Sentences with phrase «focused schools in»

Some charter schools have tailored their model with one cultural or ethnic group in mind — from Greek - focused schools in Brooklyn, New York, to Hispanic - focused schools in Denver, Colorado (Mulvey, Cooper, & Maloney, 2010).

Four miles from downtown New Haven, students like Shantel are being swept up and away by one of the first and finest environmentally focused schools in the United States.

«Little research is available that demonstrates the effectiveness of STEM - focused schools in comparison with other schools or that contrasts the relative effectiveness of their different approaches on a variety of student outcomes,» the report notes.

CEC is headquartered in Illinois and operates seven career - focused schools in New York: Sanford - Brown Institute campuses in Garden City, Melville, White Plains and New York City; and BRIARCLIFFE (emphasis mine) scampuses in Bethpage, Patchogue, and New York City.

Last year, though, Fairview became one of 11 focus schools in the First Amendment Schools Project.

While the goal is to eventually reach all state and federal benchmarks, principals should focus these schools in making significant incremental growths in student achievement.

What I'd like to see are some samples of student writing, like the impressive samples provided by a truly content - focused school in London called Michaela.

The school was founded as a Focus School in 1994 to meet the needs of the growing number of students in this city who needed special instruction in English as a new language.

The experience of School Improvement Grant awardees and Priority and Focus schools in Illinois was decidedly mixed.

Not exact matches

In early 2010, during her second year in architecture school at Columbia University, Anna Stork was having trouble focusing on her thesiIn early 2010, during her second year in architecture school at Columbia University, Anna Stork was having trouble focusing on her thesiin architecture school at Columbia University, Anna Stork was having trouble focusing on her thesis.

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Yale School of Management, and Bill Smead, Smead Capital Management, discuss the news that Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is stepping down from the position but will remain in the company to focus on higher - end stores.

A recent study from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School found such «intertemporal markers» help motivate us in two ways: offering an opportunity to separate ourselves from past «misbehaviour» and disrupting our attention from day - to - day details to focus on the big picture.

He is concerned about the issue of childhood obesity in the U.S., and raced to raise $ 1 million for the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation, which helps schools develop and improve programs focused on food and nutrition (Lawrence's website is still accepting donations).

She is a graduate of the London School of Economics - Peking University double MSc in International Affairs, where she studied history and political economy with a focus on US - China trade disputes.

The Shannon School of Business offers the only MBA program in North America with a specific focus on community economic development.

He left vowing to forget about the nursery and to focus instead on having the best music school in the city.

In the Netherlands, one school is taking classroom tech to another level entirely by focusing on the way a learning space is lit.

«Though we will continue to prosecute the campaign against terrorists that we're engaged in today, the great power competition, not terrorism, is now the primary focus of US national security,» Mattis said in his opening statements at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

The authors of a Harvard Business School paper called Goals Gone Wild warn that the use of goal setting can actually cause a shift in focus, away from important but unspecified goals.

There has to be way more tank - filling than tank - draining,» says Ruben Nieves, former Stanford University men's volleyball coach and current national director of training for the Positive Coaching Alliance, a nonprofit organization based in Mountain View, Calif., that focuses on teaching and encouraging positive character - building in youth and high school sports.

Do it yourself Frustrated with b - schools» focus on shareholder returns, Gifford Pinchot founds the Bainbridge Graduate Institute in 2002 to offer socially responsible M.B.A.'s.

Although she was scouted by agencies while she was in school, her mother always protected her and encouraged her to focus on academics instead.

While a hungry child is less likely to be able to focus, most of the research looks at kids who are part of school breakfast programs, which means the majority of those kids come from underprivileged backgrounds and may not be getting enough to eat in general.

A report issued by Deloitte in 2011 called for revamping the K - 12 curriculum to expose kids to entrepreneurial concepts, and Stuart says government officials and policy experts are even considering the possibility of specialized, innovation - focused schools.Programs like the lecture series currently offered at Toronto French School that brings in entrepreneurs to talk to students can make a difference, he says.

Look at STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)-- if we focused on finding early indicators of high performers in our education system, then treated them differently as they progressed through school as potential Canadian innovators, by the time they got to Grade 12 and were thinking about university, they would be wildly ahead of the innovation curve.»

«Spider - Man: Homecoming» leaves out the radioactive spider bite, the death of Parker's uncle Ben, and focuses heavily on the difficulty that comes with trying to build confidence while still in high school, and is all the better for it.

While the public response to the report focused on the school's athletes, the report found that more than half of the students enrolled in the paper courses were nonathletes — many of them referred through the campus» fraternity system.

That said, back - to - school was good for Google, whose cheap internet - focused Chromebook laptops «had another banner quarter in the K - 12 market,» says IDC, though it doesn't provide specific figures.

«Right now, it's really hard to get a firm handle on a total figure [for] what kind of economic activity the sharing economy encompasses in Canada,» notes Sunil Johal, policy director at the Mowat Centre, an Ontario - focused public policy think - tank at the University of Toronto's School of Public Policy and Governance.

More students are accepting internships in these fields as well, as the school has offered more «industry focus» programs that expose students to careers in niche finance sectors, Fitch said.

The Darden School of Business offers one of the top MBA entrepreneurship programs among b - schools, awarding over $ 1 million in scholarships annually and offering highly specialized training like Venture Capital Bootcamp, a three - day workshop focused on early - stage investing.

Brooklyn College is in the process of developing a Graduate School of Cinema that will focus on film, post production and animation.

«I would like my legacy to be represented in the fact that no one inside of McDonough doubts that we are a premier school, and every day we wake up and behave that way, not with arrogance but with a focus on being the best.»

Other than the University of South Carolina, whose business school also focused on international business, Thunderbird was in a singular position to capitalize on the growing interest in global management.

«If we were smart, not only would we be focusing on encouraging the best technologists in school to go down this path — with programs designed and incentivized — we would be fighting to become the place where the brainpower of the world wants to come to live.

The Clinton platform also focuses heavily on education, including a call to broaden computer science education in public schools, revamp job training programs, and provide more funds for minority colleges to help tackle tech's diversity problem.

While the transition will take some getting used to, having solid systems in place in your home can help you ease the stress, and focus on the enjoyment of an exciting new school year.

Both hires go a long way in telegraphing the fact that the four - year - old Jack Welch Management Institute is one of the very few business schools that is run like a business, with a laser - like focus on customer service.

In retrospect, I think I should have focused on growing my freelance career and finishing school.

Change is afoot, most notably in the school's growing focus on sustainability and corporate social responsibility.

I was finishing up my MBA at Schulich School of Business at York University with a focus on sustainability and responsible business, and a background in environmental science, and that really just synched up with how Pangaea was looking to grow their team.

«It's also part of a civic duty,» said Joo Yu - min, an assistant professor at the National University of Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy whose research focuses on mega-events in Asian cities.

Perhaps a good place to start is by focusing on 10 students in your local high school, with the goal of increasing their chances of graduating.

Cruz, who is white, was never a part of that program and was eventually expelled from school due to his actions, making it an unusual focus in the debate that has followed the shooting.

Launched in 2004, the Sandra Rotman Centre for Health Sector Strategy is a strategic area of focused research for the Rotman School.

Based at one of Rotman's international partner schools, the DBI is an intensive course that focuses on how to do business in a specific country.

The result of a partnership between HEC Montréal and the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, CDL - Montreal is the city's first world - class startup support program focused on capitalizing its expertise in AI.

Arielle Geismar, a 16 - year - old junior at the Beacon School in Manhattan, said her school administrators were primarily focused on student sSchool in Manhattan, said her school administrators were primarily focused on student sschool administrators were primarily focused on student safety.

«We should be focused on arming law enforcement,» said Mr. Scott, who has proposed helping school districts pay for an armed police officer or sheriff's deputy at every school, and for every 1,000 students in large high schools.

Robert offers this insight to explain why more marketers say they focus on creating the right content for the right person at the right time, yet fewer report crafting content specifically for the buyer's journey: «It could be a semantical difference to some degree, but rather than the «old - school» development of content for the buyer's journey, we're seeing a focus on dynamically serving up content in the audience's time — no matter what stage they happen to be in.