Sentences with phrase «of school conversions»

Small High Schools on a Larger Scale: The Impact of School Conversions in Chicago (Kahne, Sporte, de la Toree & Easton, 2011)

Not exact matches

Wharton is among a number of leading undergraduate business schools that reported strong job numbers for the 2014 class in recent career placement reports, driven by a robust hiring market for finance, steady internship to job conversion rates, and an increased appetite for jobs in the tech sector.

Spending $ 40 per lead on two external lead directories and having no control of its website led to poor lead quality, low conversions, and minimal sales, and the massage therapy school knew it needed to make a change.

According to my instructor in such matters, Harvard Business School finance professor Mihir Desai, the key metric of a company's cash - generating prowess is the cash conversion cycle, which is days of inventory plus days sales outstanding (how long it takes your customers to pay you, basically), minus how many days it takes you to pay your suppliers.

I like the contrast on 2 schools of thought, traffic or conversion... balance of course is the answer, but makes for a great discussion!

When her mother, the daughter and granddaughter of Methodist ministers, died on May 9, 1905, Jarvis in a series of recollections penned for friends and family remembered her mother especially for her evangelical piety and practice: her conversion at age 12; her lifelong work in a Methodist Sunday school in Grafton, West Virginia; her habits of secret prayer, her graces at table; and her abiding affection for her favorite hymns.

The first fact is conversion, in 1973, through the ministry of FOCUS (Fellowship of Christians in Universities and Schools).

Hopkins was one of the smartest guys there and a natural to go on to graduate school, but he had to forsake that because of his conversion.

Second, theological schooling on the model of paideia requires divinely assisted conversion of the one who learns.

Rather, as claimed by Clement of Alexandria and, with much greater intellectual power, Origen, his pupil and successor as head of the Alexandrian Catechetical school, Christianity is paideia, divinely given in Jesus Christ and inspired Christian scriptures, focused in a profound conversion of soul, and divinely assisted by the Holy Spirit.

The period of greatest confusion in Protestant conceptions of Church and ministry was marked by the conversion of the room into a place in which organ, choir, pulpit and communion table simultaneously claimed first attention and Akron - plan Sunday School rooms were extruded from an amoebic nucleus.

On the high school and college level, however, the Christian institutions had to compete with the large networks of Hindu and Sikh institutions which, paradoxically, were begun earlier in this century in response to the Christian institutions, the conversion appeal of which seemed to challenge the Indian religions.

He develops five characteristics of such a spirituality: conversion, with its requirement for solidarity; gratuitousness, as creating the atmosphere for efficacy; joy, which seeks victory over suffering by going through the school of martyrdom to Easter victory; spiritual childhood, which emphasizes being «with the poor and against poverty»; and community, which must emerge out of the dark night of injustice and solitude.

Almost a century and a half after Clement of Rome, Clement of Alexandria and his brilliant student Origen were self - consciously affirming, not that Christianity was like paideia, not that it could simply make use of received paideia, but that Christianity is paideia, given by God in Jesus Christ, turning on a radical conversion possible only by the Holy Spirit's help, and taught only indirectly by study of divinely inspired Scriptures in the social context of the church understood to be in some ways a school.

Muslims need to teach kids in schools love humanity and respect others, not if you are non muslim you are devil, you don't have to repeat it on tv or radio channels which religion is peacful, people are not dum they know all religions are for peace, but where is the peace in practically, showing hatred or having thoughts of islamization the world, stop evil thinking of conversion of anyone to islam that is not peaceful religion or thoughts.help the poor and needy, give equal respect to male and female respect democracy and more important develop tolerence.intolerence is the basic evil of human race.

This question usually triggers among non-converts an uncomfortable silence broken by the phrase, «Well, I was born in a Christian family,» followed by an effort to locate a singular moment of conscious conversion some time during middle school, probably at the altar call of a church youth - group retreat.

Below, Adrian Vermeule, the Ralph S. Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School, answers a few questions about his own recent conversion experience.

This entails a closer look at major events already presented by Greene and now fleshed out with the accounts of other people: his life in and around the Berkhamstead School, where his father was headmaster; the more or less serious attempts at teenage suicide; the startling decision of the family to respond to this crisis by sending the boy to board with a psychoanalyst in London; later games of Russian roulette played all alone in an effort to beat boredom and make existence seem precious; and his conversion to Roman Catholicism.

We read of Indonesian school girls targeted and beheaded simply because they were Christians; of Nigerian Christian men forced to chose between conversion to Islam or death, and of their wives and children forced to chose between conversion or perpetual slavery; of Pakistani Christians being burned alive in their homes; of Coptic Christians in Egypt and Chaldean Catholics in Iraq being fire - bombed, maimed and killed» and when not killed, hounded into exile; of «religious apartheid» and executions in Iran; and of unspeakable atrocities against Christians in the Sudan, the «scene of suffering as abhorrent as anywhere on any continent.»

The question is whether the requisite repentance and conversion do not need to be institutional and structural within the schools themselves in addition to being personal and individual among the members of the faculty.

Membership in a philosophical school entailed not doctrinal allegiance but, as Hadot puts it, «the choice of a certain way of life and existential option which demands from the individual a total change of lifestyle, a conversion of one's entire being, and ultimately a certain desire to be and to live in a certain way.»

James Engel of Wheaton Graduate School of Communication surveyed a sample of viewers of the religious station WCFC - Channel 38 in Chicago who had called the station in response to the invitation given on the station to «accept Christ,» a term used in evangelical circles as equivalent to religious conversion.

Sitting on the sofa, I show him a few items: newspaper and magazine pieces about the Liston fights; Ali's conversion to Islam; the arrest for refusing military induction; the epic first battle with Frazier; the Supreme Court overturning the draft conviction; Foreman being voodooed by Ali; the Thrilla in Manila; the boxing lesson he gave Spinks in their second contest; a recent article about Ali buying buses for Chicago - area public schools (immediately after seeing a TV news story about how Dade County had no money for new buses, Ali sat down, wrote a check and mailed it, not using the gift as a tax deduction); and one about helping a young man wearing a hooded dark sweatshirt and jeans who crawled out on a high window ledge of a Wilshire Boulevard skyscraper in Los Angeles to kill himself.

In opposing the amendment, Department for Education spokesperson Baroness Garden of Frognal said, «At present, any maintained faith school is able to select up to 100 per cent of its pupils based on faith, subject to being oversubscribed... We want to ensure parity across faith schools in the maintained and academy sector... The noble Baroness's amendment would remove that flexibility for voluntary controlled schools that have converted to become academies, fixing their admissions arrangements to those that existed on the point of conversion.

I think it's far worse than that, with shades of Gentile's corporatism); that it has continued the conversion of competing and / or divergent centres of power into a recursive bureaucratic autarchy, emptying out the wider polity of any sort of dialogue or dialectic, shades of Gentile again, and that socially and fiscally it has been profoundly regressive, continuing the marketisation of the severely wounded NHS and of education, also badly bleeding, treating school and university students as «product», not as people; adopting a broadly Powellite attitude to migrants (useful economic fodder, mustn't change the culture, «British jobs for British people»); devising the catastrophe of PFI / PPP within a broader neo-liberal agenda, and so on.

Several legal initiatives have been rushed through Parliament without due debate, ranging from the extension of religious education classes and the conversion of secular state schools into Islamic institutions, to harsh limitations on the sale and consumption of alcohol.

New housing, combined with the conversion of School # 17 to a community - school model and demolition of blighted commercial buildings, has changed the fabric of the neighboSchool # 17 to a community - school model and demolition of blighted commercial buildings, has changed the fabric of the neighboschool model and demolition of blighted commercial buildings, has changed the fabric of the neighborhood.

The Rector of Accra Polytechnic, Professor Sylvester Achio said the journal is important especially in the light of the conversion of the school into a technical University.

Cheektowaga resident Bojidar Kandar, 30, a medical researcher, told legislators he was forced to undergo a year of conversion therapy through what was called a Christian counseling service while in his senior year at Amherst High School.

«It is scandalous that there has never been a legal requirement for full consultation with parents, staff, pupils and the community when a school is faced with the prospect of academy conversion and we welcome the Report calling for this.

Also at 1 p.m., Assemblyman David Weprin and NYC Councilman Barry Grodenchik announce the one - way conversion of streets surrounding the school, M.S. 172Q 81 - 14 257 St., Queens.

Gregg Polsky, a University of North Carolina Law School professor, who has written a special report on PE firm fee conversions and the tax issue, said he believes the management fee waivers should be against the law.

He has said that the race should focus on ward issues, namely the proposed conversion of Sophie Finn Elementary School in to a satellite campus of SUNY Ulster and the fate of the Kingston Hospital campus.

The $ 90.5 million conversion of the former Trico Products Corp. windshield wiper plant into a complex with a hotel, cooking school and apartments cleared one of its final hurdles on Wednesday when the Erie County Industrial Development Agency approved $ 3.6 million in tax breaks for the long - awaited project.

Ellicott Development is proceeding with its conversion of the former School 56 on West Delavan Avenue into a new apartment building, and plans to seek tax breaks from the Erie County Industrial Development Agency, after the Buffalo Planning Board gave its assent to the project this week.

Collaborating with the Alliance for Quality Education and Citizen Action of New York in efforts to fairly fund public schools, she sits on NYSUT's LGBTQ Task Force, which resolves to support legislation banning conversion therapy and to protect intended parental rights.

Howie will be addressing the proposed conversion of four schools from public institutions to for - profit charter schools, segregated schools, lack of funding for schools, high stakes testing, Common Core, and the attacks on teachers unions.

As part of the conversion to the national Common Core standards, school districts in New York are required to place more student records, transcripts, and even behavioral information, like absences and suspensions, in online data bases.

Instead of high - stakes tests to define high - poverty schools as failing and to justify their conversion to privately - managed charter schools, we need to desegregate schools by race and class and provide equitable and adequate funding of all public schools.

Research suggests that under Labour, there was a large improvement in the first 100 or so schools to become «city academies» within four years of their conversion.

Groups like Citizen Action and the Alliance for Quality Education have long been fighting against tests used to determine if teachers and schools are effective and are fighting the push by members of the current school board for more charter schools and potentially conversion of some public schools into charters.

Professor Ken Naitoh of Waseda University's Faculty of Science and Engineering (Department of Applied Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, School of Fundamental Science and Engineering) and his associates have discovered a revolutionary energy conversion principle (new compressive combustion principle) able to yield stand - alone engines with double or higher the thermal efficiency potential of conventional engines, independent of their size.

She received her bachelor's degree in chemical engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder and did her Ph.D. work at Colorado School of Mines focusing on in - depth experimental and modeling studies on high temperature pyrolysis of hydrocarbons and the effects of temperature and fuel structure on conversion, hydrogen production, reactivity, and deposit formation under solid oxide fuel cell operating conditions.

Bo Burnham's «Eighth Grade» tells of the travails of that pivotal middle school year, while Desiree Akhavan's «The Miseducation of Cameron Post» focuses on a homosexuality conversion center in the 1990s.

Both schools began the process by training staff members in aspects of the philosophy, adding more components each year until the conversion was complete.

The report found that the conversion of failing schools isn't always happening quickly.

The report focuses on the arrangements for converting schools to academies, including the robustness, cost and speed of the conversion process, and the availability of sponsors and multi-academy trusts to support schools to convert to academies.

The school required the conversion from two buildings, one of them being the historic Lambeth Baths.

Questions like those suggested above can be intimidating to think about when starting the conversion process, but it's important to take time to carefully evaluate your direction of travel and feel in control of the change and all its implications for your school.

However, the underlying reasons for conversion are the same: more opportunity to realise better educational outcomes, independence from a local authority, greater flexibility in the organisation of the school and how it chooses to spend its funding.