Sentences with phrase «academic year this month»

With the start of a new academic year this month, how do you explain online learning technology to a traditional «brick - and - mortar» teacher?

With the start of a new academic year this month, how do you change the minds of a predominantly institutionalized «brick - and - mortar» rigid style of teaching ingrained in local Chinese teachers to one that addresses the fast - paced technological learning lifestyles of students today?

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Today's shocking sticker price of meal plans has risen nearly 47 percent over the past decade.The average meal plan works out to roughly $ 18.75 per day, or approximately $ 4,500 for a full eight - month academic year.

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.

Harris was named the Academic Athletic Association's boys basketball Player of the Year for the second consecutive season just three months after winning the football award for a second consecutive time.

If that isn't enough, Adu's accelerated high school program set up by IMG, the Edison Academic Center — through which he will earn his diploma next month — has included community service at a child - care center, which requires another form of superhero work: taking three - year - olds to the bathroom.

Eastern Christian was established six months ago, and with less than three weeks until the start of the academic school year, 54 students are enrolled in grades six through 12.

Pioneer in French bilingual education in Brooklyn with ten years of experience, The Language and Laughter Studio offers a fun, progressive programs for your child: • Puppets, Stories and Songs in French (6 months to 2 y), • Preschool in French playgroup (2 - 4 y), • French Songs, Arts, and Musical Games French class (4 - 6 y), • Academic French class (6 - 10 y), • Théâtre en français, and Tutoring for all ages.

If tuition reduction is being sought after September 1st in the academic year, the applicant will need to submit the tax returns for the previous calendar year, as well as submitting to the Finance Committee documentation of their last three months» income (pay stubs, etc.).

Whether it's year - round school, or nine months out of the year like in traditional school settings, you need to decide how your school schedule will look for the upcoming academic year.

The academic year runs from September to June, and flexible theme based summer camp programs are offered to our registered students for the months of July and August.

Reports issued last month by 29 SUNY campuses say there were 238 cases of sexual violence and 145 cases of verbal sexual harassment during the 2013 - 14 academic year.

The report draws on government and trade statistics, academic evidence and economic theory to challenge arguments that the health and social benefits of reducing alcohol consumption are likely to come at a cost to the economy, finding: · Any reduction in employment and income resulting from lower spending on alcohol would be offset by spending on other goods · Econometric analysis of US states suggests that a 10 % decrease in alcohol consumption is associated with a 0.4 % increase in per capita income growth · Lower alcohol consumption could also reduce the economic costs of impaired workplace productivity, alcohol - related sickness, unemployment and premature death, which are estimated to cost the UK # 8 - 11 billion a year The analysis comes at a timely moment, with health groups urging the Chancellor to raise alcohol duty in next month's Budget.

Last month, GhCampus.com reported that, the Director - General of Ghana Education Service (GES), Mr Jacob Kor at a press briefing in Accra indicated that a total of 42 Community Day Senior High Schools (SHS) are expected to start admission of their first batch of students for 2016/2017 academic year.

With more than two months left in the 2015 - 16 academic year at that point, the number of intoxicated students transported to the hospital t approached the total number of transports reported during the 2014 - 15 academic year, according to the report.

The Justices in delivering their judgment, also indicated that their order should not take retrospective effect, but should be implemented in six months, when admissions for the 2018 academic year begin.

Furthermore, with a teaching load of three classes per term, he says that «there is zero time budgeted [for research] during the academic year,» so his research often gets shoved into the summer months.

One problem is the extended breaks during the academic year: German students have 5 months without lectures per year, which, depending on your subject, can't always be filled with study - related work or internships.

However, the bursary will last for the academic year of 10 months, and it can be renewed twice.

Earlier this month, for example, the UK government announced it will plough an extra # 50 million per academic year into teaching STEM subjects.

Six months after leaving university, some 2000 graduates had found jobs as science professionals, a healthy 22.4 % increase over the previous academic year.

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.

«My sense is that the next 6 months or so will be critical» for the academic job market, says University of Oregon geography postdoc Jennifer Marlon, who also took a second postdoc, a 2 - year position at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, funded by the National Science Foundation's Earth Science program.

A quick calculation of the above shows that for a minimum of 9 months a year, the time available per week to academic staff in Spanish universities for research is 23 hours, compared to 37.5 for colleagues in «pure» research centers.

More usually, academic scientists are successful and pleased if they can publish 1 - 4 papers / year; publishing 1 paper / month must be considered to be outstanding!

This month in the journal Academic Medicine yet another editorial was published decrying the sorry state of nutrition knowledge in medical education, a problem diagnosed yet untreated for the last 50 years.

The data — taken from The Key's annual State of Education report, to be released next month — reveals that 59 % of schools (which equates to 14,347 schools in England) received more applications for places this academic year than the number of pupils they could accommodate.

Only a month into the academic year, the new school still has the feel of a fresh start.

Though the survey was conducted only a few months into the 2013 - 14 academic year, 68 percent of parents reported that they had noticed measurable improvement in their child's academic performance since receiving the scholarship.

According to the statistical data, only 11 per cent of teachers who gained a qualified status (QTS) in the 2013 - 14 academic year were not in a teaching job 6 months later.

When Norm Morrow became the principal of Jefferson High School in Los Angeles four years ago, the art deco building was severely overcrowded, had poor security, and — two months into his leadership — was one of 12 schools statewide to be audited because of low academic performance.

The legislature's Senate education committee recently discussed ways of changing the Texas Grant Program, not long after TheDallas Morning News reported last month that $ 27 million out of $ 120 million available to students went unused over the 2001 - 02 academic year.

And in the case of a district that has had a half dozen superintendents in a dozen years, and dismal academic outcomes all the way along, and on top of that has a new Superintendent in his first six months of superintendency, the board must intervene.

On average across all schools, the impact of having a principal 1 standard deviation more effective than the average principal is as much as seven additional months of learning in a single academic year.

In the first two months of the new academic year the pupil eligibility checker identified over # 3.7 M of potential claims bringing much needed funding for schools.

Pack is now complete and includes one resource for every month of the academic year, September through to June.

The board's action, taken this month, will help ensure that efforts to address the declining rate of minority participation in higher education receive high priority on campuses in the coming academic year, according to Reginald Wilson, director of the council's office of minority concerns.

And while we know that young children need a healthy dose of playtime in school, a new study reminds us why academics are important at that age: Over the course of a year, preschoolers who spent more time on language, literacy, and math activities than their peers gained, on average, 2.5 months of additional learning.

Finally, a 2017 meta - analysis of 82 school - based SEL programs found long - term (between 6 months and 18 years) improvements in four areas: SEL skills, attitudes, positive social behavior, and academic performance.

Follow - up outcomes (6 months to 18 years after students participated in SEL programs) demonstrate SEL's enhancement of positive youth development, including positive increases in SEL skills, attitudes, positive social behavior, and academic performance while finding decreases in conduct problems, emotional distress, and drug use.

The figures are based on the standard HGSE student budget and allowable living expenses for the 9 month academic year - also known as the estimated cost of attendance.

Some 8.6 per cent of students abandoned higher education after 12 months during the 2010/11 academic year - the highest figure since records began 10 years ago.

The study, published last month by researchers from the University of London's Institute of Education, tracked the academic progress of 21,000 British children over three years of schooling.

Chronic absenteeism (missing just 2 days per month or 18 days over the school year) can be an early warning sign of academic trouble starting as early as kindergarten and preschool.

Jim O'Connor, principal of the KIPP Ascend middle school in Chicago, told me this month that five students from his last year's eighth grade who are in regular public high schools are having the most difficult time, because their schools lack the focus on strong academic results they found at KIPP.

Schools that offer extended - year will provide an additional month of instruction, taking the academic school year from 180 to 200 days.

Research shows that many students lose academic gains that they made throughout the school year when the summer months hit.

The school also keeps the cafeteria open throughout the summer, feeding an average of 150 students each day during those months in between academic years.

Promisingly, researchers have found that it is possible to orient students toward positive learning mindsets through low - cost interventions, including online programs that teach students about growth mindsets and purpose.29 According to Carol Dweck and her colleagues, ``... educational interventions and initiatives that target these psychological factors can have transformative effects on students» experience and achievement in school, improving core academic outcomes such as GPA and test scores months and even years later.»

Their evidence also follows a decision in April by two universities — Winchester and Leeds Beckett — to pull their early years teacher training courses just five months before the start of the next academic year.