Sentences with phrase «schools across the country competed»

The UK's brightest innovators from schools across the country competed in the final of PA Consulting Group's sixth annual...

Twenty - two teams from law schools across the country competed this year.

Not exact matches

Instead of competing over the same small number of hyper - talented players as his neighbors, he decided to innovate: He became one of the first college coaches to track and pursue high school recruits from across the country.

Teams of students from across the country have traveled to Washington in recent years to compete in Cooking up Change, a national contest that challenges high school students to create meals that meet nutrition standards and can be easily replicated in schools.

Get Set for the Spirit of Sport is a great way for young people to understand the importance of competing on a level playing field and I would encourage schools across the country to get involved.»

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.

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.

In January 2012, Washington Post education reporter Michael Alison Chandler said school choice has become «a mantra of 21st - century education reform,» citing policies across the country that have traditional public schools competing for students alongside charter schools and private schools.

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.

School districts across the country must compete with the companies that have more sophisticated human capital systems and offer more competitive salaries.

School districts across the country are competing to attract the nation's best teachers, said Tim McConnell, associate superintendent over human resources.

It prompted us to raise the stakes for standardized tests in an effort to compete with other world powers, and as a result, it planted the seeds for a culture of fear and shame that is ubiquitous in schools across the country.

«Instead of competing against students across the country for jobs, students in U.S. public schools will be competing for jobs against children in Singapore, China and Korea.»

It is because charter schools work that states across the country compete for these start - up dollars and many more states apply than receive funds.

Hot Rodders of Tomorrow is a nonprofit organization that hosts «Engine Challenges» across the country in which high - school teams compete against each other in timed engine rebuilds.

High school teams from across the country will once again compete against the clock and each other in tearing down and rebuilding identical high - performance 350ci Chevrolet small - block powerplants fitted with top performance parts during the Hot Rodders of Tomorrow Engine Challenge.

Will you become the ultimate Demolition Derby champion?It \'s time to take your school bus off the road and start competing in some good old demolition derby events across the country.