Sentences with phrase «schools at center»

Schools at the center: The organization is built from the classroom and school level «up,» versus from the top down.

You can download the entire report on Pennsylvania charter schools at The Center for Popular Democracy.

As Geoffrey Canada of the Harlem Children's Zone told education philanthropist Katherine Bradley when she began her school reform efforts a decade ago, it is critical to overhaul the schools at the center of the lives of children and their communities.

More than 150 teachers and school leaders from more than 20 states and five countries discovered how they could bring Mind, Brain, and Education (MBE) science research to their classrooms and schools at the Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning's first Science of Teaching and School Leadership Academy.

(One of the schools at the center of the story is majority nonwhite.)

Policies that place schools at center stage have the potential to disrupt the cycle of economic disadvantage to ensure that children born into poverty aren't excluded from the American dream.

At a time when budgets are tight, obesity epidemic, and fuel costs likely to rise, schools at the center of walkable communities are seen as both healthful and thrifty.

Saving a Community's Heart: The Small Rural School At the center of many small, rural communities is the school — and as states look for ways to save money, more small districts are being consolidated.

Flanner House Elementary — the Indianapolis charter school at the center of a cheating scandal — closes its doors for good Thursday.

Crestwood Elementary School Principal Jackie Richardson leads a Title I school at the center of the Las Vegas Valley, just west of Eastern Avenue.

In the years of his greatest dominance, Clement Greenberg almost single - handedly established Jackson Pollock and the New York School at the center of the American art world.

Regardless, though, the Chicago landscape is transitioning today as kids move from a routine of flexibility to one of structure with school at its center.

Not exact matches

Most call centers motivate employees through fear, punishing them for not hitting targets or spending too long on the phone, says Daniel Cable, a professor at London Business School who has studied the industry.

«The location provides resources for you as an entrepreneur,» says Zeke Hernandez, an assistant professor of management at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton school, where his research centers on entering global markets.

Ulukaya gave a presentation earlier this week to a packed audience at New York University's Stern School of Business, sponsored by the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation.

Vivek Wadhwa is vice president of academics and innovation at Singularity University; a fellow at the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University; director of research at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization and exec in residence at the Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University; and distinguished visiting scholar at the Halle Institute of Global Learning at Emory University.

By 2040, say data scientists at three leading health research centers — Seattle's Institute for Heath Metrics and Evaluation, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the World Bank Group — that bill will more than double, to $ 18 trillion.

I attended a spectacular conference Friday at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, whose Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State hosts an annual discussion of antitrust and competition issues.

Caroline Apovian, director of the Nutrition and Weight Management Center at Boston Medical Center and professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine told INSIDER, «Feeling «hangry» or cranky is one of the first signs that you aren't eating enough calories.»

I talked with him yesterday in New York at Columbia Law School's Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership.

«Right now, there is absolutely no question that there is an association between having a history of repetitive hits to the head and later - life neurodegenerative disease, and in particular chronic traumatic encephalopathy,» says Dr. Robert Stern, professor of neurology at the Boston University School of Medicine, and director of clinical research at BU's Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center.

«You begin to see that Apple is approaching that ceiling in growth,» says Z. John Zhang, professor of marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and executive faculty director of the Penn - Wharton China Center.

When professor Juan Gilbert, chair of the human - centered computing school at Clemson University, visits grade schools, kids are often surprised by his line of work.

In November, the Teaching Tolerance project at the Southern Poverty Law Center received more than 10,000 responses to an educator survey indicating an uptick in anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant activity in schools.

On campus, Webb met the eventual co-founder to his venture, RoBotany — an automated robotic solution that increases efficiency in vertical farming — at a workshop sponsored by the school's Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship.

His book also cites architecture projects around the world that have leverage design positive social impact, from a primary school in Guangdong, China to a social justice center at Kalamazoo College.

Some 14 states have enacted more restrictive voting laws than they had in the 2012 presidential election, according to the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law.

«This is a topic that's been researched to death by the field of industrial and organizational psychology,» says Peter Cappelli, management professor and director of the center for human resources at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

They used its Innovation Lab and the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School.

Barbara van Schewick is an expert on net neutrality, a professor at Stanford Law School, and the director of the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society.

«Of all the factors that lead to corporate crime, none comes close in importance to the role top management plays in tolerating, even shaping, a culture that allows for it,» says William Laufer, the director of the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research at the Wharton School.

Santa Clara U's MOBI is an initiative of its Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Leavey School of Business.

'' [Silicon Valley] runs the risk of being perceived as arrogant and entitled and super-wealthy and narrowly satisfying its own interests,» says Dan Siciliano, a research fellow at the Immigration Policy Center, and executive director at the Program in Law, Economics, and Business at Stanford Law School.

Even before Heinz bought Kraft, the small - town ways of Oscar Mayer were changing, says Mike Judge, former head of consumer insights and strategy there and now Director of the Center for Brand and Product Management Center at the University of Wisconsin Business School.

Bryce Benjamin, CEO in residence at USC Marshall's Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, heads the school's New Venture Seed Competition.

It's unclear who that would be, but most likely «someone at the center — or close to the center — of this criminal enterprise,» Jens David Ohlin, a professor at Cornell Law School, told Business Insider, adding that the fact Flynn was «charged with and is pleading guilty to such a minor crime suggests a bombshell of a deal with prosecutors.»

«My guess is pharma is waiting to see how it plays out and which side the public opinion goes,» said Hank Greely, director of the Center for Law and the Biosciences at Stanford Law School.

«It's now just permeated everything we do around entrepreneurship at HBS,» says Harvard Business School entrepreneurial management professor Thomas Eisenmann, faculty co-chair of the school's Rock Center for EntrepreneuSchool entrepreneurial management professor Thomas Eisenmann, faculty co-chair of the school's Rock Center for Entrepreneuschool's Rock Center for Entrepreneurship.

FEB. 24: Drops by the Today show and makes up with weatherman Al Roker, who had slammed him for not closing the schools in advance of one of the winter's biggest storms, then joins the rest of the cast for a ribbon - cutting that opens the show's new plaza at Rockefeller Center.

Speaking at schools and community centers across America, I was inspired to write this book when I saw an underserved need for a guide that would show aspiring and current entrepreneurs how to leverage their personal habits and goals to make themselves into the type of person a successful entrepreneur is.»

«They've carved out a niche working with startups,» says Haytham Elhawary, director of the Zahn Center for Entrepreneurship at City College of New York's Grove School of Engineering in New York City.

During their time at UPenn, students can take advantage of the school's vast resources, including 6.38 million books, 1.16 million e-books, and 136 research centers and institutes, which are accompanied by an annual research budget of $ 878 million to boot.

While earning a Ph.D. in neuroscience at MIT, Lathan worked at the school's Center for Space Research and became interested in how technology can enhance human performance.

Former Intercept reporter Juan Thompson was arrested by the FBI on March 3 in connection with bomb threats made to at least eight Jewish community centers and schools and the Anti-Defamation League's Manhattan headquarters.

Hal Gregersen is executive director of the MIT Leadership Center and a senior lecturer in leadership and innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Employees and spouses alike can pursue high school equivalency degrees (G.E.D.'s) and other educational goals at the company's expense; children and grandchildren who need help for supplementary tutoring get it at a Sylvan or Huntington Learning Center.

You can advertise on school bulletin boards, at public libraries and community centers, and charge an hourly rate.

Ben W. Heineman, Jr., GE's former Senior Vice President for Law and Public Affairs, is senior fellow at Harvard Law School's Program on the Legal Profession and Program on Corporate Governance and senior fellow at the Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

According to Dr. Heidi Grant Halvorson, associate director for the Motivation Science Center at the Columbia University Business School and author of Nine Things Successful People Do Differently, there are three reasons that people miss deadlines — and a single simple solution for all three.

The Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan policy institute at the NYU School of Law, reports that overall crime rates in the nation's 30 largest cities remain at or near historic lows.