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Next week, Musk's SpaceX is hosting a capsule design competition where high school and college students will present designs in hopes of winning a $ 50,000 prize and the opportunity to work with HTT competitor Hyperloop Technologies.

Although subsequent administrations have continued reviewing vertical mergers, the Chicago School's view that these deals generally do not pose threats to competition has remained dominant.139 Rejection of vertical tie - ups — standard through the 1960s and 1970s — is extremely rare today; 140 in instances where agencies spot potential harm, they tend to impose conduct remedies or require divestitures rather than block the deal outright.141 The Obama Administration took this approach with two of the largest vertical deals of the last decade: Comcast / NBC and Ticketmaster / LiveNation.

Yes, the competition level may not be as good in high school, but managing the relationships developed in five - or six - day - a-week practices is a skill that becomes even more critical in college where every player was a star at the youth level.

I just don't realistically see a scenario where Chartouney is willingly going to commit to a school where there's strong competition and I'm very skeptical that Eastern would return to a situation where he's not going to be the primary PG.

First, the most important swim meets aren't in high school, unlike football, basketball and volleyball, where high school is the most important team competition.

I mean, it had started harmlessly enough — a few kids with Princeton shirts in middle school, rumors of summer camps at Duke — but by the time senior year rolled around, competition was so fierce that people didn't even talk about where they were applying.

Cutting to the chase, he says the prestigious UTS — where he attended Grade 7 to 13, graduating in 1985 — was (at the time) a school that place much import on academic competition.

That's really all the chartered schools do, create competition to our schools which is good in places like NYC where a lot of the schools are failing.

The coalition's junior party says # 400 million of funding for the Department for Education's «basic need budget», which provides cash helping areas where there is severe competition for limited school places, has been diverted.

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.

The NYS Envirothon is an environmental education competition where a team of high school students work together in hopes of winning scholarships and awards.

He then went back to London where he visited the City of London Academy in the Bermondsey and Old Southwark constituency with Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt, Hugh Robertson and sports stars Gavin Hastings and James Cracknell to promote an Olympics - style school sports competition.

I went to an all - girls high school where I didn't experience this sort of competition.

While Jack warns the White House of the impending climate shift, his 17 year - old son Sam finds himself trapped in New York City where he and some friends have been competing in a high school academic competition.

The competition was officially launched at Ruislip High School on July 10 where a team from Portcullis delivered an in - depth overview of the technology, the competition and what is expected from entries.

The scheme was developed by the Rochester Bridge Trust in partnership with Rotary Great Britain and Ireland, and is based on success of the Rotary's existing Senior Technology Tournaments, where secondary school students take part in innovative engineering challenges as part of a national competition.

The You're the Chef project involved school ‑ wide recipe competitions where children submitted their own British recipes, with winning entries cooked for the school.

Although general knowledge questions that students learn in school form the foundation for most competitions, some, particularly those that are televised, also add sports, pop culture, and current event questions — something bemoaned on various nontelevised quiz tournament blogs, where coaches, players, and former players vigorously debate topics like moderating etiquette («Do not prompt answers!»)

Hess's second case study focuses on the five - year - old voucher plan in Cleveland, where he finds that the potential benefits of choice and competition were neutralized by multiple factors, including frequent changes in leadership, the state's move to take over the city's schools, the modest size of the vouchers (only $ 2,250), and the existence of strong unions.

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The introduction of competition in New Orleans, where 85 percent of the schools are now charter schools, said Pastorek, provided a foundation for continued reform and improvement.

There are even school -, district - and city - wide «gong kai ke» (lesson competitions) where teachers prepare a lesson and showcase it to an audience.

In fact, he cites athletics, where «there is no epithet comparable to «curve - raiser,» there is no ostracism for too intense effort or for outstanding achievement,» as a model for the kind of competition he believes needs to be introduced to a school's scholastic endeavors.

One of the most notable «laboratories of democracy» was Texas, where governors on both sides of the aisle pursued a reform agenda, starting in the early 1980s, centered on higher academic standards, standardized testing, school accountability, competition, and choice.

The point was that competition was most effective in areas where a fair number of charter schools had sprouted up.

After again controlling for factors other than competition that might affect a private school's demand for certain teachers, I compared teachers in areas where parents have more choices among private schools with teachers in areas where they have fewer.

It's a team - based competition where up to four students from the same school are given five days to work on a modelling task (located in a real - world setting), write a report and submit it for evaluation.

Top chef Phil Howard will lead the Cucina British Food Fortnight effort by judging the successful «You're the Chef» competition, where school children will be invited to develop their own British recipes.

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«Buyers need to do their research as properties in catchment areas often come with a hefty price tag, especially in London where competition for school places is fierce.

Ironically, on the left, Shanker's 1998 New York Times piece describes a quasi-marketplace where, «Parents could choose which charter school to send their children to, thus fostering competition.»

He also developed an annual business plan competition through his microeconomics classes at a nationally - ranked college prep charter school where his students presented their plans in teams to investors, entrepreneurs, and college professors at the Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice Univeschool where his students presented their plans in teams to investors, entrepreneurs, and college professors at the Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice UniveSchool of Business, Rice University.

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.

This national competition is open to all schools who are members of Eco-Schools England, part of environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy, where more than 17,000 schools are registered and 1,200 schools currently hold the top award of Eco-Schools Green Flag status.

This differs from many school speech competitions, where students, for example, can talk about any topic they're interested in, such as bullying or cats.

The writing competition is part of Future First's work in four state schools and a college in Norwich where it is helping each to build links with local employers.

«We're also involved in the Singapore International Mathematics Challenge, which is a very similar competition where we send a team over for about a week and they compete on a problem with schools all around the world.

Moreover, universality would break the link between where children live and what school they attend, creating competition among all schools to catalyze improvements for all children.

Likewise, because test scores are often used as a proxy for school quality, it is not so surprising to see improvements in test scores where schools are subjected to more competition.

When funding follows students, the impact of competition is greater in areas where school - age population growth is slow or declining, as any loss of students to charter schools or nearby districts is immediately seen on the bottom line.

Why should children in poorer areas where their schools don't have these connections be deprived of school trips, sports competitions or other enrichment activities?

From 1997 to 2001, Island was the 4th grade team leader for Martin L. King Experimental Laboratory School in Evanston, IL, where she took on the roles of Language Arts district representative, School Literacy Committee member, Teachers as Readers Committee member, a Sisterhood Project mentor and coordinator of Battle of the Books inter-school competition.

Some of these includes the Helen DeVos Children's Hospital, ArtPrize, a well - known international art competition in their hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and the West Michigan Aviation Academy, a highly - rated charter school, also in Grand Rapids, where high school students can graduate with a pilot's license.

If you live in a city where the population is booming, like Peterborough, competition for popular schools has increased.

Among the activities will be a preliminary design competition where innovators will present ideas for new school models.

That notion also happens to be the same idea behind another story we've been covering — the nationwide Race To The Top competition, where two dozen Indiana school districts have joined nearly 900 school districts in vying for part of a $ 400 million prize.

That communities are profoundly dissatisfied with public schools is one of the myths used to champion policies that are wrapped in euphemisms such as «choice» and «competition» but have, where they have taken hold, often exacerbated the financial plight of rural schools.

The government says free schools will meet parental demand in areas where there is a shortage of places and help drive up standards by providing competition.

A report launched today by Policy Exchange shows analysis of schools in areas where free schools have opened and concludes that standards in nearby primary and secondary schools were driven up by the effects of competition.

«A degree of surplus places is necessary in encouraging school choice and competition between schools and this will provide some benefit where standards are increased, but there is also cost to providing surplus places which should be noted.»