Sentences with phrase «about academic rigor»

It's not just about academic rigor and pushing our students to college.

When education insiders pick apart the factors that make a school successful, there's often a lot of conversation about academic rigor, resources, quality of teachers and even, in some cases, the socioeconomic makeup of the students within the school.

For these students, there are many curiosities and questions about academic rigor, managing a social life, handling coursework, and worries about using a combination lock.

He not only found that a significant percentage of the academic units still need to come into compliance with the standards, but that there was sufficient concern about academic rigor to warrant consideration of issuing a third warning.

Not exact matches

«Dual Language programs offer academic rigor for students and the opportunity to maintain their native language while learning a new one and learning about diverse cultures.

in the academic world for its rigor and selectivity — Enos is uncertain about his future at the University.

Several years into Harvard's tenure track — which is infamous in the academic world for its rigor and selectivity — Enos is uncertain about his future at the University.

These twin, established facts about learning have guided my framing of the concept of knowledge - based constructivism or, in language friendlier to teachers and the general public, academic rigor in the thinking curriculum.

Overall, I think it's useful to think about where that pendulum should swing between academic rigor and a child's own interests.

The sessions began with a preportfolio activity in which teacher pairs visited each other's classrooms and gave feedback about content integration and academic rigor.

And damn sure they never read about it in whatever passes for textbooks in most graduate schools of education, that lame crap masquerading as academic rigor in the diploma mills serving the education profession these days.

In 2014, citing concerns about «resource comparability,» OCR declared it would henceforth regard as suspect any variability across schools when it came to course offerings, academic rigor, staff qualifications, and facilities or technology.

I strongly agree with the district regarding a focus on socio - economic integration and increasing academic rigor, but share parents» concerns about whether this will actually improve outcomes.

After experiencing success in improving student behavior and attitudes about learning, staff at Totem turned their focus to increasing academic rigor.

Meetings allow Daniel to talk with teachers about two of her biggest concerns — building up students» inventory of academic language and increasing the level of rigor.

Site visitors are invited to grade their schools and communities on the key components of ASCD's New Learning Compact; pledge to support whole child education; share stories about great schools and classrooms; contact their local, state, and federal policymakers; and access resources to help them make the case for a well - balanced education that emphasizes academic rigor as well as the essential skills of critical thinking and creativity.

In a Student & Family Town Hall meeting held last evening by SNAPPS, an advocacy group in Atlanta for the South and Westside communities, attendees had the opportunity to hear from students and parents around grave concerns about equity, academic rigor, access to resources, being adequately prepared for college and careers, how schools add to the school to prison pipeline by fueling suspensions over counseling support and most importantly the poor connection and relationship between the District and South / Westside parents.

Koran's story dug into the Edgenuity courses and controversy nationwide about similar programs and their academic rigor.

OCCRA combines the academic rigors of engineering with the excitement of sports to get large numbers of students enthused about science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).

When we talk about school choice, we tend to focus on academics, on rigor, on testing.

When we asked parents about our schools, they said their biggest concerns were the learning environment and academic rigor.

Academic presses can be more discerning about the rigor of your work than traditional publishers.

The peer - review status of articles are also clearly marked, in this open source journal system, with links to the journals» review policies, an aspect of reputation and authority taken for granted with traditional journals that have not had to worry about their reputation for rigor outside of the academic community.

They focus on the fit for their child based on school size, location, academic rigor, social life, and perhaps most of all but least talked about... «street cred & # or how good or bad it will sound to tell others where your kid goes to school.

St. Paul, MN About Blog Our goal at Macalester is to have an athletics program consistent in quality and rigor with our first - rate academic program.