Sentences with phrase «schools compete»

About Blog The Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (EIVA) is a college athletic conference whose member schools compete in men's volleyball.

About Blog The Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (EIVA) is a college athletic conference whose member schools compete in men's volleyball.

100 % GRADUATION Our schools compete with each other for a 100 % graduation - that means everyone passes on the day of testing - It's not easy when you have huge classes so bragging rights are due.

Students whose schools compete in the Vis Moot will benefit to an even greater extent, though sadly not all schools will find the funding to travel to Hong Kong.

On average, approximately 40 schools compete in the local tournament each year.

An article in yesterday's The Globe and Mail «Ontario Schools Compete for Law Faculties» outlines the efforts of three Ontario universities in trying to set up the first Canadian law school in almost thirty years.

But there was also plenty of talk of innovation on the law school front, with an extensive call for change at MauledAgain and a «radical» proposal to make law schools compete on price at MinnLawyer Blog.

For the environmental programmes, you will also be lodged in Santa Teresa in the heart of the Mata Atlantica (Tijuca national park), the world's largest urban subtropical rainforest, it provides ready access to the Christ statue of Corcovado as well as to the city centre, sambadromo (the place where the samba schools compete) and beautiful beaches.

About Blog The Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (EIVA) is a college athletic conference whose member schools compete in men's volleyball.

GPAs keep rising as schools compete to keep students and parents happy.

Yet when schools compete against one another, they cooperate less.

More funding for charter schools has been a contentious issue because both traditional public schools and charter schools compete for the same limited pot of education dollars from the state.

The result is a sometimes chaotic environment in which schools compete with each other for students and staff and rarely share ideas or resources.

Cox's ideas on education are underdeveloped but echo Education Secretary Betsy DeVos's calls for more parent choice and making schools compete for students.

I will happily admit that we currently are failing to provide that, but the answer to that challenge is not to be found in carving up our genuinely inadequate resources and spreading them without oversight into a maze of providers who are not equally accountable with the schools they compete with.

So schools compete with each other to provide better facilities — a state - of - the - art theatre or Olympic size pools.»

As described in yesterday's Journal Sentinel, in his new book, UW - Oshkosh Professor Michael Ford describes a system in which public schools, private schools, and charter schools all compete for the same students and resources with what often seems like more concern for increasing their share of enrollment than for the overall outcomes achieved by students.

TIME.com — Making schools compete for federal aid is more feasible than an all - out assault on the powerful higher education lobby.

Jack A. Chambless calls for letting schools compete for students and ending segregation by economic status.

But it warns of an «increase in stratification» and says «there is a risk that parents select schools based on peer groups, where schools compete to attract particular groups of people, where barriers to choice result in segregation».

When schools compete for students, education gets better.

In our Healthy High School program, high schools compete against one another based on healthy choices students make.

How can private schools compete for staff members, given these differences between the settings and the expectations?

In the competitive, market - based view of public education, schools compete by promoting a brand that will appeal to certain kinds of students.

For KIPP — and Democracy Prep — the takeover offered a rare opportunity to walk into a ready - made school, complete with students and a fully furnished, light - filled building in a city where schools compete for students and high - quality facilities for charter schools are scarce.

Instead, to drive improvement, Mr. Romney would have schools compete for students in a more market - based approach to quality.

Imagine with me a Mississippi where schools compete for students.

Schools compete against each other for prestige and prizes.

Together, we can work to create a system where schools compete for top teachers, the achievement gap disappears, and all children — no matter their economic situations — have access to a quality public education.

As more schools compete for limited educational resources, a takeover school at North Division will divide communities against themselves.

The most powerful way to incentivize evidence - based decision - making in education would be a system of delivery in which schools compete for students and their funding and in which the jobs and compensation of school employees and managers are conditional on their success in attracting and retaining students.

As a result, schools compete against many outside things that students can also hire to help them do those two things.

Independent private schools compete for students; they represent about 15 percent of enrollments nationally and more than 25 percent in major metropolitan areas.

Increasingly, the foundation became intrigued by different ways to organize schools, including the so - called «portfolio model,» in which different types of independent schools compete for students and must demonstrate results.

Edward Fiske and Helen Ladd's When Schools Compete builds on this resemblance to draw lessons from New Zealand's experience that will help Americans mimic its successes and avoid its flaws if we quickly move toward a major expansion of charters and choice.

When Schools Compete: A Cautionary Tale examines the history of school reform in New Zealand, an island nation with 3.6 million people, roughly the same as South Carolina.

In other words, charter schools compete with district schools for students.

The problem for entrepreneurs is that for - profit schools compete at a disadvantage against not only public schools but many nonprofit schools as well.

This assumption underlies each of the articles in your «When Schools Compete» Forum (Winter 2001).

Meanwhile, Jabbar's finding that most schools compete in less - than - impressive ways rings true, but that is largely a product of the incoherent incentives in K - 12 choice settings (see here for an extended discussion) rather than evidence that «competition doesn't work» — which seems to be the take of some observers and outlets.

- Edward B. Fiske, a former education editor at the New York Times, is co-author, with Helen F. Ladd, of When Schools Compete: A Cautionary Tale (Brookings, 2000).

This is unfortunate given the fact that the costs of current pension plans are a huge source of fiscal stress in many states, and that a more modern, mobile, and cheaper retirement benefit plan could better help public schools compete for academically talented young (and mobile) college graduates.

The third pattern is a set of disputes about whether charter schools and conventional public schools compete on a level playing field.

About Site - The Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (EIVA) is a college athletic conference whose member schools compete in men's volleyball.

Basketball is just one of the sports in which these schools compete.

With more MBA programs than ever before serving a record number of students — about 10,000 students are registered in Canadian MBA programs this year, up from 4,800 in 1998 — specialization has become a defining trend, helping schools compete for the best students, and graduates compete for the best jobs.

Jonah James, a 7th Grade student at Pleasanton Middle School competed at the USA Gymnastics Junior Olympic...

«Last year we had 42 high schools competing and this year we have 70!»

As students at the United States Navy's elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class, one daring young pilot learns a few things from a civilian instructor that are not taught in the classroom.

It's great that so many schools are rated as «Outstanding» by Ofsted, but how will one outstanding school compete with another outstanding school when trying to attract the most talented staff?»