability, performance and pupil attainment by Simon Burgess, professor of economics at the University of Bristol, and director of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation; The importance of teaching by Dylan Wiliam, emeritus professor at the Institute of Education, University of London; Reducing within - school variation and the role of middle leadership by James Toop, ceo of Teaching Leaders; The importance of collaboration: Creating «families of schools» by Tim Brighouse, a former teacher and chief education officer of Oxfordshire and Birmingham; Testing times: Reforming classroom teaching through assessment by Christine Harrison, senior lecturer in science education at King's College London; Tackling pupil disengagement: Making the curriculum more engaging by David Price, author and educational consultant; Beyond the school gates: Developing children's zones for England by Alan Dyson, professor of education at the University of Manchester and co-director of the Centre for Equity in Education, Kirstin Kerr, lecturer in education at the University of Manchester and Chris Wellings, head of programme policy in Save the Children's UK Programme; After school: Promoting opportunities for all young people in a locality by Ann Hodgson, professor of education and director of the Learning for London @IOE Research Centre, Institute of Education, University of London and Ken Spours, professor or education and co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University of London.

For every 1.1 miles closer to the nearest private school, public school math and reading performance increases by 1.5 percent of a standard deviation in the first year following the announcement of the scholarship program.

While it is difficult to disentangle the reasons for this strengthening over time of the program's estimated effects, these findings nonetheless suggest that our first - year results may understate the positive effect of the FTC program on public school performance

First as mayor and then as governor, Voinovich was a vocal critic of the academic performance of Cleveland's public schools.

Similarly, in Louisiana, research after the first and second years of the program found voucher students performed worse than their public school counterparts, but after three years, performance was roughly similar across both groups.

This is the first of three data - driven Quality Counts packages this year exploring distinct aspects of the performance of America's public schools.

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First, public school teachers cling to unprofessional salary schedules and terms of employment that make it impossible to pay them based on their performance and market demand.

In the first broad attempts to analyze the performance of Hawaii's charter schools, the state Department of Education and the Hawaii's Educational Policy Center have found that charter - school students are doing as well as or better than students at traditional public schools on the state's proficiency tests.

Next year, the public will be able to see for themselves how well multi-academy trusts are doing in the school performance league tables for the first time.

Assembly will also launch its first public product today: a free online tool for schools to compare their performance against national benchmarks, including Progress and Attainment 8.

Although schools aren't being held accountable the first year, public opinion still believes teacher performance in the state counts.

Long overlooked as a vehicle for improving public education, attendance is increasingly viewed as a fundamental first step in boosting student performance — especially among early learners.

When Miami - Dade public schools rolled out their performance pay plan to fanfare and cheering last year, it was the first district in Florida to get a head start on what will become a mandated policy in 2014 and felt like it took on frontrunner status in the nation.

For example, Stanford University, in the first national study conducted on the academic performance of charter school students, found that only 17 percent of charter school students were outperforming their public school peers on math assessments.

The Ethel M. Taylor Academy, for example, which was one of the first schools to adopt the model, ranked 3,218 th out of 3,456 public schools in Ohio in overall academic performance last year.

For supporters and opponents alike, the first question concerns performance: are the academic outcomes of students attending charter schools higher or lower than those in the traditional public sector?

This echoed findings from a previous study that analyzed information search patterns on the District's first public school information site and revealed that parents were most interested in demographic characteristics of the student population, followed by location, and, only then, academic performance (Schneider & Buckley, 2002).

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Students are eligible for the program if the student's resident district is not a school district in which the pilot project scholarship program is operating and the student satisfies one of the following conditions: the student attends a local public school that has received a grade D or F by the state's performance index score, the student is assigned to a community school but would otherwise be assigned to a qualifying school, the student attends a local public school that was ranked in the lowest 10 percent of public schools in two of the three most recent rankings and the public school was not declared to be excellent or effective in the most recent rating system, or the student is enrolling in grades K — 12 for the first time and would be assigned to a qualifying school as long as they are at least 5 years old by Jan. 1 of the school year.

D.C. schools officials detailed for the first time Friday how teachers can qualify for the performance - based pay increases that could vault them into the ranks of the country's best - paid public school educators.

First, the question of schools doing «better than average» raised eyebrows as determining average performance means adding all schools» together and then dividing the by the number of schools — in the case of K - 12 public education, that's well over 98,000 schools, a substantial portion of which would have to be «below average» because that's how math works.

They selected the top three public charter systems — Achievement First, KIPP Foundation and Uncommon Schools — and ultimately found that Uncommon Schools had the best overall student academic performance between 2009 and 2012.

In one of the first rulings in the nation on the public's right to access information about the effectiveness of public school teachers, a judge in Los Angeles upheld that teacher performance ratings are...