Sentences with phrase «new urban systems»

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has recently unveiled that his company aims to bring out an urban bus, a new pick - up truck and a car - sharing system based on autonomous vehicles.

Instead of solving problems they have only created new ones, as in the cases of urban renewal and the welfare system.

With a number of fellow pastors who became lifelong friends, Rauschenbusch studied, read, talked, debated and plumbed the new social theories of the day, especially those of the non-Marxist socialists whom John C. Cort has recently traced in Christian Socialism (Orbis, 1988) The pastors wove these theories together with biblical themes to form» «Christian Sociology,» a hermeneutic of social history that allowed them to see the power of God's kingdom being actualized through the democratization of the economic system (see James T. Johnson, editor, The Bible in American Law, Politics and Rhetoric [Scholars Press, 1985]-RRB- They pledged themselves to new efforts to make the spirit of Christianity the core of social renewal at a time when agricultural - village life was breaking down and urban - cosmopolitan patterns were not yet fully formed.

The simulation of the behaviour of military, industrial and urban systems is carried out in the new fields of «operations research» and «systems analysis».

Unmarried urban fathers are actively involved in taking care of their children, and they may need more support from the health care system, according to a new study by a Northwestern University pediatrician.

Take some time to explore all the options, from lightweight compact 4 - wheel strollers to full size joggers and urban 3 - wheelers in this extensively updated Graco Travel Systems page with videos and detailed descriptions to help you discover the right one for your newest family member.

An 1884 newspaper illustration, for example, depicted a skeleton disguised as a fruit seller offering produce to little children, suggesting that raw, unboiled fruits and vegetables led to cholera.17 The actual culprit, especially in such turn - of - the - century urban metropolises as New York City, with its inadequate, overloaded water and sewer systems, was most likely bacteria residing on the outside of the produce, or contaminated water or milk that happened to be ingested, rather than anything in the produce itself.18 Given the laxative effect of fruits and vegetables if consumed in excess, however, it is understandable that people assumed fresh produce might contribute to diseases with symptoms that included diarrhea.

The Urban School Food Alliance, a coalition that includes the school systems of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami - Dade, Dallas and Orlando, has commissioned a school lunch dish that is made from recycled newsprint and can be turned into compost after use.

The biggest shares of foundation aid go to school systems in New York City and other urban and poor suburban areas.

Amalgamated Transit Union, ATU Local 726, ATU Local 1056, ATU Local 1179 ATU Local 1181 - 1061, American Council of Engineering Companies of New York Asian Americans for Equality, Center for Working Families, Citizens Committee for NYC, Common Cause / NY, Construction Industry Council, CUNY Institute for Urban Systems, DC 37, DC 37 Local 375B, DC37 Local 1655, Empire State Transportation Alliance, Environmental Defense Fund, General Contractors Association of New York, League of Women Voters of the City of NY, League of Women Voters of New York State, Long Island Contractors» Association, Inc. (LICA), MTA Coalition of Unions, National Conference of Firemen and Oilers, New York Building Congress, NY League of Conservation Voters, NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign, NYS Council of Machinists, NY State Legislative Conference Board, NYS Transportation Equity Alliance, PCAC to MTA, Pratt Center for Community Development, Regional Plan Association, Reinvent Albany, Teamsters Local 808, Transit Riders Action Committee, Transportation Alternatives, TWU Local 100, TWU Local 252, TWU Local2001, TWU Local 2054, Transport Workers International Union of America, Tri-State Transportation Campaign, UPROSE, We Act for Environmental Justice, Women's City Club.

The wage increase announced by Cuomo affects workers of the State University of New York (SUNY)-- but not those within the City University of New York (CUNY), the country's largest urban public university system.

First Lady Michelle Obama is slated Friday to give the commencement speech at City College of New York, the flagship school of the CUNY system and the nation's largest urban public university.

Fixing New York City's subway crisis will require taking the drastic step of creating a state - controlled corporation dedicated solely to rebuilding and modernizing the city's teetering subway system, according to a new report from an influential urban research and advocacy groNew York City's subway crisis will require taking the drastic step of creating a state - controlled corporation dedicated solely to rebuilding and modernizing the city's teetering subway system, according to a new report from an influential urban research and advocacy gronew report from an influential urban research and advocacy group.

-- LETTER: The Urban Green Council's Russell Unger says New York City's energy efficiency scorecard system should be «tweaked, not trashed.»

The Governor outlined his vision for the Energy Highway in his 2012 State of the State Address, calling for «a private - sector funded $ 2 billion «Energy Highway» system that will tap into the generation capacity and renewable energy potential in Upstate and Western NY to bring low - cost power to meet the tremendous energy needs in Downstate New York» and for the repowering of old and dirty plants to stop pollution in urban neighborhoods.

The Conference is a membership organization advocating for New York's urban school systems, including Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Utica, Yonkers and New York City, which make up 45 percent of the state's public schoolchildren.

The Union Square's Washington Irving High School, Murray Hill's Unity Center for Urban Technologies, Chelsea Career and Tech Ed High School and the Bread and Roses Integrated High School in Harlem are among 33 struggling schools city - wide where the new evaluation systems will be introduced.

The conference represents New York's urban school systems including the Buffalo, New York City, Rochester, Syracuse and Yonkers districts.

Four urban sections of the San Andreas Fault system in Northern California have stored enough energy to produce major earthquakes, according to a new study that measures fault creep.

The largest urban health systems, which serve as safety nets for large patient populations with lower socioeconomic status and greater likelihood to speak English as a second language, do worse on government patient satisfaction scores than smaller, non-urban hospitals likely to serve white customers with higher education levels, according to a new study by Mount Sinai researchers published this month in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

Heavy downpours can overwhelm New York's antiquated 19th - century sewer systems, the miles of pipes and tunnels that carry away wastewater and, when overtaxed, divert billions of gallons of raw sewage and contaminated urban runoff into the rivers, lakes and the ocean.

The new system transmits messages by reflecting and encoding audio and data in these signals that are ubiquitous in urban environments, without affecting the original radio transmissions.

Pope Urban VIII sanctioned Galileo to write a neutral treatise on Copernicus's new, sun - centered view of the solar system.

Node Smith, ND A new study from the University of Colorado at Boulder shows that people raised in an urban environment without pets around have a less resilient immune system and may be at higher risk for mental illness.1 This research furthers the conversation of the «hygiene theory» into realm of mental health, connecting some -LSB-...]

As the Chinese government gradually relaxed its control over urban migration — by loosening the restrictions of the 1958 Hukou System, which afforded social benefits only to those who could prove identification from the local province — more and more individuals have taken advantage of new economic opportunities by migrating to cities.

This easy system has quickly caught on, with over 20,000 members living in urban places like New York and Portland.

As the New York Times reported when Anderson took over, in June of 2011, «Cami Anderson faces the monumental task of rescuing an urban school system that has long been mired in low achievement, high turnover and a culture of failure, despite decades of state intervention.»

In October 2001, Henry became the new executive director of the Academy for Urban School Leadership, working with Chicago Academy's principal, Donald Feinstein, then in his 18th year in the Chicago school system.

Our faculty is studying the most pressing issues facing our educational system today — the achievement gap, language and literacy, urban school reform, new leadership models, testing and accountability, to name just a few.

But suffice it to say, I believe Washington, D.C. is on track to become the second city (following New Orleans) to develop the urban school system of the future.

The report's authors, Matthew Kraft of Brown University and Allison Gilmour of Vanderbilt, studied teacher ratings in roughly half of the more than three dozen states with new evaluation systems and found that a median of 2.7 percent of teachers were rated unsatisfactory, even though principals they surveyed in one large urban school system suggested that there were more low performing teachers than that in their schools.

After navigating the public school system in New York City as a caregiver and in Philadelphia as an afterschool program administrator, Melissa Diana Aguirre grew increasingly outraged at the poor quality teaching in urban schools.

Smarick tackles this issue and more in his new book, The Urban School System of the Future.

However, if charter advocates carefully target specific systems with an exacting strategy, the current policy environment will allow them to create examples of a new, high - performing system of public education in urban America.

I was contacted early on by a large urban district in New Jersey that... had a horrible evaluation system.

It's clear that we need a new type of system for urban public education, one that is able to respond nimbly to great school success, chronic school failure, and everything in between.

The RAND Corporation and the University of Washington's Institute for Public Policy and Management have jointly established a new center that will explore alternatives to the current system of education governance, particularly in urban areas.

Editor's Note: Since this video was filmed in 2001, the Urban Academy has become a member of the New York Performance Assessment Consortium, a coalition of public schools in New York State that uses a system of performance - based assessment in lieu of high - stakes exit exams.

Any new system, though, has to be flexible enough to pay teachers more in high - demand subjects, such as mathematics and science, and in hard - to - staff districts, such as urban areas, Harris added.

He imagines an urban school system organized around five pillars: first, that great schools from all sectors are expanded and replicated; second, that persistently failing schools are closed; third, that new schools are continuously started; fourth, that there is a wide variety of schools and entities to authorize and oversee them; and finally, that families have choice between these schools.

Because of the size of city school districts — New York City is the nation's largest school system with 1,189 public schools and 78,100 teachers — urban educators often teach large numbers of at - risk students.

Over the last few months, my work on ESSA implementation and my thinking about new systems of urban schools have come together.

A small number of progressive leaders of major urban school systems are using school closure and replacement to transform their long - broken districts: Under Chancellor Joel Klein, New York City has closed nearly 100 traditional public schools and opened more than 300 new schooNew York City has closed nearly 100 traditional public schools and opened more than 300 new schoonew schools.

«In the dismal gallery of failing urban school systems,» wrote Associated Press reporter Adam Nossiter in April of 2005, several months before Katrina, «New Orleans may be the biggest horror of them all.»

Too often urban school systems begin initiatives and never perfect them, preferring new initiatives that attract publicity and give the appearance of doing something.

New Jersey's Abbott Districts,» on Thursday, March 16, Gordon MacInnes, assistant commissioner for Abbott implementation, and Fred Carrigg, special assistant to the commissioner for urban literacy, discussed how they helped move Union City from the second lowest - performing system in New Jersey to the highest among the state's larger systems.

As the traditional urban school district is slowly replaced by a system marked by an array of nongovernmental school providers, new policies (undergirded by a new understanding of the government's role in public schooling) are needed.

The report examines new teacher evaluation systems in four urban districts.

At the same time, new populations exist in cities, in urban school systems — primarily African American and Latino students, and large numbers of immigrants.

Second, as we move to a sector - agnostic approach in urban schooling and rely on a continuous improvement process based on new starts, expansions, and closures, we must develop rigorous, transparent systems for these activities.