Sentences with phrase «academic quality at»

The mandate for the Free Education Committee talks about keeping our current academic quality at historic enrollment levels.

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Though the already carefully screened candidates are put through a grueling treadmill of physical and academic challenges at OCS, the most - scrutinized quality is what the marines constantly and almost casually refer to as «leadership.»

Today, she's at the same institution with a different role — she transitioned from the business - operations team on the academic side of things to being a quality specialist on the hospital side — and receiving a much higher annual salary: $ 72,000.

We look at the quantitative features of the application such as the GPA and EDT / GMAT / GRE score, but also at the quality of the essays, references, interview, academic background, international work and extra-curricular experiences.

Students at Forest Bluff School not only exhibit academic excellence, but also the many qualities that constitute positive character development: empathy, integrity, grit, resilience, responsibility, initiative, self - discipline, self - reflection, and respect for themselves, others, and the environment.

Dr. Cheyney currently directs the International Reproductive Health Laboratory at Oregon State University where she has developed an academic learning community comprised of five undergraduate research assistants, 12 graduate students and one postdoctoral fellow whose research agendas are focused on identifying culturally appropriate ways to improve access to high quality midwifery care as a means of reducing health inequalities for mothers and babies in the U.S and abroad.

Mary J Renfrew: has received grants for quality improvement work related to feeding infants in neonatal units; small amounts of money, in regard to co-authoring a book; and been an invited speaker at a range of professional and academic organisations, for which no fee was received.

EFA has been also been working with provider associations during the 2014 to 2015 academic year on improving the quality of data received at R04 and R06.

The percentage of Pennsylvania Secondary Schools who have access to professional quality health care provided by a Licensed Athletic Trainer (LAT) at the school has risen from 81 % during the 2010 - 2011 academic year to 86 % during the current 2011 - 2012 academic year.

On her part, Ms Lankai Quarcoopome, who is an alumnus of the school (AGOSA» 76) and also the Guest Speaker, said she believes that «through quality education, we could make our lives better and also transform our nation and for this reason, we must insist on achieving very high academic and performance standards at all levels in the country.»

As well as English and maths, it will measure how well pupils perform in at least three subjects from the English Baccalaureate — sciences, history, geography, languages — and Computer Science, and in three additional subjects, whether those are arts subjects, academic subjects or high quality vocational qualifications.

Backed by an extensive offering of premium laboratory instruments, consumables and services, the LPS division concentrates on serving the needs of laboratories performing research and quality assurance at pharma and biopharma companies and on those in academic research institutes.

NIH examines indicators such as the track record of graduates in academic medicine positions, time to graduation, overall student happiness, how well the program integrates the medical and scientific training, and most importantly, the quality of the scientists and science available to the MD / PhD students; NIH manifests disapproval or approval of a program by decreasing, increasing, or maintaining the number of funded trainee positions at that institution.

Academics often say disdainfully that you need a certain quality to work at a large biotech or pharmaceutical company, and that quality is evil.

«My advice is that if you really enjoy research in an academic environment and are good at it, then persevere, there will always be quality research opportunities available for well - trained researchers,» says Seifert.

The rationale behind the proposal, according to Queen's Principal, William Leggett, is that with greater autonomy, the university would be better able to maintain and even significantly enhance the quality of academic education and at the same time maintain full accessibility with increases to student assistance.

«MMCI significantly increased a teacher's odds of attaining the level of quality interactions needed for pre-k programs to most meaningfully contribute to children's social and academic outcomes,» said Kelly Maxwell, senior program area co-director for early childhood at Child Trends and co-author of the report.

«Despite the difficulties, we have to adapt to an archaeological record that is massively expanded and, at its best, of far better quality than has been achieved by academics, who are often very part - time fieldworkers.»

One of the key skills in BI, as in academic research, is the ability to ask the right question, says Raif Majeed, who leads a quality assurance engineering subteam in Seattle at Tableau, a BI company that was founded by two Stanford University computer scientists.

Genuinely acknowledging and rewarding these other key impact factors, such as societal engagement, teaching excellence, and input and deliberation at key meetings and conference participation could go a long way toward balancing the demands of academic output to publish alone, thus lessening the pressure to spend endless weekends and vacation time writing for quantity rather than quality.

Ottersen leads a broad - based team whose objective is to promote the quality of research and tuition at all faculties, and his team aims to develop the University of Oslo into an internationally leading university with academic breadth centred around research.

Accreditation ensures that our students will be well - qualified at the post-secondary level after completing our educational programs, and that the quality and standards of our course instruction and methods are maintained at the highest, post-secondary academic level: «in keeping with our Natural Health and Holistic Nutrition Hygienic philosophy.»

Shawn Mahoney Technology, Innovation, and Education City: Columbus, Ohio Current job: Chief Academic Officer, McGraw - Hill Education Career highlights: Completing Ph.D. in Educational Technology; leading a world - class product design and development team; serving on the revision committee for iNACOL National Standards for Quality Online Courses; co-presenting at SXSW with Robert Atkinson, Chris Hoadley, and Jeff Bergin on LX Design

Academic Dean Robert Schwartz and Pforzheimer Professor Susan Moore Johnson played prominent roles at an international seminar in October that examined how to recruit, retrain, develop, and nurture a high - quality teaching force.

Assessment is at the heart of education: Teachers and parents use test scores to gauge a student's academic strengths and weaknesses, communities rely on these scores to judge the quality of their educational system, and state and federal lawmakers use these same metrics to determine whether public schools are up to scratch.

The article, «Gains in Teacher Quality: Academic capabilities of the U.S. teaching force are on the rise,» will be published in the Winter 2014 (November) issue and is available now at http://educationnext.org.

Budget includes $ 100 million for teacher - quality initiatives, half of which will be directed toward raising teacher salaries and half designed for financial rewards for teachers at low - performing schools whose students show marked academic gains.

I am told that a major effort is now being launched in Denver to use these technologies to lift the quality of academic instruction — while reducing costs — at Catholic high schools.

Parents struggle to navigate their many, mostly low - performing options, and providers face at best weak incentives to improve academic quality.

Though Common Core and academic curriculum hold a strong place at the educational table, and rightfully so, doesn't it make sense to also focus upon the character development and qualities that could help to produce adults, not only talented and motivated, but inherently driven to help make the world a better place?

Kevin Hall: At a minimum, a high - quality charter school produces a vast majority of students who meet or exceed academic standards regardless of their ethnic or socioeconomic background and who are well prepared for postsecondary success.

While conventional wisdom, at least in some circles, holds that people judge schools on the basis of something other than academic quality — most odiously, the racial mix of their student body — here we have reassuring evidence that people evaluate schools on the basis of academics.

But the state's urgent task is to provide new, high - quality seats for the 57,000 students languishing in its worst schools, those occupying the bottom 10 percent of academic performance for at least three years.

Mo2L is based on academic research which aimed at developing a usability evaluation method as a quality evaluation method for eLearning courses and eLearning applications.

Connecting with students Edge Hill University recognise that, whilst university reputation and quality / availability of academic degree course will undoubtedly be at the forefront of student choice at the application stage, converting «conditional offers» into actual places taken up can rely significantly upon the whole product offer.

«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.

It is common for software programs to now be available either free or at a low - cost subscription thus, making it easy for students to use high quality academic applications without breaking the bank.

Annually measures, for all students and separately for each subgroup of students, the following indicators: Academic achievement (which, for high schools, may include a measure of student growth, at the State's discretion); for elementary and middle schools, a measure of student growth, if determined appropriate by the State, or another valid and reliable statewide academic indicator; for high schools, the four - year adjusted cohort graduation rate and, at the State's discretion, the extended - year adjusted cohort graduation rate; progress in achieving English language proficiency for English learners; and at least one valid, reliable, comparable, statewide indicator of school quality or student succAcademic achievement (which, for high schools, may include a measure of student growth, at the State's discretion); for elementary and middle schools, a measure of student growth, if determined appropriate by the State, or another valid and reliable statewide academic indicator; for high schools, the four - year adjusted cohort graduation rate and, at the State's discretion, the extended - year adjusted cohort graduation rate; progress in achieving English language proficiency for English learners; and at least one valid, reliable, comparable, statewide indicator of school quality or student succacademic indicator; for high schools, the four - year adjusted cohort graduation rate and, at the State's discretion, the extended - year adjusted cohort graduation rate; progress in achieving English language proficiency for English learners; and at least one valid, reliable, comparable, statewide indicator of school quality or student success; and

The creative tension between the autonomy that our expert teachers value so highly, and the common aspects of shared accountability that enables BASIS Curriculum Schools to maintain academic quality control across the network, is the nexus at the heart of our classroom learning culture.

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The latter part, called the quality - adjusted AP participation rate, is the number of 12th - grade students in the 2014 - 2015 academic year who took and passed — received an AP score of 3 or higher — at least one AP test before or during their senior year, divided by the number of 12th - graders at that school.

Representatives at the NJCSA claim, as do other proponents of charter school expansion, that charters offer superior academic benefits to children: «Across the country and in New Jersey, high - quality charter schools are making a difference.

tarting at the new elementary school campus, at which 80 % of the students are English Language Learners, and moving through a full - service middle school and high school, Match's academic program will offer both quality and continuity for Boston families.

All of these units provide high quality teaching and excellent academic programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

SPF uses 16 different indicators that measure quality of academics (60 percent of total score), and culture and climate (40 percent of total score) to arrive at an overall school score.

Residents who are selected — through a rigorous process that looks at personal qualities needed for successful teaching, as well as academics — then apprentice alongside an expert teacher in a high - need school for a full academic year, receiving tuition support and a living stipend to support them.

Two academic researchers from the University of Southern California and the University of Pennsylvania looked at these value - added measures in six districts around the nation and found that there was weak to zero relationship between these new numbers and the content or quality of the teacher's instruction.

At CCE, we break high - quality Personalized Learning down into six principles: next generation curriculum and assessment, competency - based progression, flexible learning environments, personalized learning pathways, social - emotional learning / academic mindsets, and engaged learning.

Other findings were: 82 percent of people supported focusing on building students» job or career skills even at the expense of traditional academic subjects; 86 percent said schools should offer licensing programs and; 80 percent said technology and engineering classes were a very important element of school quality.