Sentences with phrase «about conventional schools»

«People concerned about Michigan's failing schools should be concerned about conventional schools,» said Audrey Spalding, education policy director at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.

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A recent study by two Canadian business schools into what causes inflated executive pay upends some of the conventional wisdom about what causes executive salaries to increase over time.

Eventually one discovers that there is another piece of conventional wisdom about conversations that use these phrases to diagnose theological schooling's ills and prescribe cures: The conversations are interminable and inconclusive.

The conventional view that a theological school is «theological» because it educates church leadership has been roundly attacked in the current conversation about theological education.

It is something like a background conventional wisdom shaping debates about standards for theological schooling.

Turning the conventional wisdom about child development on its head, New York Times Magazine editor Tough (Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America, 2008) argues that non-cognitive skills (persistence, self - control, curiosity, conscientiousness, grit and self - confidence) are the most critical to success in school and life.

By the time I graduated from medical school, heart transplant surgery had become conventional, so I moved to Los Angeles and did something I've never told anyone else about: I spent a couple of years rolling pennies and eating canned spinach and pasta while I tried to understand the universe, an effort I felt had reached a dead end.

«About 15 to 20 percent of patients who start conventional treatment for drug - resistant TB don't finish, mostly because of the length, expense and discomfort associated with it,» says Emily Kendall, M.D., an instructor in the Department of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Read about the cause, the lack of treatment by conventional medical means (your doctor probably never learned about it at medical school) and natural ways to reduce high homocyateine levels.

1 - lack of relaxation 2 - devitalized food 3 - unfulfilling employment (dead - end jobs) 4 - dead - end relationships (romantic or not) 5 - surgery 6 - junk food 7 - trans fats and rancid fats 8 - financial stress 9 - sedentary lifestyle 10 - excessive exercise 11 - death of a loved one 12 - alcoholism 13 - smoking 14 - illicit drug use 15 - prescription drug use 16 - toxins 17 - poor eating habits 18 - marital stress 19 - repeated traumas 20 - workaholism 21 - nutritional deficiencies 22 - hormonal imbalances 23 - oral contraceptives 24 - stimulants 25 - counterproductive attitudes and beliefs 26 - conventional hormone replacement therapy 27 - non-prescription drugs 28 - psychological stress 29 - persistent fears 30 - emotional stress 31 - lack of sleep 32 - being in denial about feelings 33 - acute or chronic infection 34 - repeated stresses 35 - persistent negative stressors 36 - fun or enjoyment deprivation 37 - allergies 38 - caffeine 39 - white sugar and white flour products 40 - antacids 41 - artificial sweeteners and colors 42 - major life events — even if perceived consciously as «good» (e.g.: graduating high school, moving, etc..)

There is absolutely no doubt about the fact that the Gen Z is quite practical and doesn't prefer doing things the conventional or rather, old school way.

The movie, which defies conventional thinking about war - movie endings, largely consists of conversation, not conflict (at least not in a military sense), as Juba alternately taunts, attempts to school and acts as a confessor to Isaac, who, as one would expect of these things, tries to use his head to outwit his enemy and survive.

The third pattern is a set of disputes about whether charter schools and conventional public schools compete on a level playing field.

From Nikhal Goyal to Sam Levin to just speaking with our students about their schooling, it should be conventional wisdom that student voices matter.

Taken together, these races should scramble the conventional political narrative about charter schooling.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie BY MURIEL SPARK Set in the 1930s, this novel is about a free - spirited teacher at a girl's school in Scotland who ignores the conventional curriculum, bringing her into conflict with the school's leadership.

Note also that most virtual schools receive significantly less funding than conventional schools — often 20 to 30 percent less (though there are no systematic and reliable data on funding rates or comparisons nationally)-- leading to interesting questions about equity, parity, and productivity.

Even within conventional egg crate school buildings, such intentional location scouting could influence the flow of information about instruction.

Almost half of the teachers in Ohio's charter schools quit their schools in the four - year period between 2000 and 2004, in comparison with about 8 percent in conventional public schools and 12 percent in high - poverty, urban public schools, suggesting that new organizations are not a magic formula for school stability.

«Turning the conventional wisdom about child development on its head, New York Times Magazine editor Tough argues that non-cognitive skills (persistence, self - control, curiosity, conscientiousness, grit and self - confidence) are the most critical to success in school and life.

The wealth of information that Chetty et al. have about families from tax records and some clever analyses effectively rule out the possibility that conventional estimates of value - added based only on school administrative data are misleading.

Hussar took the study one step further, asking the children to think about four types of actions and whether or not they are wrong, not only for themselves, but for others: pushing another child (moral action), going to school with the wrong clothes (conventional deviation), expressing a particular preference (personal choice), and eating meat.

Gary Naeyaert, executive director of the Great Lakes Education Project and an advocate for charter public schools, was at the meeting and wondered why there was so much discussion about one charter public school when there were 40 - plus conventional public schools also with deficits.

«What about the special education teacher who challenges conventional ways of schooling and opts for a more inclusive method over his superiors failed methods?

Educators in these schools challenge conventional thinking about student grades, standards and testing, the curriculum development process, leadership, school climate, student promotion and retention, classroom management, and parent involvement.

«Conventional wisdom suggests that the interests of teachers unions and charter schools are Read more about Teacher Union Launches Charter School Authorizer in Minnesota -LSB-...]

My hope is that TEP will actually start a conversation about how we can recruit, train, and retain high - quality teachers in a typical public school setting and with a conventional budget.

Armed with real - world examples and out - of - the - box ideas, Nathan Levenson challenges conventional thinking about school budgeting and offers practical, actionable advice for school superintendents, central office leaders, building principals, and school board members.

That seems to be the conventional wisdom and has also been my experience with my book (a middle - grades novel to teach kids about 9/11)-- schools account for a big part of my sales, which run about 90/10 in favor of print.

Byron Browne's artistic training was conventional, and little about his career at the National Academy of Design from 1924 - 1928 suggested that he would soon depart from the traditional methods in which he was being schooled.

Imperial College Business School Centre for Climate Finance and Investment director Charles Donovan said: «The findings have displayed a robust evidence about the risk - return profile of clean - energy investing, with yieldcos in the UK performing better than conventional energy.»

More interesting, many of these schools - such as City University of New York or University of Dayton - are not considered «top tier» by conventional standards, so it's gratifying to see that those at top schools are open minded enough, and concerned enough about improving legal education to look to these programs as models.

They explain that the practice of law includes very little «arguing» in thje conventional sense and «if arguing is really why you want to go to law school, save your money and start a blog about American politics where you can shout into the echo chamber of imbeciles all you want without bothering anyone smart who has shit to do.»

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That's why I harp so much about getting a good RE and business knowledge from conventional schools, not gurus, know financing rules and being in absolute compliance with rules, regulations and laws.