Sentences with phrase «at drawing students»

The big question, of course, is how effective college remediation is at drawing students into higher education and keeping them through to graduation.

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As a college student, Kaling illustrated a daily comic for the school paper called «Badly Drawn Girl,» which «riffed on day - to - day campus life and took a witty stab at everything from fraternity life to alumni.»

, and drawing cartoons in notebooks, and teasing and gawking at girls, might be insulting to Mister Bossy, might be a sort of theft of his time and energy, might be a sort of theft of immeasurably valuable holy unrecoverable time from the other students in the class, might be greedy and low and a theft from our own best selves, little though we knew of those selves as yet.

Repeatedly Hauerwas and his students have been told by church members that they are drawn to a vision of discipleship at odds with a world bent on violence, but that they need some more accessible materials, if not an outright plan of action.

Definitely not the most important, but additional and recent, evidence is this issue of Spectrum, a YDS publication, in which we are told: «One of the most dynamic new student groups at YDS draws from a long unrepresented constituency at the divinity school: nonbelievers.

The chapel was usually filled, and to the surprise of the more «religious» students, the service seemed to draw students never seen at the regular Sunday worship hour.

As a student of literature, I'd like to say that it is Austen's subtle satire, masterful character development, and nuanced prose that draws me to her romantic comedies... but at the end of the day, it's probably just the girly thrill of seeing who ends up marrying whom.

I myself was drawn back toward the church in which I was reared, in part by the discovery that at least the history (if not always the present reality) of the Holiness churches was a most significant incarnation of values that I had discovered in the student movements of the past decade.

Although Whitehead never taught at Chicago, students of Wieman, Meland, and Hartshorne were drawn to his work.

Being a student of Cryuff, Dennis has ALWAYS been tactically astute and more than aware of the atmosphere in the club adn its dressing room but being a amnage is more than simply drawing complex sketches on the white - board and screaming at players.

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.

I kind of can't believe that preschool teachers don't just spend their days laughing at their own students as they're told that pictures that appear to be traced images of male anatomy are actually drawings of airplanes, worms, or fictional superheroes.

These classes always draw out a really lively, productive discussion and a lot of students describe how they never really looked at or thought about how toys were marketed before.

«At Waldorf, we are excited to see students in the high school singing the elements of the periodic table, staging plays in Spanish, drawing in Math, producing short videos for Shakespeare lessons and conveying, through abstraction, the history of language through circus arts and acrobatics.»

I draw on the work of many analysts, including Melissa Roderick at the Consortium on Chicago Schools Research and the authors of the book «Crossing the Finish Line,» to suggest that doing a better job of developing non-cognitive skills in students could be a particularly fruitful way to increase college - graduation rates.

It is common in high schools especially for students to sell pizza or other quick food at lunchtime to their peers to raise money for school clubs or activities, but those sales draw students away from the cafeteria and cost your nutrition department money.

It drew on new research by Caitlin Daniel, a doctoral student at Harvard, who last week wrote her own New York Times op - ed on her study's findings, «A Hidden Cost to Giving Kids Their Vegetables.»

The National Union of Students (NUS) is drawing up plans to persuade students away from supporting the Liberal Democrats at the next general eStudents (NUS) is drawing up plans to persuade students away from supporting the Liberal Democrats at the next general estudents away from supporting the Liberal Democrats at the next general election.

The institute drew particular attention to plans to allow universities to recruit as many students with AAB grades at A-level as they like, a plan which it found would entrench social divisions in the higher education sector.

In Hempstead, while most of the students at The Academy Charter School are from the local district, the school draws from nearby systems as well.

A residency requirement for college students seeking free tuition at New York's public colleges is drawing criticism.

At Tuesday night's Town Board meeting, Southold's tree committee announced the winners of its annual Arbor Day poster contest, for which local students design and draw posters and fliers promoting conservation.

This comes three days after swastikas were drawn on the doors of nearby students at The New School.

Planning for the new Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics building at Erie Community College's North campus will continue to move forward as we work with our partners to create a campus that draws students to ECC North, rather than to community colleges in neighboring counties, for cutting - edge coursework in the sciences.

The new STEM building at ECC North will improve the campus and draw students to ECC.

Also at 11:30 a.m., as Fashion Week draws to a close, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, FIT President Joyce Brown and Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen will release new information on the economic benefits to NYC of the Fashion Industry, FIT, David Dubinsky Student Center, 8th Floor, 227 W 27th St., Manhattan.

Maribeth Whitehouse, who teaches at IS 190 in the Bronx, draws connections for her students between the Triangle fire and the Happly Land Social Club fire 79 years later.

The 3,300 - student district has drawn down its cash reserves at an unsustainable rate in recent years and now must look at possible layoffs and other economies to balance its budget for the 2018 - 19 school year, Superintendent Patrick Brimstein said in an interview.

Somide disclosed that 125 students were admitted but only 123 of them have commenced training at the College which includes indigent students, who are beneficiaries of the scholarship provided by the Kwara State Government and drawn from the 16 local governments (LGs) of the state.

At the event, de Blasio also said he would review all NYPD surveillance policies, some of which have drawn criticism for focusing on Muslim residents, businesses, houses of worship and student associations.

Since taking office last year, Stefanik sponsored the Flexible Pell Grant for 21st Century Students Act, which allows students to draw Pell Grants «at an accelerated pace for additional courses within a given award year,» according to the news Students Act, which allows students to draw Pell Grants «at an accelerated pace for additional courses within a given award year,» according to the news students to draw Pell Grants «at an accelerated pace for additional courses within a given award year,» according to the news release.

While the journalists drew the attention of the principal to the 2011 West African Examinations Council (WAEC) results of the school in which 39 out of 135 students passed at credit level in Biology and five out of 135 in Chemistry, thereby prompting mass withdrawal of students from the school, some people who claimed to be policemen in mufti with horsewhips from the «C» Division of the State Police Command, stormed to the office to arrest the newsmen.

This document, which has been drawn from the presentations and discussions at the workshop, has been written for anyone involved with or interested in interdisciplinary research and education, including funders, administrators, researchers, faculty, and students.

The assessment instrument is designed to measure students» understanding of energy at basic, intermediate, and advanced levels and draws on a bank of 372 multiple choice items targeting 14 different key ideas about energy forms, transformations, and transfers.

It was at the university that he met his future wife, Gina Eckenrode, a Ph.D. student in biochemistry who was drawn to his kindness and wry sense of humor, which was less cynical back then.

Drawing on people experienced with surveys (e.g., graduate students and postdocs in biostatistics or psychology) is highly recommended at an early stage.

«By moving the eyes off the head, we could test whether people were really drawn to the eyes or just the head in general,» says study author Christina Starmans, a Ph.D. student at Yale University.

During Kushlev's and his colleagues» study, 221 students at the University of British Columbia drawn from the general student population were assigned for one week to maximize phone interruptions by keeping notification alerts on, and their phones within easy reach.

For those five summers he taught a six - week field and lab - based course in marine paleoecology at Bodega Marine Laboratory in northern California — a course that drew students from all over the world.

I asked reddit users for bad adviser stories, and there seemed to be no shortage: advisers who yelled at their students, advisers who obstructed their students» progress for no reason, advisers who demanded that their students draw scientific conclusions of questionable validity.

Released today, the group's 2014 report, Education at a Glance 2014: OECD Indicators, draws upon student test results, government spending, employment statistics, and other metrics to make the case for what OECD Secretary - General Angel Gurría calls «the critical role that education and skills play in fostering social progress.»

In a recent intervention at Northwestern by Nicole M. Stephens and her colleagues, some first - year students attended a panel in which other students discussed their experiences by drawing attention to difference (the experimental group)-- in this case, their status as first - generation college students.

Drawing from education research on self - regulated learning and evidence from social psychology on effective approaches to interventions, Chen and colleagues developed a brief exercise for students aimed at guiding their thinking about how they use learning resources.

The program targets mostly at - risk participants, drawn nationally, giving emphasis to recruiting underrepresented groups in engineering, namely women, African - Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, Eskimos, and students of all backgrounds from rural schools.

He was a genius who invented calculus as a student at Cambridge during a 1665 outbreak of plague but failed to publish his findings; an egotist who would later covertly convene a committee to accuse his rival Gottfried Leibniz, an independent originator of calculus, of plagiarism; and a heretic who rejected the Trinity but was deeply religious (one fascinating document on display is his hand - drawn reconstruction of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, based on biblical units of measurement).

The four - day program draws children from all backgrounds, including public and private school students and homeschoolers, according to Gerald Smith, who taught sessions at Woodridge Library in Washington from Aug. 7 - 10.

«Drawing from the long - term datasets, we were able to investigate patterns within the same mother, examining how she behaved with her sons versus with her daughters,» said lead author Carson Murray, an assistant professor at George Washington University, who was a PhD student under Pusey.

Drawing upon a base of over 35,000 students at more than 1,000 local school science fairs, more than 1,100 students in grades 5 — 12 from nearly 300 schools will be evaluated this year on their scientific research and communication skills.

As a medical student at Columbia, he worked with Dr. Alfred Gellhorn, one of the first specialists in medical oncology, who drew him into research in that new field.

Students interested in learning to program with Scratch can find Project Ideas at Science Buddies that range from introductory - level explorations (teach a sprite to draw a shape) to robust interactive projects that use real - world feedback (like a drum set or a spinning pinwheel).