Sentences with phrase «more key school»

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-- Harvard Business School — «The average time it took an unemployed person to find a job — full time, part time or otherwise — in December (2008) was 19.7 weeks» — Department of Labor — «Elite professionals feel least adept at getting meaningful introductions to key contacts (and) more adept at maintaining ongoing contact with key network members.»

Dig Inn will use the new investment to launch more restaurants, open a culinary training school that's free for employees, make key leadership hires, and build out its internal tech platform.

According to a recent NBC News / Wall Street Journal poll, the NRA's popularity with key groups took a hit after the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, in February, including among white married women, seniors and more moderate Republicans.

Start Here Little Rock partners with Clinton School to launch pilot program on Aug 27 Key facts Start Here Little Rock launches pilot program on August 27 at 10 a.m. at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service The... [Read more]

Nobody thought much of religions other than Christianity; as was obvious by our public school pledge — which admonished us all to be good Christian citizens... Sure, I had questions too, but our church was pretty low - key so I was safe from some of the more radically - minded (read: brainwashed) of my peers.

It will require hard stands at key moments — harder and more costly than merely pulling kids out of public schools, for example.

We live only an eight minute walk from my son's school and yet I find myself reaching for the car keys to go pick him up more often than not.

Parents» Effort Is Key to Child's Educational Performance Parents» efforts toward their child's educational achievement is crucial - playing a more significant role than that of the school or the child.

For many schools, moving toward a more holistic way of teaching students is key to their future success outside of the classroom.

If you want your school to purchase more local foods, you need to understand the challenges and opportunities involved, so that you can work with key school decision - makers and the school meal program staff to figure out how to overcome them.

But if the leading voice of school food professionals isn't even raising the issue, it seems all the more likely that Congress will agree to cost - free roll - backs of the law's key advancements.

Healthiness is more key on French school menus: fresher foods, more local foods, more vegetables and fruits offered.

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue released a proclamation May 1 that praised the nation's schools for serving nutritious meals and committed to «provide significant technical assistance to schools as they continue to develop menus that are healthy and appealing to students,» but the statement also announced plans to undermine key standards that support... Read More

These rules on food sold outside traditional cafeteria meals are a key part of the first major overhaul on school food in more than three decades.

But when it comes to sending your troubled teen away to a private boarding school for troubled teens, there are some key factors to consider which can help you make the decision to send your teen Read more..

The film tracks key moments in school food and child nutrition from 1940s, 1960s, and 1980s to the present — revealing political twists, surprising alliances, and more common ground than people realize.

The film tracks the behind - the - scenes details of school lunch and childhood hunger from key moments in the 1940s, 1960s, and 1980s to the present, revealing political twists, surprising alliances, and more common ground than people might realize.

NYSUT was opposed to the tax credit, but the labor union had its hands full on other key issues, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo's effort to once again overhaul teacher evaluations, weaken teacher tenure laws and strengthen charter schools in addition to the perennial push for more school aid.

As a professor at Fordham Law School, the author of important books on political and economic policy, a key figure in Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign, and a visionary organizer on behalf of banking and business reforms, she understands that the Democratic Party must move toward progressive populism in order to become more than a tepid alternative to Republican extremism.

Cuomo has also talked of making schools and school administrators more accountable, and he has yet to fulfill a key component of his reform agenda, the public financing of campaigns.

Key reforms include fostering more effective charter schools, merit pay for teachers, more aid to parochial schools and the elimination of stultifying laws such as «Last in first out» for teacher layoffs.

However, officials note that «the current inspection framework is antithetical to the Steiner ethos / pedagogical approach» in terms of «Literacy in Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and Key Stage 1 (KS1)», where Ofsted required «more formal learning»; «KS2 tests», as «Last year, the Academy pupils did not sit the tests (the Academy provided the exam papers and rooms for pupils to sit the exams but parents chose not to allow their pupils to sit the tests)»; and «Teaching and learning», where it is noted that the schools consider that «any process which judges learning as the immediate outcome from teaching in a lesson is inappropriate.

· Allow charities to set to up new state schools; set up a new independent educational standards authority; and abolish testing at key stages 1 and 3, and allow more in - school testing at key stage 2.

The story of becoming sober more than eight years ago is one Mr. Johnson tells with candor, a key element in the biography of a 35 - year - old who gained national attention for coming out as gay to his Massachusetts high school football team, and who achieved the legislative pinnacle of New York City government on Wednesday, becoming the speaker of the New York City Council.

De Blasio's key challenges now include renewing mayoral control of the public schools and getting the state to live up to more of its court - ordered funding obligation.

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente today announced that the site of the former Kemble Street School in the City of Utica's Cornhill will be a key feature of a new two - year grant obtained by the New York State Department of Health's Center... Read more

Among the key findings of the state comptroller's office audit of the Willsboro Central School District: The district overestimated appropriations in the adopted budgets by more than 10 percent over the past three years; the district has accumulated fund balance that exceeds the statutory limit by nearly 12 percentage points, and district officials did not develop a multi-year financial plan.

The boycotts could cost Long Island's public schools more than $ 200 million in federal and state financial aid if Washington imposes penalties for low student test - participation rates, key superintendents in Nassau and Suffolk counties said in a January letter to acting U.S. Education Secretary John B. King Jr..

A key state senator says that if Mayor de Blasio wants Albany to extend mayoral control over the city's public schools, he's going to have to allow a lot more charter schools in the Big Apple.

Peoples - Stokes is key to getting more state aid for Buffalo schools.

In a study published in the journal Science, an international collaboration of investigators from Dana - Farber, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital, and the University of Strasbourg uncovered a mechanism that allows key immune system cells to keep a steady rein on their more belligerent brother cells, thereby protecting normal, healthy tissue from assault.

«While the majority of siblings of children with ASD will not develop the condition themselves, for those who do, one of the key priorities is finding more effective ways of identifying and treating them as early as possible,» said lead author Katarzyna Chawarska, associate professor in the Yale Child Study Center and the Department of Pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine.

Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues in Pennsylvania and China, report that not only are there distinct differences in key cellular processes and molecular signatures between rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and osteoarthritis (OA) but, more surprisingly, there are joint - specific differences in RA.

Susan C. Miller, professor (research) of health services, policy and practice in the Brown University School of Public Health and lead author of the study in the Journal of Palliative Medicine, worked with colleagues to survey nursing directors at more than 1,900 nursing homes around the country between July 2009 and June 2010 to assess their knowledge of palliative care and their facility's implementation of key palliative care practices.

In the research, PhD student Alastair Key and his research associate Christopher Dunmore, of the University's School of Anthropology and Conservation, showed that the production of stone tools requires the thumb on the non-dominant hand to be significantly stronger and more robust than the fingers.

In this meeting, more than 30 internationally renowned plenary and keynote speakers from Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, Middle East and the US will deliver state - of - the - art lectures, while the scientific program is enriched with a career development and three interactive sessions, where members of the Faculty will engage into lively discussions with the summer school participants about issues related to career advancement and key topics related to the theme of this meeting, respectively.

9/20/2007 UCSD Study Reveals the Regulatory Mechanism of Key Enzyme Protein kinase A (PKA) involved in cardiac disease and breast cancer Research conducted at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine has shed new light on the structure and function of one of the key proteins in all mammalia... MoreKey Enzyme Protein kinase A (PKA) involved in cardiac disease and breast cancer Research conducted at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine has shed new light on the structure and function of one of the key proteins in all mammalia... Morekey proteins in all mammalia... More...

University of California San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine researchers have identified an enzyme that plays a key role in controlling these metabolic changes, suggesting we could tweak this pathway artificially to help our bodies burn fat more efficiently.

In the second fall inspired look, we took a few more back - to - school key pieces from Target and layered his look with a button - up and tee.

I've left behind the days of themed backpacks and loads of school supplies, and opt for a much more low - key and lightweight alternative for my college student lifestyle.

Mark continues: «Central leadership on the importance of ICT in schools is sorely lacking, leading to far too many considering ICT a dispensable spend, when it is in reality the key to much more effective teaching and learning.

Details are in the article but here is a key finding: because they earn more, school principals can expect to contribute 14 percent more to the pension plan than a senior teacher would contribute over the course of a career.

The data — taken from The Key's annual State of Education report, to be released next month — reveals that 59 % of schools (which equates to 14,347 schools in England) received more applications for places this academic year than the number of pupils they could accommodate.

Speaking about the findings, Fergal Roche, CEO of The Key — an organisation that provides leadership and management support to schools — said: «The provision of school places is a more complex issue than simply supply outstripping demand.

AN EDUCATION WORLD E-INTERVIEW Principal - in - Residence Speaks Out on Key Issues Preventing violence in schools, involving parents in education, and finding strength in diversity — in an e-interview with Education World, Carole Kennedy, the new principal - in - residence at the Department of Education, touches on those issues and more!

Focusing education reform plans more effectively requires an understanding of context, in this case, key characteristics of the Hispanic population and the schools they attend.

«Teacher retention and a reward systems that values staff rather than penalising them are key to the long term and sustainable success of a good education system and more Trusts, as well the Secretary of State, should take note of the approach introduced at TSAT schools.»

The key flaw in their report, as we describe in more depth in the article, is that the CRP authors compare the racial composition of all charter schools to that of all traditional public schools.

Waiver: Comprehensive flexibility that the U.S. Department of Education has granted to more than 40 states and the District of Columbia from key requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act (the current version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act) in exchange for embracing certain Obama administration education - redesign priorities on teachers, testing, standards, and school turnarounds.

The school focus In our discussions it was also apparent that the school wanted the SENCO to take a more strategic role in the delivery of provision They school, and in particular the SENCO, had expressed the need for a framework, tool or format to enable them to develop the SENCO's strategic role effectively and to ensure that evidence for specific aspects within the four key Ofsted judgements was gathered in a clear and consistent manner.