Sentences with phrase «work on a national scale»

This works on a national scale too, not just a local level.

For Obama, trusting volunteers to communicate face - to - face with local voters, opinion leaders and the media was a natural extension of his community - organizing ethos — but it was online technology that made it work on a national scale.

We want to uplift that local work on a national scale on Jan 21,» Bland added.

In the fight over how to close the racial achievement gap in education, you rarely hear about the only policy that's ever worked on a national scale: desegregation.

Related: Opinion There's one education reform proven to work on a national scale, so why aren't we trying it?

«Being recognized as best in class for this work on a national scale is extremely gratifying.»

Some providers work on a local scale while others work on a national scale.

It works on a national scale — think of urban centres compared to rural areas in Australia.

Not exact matches

Once sufficient evidence is gained on what works and what doesn't, a new national law might be constructed to bring the best performing models to national scale.

Kate Mitchell, managing director at the venture capital firm Scale Venture Partners and a co-chairwoman of a National Venture Capital Association task force on diversity, said her group was working with Project Include because of its tech - centric, start - up approach to sharing data and information with other participants.

He wrote in a statement: «Particularly in areas where community resources have been stretched to the limit, the activities and services run by churches provide a lifeline to those in need, so it is important that we continue to champion the work our nation's churches continue to deliver locally on a national scale.»

What Lasch adds to this picture is that married women's large - scale entry into the workplace coincided with the shift to an economy that «depended on work that had no other object than to keep people at work and thus to sustain the national capacity to consume, which in turn sustained production, which sustained... an approximation of full employment» all without reference to the intrinsic quality of the goods and services produced or the intrinsic satisfaction of the work that went into them.»

11:30 - home secretary Theresa May, before home affairs committee, on: Policing Large Scale Disorder, The work of the National Crime Agency

With a grant from the National Institute on Aging, she launched another search for yeast strains with defective telomere maintenance, but on a far larger scale than in her postdoctoral work.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory is working on a small - scale reactor, and Westinghouse has been working on an advanced Generation IV small reactor, the International Reactor Innovative and Secure, which is under review at NRC.

«It's very challenging to go from something that works on the bench to something that works on a large - scale,» comments David E. Chavez, a chemist at Los Alamos National Laboratory who was not involved in the research.

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore and the U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Lab are now working on enhancements to the capture process to bring the technology to scale.

Some cities, especially in the developing world, simply don't have access to the kind of data needed for a comprehensive inventory; Maleki says he often works in places where the only emissions data available are on a national scale.

A working group advising the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on chimpanzee research today urged that the agency sharply scale back biomedical and behavioral studies involving these animals.

His research on leadership focuses on issues of scaling up innovations from local to widespread use, and his work in policy centers on state and national level educational improvement strategies.

As vice president, Gray not only advises The Mind Trust's president and CEO on issues of strategy and operations and advances the policy work, he also leads the effort to help this Indianapolis - based and - focused organization build a national network of city - based organizations that will work together to support education entrepreneurs as they scale to new markets across the country.

The paper grew out of their work on a National Academy of Education steering committee, chaired by Singer, that studied the purposes, methods, and policy uses of so - called international large - scale assessments, or ILSAs — tests like the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) or the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS).

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The team at ACER UAE is highly experienced in the management and administration of large - scale national and international surveys, through their work on the UAE National Assessment Program for the past six cycles and the administration of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) and ePIRLS, and Programme for International Student Assessment in the UAE in both Arabic and national and international surveys, through their work on the UAE National Assessment Program for the past six cycles and the administration of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) and ePIRLS, and Programme for International Student Assessment in the UAE in both Arabic and National Assessment Program for the past six cycles and the administration of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) and ePIRLS, and Programme for International Student Assessment in the UAE in both Arabic and English.

Ms. Bai works on research projects analyzing national and international large - scale datasets, including the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and Program for International Student Assessmentnational and international large - scale datasets, including the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and Program for International Student AssessmentNational Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and Program for International Student Assessment (PISA).

And while teachers on the upper scale working in the national framework have to wait two years before their pay is reviewed, we are introducing annual incremental increases, to recognise teacher performance in the year it has been achieved.

We don't get a chance very often to share experiences about what works and what doesn't and this is an opportunity on a national scale,» Punter said.

When finding the right hard money lender, it is best to start on a statewide search and work up to a national scale if needed.

Research conducted by the TCC Group, a national program and evaluation firm, found that organizations operating as Service Enterprises outperform peer organizations on all aspects of organizational effectiveness, and are more adaptable, sustainable and capable of scaling their work.

Following his position with the ASPCA, and 20 years at North Shore Animal League, Mike worked as an adoptions consultant on a national and international scale until he accepted the position of President of Helen Woodward Animal Center (the «Center») in 1999.

«Using only palette knives, acrylic paint and canvas, I started on a journey of creating 10 large - scale portraits using the authorized work of National Geographic photographers Cristina Mittermeier and Martin Schoeller, along with renowned environmental photographer Art Wolfe.»

The exhibition will also feature his flip - book film, Second - hand Reading (2013), a series of mural - scale tapestries based on his opera production of Shostakovich's The Nose and a set model which reveals his working process on the opera production Lulu (2016), which he will direct at English National Opera this November.

Other works featured in LIVESupport include «Church State,» a two - part sculpture comprised of ink - covered church pews mounted on wheels; «Ambulascope,» a downward facing telescope supported by a seven - foot tower of walking canes, which are marked with ink and adorned with Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) of the spinal column; «Riot Gates,» a series of large - scale X-Ray images of the human skull mounted on security gates and surrounded by a border of ink - covered shoe tips, objects often used by the artist as tenuous representation of the body; «Role Play Drawings» a series of found black and white cards from the 1960s used for teaching young children, which Ward has altered using ink to mark out the key elements and reshape the narrative, which leaves the viewer to interpret the remaining psychological tension; and «Father and Sons,» a video filmed at Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network House of Justice, which comments on the anxiety and complex dialogue that African - American police officers are often faced with when dealing with young African - American teenagers.

Also on view are maquettes used to develop Calder's large - scale works, including Cafritz Fountain [maquette](1966), a sheet metal and paint study for the iconic Gwenfritz (1968) currently at the Smithsonian's National Museum of America History.

Although these artists are known on a national scale, they will introduce new work to Nashville in this exciting group show...

Other Photo - Text works continue the National City paintings on a larger scale, while in A 1968 Painting (1966 - 68) Baldessari photographically appropriates a work of art, a painting by Frank Stella, and includes an eponymous and self - descriptive text below.

This exhibition includes a new large - scale work entitled «Jokes on You,» featuring images of ephemera from the collections of the National Museum of American History, which was part of Rafferty's study during her Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship.

His interpretation of African identity on a national and global scale bears equally empowering and vulnerable works that at the same time deliver a vivid perspective on sculpture genre in the United States for the last five decades.

Eric and Jean's decision to gift over 300 works from their collection to the Contemporary Art Society for gifting to UK museums shows their engagement with the arts and their commitment to philanthropy on a national scale.

According to a Crystal Bridges spokesperson: «Many of the artists in the exhibition have not had work exhibited on a national scale before so in order to respect their preferences for publicity, we're working with them to share their involvement in the formats with which they are most comfortable.»

The exhibition features his flip - book film, a series of mural - scale tapestries based on his opera production of Shostakovich's The Nose and a set model which reveals his working process on the opera production Lulu, which he will direct at English National Opera this November.

Three of the works are film pieces: The Refusal of Time (2012) and O Sentimental Machine (2015), which have never previously been exhibited in the United Kingdom, and Second - hand Reading (2013), a series of mural - scale tapestries based on his opera production of Shostakovich's The Nose and a set model for the opera production Lulu (2016), which Kentridge will direct at the English National Opera in November 2016.

For her commission at Studio Voltaire, Calero has worked in residency in the gallery for six weeks creating a large - scale installation based on the Caribbean community of Los Roques, a Venezuelan National Park situated in the Caribbean Sea.

In her second solo exhibition with Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles - based artist Rosson Crow explores memory, history, and the visual cues of U.S. national identity in a series of large - scale works on canvas.

Sandi has been accepted into and won awards at many local and national juried shows, held a solo show of her abstract works, «Urban Edge,» in 2016, and was commissioned in 2016 to paint two abstracts for a large - scale permanent public art installation as part of the «Art Walls» project in Crystal City, Arlington, VA, on view at 12th St. and Army - Navy Drive.

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Green worked at a national firm on large scale complex litigation matters and gained extensive experience in electronically stored information protocol.

While some work on a small scale and cater only to Yorba Linda renters, others are national companies that handle claims across the state of California as well as across the country.

She is currently working on the implementation research and impact analyses for the Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation (MIHOPE), a large - scale national evaluation of home visiting programs that intend to prevent child maltreatment and improve maternal and child health, parenting skills, and child development outcomes.

Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning CASEL supports district - wide social - emotional learning (SEL) programs; conducts research and evaluation; works with program providers to strengthen their capacity as they respond to growing demand; develops tools to support SEL on a national scale; advances state - of - the - art assessment; develops clear, powerful messages and strategic communications about SEL and its impact; and advocates for federal and state legislation.

The Alliance is interested in: providing planning grants to cities or counties working on high - quality early learning advocacy and policies, supporting and brokering TA from our national network of experts to assist them, and connecting advocates, leaders, and policymakers at the local and state levels to plan for sustainability and scale.