Sentences with phrase «american academic life»

I wonder whether there is a single Christian in American academic life today who would deny «the virtual establishment of non-belief.»

Turner shares a widespread skepticism about whether the evangelical thinkers will make much of an impact on the large and multifarious worlds of evangelicalism, but of this he is more certain: «That [they have] made, and will continue to make, a substantial mark on American academic life seems indisputable, especially in history, philosophy, and, more recently, sociology.

Not exact matches

New research from the American Management Association reveals that the 4.8 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs who are women come into those positions with more rigorous academic degrees and greater work and life experience than the 95.2 percent who are men.

That story came back to me a decade later at an academic conference when a Scandinavian scholar rose to complain about the pronounced religiosity of American life.

The restoration of theology would greatly enrich the cultural, intellectual and spiritual life of our society, and it would help overcome the gap between the academic and the ministerial, between the scholarly and the pastoral, that so bedevils American theological education.

The process of draining logic and meaning from everything came to full fruition in the 1960s and 1970s, when it began to be felt profoundly in the daily lives of many Americans, with such things as the proliferation of «alternative lifestyles,» the diluting or jettisoning of academic standards at every level, the increasing inability of the legal system to make in practice sufficient or consistent distinctions between victim and victimizer — among many others too familiar to all of us to need spelling out.

The way it has embraced the tensions in American academic and religious life and yet (apparently) not lost the middle way could be an example to all church - related colleges that want to retain, in Robert Benne's phrase, academic quality and soul.

Indeed, many of the contemporary activists and academics most concerned about the marginalization of religion in American public life frame their critiques as issues of free exercise and not establishment.

They respect knowledge gained through lived experience monitored by elders who differ profoundly in social class and worldview from the teachers and education encountered in American academic institutions.

Ryujiro Hara, Ph.D. relates his personal experiences as a Japanese scientist living and working in the USA, noting differences between Japanese and American lab environments, as well as academic and business cultures.

She brings a new twist to the issue of the gap between American minority low - income children and middle - class children; what has engaged her passions and formidable abilities is not the academic gap, though of course she is fully aware of it, but the gap in the ability to participate effectively in the civic life, to influence political choices, the «Civic Empowerment» gap, as she labels it.

They lived in Africa, Central America, and various American towns until settling in Northfield, Massachusetts, where Thomas was academic dean at the prestigious and private Northfield Mount Hermon School, and where his son and daughter would get their world - class educations.

Review: Movies are a huge part of American life, so tying academic lessons into filmmaking is a brilliant way to engage students.

«This is very different from the fallback we've often had for kids — life skills,» Vargas says, referring to the «life adjustment» movement that started in the 1940s that believed the smartest 20 percent of young Americans should have an academic curriculum, 20 percent a vocational curriculum, and the remaining 60 percent — «the sludge in the system,» as Graham says they were known — simple life skills: check writing and personal hygiene, for example.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Charter schools are transforming the lives of African American students by helping them unlock their full academic potential, reach grade - level proficiency, and graduate high school at high rates while prepared for college.

But what is not debatable is that American children's academic achievement is poor in comparison to children living in other wealthy countries.

What Life Was Like at the Turn of the Second Millennium: An American's World By the year 2000, the term «working class» had fallen into disuse in the United States, and «proletariat» was so obsolete it was known only to a few bitter old Marxist academics with wire hair sprouting out of their ears.

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I am one such American who has worked very hard my entire life, and in spite of many academic and professional achievements,

I am one such American who has worked very hard my entire life, and in spite of many academic and professional achievements, I'm crippled by student loan debt.

The academic experts at The American College New York Life Center for Retirement Income relay that a comprehensive retirement income plan should at least address home equity.

For example, according to an American Humane Association study of over 1,200 teachers who received Pets in the Classroom grants, pets: enhance children's senses of empathy, nurturing and respect for life; support the development of strong social skills; promote better school attendance and academic engagement; reduce tension in the classroom; teach children responsibility and leadership skills; and improve confidence and self - esteem.

The selected portraits include cultural and political figures admired by Neel, among them playwright, actor, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr., whose 1945 Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City is among the key academic studies of the African American urban experience in the early twentieth century; the community activist and cultural advocate Mercedes Arroyo; and the academic Harold Cruse, known for known for his widely - published academic book The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967) and for teaching at LeRoi Jones's Black Arts Repertory Theatre / School in Harlem.

Spanning the period between 1828 to 1945, the exhibition opens with the earliest form of American maritime painting — the grand academic - style portraits of graceful sailing ships — and includes waterscapes from the sea to the lakes and rivers of the American heartland, light - flooded impressionist visions of quaint New England seaside towns, and modernist renderings of industrial waterfronts and everyday life on the water

Throughout her teaching career she painted and exhibited academic still lifes and realistic paintings in group shows of African - American artists.

Most climate change communication, like Showtime's Years of Living Dangerously and the American Academy for the Advancement of Science's What We Know campaign, websites like Climate Central and Real Climate, or academic programs like Yale's Project on Climate Change Communication and George Mason University's Center for Climate Change Communication, is predicated on the belief that if people know the facts about climate change and finally understand just how serious the problem is, they will surely raise their voices and demand that our governments and business leaders DO SOMETHING!

Teens who live in the San Joaquin Valley or attend Bullard High School, Central High School East Campus, Central High School West Campus, Clovis North High School, Clovis West High School, Edison High School, DeWolf High School, Duncan Polytechnical High School, Fresno High School, Hoover High School, McLane High School, Roosevelt High School, San Joaquin Memorial High School, Sunnyside High School, University High School, Washington Union High School, Crescent View Charter High Schools, Academy For New Americans, Carter G. Woodson Public Charter, Central Unified Alternative / opportunity, Design Science Early College High School, Erma Duncan Polytechnical High School, Fresno County Community, Fresno Prep Academy, J. E. Young Academic Center, New Millennium Charter, School Of Unlimited Learning, Sierra Charter, Teilman Community Day, Valley Preparatory Academy Charter, W.e.b. Dubois Public Charter, West Park Charter Academy, Central Valley Christian Academy, Emmanuel Learning Center, Faith Baptist Academy, Fresno Adventist Academy, Koinonia Christian School, Souls Harbor Christian Academy, Truth Tabernacle Christian, School, World Harvest Christian Academy, Fresno Christian High School, St. Anthony's School or Sacred Heart School, are eligible for Fresno Driver Education program.

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Some research suggests that the academic deficits associated with living with a single mother are less pronounced for black than for white children.37 One study found that growing up in a single - parent family predicted lower socioeconomic attainment among white women, white men, and black women, but not among black men.38 McLanahan and Sandefur found that white offspring from single - parent families were more likely to drop out of high school than were African American offspring from single - parent families.39 African American children may thus adjust better than white children to life in single - parent families, although the explanation for this difference is not clear.

By working with Raising A Reader, NBCDI aims to improve literacy levels within African American communities by engaging families and helping them develop an at - home literacy routine with proven results that link to academic and life success.

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For example, compared to older mothers, teen mothers display lower levels of verbal stimulation and involvement, higher levels of intrusiveness, and maternal speech that is less varied and complex.47, 48 Mothers with fewer years of education read to their children less frequently25, 49 and demonstrate less sophisticated language and literacy skills themselves, 50 which affects the quantity and quality of their verbal interactions with their children.2 Parental education, in turn, relates to household income: poverty and persistent poverty are strongly associated with less stimulating home environments, 51 and parents living in poverty have children who are at risk for cognitive, academic, and social - emotional difficulties.52, 53 Finally, Hispanic and African American mothers are, on average, less likely to read to their children than White, non-Hispanic mothers; 54 and Spanish - speaking Hispanic families have fewer children's books available in the home as compared to their non-Hispanic counterparts.25 These racial and ethnic findings are likely explained by differences in family resources across groups, as minority status is often associated with various social - demographic risks.

Scholars articulate that positive parenting practices may promote positive perceptions of academic and intellectual competence in the lives of African American adolescents.