The number
of Focus schools must equal at least 10 percent of all Title I schools in the state, and these schools must be subject to targeted interventions.
However, all waiver states must take into account the achievement of each of the ESEA's statutory subgroups, including students in low - income families, in the selection
of Focus schools.
Another positive for the district is the reduction in its number
of Focus schools — down from 13 to 9 from last year.
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Not exact matches
A recent study from the Wake Forest
School of Medicine and the University
of North Carolina found that listening to music can help people
focus their attention, but — and here's the catch — only if it's music they like.
Plus, now that they're actually out
of school, the founders can
focus more time and energy on the start - up.
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Yale
School of Management, and Bill Smead, Smead Capital Management, discuss the news that Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is stepping down from the position but will remain in the company to
focus on higher - end stores.
A recent study from the University
of Pennsylvania's Wharton
School found such «intertemporal markers» help motivate us in two ways: offering an opportunity to separate ourselves from past «misbehaviour» and disrupting our attention from day - to - day details to
focus on the big picture.
He is concerned about the issue
of childhood obesity in the U.S., and raced to raise $ 1 million for the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation, which helps
schools develop and improve programs
focused on food and nutrition (Lawrence's website is still accepting donations).
She is a graduate
of the London
School of Economics - Peking University double MSc in International Affairs, where she studied history and political economy with a
focus on US - China trade disputes.
The Shannon
School of Business offers the only MBA program in North America with a specific
focus on community economic development.
UBC's Sauder
School of Business, meanwhile, reorganized its program offerings last year into functional streams like entrepreneurship, and product and service management — specialties that have
focus but can be applied across a variety
of industries.
Focusing on security around the door and adjacent areas, Allegion produces a range
of solutions for homes, businesses,
schools and other institutions.
«Though we will continue to prosecute the campaign against terrorists that we're engaged in today, the great power competition, not terrorism, is now the primary
focus of US national security,» Mattis said in his opening statements at the Johns Hopkins
School of Advanced International Studies.
Looking ahead, the company is
focused on beefing up mobile offerings, helping teachers share information within
schools, and creating ways for students take ownership
of their behavior.
The authors
of a Harvard Business
School paper called Goals Gone Wild warn that the use
of goal setting can actually cause a shift in
focus, away from important but unspecified goals.
There has to be way more tank - filling than tank - draining,» says Ruben Nieves, former Stanford University men's volleyball coach and current national director
of training for the Positive Coaching Alliance, a nonprofit organization based in Mountain View, Calif., that
focuses on teaching and encouraging positive character - building in youth and high
school sports.
Snyder said he will
focus on strengthening SOM's faculty, student quality and reputation, as well as integrating the
school into the rest
of the Yale community.
An advocate for a local teachers union also expressed concern to the New York Times Magazine about the quality
of the education, arguing Bridge
focuses less on getting poor students to the baseline as enticing public
school students to switch to Bridge
schools.
A 2012 study
of debt - payoff strategies from Northwestern University's Kellogg
School of Management found that consumers paying off small balances first were more likely to have eliminated their entire debt than those
focusing on other strategies.
The organization raised the funds to purchase micro: bits for a pilot program
focused on 25 middle -
school classrooms, with the eventual goal
of purchasing the device for every 7th grader attending the county's
schools.
While a hungry child is less likely to be able to
focus, most
of the research looks at kids who are part
of school breakfast programs, which means the majority
of those kids come from underprivileged backgrounds and may not be getting enough to eat in general.
A report issued by Deloitte in 2011 called for revamping the K - 12 curriculum to expose kids to entrepreneurial concepts, and Stuart says government officials and policy experts are even considering the possibility
of specialized, innovation -
focused schools.Programs like the lecture series currently offered at Toronto French
School that brings in entrepreneurs to talk to students can make a difference, he says.
Focusing on elite
schools to the exclusion
of other factors like extracurricular participation is an especially bad idea for a technology company that needs a steady supply
of cutting - edge ideas.
Look at STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)-- if we
focused on finding early indicators
of high performers in our education system, then treated them differently as they progressed through
school as potential Canadian innovators, by the time they got to Grade 12 and were thinking about university, they would be wildly ahead
of the innovation curve.»
«Spider - Man: Homecoming» leaves out the radioactive spider bite, the death
of Parker's uncle Ben, and
focuses heavily on the difficulty that comes with trying to build confidence while still in high
school, and is all the better for it.
Focus on getting good grades and taking advantage
of the
school's resources and opportunities.
The money should
focus on helping startups expand beyond the Greek market, said Costas Andripoulos, professor
of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at London's Cass Business
School.
While the public response to the report
focused on the
school's athletes, the report found that more than half
of the students enrolled in the paper courses were nonathletes — many
of them referred through the campus» fraternity system.
«Right now, it's really hard to get a firm handle on a total figure [for] what kind
of economic activity the sharing economy encompasses in Canada,» notes Sunil Johal, policy director at the Mowat Centre, an Ontario -
focused public policy think - tank at the University
of Toronto's
School of Public Policy and Governance.
These are obvious questions to ask, but according to a massive new analysis
of more than 45 million public
school students nationwide from Stanford's Sean Reardon (hat tip to Business Insider for the pointer), they can actually be misleading cues to
focus on.
Everybody thinks it's old
school; nobody
focuses on it anymore, which provides more opportunity for those
of us who do.
The Darden
School of Business offers one
of the top MBA entrepreneurship programs among b -
schools, awarding over $ 1 million in scholarships annually and offering highly specialized training like Venture Capital Bootcamp, a three - day workshop
focused on early - stage investing.
The
school, long known for its international business
focus, is selling its Arizona campus to a for - profit education company, kicking up a storm
of controversy.
With this new money, Regeneron and the Society hope to expand the reach
of their competition so that it doesn't only
focus on prestigious
schools.
Brooklyn College is in the process
of developing a Graduate
School of Cinema that will
focus on film, post production and animation.
«I would like my legacy to be represented in the fact that no one inside
of McDonough doubts that we are a premier
school, and every day we wake up and behave that way, not with arrogance but with a
focus on being the best.»
Other than the University
of South Carolina, whose business
school also
focused on international business, Thunderbird was in a singular position to capitalize on the growing interest in global management.
John Kirton, co-director
of the G - 20 Research Group at the University
of Toronto's Munk
School of Global Affairs, called the summit a «very solid success,» pointing to broad agreement on the agenda, much
of it
focusing on less controversial issues such as women's empowerment and promoting digitalization.
«If we were smart, not only would we be
focusing on encouraging the best technologists in
school to go down this path — with programs designed and incentivized — we would be fighting to become the place where the brainpower
of the world wants to come to live.
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.
Both hires go a long way in telegraphing the fact that the four - year - old Jack Welch Management Institute is one
of the very few business
schools that is run like a business, with a laser - like
focus on customer service.
«If you're going to
focus on anything,
focus on what you can control,» he said, addressing the audience at the McComb
School of Business at the University
of Texas - Austin.
More than a few claimed they'd be dropping out
of school to
focus on their start - up, causing DreamIt partner Steven Welch to remark: «I think we're going to start to be banned from college campuses.»
He explained that even when the children did go to
school, the constant noise and threat
of air strikes meant it was hard for them to
focus anyway.
I was finishing up my MBA at Schulich
School of Business at York University with a
focus on sustainability and responsible business, and a background in environmental science, and that really just synched up with how Pangaea was looking to grow their team.