Sentences with phrase «academic points for»

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Our academic performance on the international stage, once a point of pride among educators, is also cause for concern.

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

And while Kogan maintained he had never drawn a salary from the work he did for SCL — saying his reward was «to keep the data», and get to use it for academic research — he confirmed SCL did pay GSR # 230,000 at one point during the project; a portion of which he also said eventually went to pay lawyers he engaged «in the wake» of Facebook becoming aware that data had been passed to SCL / CA by Kogan — when it contacted him to ask him to delete the data (and presumably also to get him to sign the NDA).

Many conservative commentators point, as the icon for all that went wrong, to the 1967 Land O» Lakes statement, in which the presidents of Catholic colleges declared that their pursuit of academic excellence served a high Catholic goal and thus exempted Catholic schools from direct obedience to the hierarchy and magisterium of the Catholic Church.

Professional theologians today hesitate to share their experience, fearing lest the pure objectivity and the transcendent reference point of their God thoughts be thereby obscured; but this is a great pity, for when they define their role merely in ecclesiastical or academic terms, thus in effect hiding behind their official identity, it renders their theology at best enigmatic and at worst downright boring.

At this point absolute clarity and ruthless honesty are essential both for the academic theologian and for the parish priest.

At this point in time, GRACE is still looking for additional Christian academic institutions that may be interested in hosting a regional GRACE Center.

This little academic exercise should help us see that a good deal of talk about education as primarily a «bringing out» of latent knowledge, with consequences for the entire process of instruction, is beside the point.

There are a few points in the book in which it would appear that the authors depart from their own sense of what is licit and illicit out of deferrence to certain academic Catholic bioethicists who persist in arguing for the permissibility of so - called «borderline» assisted reproductive techniques such as Gamete Intra Fallopian Transfer (GIFT) and Artificial Insemination by Husband (AIH) or insist that the Church may still allow for so - called embryo adoption.

Perhaps the biblical people of God, by pointing out the really real within the historical present, could help academic leaders to break out of this impacted perspective, as the university struggles for its soul.

Van Dyke pointed to three primary factors for making a college choice: academic reputation; Kinesiology program offerings; and how the wide receiver will be used in the program.

The NCAA title is up for grabs because talent is more evenly distributed, thanks to TV, higher academic standards, the lure of the pros and three - point baskets

But as cases of academic fraud and evidence of steering continue, it's becoming easier for those attacking the NCAA to point to substantive evidence that the NCAA does promote education enough to allow it to blatantly violate antitrust laws.

In fact the authors point out that there are no studies of meditationamong children in a general school population that are designed well enough to meet the standards of the gatekeeping organizations — like CASEL (Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning), the Department of Education, or the Society for Prevention Research — that would endorse program changes in schools.

Bob Jones homeschool reviews from across the web praise the BJ curriculum as a great option for parents to find an organized and systematic way to cover all of the material that must be taught as students progress throughout school from a biblical and academic stand point.

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.

Montessori schools offer an excellent program for pointing your kids towards academic excellence, though their approach might not conform to every parent's idea of what it means to be a carefree child.

The Reuters Institute Digital News Report has become a central reference point for evidence - based discussions of news and media developments across the countries covered, and is frequently the basis for both professional, industry, policymaker and academic discussions.

Gillibrand and Maloney are members of West Point's advisory board for academic, physical and military programs.

The union leader slammed the state government for failure to pay lecturers all outstanding salaries pointing that both academic and non academic staff in the institution have been living on failed promises under the Yahaya Bello administration.

In fact, in addition to the faculty union, skeptics of the program have included the CUNY Graduate Center's newspaper, the president of the SUNY Student Assembly, and SUNY's own trustees; an academic program coordinator at CUNY's Borough of Manhattan Community College offered a point - by - point evisceration of the scholarship in an op - ed for Inside Higher Ed.

Academics point out that traffic imposes a cost and so congestion pricing plans, by reducing traffic, balance out some of that cost for drivers.

Meg Russell, the leading academic on the House of Lords, points out that David Cameron would need to appoint just over 160 new Conservative members with no peerages at all for other groups to give the government a Lords majority.

Academic reps are not health and safety professionals, but are involved in minimising hazards in the workplace and act as first points of contact for anyone seeking advice.

Yet, for many scientists, the postdoctoral phase is a make - or - break point in their academic careers.

And maybe, as he points out, it's not surprising for an academic science career to be upended in this way.

«This site is a handy central distribution point for science news - chiefly press releases from American academic and governmental institutions.

They have to negotiate their salary point on the national academic pay scale with their employer — the university — and the starting salary for a postdoc in the pre-1992 sector can be as low as # 16,775.

For example, he points to the stigmatization that many former employees of Enron have faced since the company's collapse and the cloud of suspicion that surrounds co-authors of academics who were found to be responsible for research fraud such as psychologist Diederik StapFor example, he points to the stigmatization that many former employees of Enron have faced since the company's collapse and the cloud of suspicion that surrounds co-authors of academics who were found to be responsible for research fraud such as psychologist Diederik Stapfor research fraud such as psychologist Diederik Stapel.

If the clustering of names can not be explained by these two factors — which was the case in certain disciplines and regions in Italy — then the data point to nepotistic hires: professors who recruit their relatives for academic positions.

Some academics have been more ambivalent, however, pointing out that Trump's other potential picks for the top diplomatic job would have been more extreme.

«This is the first instance I am aware of where an academic drug discovery group moved a molecule designed to hopefully treat a chronic brain disorder all the way from early discovery to human trials without there being, at some point along the way, a pharmaceutical partner,» said P. Jeffrey Conn, Ph.D., Lee E. Limbird Professor of Pharmacology in the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and director of the Vanderbilt Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery (VCNDD).

«This is one of the very first studies of human iPSC models for type 2 diabetes, and it points out the power of this technology to look at the nature of diabetes, which is complex and may be different in different individuals,» says C. Ronald Kahn, MD, Joslin's Chief Academic Officer and the Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

The Institute's website notes the need for its work, pointing out that there are over 300 nonprofit research foundations and academic centers expressly devoted to research using embryonic stem cells.

Points to novel pathway for drug discovery, will be incorporated into tests to improve screening and early detection of abdominal aortic aneurysm, heart attack and PAD Reykjavik, ICELAND, 11 July 2010 — Scientists at deCODE genetics and academic colleagues from the...

Whether you're a patient, or a relative doing research, Mesothelioma-Line.com aims to provide a thorough reference point for academic journal articles on malignant mesothelioma organized in a manner useful to the specific needs of mesothelioma patients.

«And even if you do get to the point of being committed,» said author Aditi Paul in an academic study on the effectiveness of online dating, «you can cop out easily, without too many mental scars, because you know you can reactivate your profile and there will be a bunch of others waiting for you.»

At that point the only difference between Fraser and Dirty Harry is that Fraser still believes in the legal system and Dirty Harry knows that justice is an academic concept unsuited for street survival.

And even though the poetry is not always too poetic (Ash somehow gets away with saying, «You take my breath away») and a competing academic seems a poor attempt to add conflict (he does get points for attempting to recite poetry before digging up a grave), there's no denying the film's intelligence and heady appeal.

Turning point occurs when an exclusive Manhattan prep school recruits Jamal for his basketball talent and his academic achievement, and he seeks Forrester's help in dealing with the new environment, becomes a reluctant hero and Jamal gradually becomes committed not only to his own writing, but to cracking Forrester's shell.

Initially remote to the point of catatonia, Juliette has arrived to stay with Lea, a bright, perky academic, after serving 15 years in prison for a crime so horrific nobody can bring themselves to mention it directly.

Large, cross-sectional assessments are good for measuring academic performance at one point in time.

The superintendent's 10 - point plan includes full - day kindergarten, high academic standards, more professional development for teachers, and local school - governance councils.

They hope the changes will mark a turning point for the 28,000 - student district, which faces declining enrollment, a persistent achievement gap between black and white students, and a failure to meet federal academic standards...

A state that misses the required participation rate will lose points for academic achievement in the state's accountability system.

A consensus for change is developing, but as Bridget Terry Long points out in a new policy proposal commissioned by the Hamilton Project, reform efforts often sidestep substantial questions about how to improve academic preparation and — importantly — help students avoid remedial placement altogether...

Academic proficiency; academic growth using student - growth percentiles; English - language proficiency; graduation rate (four - year adjusted cohort rate, but schools can earn additional points added for progress on longerAcademic proficiency; academic growth using student - growth percentiles; English - language proficiency; graduation rate (four - year adjusted cohort rate, but schools can earn additional points added for progress on longeracademic growth using student - growth percentiles; English - language proficiency; graduation rate (four - year adjusted cohort rate, but schools can earn additional points added for progress on longer rates).

A new movement is trying to refocus admissions away from purely individual academic achievement and toward something you can't measure with SAT tests or resumes padded with public service points: real concern for others and the common good.

Facing a dilapidated set of facilities that discouraged academic improvement and scared off middle - class parents, Vallas and the equally ambitious Chico, who recently announced his intention to run for the U.S. Senate, embarked on a $ 2.5 billion school construction and renovation program that was at one point the largest building project in the nation, according to Vallas.

Eighth graders accumulate points for academics, conduct, attendance, lack of discipline referrals, and participation in extracurricular activities.