Sentences with phrase «at academic levels of»

Educators Alarmed: Black, Latino High School Students Performing at Academic Levels of 30 Years Ago Executive Director LaShawn Routé Chatmon was interviewed for this article, along with Amy Wilkins, vice president for government affairs and communications at the Education Trust; Dominique Apollon, research director of the Applied Research Center; and Pedro Noguera, professor of education at New York University.

Only 23 % (15 out of 66 schools) of Richmond County Public Schools are operating at an academic level of «C» or greater.

We wish the UAE students to succeed at every academic level of their lives.

Not exact matches

They «operate on a scale and at a level of sophistication and complexity that would have been unimaginable a decade ago,» write Tom Ewing and Robin Feldman, two American academics, in a recent paper analyzing such entities.

ITS offers the following levels of support to all academic and administrative staff at the Haskayne School of Business.

... If Catholicity at the university level is to remain, Notre Dame had better be prepared to save itself, whether from «secular humanism,» a distorted view of academic freedom, or a goal of becoming [well - regarded] at the cost of its Catholic uniqueness...

You suggest that some of the most effective models of closing the academic achievement gap are found at the school - based level.

A given number of course credits is the quantifiable criterion to determine whether a course of study has been completed at such a level of competence as to have earned an academic degree.

However, once I began to study the Bible at a more academic level I found that scripture came alive in all sorts of fresh ways.

He was not an academic, never having been given the opportunity to study at a postgraduate level, but he was an intellectual, a man who was passionately interested in the meaning of reality and possessed of an immense ability to see to the heart of a matter.

So it will go on, I suppose, till we find someone with enough courage, enough learning, enough public standing to undertake the synthesis; there is a battle royal, long overdue, which still has to be fought out at the level of academic debate (p13).

[6] At the academic level, the field of New Testament studies has shown its sensitivity to various theories emerging from diverse fields by wrestling with the challenges issuing from such theories.

The process of draining logic and meaning from everything came to full fruition in the 1960s and 1970s, when it began to be felt profoundly in the daily lives of many Americans, with such things as the proliferation of «alternative lifestyles,» the diluting or jettisoning of academic standards at every level, the increasing inability of the legal system to make in practice sufficient or consistent distinctions between victim and victimizer — among many others too familiar to all of us to need spelling out.

«you are not interested in reading about and rationalizing the real story of your Jesus» is a silly claim bearing in mind the academic robustness required of me in studying theology at honours level and biblical interpretation at masters, validated by the secular Aberdeen University in Scotland.

It also bears mentioning, in closing, that the gains from thinking about religion from a broader global perspective accrue not only to the academic researcher in pursuit of recondite problems to study but also to the practitioner of religion and to those whose interest in world affairs resides simply at the level of informed citizen.

These include the criteria that the academic program be at a «postgraduate» level — that is, that students have completed an undergraduate degree; that there be a certain level of library holdings; that faculty members themselves hold graduate «research» degrees; that there be provisions protecting academic freedom such as academic tenure; and so forth.

Instances of friendly coming together are the World Congress of Faiths, established in 1936 in London by Sir Francis Younghusband and now with a considerable membership, program, and institutionalized life; at an academic level the Union for the Study of Great Religions, founded in 1950 in Oxford by Spalding, Radhakrishnan, and Raven; etc..

At the academic level form criticism is the single most important development in the history of the discussion of our problem, for it provides what must be regarded as the only satisfactory understanding of the nature of the synoptic gospel material — satisfactory, that is, from the viewpoint of being able to explain the phenomena demonstrably present in the texts themselves.

The research that Farrington drew on didn't show any evidence of specific interventions changing a student's innate level of grit, but there was plenty of evidence that students» tendency to persevere at academic tasks was highly responsive to changes in school and classroom contexts.

One of the most active athletic trainers» association at the state level is in New Jersey, which was the first state to require by law that coaches receive safety training, is among the 40 states that have enacted strong youth concussion safety laws, and has been a leader in advocating for academic accommodations for concussed student - athletes.

Regardless of academic level, your child will progress through the individualized instruction at his or her own pace — advancing step by logical step.

And my bet — I could be wrong, but this is my bet — is if we start with kids very early, and we provide them with the kind of intense and continuous academic rigor and support that they need, then when they get to the middle school and high school level, we're not going to need those superhuman strategies at all.»

But there still is rarely more than three hours per day of academics even at that level, probably less.

They describe some kind of followup system, but not to a level that would pass muster at a more academic journal.

• Policymakers at all levels, from local to national • Civil servants, public affairs professionals, campaigners and senior journalists from all of Britain's newspapers and broadcasters • Politically interested members of the public (ABC1 adults and millennials)- think regular watchers of Newsnight and Question Time • Academics and students.

On her part, Ms Lankai Quarcoopome, who is an alumnus of the school (AGOSA» 76) and also the Guest Speaker, said she believes that «through quality education, we could make our lives better and also transform our nation and for this reason, we must insist on achieving very high academic and performance standards at all levels in the country.»

The objectives of the Erie County Fire Chiefs» Mutual Aid Organization's Memorial Scholarship is to enhance academic achievement at the college level for all firefighters of Erie County and their immediate family.

Also, as the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Lagos State University, LASU and member of Executive of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Momoh was prominent for his doggedness in maintaining high level integrity and professionalism, and selfless defence of staff and students» welfares, as well as strictly adherence to ethical standard on addressing issues that affected staff and students.

On Sunday, he took to a New York City radio show to tout the college plan, which raises the income level of students who will not have to pay tuition at state university campuses to $ 100,000 in the coming academic year.

In a document titled: «Strike Bulletin No. 1», which was signed and issued by Ogunyemi, ASUU said the strike action was to be a total, comprehensive and indefinite action whereby no form of academic activities including teaching, attendance of any meeting, conduct and supervision of any examination at any level, supervision of project or thesis at any level should take place at any of the nation's universities.

Well over a third of these students are not studying at universities but at colleges which have what I might politely call varying levels of academic rigour.

Common Core is a new set of academic standards adopted by New York's Board of Regents in 2010, outlining which math and English skills students should be able to demonstrate at each grade level.

Parents work hard to get into the «right» school mostly in the belief that the «right» school will have more students at a similar level of academic development to their child that is also more safe, and has programs and resources that will foster more student growth as a result.

Began this academic year, the FSHS initiative aims to provide Senior High School education to every qualified Ghanaian child who completes the Basic level of education at no cost to parents in order to remove the barrier of finance which has undoubtedly deprived Ghana of many potential leaders.

The District Chief Executive (DCE) for his part said the assembly will continue to support brilliant but needy students at various levels of the academic ladder, provision of physical infrastructure, motivation packages for teachers as well as provision of teaching and learning materials.

Prichard, whose company - funding level sits around a healthy 20 % mark, argues that even if companies (especially biopharmaceutical firms) are filling certain funding gaps at universities, it's crucial for academics to maintain a balance of funding sources.

Many postgraduates in astronomy have a long - term career goal of acquiring a teaching and / or research position in an academic setting and, traditionally, the astronomy curricula and training at the graduate level has reflected that objective.

«We [the government] have made certain priorities: firstly to reduce indirect costs of research that academic institutions face, and secondly to help the commercialization of research discoveries at the academic, industry, and provincial levels,» he tells Next Wave.

This very high - level committee included four more university presidents and chancellors, the executive dean for academic programs at Harvard Medical School (Harvard has the most postdoctoral fellows of any U.S. university)[Ed.

Next up: «We're trying to pull together a meeting of high - level university administrators to talk about the financial implications for academic medical centers and universities if there are changes in the way in which the NIH funds research at those institutions,» Tilghman says.

But this is true of virtually every entry - level position in any field, or for that matter, any academic position at any level.

I find this position very rewarding in that I get to meet very interesting academics as well as people at all levels in industry who are experts in fascinating fields of science and technology.

Lower temperatures can activate the body's «good» fat formation at a cellular level, a new study led by academics at The University of Nottingham has found.

«MMCI significantly increased a teacher's odds of attaining the level of quality interactions needed for pre-k programs to most meaningfully contribute to children's social and academic outcomes,» said Kelly Maxwell, senior program area co-director for early childhood at Child Trends and co-author of the report.

«Where a child grows up in impoverished conditions... with limited cognitive stimulation, high levels of stress, and so forth, that person is more likely to grow up with compromised physical and mental health and lowered academic achievement,» said Martha Farah, director of the Center for Neuroscience and Society at the University of Pennsylvania.

Data items are collected at the level of academic department and include full - time graduate students by source and mechanism of support, with data on women; part - time graduate students by sex; and citizenship and racial / ethnic background of all graduate students, including first - time students.

The findings, presented at the 2017 annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, could inform policies at the state and regional levels.

Young children with disruptive behaviors have fewer opportunities to learn in school than their focused peers, and are at risk for lower levels of academic achievement.

Rob Crozier, the executive director of AUSNZ, told me that academic salary negotiations have reached a total impasse, since the vice-chancellors effectively have been told by the government not to negotiate at a national level with AUSNZ.

Participants proposed significantly expanding at all levels the scope of current programs designed to foster exchange between Europe's academic and industrial scientists.