Sentences with phrase «from schools around the nation»

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The consequences from the shooting have reverberated far beyond school, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, Fla., as schools around the nation closed Friday, or canceled activities after receiving threats.

The longest - running exhibition of African - American art in the U.S. features more than 100 dynamic works of art from amateur and professional African - American artists from around the nation, as well as a youth category which features work by a dozen area high school artists.

As liberal - arts colleges around the country face financial woes and skepticism about the value of their degrees, rumblings of distress are emerging from arts - and - sciences professors at even one of the nation's most elite schools: Columbia University.

Now, researchers from the University of Michigan Medical School and colleagues around the nation will try to get to the heart of this mystery, and perhaps find new ways to spot those most at risk.

The experiment in place - based education earned the 17,000 - student Grand Rapids school district a coveted $ 10 million grant from XQ: The Super Schools Project in 2016, one of 10 awards made to schools and districts around the nation that challenge conventional ideas of what high schSchools Project in 2016, one of 10 awards made to schools and districts around the nation that challenge conventional ideas of what high schschools and districts around the nation that challenge conventional ideas of what high school is.

Framing a discussion around her recent book, Schooling America, Warren Research Professor Patricia Albjerg Graham provided insight into what the American public has sought from its educational institutions, what educators have delivered, and what may come in the future on Wednesday, May 10, at this semester's final Askwith Forum, Schooling America: How the Public Schools Meet the Nation's Changing Needs.

As I've traveled around the country, I've seen powerful examples of schools that have gone from being among our nation's worst to among our nation's best.

Officials from the island nation are eager to find ways to improve their education system by observing schools in the United States — despite this country's mediocre finish in that study, the biggest and broadest ever conducted comparing the math and science performance of 7th and 8th graders around the globe.

Beyond helping schools directly, data from Tripod surveys provide the AGI, graduate students, and research colleagues with a way study opportunity patterns in tens of thousands of classrooms from around the nation.

The Hechinger Report is investigating how professional - development funds are spent in the country's largest school system — New York City — as well as in other districts around the nation to see what we can learn from schools, districts and countries that excel at ongoing teacher training.

Students from around the nation joined in the walkout against gun violence on the 19th anniversary of the shooting at Columbine High School.

SPARK fourth graders have performed in the 70th percentile in math and the 61st percentile in reading in the nation much higher than fifth graders who enter our schools from other schools, who typically start around the 25th percentile in math and reading.

Additional turnaround resources include «Back from the Brink: Lawrence, MA,» an ERS case study of Lawrence Public Schools, and «Turning Around the Nation's Lowest Performing Schools,» a CAP and ERS publication that recommends five steps for districts to improve their chances of success.

To capture this context, the study team followed the OCO small school campaign over six years, collected data from multiple sources, and analyzed these data alongside data from six urban districts around the nation.

Moers and Bethke solicited policies from bilingual Deaf schools around nation.

From October 23 to 31, schools around the nation will observe Red Ribbon Week ®.

During this year's Community Schools National Forum, educators from around the nation were able to experience Albuquerque's homegrown Homework Diner program first hand.

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While millions of basketball fans watched NCAA March Madness playoff games this past March, more than 7,900 schools and one million students from around the nation competed in the bracket - style «March Math Madness» (MX3) contest sponsored by Utah - based, EdTech company, Imagine Learning.

She is a finalist for the National Magnet Schools POY award, along with other seven Regional Principals of the Year from around the nation, and will be honored later this month in Chicago, Illinois.

Using insights from a 13 practitioners who have implemented and sustained collaborative cultures of continuous improvement in schools around the nation, this anthology answers the most important questions surrounding professional learning communities (PLCs).

Before joining the International Center, he was a senior fellow at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where he worked with leading educators from around the country on improving our nation's high schools.

One assumes that is the money they collect from school districts for recruiting and placing TFA recruits in poor, urban districts around the nation.

Clay Nation February 8 - March 17, 2002 David Hiltner, assistant professor in the WSU School of Art and Design, organized this exhibition of ceramic works by four outstanding young artists / educators from around the country: Susan Filey (South Carolina), James Brashear (Alaska), Matt Long (Florida), and Brad Schwieger (Ohio).

The foundation has been focusing efforts on building schools in Haiti where, according to a report from the United Nations, the earthquake damaged or destroyed 8,000 schools that served 1.8 million children in and around the capital of Port - au - Prince alone.

In the early 1980s there was a marked change in the Chicago art scene as the city's art schools began attracting students and working artists from around the nation who had absorbed the lessons of the previous decades» avant - garde and who were influenced by the theoretical writings of historians, philosophers, environmentalists, and literary critics.

The early 1980s marked a sea change in the Chicago art scene as the city's art schools began attracting students and working artists from around the nation who had absorbed the lessons of the previous decades» avant - garde and who were influenced by the theoretical writings of historians, philosophers, environmentalists, and literary critics.

Santa Barbara, CA — More than 90 economics professors, professionals, and PhD students from around the nation convened at the Bren School November 3 and 4 for the 9th Occasional California Workshop on Environmental and Natural Resource Economics.

Standing tall and speaking out for the 17 victims whose voices have been forever silenced, high school students from Stoneman Douglas and other schools locally and around the nation have taken the initiative, campaigning to make educational institutions safer.

Apart from our efforts within various public schools around the nation, Justin and I also work regularly with parochial schools as they attempt to reduce bullying and encourage kindness across their campuses.