Sentences with phrase «schools than with»

The charter school approval process should be designed to ensure that all charter schools opening in North Carolina have more in common with the best charter schools than with those that have failed and closed.

• Black, white and Hispanic parents express higher satisfaction with private schools than with schools in both the charter and district sectors, but Asian parents do not.

We observe lower levels of satisfaction with charter schools than with private schools.

But if the public thinks better of local public schools than it does of those in the nation as a whole, it is definitely more satisfied with local private schools than with public ones.

Parents are still relatively more satisfied with their children's school than with the nation's schools, but gradually social concern has been building about the quality of education for all.

Their stories noted that they at times spent more hours at school than with their families, paid for supplies out of their own pockets, and cut their own salaries to balance budgets.

One study found that students from families with above - average parent involvement were 30 percent more successful in school than those with below - average involvement.

Not exact matches

I'd like to say I was smarter than my competitors, but I competed with guys who went to the Ivy League schools and they went to Harvard and Yale and Wharton over the years,» he says.

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:

A hybrid of «Oakland» and «Amsterdam,» the organization is much more than a school, it's a movement, replete with a museum, club, and other amenities that make it prime for learning.

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

Education debt is supposed to help you get a job with a better salary than you would get with a high school diploma.

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.

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.

According to a study from the Harvard Business School, guests with «distinctly African - American names» were 16 % more likely to be rejected by prospective hosts than guests with distinctly white names.

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.

Eighty - six percent of employed millennial college graduates are more likely than those with a high school diploma or less to say they have found a «career.»

As Bloomberg notes, rival apparel companies like Under Armour (UA) and Adidas (ADS) are likely to enter the bidding for the lucrative Texas contract — which could be worth more than $ 15 million per year — once it comes up for grabs, which means Nike will face some fierce competition if it wants to keep doing business with the school.

Most parents are aware that over the course of an adult's working life, high school graduates can expect, on average, to earn $ 1 million less than those with a bachelor's degree and are 50 percent more likely to be unemployed.

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.

This past summer, more students than ever spurned traditional summer internships to pursue their own startup dreams, sometimes with the funding and encouragement of their business schools.

Why do those with besties end up better off than those who win high school popularity contests?

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The zone now covers over 100 blocks and serves more than 12,000 children, with 95 % of high school seniors going off to college.

Jennifer and Devereaux Jennings, married professors with the University of Alberta School of Business, have been studying work - life balance among entrepreneurs for more than a decade.

We spend more time with the people we work with than almost anyone else, but nothing in school or family really prepares you to handle those business relationships.

With just 10 employees, Chalk.com is used in more than 20,000 schools worldwide and by 100,000 teachers.

For years, some business schools have gotten away with just providing a textbook education but companies are looking for more than facts and figures.

Last June, the internet giant debuted its Made with Code campaign in an effort to get young women excited about computer science — a field that less than one percent of high school girls think of as part of their future.

Instead, we're teaching those students that we still think of schools as industrial - style factories with a premium on rote memorization and repetition rather than rigorous reasoning and problem solving.

University of Michigan's Ross School plans to start a new executive MBA program in Los Angeles, joining a saturated market with more than a dozen similar programs.

UCLA has made an impact in the business world as well, with more than 140 companies originating from technology developed at the school.

Other schools with better - than - expected numbers include UC - Berkeley's Haas School and the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business.

Not to mention, an MBA from UT Austin comes with a network of more than 92,000 McCombs School of Business alumni around the world, bonding graduates to a lifelong community.

UChicago's undergraduate program is recognized for preparing students to continue on to graduate school, with more than 15 % of undergraduates eventually earning a Ph.D..

Through a revenue share agreement with the schools, 2U will make more than half of that.

• Has invested more than $ 10 million in STEM education programs for girls in elementary through high schools across the US, with partners Code.org, Black Girls Code, Institute of Play, and Digital Promise.

And more than 37 percent of immigrant business owners haven't even finished high school, compared with 16 percent of native - born owners.

As a group, public universities in the top 40 performed better than their private counterparts, growing total assets by 44.5 percent compared with 24.7 percent for private schools between the 2008 and 2014 fiscal years.

MBAs out of UCLA's Anderson School of Management, with an average burden of $ 88,654, now owe roughly $ 5,000 more than the grads of private Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Sterling spent the next year creating the toy, studying gender differences and cognitive development in children, writing a business plan and doing in - home testing with a prototype with more than 100 boys and girls in three schools and more than 40 homes.

The SBI program, sponsored by the U.S. Small Business Administration, pairs more than 500 business schools with small companies nationwide.

The good news is: storytelling online is far cheaper, with less risk, than old - school traditional marketing.

Several major U.S. companies have dropped their associations with the National Rifle Association in the last few days, less than two weeks after a 19 year old with a semi-automatic rifle killed 17 people in a high school in Florida.

To me, a legit LinkedIn profile from someone who lives in a far off or dangerous place (like New Jersey) that is completely filled out with jobs and schools and has connections with more than 500 people, including a few in my network and follows a few smart thought leaders that I admire, like Richard Branson.

But according to a recent poll conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and NPR, Americans with health issues are more likely to experience a great deal of stress than anyone else.

What was being provided in some cases, was little better than eating gruel, with Boulder Valley seeing an 85 percent rejection rate of their school lunches!

Student Loan Hero collected data for 670 private colleges and universities and listed the top - ranked schools where grads end up with less than $ 20,000 in debt — and often a lot less:

«A more balanced news feed might lead to less «engagement,» but Facebook, with a market capitalization of more than $ 300 billion and no competitor in sight, can afford this,» wrote Tufekci, an associate professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.