Sentences with phrase «focusing schools on»

Additionally, focusing schools on narrow metrics, particularly when they are just starting, can have a chilling effect on the number and types of schools that choose to enter programs.

To focus schools on achievement requires shifting from a process - based accountability system to one driven by results.

For instance, states with higher percentages of certified teachers may also have strong accountability systems that focus their schools on student achievement.

Republican Representative Joe Haveman says the bill's intent is to focus schools on educating children.

Not exact matches

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

Plus, now that they're actually out of school, the founders can focus more time and energy on the start - up.

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.

Instead, Shirky expects to see more specialized schools like Rockefeller University, which focuses on biomedical research.

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

Destination Athlete ® is a one - stop resource focused on the Complete Athlete ®, offering products and services to help youth and high school athletes reach their destination.

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

Focusing on security around the door and adjacent areas, Allegion produces a range of solutions for homes, businesses, schools and other institutions.

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

Looking ahead, the company is focused on beefing up mobile offerings, helping teachers share information within schools, and creating ways for students take ownership of their behavior.

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.

Snyder said he will focus on strengthening SOM's faculty, student quality and reputation, as well as integrating the school into the rest of the Yale community.

An advocate for a local teachers union also expressed concern to the New York Times Magazine about the quality of the education, arguing Bridge focuses less on getting poor students to the baseline as enticing public school students to switch to Bridge schools.

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.

A 2012 study of debt - payoff strategies from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management found that consumers paying off small balances first were more likely to have eliminated their entire debt than those focusing on other strategies.

The organization raised the funds to purchase micro: bits for a pilot program focused on 25 middle - school classrooms, with the eventual goal of purchasing the device for every 7th grader attending the county's schools.

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

Or, the group focuses on doing deep dives into each other's businesses similar to the case study approach anyone who attended business school would be familiar with.

Focusing on elite schools to the exclusion of other factors like extracurricular participation is an especially bad idea for a technology company that needs a steady supply of cutting - edge ideas.

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.»

But don't let its focus on part — time students fool you into thinking the school isn't produce strong teams.

«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.

Focus on getting good grades and taking advantage of the school's resources and opportunities.

Bloomberg notes that its list «put a bigger focus on the outcome most students want from B - school: the brightest possible career path.»

The money should focus on helping startups expand beyond the Greek market, said Costas Andripoulos, professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at London's Cass Business School.

The school recently renewed its focus on leadership with a special capstone course and wilderness retreats to the Rocky Mountains, where students practise aboriginal survival methods.

She also headed the Women's Leadership Project, an organization focused on high school students.

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.

Initially the business focused on providing awards and recognition items to local sports leagues, youth groups, clubs, schools and organizations.

«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.

These are obvious questions to ask, but according to a massive new analysis of more than 45 million public school students nationwide from Stanford's Sean Reardon (hat tip to Business Insider for the pointer), they can actually be misleading cues to focus on.

Everybody thinks it's old school; nobody focuses on it anymore, which provides more opportunity for those of us who do.

As California slashes billions from its higher education budget, the state's premier public business schools have quietly focused its efforts on raising private dollars.

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.

With this new money, Regeneron and the Society hope to expand the reach of their competition so that it doesn't only focus on prestigious schools.

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.»

Blount thinks that business schools have focused too much on markets and not enough on people and organizations.

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.

John Kirton, co-director of the G - 20 Research Group at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs, called the summit a «very solid success,» pointing to broad agreement on the agenda, much of it focusing on less controversial issues such as women's empowerment and promoting digitalization.

But Continental executive Scott Penfound says the plan is to offer «an old - school commerce bank,» meaning one that focuses on making money from selling services rather than issuing credit.

«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.