Sentences with phrase «of public school markets»

Charter schools make up a significant portion of the public school market.

Not exact matches

The most recent research, led by Joseph Allen, who teaches at Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health, analyzed the performance of knowledge workers, including engineers, programmers, creative marketing professionals and managers.

The pair's solutions to the alleged problems of CEO - speak are greater government control of markets, more bureaucracy in the private and public sectors, an end to CEOs» duty of care to shareholders and — get this — more snore - inducing courses on critical textual analysis in business schools so students can know exactly how many times a CEO says «our company» versus «the company.»

Gary Gensler, the former chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has been appointed senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he will teach graduate classes on public policy and global markets.

Today a free market means that predators are free to extort any price from the public, they are free to deregulate, free to lie to consumers, free to exploit, free to load any company they want down with debt, and basically lead (us) to a world of debt peonage... So the whole concept of freedom has been turned upside down by the Chicago school and by the Bush administration.

You could say it combines the best of urban and suburban, with yearly bike races, easy access to public transportation, diverse people (and food), weekly farmers markets, art studios, and good schools.

Mr. Hodgson currently sits on the boards of The Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments) where he chairs the Investment Committee which oversees net investments of $ 99.5 billion as at September 30, 2014, KGS - Alpha Capital Markets, The Global Risk Institute, The Ivey School of Business and The Next36.

Tell me, if the school charged the actual market value for the use of this space and the use of equipment, etc. and if that market value actually reflected the cost to the public, then the issue might become clearer to you because these religious people would scream at having to pay full price and the cost of any damages they may inflict upon the public property they are using illegally.

If they want cheap places where they can express their religion, let them seek it in the «free market» and quit trying to force the government to pay for their private activities through subsidies, tax exemptions, resources like schools, public property of all sorts, or anything funded by government monies.

Indeed, over the years, Georgetown has been perhaps the clearest example of what many such schools practice: the whipsaw of «Catholic tradition,» in which the strongest declarations of Catholic identity come from the fund - raisers, the alumni association, and the public - relations office ¯ all the people trying to sell the university in a tight economic situation that requires a good bit of niche marketing.

In my view, the education market will work well only if the public has a wealth of accurate, comparable information about every school (or other education provider).

Waqfs were established to furnish trousseaux for orphan girls, for paying the debts of imprisoned or bankrupt businessmen, for clothing for the aged, to help pay village and neighborhood taxes, to help the army and the navy, to found trade guilds, to give land for public markets, to build lighthouses, to help orphans and widows and the destitute, to care for the needs of poor school children and to give them picnics, to pay for the funerals of the poor, to provide holiday gifts for poor families, to build seaside cottages for holidays for the people, to distribute ice - cold water during the summer, to create public playing fields, to distribute rice to birds, and to give food and water to animals.

With the zeal of a reformer and the heart of a dreamer, she calls for turning off the television at home, providing better funding for public schools and public media, and enacting laws that forbid marketing to children altogether.

I have explained that in the United States, the public school now functions primarily in the service of the capitalist market.

Public School on Tap offers a rotating list of craft beers, seasonal menu and sources ingredients from local farmers markets whenever possible.

Part of that marketing is how team members act while inside the skatepark where Halterman can observe interactions between teammates and other riders, but all team members must sign a contract that requires that they maintain good grades and conduct themselves properly in school and in public.

In fact, according to the Education Market Association, an estimated 99.5 percent of all public school teachers» use their own money to equip their classrooms - to the tune of over $ 400 per year out of their own pocket.

Tina, there isn't a morsel of food offered in any public school lunch program at market prices.

The Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth (CAMY) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is a watchdog of the alcohol industry and its advertising practices.

Her marketing and communications career has taken her into various public Montessori schools, where she helps them find new ways to educate other parents and their communities about the benefits of Montessori education.

«The findings from DFID - commissioned research published in recent years indicates that there is weak evidence that market competition enhances the quality of schools in the private or public sectors.

«These projects include the completion of the 2017 Farmland Protection Plan, with a grant from the NYS Department of Agriculture & Markets we have hired a Farm to School Marketing Coordinator to help our regions farmers sell locally produced food products to our public schools» lunch programs and with the support of the Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties, Oneida County Health Department, Oneida County Planning Department, Mohawk Valley Community College ThINCubator and the Mohawk Valley Food Policy Council we will be conducting an extensive study of the total Oneida County Food system.»

He observed that «you go to every polytechnic is this country and you realise that they are offering degrees in marketing, personnel management and public relations all along the lines of grammarian schools.

It said the, «The Theatre Commander operation LAFIYA DOLE, Major General Yusha'u Mahmood Abubakar, commended the efforts of the troops and renewed the call for the troops and the public to be more vigilant and security conscious particularly at all check points, markets, worship centers, motor parks and schools.

A smaller public sector, perhaps, but it is noticeable that as Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove is creating a far more market - like system of school provision; he is also protecting spending levels.

The sales were blocked by state officials after members of the East Ramapo School Board were accused by the public of attempting to sell the buildings below market value to yeshivas.

The Ogun government has directed that all markets and public schools in the Remo Zone of the state be closed on Wednesday for the burial of...

Residential areas and Zongos, the Central Business District, including the inner city periphery, markets and lorry parks, university campuses, schools and hospitals, and beaches and public places of entertainment and tourist centres are all going to elicit special attention.»

At both committees» public meetings, outside experts provided interesting and revealing information about various aspects of the labor market and graduate school situations.

«In the meantime, the findings support state - and local - level action to enact SSB excise taxes, promote physical activity in afterschool settings, and reduce marketing and advertising of unhealthy foods and beverages in public schools.»

On one hand, we need to acknowledge that individuals bear some responsibility for their health, and on the other hand recognise that today's food environments exploit people's biological (eg, innate preference for sweetened foods), psychological (eg, marketing techniques), and social and economic (eg, convenience and cost) vulnerabilities, making it easier for them to eat unhealthy foods,» explains Dr Christina Roberto, from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA.

«Despite the terrible job market for academic scientists, many mentors of undergraduate STEM [science, technology, engineering, and mathematics] students still express disapproval if one mentions a desire to teach in the public schools after graduation instead of pursuing a research career.

BYU health sciences professor Lori Spruance studies the impact of salad bars in public schools and has found one helpful tip: teens are more likely to use salad bars if they're exposed to good, old - fashioned marketing.

Nestle: Well, we will do it in the way these changes always take place — you do it through education of the public; you create demands for different kinds of foods; you teach parents to go into schools and look at what their kids are eating and then do something about it; you change policy so that it becomes more difficult for food companies to advertise to children; you stop them from marketing junk food to kids using cartoon characters.

«Scrutinize,» an animated HIV prevention campaign produced in cooperation with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Communication Programs, was honored with a Khuza Award, South Africa's biggest research - based youth marketing and communications awards.

Foods marketed specifically as gluten - free and made with alternative ingredients can be lower in fiber and other important nutrients, says lead author Geng Zong, PhD, a research fellow in the department of Nutrition at Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public.

According to the Portland school board, the real estate trust was «a nonprofit, independent entity created by [Portland Public Schools], which could, at the board's discretion, be given title to property deemed «surplus» to either market or redevelop it on behalf of the school district.»

Public school boards struggle over whether instruction should be didactic or discovery - based, and schools of both stripes compose the private school market.

The pressures of mainstream culture and market forces, as well as internal differences in religious style and governance, have created a wide diversity of Christian schools — a diversity that in many ways contributes to the public good.

Having been a public high school math teacher, I know that schools could use a bit of market pressure to counteract inertia.

That idea was one of many useful takeaways from a panel discussion about marketing new flavors to kids, part of a daylong event at Harvard University called Healthy Food Fuels Hungry Minds: Serving Change in Public School Food.

Even though districts contract year after year with textbook, transportation, and food vendors, management of public schools — a $ 400 billion segment of the economy — had been strictly off limits to private enterprise and market forces for many years.

At least for EMOs, the prospects of long - term profitability make it possible to raise capital from venture investors or, in a smaller number of cases, like Edison Schools, the public markets.

With K — 12 teaching being an integrated market, reducing public school pay would affect the ability of schools more generally to attract teachers, including private schools.

It was the combination of a new market environment and effective responses from the public schools that simultaneously expanded choices for poor families and improved both choices and performance within the Milwaukee public schools.

Then, of course, there is the most common tactic for sorting out the hardest to teach: the iron reality of the real estate market, which prohibits low - income families, statistically the lowest achieving, from any hope of moving to affluent neighborhoods with «high performing» public schools.

So it had to market to districts, which, as anyone selling to public school districts will tell you, takes a lot of time — even without the difficult external environment and mistakes referenced above.

This groundbreaking book illuminates the ways rising inequality is operating through disadvantaged neighborhoods, insecure labor markets and schools to undermine one of the most important goals of public education — the ability of schools to provide children with an equal chance at academic and economic success.

The dramatic oversupply of public schools has turned what should be a healthy competitive market into a frenetic bidding enrollment war for students.

Attitudes: support for diversity (racial integration), a perception of inequity (that the public schools provide a lower quality education for low - income and minority kids), support for voluntary prayer in the schools, support for greater parent influence, desire for smaller schools, belief in what I call the «public school ideology» (which measures a normative attachment to public schooling and its ideals), a belief in markets (that choice and competition are likely to make schools more effective), and a concern that moral values are poorly taught in the public schools.