Sentences with phrase «more schools by»

The project stems from an agreement last July between Maryland officials and the National Information Utilities Corporation, a high - technology firm in Vienna, Va., to demonstrate the futuristic concept of an «education utility» in one or more schools by April 1985...

A subsequent analysis of the data found that ``... KidsMatter appears to be positively associated with the level of student academic achievement, equivalent to 6 months more schooling by Year 7, over and above any influence of socio - economic background.»

Specifically, adolescents who had completed more schooling by the time they had their first child were more likely to be in school or to have graduated from high school and to have better psychosocial outcomes, including less depression, less anxiety, and higher self - esteem.

Not exact matches

Being young and fresh out of school, it was definitely a challenge, but after six months, a year, 18 months went by, I started to realize that this felt more like home to me than anything I'd done before.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

By 2040, say data scientists at three leading health research centers — Seattle's Institute for Heath Metrics and Evaluation, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the World Bank Group — that bill will more than double, to $ 18 trillion.

The programs with the highest proportion of women, the highest number of foreign students, the top schools by instructor - student ratio and more.

To date, more than half of NaturAll Club's capital — a total of $ 120,000 — has come from pitch competitions sponsored by, among others, Harvard Business School Club, the entertainer Steve Harvey, UBS, and Under Armour.

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.

The oldest law school in Canada, McGill, ranks just under U of T. Its highly regarded law journal is cited by The Supreme Court of Canada more often than any other university - affiliated journal, and McGill law graduates regularly make up a quarter of The Supreme Court's annual clerkships.

But this isn't a sport, it's business — the Great Game of Business, as practiced by Springfield Remanufacturing Corp. (SRC), the midsize Missouri company that may be having more effect on American management than any 10 of the nation's business schools have.

According to a study from the Harvard Business School, guests with «distinctly African - American names» were 16 % more likely to be rejected by prospective hosts than guests with distinctly white names.

She points to a 2011 study by the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, which found that students who started school at 8:30 a.m. got almost an hour more sleep and performed better on tests measuring attention levels than peers who started at 7:30 a.m.

Expect more prestige schools to get into this market which, by and large, is the province of unaccredited, for - profit schools.

A 2010 study by professors from Insead, the Kellogg School of Management, and Tel Aviv University found that people who have spent extended time abroad tend to be better, more creative problem solvers.

In 2011, Mayor Michael Bloomberg hired the city's first - ever chief digital officer, Rachel Sterne, who was a 27 - year - old entrepreneur and Columbia Business School prof, to help the city use technology to better serve citizens and save taxpayer money by making services more efficient and accessible online.

Since Sunday, the #BoycottFedEx hashtag has been included in more than 700 posts on Twitter, including one by Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school student David Hogg that has been shared more than 13,000 times.

To encourage bilingualism, the school is adding more English classes every year, and by graduation, students must be able to effectively communicate in both English and French.

He said that while a school like Harvard might have only 6,000 students a year but some 50,000 alumni in the city, each one of those grads is getting contacted by 100 students or more, asking to meet or go for coffee.

A recent study by two assistant professors at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management found that while consumers» overall behaviour is shifting toward greater social responsibility, the rise in ethical, or green consumption hasn't made people more altruistic.

With just 10 employees, Chalk.com is used in more than 20,000 schools worldwide and by 100,000 teachers.

One study commissioned by the school showed that its alumni were more devoted to each other and not the school.

If you want to know more about how the big guys work out problems, check out Justice on the Job, by David W. Ewing (Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 1989), a lively chronicle of the creative complaint systems in place at corporations such as Federal Express, IBM, and Northrop.

Kellogg is building on its traditional strength as the top school in marketing by trying to define that asset more broadly.

However, the distortion of the debate by Trump and other politicians creates a danger that resources will be misdirected from more pressing infrastructure needs, such as aged water pipes leaching lead and schools - or from projects that will have a considerable regional economic impact.

Today, Flocabulary has a library of more than 550 educational hip - hop videos that explore a wide range of subjects, including math, science, social studies, language arts, and current events, which are used by teachers in 20,000 schools across the country.

Business school has introduced an app inspired by «Harry Potter» that's intended to make students more well - rounded.

Among the top 20 MBA programs in the U.S., at least four schools — Yale, Harvard, Northwestern, and UCLA — have increased their average scholarship payouts to students by more than 100 % since the 2004 - 2005 academic year.

Kazakoff and Rose have poked fun at business schools» growing acceptance of the GRE exam (dismissed by them as a ploy by schools to compete for more female applicants) and donned powdered wigs, ruffled shirts and tailored Victorian jackets, bantering in British accents for a recent segment on the invention of capitalism.

«Some people have that school of thought where fitness isn't enjoyable, but we're making it enjoyable, I think, by making it more fun, challenging, and engaging, rather than this boring thing that you have to do,» she says.

The Director of Clinical Operations for the Penn State Heart & Vascular Institute, Ettinger is described as «one of the best students I have seen in more than 30 years of teaching Executive MBA students» by Dennis P. Sheehan, the school's faculty director for MBA programs.

Another national walkout, organized by a different group of students, is planned for April 20, the 19th anniversary of the 1999 attack at Colorado's Columbine High School that killed 12 students and a teacher and left two dozen more injured.

She filed the lawsuit in 2011 claiming that the school made its employment data look more promising by including jobs such as part - time waitressing, misleading potential students into thinking that their job prospects in the legal sector were more favorable than they actually were.

The SBI program, sponsored by the U.S. Small Business Administration, pairs more than 500 business schools with small companies nationwide.

«The more your network includes individuals from different cultural backgrounds, the more you will be creatively stimulated by different ideas and perspectives,» according to research by Harvard Business School professor Roy Y.J. Chua.

Organizers said they expected more than 700,000 people to attend the March for Our Lives rally at the foot of Capitol Hill, a gathering led by survivors of the Feb. 14 attack on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 people dead.

The Millennial's Guide to Surviving and Thriving in the Real World,» says, «Aided by the misguided counsel of parents, they went back to school to obtain more degrees, and subsequently more debt, and many of them still remain jobless.

He started trading stocks in middle school, but had decided by the time he started at UC Berkeley that he was more interested in creating a company than just investing in them.

But according to a recent poll conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and NPR, Americans with health issues are more likely to experience a great deal of stress than anyone else.

Rather, the former talk show host, entrepreneur, actress, and philanthropist receiving an honorary doctorate of letters by the liberal arts school, urged the class of 2017 to channel something more basic: cultivate a clear vision of who you are and what moves you.

(1) To address the coding skills gap and help prepare more people for jobs in software development, Apple created a powerful yet easy - to - learn coding language called Swift (TM), the free Swift Playgrounds (TM) app and a free curriculum, App Development with Swift, which are available to anyone and are already being used by millions of students at K - 12 schools, summer camps and leading community colleges across the country.

CIBC also found that real weekly wages of high school and college graduates have risen by 13 per cent versus eight per cent among undergraduate degree holders and more than double the rate seen among MA and PhD holders.

The group said its members had been voluntarily trying to reduce sugar consumption by making calorie content information more visible on labels, as well as discontinuing sales of full - calorie sodas to schools nationwide, and replacing them with more lower - calorie or no - calorie beverages, along with smaller portion size options.

The company partnered with a Harvard Business School professor to develop a program that helps their employees manage a better work - life balance by rethinking their work processes and making work more meaningful.

The bumbling Peter Parker is still getting picked on in school and still gets bitten by a radioactive spider, but the origin story is a little different and a lot more important.

Such a dead simple memory booster should be the sort of thing schools routinely share with kids, but according to MacLeod people more often find their way to using this technique by instinct than instruction.

The oath has since been taken by students at more than 250 schools around the world, and while it is not a revolutionary thing, not a perfect thing, it is definitely a good thing.

According to a study led by Alison Wood Brooks of Harvard Business School, men and women are more likely to be influenced by a business pitch if it is delivered by a man — even if the exact same words are spoken by a woman.

While the first embassy staff members were sent to be evaluated by specialists at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine, officials in Washington also began to look more widely at what might be causing their symptoms.

Additionally, the league has a grassroots program that aims to get a broad base of officials engaged in high school and Pop Warner games, with the hope that they will ultimately advance to more senior leagues, a similar trajectory to that traveled by players.