Sentences with phrase «academic struggles in»

It further speaks to their ability to persevere after some of them have come to us having had academic struggles in the past.

Not exact matches

Automation is often depicted in news articles and some academic literature as a titanic struggle between man and machine, in which the machine seems destined to win and the only question is how soon to schedule the medal ceremony.

The Harvard law professor, who is locked in a tight race against Republican Scott Brown, has lost ground in recent weeks as she struggles to shake off stories about whether she used her unconfirmed Native American heritage to bolster her academic career.

True, his contribution to theological existence and witness in South Africa and Latin America has been more in the arena of struggle than in academic study, but any dichotomy between theological reflection and praxis is inappropriate if we take his legacy seriously.

Mark is a veteran of many academic battles, always struggling to keep the human in the humanities and the actually - knowing - something in knowledge.

Gramsci claimed many workers before the war «had seen in futurism the elements of a struggle against the old academic culture of Italy, mummified and alien to the popular masses.

I was scared that I wouldn't be able to cope with the academic studies, would struggle with the spiritual disciplines, and end up drowning in debt.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

If Christians are to contribute prophetically to the struggle for new meaning and purpose in academic life, they must attend with quickened imagination to «the teaching of the apostles, to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to the prayers.»

Since 1976 I have been associated with the faculty, students, staff, and administration of Pacific School of Religion, where an entire academic community is also a faith community struggling with a multitude of social justice issues in personal and corporate ways.

It's a big deal in light of North Carolina's other and very similar academic shenanigans (Peppers struggled at everything but African and African - American studies classes, which we'd assumed was a more recent thing for UNC).

KEMP AND CREMINS Sir: Jan Kemp's story (This Case Was One For The Books, Feb. 24) should inspire all those educators who struggle daily to instill high academic standards in their students.

In a series of experiments, Cohen, Walton, and Yeager have shown the power of what seem to be small - scale mindset interventions — watching a brief video of an older student talking about his struggles with belonging, or reading a magazine article that presents a growth - mindset perspective on brain development — to significantly improve the academic performance of students who are vulnerable to stereotype threat, including low - income students and African - American students.

How exactly do the neurobiological adaptations that result from an adverse early childhood evolve into the social and academic struggles that so many disadvantaged students experience in school?

All kids, at some point in their academic career, will struggle, so try hard not to view their setbacks or anxiety as a permanent threat to their school career.

During his budget testimony in Albany earlier this month, de Blasio highlighted his administration's attempt at turning around struggling schools: a $ 150 million Renewal Schools program to add academic supports and turn the schools into community schools with social services.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio will close 14 New York City schools at the end of this academic year, nine of which are in the Renewal program for struggling schools, the Department of Education announced.

Jeff has 15 years experience serving in education, and he recognizes the financial and academic struggles many face each day.

The state provides $ 922,000 annually for additional academic support services for struggling students in non-public schools.

Its «leadership coaches,» mostly retired principals, have also been hired in the mayor's three - year - old Renewal program for struggling schools, which has shown meager academic gains.

The Renewal program adds academic supports and social services to the struggling schools, most of which are in low - income neighborhoods.

He commiserated with others who were struggling in the academic market and connected with rare - disease advocates.

With Napoleon's demise, Fourier struggled to regain political favor and acceptance in the academic world, and eventually succeeded, but his political and diplomatic embroilments consumed much of his time when he should have been doing math.

Being able to publish papers is crucial for any academic to further their career, but it's an avenue that can be difficult to access for those no longer affiliated with a university, unfamiliar with international publishing conventions, or struggling to write in a second language.

Another challenge is time: Some academics struggle to contain their work in the community to do what's needed to advance professionally,» June writes.

In addition to the struggle to find funding, the founder of the IR, Jimmy Reddoch, anticipated that some faculty members might view the presence of «industry» groups in an academic setting as inappropriatIn addition to the struggle to find funding, the founder of the IR, Jimmy Reddoch, anticipated that some faculty members might view the presence of «industry» groups in an academic setting as inappropriatin an academic setting as inappropriate.

Ms. Rosenfeld, whose own parents were an academic couple, recalls that her father landed a job at Oberlin College in the 1960s, while her mother struggled for years to find equally meaningful work.

Not all scientists at the conference intend to struggle for an academic position; those interested in alternative career paths met representatives of industry and nonacademic research institutions at a series of workshops.

On Twitter, he commiserated with others who were struggling in the academic market and connected with rare - disease advocates.

An article in Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the weekly news magazine of the American Chemical Society, explores some of the struggles that academics in Syria face today.

The narrative reminded me of academic meetings when I listened while avant garde philosophers writhed almost in agony as they struggled to give birth to thoughts they evidently considered so deep as to defy expression in everyday language.

In addition to the services we provide within the McLean community, we offer academic consultation, transition support, and psychoeducational outpatient services to students who are struggling to co-manage their mental health and academic lives.

In today's Academic Minute, Dr. Corey Brettschneider of Brown University explores American society's ongoing struggle to minimize hate speech while preserving the First Amendment.

Maggie's Plan entangles Gerwig's serial bachelorette career woman with Ethan Hawke's struggling academic and his wife, a neurotic Swedish scholar played by Julianne Moore, in a game of who loves who.

Amazon's latest pilot season consists of three series: I Love Dick, created by Transparent's Jill Soloway and based on a feminist novel about a couple's marital struggles in the academic community of Texas, starring Kevin Bacon and Kathryn Hahn; Jean - Claude Van Johnson, a new action comedy starring the actor as a fictionalised version of himself, in which he moonlights as a secret hit - man in between Hollywood jobs; and The Tick, an updated adaptation of the offbeat comic book, starring Peter Serafinowicz.

I find myself every year in the peculiar position as a film academic spending all my time talking about and screening film, and then struggling to physically get to see stuff that's actually showing at cinemas and festivals.

For example, a recent study conducted in urban middle schools found that there were more similarities than differences in the reading profiles of struggling students from non-English-speaking and English - speaking households, and that low academic vocabulary knowledge, a major component of advanced literacy skills, was a shared source of difficulty.

Gross illuminates the Catholic struggle to create an alternative school system in sober, academic language free of the hysteria surrounding much of the contemporary debate over school choice.

In short, relative poverty rates, which are only weakly related to student achievement both in the U.S. and abroad, are erroneously used to explain America's academic struggleIn short, relative poverty rates, which are only weakly related to student achievement both in the U.S. and abroad, are erroneously used to explain America's academic strugglein the U.S. and abroad, are erroneously used to explain America's academic struggles.

I am fortunate enough to work in an environment that encourages me to link academic problems to life - struggling questions.

Over the past several years Florida has attempted substantial reforms of its struggling public school system, the fourth - largest in the country and one that consistently ranks close to the bottom on academic indicators, including high - school graduation rates and scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

In Lecturer David Rose's Universal Design for Learning class at the Ed School, Lauenstein - Denjongpa encountered the idea that disability is contextual, meaning students may struggle because their academic environment is not adapted to their personal learning style.

While U.S. schools struggled to reach even an average score on a key international exam for 15 - year - olds in 2012, BASIS Tucson North, an economically modest, ethnically diverse charter school in Arizona, outperformed every country in the world, and left even Shanghai, China's academic gem in the dust.

In the name of boosting academic performance and giving struggling kids a better shot at succeeding in first grade, California appears to be headed down the slippery slope to universal preschool, never mind that state voters rejected such a plan when Rob Reiner got it onto the ballot in 200In the name of boosting academic performance and giving struggling kids a better shot at succeeding in first grade, California appears to be headed down the slippery slope to universal preschool, never mind that state voters rejected such a plan when Rob Reiner got it onto the ballot in 200in first grade, California appears to be headed down the slippery slope to universal preschool, never mind that state voters rejected such a plan when Rob Reiner got it onto the ballot in 200in 2006.

Many of these schools had higher proportions of students living in challenging circumstances: high poverty and low parent education, or high numbers of students whose first language was neither English nor French and who were struggling with academic language proficiency.

Consequently, they fall more behind in classwork, which increases academic struggle.

Symonds believes that they're often able to make inroads with students who have struggled in other schools because they work to create a supportive environment addressing all of a child's needs, not just his or her academic needs.

Put aside that it's likely that both the authors of the study and the schools themselves have points in their favor — the full - time virtual charter schools themselves have in the past been transparent about some of their academic struggles, and, at the same time, in their criticism of the study, those same schools are surely right that the characteristics and motivation of some of their students for attending full - time virtual charters makes them quite unlike the «virtual twins» the study purports to have found for the purposes of comparison.

Many interviewed students reported that they were in constant contact, weekly or even daily, with mentors around the world who understood their daily struggles, relentlessly encouraged them to persist, and provided key academic resources.

But might some future authorizer prohibit a school's boasting of its high academic standards in fear that academically struggling students might be intimidated?