Sentences with phrase «academic grades for»

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Even controlling for grade - point average, men earned more than women who graduated with identical levels of academic achievement.

According to The News & Observer, Wednesday's report «found a new culprit: the Academic Support Program for Student - Athletes... The report describes a fairly broad group of academic and athletic officials who knew about athletes getting better grades in classes that only required papers, yet taking little or no actionAcademic Support Program for Student - Athletes... The report describes a fairly broad group of academic and athletic officials who knew about athletes getting better grades in classes that only required papers, yet taking little or no actionacademic and athletic officials who knew about athletes getting better grades in classes that only required papers, yet taking little or no action.»

These managers range from those whose time horizon is measured in minutes to those who hold positions for years; from those who knew they wanted to invest when they were back in grade school to those who still aren't sure investing is their calling; and from those with impeccable academic credentials to those without any degrees.

These methods are typically for building domain authority and trust, rather than anchor text manipulation, and may require high - quality, even academic - grade, content.

There are no academic prerequisites for participation; no grades or exams.

Or consider the following finding: 76 per cent of undergraduates trust their faculties, and yet this «trust» is surely strained by the «inflation of grades by faculty [as well as by] competitive awarding of academic credit by some departments and by some institutions for insufficient and inadequate work.»

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

As an academic scandal at the ACC college continues to unfold, a former learning specialists named Mary Willingham, who worked at the UNC Academic Support Program for Student Athletes, showed ESPN an essay (that's under 150 words) that earned a student - athlete an A - letteacademic scandal at the ACC college continues to unfold, a former learning specialists named Mary Willingham, who worked at the UNC Academic Support Program for Student Athletes, showed ESPN an essay (that's under 150 words) that earned a student - athlete an A - letteAcademic Support Program for Student Athletes, showed ESPN an essay (that's under 150 words) that earned a student - athlete an A - letter grade.

He has one of the three highest academic averages in the history of Mansfield High — he received a B for one marking period in seventh - grade English but nothing lower than an A since — and will certainly become the fourth member of his family named most likely to succeed by his classmates at graduation.

Education Unlimited ® provides academic summer camps & precollege summer programs for students entering grades 4 - 12.

Camp Troubie is a four - week summer program for rising / incoming 6th through 8th (morning academic classes) and rising / incoming 5th through 8th (afternoon enrichment) grade girls.

Players were literally told to sign up for these classes by academic advisors so that they did not have to go or take any tests and they would receive a grade.

She started with some universally acknowledged positive academic outcomes for students: getting good grades, graduating from high school, and earning a college degree.

With our culture and our nation's emphasis on high academic achievement, the perception that in order to get into college kids need straight As and perfect test scores, increased course work and more complex curricula, teachers are feeling the pressure to cover more material, and to prepare kids for the next grade.

Wisconsin's Model Academic Standards for Health Education (2011) recommend certain emotional, social, and mental health education standards be taught in grades K - 12.

State Board of Education Regulation R 43 - 244.1 (1988) and Code 59-39-160 (no date available) outline the academic requirements for students in grades 9 - 12 to participate in interscholastic activities.

PS 116's principal Jane Hsu told DNA Info that the school «spent over a year «analyzing studies focused on the effects of traditional homework» and decided that it was more important for the Pre-K through fifth grade students to do activities that «have been proven to have a positive impact on student academic performance and social / emotional development» such as reading at their own pace and playing.»

The focus on imitative and imaginative play in the early childhood program develops the power of creative thinking, preparing children for the academics of the grade school years and beyond.

Holding your child back a grade is one of the toughest academic decisions parents have to make for their child.

In their white paper on academic integrity, Ms. Levine and Challenge Success have a series of suggestions for parents (and educators) interested in fully supporting the message that honesty is more important than grades.

For example, in the Nurse Family Partnership model children born to mothers with low psychological resources had better academic achievement in math and reading in first through sixth grade compared to their control peers (i.e., mothers without the intervention with similar characteristics).30, 31

TDI is a summer camp / academic program, with overnight and commuter options, for advanced and gifted students who are entering grades 4 - 9.

Freshman Academy is a program for students who have not met the requirements for admission into university due to a low grade point average or missing academic courses.

Academics such as reading and writing are left until grade school, while a foundation for literacy is built in the early childhood classes.

A screening for all second grade students assesses movement, memory, and academic skill development.

Any public school or private school student who has been unable to maintain academic eligibility for participation in interscholastic extracurricular activities is ineligible to participate in such activities as a charter school student until the student has successfully completed one grading period in a charter school pursuant to subparagraph 2.

Capacity: The new two - story facility, with a capacity of 1,600 students (an increase of 400 from the former campus), allows for the standard middle school configuration of Grades 6 - 8 on one campus... which provides sixth - graders with greater opportunity for academic rigor, fine arts and career electives and athletic and extra-curricular activities, as well as 30 additional minutes of instructional time each day, compared to an elementary schedule.

Amy Chua (Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother) on the one hand proposed that the best way for a parent to prepare kids for a successful future is to stress academic performance, never accept a mediocre grade, and instill a deep respect for authority.

The DOE had cited poor academic performance as its reason for proposing to trim grades from Wadleigh, which was designated as a Renewal School in 2015.

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.

In our two previous research collaborations with the Skills for Life team, we already had shown that mental health problems are quite common, are among the strongest predictors of poor attendance, poorer grades, and lower scores on standardized tests, and that improved mental health scores are powerful predictors of improved academic outcomes.»

Tohoku International School provides a comprehensive academic program from pre-kindergarten through grade 12 for foreign and Japanese families who seek a quality, challenging education in English for their children.

Approximately equal numbers of women and men enter and graduate from medical school in the United States and United Kingdom.1 2 In northern and eastern European countries such as Russia, Finland, Hungary, and Serbia, women account for more than 50 % of the active physicians3; in the United Kingdom and United States, they represent 47 % and 33 % respectively.4 5 Even in Japan, the nation in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development with the lowest percentage of female physicians, representation doubled between 1986 and 2012.3 6 However, progress in academic medicine continues to lag, with women accounting for less than 30 % of clinical faculty overall and for less than 20 % of those at the highest grade or in leadership positions.7 - 9 Understanding the extent to which this underrepresentation affects high impact research is critical because of the implicit bias it introduces to the research agenda, influencing future clinical practice.10 11 Given the importance of publication for tenure and promotion, 12 women's publication in high impact journals also provides insights into the degree to which the gender gap can be expected to close.

Jeffery Lindeland is a two - sport athlete for Belmont High School who successfully fundraises on behalf of his teams and is reaching academic goals in a grade - level math class.

First, in 2001, CRI formed a partnership with the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research to develop the Cancer Vaccine Collaborative (CVC)-- a centralized, academic, global network of clinical trial sites, immune monitoring laboratories, and clinic - grade, GMP cancer vaccine production facilities.

I stupidly joined for 6 months, pretty soon realised this was an average grade site, most subscribers were not in any way academic (not that I'm being snobby, I just thought they would be, given the name!).

Coleman proposed that schools should replace the competition for grades with interscholastic academic games, «systematically organized competitions, tournaments and meets in all activities,» from math and English to home economics and industrial arts.

On the other hand, there is reason to believe that the approach to bolstering students» advanced literacy skills, and academic language skills in particular, need not be entirely different for different groups, particularly with increasing grade levels.

Because of its heavy reliance on academic letter grades, the typical American high school had created a kind of free market in which every student was competing against every other student for rank.

In this randomized controlled study on the impact of the arts on performance in traditional academic subjects, theater arts were integrated into language arts and social studies curricula for fourth - and fifth - grade students (14 experimental classrooms, 14 control classrooms).

But it is also plausible that schools will develop strategies for improving the grade they receive from the state without actually improving the academic performance of students.

Students in the lower grades must attend a two - week summer school for an academic boost.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

Unfortunately, when it came time for National Honor Society candidates to be considered again, Joe's grades had slipped due to the rigorous classes he'd signed up for, and this time he wasn't eligible because of his academic standing.

Students share with their parents what they have learned, show their parents their student portfolios, and discuss the reasons for their academic grades.

«Many schools have given kids grades for academic performance and grades for effort, and there are lots of practices that reflect a recognition of the importance of skills not directly measured by tests.

Developmental - scale scores are designed to measure academic proficiency on a single scale for students of any grade and in any year.

Active Academics» standards - based activity ideas align to both the Common Core State Standards and a variety of national standards for PreK through fifth - grade classrooms.

Two completed teacher surveys are available for 21,324 of the 8th - grade students — a bit smaller than the full sample of NELS students because some teachers did not complete their questionnaires and some students did not have a class in one or both of the academic subjects randomly assigned to their school for which teacher surveys were administered.

The success of the Massachusetts approach has important implications, especially as states roll out the new Common Core standards academic goals for what students should be able to do in reading and math at each grade level to ensure high school students graduate ready for the demands of higher education and the 21st century workforce.