Sentences with phrase «american academic system»

The American academic system, whose main features have changed little since the 1990s, could not take optimal advantage of either the new ideas or the new people.

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In her book Law and Reorder, published by the American Bar Association in 2010, she describes a legal profession «where the billable hour no longer works»; where attorneys, judges, recruiters, and academics all agree that this system of compensation has perverted the industry, leading to brutal work hours, massive inefficiency, and highly inflated costs.

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.

It maintains the same standards of academic excellence as the traditional Ph.D. while providing a delivery system designed for students currently engaged in missiological work in a North American context.

If it is indeed so that the two - party system delivers more representation to the wealthier and since wealth correlates to better academic qualifications, we can expect more American politicians with a college degree, for example.

It became increasingly important to me to foster these ideas, so it was frustrating to learn that my dream of combining work in clinical medicine and bioethics was not supported by the German system of academic medicine — in contrast to the Anglo - American system and that in other advanced countries.

Early and sustained interventions which strongly feature mentoring are essential in helping Native American and Latino students navigate an unfamiliar academic system that is dominated by majority culture and practices.

In an interview with the newspaper Corriere della Sera, he praised Telethon for introducing American values into the Italian academic system, so that young academics get the credit for the work they perform.

Ahmet Hoke, M.D., Ph.D., professor of neurology, has been named to the board of directors of the American Neurological Association, a professional society of academic neurologists and neuroscientists devoted to advancing the goals of academic neurology, to training and educating neurologists and other physicians in the neurologic sciences, and to expanding the understanding of diseases of the nervous system and the ability to treat them.

This report was prepared by Informa with contributions from leading organisations including Consilium Education, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Fielding Nair International, The Arabian Education and Training Group, AURA Academic Institutions, Kids First Group, Brighton College International Schools, Blossom Nursery / Blossom Early Learning Centre, American University in Sharjah and Nora systems GmbH.

New York — Addressing the federal group charged with recommending ways to improve American education, two researchers last week urged that elementary and secondary schools make tougher academic demands of students and experiment with new tracking systems, while another argued that such in - school factors were more important than has been commonly held in recent years.

They differentiate themselves from those «progressive academics... who see the Obama reforms as destroying American schools» or those who see them «as shoring up a defunct system.»

Without a doubt, I was convinced, he will look at this new flat world, where Americans must compete with people not from their own community or state but from all over the planet, and declare our patchwork education system — with its 50 sets of academic standards and tests — no longer up to the challenges at hand and say that the time has come for rigorous national standards and tests, political obstacles be damned.

«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.

Americans learn a bit more every year about the strengths and shortcomings of the education systems in other countries, thanks to a steady raft of international test data, academic scholarship, and analysis arriving from home and abroad.

The Case Against High School Sports In this article published by The Atlantic author Amanda Ripley, describes the role of high school sports in the American education system, how current resource allocations favor sports over academics and consequences as American students fall behind in international rankings and draws on Marguerite...

The federal government has found black students are three times more likely than whites to be suspended or expelled, a disparity experts say contributes to lower academic achievement among African - American students caught in the discipline system.

Though nominally just a commission report, A Nation at Risk (1983) told Americans that we faced a crisis of educational achievement and began to nudge the country through a 90 - degree change of course from the «equity» agenda of the previous quarter - century to the «excellence» obsession of recent decades, complete with academic standards, tests, and results - based accountability systems.

The $ 4 billion in Race to the Top grants, which seek to reward states for their commitment to reforming teacher effectiveness, data systems, low - performing schools, and academic standards and assessments, are paid for through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passed last year by Congress.

Americans learn a bit more every year about the strengths and shortcomings of the education systems in other countries, thanks to a steady raft of international test data, academic scholarship,...

The Career Readiness Institute is built on the belief that technology innovation and increased academic expectations are necessary for the advancement of the American education system, but it is equally important that our students never lose the capacity for those career ready «soft skills» such as kindness and the ability to communicate in a positive manner.

What you have described as» Tenure» is much more like the system that has built up in American's colleges and universities and is part of what is traditionally called academic freedom.

PRAISE FOR LOCAL EDUCATION COVERAGE: Speaking of Chicago, A new Center on American Progress report highlights academic progress in Chicago schools and credits the nonprofit outlet Catalyst Chicago (now a part of the Chicago Reporter) for translating information about Chicago schools to the school community and providing «intense outside scrutiny» to the school system for roughly 20 years.

In this article published by The Atlantic author Amanda Ripley, describes the role of high school sports in the American education system, how current resource allocations favor sports over academics and consequences as American students fall behind in international rankings and draws on Marguerite Roza's research.

The systems of schooling in Shanghai (China) Finland, Japan, Singapore, and Ontario (Canada) are analyzed, since students in those countries or provinces consistently outperform American students on international tests of academic performance.

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Describing the discussion's impetus, Kaplan cited Europe's kunsthalle system of local, noncollecting museums as a model for what American academic museums could ideally resemble in the future.

With the removal of the word «legal», this could be the definition of the citation system for any academic discipline: the MLA style for the humanities (MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7th ed, Modern Language Association, 2009), the APA style for the social sciences (Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th ed, 2010), or the CSE style for science writers (Scientific Style and Format: The CSE Manual for Writers, Editors and Publishers, 7th ed, Council of Science Editors, 2006).

In 2009, Lakehead University defeated a grievance brought by its faculty association that claimed it had violated faculty members» privacy and right to academic freedom by outsourcing its e-mail system to Google and thereby exposing faculty members» communications to interception by American law enforcement authorities.

Although media and academic sources often describe mass incarceration as the primary challenge facing the American criminal justice system, the imposition of criminal justice debt may be a more pervasive problem.

According to one theory, clinics and health systems in the near future will not bother hiring medical assistants who have graduated from a postsecondary, accredited medical assisting academic program, and who have a medical assisting credential granted by a third - party standardized testing body, such as the Certifying Board of the American Association of Medical Assistants.

In regard to child welfare system involvement, Barth and colleagues (2001) have suggested that the overrepresentation of African - American children may be due to their increased need for child welfare services due to the many poverty - related risk factors that they experience, such as substance abuse, mental health problems, and academic underachievement.

Meena Srinivasan is an Indian - American educator in her fifth year of working in partnership with the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) to implement Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) system - wide in the Oakland Unified School District.