Sentence examples for academy idea from inspiring English sources

Justice Stein also said the court hoped the academy idea would not get bogged down in squabbling about money.

Many academies have covertly selected pupils for years in ways that the despised state schools that preceded them were not able to do, and then trumpeted improved results as though they were due to the academy idea unleashing dear old Greatness.

Education Elements plans to expand from the 40 schools it was working with last year, including institutions like KIPP LA, Mission Dolores Academy, IDEA Public Schools, Alliance College-Ready Public Schools, and Aspire Public Schools, to 100 schools this fall, and hundreds by 2014.

They discussed funding for Mayor's cable car and academy ideas.

See a chart depiction of our Academy Awards Idea of the Week.

When the filmmaker Bill Forsyth won a lifetime achievement award last year from the Scottish branch of the British film academy, the idea of giving an acceptance speech worried him.

This is rather at odds with the academy's idea of what its annual ceremony is all about: the bestowing of "awards of merit for distinctive achievements" is supposed to be prestigious, dignified, honorable and devoted to the art of cinema -- or at least, you know, to movies.

In the later 20th century, as waves of critical theory broke over the academy, the idea of the canon came under attack on the grounds that it was a club for dead white males, that it excluded much other work of value and interest, that it must be dismantled or at any rate radically revised.

To the members of the academy, whose ideas about the political process are conspiratorial if not downright superstitious, this turn of events proves again that Bob and Harvey Weinstein of Miramax wield dark powers.

During his six years at the academy political ideas began to fascinate him; echoes of the constitutionalist Piedmontese revolution of 1821 reached the school, provoking in some of its members a flash of liberal and national spirit that was, however, immediately extinguished.

Kwong's (2010) study suggests that Career Academies, an idea which was introduced in the 1970s, have the objective of keeping students in school by offering them professional training and preparing them for skilled positions in the labor market.