Sentences with phrase «academic ground»

We all know how important it is to ensure that children have opportunities to continue learning and practicing skills over the summer so that they don't lose academic ground.

Teachers and administrators know that children who do not read over the summer lose significant academic ground when they don't read.

Therefore, it is considered a success to see the «achievement gap» closing even though kids are losing academic ground.

Students who received publicly funded vouchers in Louisiana and Indiana appeared to lose significant academic ground in the first two years after switching to private school and then catch up to their public - school counterparts in subsequent years, according to two new studies made public Monday.

That means they lose out on an important opportunity for physical exercise, along with exposure to sports and fitness activities they might enjoy and a break from the daily academic grind.

Folks need something to draw on, and that's what academic grounding can be.»

Sturdy argued that the new curriculum provides a «firmer academic grounding» that can better support children to reach their «full potential».

According to Oakes, students in the top tracks gain nothing from grouping and other students suffer clear and consistent disadvantages, including loss of academic ground, self - esteem, and ambition.

When tracking test scores over time, Figlio finds EdChoice voucher students lose academic ground relative to their matched group of peers.

There may be something to be said for the academic grind as a way of obtaining a minimal collection of important data, but there is nothing to be said for turning the whole educational enterprise into a deadly routine.

Whether this is the mindset with which you enter your PhD or something that grows on you while you're doing the academic grind, you learn to accept it.

Kat Arney investigates, and finds out that experiences on the academic ground can be as positive as negative.

But away from the academic grind, Loeb and Turner saw city - spotting as an alternative way to hunt for ET.

The key to brave community, she says, is «academic grounding.»

She found that drawing from the academic grounding in the classroom, students became more intellectually brave, and displayed greater interpersonal empathy.

A really original gift often gets crushed in the academic grinding mill.

Polly Staple Before becoming a curator, I studied art history and then fine art, so I have an academic grounding as well as practical experience of being an artist.