Sentences with phrase «of schools focused»

Not only is it home to top publishers, media companies and a strong startup community, it has the country's largest k - 12 district and a dedicated subset of schools focused on experimenting with new technologies, through the iZone project.

My first question is, of all the STEM disciplines then Engineering has perhaps, I think it's fair to say, has received the least attention in terms of school focus.

Physically and intellectually, the design of the school focused on five major career pathways: health sciences and nursing; culinary arts and tourism; fitness / sports science; information technology and electronics; and business, architecture, engineering, and construction.

Additional examples of the schools focus on the whole child, taking place after core classes, include:

Defining the purpose of schools focuses the direction of schools, teachers, and students.

For starters, leaders of these schools focus relentlessly on improving the quality, consistency, and coherence of instruction, and have the time and resources to make real improvement possible.

My guess is that within the next few years, we will probably see a lot of schools focus on lowering their suspension rates, because it negatively impacts their scores on the new School Dashboard.

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.

«It's also part of a civic duty,» said Joo Yu - min, an assistant professor at the National University of Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy whose research focuses on mega-events in Asian cities.