By contrast, the Charles Mingus High School Competition and Festival was founded only in 2008.
And it is also consistent with previous work from David Card et al on school competition in Canada.
This year, 17-year-old Viviana Risco beat out 39 other finalists in the prestigious high school competition, sometimes called the junior Nobel Prize.
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Far from fearing private-school competition, the city's public system has embraced it: it has already absorbed three private religious schools (two Christian, one Hebrew).
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World Water Day 2004: public outreach programme, secondary school essay competition, radio programme, expositions with literature, hydrologic models, etc.
That proposal is probably the most complicated means any state has developed to try to even out public and private school playoff competition.
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In announcing the winners of what it billed as the "world's largest high school research competition, " Intel cited Khare for recognizing "the crucial need for energy-efficient storage devices" as the world rapidly adopts portable electronics.
Afterward, the finalists embraced like the old friends that they are, having met via organized jazz programs: Mr. Stranahan and Mr. Brown met through the Brubeck Institute, and Mr. Ross at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Essentially Ellington high-school band competition.
We need to shake up failed school bureaucracies with competition, empower parents with choice.
Obama and Rachael Ray will host a cooking competition between school chefs to highlight the new healthier school lunches.
In the third quarter, we anticipate a weaker-than-expected recovery in demand for PC DRAM due to lackluster back-to-school orders and intensifying competition.
This competition exposes high school students interested in careers in engineering to the needs of people with disabilities.
Because this is a competition that every school in America can win.
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We hope KIPP expansion will spur healthy competition and cause school districts nationwide to raise the quality of educational offerings for young people like Rocio Mendoza.
Even now competition at the school for places remains stiff.
Now in its third year, the National STEM Video Game Challenge is a competition among middle school and high school kids who design their own video games.
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At the premier academic contest the 2011 Intel Science Talent Search, I found through interviews that 70 percent of the high school student finalists in the competition were the children of immigrants.
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In 1993 the city of Strasbourg won an international competition to host the school.
For example, we recently honored talented high school artists in the Congressional Art Competition.
The school-choice movement is about competition between schools, and about giving parents the right to pick any one they want.
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For example, since 1996, Jazz at Lincoln Center has staged "Essentially Ellington, " an annual competition among high-school bands across the country centered around Ellington's music.
And this support will not only reaffirm our commitment to states engaged in serious reform, it will also expand the Race to the Top competition to include local school districts that are also committed to change.
Bopara is the role-model for the next generation - a boy who scrambled 10 team-mates together from his inner London state school to enter a Capital Kids competition run by the Lord's Taverners, which they won.
It is a popular concept -- earlier this year, students at Columbia Business School took part in a pitch competition in which the pleas for investment were actually delivered in an elevator, although these were filmed rather than having all the judges crammed inside as well.
Over-unionised and unaccountable, America's school system needs the same sort of competition that makes its universities the envy of the world.
That's due in part to Hack Night, an active cybersecurity club and an annual hacking competition each fall that the school bills as the largest in the country.
Liberty's Web courses face strong competition from the Christian online school Grand Canyon University (10, 000 students), acquired a couple of years ago by Significant Education, a Phoenix, Ariz. private equity group.
Liberty's Web courses face strong competition from the Christian online school Grand Canyon University (10, 000 students), acquired a couple of years ago by Significant Education, a Phoenix, Arizona private equity group.
Government funding of our current school system leaves little room for innovation or competition by private schools.
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