Sentences with phrase «small city gate»

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He serves as the executive chairman of Better Finance / SmartBiz, a small business lending marketplace he founded as an entrepreneur - in - residence at Venrock; the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's nominated director of bKash, Bangladesh's leading remittance network; and a director of River City Bank in Sacramento.

The superpatient person is like one who has a very serious illness, who has come through the most dangerous phase of the illness yet later unexpectedly dies from a sudden relapse of fever; the fever was finally the cause of death.15 Again, the superpatient person is like a soldier who has had a great victory in the field — the main battle is over; going into the city thinking the victory already secured, the negligent soldier is stupidly captured by a small, insignificant force within the gates.

He swings through small spaces to open the unenterable gates (breaking the city's thousand - year non-breaching streak).

Indeed, though the Gates Foundation would move on to other things, Smerdon and Borman had, in effect, suggested why New York City's small - schools program has worked: academic instruction.

With the support of the Gates Foundation, New York City created 150 small schools of choice between 2002 and 2008.

Earlier this year, Peter Meyer described the efforts of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to fix high schools in New York City by converting large high schools into smaller schools.

A 2010 MDRC report funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation looked at the 123 «small schools of choice,» or SSCs, that have opened in New York City since 2002.

New York City became a poster child of the initiative when New York school chancellor, Joel Klein, accepted Gates dollars and began, in 2002, to create 123 «small high schools of choice.»

The scale and rapidity of the changes were grounded in the conviction of the New York City Department of Education, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and other key local stakeholders that small schools could more effectively meet the academic and socioemotional needs of disadvantaged students.

With funding from the Gates Foundation, three reports are being released on the implementation of the City's small school reforms.

A third report, Small High Schools at Work: A Case Study of Six Gates - Funded Schools in New York City, from the Academy for Educational Development, takes a close look a handful of these new small schools, focusing on particular practices associated with student success: intermediary support, personal and academic support, effective instructional practices, and college preparaSmall High Schools at Work: A Case Study of Six Gates - Funded Schools in New York City, from the Academy for Educational Development, takes a close look a handful of these new small schools, focusing on particular practices associated with student success: intermediary support, personal and academic support, effective instructional practices, and college preparasmall schools, focusing on particular practices associated with student success: intermediary support, personal and academic support, effective instructional practices, and college preparation.

A second report, Approaches of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - Funded Intermediary Organizations to Structuring and Supporting Small High Schools in New York City, prepared by Policy Studies Associates, Inc., examines the roles of 18 intermediary organizations that were funded by the Gates Foundation to start and advise new small schSmall High Schools in New York City, prepared by Policy Studies Associates, Inc., examines the roles of 18 intermediary organizations that were funded by the Gates Foundation to start and advise new small schsmall schools.

Interestingly, these new schools, supported by grants from philanthropist Bill Gates (see Colvin, «The New Philanthropists»), have attracted considerably more controversy than the charter schools, in large part because they played a role in overcrowding and friction at high schools that were not small elsewhere in the city.

Often, as in the case of the Gates Foundation's creation of small high schools to replace large, big - city high schools, they have brought about the opposite of what they intended.

Gates is the leader of education philanthropy in the United States, spending a few billion dollars over more than a decade to promote school reforms that he championed, including the Common Core, a small - schools initiative in New York City that he abandoned after deciding it wasn't working, and efforts to create new teacher evaluation systems that in part use a controversial method of assessment that uses student standardized test scores to determine the «effectiveness» of educators.

A: No, the airport is small and the walk from the front door to your boarding gate is relatively short compared to large city airports.

Last year Theaster Gates held court at the Armory as the fair's commissioned artist, bringing an inner - city school room and welcome dose of social consciousness to the fair, and this year he has a has an unsurprisingly smaller footprint on the Piers — but one that shows him as a savvy object - maker as well as experience engineer.

Council members looked to the success of Copper Valley, which is a smaller - lot, gated subdivision on the city's northern outskirts that is popular.