Sentences with phrase «schools around the nation work»

The need for quality teachers is great as schools around the nation work to raise K - 12 learning standards so that students are ready for college or a career by the time they graduate high school.

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The longest - running exhibition of African - American art in the U.S. features more than 100 dynamic works of art from amateur and professional African - American artists from around the nation, as well as a youth category which features work by a dozen area high school artists.

Around the nation, a new definition of educator is emerging as schools work in partnership with many community - based groups to extend learning beyond the school clock and the building's walls with noncredentialed instructors.

Although CEL has worked in partnership with school districts around the nation, until this fall the Center had never begun a partnership with a salmon bake, campfire, and singing in the middle of the desert.

Many school Districts across the Nation are working to wrap their hands around innovative and effective ways to engage communities and families that they serve.

Election - to - Work agreements have been used in a variety of school districts around the nation, including in New Haven, to promote pilot projects that lengthen the school day or year or outline duties and obligations that administrators and teachers have beyond those in the standard contract.

Before joining the International Center, he was a senior fellow at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where he worked with leading educators from around the country on improving our nation's high schools.

Clay Nation February 8 - March 17, 2002 David Hiltner, assistant professor in the WSU School of Art and Design, organized this exhibition of ceramic works by four outstanding young artists / educators from around the country: Susan Filey (South Carolina), James Brashear (Alaska), Matt Long (Florida), and Brad Schwieger (Ohio).

In the early 1980s there was a marked change in the Chicago art scene as the city's art schools began attracting students and working artists from around the nation who had absorbed the lessons of the previous decades» avant - garde and who were influenced by the theoretical writings of historians, philosophers, environmentalists, and literary critics.

On that particular morning, the museum seemed a veritable Kid Nation, with middle schoolers stomping around Manfred Pernice's deconstructed installation of vitrines and eating lunch in the courtyard amid Susan Philipsz's a cappella recording of «The Banks of the Ohio,» two of the exhibition's 204 works (by forty international artists).

The early 1980s marked a sea change in the Chicago art scene as the city's art schools began attracting students and working artists from around the nation who had absorbed the lessons of the previous decades» avant - garde and who were influenced by the theoretical writings of historians, philosophers, environmentalists, and literary critics.

Apart from our efforts within various public schools around the nation, Justin and I also work regularly with parochial schools as they attempt to reduce bullying and encourage kindness across their campuses.