Sentences with phrase «won national acclaim»

He has won relief for dozens of condemned prisoners, argued five times before the Supreme Court, and won national acclaim for his work challenging bias against the poor and people of color.

The 87,499 - student Long Beach Unified School District has won national acclaim for its students» academic performance.

He expanded school choice, he intervened in struggling schools, he pushed for teacher evaluations and revamped A-F letter grades — and he won national acclaim in some circles for doing so.

Ousted from Hardy under controversial circumstances by former DCPS Chancellor Michelle Rhee, Pope later adopted a similar approach at Savoy Elementary in Ward 8 and won national acclaim.

Horry County — a diverse, high - poverty district with over 40,000 students — won national acclaim for its transformation under Dr. Elsberry's leadership, and was rated as one of South Carolina's highest - performing school districts.

5 years from now when he's out there winning national acclaim how do you explain why you passed on him.

Re - conceptualizing graduate education as job - embedded, practice - centered, and inquiry - focused, this graduate program went on to win national acclaim when it was selected as the top program in the country by the Association of Teacher Educators.

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Vice has documented migrant worker abuses in Dubai, won acclaim for a documentary while embedded with Islamic State and garnered widespread attention when it took former National Basketball Association star Dennis Rodman to North Korea.

We now have over one hundred franchises from coast to coast, which have won local and national acclaim.

Moreover, Rickman remains clear about his first love being the theater, so he won a Tony in Noel Coward's Private Lives, he has directed several plays, he starred opposite Helen Mirren in Antony and Cleopatra at London's National Theatre, and, in recent years, he has brought acclaimed productions of Strindberg's Creditors and Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman to America.

Her television credits include The New Mad Men, which won the Imagen Award for Best National Informational Program for Maria Hinojosa's acclaimed PBS series, America by the Numbers.

«The Social Network,» the acclaimed drama about how Harvard computer nerds created the social networking site Facebook, had been the front - runner during the awards season, winning countless critics honors, including the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn., New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics awards as well as the Golden Globe for dramatic film.

Since graduating from the UK's National Film and Television School, Ramsay had won the short film Jury prize at Cannes for her graduating short Small Deaths (1996), and her second, Kill the Day (1996), won the Prix du Jury award for best film at France's acclaimed Clermont - Ferrand International Short Film Festival.

Thom Markham, Ph.D., President of GlobalRedesigns, and Senior National Faculty member at the Buck Institute for Education, is a psychologist and educator who served as a Director with Active Learning, Inc., an innovative motivational and learning skills camp program for high school and college students, taught at an award - winning high school, where he led school reform efforts and developed a highly - acclaimed internship - based program, and co-founded the Marin School of Arts and Technology, an innovative charter high school in Novato, California.

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling and National Book Award — winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming delivers her first adult novel in twenty years.

Whaley's Where Things Come Back might just be the most acclaimed YA novel that was published in 2011: It won the 2012 Printz Award, the 2012 William C. Morris Debut Fiction Award and Whaley was the first - ever YA author to be selected as a «Top 5 Under 35 Author» by the National Book Foundation.

He is the author of the critically acclaimed Drown; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and This Is How You Lose Her, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist.

The first African American chemist inducted into the National Academy of Sciences, scientific inventor Percy Lavon Julian won acclaim for his landmark work synthesizing human hormones — and his civil rights contributions.

Cold Mountain, his highly acclaimed first novel, was an international bestseller, and won the National Book Award in 1997.

Steven James is a national bestselling novelist whose award - winning, pulse - pounding thrillers continue to gain wide critical acclaim and a growing fan base.

The Cary Arms Inn at Babbacombe, the South Sands Hotel at Salcombe and the Riviera Apartments in Teignmouth have all opened to great acclaim and have won rave national reviews for their luxurious and chic seaside charm.

Restaurants have quickly moved into the old Meatpacking District and established national acclaim, such as the Girl and the Goat, the Publican, Moto, and Next, Grant Achatz's follow - up restaurant to his award - winning Alinea.

This literary and performing arts series for all ages at the Dallas Museum of Art features award - winning authors and performers of regional, national, and international acclaim.

Her best - selling and critically acclaimed memoir Hold Still (Little, Brown, 2015) won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and was named a finalist for the National Book Award.

What a wonderful idea - animators, anime artists and designers who have been inspired by the film My Neighbor Totoro joined together to help preserve precious forest just 40 km (24 miles) north west of Tokyo: a fund raising exhibition / auction to support the national trust Totoro Forest Foundation that Oscar winning film maker Hayao Miyazaki has been helping over the years, featuring original art created by internationally acclaimed artists in the fields of animation, comic books, and illustration.