Sentences with phrase «academic presses for»

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And even though these are merely proposed restrictions for now — it's hard to test the constitutionality of a press release, one environmental law academic noted — they could well become a second front in the ongoing battle against transporting bitumen across rivers, alongside lakes and toward oceans.

It is reassuring that many of our current religious organizations understand that our nondiscrimination policy poses no threat to their religious freedom,» Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Richard McCarty said in a press release.

can only occur where there exists some institutional umbrella that can protect human rights advocates and offer both political and material support for human rights activities: a church...; a press sufficiently independent so that it can report information the government would prefer not be made public and that can offer a forum for some opponents of the government; professional associations, academic and intellectual centers which are financially solvent and not directly controlled by military or government officials.

See, for more details, R.S. Sugirtharajah, Asian Biblical Hermeneutics and Postcolonialism: Contesting the Interpretations (Sheffield: Academic Press, 1999).

Because of the remoteness of the academic discussion from the pressing concerns within the church, the church has in fact looked elsewhere for solutions to its problems.

The recommended suspension was rejected by Auburn's vice-president for academic affairs, Warren Brandt, who said, «It seems to me that Mr. Burger had really been punished by the extensive press coverage....

Jordan, a Plymouth, Michigan native, explained to the Detroit Free Press that his reason for picking the Buckeyes over the Wolverines was because of «academics».

The press are not solely to blame for this, however; Seamus Kelly, a former professional with Cardiff City and now an academic at University College Dublin, argues that pushy parents are also «a big problem, putting pressure on their «meal ticket» to money / stardom».

Third, acknowledging that some of the blame for the biased and one - sided media reporting on head injuries rests with some members of the scientific community who issue one - sided press releases and feed cherry - picked results about their findings to selected members of the media, the authors look to a day when the «harsh division and polarization» in the research community (an almost inevitable byproduct, unfortunately, of the intense competition for grant money in Concussion, Inc.), gives way to greater collaboration among researchers and a more «cordial discourse» between scientists via letters and responses to journal editors and back - and - forth debates at large academic conferences.

Actress and education advocate Cynthia Nixon speaks during a press conference with school superintendents, academics and other officials to push for more funding for schools Monday, March 24, 2014, at the

Actress and education advocate Cynthia Nixon speaks during a press conference with school superintendents, academics and other officials to push for more funding for schools Monday, March 24, 2014, at the Legislative Office Building in Albany, N.Y.

We will press ahead to support this project and take our appropriate role with our government and academic partners to facilitate this game - changing opportunity for our city.

Last month, GhCampus.com reported that, the Director - General of Ghana Education Service (GES), Mr Jacob Kor at a press briefing in Accra indicated that a total of 42 Community Day Senior High Schools (SHS) are expected to start admission of their first batch of students for 2016/2017 academic year.

A new study in SLEEP, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that delaying school start times results in students getting more sleep, and feeling better, even within societies where trading sleep for academic success is common.

The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career: A Portable Mentor for Scholars From Graduate School Through Tenure, by John Goldsmith, John Komlos, and Penny Schine Gold (University of Chicago Press, 2001), aspires to give graduate students and junior faculty a candid introduction to an academiAcademic Career: A Portable Mentor for Scholars From Graduate School Through Tenure, by John Goldsmith, John Komlos, and Penny Schine Gold (University of Chicago Press, 2001), aspires to give graduate students and junior faculty a candid introduction to an academicacademic career

«There's no excuse for not writing a cover letter that shows how your education, experience, and interests fit with what the institution is seeking,» warns Julia Miller Vick, co-author of the Academic Job Search Handbook (University of Pennsylvania Press, July 2001).

Given the paucity of academic openings and most universities» perplexing reluctance to bring their own, presumably well - trained, postdocs into their tenured ranks, there is thus a pressing need for professional - development training to equip postdocs for opportunities beyond the campus.

The findings highlight a pressing need for new curriculum and professional development for teachers to help students, and English learners in particular, to develop their academic language skills, Thompson said.

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

Cambridge University Press is an academic publisher and publishes across the full range of academic levels, from reading schemes for schools to advanced academic monographs.

A: I was one of the four who read a press release on the 10th of March on behalf of Academics for Peace in Istanbul.

As for the [10 March] press release, what I can say is that after all the retaliations academics have faced, we wanted to emphasize that we are still standing for peace.

And Branka Bošnjak, president of science and education project at the Movement for Change party, said in a press release that although CANU admitted some academics with questionable references, it always had some criteria on who it admitted.

Prof. Patrinos has more than 160 publications in peer - reviewed scientific journals and textbooks, he is the Editor of the textbook Molecular Diagnostics, published by Academic Press, now in its 2nd edition, while serves as Communicating Editor for the prestigious peer - reviewed journal Human Mutation.

Dr. Bustamante has a passion for building new academic units, non-profits, and companies to solve pressing scientific challenges.

In Death Proof, it was too academic, but here's it's successful — a critic would be hard - pressed to mistake this sweaty, desperately protracted sequence for mere sadistic directorial indulgence.

Actress and education advocate Cynthia Nixon speaks during a press conference with school superintendents, academics and other officials to push for more funding for schools Monday, March 24, 2014, at the Legislative Office Building in Albany, N.Y.

For example, I am the author of the learning styles profiler which measures the cognitive basis of learning using proper theory and which is validated in the peer reviewed academic press.

For some, academic and social commitments are overridden by a more pressing daily concern: Where will I sleep tonight?

US Born, Living in Mexico and Ineligible for Basic Services The Associated Press, July 18, 2012» «These are children who are kind of stateless in both countries,» said Hirokazu Yoshikawa, academic dean at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and author of Immigrants Raising Citizens: Undocumented Parents and Their Young Children.»

Coleman and his colleagues were subjected to blistering attacks in both academic journals and the popular press, many of them questioning whether the analysis had adequately controlled for the self - selection of students from more - advantaged families into the tuition - charging Catholic sector.

Above all, we need a new policy regime that gives teachers and schools ample incentive to press for academic growth in all their students, just as we need a culture that embraces excellence as well as equity and demands that its education system raise the ceiling on achievement even as it also lifts the floor.

But even since they launched, e-schools have received negative press for their poor academic performance, high attrition rates, and questionable capacity to educate the types of students who choose them.

«The Harvard Institute for Superintendents and District Leaders identifies the most pressing issues facing educational leaders today and provides a platform for engagement of academic discussion with colleagues from around the world.»

Many teachers, for example, admire the perceived academic prowess and motivation of Asian American students and fail to recognize how even a «positive» stereotype isn't positive if it presses students into molds not built for them individually.

During a press conference after the announcement, Buery cited studies showing academic gains for community schools in Boston and Tulsa, Oklahoma.

«The people of Kentucky want to get moving with school reform, now,» said Wade Mountz, chairman of the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence, at a Nov. 15 press conference.

The framework for our overall project also points to the mostly indirect influence of principals «actions on students and on student learning.223 Such actions are mediated, for example, by school conditions such as academic press, 224 with significant consequences for teaching and learning and for powerful features of classroom practice such as teachers «uses of instructional time.225 Evidence - informed decision making by principals, guided by this understanding of principals «work, includes having and using a broad array of evidence about many things: key features of their school «s external context; the status of school and classroom conditions mediating leaders «own leadership practices; and the status of their students «learning.

Many of these conditions are evident in other strands of our larger study including, for example, teachers «dispositions toward collaboration, teacher efficacy, trust, academic press, and disciplinary climate.

Parents who press for more challenging academic courses probably also press their children to work harder, do their homework, and so on — generating higher achievement.

Research behind VAL - ED (the Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education tool to assess principal performance, developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University) suggests that there are six key steps - or «processes» - that the effective principal takes when carrying out his or her most important leadership responsibilities: planning, implementing, supporting, advocating, communicating and monitoring.40 The school leader pressing for high academic standards would, for example, map out rigorous targets for improvements in learning (planning), get the faculty on board to do what's necessary to meet those targets (implementing), encourage students and teachers in meeting the goals (supporting), challenge low expectations and low district funding for students with special needs (advocating), make sure families are aware of the learning goals (communicating), and keep on top of test results (monitoring).41

«Extensive research has shown that students who build strong biliteracy skills (in English and one or more other languages) have higher academic success, a foundation for increased salary earnings, and stronger cognitive skills as they grow older,» Jan Gustafson - Corea CEO of the California Association for Bilingual Education said in a press release supporting Lara's bill.

(Teachers College Press, 2004), a book that helped to build the empirical base for connecting SEL to academic performance.

«It's good news for our nation's 90,000 local school board members, and an historic step toward reversing years of undue burden under the No Child Left Behind Act and restoring responsibility for school accountability and academic standards back to states and local school districts,» stated Thomas J. Gentzel, Executive Director, NSBA, in a press release issued today.

Harvey Silver, Richard Strong, and Matthew Perini have collaborated on a number of recent best sellers in education including So Each May Learn: Integrating Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences and Teaching What Matters Most: Standards and Strategies for Raising Student Achievement, both published by ASCD; Reading for Academic Success: Powerful Strategies for Struggling, Average, and Advanced Readers, Grades 7 — 12 for Corwin Press; and Thoughtful Education Press's Tools for Promoting Active, In - Depth Learning, which won a Teachers» Choice Award in 2004.

They can also consult lists of words relevant to important content areas: for example, in E. D. Hirsch's Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Vintage Press, 1988) and Robert Marzano's Building Background Knowledge for Academic Achievement (ASCD, 2004).

Since 1995, PowerKids Press has set the pace for providing a rich and diverse offering each academic season to support the needs of primary, emergent, and elementary readers.

Barnett has authored numerous academic reports and many articles for the popular education press on the future of teaching and learning in 21st century schools and the importance of teacher leadership.

Building on Ibarra's Beyond Affirmative Action: Reframing the Context of Higher Education, The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison (2001) «cultural dissonance» construct, the two learning paradigms are contrasted, and a third, the mutually adaptive learning paradigm, is posited as a pathway to academic success for this population.

Former classroom teacher, coach and chief academic officer, he is the co-author of the book Strategic Design for Student Achievement (Teachers College Press, 2009).