Sentences with phrase «academic ground in»

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.

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

Not exact matches

The Harvard law professor, who is locked in a tight race against Republican Scott Brown, has lost ground in recent weeks as she struggles to shake off stories about whether she used her unconfirmed Native American heritage to bolster her academic career.

She's also pretty good at grounding all of this in academic research and in real - world examples from everywhere from the business realm to the battlefield.

Commerce students receive a solid grounding in management fundamentals, while having the freedom to focus on a discipline that meets their academic and professional needs.

American intellectuals worthy of the name are thin on the ground these days — hard to find amidst swarms of academics incapable of addressing wide audiences and media pundits capable of addressing them only in clichés.

One might expect that biblical people in the academy would be grounded in an alternative spiritual identity which would stimulate continuous, creative challenge to the academic ideology.

It is within this ground that government of China and academic journal publishers sanctioned and retracted the research work of scientists who engaged in unethical feeding of Golden Rice to children whose families were not informed that they were being fed Golden Rice last 2012.

Being grounded in progressive education principles means the school community has a child - centered approach to learning that focuses on the social, emotional, and academic needs of each individual.

The result - kids who are grounded in their connection to learning and other people, balanced in their artistic and academic focus, and excited to go to school every day!

Chris Abbott, a researcher and academic who was punched in the face when Police Officers suddenly surged forward, Hannah McClure, a Masters» student who mentors foster children, who was pushed over by an officer who then stood on her stomach, and Josh Moos, a Plane Stupid campaigner, who was knocked to the ground as a baton - wielding officer vaulted over him.

SUNY is working to ensure the charges «do not distract from the educational mission, ground - breaking research, and academic operation of SUNY Polytechnic Institute or negatively impact the thousands of students, faculty, researchers, and staff that the campus serves,» McCall and Zimpher previously said in a statement.

«It is imperative that any charges brought against SUNY Poly President Alain E. Kaloyeros today do not distract from the educational mission, ground - breaking research, and academic operation of SUNY Polytechnic Institute or negatively impact the thousands of students, faculty, researchers, and staff that the campus serves,» Cartwright and SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher said in a statement released Thursday afternoon.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the 10 - day - old strike grounded academic activities in both public primary and secondary schools in the state.

If you are applying for jobs in scientific industry, a PhD will definitely fast - track you into a better position than those held by the ones who chose not to opt for 3 or more years of grinding in the academic mill.

Others, like Tom Burke, founding director of U.K. - based environmental group E3G, dismissed the Nature piece as «an ivory - tower view of life» that focuses on what is being said in academic literature rather than what is happening on the ground as countries slowly but surely buckle to international pressure to take on climate responsibly.

The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC, www.stfc.ac.uk) is keeping the UK at the forefront of international science and has a broad science portfolio and works with the academic and industrial communities to share its expertise in materials science, space and ground - based astronomy technologies, laser science, microelectronics, wafer scale manufacturing, particle and nuclear physics, alternative energy production, radio communications and radar.

Academic Performance Index scores released in October showed it again second only to the San Marino Unified School District, and gaining ground.

The Rejuvenation Biotechnology Conference series is SENS Research Foundation's current program of ground - breaking academic / industrial meetings, hosted in sunny California.

The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC, http://www.stfc.ac.uk) is keeping the UK at the forefront of international science and has a broad science portfolio and works with the academic and industrial communities to share its expertise in materials science, space and ground - based astronomy technologies, laser science, microelectronics, wafer scale manufacturing, particle and nuclear physics, alternative energy production, radio communications and radar.

NUNM has been a recognized authority in providing ground - breaking naturopathic medical education for more than 50 years — providing and fostering a challenging, eclectic, and rigorous academic experience.

Voices From the Field Challenge Education Week, May 1, 2011 «I believe strongly that wisdom lies close to the ground; as an academic, I always learn more when I'm in schools listening to people doing the work,» writes Assistant Professor Jal Mehta.

Professional / technical coursework for all students that is well - grounded in academic and professional standards.

Too often, my efforts to personalize around academic - readiness levels never got off the ground because the material itself felt irrelevant and lacking in any real - world application.

While there is more emphasis on academics at all grade levels today and evidence that the middle school burden can be overcome (Williams and colleagues showed in a major 2010 study, called «Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades: Why Some Schools Do Better,» that an intense focus on academics can work), it is odd that Walcott would favor reforming middle schools instead of doing what the research suggests is better and easier — creating smaller, «elemiddle» (K — 8) schools — and what the trends are showing is happening all over the country — as David Hough, managing editor of the Middle Grades Research Journal, told me, «the trend is definitely away from stand - alone middle schools.»

Mired for decades in Byzantine bureaucracy that wasted untold millions of dollars and incalculable numbers of student academic lives, the New York City school system was wrestled to the ground by a billionaire mayor, and almost everyone applauded.

Some schools, especially in low socioeconomic areas, consider themselves «welfare» rather than «academic» schools and believe that the best thing they can do for their disadvantaged clientele is to teach them social and life skills, give them a grounding in the «basics» and make them feel better about themselves.

The answer to getting the students to learn more about their profession is grounded in academic wherewithal and exploded when put to test.

Licensing would be a major advance if it were grounded in practical demonstration that teachers and teaching assistants have the right set of skills to educate young children, and know how to individualize instruction and interactions with young children who differ in their social and emotional needs, their linguistic needs, and their needs related to specific early academic skills.

Academia has a set of standards that you move up based on the number of articles that you get published in the highest ranked publications, which cater to an exclusive audience of other academics that doesn't include the general public, community educators, and the people on the ground at local schools.»

Its academic standards for all four core subject areas at every grade span have been rated as clear, specific, and grounded in content by the American Federation of Teachers.

But Oregon receives high marks for its academic standards, which the American Federation of Teachers rated clear, specific, and grounded in content in all of the four core subjects and at nearly every grade span.

But no if this turns out to be its own unrealistically ambitious federal regulatory scheme, no if it amounts to a bunch of plan writing and plan reviewing that yields no real change on the ground, and no if it further complicates what is already a hugely challenging transition in most states to higher academic standards and new forms of assessment.

While some earlier studies questioned the role of grade configuration in school success and student achievement, including the 2008 National Forum «Policy Statement on Grade Configuration» and a 2010 study by EdSource, «Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades: Why Some Schools Do Better» in California, «the evidence on academic benefits has become much stronger in the past two years,» West says.

Our plan is grounded in the following two premises: 1) When purposefully synchronized with one another across multiple forms of media («cross-media»), children's and adolescents» exposure to high quality youth - oriented social and ethical story content, i.e. stories of substance specifically about character development, compassion, and courage (CCC), is a powerful way to promote youth academic achievement and ethical values; 2) Especially if these stories, told and «read» across media, in their various genres (human interest, biography, history and historical fiction, civic engagement, coming of age, social change, spiritual awakening, moral issues, etc.), are «taught» by «educators» (broadly defined) using an «evidence - based» pedagogy that A) makes use of peer to peer, and adult facilitated group discussion and debate as a primary form of instruction, and B) takes advantage of access to the texts of the story that are made available cross-media (narratives, scripts, videos, etc.) to foster students» critical thinking and ethical reflection skills.

But Quiros, who is also the parent of three current Whitefield students and one graduate, says she and the other parents who helped get the school off the ground, in 1996, did not want to sacrifice academic quality in order to have a true Christian school.

Bottom Line: Through lessons and activities based on popular films and grounded in academics, The Academy offers a great way to grab students» attention.

It will, of necessity, be grounded in theory and created in an academic environment.

Even with many vocal academics and on the ground activists contestingi, ii the central role new media and digital technologies have had played in these events, it is undeniable that they have transformed the way we connect, organize and have an impact on our world.

«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.

The CALS construct is defined as a constellation of the high - utility language skills that correspond to linguistic features prevalent in oral and written academic discourse across school content areas and that are infrequent in colloquial conversations (e.g., knowledge of logical connectives, such as nevertheless, consequently; knowledge of structures that pack dense information, such as nominalizations or embedded clauses; knowledge of structures for organizing argumentative texts) Over the last years, as part of the Catalyzing Comprehension Through Discussion Debate project funded by IES to the Strategic Educational Research Partnership, Dr. Paola Uccelli and her research team have produced a research - based, theoretically - grounded, and psychometrically robust instrument to measure core academic language skills (CALS - I) for students in grades 4 - 8.

HumanDHS is primarily grounded in academic work.

The school meets these challenges head - on, striving to accommodate the academic needs of all students with trauma - informed practices and pedagogy grounded in social and emotional learning (SEL).

The scale and rapidity of the changes were grounded in the conviction of the New York City Department of Education, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and other key local stakeholders that small schools could more effectively meet the academic and socioemotional needs of disadvantaged students.

In this episode, Klein covers a lot of ground, including his own public - school education and the relatively low academic achievement of today's teachers.

Another irony is that the best charters themselves copy from the classic Catholic - school model — uniforms, firm discipline, high academic standards and expectations, plus a schoolwide ethic grounded in clear values.

This exhibition was, of course, grounded in academic standards in science and math.

HLC's program is grounded in the traditions and wisdom of the Hawaiian culture and through a project - based learning approach, strives to develop in each child the ability to engage in critical thinking, to apply creative problem solving approaches, and to demonstrate a mastery of the academic tools and positive values necessary to fully engage in life - long learning and to make life choices for a successful future.

Outsiders may be surprised that the Chicago Public Schools have the fastest academic growth rates in the country, but educators on the ground understand how shifts in strategy can transform outcomes.

Jackson and McDermott provide a model of strategic thinking about the transformation of schools that is well grounded in academic research, knowledge of organizational change, and a belief in the resilience of the human spirit.