Sentences with phrase «academic standards while»

As the United States seeks to enforce more competitive academic standards while continuing to increase populations who speak English as a Second Language, the way educators and communities interact to support students is rapidly changing.

As a virtual public charter school, we look forward to helping students exceed academic standards while enjoying their school experience

«As a virtual public charter school, we look forward to helping students exceed the academic standards while enjoying their school experience.

«Unfortunately, we've seen all across the country urban districts get very excited about credit recovery programs and we have very little confidence that they are maintaining academic standards while catching kids up.

This would give teachers time to learn the instructional shifts required to teach for higher academic standards while some of the issues around measuring student performance are worked out.

The projects exhibit the educators» abilities to exceed strict academic standards while making learning fun and effective for their students.

In a June 2002 report mentioned earlier, Secretary Paige alarmed NCTAF, NCATE, the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, and others habituated to federal backing for the professionalism agenda with his call to raise the bar on teacher academic standards while lowering barriers to classroom entry by people without conventional pedagogical preparation.

Not exact matches

One study of Catholic values on Catholic campuses disclosed that when administrators, faculty, students, and alumni were asked to identify core Catholic values in the culture of their institutions, «high academic standards,» «academic freedom,» and «respect for the individual» regularly ranked at or near the top, while «community of faith» trailed far behind.

It maintains the same standards of academic excellence as the traditional Ph.D. while providing a delivery system designed for students currently engaged in missiological work in a North American context.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

All the while he spoke out for academic standards and ignored the blandishments of the NFL.

I remember that while the fans were certainly upset over the Stallings hire, there was some intrigue with his recruiting because he had been handcuffed quite a bit by the academic standards at Vanderbilt, so there was at least a glimmer of hope that coming to an ACC school with lowered standards would help open doors to recruits he didn't have a shot at when he was at Vanderbilt.

And in today's classroom, where teachers must compete with digital distractions for their students» attention while trying to satisfy increasingly demanding academic standards, it is more important than ever that educators be able to combat apathy, instill vital problem - solving skills, and create a climate that maximizes learning.

It had been pushing schools to implement the new academic standards, and it would have been inconsistent to give tests based on the old standards while schools were ushering in the new ones, they say.

Many district officials already have told residents they face a squeeze next year between holding down taxes while expanding instructional services needed to prep students for lessons and tests aligned with rigorous Common Core academic standards.

For the first 5 years of her daughter's life, Katerina Michaelides, a senior lecturer in hydrology at the University of Bristol, had to keep her full - time workload to the standard hours of professional child care so that she could look after her daughter in the mornings and evenings as sole parent while her academic husband spent his weeks working at a university approximately 650 kilometers away.

While more than two - thirds of nonacademic organizations consider performance reviews standard practice, almost half the academic institutions questioned in a survey conducted by COSEPUP said they do not officially review their postdocs.

While I will need a standard CV for any academic positions I pursue, I must develop a one or two page resume for industry jobs.

While supporters hope the proposal will speed up studies and boost the chances of German graduates in the increasingly global job market for academics, critical voices bemoan the sacrifice of tradition and fear that Germany's high education standards might suffer.

Latino teachers were better perceived across all measures, while students perceived Black teachers (more than their White peers) to hold students to high academic standards and support their efforts, to help them organize content, and to explain ideas clearly and provide feedback.

While the Mediterranean diet was able to hold its own against the powerful fat reducing Atkins diet, the Low Fat American Heart Association standard was left choking in the dust — sad, tired and unloved except by academic physicians.

While the word «accountability» never appears in Risk, its call for higher academic standards and its focus on student achievement as the main barometer of quality laid the intellectual groundwork for the rigorous curricula and tests envisioned by the promoters of standards - based -LSB-...]

Individual schools will respond to the needs of their families and employees while the state sets standards and monitors academic results.

While the gains among these initial 3rd graders are not as dramatic as the 4th grade gains which had captured national attention, Winters found «the gains among initial 3rd graders were very substantial,» about 0.36 standard deviations between 1998 and 2009, or roughly a full additional year of academic progress.

While her primary focus — and the focus of many media reports about her — has been on vouchers, tax credits, and education savings accounts, organizations she has led or helped found have also advanced other reform initiatives, such as accountability for student learning and more - rigorous academic standards.

Next, ask yourself: While teaching students the required skills and academic standards in the curriculum, in what ways can I center this as a topic in our unit of study?

While providers of public education certainly face the temptation to do what might look like taking the easy way out by letting academic standards decline, there is also countervailing pressure in the direction of higher standards.

While necessary and appealing, this drive toward higher standards raises justifiable concern: Are schools promoting academic excellence for those who already have a competitive advantage, while turning away from the far more difficult task of fostering achievement among those who doWhile necessary and appealing, this drive toward higher standards raises justifiable concern: Are schools promoting academic excellence for those who already have a competitive advantage, while turning away from the far more difficult task of fostering achievement among those who dowhile turning away from the far more difficult task of fostering achievement among those who do not?

As a result, educators channeled increasing numbers of students into undemanding, nonacademic courses, while lowering standards in the academic courses that were required for graduation.

Finally, I describe two public charter schools that succeed in teaching their predominantly minority students both rigorous academic content and 21st - century skills, while holding themselves to the standard of graduating 100 percent of their students, and sending nearly all to four - year colleges.

Haythorpe said while those students may have other qualities that will make them good teachers, it is a concern that other pathways are being used to lower academic entry standards even further.

Our experienced consultants can help ensure that your students are engaged in real - world problems and tasks, while still meeting the demands of rigorous academic standards.

Florida and Indiana's participating private schools can hold scholarship students to the same academic admissions requirements they employ for non-scholarship students, while participating schools in Louisiana can not employ academic admissions standards to scholarship students.

While providers of public education certainly face the temptation to do what might look like taking the easy way out by letting academic standards slip, there is also countervailing pressure in the direction of higher standards (especially, as long as there are competing standards in other states).

A group of grade - level teachers, physical education teachers and counselors will analyze scholarly resources to determine how to integrate food, nutrition, health and culture (while maintaining Park City School District's rigorous academic standards) into existing curriculum.

While Kansas officials cited cost as their reason for exiting, political turmoil over the new, multistate Common Core academic standards has played a role in other states» decisions to back out.

The Senate approved a bill Wednesday delaying the standards until the 2015 - 16 school year while the House approved a delay until next academic year.

I am grateful for the work of SAGE Academy to develop life - long learning habits in students, while holding a high standard of academic excellence.

«While literacy has always been critical for the academic success of students, the revised expectations in the Common Core standards increase the significance of this development.

Brad Carl, associate director of the center, said while it's possible to do that, the most accurate way to compare test takers is to have all students taking the same test on the same academic standards.

While academic content standards such as NGSS lay out concepts and skills students should learn at each grade level, the curricular framework serves as a blueprint for delivering those standards and includes criteria for evaluating instructional materials aligned to the new content.

Members of the Academic Standards Review Commission have until December 2015 to suggest changes to North Carolina's standards, which include Common Core, to the State Board of Education, which is then required to take those suggestions into account while conducting its own review of the academic stAcademic Standards Review Commission have until December 2015 to suggest changes to North Carolina's standards, which include Common Core, to the State Board of Education, which is then required to take those suggestions into account while conducting its own review of the academic stacademic standards.

While he was writing the Common Core, Jason Zimba kept a copy of Indiana's old academic standards handy.

Our essay writers know how to make the essay paper meet all the requirements of the professor, while skillfully following the academic standards for college paper and essay writing.

With this in mind, ACE works to bolster the ever - increasing standard for academic excellence in Catholic schools, while maintaining — indeed, reinvigorating — the Catholic culture and identity that make these sacred places one our of greatest national treasures.

His stories reveal how these «soft skills» can be honed while meeting and exceeding academic standards of 21st century learning and redefine the purpose of the work you do so you will aspire for nothing short of excellence!

Public charter schools are tuition - free, open - enrollment public schools that have the flexibility to adapt to the educational needs of individual students, while held to strict state academic and financial accountability standards.

His stories reveal how these «soft skills» can be honed while meeting and exceeding academic standards of 21st - century learning.

While student bodies elected most student representatives, facts were not available on whether those elected were representative of the majority student body, either by race, academic achievement, or other standards.

While the federal government should not require states to adopt a specific set of standards, such as the Common Core, it makes sense for NCLB to mandate that states use academic standards that are independently validated as rigorous, clear, and coherent.