Sentences with phrase «of dramatic school»

«We were in our third year of dramatic school reform district wide.

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Pure Storage can make a dramatic impact on the wide range of databases and applications that a typical school supports.

If the borrower in the above situation had also taken out an additional $ 40,000 in unsubsidized direct federal loans to attend graduate school at the current interest rate of 5.8 percent, the differences in outcomes between repayment plans are even more dramatic (see chart below).

The march marked most dramatic and powerful show yet of teenage activism against gun violence in the wake of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

Study after study over the last twenty years has demonstrated the dramatic disparity between government - run education and schools of choice.

Although my call was more like a slow culmination of events and experiences, there was one dramatic moment in my senior year in high school.

They were full of dramatic plot lines, sexual tension, one - room school houses and Canadian Mounties.

In 1906 the newly elected Liberal government proposed an Education Bill which sought a dramatic reform of English schooling.

The show's graphic depiction of suicide and dramatic portrayal of high - school life made it the target of a good deal of criticism.

Once they join a college program, then most images of their viral highlights and dramatic moments will be controlled by others — their schools, their conferences, the NCAA or media outlets.

Torchy's success, first as a high school coach in Wisconsin and later in college, is based on an amalgamation of Lombardian philosophy and a flair for the dramatic.

In other words, if this petition is successful, you can be sure we will soon see a dramatic increase in the volume of artificially - sweetened flavored milk offered in U.S. schools.

In the end, I do believe that if we could look into a crystal ball and get a glimpse of America's future school cafeterias, we'd see dramatic improvement.

The Government has also committed to investing # 150m a year until 2020 to improve the quality of sport provision in every state primary school in England in the form of the PE and sport premium, because high quality provision — resulting from approaches like HDHK — can lead to dramatic improvements in children's health, behaviour and attainment.

While Lunch Line does a tremendous job explaining the mind - numbing complexities of the USDA's sorted relationship with the School Lunch Program, the good news is that we don't need to wait for a drifting barge to self - correct — parents and principals can make dramatic improvements, right now, for free.

About 95 percent of schools are reportedly meeting the standards, but GOP lawmakers backed by the School Nutrition Association (SNA) said the provisions have led to an increase in food waste and a dramatic decline in student participation over the last three years.

A national study of concussions reported by high school athletes shows a dramatic increase over the last few years.

Their unlikely journey parallels the dramatic transformation of school lunch from a patchwork of local anti-hunger efforts to a robust national feeding program.

The famously raunchy former frontman of the rap group 2 Live Crew, Luther «Uncle Luke» Campbell, was one of dozens of locals who begged Carvalho not to leave for a job running New York's schools — right before Carvalho made the dramatic announcement that he's staying in Miami after all.

The cap has already had a dramatic impact on the spending behavior of local governments, especially school districts.

Those who support a convention say dramatic action is required to address corruption charges that have forced more than 30 officials out of office in a decade as well as issues such as New York's high taxes, unequal funding of schools, and the influence of big - money donors in campaigns.

A dramatic spike in the use of a particular type of electronic cigarette among middle and high school students has local parents, educators and activists, clamoring for action.

The union is proposing a wide range of changes to restore balance to the city's system of school governance, including dramatic changes to the composition of the Panel for Educational Policy that will eliminate the mayor's majority.

The de Blasio administration's complicated relationship with the city's charter school sector is being put to the test as the city prepares for another dramatic increase of its pre-kindergarten offerings.

«If we had higher performing and safer schools, I wouldn't be calling for such dramatic action as mayoral responsibility of the schools,» Lavine said.

In a dramatic reversal that has angered Mayor Bill de Blasio's office, Miami - Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho has turned down a job as head of New York City sSchools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho has turned down a job as head of New York City schoolsschools.

The Buffalo school board plans to appoint former Erie 1 BOCES Superintendent Donald Ogilvie as interim superintendent — the first in a likely series of dramatic changes to come for the district.

The city school system — the largest of its kind in the country — is on the verge of dramatic change, and Gov. Cuomo has bet his second term on an aggressive campaign to transform a system he claims has failed more than 250,000 students over the past decade while state bureaucrats twiddled their thumbs.

Mayor Bloomberg's move today - announcing the resignation of long - serving schools chancellor Joel Klein and his replacement by Hearst boss Cathie Black — marks one of the most dramatic shifts in personnel in the mayor's tenure.

He has promised dramatic changes to the state's pension system and its formula for funding schools, over the objections of his old enemies in organized labor.

Another candidate aligned with the Buffalo School Board majority was knocked off the ballot Monday in the latest twist in a fierce contest for control of the board.The continued challenges to petitions of would - be candidates underscore the dramatic politics that make this an unusually tense election, drawing interest from political, labor and business factions not typical...

Leadership under successive mayors has not led to a dramatic renewal of these public schools, but a systematic hollowing out of their enrollment and place in our community.

If more scientists come to think of a new publication as a larval stage of scientific knowledge and if fewer schools and funding agencies prize the high - profile journal article — basing tenure, grant and promotions on it — then researchers will feel less pressure to cut corners and manufacture dramatic results.

A new study from the Keck School of Medicine of USC has found that IUD use is associated with a dramatic decrease in the incidence of cervical cancer.

«Our work provides the first real - world experimental evidence that these natural enemies of plants can play a dramatic role in lowering ecosystems» tipping point by killing drought - weakened vegetation and preventing plants from recovering,» said Brian R. Silliman, Rachel Carson Associate Professor of Marine Conservation Biology at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

Despite dramatic growth in enrollment in online charter schools in Ohio, students are not achieving the same academic success as those in brick - and - mortar charter and public schools, finds a study by NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and RAND Corporation.

«In light of the Affordable Healthcare Act, we wanted to validate concerns that insurance reform would lead to dramatic increases in healthcare use and costs,» said Amresh D. Hanchate, Ph.D., the study's lead author, an economist at the V.A. Boston Healthcare System and assistant professor at Boston University School of Medicine.

More importantly, Clinton Conrad, Associate Professor of Geology at the University of Hawaii — Manoa's School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) and colleagues revealed that these upwelling locations have remained remarkably stable over geologic time, despite dramatic reconfigurations of tectonic plate motions and continental locations on the Earth's surface.

The most dramatic effect was measured in students attending middle schools; they were more likely to have a negative view of their reading skills and interest levels.

«This program capitalizes on local resources that can bring about change in behavior and improve blood pressure rates,» said Monique Anderson, M.D., lead researcher of the study and a medical instructor in cardiology at the Duke Clinical Research Institute and the Duke School of Medicine in Durham, N.C. «As participants became more knowledgeable, they probably started exercising more, taking their medication more, and those who were really engaged showed dramatic responses in blood pressure change.»

The dramatic shift has been partially attributed to First Nations peoples (a term that replaced the word «Indians» in the 1970s) gaining local control of education in 1973 and changing the on - reserve school system from a more traditional education to one mixed with First Nations history, culture, and values.

«That's pretty dramatic,» says Fadel Zeidan, PhD, the lead author of the study and a postdoctoral researcher at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, in Winston - Salem, N.C..

I was so curious about my dramatic results that I spent a good chunk of time in graduate school researching the science behind my asthma recovery from cutting out gluten and dairy.

«It's a rather dramatic effect,» says Rajesh Agarwal, PhD, investigator at the University of Colorado Cancer Center and professor at the Skaggs School of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

British actor Patrick Macnee barely had time to earn his Eton school tie when he began training for his career on a scholarship to the Webber Douglas School of Dramatischool tie when he began training for his career on a scholarship to the Webber Douglas School of DramatiSchool of Dramatic Art.

Though McAdams» early screen roles found her specializing in the bitchy teen princess to maximum effect, closer inspection reveals a skilled dramatic actress who no doubt has the talent to move beyond the high - school trappings of such comedies as The Hot Chick and Mean Girls.Born to a truck driver and a nurse in London, Ontario, Canada, McAdams warmed to the spotlight early on by taking up competitive skating at just four years old.

Kemp launched into print modeling as well, appearing in a widely seen campaign for The Gap, then segued into acting with parts in Stephen Sommers» Victorian - era supernatural thriller Van Helsing (2004) and Renny Harlin's lurid psychological thriller Mindhunters (2005), opposite Val Kilmer and LL Cool J. Kemp deftly merged his ballroom finesse and his dramatic evocations with prominent billing in Jon M. Chu's dance - themed urban drama Step Up 2 the Streets (2008); he played Blake Collins, the proprietor of a dance school who finds his chief proclivity — an utter contempt for street dancing — upstaged by the arrival of a brash and talented young newcomer at his school.

On the other hand, by contracting its scope to the final four months of the Civil War (and, as it turned out, Lincoln's own life), the dramatic impetus of this against - the - clock structure gets lost in a miasma of dry, detailed, school syllabus - friendly historical re-enactments of men standing around in rooms talking and arguing.

Co-founding the Silver Spring Stage and the Maryland Academy of Dramatic Arts, with his wife Madolyn in the late»60s, Tabakin worked in the Washington, D.C. and Baltimore - area theater communities as a director and acting coach, as well as directing the Jewish Community Center of Washington's drama school.

A dramatic comedy from Naomi Foner (mother of Maggie Gyllenhaal and screenwriter of «Running on Empty»), «Girls» will star Olsen and Dakota Fanning as teenagers the summer after they graduate from high school.