Sentences with phrase «better academic use»

The report anticipates a longer school year or even school day, but specifically does not call for changes in that area until the time now available is put to better academic use.

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Or as Stephen Gordon puts it, academic economists «generally remain open to the idea of using well - thought - out infrastructure projects to promote long - term growth.»

Curtin academic and consultant to the Ministry for Planning, Carey Curtis, called for better integration of land use and transport planning at the recent Breaking Frontiers conference.

«The Situation [Referring to the Intimidation Tactics Used to Silence Academic Researcher Wade Pfau's Reporting of the Dangers of Buy - and - Hold Investing Strategies] Seems Well Below Any Professional and Academic Acceptable Standards.»

Somalia should have reminded the good academic that guerrillas often use civilians as screens when attacking regular troops.

The real danger comes from a much larger group of persons who believe that Notre Dame can strive for ever - higher standards of academic excellence — and use the same criteria of excellence by which the best secular universities in the land are judged to be excellent — without forfeiting the Catholic character of the University.

I don't want to rewrite this article in english, but basically, I came to the following conclusions 1 - that Scriptures ought to be used in close interaction with daily reality (not out the blue, in abstraction, or in academic ivory tower) 2 - it ought to be interpreted by what we could call «crucified» christians 3 - and that «crucified» christian should interpret in the context of a «crucified» community / church (because being in a close knit church is a very good way to actually be «crucified» and sanctified, and because I need insight from others in my interpretations.

In fact, so common has the terminology become in some Christian thinking that in a recent academic book it is even used as a verb: «It is good for us Christians (note the pronoun) to have these other missionary religions dispute the Gospel....

She is concerned that the use of an internet blog (that of the Knights ofColumbus) to discuss a high - level academic controversy could easily cause harm to West's good name and fruitful work.

The guide uses best practices from multiple sources including industry, academic and government experts to address water conservation and efficiency, water quality protection, soil conservation and management, air quality protection, human resource management, energy conservation and efficiency, integrated pest management, weather monitoring and preventive planning, selection of appropriate insurance policies and tools, and proactive business planning and management.

Scan the list of abuses that beset college sports, and your football team can claim, going back to 1980, at least one entry in virtually every category: improper benefits; recruiting violations; boosters run amok; academic cheating; use of steroids and recreational drugs; suppressed or ignored positive tests for drugs; player run - ins with other students as well as with campus and off - campus police; the discharge of weapons and the degradation of women in the football dorm; credit - card fraud and telephone credit - card fraud.

This food tends to fall into three categories: food brought in for classroom celebrations; the use of food by teachers as a teaching tool or manipulative; and food handed out by teachers or principals as a reward for good behavior or academic performance.

«When children feel emotionally connected to their parents and the parents use this bond to help kids regulate their feelings and solve problems, good things happen... our studies show that children who are Emotion - Coached do better in terms of academic achievement, health, and peer relationships.

In view of the disconcerting developments in the past few months, we the undersigned academics and political analysts, appeal to the European Union and the US, as well as foreign institutions of which they are members, to strengthen their commitment to the European future of BiH, to adopt a firm approach toward spoilers of the reform process and to jointly use their leverage potential in a coordinated manner.

YouGov did the fieldwork for two academic election surveys (the British Election Study and the SCMS) as well as their daily polling, and all three used different question ordering (daily polling asked voting intention first, SCMS after a couple of questions, the BES after a bank of questions on important issues, which party is more trusted and party leaders) so will allow testing of the effect of «priming questions».

One commonly used definition of a «good» school is one that has high academic outcomes in absolute terms - its students don't drop out, frequently go to college, frequently go to selective colleges if they do go to college, frequently find decent jobs if they don't go to college, perform well on standardized tests, take more advanced classes such as advanced placement, international baccalaureate, honors and college classes, etc..

Sierra Funck has used her time at HFCS to develop her creative side as well as her academic abilities.

He urged everyone to make good use of his or her gift from God properly so that God could bless you well indicating that while in school, he lways placed last by 10 in academics and was also poor in accounting and management

While you should still do these things during your PhD, you could make use of some digital tools to be a better scientist and to grow your online reputation, visibility and academic footprint.

While the Vortex system is designed specifically for blood, the company is working with academic researchers to develop versions that could be used to isolate cells from other body fluids as well, such as cerebrospinal fluid and urine.

Energy companies, however, may be able to use the Stanford team's data because they often have a better understanding of the subsurface than academic scientists or regulators.

In 2005, SHRP began building a coalition between human rights groups, scientific societies, and academic associations working on domestic human rights issues in the United States in order to foster better communication among groups producing scientific data and those looking to use such data.

When the team used other questionnaires to assess whether these changes benefited aspects of the students» wider lives, they found moderate improvements in their academic performance, feelings of anxiety, and well - being.

In his review, Crosbie Smith praises Stanley for producing a well - researched tome that is sure to «challenge the general reader and stimulate academic discussion,» but questions his use of Maxwell as a representative example of a theistic practitioner of science.

Instead of encouraging the brain drain, top world academics, funders, and researchers should collaborate to build scientific infrastructure in the less resilient regions not only to improve their self - ability to conduct, access, and use the best science but also to ensure that they can contribute to global scientific debates while developing local solutions with cost - effective, participatory, and sustainable strategies (including the reconnaissance and use of indigenous knowledge in some cases).

AAAS is among some 240 scientific and academic organizations that partnered with the March for Science, a non-partisan movement that aims to promote the use of science for the common good, including science education and the use of scientific evidence to inform public policy.

The scientists used historic nautical charts, data from academic research and the oil and gas industry as well as National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration underwater mapping data collected from 1764 to 2009.

Likewise, if you never got to mix with academics at conferences, because your boss used up the whole travel budget, or you didn't get the time or permission to leave the lab, or you're simply not that good at?

E.V.: Under the old system, TTOs encouraged their academic scientists to maintain good records of their conception and reduction - to - practice of an invention, in case a patent or patent application was pulled into a patent interference used to determine who invented it first.

Academics and students alike should be making better use of Wikipedia, a major study of digital technology use in Higher Education has recommended.

I have gained management and administrative experience that I will put to good use as an academic researcher.

And that, it seems to me, suggests opportunity for academics who want to use their research and teaching to advance international development as well as science.

«I've used a lot of other kinds of medicines in my practice and this works,» says Leslie J. Crofford, MD, chief of the Division of Rheumatology and Women's Health at the University of Kentucky Academic Medical Center, in Lexington, Ky. «For many, many patients it works better than anything that they've ever tried.»

Cognition measuring tools were used to measure abilities like planning as well as academic skills like reading and math.

Nina and I are friends as well, even though I say her name wrong, who has also written some books about fat, but there's this national conversation where you have the old school low - fats, mostly paid for by big grain sort of research out there, and you're refuting some of that using very strong academics, randomized controlled trials, and the things that everyone wants, but no one has paid for except for maybe big drug companies and things like that.

I mostly agree that we need to study real foods; using supplements and other forms of reductionism, however, can be useful for understanding the mechanisms of how things work, which is of academic interest to some people and is of general utility in better understanding how to restore people to health who have lost it, which might require more than mere return to a traditional diet sometimes.

Based on this paper it sounds good but until it's in commercial use it seems like an academic issue.

I met Branch at D.C.'s family - funded Flamboyan Foundation, which trains — and pays — teachers to visit their students» homes as part of a strategy to use better relations between schools and families as a means to improving academic achievement.

To those who blanch at Coleman's vision of making academics a spectator sport, Kelley says the focus of Arete, as with the rowers» fitness test, is on helping students achieve «personal best» milestones, a strategy that most schools rarely use.

Using an online platform to provide a «one stop shop» for updates, academic achievement as well as a reward scheme is a great way to strengthen communication between the school, student and parents.

My Power Point presentations are designed specifically to meet the academic demands of the Eduqas GCE Business course and will enable you to deliver specification specific content through the use of high quality, well presented and researched notes plus summary revision questions, calculation practice questions, and essay practice all supplied with suggested answers.

Seating and layout The change from traditional row seating to the use of cluster arrangements typical of cooperative learning may lead to superior academic achievement, better attendance, motivation, self confidence, and greater student interaction.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

Most academic research on education policy suffers from a similar implicit assumption: that the schools automatically use their resources well.

Now, as he assumes the role of chief academic officer of the nation's largest school system, Polakow - Suransky, who very few people, including educators, have heard of, will have to get used to being on a brightly - lit stage in the klieg - light capital of the world; just as private industry CEO Cathie Black travels from the well - insulated corporate board room to the decidedly raucous arena of a sprawling public school system.

Using those insights can help the teacher better work toward the student's academic success.

Several principals who use PBIS told Education World that they were elated to see that when student behavior improved under the system and teachers had more time to focus on instruction, academic performance shot up as well.

Specific strategies for middle school administrators to use to improve academic achievement and better prepare students for high school are outlined in a report released last week by the National Association of Secondary School Principals.

In New York state, we have moved from an essentially academic approach to a system that we'll put in place in a few years based on performance assessment [including] value - added requirements, as well as the use of video and attached rubrics, that focus on the practice of teaching.

More than two decades of research document that well - designed, effectively implemented SEL programs enhance students» social and emotional skills, self - esteem, bonding to school, classroom behavior, and academic achievement; and reduce disruptive classroom behavior, aggression, bullying, and substance use (Durlak et al., 2011; Greenberg et al., 2003; Sklad, Dieskstra, De Ritter, Ben, & Gravesteijn, 2012; Zins et al., 2004).