Sentences with phrase «academic responsibility for»

This rigorous program raises the level of academic responsibility for our students and serves as an important indicator of our students» preparedness for success in college and beyond.

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More plausible and more troubling is Ravitch's claim that «test - based accountability... removes all responsibility from students and their families for students» academic performance.»

Our own historic errors have much responsibility for the errors of contemporary academic disciplines and humanistic culture generally.

The judge added: «Universities also have a wide range of interests in and responsibilities for their students - academic social and pastoral.

The resultant denial of personal responsibility for thoughts, attitudes, and conduct has in a variety of ways affected the intellectual and academic disciplines from sociology, psychology, and criminology to political science, history, and the humanities.

Furthermore, if situations arise in which academic interests compete with concerns for students» «piety» for added time or financial resources, the response characteristically shaped by this ethos would be to assign to the «churches» responsibility for «piety» and to assign priority within the school to the academic interests.

«Several years after the UNC scandal began and in the midst of the NCAA disciplinary process, the NCAA quietly chose to distance itself from oversight responsibility for academic wrongdoing.

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.

Prepare your child for the change of academic responsibilities by talking to them about what they might experience.

In our city, where three - fourths of public school students qualify for free and reduced - priced lunches, we have a special responsibility to make sure that each and every child receives the nutritious, delicious meals that will propel them to academic success.

The following table sets out the responsibilities for funding high needs provision in different types of provider for both pre and post 16 students for the 2016 to 2017 academic year:

What Labour needs to do is persuade the minority of people who or make no effort to obtain the academic qualfications and training and lead a healthy lifestyle to take responsibility for themselves, in order to reduce the budgets for welfare and healthcare.

Evaluating the Public Health Responsibility Deal for Alcohol surveys the evidence on the Government's flagship public health programme, which was launched in 2011 as a voluntary partnership with commercial organisations, public bodies, academics and NGOs to promote public health goals.

He reiterated his respect for the rights of labour unions in relations to the responsibilities of the owners and proprietors of tertiary academic institutions.

Since the responsibility for postdoctoral fellows within the academic senate lies under its graduate council, we also invited the chair and vice chair of the council.

Warner's program aims to develop a community of people who strive for self - improvement and take responsibility for their own academic careers.

«For example, some cancers may not impact many patients and some antibacterial drugs, such as that for drug - resistant tuberculosis, may not be profitable, but it is almost a responsibility of biomedical researchers in academics to do something about it.&raqFor example, some cancers may not impact many patients and some antibacterial drugs, such as that for drug - resistant tuberculosis, may not be profitable, but it is almost a responsibility of biomedical researchers in academics to do something about it.&raqfor drug - resistant tuberculosis, may not be profitable, but it is almost a responsibility of biomedical researchers in academics to do something about it.»

Corporate social responsibility, or CSR — a name for the actions companies take to advance social good, above and beyond that which is required by law — continues to draw interest from practitioners and academics alike.

It is common for those whose research takes off to begin their academic careers with an afternoon clinic and 2 months of service per year and end up with 1 month only or even no clinical responsibilities.

But ultimately, shouldn't it be the responsibility of the entire academic community to eradicate prejudice and value people for their work and ideas rather than their sexual preferences?

One of my responsibilities in the Honor Council was organizing an Awareness Week for the University Honor System, a student - run system in which we all pledge to act with academic integrity.

In addition, hiring postdocs at academic institutions in the United States is solely the responsibility of individual PIs, who need experiments to be done and papers to be written so that they can continue to get funding for their labs.

«Many permanent academic posts represent leadership positions, requiring an ability to publish papers and secure external funding... as well as heavy responsibilities for management, administration and teaching.

The research agency highlights its responsibility for young academics and the researchers employed in temporary projects.

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The overriding theme is that the responsibility for improving Britain's industrial and commercial performance will fall onto the academic community.

Indeed, their recent research indicates that women PhDs turn away from academic science because they face a culture that precludes time and responsibility for home, family, and life.

One of Kristian Sandberg's responsibilities will be to strengthen the platform as a resource for academic drug discovery available to all scientists at Swedish universities.

Key responsibilities Conduct lectures and trainings for researchers / authors on academic writing and publication concepts Convey new or unfamiliar Movie 43 (2013) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

He shows how reform after reform has gone forward with the same assumptions: that students are passive recipients of instruction, that teachers are all - powerful molders of inert student clay, and that students have no responsibility for their own academic success.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

* Students accept personal responsibility for their academic performance.

A joint effort by Detroit businesses, educators, and community groups to provide jobs for high - school graduates who meet tougher academic standards has been delayed by infighting over the amount of responsibility to be shouldered by companies and schools.

a set of extremely high expectations for students and families with regard to academic performance, a strong work ethic, appropriate behavior, and responsibility.

In the year - round program at Fairview Elementary School, in Modesto, California, for example (see «Power to the People,»), students benefit from an emphasis on civic literacy and responsibility in addition to a regular academic program with about the same number of school days as traditional schools.

In Kelly School, which is discussed in the book, these characteristics were built through a set of interrelated organizational routines including close monitoring of each student's academic progress, an explicit link between students» outcomes and teachers» practices, weekly 90 - minute professional development meetings focused on instructional improvement, and the cultivation of a formal and informal discourse emphasizing high expectations, cultural responsiveness, and teachers» responsibility for student learning.

Those who are charged with the responsibility for helping our children become college, career, and contribution ready need to emphasize both the academic and SEL skills necessary for success.

With a culture emphasizing respect, responsibility, ritual, and relationships, Chicago's Urban Prep Charter Academy provides young men with a supportive community for learning academic and life skills.

Thus, principals need to take responsibility for increasing academic learning time by modeling positive behaviors.

Leaders should fiercely defend academic freedom and free speech, and honor diverse forms of scholarship — but they should also help everyone understand that such freedoms are coupled with deep responsibility and, when used as «cover» for manifestly hateful speech, will be met with equally strong speech representing other opinions (and sanctions, when appropriate).

Social - emotional learning (SEL) can thrive in environments where stakeholders are committed to sharing responsibility for supporting implementation and where there is shared vision and leadership around social - emotional and academic success for all students.

Major Responsibilities Developed academic growth programs that led to increases in student grades and test scores; served as technology integration coordinator for building.

Education scholars like Kahlenberg, one of the nation's leading advocates for economic integration, note droves of research papers that cite the positive impacts of diversity in K - 12 schooling, including enhanced critical thinking, higher academic achievement, greater civic responsibility, higher college - going rates and more lucrative jobs.

The teachers they observed teaching for meaning wanted to give children more responsibility for learning, wanted to provide academic tasks that asked more of students, and sustained engagement in learning among children.

Imagine Schools» educators provide a positive learning environment by working closely with parents and guardians to fulfill a collaborative responsibility for the academic and personal growth of their children.

To create a world - class, 21st century educational experience for all students to achieve academic success, develop personal and civic responsibility, and achieve career and college readiness for the future.

NKO engages students in a challenging academic environment and fosters in all students a sense of responsibility for themselves and their community.

At the post-secondary level, students experience responsibility for academics that guide them into the essentials of lifelong learning and are validated through their decisions and actions.

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

NASSP acknowledges that within the school building, the principal bears the ultimate responsibility for implementing schoolwide reforms that will lead to high academic achievement for all students.