Sentences with phrase «more than a school»

A hybrid of «Oakland» and «Amsterdam,» the organization is much more than a school, it's a movement, replete with a museum, club, and other amenities that make it prime for learning.

But it was more than a school of the Bible or confessional institute.

Most don't expect to win every game, but most do want to go up against the big boys knowing that we can but in something more than school boy stuff.

The Waldorf School of Garden City is so much more than a school; it is a loving community where children thrive.

And you will soon learn that it really is all about the teacher... more than the school.

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Records have it that 30 % [Thirty Percent] of the students are self - sponsored, where do we expect these hopeless people to get such money which is even more than their school fees?

People - it is one race in a heavily Republican district - this means nothing for the November elections - although, if the dems put up somebody who was accomplished more than a school teacher - they could have won this seat - and it is pretty pathetic that a former congressman only won by 5 % over a school teacher - so you republicans, I wouldn't be jumping for joy

These days backpacks are more than a school thing, they are a fashion accessory.

Internet stalkers look for that child, the one who trusts online relationships more than school or family relationships.

But I would've preferred the report to point out that school quality matters far more than school operator, and while the CSO - model is a promising approach to the district sector, it should be viewed in the context of a city's entire portfolio of schools — CSO, charter, and private.

And in New Orleans, a substantial group of African - American voters believed that the financial harm done by firing thousands of teachers after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 undermined the economic base of the black community, hurting students more than the school improvements helped them.

Not only are people inclined to like their local schools more than schools across the nation, but we see a clear upward trend in the percentage of the public awarding their schools either an A or a B. Over the course of the decade, the shift upward has been from 43 % to 55 %.

«They aren't spending any more than your schools per student, but they are getting much better results.

What is at stake is far more than a school Nativity pageant or Christmas concert in December.

SoundOut believes in more than school reform or school improvement; we promote school transformation.

Melvoin launched his challenge more than a year ago and has raised nearly $ 425,000, more than any school board candidate going into a primary since LA lowered its individual contribution limit to $ 1,100 in 2007 the same year former board member Tamar Galatzan raised $ 2.9 million.

Meanwhile, schools are basically funded by bands of enrollment; a school with, say, 401 students will get more than a school for 399, but the school with 401 will get the same amount as one with 499 (though schools can get more per student for different reasons).

Even with RenWeb's complete set of core features, it's our integrated value - added services that make RenWeb so much more than school management software.

To Sirrele, Sac High has been more than a school, it has become an extension of his family, and a source of inspiration for his future.

Not exact matches

The president left the event to attend a meeting on school safety for more than a half - hour.

The schools that would be taxed have at least 500 students and more than $ 500,000 in endowment per student.

The church - affiliated schools that in 2014 and 2015 obtained exemptions to a law that prohibits sex discrimination in educational settings collectively enroll more than 73,000 students, the Human Rights Campaign said in a report published Friday.

Last year, a high school in Ohio named more than 200 kids in the graduating class «valedictorians» because they didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings.

Amy Cuddy, a psychologist at the Harvard Business School, has been studying first impressions for more than a decade.

People today are entering the startup realm with far more formal education and experience in entrepreneurship than ever before, and they're doing so from many of the following schools whose degrees in entrepreneurship you might not have heard about yet:

Since launch, users from more than 14,000 different high schools across the country have already downloaded the app, says Levy.

At this stage, the advice you get from them will be worth more than any business school program.»

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.

Accepting just 3.7 percent of the nearly 3,000 applicants, the program boasts an acceptance rate that was more selective than Ivy League schools.

With 6,900 employers associated with the school — more than any other university in Canada — there's a good chance you'll find a spot.

Today, the patented system is used in more than 5,000 schools districts, therapy centers, hospitals and homes in the United States and Canada.

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.

Flombaum and Enbar, who self - funded the operation up to this point and who say tuition alone can keep the school easily afloat, say they want to work first on perfecting the methods their more than a dozen instructors employ before expanding to other cities or to online courses.

Typically the school has 120 students, and more than half are veterans.

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.

While many people believe that spring break is nothing more than an excuse for wild college debauchery, it is actually the ideal time to get away from work, school, and cold weather — no matter your age.

Using the authors» analogy — despite its condescending overtones — of kids and adolescents growing more quickly than adults, if we took away the extra gallons of milk and after - school snacks, if we stopped providing education, if we penalized a kid for an inadvertent mistake, if we took away all the extra tools and resources required to usher kids through childhood, what would that look like?

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.

With more MBA programs than ever before serving a record number of students — about 10,000 students are registered in Canadian MBA programs this year, up from 4,800 in 1998 — specialization has become a defining trend, helping schools compete for the best students, and graduates compete for the best jobs.

He was interested in doing more than just owning buildings; he graduated from Carleton University's School of Architecture in 1997, at the age of 75, and later donated $ 5.5 million to the program.

School shooting survivors started selling #MSDstrong shirts as a way to unify after the trauma and now they've already made more than $ 180,000, USA Today reports.»

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.

According to Harvard Business School research rooting out a toxic employee from your team will actually save you more than twice as much as hiring a superstar will earn you.

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.

Pitch your company to several firms and try to simultaneously line up more than one offer, says Noam Wasserman, an entrepreneurship professor at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business (and a member of Inc.'s advisory board).

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.

• Pearson, a U.K. - based educational materials provider, is in talks with a consortium of Asian private equity houses to sell its English - language school unit for more than $ 350 million, according to the Financial Times.