Sentences with phrase «academic challenges at»

This is partly about fairness: It's wrong for any child to miss out on academic challenges at school, and we should do everything we can to develop the full potential of all our students, including high achievers.

They are going to face academic challenges at school; you can help them by tutoring them at night time or just making an effort to see and check if they can handle their assignments is something that they would appreciate.

Though the already carefully screened candidates are put through a grueling treadmill of physical and academic challenges at OCS, the most - scrutinized quality is what the marines constantly and almost casually refer to as «leadership.»

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[6] At the academic level, the field of New Testament studies has shown its sensitivity to various theories emerging from diverse fields by wrestling with the challenges issuing from such theories.

The group also challenged her to take the leap — at the risk of possible failure — by enrolling in one course to test and toughen flabby academic muscles.

Pusillanimous academics who have been intimidated by radical shuffles must find the courage to challenge the racial separatism now so deeply entrenched at most major universities.

Eleven representatives from Piedmont attended the Challenge Success Fall Conference to discuss the social and academic climate at participating high schools on Sept. 25 and 26 at Stanford University.

Meeting and overcoming meaningful academic challenges is critical to developing the other positive academic mindsets that Camille Farrington described, like I can succeed at this and My ability and competence grow with my effort.

After years of helping children with behavioral and social challenges, the experts at Brain Balance Achievement Centers have developed a cutting - edge (and drug - free) program combining sensory motor stimulation, academic exercises, and nutrition to correct brain imbalance and improve achievement.

Experience a summer of vibrant and challenging academic enrichment opportunities at Duke University!

The balanced middle school program at Corvallis Waldorf School fosters confident students well - prepared for the challenges of high school, through academics, the arts, outdoor education, research projects and extra-curricular activities.

Conversely, over-parenting — where academic achievements are elevated above emotional needs — creates a disproportionate reliance on external affirmation, so the child doesn't possess the internal resources to overcome unexpected challenges and is liable to crumple at the first obstacle.

Government has huge challenges with implementing a campaign promise to make education at the Senior High School level free for all students, both day and boarders, and starting from the next academic year.

The report draws on government and trade statistics, academic evidence and economic theory to challenge arguments that the health and social benefits of reducing alcohol consumption are likely to come at a cost to the economy, finding: · Any reduction in employment and income resulting from lower spending on alcohol would be offset by spending on other goods · Econometric analysis of US states suggests that a 10 % decrease in alcohol consumption is associated with a 0.4 % increase in per capita income growth · Lower alcohol consumption could also reduce the economic costs of impaired workplace productivity, alcohol - related sickness, unemployment and premature death, which are estimated to cost the UK # 8 - 11 billion a year The analysis comes at a timely moment, with health groups urging the Chancellor to raise alcohol duty in next month's Budget.

The statement observes Government is having challenges with implementing its campaign promise to make education at the Senior High School level free for all students, starting next academic year.

► «[T] he process of offering admission at selective Ph.D. programs is chock - full of assumptions that are seldom made explicit or challenged,» wrote Sian Beilock, vice provost for academic initiatives at the University of Chicago in Illinois, in her review of the book Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity, and Faculty Gatekeeping, by Julie Posselt.

AAAS, joined by other scientific, engineering and academic organizations, spoke out against the Jan. 27 executive order that sparked confusion, prompted protests at international airports and led to legal challenges.

«I was lucky coming from a lab [at Michigan] that didn't have financing issues,» Conley says, but she knows that securing adequate funding is a major, and for some insurmountable, challenge in many academic labs.

We'll still create new content, we'll still provide news (though at a less frenetic pace), and we'll be ever vigilant in looking out for new developments, new ideas, and new ways of approaching old challenges that can help you succeed in your academic science career.

«One answer to fostering academic equity among high achievers is the public availability of challenging educational programs across all ethnic and social class backgrounds,» said study author Sharon L. Weinberg, professor of applied statistics and psychology at NYU Steinhardt.

In the Science perspective, the researchers discuss the gains they have made in understanding latency over the past five years and the challenges that remain as the team of academic and industry investigators — from UNC, Duke University, Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, the University of California at San Diego, Emory University, MacroGenics, and other institutions — embark on the next steps in HIV cure research.

I have a few grants under review at the moment to build on my research identifying the challenges faced by disabled academics in the workplace and develop training for line managers and universities on how to best support their disabled colleagues.

Heather Hava, right, who is working on a doctorate in aerospace engineering sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, describes a computerized system she is developing with other graduate students participating in the eXploration HABitat (X-Hab) Academic Innovation Challenge.

«Because we know memory is a crucial cognitive skill for school learning, practice at playing games that challenge memory should, in theory, lead to improvements in classroom behavior and academic skills,» she says.

Female academics face several challenges that their male colleagues don't, says lead author Joyce Benenson, a psychologist at Emmanuel College in Boston (who co-authored the paper with Richard Wrangham, a full professor at Harvard University where Berenson worked previously as junior faculty).

At the same time the WHO set out their thinking behind their new position in a piece for the journal, PLOS Medicine, and they called for all regulators, companies, academics, institutional research boards, universities, funders — everybody who has a role in this — to take up the challenge in their own jurisdictions and make it happen.

Over the past decade it has convened leaders at the highest levels in academic institutions, the pharmaceutical industry, information technology industry, and government to draw upon their perspectives in addressing the challenges and opportunities facing the clinical research enterprise.

A Season With, Season 3: New episodes air every Tuesday at 10PM ET / PT on SHOWTIME throughout the season as the Midshipmen balance the rigors of academics, athletics and military service while navigating a challenging college football schedule.

Those choices, both at home and in school, are quite familiar; she tackles academic challenges, romantic relationships, a longtime friendship, and ups and downs with her mother and her father.

In his normal day - to - day life, Hiro faces daunting academic challenges and social trials as the new prodigy at San Fransokyo Institute of Technology.

Instead, they fed into a larger shift at schools, which began devoting money and staff to expand AP programs and to prepare students for more challenging academics.

It is persistently at the bottom of most national rankings for academic performance and students» well - being, and faces daunting challenges: nearly three quarters of students are from low - income families and some 16 percent have limited English language proficiency.

These growing abilities allow them to face and overcome new developmental challenges, from getting along with others to learning novel academic skills.2 Despite their growing abilities, preschoolers sometimes find it difficult to regulate their thoughts and emotions in ways that allow them to succeed at new tasks.

Featuring a full schedule of sessions aimed at creating proactive policy to support child protection in the region, IIFMENA will bring together leaders, academics, policy makers, heads of international organisations, and donor agencies to study the challenges in the Middle East and propose and agree on solutions to overcome those challenges.

At the same time, the traditional system often prevents students from engaging more deeply in their interests, excelling when they are ready, or pursuing additional academic challenges.

And of the students who score well on the PSAT / NMSQT, indicating a 70 percent likelihood of thriving in an AP course, of those students, six out of ten Asians will take an AP course, [compared with] four out of ten white students and two out of ten African American students... In other words there is a racial break among kids who could achieve at a high level and are being propelled into more challenging academic experiences; that data needs to be understood.

Educators and parents who are interested in helping students reach their long - term goals — staying in school and getting good jobs — need to help them get better at «code switching» as they navigate their way through daily social and academic challenges.

«It is a challenge to identify yourself as a researcher — at least in the beginning — and make the connection that through being an academic you are going to become a better practitioner,» says doctoral student Mariam Chughtai, Ed.M.»

(Such services take various forms but most commonly involve separate classrooms with more challenging curricula and specially prepared teachers, at least for core academic subjects.)

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.

Add to this nebulous college entrance environment the challenge presented by the proliferation of four - year high schools, whose numbers skyrocketed from 2,526 in 1890 to 10,213 in 1910, and it is easy to see why the trustees of the Carnegie Foundation felt the need to define college: «An institution to be ranked a college must have at least six (6) professors giving their entire time to college and university work, a course of four full years in liberal arts and sciences, and should require for admission not less than the usual four years of academic or high school preparation, or its equivalent, in addition to the preacademic or grammar school studies.»

In this post Sukhi Hayer, Head of Communications and Training at Broadcast Media Services, looks at the importance of the Teaching Excellence Framework and how to evaluate and challenge the mind - set of academics when performing and delivering lectures, to help improve performance.

In February 2011 the Pathways to Prosperity Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education released a report challenging our excessive focus on the four - year college pathway, arguing that we need to create additional pathways that combine rigorous academics with strong technical education to equip the majority of young people with the skills and credentials to succeed in our increasingly challenging labor market.

These challenges all have the same format with questions set at the academic level the game sits within, but critically focus on the different mathematical functions of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

«Given that only two in 10 children have access to a high - quality early education setting in the U.S., CEEL, through interactive and case - based materials grounded in scientific insights, is designed to equip early education leaders with the core knowledge and tools to navigate the decisions, challenges, and opportunities associated with quality improvement,» said Nonie Lesaux, academic dean and Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and co-director of the Saul Zaentz Early Education Initiative.

Others at the symposium felt that student social and emotional wellbeing was being sidelined in the quest for academic excellence and this was a daily challenge to their values about children's rights and wellbeing.

Leveraging the power of afterschool programs to reduce chronic absence is especially important now given the economic challenges facing communities and schools and the growing number of students at risk of academic failure and dropping out.

Further, these curricular experiences should be accompanied by supports for students and their teachers, to ensure that learners are challenged and successful at a high academic level.

Infused with state and federal money but facing more requirements and students with challenges, staff at two Native American schools in Maine talked with Education World about meeting their two missions: passing on Native American culture and boosting academics.

The city broke up big failing schools to improve academics, but at the small schools that replaced them, fielding a robust music program is a challenge.