Sentences with phrase «while these students seem»

While these students seem more receptive to biblical study in an academic setting, they represent a curious mix.

Despite intentions to ensure that all learners can be successful, educators seem to be working harder than ever but accomplishing less, while students seem to be more disengaged than ever but longing for more.

The former consider it amusing, he adds, while his students seem to give more weight to the importance of good grooming.

Not exact matches

Paying off your student loans might seem downright impossible, much less working to save for a home while you do so.

While some school administrators may frown on the practice of using borrowed cash for non-school expenses — and taking out student loans for risky investments seems like a great way to graduate with even more debt — per Student Loan Report there aren't any rules agaistudent loans for risky investments seems like a great way to graduate with even more debt — per Student Loan Report there aren't any rules agaiStudent Loan Report there aren't any rules against it.

A few of the many things that jump off of the pages for me are that it doesn't seem to support working families with kids (it REPEALS the up to $ 5,000 exclusion from gross income for dependent care assistance that many working parents use to subsidize the skyrocketing costs of child care while they work) or even those who (like my fantastic law students at UNLV) are pursuing and paying for higher education.

While loan servicers that collect payments on more than $ 1 trillion in student loan debt seem to be getting their collective act together, government regulators continue to keep a sharp eye out for «unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices.»

While I don't doubt that this is a difficult time for many LGBT students, staff, and others who feel alienated right now by InterVarsity, it seems obvious to me that they stand to benefit from this move.

They seem to think their country was somehow founded on their own religion (it wasn't), and, while they'd complain to no end if their kids were required to attend school on Dec 25, they have no problem forcing Muslim students to attend school on their religious holidays.

Really appreciate this budget food section as a student can not afford to cook many of the dishes despite them looking incredibly appetising and while a lot of blogs will do a post with a couple tips for eating healthy within a budget this seems pretty unique — its great to see a practical application of them in recipes and on a recurring basis — if this was any indication of what's in store then i'm super excited!

That's the first use of the term student - athlete we've heard in quite a while that actually seems justified.

While students doing more hours of homework in the Challenge Success research seemed to be more engaged in school, they also suffered from physical health problems, sleep deprivation and a lack of balance in their lives, she said.

Because, despite Miliband's exemplary claim to economic superiority — he was giving economics lectures to students while Cameron was on the opposition backbenches — his association with the last government makes him seem at least partly responsible for getting us into this mess in the first place.

For a while it seemed there was a student reporter for every couple of Lavine supporters.

Following a review of the available evidence and a public discussion involving the program's faculty, staff, and trainees, the exam's ability to predict student performance seems «weak at best» while it significantly disadvantages women, minorities, and students from low socioeconomic backgrounds, writes Scott Barolo, director of the Program in Biomedical Sciences (PIBS), in the announcement.

While that doesn't seem like an ideal combination for great grades, new Concordia research shows that the occasional bout of bad feelings can actually improve students» academic success.

«A lot of the privately educated students are incredibly articulate, and they are able to speak about their discipline... with what seems to be like supreme confidence,» Reay says, noting that it takes a while for working - class students «to recognize that supreme confidence isn't the same as ability.»

While there will always be some inequity in science, it seems like there should be some list of things that we, as supervisors, should be expected to cover for students.

We hope to remind these students that while the feat may seem daunting, they arecapable of changing the statistics of women in science!

After a while a couple of the students start to realize that Whitney is not what he seems.

Based on Gregory Miller's book Public Enemy No. 1, G - Men was reissued in 1949, with an added prologue featuring David Brian as an FBI trainer who advises his students not to laugh at the old - fashioned costumes and slang in the 1935 film; seen today, it is Brian's superfluous opening comments that seem hopelessly dated, while the film itself is as exciting and entertaining as ever.

Principal Vernon assigns each detained student to write a 1,000 - word essay about who they think they are and while that seems like a daunting task to these kids, the average adult viewer would have no difficulty producing a paper for each of these complex youths who are fleshed out by confessions and confrontations.

Whether he's showing Blake binging on whiskey in between puffs from a cigarette but before puking in a trash can in the alley outside the stage or talking with his newfound love about her kid, his inability to take a much - needed favor from his old student, or when he's going to get to see her again before downing some more whiskey while smoking and soon passing out on his bathroom floor, writer / director Scott Cooper seems to only care about the obvious details of Blake's here - and - now life.

While it's not unusual for a scripter to have a long, successful life (after all wrote this forty - four years ago and he's still going strong), but considering that «Strawberry» was a big - budget movie about the late sixties riots at Columbia University, one that showed radical students breaking windows and, I believe, smoking the dean's cigars, that seems too much in the mainstream for the prolific playwright.

It seems to me that we are in a transition period, primarily because we still have a huge digital divide — some students and schools have access to technology resources, while others do not.

While she has increased efficiency by consolidating district schools that have lost students to charter schools, Washington, D.C., schools chancellor Kaya Henderson initially seemed intent on preventing charters from accessing the empty buildings.

While possible redundancy may seem like a reason for not having students post their ideas, producing content offers incredible value.

While we do not have much experience with such policies, they seem like the most feasible way to deal with the problems of schools serving low - income and minority students.

While there are a plethora of reasons for students to drop out, math always seems to come up as one of those levers with my former students.

While opponents of student testing often seem to have the biggest megaphone, polls show an overwhelming majority — 70 percent and up — of parents think tests are a valid measure of their child's achievement level and the quality of schools.

While students» preferred strategy of last - minute cramming seems «smart» (why study every night when you can study just one night?)

Learning best occurs when the student becomes the teacher, and while sharing a project doesn't seem like formal teaching, the experience offers a chance to showcase learned information.

Columbia professor Rebell insisted that the judge recognized students» right to an adequate education, while Rosenbaum of the ACLU stated that a «hybrid» of equity and adequacy concerns seemed to propel the judge's reasoning.

While it seemed Match was on to something, several questions had to be answered for the tutor corps program to be implemented at scale: What was the ideal tutor - student ratio?

While these fees seem extremely low, they must be measured against the average income of each person in the student's household who is working for pay.

While the challenge can seem daunting, we believe we can make great progress in the coming years to ensure all Iowa students are prepared to be successful.

While the advantages of remote learning for students may seem overwhelming, attending college is not just about gaining a piece of paper.

I teach philosophy courses online and while these courses don't seem ripe for innovative assignments I think I've developed some interesting online assignments in the various courses I teach that get online students away from the computer, gets them thinking, and encourages them to apply what they've learned in interesting ways to everyday life.

While we lack comparable indicators of the public's knowledge of student performance from earlier periods, it seems that the accountability movement has succeeded in ensuring citizens have good information about key academic outcomes.

While part of orientation week is giving students a chance to meet their colleagues, especially in their respective cohorts, by midweek it seemed the Higher Education group had already developed friendships.

«It seemed very unfair to us that some of our students had access to rich learning resources, while those without computers and Internet access saw their school day truly end at 3 P.M. each day,» she explains.

In a classroom setting, time - strapped teachers charged with serving an array of students often feel pressed to move on after a fixed amount of time practicing, especially if the class is growing restless while only a few students seem to need more practice and feedback.

If you're using personal response systems, or clickers, a new study provides a note of caution: While they seem to boost students» ability to retain factual knowledge, that may come at the cost of deeper conceptual understanding.

It seems as though I get older while my students never age and this is a result of teaching the same age group for 16 years.

While that time seems like much, setting reasonable constraints can help the students feel more comfortable presenting.

While this might seem counterintuitive to progressive education (whatever that means), we must recognize that many students find comfort in having someone who provides stability and structure.

While this approach would seem to resemble an exclusionary policy, it aims to remove a sense of unfairness from the disciplinary scheme by holding all students to uniformly high standards.

While teaching kids to think critically in the information age can seem like a «monumental task,» Carl Hooker (@mrhooker) recommends this Stanford University study which «shows a variety of activities shared with high school students to determine whether or not a news story is real or not.»

While my lessons seem to be pretty clear to most students, I find that some need extra help understanding how to work math formulas.

While these conferences seem to offer a final answer, they do not paint a clear picture of students.