Sentences with phrase «in schools challenged»

«While the overall trend lines are positive, these persistent and significant gaps are a reminder of the importance of the commonwealth's efforts to improve instruction and raise achievement in schools challenged by poverty and other impediments to learning,» Secretary of Education Anne Holton said.

Educators in these schools challenge conventional thinking about student grades, standards and testing, the curriculum development process, leadership, school climate, student promotion and retention, classroom management, and parent involvement.

Not exact matches

According to Jerome Katz, the Coleman Professor in Entrepreneurship at Saint Louis University's John Cook School of Business, the biggest challenge with incorporating as a benefit corporation is in developing credit with banks and financial institutions.

Nonprofit City Year Chicago has recent college grads lining up for a $ 12,000 annual salary to work in economically challenged schools.

A self - described «band nerd» in high school, Rempel has honed her outspoken style by working in places where she was encouraged to challenge the status quo.

Of the nine winners who did report challenges building their startups because of student - loan debt, only three left school owing more than $ 35,000, the average amount for class of 2015 graduates (the highest in U.S. history), according to a report by financial aid resource Edvisors.com.

A Wall Street outsider in every conceivable way — a public school grad, a Texan from a visible minority, a woman — Godiwalla contended with more than the usual challenges when she moved to Manhattan in the»90s and became an analyst in Morgan Stanley's corporate finance group.

Robert Kozinets, director of MBA specialization in global retail management at York University's Schulich School of Business, says none of the challenges experienced by Target so far have been out of line with what should reasonably be expected of a brand making its first foray into international territory — certainly not a powerhouse such as Target.

«In the beginning, because this is such an new concept, speaking to some of the old - school liquor store owners was a challenge to explain the process and opportunity,» he says.

The initial solicitation and assessment of nominees is conducted in partnership with FSG, a nonprofit social - impact consulting firm; the Shared Value Initiative, a global platform for organizations seeking business solutions to social challenges; and Professor Michael E. Porter of Harvard Business School.

For international students, getting an MBA from a Chinese business school provides unique opportunities — entry into a 1.3 billion - person economy, for example — and poses considerable challenges — such as trying to say «forecasting the aggregate directly» in Mandarin.

While CEIBS pitches opportunity to the boot campers, it also puts forward some of the challenging realities facing international MBAs, even graduates of respected Chinese schools, should they wish to work in China.

TIJUANA, Mexico (AP)-- Packed into five old school buses, hundreds of Central American migrants arrived at the US border Sunday for a rally, to be followed by a planned mass attempt to apply for asylum, in a direct challenge to the Trump administration.

«He's a contrarian thinker who challenges the status quo a lot and makes his employees challenge the status quo in order to be more innovative,» says Brendan Calder, a professor at University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management.

So far, they've challenged each other to a bandy hockey penalty shootout (spoiler alert: Prince William won), met the Swedish royal family for lunch and a walkabout, and sat in on a mental health activity session at a school in Stockholm.

Enter the DO School, a global institution that, for select programs, borrows students passionate about social change from accredited colleges and offers them experiential learning through doing, challenging them to solve real - world, pressing problems in sustainable ways.

«All the students tell us that the money's nice, but the feedback's invaluable,» says Faley, a judge in the school's Michigan Business Challenge contest.

And that in turn affects how they approach challenges and succeed in early elementary school.

One of the biggest challenges in the digital health space is proving that groundbreaking new technologies actually live up to the accuracy standards of tested, tried, and true «old school» methods.

«I took it very, very seriously and quickly realized that this was even tougher than any of the other challenges in the public domain because it was my hometown, and it was my school,» says Alexander.

More recently, we worked with Disney Pixar to bridge the disconnect between what students learn about math and science at school and tackling creative challenges in the real world with an initiative called Pixar in a Box.

The school has introduced the HEC Challenge, where students work in teams to complete a consulting project for a specific organization.

The rest of my time is spent working on launching a beer school series in Toronto and preparing to speak at beer festivals — the latter of which involves coming up with fun ways to talk about beer to people who've been drinking it all day, which is challenging.

«There's a question of whether going along with the approval of the Northern Gateway pipeline will make LNG development in B.C. more challenging by angering First Nations so adamantly opposed to the oil sands pipeline,» said George Hoberg, a professor at the University of British Columbia's school of forestry and founder of UBCC350, a group pressing for action on greenhouse gas emissions.

The Capital Markets Institute at the Rotman School of Management fosters a clear understanding of the challenges facing the Canadian capital markets, and the institutional tools that Canada must develop in order to convert those challenges into opportunities to be a leader among the world's small, open capital markets.

On May 17 2016, the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and the Jack Austin Centre for Asia Pacific Business Studies at Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business held a dialogue themed, «The Opportunities and Challenges of Investing in...

It's the title of a satirical video game in which players are challenged to use «thoughts and prayers» to stop school shootings (spoiler alert: it doesn't work).

For example, our Institute for Sustainable Investing helps develop the next generation of long - term - oriented business leaders, in partnership with INSEAD and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, challenging teams of graduate students from around the world to demonstrate how investing can go hand - in - hand with positive social impact.

Haskayne School of Business supply chain prof Alireza Sabouri and colleagues from the Sauder School of Business at UBC developed a framework that helps transplant centres with a common challenge in how to screen patients on kidney transplant waiting lists.

Dr. Tony Campbell (R) is challenging Sen. Ben Cardin (D) to give up armed protection until he is willing to support good guys protecting children in our schools.

What that lets us do is meet the incredible difficulty of this challenge, which is to help modernize existing schools in the U.S. with a lot of time and resources.

Mr. Garrity's legal experience, his love of the arts, and his commitment to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have prepared him to lead Shine MDS, Inc., and face the challenges of a community in need of healing.

Gail is also an active start - up judge and mentor in Boston for such organizations as Mass - Challenge, Boston University, Harvard Business School, and IBM.

To meet the challenge, the Rotman School of Management is introducing its Global Executive MBA in Healthcare and the Life Sciences.

Completely scrap the the funding for private schools, but in the event it's not politically expedient for the government heading into an election, at least consider a reduction in funding levels to financially aid the public system and alleviate some of the pressures they currently are experiencing with class size, lack of teachers and the challenges inherent in providing school lunch programs.

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Amitav Acharya is Professor of International Relations at the School of International Service, American University, where he is also Chair of the ASEAN Studies Center and UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance, and Senior Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.

Speaking before the event the Archbishop said: «In the midst of these economic, social and political challenges, Church of England schools aim to provide an education that is deeply and authentically Christian, but also inclusive and embracing of diversity.

Nevertheless, any school of theology that engages in serious reflection about reshaping itself in ways appropriate to the environmental challenge will face difficult problems.

In wider public life, too, the plight of a local borough councillor, school governor, magistrate or head teacher who challenges the gender - agenda is likely to be a bleak one.

Challenging perceptions of discrimination and prejudice, this emotionally resonant drama for readers of Lisa Wingate and Jodi Picoult explores three different women navigating challenges in a changing school district — and in their lives.

While mainline publishers of religious books and church - school curricula have been virtually silent on the subject, there are currently in print more than 350 books challenging evolutionary science and advocating a «creation science» based on six 24 - hour days of creation, a «young - earth» dating, and a worldwide «flood geology.»

Process theology supports them, but probably goes farther than any other theological school in this challenge.

Despite the good news, InterVarsity — which has 985 chapters on 649 campuses — noted that it «continues to face challenges» to campus access at other schools in California, as well as New York, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Maine, Iowa, and Florida.

In this regard, several external groups such as the Challenge Team and the Ten - ten Theatre Company offer useful services to schools, while some good supporting materials are available - the primary school «This is My Body» scheme and Education for Life aimed at secondary schools spring to mind.

Self - schooled in the history of European nationalism — especially as championed by Giuseppe Mazzini in Italy — Savarkar sought to give expression to a broad cultural ideology that could challenge the British Raj, counter Western influence more generally, and provide intellectual defenses against Muslim beliefs and the allegedly culture - destroying work of Christian missionaries.

For someone who received all of his education at some of the leading «Inerrantist» schools in the country, I found the book incredibly challenging.

And so are public school teachers across the country who are being told via this fiasco not to be creative as teachers, not to challenge their students to think in new ways.

Then there are the dangerous questions that challenge the tradition itself, like why can't women teach men, why can't I teach your children in Sunday school if I'm not straight, what's this head of the household crap, why can't we have marriage equality, why is the church so myopic, and isn't it possible that the whole human race is connected and one and that there is no separation illustrated by the ancient paradigm of heaven and hell.

Marty says nothing about what this challenge might mean for theological schools, whose attention to these topics will play an important role in educating the people — pastors, denominational employees, lay leaders and the like — whom he frequently singles out as important interpreters and «brokers» of the public involvement of religious groups.