Sentences with phrase «academic disciplines contribute»

Further, various academic disciplines contribute to reflection about these matters.

Not exact matches

With 82 tenured / tenure - track and 40 additional full - time faculty, 1,300 undergraduate students, 700 graduate students and more than 23,000 alumni, we are working to leverage our partnerships with academic and industry partners — across disciplines and across the world — to contribute to solving the greatest global challenges of the 21st century.

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.

The vision for overhauling the way students were disciplined — out - of - school - suspensions were contributing to the district's dropout rate and undermining students» academic achievement — was that of the district's nationally known schools chief, Andrés A. Alonso.

According to Ruth Mitchell, a Principal Partner at The Education Trust and one of the study's authors, «All teachers, including elementary school teachers, need to understand not only the structure of the academic discipline, but how... it contributes to the world.