Sentences with phrase «school competition across»

On 12 April 2017, the Department for Education (DfE) announced the approval of 131 new free schools, which included the approval of plans to launch a special free school competition across 19 local authorities which would allow sponsors to apply to launch the new schools.

The study, which was featured in the August 2010 issue of the Economic Journal, systemically measured the causal impact of private school competition across countries.

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«The largest competition of its kind in Canada, the RBC Fast Pitch Competition sets the Haskayne School of Business apart by providing startup cash, advisory support and mentorship, and it has led to the creation of new opportunities for students from all disciplines across our great campus,» says Kim Neutens, director of the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship and competition of its kind in Canada, the RBC Fast Pitch Competition sets the Haskayne School of Business apart by providing startup cash, advisory support and mentorship, and it has led to the creation of new opportunities for students from all disciplines across our great campus,» says Kim Neutens, director of the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship and Competition sets the Haskayne School of Business apart by providing startup cash, advisory support and mentorship, and it has led to the creation of new opportunities for students from all disciplines across our great campus,» says Kim Neutens, director of the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

Team spirit across campus was high Jan. 12 - 14 as hundreds of students, coaches and judges participated in JDC West 2018, hosted by the Haskayne School of Business for the first time in the competition's 13 - year history.

The competition showcases the hard work and creativity of Middle School teams across the district as they are challenged to plan a reimbursable lunch menu that includes the appropriate meal components (meat / meat alternate, grain, milk, fruit and vegetable), follows the USDA National School Lunch guidelines, and costs no more than $ 1.20 for the entire meal.

Brooklyn Daily Eagle article on the announcement of the CS4All Hack League, a new computer game competition across Brooklyn schools that is part of Borough President Adams» Code Brooklyn initiative.

He said this at the Young Managers Quiz Competition organised by the Muslim Students» Society of Nigeria Lagos State Area Unit for primary and secondary school students across the 44 Local Governments / Local Council Development Areas in Lagos.

Twelve schools from across the UK will meet at the British Library for the Institute of Ideas» Debating Matters competition, a weekend of tough yet open debate on difficult contemporary topics where, most importantly, free speech is encouraged.

In 2014, Cowern won the Flame Challenge, the annual competition in which actor Alan Alda invites scientists to try to answer a basic question to the satisfaction of school children across the nation, answering the question «What is color?»

Forget old school meet ups in dingy pubs and clubs, our wealth of hand - selected venues across London set us apart from our competition.

Open to 13 -15-year-olds students across the UK, the competition — a collaboration between BBC Learning, BBC Comedy and the National Literacy Trust - called on secondary school students to become classroom jokers and was given backing by some of the UK's top comedy talent, including Charlie Higson, Kerry Howard, Marcus Brigstocke and David Walliams.

His song will be performed by the school choirs from across Lancashire who make it to the County Final of the Last Choir Singing Choir Competition, at King George's Hall in Blackburn, on 15th June 2018.

The Junior Language Challenge is an annual competition for primary school age children across the UK.

The research was commissioned by Jet2holidays to coincide with its Ultimate School Trip competition, which is giving pupils across the UK the chance to win the trip of a lifetime with their classmates.

Over 1,500 singers from 50 school choirs entered the competition this year in heats which took place across the County.

Events, competitions, whole - school reading initiatives and book corners can all help to develop a culture of reading for enjoyment - the National Literacy Trust Network offers a wealth of resources and ideas to help teachers to promote reading for pleasure across the school.

Not too surprisingly, these conditions — combined with increased competition from charter schools around New York City — contributed to an erosion in student achievement, school culture, and family recruitment efforts across our schools.

Now in its eight successive year, the competition has been extended to include an International category and is open to Science Technicians in secondary schools, colleges and academies across the world.

The annual Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management competition, which typically attracts teams of MBA students from top business schools across the country, puts students to the task of restructuring an urban school disSchool of Management competition, which typically attracts teams of MBA students from top business schools across the country, puts students to the task of restructuring an urban school disschool district.

Having estimated this relationship between Catholicity in the past and competition in the present, we then use that estimate to isolate the causal effect of private school competition on the achievement of individual students across 29 countries.

Alternative systems, competing across the board with government - operated schools, seem to have stimulated the latter to be more efficient (as measured by cost) and more effective (as measured by outcomes) than systems in countries where no such competition exists.

After weeks of competition involving five hundred schools across the UK, Bilton Junior School from Rugby have been crowned the winners of the National Young Mathematicians» Awards!

These can be used across schools and is ideal for assessments, activities and even inter-schools competitions.

Interestingly, this system of choice and competition resulted in a fair amount of uniformity across U.S. school systems.

Nottingham's premium leisure and entertainment venue launched the National Honey Bee competition back in August, asking parents across Nottinghamshire to nominate their chosen schools, with Bleasby Primary School, in Bleasby, gaining the most nominations.

Countries without such alternative systems, either because the public systems were acceptable to Catholic leadership (as in Italy, Spain, Austria, and most of Latin America) or because the Catholic share of the population was too small to create and sustain an alternative system competing across the board with public schools, have not experienced the benefits of such competition.

The extent to which the academies programme has increased competition between schools, and the impact this has had on overall performance across the system can also prove to be a lesson for future policy.

VEX Robotics is the largest and fastest growing middle and high school robotics competition in the world, with more than 20,000 teams from 40 countries that participate over 2300 competitions across the globe.

Children 16 and under are competing with pupils across the UK in the Classroom of the Future Competition, being run by schools supply company Viking and the British Institute of Interior Design.

The Childnet Film Competition, which was founded in 2010 as a way of asking young people to focus on positive use of the internet, invited schools and youth organisations from across the UK to create short, inspiring films using this year's Safer Internet Day theme «Let's create a better internet together».

Shajeevana Pratheevan from St James CE Primary School, Oldbury, won the Viking Young Inventors» Competition, beating hundreds of entries from primary schools across the UK.

The competition is open to primary school children (aged 5 - 11) across the UK.

The competition marks YPO's sole sponsorship of Roald Dahl Day in schools across the UK, which is set to be the biggest celebration ever of the much - loved children's author's birthday.

The national competition saw students from schools across the country submit a design for their ultimate eco-house, with the hope being invited down to the finals in London which took place yesterday.

Shell today called for schools across Great Britain to enter The Bright Ideas Challenge, its national schools» science competition, now in its third year.

In fact, we recently tasked 19 schools across the UK to do exactly this as part of a competition, resulting in some really innovative designs — 3D designing gives pupils the opportunity to express themselves and really is an unrivalled learning tool for primary and secondary schools.

Eight excited Year 7s from schools across Birmingham and Solihull are vying for a dream family holiday prize worth # 600 after winning through to a regional competition final.

As the champion in a competition to develop a theme for a campaign against drunk driving, Daniel Tyler, a 17 - year - old high - school student in Enfield, Conn., has won a $ 1,000 scholarship and the gratification of seeing his slogan — «Drunk drivers are breaking America's heart» — on billboards across the country.

The guidebook of the mass school closings movement is a 2009 «School Closure Guide» written by the controversial Broad Foundation, which boasts of training and placing non-educator superintendents and high - level school leaders in urban districts across the country to enact a brand of education reform that focuses on competition and privatizschool closings movement is a 2009 «School Closure Guide» written by the controversial Broad Foundation, which boasts of training and placing non-educator superintendents and high - level school leaders in urban districts across the country to enact a brand of education reform that focuses on competition and privatizSchool Closure Guide» written by the controversial Broad Foundation, which boasts of training and placing non-educator superintendents and high - level school leaders in urban districts across the country to enact a brand of education reform that focuses on competition and privatizschool leaders in urban districts across the country to enact a brand of education reform that focuses on competition and privatization.

«Every Catholic Child in a Catholic School»: Historical Resistance to State Schooling, Contemporary Private Competition, and Student Achievement across Countries Nineteenth - Century Catholic doctrine

More choice and competition in the educational marketplace fuels improvement and innovation across the board for students, teachers, and individual school districts.

The competition, which attracted over 2000 entries from schools across the UK, saw pupils take part in a 30 - day film adventure, watching a daily Discovery video clip to learn something new.

During the academic year, 1,500 Year 9 students from state and independent schools across United Learning competed for the chance to design an app addressing one of their learning needs, which would then be created and sold in the App Store.The first stage of this was a 21 - day roadshow, which saw 7billionideas staff visit 38 United Learning state and independent schools around the country to launch the competition and to teach students how best to generate ideas, refine a creative concept and build confidence in their own business skills.

These awards mark the third round of CityBridge Education's Breakthrough Schools: D.C. school design challenge, a grant competition that challenges schools across D.C. to fundamentally rethink Schools: D.C. school design challenge, a grant competition that challenges schools across D.C. to fundamentally rethink schools across D.C. to fundamentally rethink school.

Writing for Education Week, Catherine Gewertz reports on one of the nation's biggest school - redesign competitions, through which 10 teams won a collective $ 100 million to create new high schools or transform existing ones across the country: Each of the winners of XQ: The Super School Project will have $ 10 million over the next five years Read more about 10 High School Redesign Projects Win $ 100 Million in «XQ Super School» Contest -LSschool - redesign competitions, through which 10 teams won a collective $ 100 million to create new high schools or transform existing ones across the country: Each of the winners of XQ: The Super School Project will have $ 10 million over the next five years Read more about 10 High School Redesign Projects Win $ 100 Million in «XQ Super School» Contest -LSSchool Project will have $ 10 million over the next five years Read more about 10 High School Redesign Projects Win $ 100 Million in «XQ Super School» Contest -LSSchool Redesign Projects Win $ 100 Million in «XQ Super School» Contest -LSSchool» Contest -LSB-...]

A common argument of voucher school proponents is that these schools create competition for public schools, thereby increasing achievement across the board.

Both competitions will fund projects across five priority areas: supporting effective teachers and principals; promoting science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education; helping implement rigorous academic content standards and high - quality assessments; turning around low - performing schools; and improving graduation rates in rural schools.

But the president also praised Charbonneau for his important work outside of the classroom — to reinvigorate the school's yearbook; start an outdoors club; and create the Zillah Robert Challenge, which invites hundreds of students from across the state to participate in high - skills robotics competitions.

K12 will provide comprehensive wraparound services targeted to individual student needs and for the benefit of the school community: development of strong community within the virtual academy; access to the best and most current virtual instruction curriculum, assessment and instruction based on solid research; customizing each student's education to their own individual learning plan; academic success at the school and individual student levels resulting from teachers» instruction and constant monitoring of student growth and achievement with interventions as needed; national and local parent trainings and networking; frequent (i.e., every two to three week) teacher / parent communication through emails and scheduled meetings; establishment of unique settings for students and parents to interact; connecting students on a regular basis with students across the United States in similar virtual academies and across the world through networking and K12 national competitions (e.g., art contest and spelling bees) and International Clubs; access to the entire K12 suite of services and instructional curriculum (currently including K12, Aventa, A +, and powerspeak12) to include world languages, credit recovery courses, remedial courses, and AP courses; participation in a national advanced learners programs; a comprehensive Title I program that will provide additional services for students; school led trips, for example, visits to colleges, grade level specific trips such as student summer trips overseas, etc.; School prom; school graduation ceremonies; national college guidance through a network of K12 counselors; school community service opportunities; student developed student body council; school extracurricular activities: possibilities would include the development of a golf club, chess club, bowlingschool community: development of strong community within the virtual academy; access to the best and most current virtual instruction curriculum, assessment and instruction based on solid research; customizing each student's education to their own individual learning plan; academic success at the school and individual student levels resulting from teachers» instruction and constant monitoring of student growth and achievement with interventions as needed; national and local parent trainings and networking; frequent (i.e., every two to three week) teacher / parent communication through emails and scheduled meetings; establishment of unique settings for students and parents to interact; connecting students on a regular basis with students across the United States in similar virtual academies and across the world through networking and K12 national competitions (e.g., art contest and spelling bees) and International Clubs; access to the entire K12 suite of services and instructional curriculum (currently including K12, Aventa, A +, and powerspeak12) to include world languages, credit recovery courses, remedial courses, and AP courses; participation in a national advanced learners programs; a comprehensive Title I program that will provide additional services for students; school led trips, for example, visits to colleges, grade level specific trips such as student summer trips overseas, etc.; School prom; school graduation ceremonies; national college guidance through a network of K12 counselors; school community service opportunities; student developed student body council; school extracurricular activities: possibilities would include the development of a golf club, chess club, bowlingschool and individual student levels resulting from teachers» instruction and constant monitoring of student growth and achievement with interventions as needed; national and local parent trainings and networking; frequent (i.e., every two to three week) teacher / parent communication through emails and scheduled meetings; establishment of unique settings for students and parents to interact; connecting students on a regular basis with students across the United States in similar virtual academies and across the world through networking and K12 national competitions (e.g., art contest and spelling bees) and International Clubs; access to the entire K12 suite of services and instructional curriculum (currently including K12, Aventa, A +, and powerspeak12) to include world languages, credit recovery courses, remedial courses, and AP courses; participation in a national advanced learners programs; a comprehensive Title I program that will provide additional services for students; school led trips, for example, visits to colleges, grade level specific trips such as student summer trips overseas, etc.; School prom; school graduation ceremonies; national college guidance through a network of K12 counselors; school community service opportunities; student developed student body council; school extracurricular activities: possibilities would include the development of a golf club, chess club, bowlingschool led trips, for example, visits to colleges, grade level specific trips such as student summer trips overseas, etc.; School prom; school graduation ceremonies; national college guidance through a network of K12 counselors; school community service opportunities; student developed student body council; school extracurricular activities: possibilities would include the development of a golf club, chess club, bowlingSchool prom; school graduation ceremonies; national college guidance through a network of K12 counselors; school community service opportunities; student developed student body council; school extracurricular activities: possibilities would include the development of a golf club, chess club, bowlingschool graduation ceremonies; national college guidance through a network of K12 counselors; school community service opportunities; student developed student body council; school extracurricular activities: possibilities would include the development of a golf club, chess club, bowlingschool community service opportunities; student developed student body council; school extracurricular activities: possibilities would include the development of a golf club, chess club, bowlingschool extracurricular activities: possibilities would include the development of a golf club, chess club, bowling club.

A third direction for charter schools that has the potential to improve outcomes across district and public schools is a return to the focus on collaboration rather than competition between district and charter schools.