Sentences with phrase «new schools and systems»

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We will sponsor design projects aimed at conceiving of new schools and systems.

One of the most shocking examples of corruption and incompetence in the city's recent school history is the mind - boggling cost of building new schools and the system's inability to do anything about overcrowding that was predicted years ago.

Not exact matches

Four years after Mark Zuckerberg made his $ 100 million donation to help the Newark, New Jersey, school system, most of the money is gone and critics say the city has not turned into the «symbol of educational excellence» he had hoped for.

From the driver's point of view, the cockpit is a pleasing combination of new and old, with the multi-screen infotainment system on the center stack but the central instrument cluster analog - style old - school.

This ingenious system is called Eyeagnosis, and Kopparapu - a high school junior - recently presented it at the O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence conference in New York.

Just as blockbusters are put out en masse during the summer months to reach out - of - school teenagers and young adults, videogames are traditionally released during the winter holiday season — when parents are more apt to spend $ 60 on a new game or up to $ 300 for a new system.

While the transition will take some getting used to, having solid systems in place in your home can help you ease the stress, and focus on the enjoyment of an exciting new school year.

The new emphasis on the extrovert ideal, she argues, is reflected everywhere — from the way we educate our kids in a school system increasingly skewed toward group work and participation, to the traits most commonly rewarded in the corporate world.

But over the last decade, it's added a new, $ 70 million hosptial, has rebuilt 11 of its 15 destroyed schools, and it's now protected by a defensive floodwall system.

They donated $ 25 million in the fight against Ebola last year, and they gave $ 100 million worth of Facebook shares toward improving a New Jersey public - school system.

Mark Lloyd, Professor of Communication, University of Southern California — Annenberg School Luther Lowe, VP of Public Policy, Yelp Nancy Lublin, Founder / CEO, Crisis Text Line Kanyi Maqubela, Partner, Collaborative Fund Jonathan Matus, Founder / CEO, Zendrive Josh McFarland, Vice President of Product, Twitter Andrew McLaughlin, Head of New Business, Medium; Venture Partner, betaworks Shishir Mehrotra, Entrepreneur & former VP of Product & Engineering, YouTube Apoorva Mehta, Founder / CEO, Instacart Doug Merritt, CEO, Splunk Dinesh Moorjani, Founder / CEO, Hatch Labs; Co-Founder, Tinder Brit Morin, Founder / CEO, Brit + Co Dave Morin, Entrepreneur; Partner, Slow Ventures Dustin Moskovitz, Co-Founder, Asana; Co-Founder, Facebook Amanda Moskowitz, Founder / CEO, Stacklist Alex Nogales, President / CEO, National Hispanic Media Coalition Alexis Ohanian, Co-Founder, Reddit Mike Olson, Founder / Chairman / CSO, Cloudera Pierre Omidyar, Founder, eBay Felix W. Ortiz III, Founder / Chairman / CEO, Viridis; Board Member of The NYC Technology Development Corporation Jen Pahlka, Founder / Executive Director, Code for America Barney Pell, Founder Powerset, MoonExpress, Locomobi; Founding Trustee, Singularity University Mark Pincus, Executive Chairman and Founder, Zynga Shervin Pishevar, Co - Founder / Managing Director, Sherpa Capital and Co - Founder / Executive Chairman of Hyperloop One Brandon Pollack, Director of Global Affairs, 1776 Amy Rao, Founder / CEO, Integrated Archive Systems, Inc..

And a new report finds that while many low - income students fall behind and fail to graduate on time from U.S. colleges, the University of California system supports them significantly better than other schools And a new report finds that while many low - income students fall behind and fail to graduate on time from U.S. colleges, the University of California system supports them significantly better than other schools and fail to graduate on time from U.S. colleges, the University of California system supports them significantly better than other schools do.

The Gilchrist County School District in Florida shuttered its schools after receiving an email threat, and the Nutley Public School System in New Jersey also said it would be closed because of a security threat.

The new system, from Dooley Education Solutions of Athens, Ga., is scheduled to be installed this summer at Central High School and Central Freshman Academy.

The spending legislation, which was viewed as the last opportunity this year for Congress to enact major new gun restrictions before the midterm elections in November, included only some school safety measures and modest improvements to the background check system.

At the event, which was hosted by the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law in New Haven, Powell highlighted three specific areas where blockchain technology is affecting change in regard to the Federal Reserve's «broad public policy objectives»: the creation of real - time payment systems, use of blockchain technology for clearing and settlement services, and the issuance of digital currencies by central banks.

Key to his platform were a flat tax, medical savings accounts, a new Social Security system for working Americans, parental choice of schools for their children, term limits and a strong national defense.

Unless it was meant for us as a new system to drop Republican systems for the Royalist systems that are taking place now that Jordan and Morocco both Royelists are planed to join GCC as one with a change to the name of the GCC since the Royalist empire will be extending to countries outer of the Arabian Gulf Countries... What ever it is all we need is freedom of rights, justice, peace, equality and to live in prosperity... Egypt is not in the heart of Egyptions only but as well in the heart of every Arabic nation, Egyptions were our teachers in our schools and Egypt was the university of our Yemeni students... Egypt was the source of islamic educations, Egypt was the face of all arts, books, papers, TV plays and movies to all of Arabian speaking countries... Egypt is our Arabian Icon so please please other nations are becoming larger and stronger in the area on your account as a living icon for the Arabian Unity what ever our faiths or beliefs are we are brothers in blood, culture and language, God Bless to All.Amen.

Hetrick - Martin runs the Harvey Milk High School for gay and lesbian teenagers, an institution that is part of the New York City public school sSchool for gay and lesbian teenagers, an institution that is part of the New York City public school sschool system.

As traditional theology was a relatively well defined system, the same in certain basic respects — despite all sorts of philosophical and ecclesiastical differences — in Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Maimonides, Leibniz, Calvin, Immanuel Kant, and some schools of Hindu thought, so the new theology which many be contrasted with the old is found more or less fully and consistently represented in thinkers as far apart as William James,... Henri Bergson, F. R. Tennant,... A. N. Whitehead,... Nicholas Berdyaev,... and in numerous others of every brand of Protestantism, besides a few... Roman Catholics.

Many from each group wonder about what millions of new immigrants will do our economy, our schools, our hospitals, and our welfare system.

It nonetheless raised some disturbing ideas about our «we - are - a-Christian-community» slogans (since we were to apportion salary solely according to performance rather than also, say, on need) and about our endorsement of responsible family and church involvement (since the new system would tempt people financially to neglect these other responsibilities in order to work harder at school)

Frank Riessman, The Culturally Deprived Child [New York: Harper, 1962]-RRB- This is why middle - class talk therapies are inadequate and why the poor may not do well in middle - class - oriented school systems which emphasize verbal skills, abstract reasoning, and knowledge for knowledge's sake.

Additionally, this is an education system that promotes inequality and therefore injustice: Schools in the United States are twice as likely to pair poor and minority students with brand - new teachers and almost four times more likely to suspend black students than white students.

Or should they send me to a new school system and hope for the best?

Whether these efforts provided the centripetal force for a new «school» per se is open to various modes of interpretation, but the attention to the Whiteheadian system and its many implications, to interdisciplinary routes of inquiry, to the latest insights from the emerging sciences, and to process - relational modes of thinking identified Chicago with a progressivism and excitement in theological study which many found appealing.

As early as World War II, the political leaders of the Free French forces had known that France would have to face up to the question of whether it was going to allow the decline of a system of schools preferred by the parents of one - sixth of all French pupils, or whether it was going to accept the hazards of open political discussion aimed at developing a new and creative solution.

The Department of Education is unnecessary; since 1980, it has just been an opportunity for lobbyists and bureaucrats to interfere, to invent new regulations, to make political «contributions» to further such things as unwanted textbook imposition in a school system.

«The new pre-primary school facilities that Accolade helped fund enable township children of between five and six years of age to start their education prior to entering the official school system at seven.

Whitehurst is now a science teacher in the New York City public school system and is planning to finish his master's degree in biology at CCNY.

So yeah, the new system is better for fans, schools, media, and hopefully athletes.

«(It's a) new way to give kids access to golf in the school system,» said Joe Meunier, a physical education teacher at Alisal and Program Director of The First Tee Tri-Valley chapter.

This fall, the sports medicine physicians and athletic trainers at the Sports Medicine Center for Young Athletes will be implementing a new injury reporting system in the high schools that they cover in the Bay Area.

Secondly the new four team system clearley favored rust - belt schools since you cant spell «playoffs» without «layoffs» thats a fact - and people forget that.

At these presentations, we shared the context of our school's current situation, its necessitation of a new GPA system, and the proposed system itself.

«A Teachable Moment,» August 17, 2008 «While it is true that for decades the children of New Orleans toiled in a substandard school system, they have also continually faced countless other obstacles to success — inadequate health care, poorly educated parents, exposure to high rates of violent crime and a popular culture that often denigrates mainstream achievement.»

Hackley School 293 Benedict Ave Tarrytown, NY 10591 www.hackleyschool.org A member of both the Ivy Preparatory League and the international schools consortium Round Square, Hackley has a 285 - acre woodland campus in Tarrytown with extensive facilities to support our K - 12 educational program, including a science building, geothermal library, competition cross-country trail system, eight athletics fields, and a new 110,000 - sq ft Center for Health and Wellness.

The first step is recognizing that the problem is not new and understanding that pointing fingers and assigning blame (it's the parents, the kids, the schools, the teachers, the «system») only adds to the problem.

North Wake College and Career Academy in Wake Forest is the newest addition to the school system's six early colleges.

Roland Fryer, a celebrated young professor of economics at Harvard University, has spent the past decade testing out a variety of incentive schemes in experiments with public school students in Houston, New York, Chicago, and other American cities that have school systems with high poverty rates.

In the spring of 2016, schools in these eight districts began using a new assessment system that includes a measurement, based on student self - reports, of students» growth mindset, self - efficacy, self - management, and social awareness.

This relatively new movement, which is also sometimes called student - centered learning, has its roots in the progressive strain of American educational thought, but its current incarnation is also based on the modern belief, common among corporate executives and other business leaders, that there is a major and potentially calamitous disconnect brewing between the historical structures and traditions of the American public school system and the labor - force demands of the 21st - century American economy.

Things I'm thinking about could be things like having his seat changed in class so he's next to someone he has conflict with, learning new skills at school that he's not confident about and is struggling with, some new kind of food he's ingesting at school that has something that's irritating his system (artificial dyes or sweeteners would be my first guesses), something other kids are talking about that are scaring him (movies or tv shows or stories).

In your child's years in elementary school, you may have learned your way around the system and figured out what works in that environment, and now the environment will be completely new.

Effingham County School System - Implementation of the New Meal Pattern and Increasing Fruit and Vegetable Consumption

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Specifically, the SNA sought to: gut the new whole grain standard from 100 percent «whole grain - rich» to 50 percent; halt further sodium reductions in school food; and revert to the old system under which kids could pass up all fruits and vegetables a lunch, instead of being required to take a half - cup serving.

Many school systems require high school students to do volunteer work in order to graduate — and helping a new mother (for free) counts.

I am married to a school teacher, so I see the inside of the Australian and New Zealand State School systems from a slightly different perspeschool teacher, so I see the inside of the Australian and New Zealand State School systems from a slightly different perspeSchool systems from a slightly different perspective.