Sentences with phrase «schools by profiling»

Inside Urban Charter Schools offers an unprecedentedly intimate glimpse into the world of charter schools by profiling five high - performing urban charter schools serving predominantly low - income, minority youth in Massachusetts

The book offers an unprecedented look into the inner workings of successful urban charter schools by profiling five high - performing urban charter schools serving predominately low - income, minority youth in Massachusetts.

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Three high - profile business people have resigned from the board of Perth Modern School, just weeks after two other board members did not seek re-election, as the fallout from a governance dispute and a review by KPMG continues.

The piece by E.B. Boyd profiles a new Hacker School aimed at ending Silicon Valley's perpetual struggle to find enough trained engineers.

That Facebook failed to immediately disclose the handoff of profile data by developer Aleksandr Kogan was an ethical misstep, said Peter Jaworski, a business ethicist at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business.

So far, «most of the high - profile cases involve state or local actions that would not be covered by the federal protections,» said John Inazu, a professor at Washington University School of Law who has written several times about such cases for CT..

The evidence for this phenomenon is incontestable: the influx of non «SBC evangelical scholars into Baptist seminaries; the changing of the name of the Baptist Sunday School Board to the more generic LifeWay Christian Resources; the presence and high profile of non «Baptist leaders on SBC platforms, e.g., the closing message at the 1998 SBC delivered by Dr. James Dobson, a Nazarene; the aggressive participation of the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission as an advocate for the conservative side of the culture wars conflict; new patterns of cooperation between SBC mission boards and evangelical ministries such as Promise Keepers, Campus Crusade for Christ, the National Association of Evangelicals, Prison Fellowship, and World Vision.

The distinction between the nuclear and traditional family was also blurred in the recent report on human sexuality by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) titled Keeping Body and Soul Together: «Although many Christians in the post-World War II era have a special emotional attachment to the nuclear family, with its employed father, mother at home, and two or more school - aged children, that profile currently fits only 5 percent of North American households.»

The vigil, which was attended by President Barack Obama, was a high - profile part of the healing process for the families of the 20 children and six adults killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14.

Finally, outside the school system, technology has made a liberal education cheaper and more accessible than ever before --- witness, for example, the wild success of the Great Courses, usefully profiled by Heather Mac Donald in the City Journal.

Yosef's detention was the second high - profile move by police in just over a week in their investigation of public endorsements of a religious treatise called «The King's Torah» written by Yosef Elitzur and Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira, the head of a Jewish religious school in the extremist Israeli settlement of Yitzhar.

The Central Florida Medical School article by Anand S. Desal promoted the need for emollients effective enough to replace cortecosteroids that have a high adverse effect profile.

High profile kids will be hounded to sign early by the Top 20 schools.

The Bulldogs were approached by Under Armour to become a part of the company's Undeniable Program, which was launched in 2006 to partner with high - profile high school football programs to supply uniforms, apparel, shoes, and equipment.

Mustafi and Luiz are yet to step out in the colours of their new sides this season but both fit the profile of exactly what Arsenal and Chelsea have been missing: the former is a cool - headed organiser to step into the void left by Per Mertesacker while the latter's skill on the ball, and determination to take responsibility for driving out from the back like an old school sweeper, makes him a solution to Antonio Conte's selection dilemma in defence.

«Cooking with California Food in K - 12 Schools» [external link] by the Center for Ecoliteracy (2011) This cookbook is based on six dishes students know and love, five ethnic flavor profiles, and four seasons and offers ideas for adding more fresh, local, healthy foods to school lunches.

The districts which have been able to offer something better either have extra funding, as is the case in Berkeley, CA, or outside funding / fundraising, as is the case in Boulder, CO, the two districts with high profile school meal programs redesigned by Ann Cooper.

He is the only one who will raise taxes on the wealthy to fund universal pre-k and after - school programs that keep our kids safe; the only one who supports the full package of reforms to end a stop - and - frisk era defined by racial profiling; and he has the boldest plan to build or preserve nearly 200,000 units of affordable housing.

Police and federal officials, though, countered that they remain focused on curtailing a gang that preys on immigrants and said the steps they take are based on evidence.The report by the New York Immigration Coalition and the Immigrant and Non-Citizen Rights Clinic at the CUNY School of Law warns about the danger of law - enforcement agencies slipping into profiling and discriminatory policing.»

These are just the latest in a string of high profile inquiries by parliamentary Select Committees over the past 6 years that have also seen Rupert Murdoch attacked with a custard pie, Michael Gove alleging a «Trot conspiracy» in English schools and a vice president of Google being informed that «you do evil».

The Bronx Ink, a news site produced by students at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, has this video profile on Norwood jeweler Allan Freilich, whose family has been in the local jewelry business for decades.

UFTers have been out in force all month, with mass leafletting and high - profile rallies across the five boroughs, to raise public awareness about the state Senate's preliminary budget that would cut city public schools by $ 500 million.

Last year, when de Blasio was at his most vulnerable, Cuomo chose to play a decisive role in the mayor's most embarrassing political defeat to date by siding with charter school executive Eva Moskowitz in a high - profile fight over city charters.

«Voters are responding to Bill de Blasio because he is the only Democrat who will boldly break from the Bloomberg years by raising taxes on the wealthy to invest in universal pre-K and after - school programs, ending racial profiling, and fighting to save community hospitals,» the de Blasio campaign said in a statement.

He is the only Democrat who will break from the Bloomberg years by raising taxes on the wealthy to invest in universal pre-K and after - school programs, ending racial profiling, and fighting to save community hospitals,» de Blasio's campaign manager said in a statement.

Unlike the instructor - written tests given by the teachers and professors profiled here, standardized tests are usually sold to schools by commercial publishing companies.

As the folks behind dating apps will tell you, the first two months of the year are huge for finding love online... Put those $ $ $ $ years of schooling to good use by sharing your alma mater in your dating profile.

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Among the high - profile premieres this year are «Antz,» the new Dreamworks animated film; James Ivory's «A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries,» with Kris Kristofferson playing a character inspired by novelist James Jones; «Dancing at Lughnasa,» starring Meryl Streep in the film of Brian Friel's celebrated play; John Waters» «Pecker,» with Edward Furlong as a fast - food worker whose photos are embraced by the New York art world; Helena Bonham Carter and Kenneth Branagh in «The Theory of Flight,» about a work - release prisoner assigned to a woman with Lou Gehrig's disease; Ben Stiller as a drug - addicted TV writer in «Permanent Midnight»; Christina Ricci in «Desert Blue,» about slim prospects for a teenager in a town of 89 people; «The Imposters,» the new film by Stanley («Big Night») Tucci, starring Tucci and Oliver Platt as cruise - ship stowaways; «Rushmore,» with Jason Schwartzmann as a prep schooler who is a lousy student but hyperactive in campus activities; Cameron Diaz in «Very Bad Things,» about a bachelor party that ends in murder; Cate Blanchett as «Elizabeth,» the story of England's 16th century monarch, and «The Judas Kiss,» with FBI agent Emma Thompson on the trail of the kidnapper of a computer genius.

With a high - profile cast, in addition to a screenplay co-written by Bogdonavich and ex-wife Louise Stratten, the project — in which Wilson plays a Broadway director who falls in love with a prostitute — holds the potential to realize some of Bodgdonavich's old school charm with a fresh set of faces.

The film finds dramatic visuals, an invaluable and often challenging part of any documentary, for its conclusion, as the profiled families attend public lotteries where they hope to beat the long odds of getting into a high - performing charter school whose applicants may outnumber its vacancies by more than ten times.

There were also many high - profile speakers, including U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan; Harlem Children Zone CEO Geoffrey Canada, Ed.M» 75; and Harvard University President Drew Faust, as well as musical performances by Yo - Yo Ma, students from Conservatory Lab Charter School, and Familiarevolution featuring Janelle Bechdol, Ed.M» 14.

Despite some high - profile incidents — like the teacher «sick - out» which shut down 53 of Detroit's 235 schools last spring — strikes by teachers have become increasingly rare since 1975, a high - water mark, when there were 241 nationwide.

A case study by Meredith Liu titled «Cisco Networking Academy: Next - generation assessments and their implications for K — 12 education» released yesterday by the Clayton Christensen Institute profiles how the Academy, a comprehensive online training curriculum offered to third - party education institutions to help high school and college students acquire the fundamental skills needed to design, build, and troubleshoot computer networks, uses technology today to deliver assessments in ways starkly different from our current education system.

TEACH, a new film by Waiting for Superman director Davis Guggenheim, profiles four very different elementary, middle, and high school teachers and their public school classrooms.

Her relationship to the school began when her late husband Francis Keppel, then only 32 years old, was tapped by Harvard President James Bryant Conant to be the school's fourth dean and was given the task of organizing and increasing the profile of a school that was younger than he was.

Famed business - school thinker Clayton Christensen was splendidly profiled in The New Yorker a few weeks back, which set me to reflecting on his influential meditation on K - 12 education, Disrupting Class, the 2008 book (co-authored with Michael Horn and Curtis Johnson) that startled the edu - cracy with its bold prediction that half of all high school courses will be delivered online by 2019 and its explanation that technology will produce the «disruptive innovation» in education that previous reform efforts have failed to bring about.

You can learn about teachers across the globe by checking out our «Education Everywhere» video series, which profiles high - achieving international education systems and model schools.

The contentious years ahead were the subject of a high - profile book by former Washington Post reporter Dale Russakoff, The Prize: Who's in Charge of America's Schools, which was published just as Cerf became superintendent.

Every teacher who registers with Digital Wish creates a profile that includes personal interests, school information, and a wish list of products sold by the Vermont - based organization's partner vendors.

It was designed for use by the whole school (Foundation to Y6) and the aim was the develop reasoning and raise the profile of maths in the school.

But they think it can be salvaged by following the good examples of schools they profile in the absorbing and instructive latter half of the book.

But we already have selective - admissions magnet schools (of the sort profiled recently by Checker Finn and Jessica Hockett in Exam Schools) and I don't remember many reformers calling for their aboschools (of the sort profiled recently by Checker Finn and Jessica Hockett in Exam Schools) and I don't remember many reformers calling for their aboSchools) and I don't remember many reformers calling for their abolition.

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Schools are then able to search the detailed profiles by availability, subjects taught, experience and location and will also have access to video recorded CVs.

The schools, all but a few in New York City, had fought a high - profile battle backed by officials of the New York City district to avoid the English exam.

However, as we have all become more aware since the recent high - profile security issues faced by public organisations and large companies, e-safety isn't just about having anti-virus software in place; it is vital to ensure a school's complete internet infrastructure is appropriate and secure.