Sentences with phrase «also challenge academic»

Industrial attitudes toward teamwork can also challenge academic postdocs who become new employees.

Not exact matches

EMG also manages the Center for Environmental Markets, which partners with corporations, non-government organizations, and academic institutions to examine and promote market - based solutions to environmental challenges.

Along with his professional and academic commitments, Mr. Wang is also involved in the Cooper Union Entrepreneur Society, which will be hosting its second Cooper Union Startup Challenge on May 21st 6 - 9 pm in the Rose Auditorium.

The group also challenged her to take the leap — at the risk of possible failure — by enrolling in one course to test and toughen flabby academic muscles.

And it's not just about social expectations — a new school can also cause challenges in academic and extracurricular arenas.

Sylvan Learning also reminds parents that even with the best preparation many students still may need extra help to meet new academic challenges or to bolster study skills.

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.

Yet military service has left many of them facing not just the usual academic challenges but also the emotional scars of battle, semesters lost to continuing service obligations, and veteran's benefits that don't cover their educational and living expenses.

As a new French report highlights, early - career researchers face significant challenges landing permanent academic positions — but there may also be some rays of hope

The challenge for the scientific community is to improve cooperation and knowledge sharing across geographical and cultural barriers, but also between practitioners and academics.

This tension sometimes complicates the collaboration but can also lead to mutual inspiration; academic researchers will come up with novel theoretical approaches while the industrial researchers will formulate surprisingly challenging problems.

The University of Colorado Boulder also is among five universities selected by NASA for the 2015 X-Hab Academic Innovation Challenge.

D.M.: Basic research level academics are facing great challenges, much of it related to funding, but also the national commitment to basic research and the competitiveness of U.S. research globally.

He also worked as a liaison with several schools, designing academic and behavioral programs for challenged children.

The language challenge This focus on academic subjects is also clearly going to disadvantage schools in certain areas.

Despite these benefits, there are also challenges in globalization of the academic community.

Contracting also enables a district to assign schools with particular academic challenges - say, the lowest test scores - to a private manager, while devoting its energies to district - wide improvements.

Adherence to standard textbook - based teaching means that nothing is being done to challenge this perception when it's all too clear that unlocking curiosity and wonderment across all academic disciplines is not only essential to the mastery of tests, but also key to ensuring that more students are inspired enough to pursue further study and even pursue teaching as a career later in life.

Schools also need to identify more high - potential youngsters for inclusion in gifted education, and equip all them, especially children of color, to succeed in these challenging academic opportunities.

But it is also evident that these schools remain steadfast, largely undaunted by their financial and academic challenges.

They benefit from the freedom to explore new ideas without fear of failure or the stress of grades, and regular exposure to new experiences can also increase their cognitive flexibility, preparing them for academic challenges.

Teachers work largely in isolation; face uneven sets of challenges; and must respond not only to the academic needs but also to the physical and emotional needs of their students.

Currently based in Denver, Colorado, she has consulted with school districts and related education agencies for 17 years in 20 states and internationally, also serving 13 years in higher education as associate professor (tenured), associate dean, literacy and leadership academic program director and chair, vice president's faculty fellow, reading specialist, counseling coordinator, and director of national center for students with learning and attention challenges, having taught 132 course sections from developmental education to teacher education, counseling, and leadership at four universities (Baldwin Wallace University, the University of Arizona, Kent State University, and the University of Akron).

Parents who press for more challenging academic courses probably also press their children to work harder, do their homework, and so on — generating higher achievement.

Activities also include: the use of new or existing technologies to improve academic achievement; the acquisition of curricula that integrate technology and are designed to meet challenging state academic standards; the use of technology to increase parent involvement in schools; and the use of technology to collect, manage, and analyze data to enhance teaching and school improvement.

One of the teaching strategies explored in Creating Opportunities through Relationships (COR) revolves around getting to know your students beyond just their names, academic strengths and challenges but also as people.

To Bruce's point, the panel has the added challenge of writing rules at a time when the state's academic standards and next assessment are also under review.

«CCSA has led the way for increased accountability by raising standards that value academic rigor, while also giving schools credit for academic growth, and for taking on the challenge of serving traditionally disadvantaged students,» said Elizabeth Robitaille, senior vice president of Achievement and Performance Management, CCSA.

The findings also acknowledged that schools in poorer communities face unique academic challenges that result in an achievement gap and need to be addressed; a desire to learn more about serving special needs students and funding those services; and the necessity for policies to recruit and retain highly effective teachers.

At the same time board members must understand that removing ineffective teachers is also critical to increasing academic achievement in a challenged school.

The school developed a «behavioral intervention plan'that identified and ameliorated his most challenging behaviors and Firefly also added heft to Endrew's academic goals.

Educators may also be required to provide an evaluation to determine a student's academic needs if they experience behavioral challenges.

ESL Newcomer principal Gwen Snow said the dual challenges of teaching students the English language and American culture while also keeping up with academic standards is often not fully shown in state accountability data or the state's achievement gap data.

This framework is a three - dimensional model that values academic rigor while also giving schools credit for growth and for taking on the challenge of serving traditionally disadvantaged students well.

Given that the same report also found that we have more SPED students, with more severe learning differences, and the students with the most severe academic challenges, it seems entirely appropriate to me that we would have more funding per student — serving higher needs students is expensive.

Hofmann also touched on the issue of academic challenge, saying that, in general, she finds it easier to get good grades in her Virginia public school than back home in Berlin.

It also requires states to adopt challenging academic content standards and entrance requirements for credit - bearing course work in the state's system of public higher education.

Leveraging Common Core to balance academic requirements with technical education also presents a challenge, but competency - based education has been identified as a promising opportunity to bridge these areas.

While meeting the social, emotional, and academic needs of students is challenging enough, districts also must respond to and comply with federal and state Department of Education initiatives and requests for information, which can shift as unpredictably as the legislative winds.

Students whose first language is not English, students who also have a disability, and students whose past experiences may not have prepared them for advanced academic challenges may need special consideration in the configuration of their services (Castellano, 2003; Coleman, 2001).

The standards also mention something about nonfiction writing, but all of the examples in the appendix seem to be only more two - page efforts that will far from challenge the capability of our students in academic writing.

I'm pleased to present a budget for Fiscal Year 2013 that addresses our financial challenges, while also upholding our commitment to students and their academic achievement.

We believe that our students» success has shown that alternative schools not only need to challenge their students to reach a high academic bar, but that they must also be held accountable for delivering results on par with public school systems.

The CCSA Accountability Framework guides CCSA's efforts to raise accountability standards in a way that values academic rigor while also giving schools credit for growth and for taking on the challenge of serving traditionally disadvantaged students well.

This framework is a multi-dimensional model that values academic rigor while also giving schools credit for growth and for taking on the challenge of serving traditionally disadvantaged students well.

They also suffer from poverty, academic challenges, unqualified members of staff, etc..

It also means you're about to face the biggest academic writing challenge you've ever faced.

However, the academic writing projects also get more challenging.

Writing is challenging for students and finding a good writing service is also a challenge that many of the students face during their academic years.

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