Sentences with phrase «as whether students»

School climate indicators, such as whether students feel safe, also improved in schools that first increased test scores.

Student wellbeing goes far beyond education, but it is influenced by the school environment, such as whether students feel safe and included in school life.

An artificial intelligence program periodically «sifts» each student's cumulating education record to answer such key directional questions as whether the student is on track for college when she completes high school.

An artificial intelligence program periodically «sifts» each student's cumulating education record to answer — especially for parents, teachers, and counselors — such key directional questions as whether the student is on track for college when she completes high school.

The checklist includes such indicators as whether a student used one - word responses, sentence fragments, and specific details when answering questions.

My rubrics and benchmarks would also take into account factors beyond my control as a teacher, such as whether a student is learning Spanish for the first time as a seventh - grader, has been learning Spanish since kindergarten, or speaks Spanish at home.

Not exact matches

Vanbots had done work for Branksome in the past, and Gillam's sister attended the school as a student; the school asked whether he wanted to bid on the project.

University program designers can review a cross-section of portfolios to glean invaluable information about whether their programs are helping students develop core overarching skills, such as writing, ethical savvy and critical thinking.

It touches on a larger debate as to whether a college degree is worth the investment when student loan balances are soaring and new graduates often struggle to find jobs.

Companies like TubeMogul, Oculus, TrueCar, Caviar, Tanium, Data Bricks, Shazam, and Cloudera all had ties to the campus, whether it was launched as students or founded by alumni.

As another school year begins, artistic - minded students (and their parents) are once again wrestling with the age - old question of whether one should indulge an enthusiasm for music, literature or other fine - arts subjects at school, or instead study something more... shall we say... employable?

As recently as six years ago, when Wadhwa would ask his foreign - born students whether they planned to stay in the United States, almost all would raise their handAs recently as six years ago, when Wadhwa would ask his foreign - born students whether they planned to stay in the United States, almost all would raise their handas six years ago, when Wadhwa would ask his foreign - born students whether they planned to stay in the United States, almost all would raise their hands.

Whether you are dealing with negative amortization or regular, run - of - the - mill amortization, the best way to reduce the amount of interest you are being charged is to pay extra towards your student loans — as much as you can, as often as you can.

As part of your parent student loan research, check whether a lender offers deferment, forbearance, or repayment protection — and under what circumstances.

Also, your interest rate may be lower than your loans (depending on whether your loan is public or private), and you can file bankruptcy on a HELOC should you get in financial trouble which isn't as easy for a student loan.

Moreover, it is now doubtful whether the efficient market hypothesis makes any kind of sense. Indeed, a great many economists and bankers have discovered Minskyâ $ ™ s views on financial fragility and his financial instability hypothesis, according to which banks and financial markets can not be left to themselves: we need regulations even though regulating markets may not succeed in avoiding another crisis once the memory of the current crisis has faded away.As told to me by a law student recently hired by Blackrock, the largest asset manager in the world, with assets totalling more than 3,500 billion dollars â $ «thatâ $ ™ s one and a half times larger than UBS and twice as large as PIMCO â $ «many asset managers are now turning away from hiring neoclassical economists and actually prefer hiring engineers, sociologists and even philosophers.

As we enter the Asian Century, more and more students from a variety of backgrounds — whether it be in engineering, arts, business, or science — are looking to China as a study abroad destinatioAs we enter the Asian Century, more and more students from a variety of backgrounds — whether it be in engineering, arts, business, or science — are looking to China as a study abroad destinatioas a study abroad destination.

Every major macroeconomics textbook whether Keynesian monetarist or classical in orientation teaches students that investment increases as real interest rates decline.

When you consider whether a private lender is right for you, remember that private student loans for college don't come with the same protections as federal loans.

Best for students in grades six through twelve Students will examine two public laws and other primary resources related to the Bracero worker program and apply their knowledge to evaluate whether the program was carried out as istudents in grades six through twelve Students will examine two public laws and other primary resources related to the Bracero worker program and apply their knowledge to evaluate whether the program was carried out as iStudents will examine two public laws and other primary resources related to the Bracero worker program and apply their knowledge to evaluate whether the program was carried out as intended.

When, as ample evidence demonstrates, «most of our high - school and college students... consistently score poorly in virtually every measure of civic knowledge,» this can not occur — our citizens have to know what the truths are before they can consider whether they should hold to them.

On the «Day of Silence» in April 2012, about 90 students wearing white T - shirts printed with «break the silence» attended a campus - hosted discussion about homosexuality, such as whether Wheaton can be considered a «safe place» for gay students.

The group, which is not explicitly religious, wants GLBT students to feel affirmed in their sexuality, acting as a support network for students struggling with their sexual identity, whether they choose to be openly gay or whether they choose to remain celibate.

As potential students weigh whether they have the time, money, or interest to pursue a degree, schools consider the same factors and adjust to make their programs accessible and applicable.

It reminds me a bit of my days as a student at Bryan College, when I first bumped into the concept of «biblical womanhood» after some students questioned whether women should be allowed to run for president of the student body.

To cite a present - day example: Many people were not at all surprised at the report (in January, 1968; whether the report was correct I do not know) that so noted a theologian as Helmut Thielicke had called on a number of officer - candidates to prevent leftist students from disrupting the worship service at a Hamburg church by their demonstrations.

Curran that a dissenting theologian can not instruct in Catholic theology, Rice urged a reassessment by universities which promote themselves as Catholic to determine whether they are, in fact, providing their paying students an education steeped in orthodox Catholic faith.

As the middle ground between traditional religious morality and secular hedonism continues to shrink in America today, college students like Cox's are realizing that they must make a choice about whether truth matters.

Occasionally, however, I recall uneasily a colleague's suggestion at a faculty meeting a couple of years ago: «I would like us to consider whether we should continue to designate students» degrees as cum laude, magna cum laude, or summa cum laude.

When the Carnegie Foundation inquired as to «whether denominational connection or control ministers to the religious or intellectual life,» the respondents in the denominational colleges declared «almost without exception that such connections played little, if any, part in the religious or intellectual life of the student body.»

And the evidence will always be quite clear as to whether any other individual is his student, though we may be in no position to collect that evidence and rarely would have any legitimate occasion to gather or use it.

There is no good reason why people should ever be in doubt as to whether they themselves are his students or not.

The political objectives of the student revolutionaries of 1968, whether in Paris or Chicago, came to nothing, but there did take place a radical change in the sexual mores of the Western world, and the novels which followed The Professor's Daughter depict eros as Satan's weapon of choice.

This suggested exercise is an open invitation to the abuse of Christian students, whether Professor Neuliep intends it as such or not.

In a desire to permit his listeners that freedom of choice which is essential for the birth and exercise of faith, he may become guilty of equivocation It may be with the minister as with the student who, unable to remember whether a word is spelled with ie or ei, forms both letters the same, places the dot between them, and leaves the instructor the freedom of choice!

Convergence ecumenism came to dominate the ecumenical establishment (by which I mean those who to one degree or another are professionally engaged in ecumenism, whether as students, teachers, bureaucrats or active participants in relevant meetings, commissions and assemblies).

For teachers and students, and for the graduate student teaching assistants who were organizing as well, the issue was whether, in the event of a strike, classes should be moved off campus, so that no one would be crossing a picket line.

I shall be reflecting largely from my own experience, as process thought enables and indeed requires us to do; but the nature of that experience is essentially that shared by all who nurture — whether, for example, single social workers, middle - aged adoptive parents, teachers who care about their students or, I suspect, those artists and poets who cherish and give birth to the world.

As a teacher, I always remind my high - school students that art, whether it be literature, music, visual arts, reflects life.

In this setting many questions are inevitably asked, such as whether or not the history of religions teaches religion, whether religions of the world can be or should be taught without value judgment, and finally whether the history of religions is to provide intellectual understanding about religions or contribute to the religious growth of students.

Indeed, when as a student I went from Cambridge to Madras, I found it refreshing to escape from debate about whether it was possible to speak of God, if there is a God, to discussions which presupposed mystical knowledge of God as a valid source of our knowledge of reality.

In spite of the fact that Socrates studied with all diligence to acquire a knowledge of human nature and to understand himself, and in spite of the fame accorded him through the centuries as one who beyond all other men had an insight into the human heart, he has himself admitted that the reason for his shrinking from reflection upon the nature of such beings as Pegasus and the Gorgons was that he, the life - long student of human nature, had not yet been able to make up his mind whether he was a stranger monster than Typhon, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, partaking of something divine (Phaedrus, 229 E).

«This proposal will provide men's ice hockey prospective student - athletes and their families with the opportunity to obtain professional advice and representation in the interest of making the best informed decision as to whether to start a professional career,» the conferences said.

It makes it more difficult to determine whether a student is actually interested in our school, as opposed to a personalized, written email.

My friend's husband was a famed illustrator and a beloved art teacher, and the speakers — whether friends, fellow teachers and artists or former students — spoke of his dedication, passion, rare talent (not only as an artist, but as an inspiring teacher), joy for life, love of family and genuine kindness.

The other day I received an email from a neuropsychologist at a well - known New England medical center (I'll call him «Dr.. A» for short) wondering whether there was any evidence to support the recommendation made in a number of articles in our concussion center, as well as videos, that, as part of the cognitive rest a concussed student - athlete needs during concussion recovery, he or she should not play video games:

But as college students, eager to learn and take on the world, we were multi-talented beings, whether it's in athletics, the arts, or technology.

As a student of midwifery many years ago, the question of whether I would pursue private practice or seek employment within a larger corporation always poked it nose into my studies.

If we do eliminate the a la carte options that kids so love and introduced a single, healthful menu for all students, I wonder whether students on open campuses (i.e., most high schools) who previously had the money to buy those foods would simply leave the program altogether and go elsewhere for their pizza and fries (as many already do).

To me, the solution to the attrition issue, whether it's at a KIPP middle school or the Promise Academy middle school, is the Harlem Children's Zone's «conveyor belt» model, which provides continuous, high - quality early - childhood and elementary education to precisely those «disengaged families and students,» so that when those children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first few years.