Sentences with phrase «national acclaim for»
AVANCE's dual - generation approach to breaking the cycle of poverty has gained national acclaim for its combination of quality early childhood development and personalized parenting education programs.
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The results have brought clients the executive talent solutions they need, and have earned national acclaim for Julie and JBK Associates, which is certified as a women - owned business by the prestigious Women's Business Enterprise National Council.
He has won relief for dozens of condemned prisoners, argued five times before the Supreme Court, and won national acclaim for his work challenging bias against the poor and people of color.
T. Cook's has garnered both local and national acclaim for its culinary philosophy of magnifying the purity of fresh, seasonal ingredients.
Seneca has gained national acclaim for its natural beauty, quaint towns antique shopping and is a favorite destination for history buffs and outdoor enthusiasts alike.
The 87,499 - student Long Beach Unified School District has won national acclaim for its students» academic performance.
During her short tenure leading the infamously bad D.C. schools, Rhee gained national acclaim for applying, in Kopp's admiring words, the corporate «principles of management and accountability.»
John Deasy, former superintendent of Prince George's County, Maryland, gained national acclaim for overseeing substantial achievement gains in low - performing schools.
Horry County — a diverse, high - poverty district with over 40,000 students — won national acclaim for its transformation under Dr. Elsberry's leadership, and was rated as one of South Carolina's highest - performing school districts.
Vanderbilt - Ingram Cancer Center and the Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology developed out of the work of the Hancock Lab to merit national acclaim for cancer care and translational research that moves discovery from the lab to benefit patients.
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Vice has documented migrant worker abuses in Dubai, won acclaim for a documentary while embedded with Islamic State and garnered widespread attention when it took former National Basketball Association star Dennis Rodman to North Korea.
If Mr. Xiao's disqualification is upheld by the Conservative Party National Council, it is expected that Edmonton hotel manager Kelly McCauley will be acclaimed as the party's candidate for the next federal election.
My candidate for a «prophet to the liberals» is Will Campbell, publisher of the journal Katallagete and author of the highly acclaimed Brother to a Dragonfly, an autobiographical book about the lives of Will and his brother, Joe, as they leave their father's small cotton farm in Mississippi — Will to become a civil rights worker for the National Council of Churches, Joe to become a small - town pharmacist.
Though the Sermon has been publicly acclaimed as the ideal basis for national and international policy, if peace is to be had, there is little in the actual working policy of any so - called Christian nation that remotely approaches it.
At the next SOBEWFF in February 2017, The National is the proud host hotel for the highly acclaimed Late Night Dessert Party.
Previously, Keck ran Camerata at Paulie's wine bar for three years, which rose to national acclaim under his leadership.
Her last chance to regain the kind of national acclaim that vanished for her after high school, to become a player whom the two fledgling women's pro leagues will come looking for.
His seven goals in 17 starts during a breakthrough 2011 - 12 campaign — that included a superb performance against Tottenham Hotspur in a late January FA Cup tie — bringing him national acclaim, the Championship's Young Player of the Month award for March and a contract extended until 2015, which indicated that the management at Vicarage Road rated Murray as highly as the fans.
Lu Hanessian is author of the acclaimed memoir Let the Baby Drive: Navigating the Road of New Motherhood (St. Martin's Press, 2004), veteran TV journalist and former NBC anchor of Real Life, Discovery Health Channel host of Make Room for Baby, weekly newspaper parenting columnist, national speaker, and workshop facilitator.
2011 regional finalists announced The regional finalists in the 2011 Countryside Alliance Awards have been announced, with diverse businesses from Cornwall to Northumberland vying for a regional title and the chance of national acclaim *.
His leadership during the 9/11 tragedy earned him national acclaim, including being named Time magazine's Person of the Year for 2001.
And in one of the most critically acclaimed documentaries this year, three New Hampshire National Guardsmen film their time in Iraq for The War Tapes, laying their patriotism, anxiety, cynicism, and laughter across the stark landscape.
Our roster of internationally acclaimed scientists includes a MacArthur fellow, members of the National Academy of Sciences, members of the Institute of Medicine, members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and current and former Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators.
This solar - powered building has earned national acclaim as a showcase for green building technologies and operating systems.
Health coaching is recognized as an important tool to improve health outcomes by some of the most acclaimed health institutions in the world, including the World Health Organization, the U.K. National Health Service, the Centers for Disease Control and the United States Preventive Services Task Force.
Receiving positive notices for his impromptu portrayal, the actor found further acclaim the following year, with his performance as Edward Voysey in the Royal National Theatre's production of The Voysey Inheritance.
Saturday afternoon, the National Society of Film Critics has named Jean - Luc Godard «s Goodbye to Language the best film of the year, narrowly beating out Richard Linklater «s acclaimed Boyhood for the top prize.
Her television credits include The New Mad Men, which won the Imagen Award for Best National Informational Program for Maria Hinojosa's acclaimed PBS series, America by the Numbers.
Ta - Nehisi Coates — one of the biggest names in journalism as a national correspondent for The Atlantic, and a National Book Award winner for «Between the World and Me» — will make his comic book - writing debut with a new «Black Panther» ongoing, illustrated by acclaimed industry veteran Brian Stenational correspondent for The Atlantic, and a National Book Award winner for «Between the World and Me» — will make his comic book - writing debut with a new «Black Panther» ongoing, illustrated by acclaimed industry veteran Brian SteNational Book Award winner for «Between the World and Me» — will make his comic book - writing debut with a new «Black Panther» ongoing, illustrated by acclaimed industry veteran Brian Stelfreeze.
For his journalism, he has received the National Headliner Award and the GLAAD Media Award, and has seen his work inspire several films, most recently the Emmy - nominated Showtime film «Our Fathers,» based on his critically acclaimed book.
«The Social Network,» the acclaimed drama about how Harvard computer nerds created the social networking site Facebook, had been the front - runner during the awards season, winning countless critics honors, including the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn., New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics awards as well as the Golden Globe for dramatic film.
After spending some time with the Second City National Touring Company in the late 80's, Jeremy took his first job on Carol Burnett's variety show before leaving to write for HBO's critically acclaimed series «The Larry Sanders Show.»
An acclaimed filmmaker, Nina Menkes has received an LA Film Critics award, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation, an American Film Institute Independent Filmmaker Grant, and many other awards.
The Carlow native was honoured with the Inter - national Star Award for her critically acclaimed role in Brooklyn at a glitzy ceremony in California.
Since graduating from the UK's National Film and Television School, Ramsay had won the short film Jury prize at Cannes for her graduating short Small Deaths (1996), and her second, Kill the Day (1996), won the Prix du Jury award for best film at France's acclaimed Clermont - Ferrand International Short Film Festival.
Stars of acclaimed new movie visit the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., for an interview and photo session
Thom Markham, Ph.D., President of GlobalRedesigns, and Senior National Faculty member at the Buck Institute for Education, is a psychologist and educator who served as a Director with Active Learning, Inc., an innovative motivational and learning skills camp program for high school and college students, taught at an award - winning high school, where he led school reform efforts and developed a highly - acclaimed internship - based program, and co-founded the Marin School of Arts and Technology, an innovative charter high school in Novato, California.
Finland's PISA scores and rankings slipped in 2009, and again in 2012, followed by a scathing report from the University of Helsinki that led the program's uber - advocate Pasi Sahlberg to warn that the time had come for Finns «to concede that the signals of change have been discernible already for a while and to open up a national discussion regarding the state and future of the Finnish comprehensive school that rose to international acclaim due to our students» success in the PISA studies.»
The National Academy Foundation (NAF) is an acclaimed network of career - themed academies that open doors for underserved high school students to viable careers.
Nearly seven years since Gate Safe became the first organisation to initiate a campaign for improved standards in automated gate safety, the charity marked another important milestone, as it celebrated hitting 1,000 installers on its acclaimed national register of Gate Safe Aware Installers - which currently features 459 companies.
His internationally - acclaimed work has been featured at the New England Center for Contemporary Art, The National Museum at Poland, and the Halle Museum in Germany.
Indiana Selected for 2009 Middle - Grades Reform Program Pinehurst, NC — In its continuing effort to replicate the programs and practices of outstanding middle grades, the National Forum to Accelerate Middle - Grades Reform has selected Indiana to implement its acclaimed Schools to Watch ® program.
Free STEP Screening The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS) is teaming up with the producers of the critically - acclaimed documentary STEP to offer FREE screenings of the film.
He expanded school choice, he intervened in struggling schools, he pushed for teacher evaluations and revamped A-F letter grades — and he won national acclaim in some circles for doing so.
Its opportunities to earn money and college credit while studying for a diploma have earned national acclaim.
Her critically - acclaimed short fiction collection American Salvage, which consists of fourteen lush and rowdy stories of folks who are struggling to make sense of the twenty - first century, was a finalist for the 2009 National Book Award in Fiction.
And here, acclaimed author Jason Reynolds» brilliant new novel - in - verse (recently nominated for a National Book Award) becomes a ghost story — a gritty, streetwise A Christmas Carol.
The first African American chemist inducted into the National Academy of Sciences, scientific inventor Percy Lavon Julian won acclaim for his landmark work synthesizing human hormones — and his civil rights contributions.
From a National Book Award finalist — for her memoir American Chica — and the author of the acclaimed novel Cellophane comes this spare, powerful story of sexual obsession and its consequences.
The Race to Build — and Steal — the World's Most Dangerous Weapon; the 2014 National Book Award finalist The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights; and other critically acclaimed nonfiction titles.