Sentences with phrase «academic readings of»

Currently I am a Principal Investigator of Project ESCOLAR (Etext Supports for Collaborative Online Learning and Academic Reading) a five year grant funded by the Office of Special education Programs (OSEP) to develop, test, evaluate, refine, and disseminate Collaborative Online Projects designed to support academic reading of science content for middle school students with learning disabilities.

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Shorn of human weaknesses like the need to eat or sleep, computers are now speed - reading through not only the vast academic literature but also CT scans, electronic medical records, and mountains of data from clinical trials and genomic studies.

Regulators read the press reports of directors serving 40 years, auditors even serving up to 100, and communicate with academics on what the empirical research findings are.

The notion promoted by the Canadian technology council that an arts education leads to better results in a wide range of other areas was repeatedly deflated: «There is no evidence for a link between theatre training and overall academic skill... We found no evidence that dance education improves overall academic skills or reading... There is no evidence that training in visual arts improves overall academic skills or literacy.»

I gathered data for both groups regarding their careers / employment, the percentage born to wealth, poverty or the middle - class, spending habits, academic performance, education, perceptions of wealth / poverty, various health data, inherited money data, gambling habits, home ownership, car ownership, reading habits, relationship management, savings habits, self - improvement habits, time management habits, beliefs, vacation habits, volunteering habits, networking habits, voting habits and work - related data.

A: I read a lot of academic research, and embedded deep into this research is actionable advice on how to push back against certain issues of sexism.

At least by our reading, the academic backgrounds of startup investors is quite diverse.

Haskayne Reads is the Haskayne School of Business reading circle that piloted in the 2015 - 2016 academic year following a focus on enhancing student experience at the autumn faculty and staff retreat.

But it seems to me that one of the problems with academic articles is that the reader doesn't get a chance to comment on the article, and the author doesn't get the chance to read readers» comments and respond to them.

We are quite pleased to read academic substantiation of our investing style, but we recognize that in academic research it is never «game over.»

In this work, Marion, who divides his academic year between the University of Chicago and the Sorbonne, focuses primarily on the Confessions, though he reads it in the light of the entire Augustinian corpus.

I can't claim to be providing certainly accurate information on this, since it's been a while since I've done relevant physics reading (lay books, not academic), but in the early universe (before inflation went out of control) there were irregularities that gave rise to clumping, from which the first stars and galaxies originated.

He, too, was a long - time reader of First Things, and in conversations showed himself a thoughtful and well - read academic.

I don't know Boghossian's academic history, but I would be stunned if it included a degree of any sort in psychology, or even substantial reading in the field.

Achieving Our Country is a poignant plea to heal that breach, and since Rorty knows that his book will be read more by professors than by plumbers, he stretches his liberalism to appease both the academic apocalypticists of despair and the leftists of sexual and cultural liberation.

With the modern problem of theodicy, the readings of Job that attract Larrimore's attention are increasingly embedded in larger philosophical, literary, or academic projects.

During that time I read much of the existing academic material on leadership.

«Often the best people with whom to do SR are not academics, but regular folks who have been raised reading and listening to the Bible, who have received some basic socialization into the world of scripture,» says Ochs.

They bring with them all sorts of interesting experience, but it often doesn't include the experience of reading the kinds of academic books that are the staple of theological education.

Hotbeds of intolerance, they deny academic freedom to their staffs and engage in censorship of what their pupils may read or discuss, unlike public schools, which practice a careful neutrality and respect toward all opinions.

I may get more help in deciding how to make ethical decisions as a Christian by reading Pilgrim's Progress or a biography of Dorothy Day or Martin Luther King, Jr. — or by reading the Gospels — than by reading an academic discussion of medical ethics.

The reason they sign up for it (probably not true of all of them, but for many of them) is they think it is just wonderful that you can get academic credit for reading the Bible.

I would not recommend The Curse of Cain easily: Those who enjoy being scandalized» who enjoy reacting against either «monotheism» or «liberal academic chic»» should not read this book, for it is too easy to do so in a way that panders to their titillation.

This was vividly brought home to me recently, reading the vast work of academic moral philosophy On What Matters, by Derek Parfit, in which problems concerning the switching of trolleys from one rail to another in order to prevent or cause the deaths of those further down the line are presented as showing the essence of moral reasoning and its place in the life of human beings.

Dr. Podles also suggests I am a picky academic who exaggerated an insignificant and correctable mistake about whether Bernard of Clairvaux read Origen in the Greek.

It is not an easy book to read, and if it had been read and reviewed only in the academic journals, like others of Altizer's books, issues of academic freedom would not have arisen.

Those of you who have read other, more popular works by Hahn, may be surprised by the much more academic, foot - noted nature of this work.

After a long personal and professional life spent reading philosophy and literature that pointed inevitably, it seemed to me, toward a secular vision, I was skeptical that forthright expressions of religious belief could compete in logic or intellect with Derrida, Foucault, Rorty, and other academic idols of the eighties and nineties.

Many of us in the academic world would trade body parts for students able and willing to read anything, whether part of a sacred canon or not, with such care.

She doesn't read a lot of books or spend dozens of hours each week studying... but she always knows more theology than I do, and always asks penetrating questions which shoot holes through all my acadamagician ideas (Yes, I just coined that term... it's a cross between academic and magician... because that's what most theology is.

Third, a sermon is neither an academic term paper nor a paper to be read at the annual meeting of some learned society.

The labels on that box read: «Handle with care or be accused of racism,» or «Do not presume the individual inside is qualified for his academic position,» or possibly «Caution: black neoconservative, probably a nut case.»

not do a mere cursory reading of it... been studying it both in academic settings and at home for over 25 years

The Fourfold Gospel: A Theological Reading of the New Testament Portraits of Jesusby francis watsonbaker academic, 224 pages, $ 24.99 Ever since the pathbreaking work of Brevard Childs in the 1970s, what has come to be called «canon criticism» (as distinct from source criticism and form....

«you are not interested in reading about and rationalizing the real story of your Jesus» is a silly claim bearing in mind the academic robustness required of me in studying theology at honours level and biblical interpretation at masters, validated by the secular Aberdeen University in Scotland.

These sections are not overly academic, but help answer some of the major questions and issues that people face when they read Psalms.

For all that, of course, anyone who supposes that an academic life is chiefly one of leisured reflection and friendly conversation need only read your pages on teaching at Notre Dame and at Duke to begin to see how intensely politicized is the contemporary university.

It is an abstraction, the frame of reference of which, I have noticed in reading some of the literature, changes depending on who uses it, what intellectual tendencies he or she represents, what academic discipline he or she comes from, and specially what political persuasion, inclination or group he or she belongs to.

This is a remarkably daring text, the sort of book many academics avoid like the plague: a book aimed at a wide reading public, written with the hope that it might actually change the lives of some of its readers.

The most famous atheist in the academic world over the last half - century, Professor Antony Flew of England's University of Reading, now accepts the existence of God.

It should be read also by priests and catechists — and by academic theologians who want to see how erudition can be put in the service of people.

Dialogue with Nietzsche by Gianni Vattimo Columbia University Press, 247 pages, $ 29.50 It is part of academic folklore to defend philosophers against unskilled readings by nonspecialists.

I think the discrepancy lies in the fact that theology is the remaking of the word of God into something academic — which is, of course, the antithesis of reading with a view to do.

They liked pious material best; they could market it not only to the numerous laity who could read, but also to the less snobbish members of the clerical and academic world.

Lynch's academic habit of writing often leaves non-specialists, for whom the book is clearly intended, feeling that we would do better to live in our world and ponder it, rather than read a book about how we know.

Unlike wheat or rice (which are low in lysine), and like oats, quinoa contains a balanced set of essential amino acids for humans, making it a complete protein source, unusual among plant foods (Wikipedia, 2011; (note to students reading: this is not an appropriate source for academic papers!)-RRB-.

Finally, numerous studies have shown access to books is an indicator of future reading and academic success.

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I once read something by some sociology academic that basically said that it only takes 10 % of a population to start perpetrating and promoting a myth on a regular basis before it quickly becomes an «accepted fact» by the general population, and many of the remaining 90 % will happily trawl out the party line like dumb sheep.

most of our players are from our academic, n some we pick them when they were still young n they grown up together, played together and lived together n so their understanding n mind reading is so great.