Sentences with phrase «schools than in schools»

The results were impressive: hundreds of students moved to proficiency in both math and reading in schools led by NISL EDP graduates and overall achievement scores grew at faster rates in those schools than in schools led by non-NISL graduates.

Moreover, the fact that relative achievement continues to decline after students» initial entry into middle schools suggests that average educational quality in Florida is lower in stand - alone middle schools than in schools serving grades K — 8.

«Some parents, in fact, say they feel more comfortable in academically rigorous, heavily minority schools than in schools with whiter student bodies.»

The students are having much more rich environment for learning outside of school than in the schools.

Not exact matches

The schools that would be taxed have at least 500 students and more than $ 500,000 in endowment per student.

The church - affiliated schools that in 2014 and 2015 obtained exemptions to a law that prohibits sex discrimination in educational settings collectively enroll more than 73,000 students, the Human Rights Campaign said in a report published Friday.

Last year, a high school in Ohio named more than 200 kids in the graduating class «valedictorians» because they didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings.

People today are entering the startup realm with far more formal education and experience in entrepreneurship than ever before, and they're doing so from many of the following schools whose degrees in entrepreneurship you might not have heard about yet:

«To a large extent globally, rather than just the US, there's still an awful lot of experimentation for schools, and in education broadly, to get a grasp on which OS is most appropriate,» Blaber said.

Trump's move comes less than a week after a shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, left 17 people dead.

With 6,900 employers associated with the school — more than any other university in Canada — there's a good chance you'll find a spot.

Today, the patented system is used in more than 5,000 schools districts, therapy centers, hospitals and homes in the United States and Canada.

I will take a candidate who comes in everyday eager to learn and grow than an MBA from an Ivy League school.

The current cohort at the University of Alberta's MBA in natural resources, energy and environment is 10 % larger than the previous one, while the school's Fort McMurray MBA for oilsands workers is up nearly 35 %.

Resource extraction companies are recognizing that helping people in local communities to become entrepreneurs is better than funding local schools or health centres.

Of the nine winners who did report challenges building their startups because of student - loan debt, only three left school owing more than $ 35,000, the average amount for class of 2015 graduates (the highest in U.S. history), according to a report by financial aid resource Edvisors.com.

The oldest law school in Canada, McGill, ranks just under U of T. Its highly regarded law journal is cited by The Supreme Court of Canada more often than any other university - affiliated journal, and McGill law graduates regularly make up a quarter of The Supreme Court's annual clerkships.

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.

He was interested in doing more than just owning buildings; he graduated from Carleton University's School of Architecture in 1997, at the age of 75, and later donated $ 5.5 million to the program.

A Wall Street outsider in every conceivable way — a public school grad, a Texan from a visible minority, a woman — Godiwalla contended with more than the usual challenges when she moved to Manhattan in the»90s and became an analyst in Morgan Stanley's corporate finance group.

«Strategic alliances are definitely becoming crucial in building businesses of all kinds and at an earlier stage than ever before,» says Gene Slowinski, director of strategic - alliance studies at Rutgers University's Graduate School of Management.

At a Thanksgiving dinner party in 2012, four Harvard Business School MBA students had a plan: Rather than spend their upcoming summer interning at big corporations or traveling the world, they were going to drive around the United States consulting entrepreneurs with a social purpose on key business issues.

• Pearson, a U.K. - based educational materials provider, is in talks with a consortium of Asian private equity houses to sell its English - language school unit for more than $ 350 million, according to the Financial Times.

Nowhere is this more true than in the schools.

President Donald Trump on Thursday called for action after the horrific school shooting in Florida the day before that left at least 17 people dead and more than a dozen injured.

Ronald Burt is a sociologist in the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business who for more than 30 years has studied the phenomenon of «structural holes,» i.e., gaps within organizations.

A serial entrepreneur who founded his first company in high school, Smith says he knew better than to «[spill] the money ahead of the customers.»

In reality, the average person would be far better off getting a degree than leaving school the second a half - decent business idea comes to mind.

Social: AFRIpads reaches more than 300,000 African women, helping them stay in school and be productive during their monthly periods.

Sales of school - and college - related items — all those backpacks and binders, tablets and smartphones — brought in more than US$ 80 billion in the U.S. last year.

You'll learn the origin of McDonald's Filet - O - Fish, Harvard Business School's curriculum circa 1910, and that even back in the 1970s, CEOs rarely had more than nine minutes of time to themselves.

When Alexandre Pestov, a strategic consultant and research associate at York University's Schulich School of Business, compared buying a two - bedroom Toronto condominium to renting it over the past 25 years, he found that the renter ended up $ 600,000 richer than the owner if he invested the spare cash in low - risk bonds.

Cohen has long viewed his legal career through a pragmatic rather than high - minded lens, said former Cooley Law School classmate Greg Crockett, now an attorney in Okemos, Michigan.

There has to be way more tank - filling than tank - draining,» says Ruben Nieves, former Stanford University men's volleyball coach and current national director of training for the Positive Coaching Alliance, a nonprofit organization based in Mountain View, Calif., that focuses on teaching and encouraging positive character - building in youth and high school sports.

It comes from my days of making friends based on how I wanted to make them feel rather than show them how smart I was in school (because I wasn't smart at all).

At Chicago, «Ted» Snyder oversaw the move to the school's new Hyde Park campus, brought in the largest donation to any business school in the world — a $ 300 million gift from alumnus David Booth and his family — tripled scholarship assistance to students, and more than doubled the school's endowment.

As The Economist pointed out in 2006, when you look at the cream of capitalism's self - made crop, you are hard - pressed to find anyone who has «done more than deliver a speech at a business school.»

Call it a win for the power of old - school customer service and immediate gratification, the kind that drove more than $ 1.2 trillion in sales during the second quarter of 2014, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce.

More than 16,000 undergraduates participate in the world's largest post-secondary co-operative education program where students alternate school and work terms, gaining experience with employers such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon.

In senior year of high school, Brady said he felt out of place because his teammates were always faster and stronger than he was.

Since Sunday, the #BoycottFedEx hashtag has been included in more than 700 posts on Twitter, including one by Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school student David Hogg that has been shared more than 13,000 times.

If one child decides not to go to school, goes to a cheaper school than expected, gets a full scholarship (more on that in a minute), or for some other reason doesn't use all of the money, you can simply change the beneficiary on the account and give those funds to another child... or even to yourself, if you'd like to go back to school.

More than half of the kids that go through school or pediatric vision screenings every year have vision disorders that go unnoticed, according to the College of Optometrists in Vision Development (COVD), a non-profit, international membership association of eye care professionals.

The OECD has estimated that 44 percent of American workers holding less than a high school degree work in jobs made up of «highly - automatable» tasks, while just 1 percent of Americans holding a bachelor's degree or higher hold such jobs.

One recent (if small study) that followed a diverse group 183 teens who attended public high school for a decade, starting in middle school, found that «by the age of 22, these «cool kids» are rated as less socially competent than their peers.

«When you do outdoor events,» says Russell, who went to high school across the river on 98th Street and played sports on Governors Island's athletic fields as a kid, «you are expected, both contractually and on a personal level, to return the park in the same condition, if not better than, it was in when you first took it over.

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«When I was going to school in Chicago, I got one of these old - school department store cards — and went from getting 10 percent off on jeans to owing more than $ 500 and getting calls from collectors.

So in October 2008, he founded Pencils of Promise, an education nonprofit that's now built more than 200 schools across the globe.

After all, he understands better than anyone how important resources are to veterans transitioning to civilian life: Parsons enlisted in the Marines at age 17, heading to Vietnam straight out of high school.