Sentences with phrase «many urban systems»

The critical investments we make now in energy, transportation, and urban systems will build the foundation for Canada's future prosperity.

Still, ideologies like these are having their effect on many schools in urban systems now.

The simulation of the behaviour of military, industrial and urban systems is carried out in the new fields of «operations research» and «systems analysis».

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Event: Smart Cities: Bridging Physical and Digital Organiser: Amy O'Neill Date: 9 and 10 November 2012 (8 November is invitation only and not open to the public) Venue: Leeds City Museum, Millennium Square LS2 8BH Audience: General audience For more information: Smart Cities: Bridging Physical and Digital A short interview with project researcher Dr Andrew Hudson - Smith, Director and Reader in Digital Urban Systems Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL, is available at http://www.esrc.ac.uk/publications/audio/festival-2012-events.aspx.

Past simulators for the build - a-city game generated animations based on statistics of how urban systems work, but GlassBox uses software agents acting both independently and together to create more dynamic, highly realistic events.

«Disruptions of services in one infrastructure will almost always result in disruptions in one or more other infrastructures, especially in urban systems, triggering serious cross-sectoral cascading infrastructure system failures in some locations, at least for short periods of time,» the report says.

In 2014, the researchers were awarded government funding to enhance energy resilience, environmental sustainability and urban systems.

The study, published in the journal Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, identifies Salt Lake City, Miami and Louisville as the top three urban heat island cities in the U.S.

The Waterway 365 report's aim was to show that waterways can be used to add sustainable transport capacity in urban systems, and to identify research questions and technical issues.

The research results were published recently in the interdisciplinary journal «Computers, Environment and Urban Systems» *.

The study, supported by the Department of Homeland Security and the National Science Foundation (NSF), found that most of the coastal communities do not have an overarching strategy for building urban disaster resilience and lack coordination between multiple urban systems, including land use activities, natural environments and public infrastructure investments, particularly in Texas.

The city plans generally lack strong fact - based assessments revealing the interdependencies among different urban systems.

Health, food security, climate change, sustainable energy, urban systems, digital technologies, and space will be the national priorities; they will be further refined and periodically revised by a newly created strategic research council, chaired by Prime Minister Jean - Marc Ayrault, with input from the French national research agency (CNRS) and five large research - coordinating networks.

The researchers sifted through an extensive amount of data on many urban systems — mostly big American cities, but also European (primarily German) and Chinese urban areas.

«Urban systems are on the front line.

«I wanted to do what I was doing in a big urban system to prove all these programs were scalable and transferable,» he says.

It ought not be unduly surprising that such efforts may look quite different from those to transform troubled urban systems struggling to educate children mired in poverty.

After 1974, however, school integration efforts outside the South were stymied by the Supreme Court's 5 - 4 decision in Milliken v. Bradley, which prohibited heavily minority urban systems from including nearby suburbs in desegregation plans.

As I studied fifty - seven urban systems, I ran into a serious problem: everyone was doing everything.

NAEP's Trial Urban District Assessment, which measured the performance of 11 large urban systems in 2005, provides compelling evidence of the futility of district - based reforms: even the highest - performing district studied (Charlotte) had only 29 percent of its 8th graders at or above proficient in reading.

In one urban system, we estimated that nearly a quarter of students assigned to remedial math and a third of students assigned to remedial English could have passed college - level courses with a B or better.

By contrast, the political forces that surround public schools - particularly schools in troubled urban systems - tend to promote excessive bureaucracy and to impede the development of the qualities that schools need to succeed.

Yes, many will take a course here and there, but the comprehensive high school in most suburban districts and proliferation of small high schools in urban systems will continue to enroll the vast majority of eligible teenagers.

As we've learned from other urban systems, the key lies in the mayor's willingness to assume responsibility for the performance of the district.

A closer look at graduation numbers reveals a concentrated dropout crisis in big - city districts, as well as odds - defying success in 21 urban systems.

Some observers wonder whether Broad's expectations for urban systems, including Los Angeles Unified, have been realistic.

Well - prepared leaders, Spence said, will strive to assure that «every single action [they are] engaged in supports that strategy,» marshaling resources to raise students» achievement, to close the gaps in achievement, and to address effectively issues of race and identity that lie at the heart of urban systems» achievement gaps.

The Global Cities Education Network benchmarks internationally informed practices that enable urban systems to provide the vast majority of students with the opportunity to attain high - level skills, regardless of their cultural or economic background.

Bold experiments in educational governance such as mayoral control of urban systems, «recovery districts,» and charter management organizations

Almost a year after Michelle A. Rhee was named the chancellor of the District of Columbia school district, she stressed at a May 20 gathering here on educational entrepreneurship that she sees the infusion of entrepreneurial practices and ideas as vital to her work of trying to transform the long - beleaguered urban system.

These urban systems contend with the toughest — and most expensive — educational challenges in the nation.

This effort was especially crucial given that so many of the clients targeted by NAS were low - performing, financially strapped urban systems.

While I see glimmers of hope in persistently underperforming cities like Detroit and Cleveland, I don't see the same for Philadelphia, which may now, sadly, have the most distressing American urban system of schools.

These schools — among the district's most challenging — have kept pace with a district achieving the highest gains among America's major urban systems.

There is also evidence that the best beginning teachers make up a substantial proportion of the early leavers: In a 2013 study of teacher attrition in four large urban systems, TNTP, a teacher recruitment and training organization, found that nearly one - third of highly effective teachers left within two years, and almost half left within five.

Michael S. Knapp, Michael A. Copland, Meredith I. Honig, Margaret L. Plecki, and Bradley S. Portin, Learning - focused Leadership and Leadership Support: Meaning and Practice in Urban Systems, University of Washington, 2010, 2.

Some teachers in urban systems expressed the view that advocacy by parents is a key to changing these conditions: Parents can put pressure on the system without being fired and can get the attention of the school board or mayor.

America's broken school systems — its large urban systems in particular — need to improve both infrastructure and product.

Governance is not the problem with our schools — Milwaukee arguably has more governance options than any urban system in the country.

«Performance assessments in most urban systems are shameful,» said Jason Kamras, Rhee's «human capital» deputy, who led the effort to revamp the District's system.

Cities seeking voluntary methods of desegregating schools developed Montessori magnet schools, first in Cincinnati, and then in other urban systems, most notably Milwaukee and Kansas City.

He said many urban systems desperately need radical change to boost student performance.

Many urban systems annually hire hundreds of untrained teachers, though in a haphazard fashion and with no meaningful induction.

Mind the gap: Learning, trust, and relationships in an underperforming urban system.

These costs would be affordable but not insignificant, ranging from $ 250 annually for the smallest public libraries, up to $ 40,000 for major urban systems, according to a funding model proposed after the pilot evaluation.

Urban systems and strata may call up excavations deep within New York.

The films draw uponarchitecture's relationship to its natural environment, its integration into urban systems and juxtapositions with the local vernacular.

The show will span five decades, from her work as a pioneer of feminist performance to a practitioner of public art, in which Ukeles invites us to reconsider indispensable urban systems and the workers who maintain them.

Synthesizing what is sensed by the body and what is perceived in the retina, the sculptures utilize materials that are commonly used to orient and control our movements in urban systems — reflective paint in crosswalks, neon signage, and pigeons — to disorient and obscure their communicative properties.