Sentences with phrase «by academic»

In 2011, led by Academic Director Yves Solis, who was awarded the Margot Stern Strom Teacher Award, students built a mobile Holocaust museum.

The specific component of the knowledge or skill identified by an academic content, performance or operational standard.

In addition to the SSM, the CCSA accountability framework includes measures of rigor (in the form of a school's status as measured by its Academic Performance Index, or API, score) and momentum (in the form of growth in API over a three - year period).

We shouldn't judge disadvantaged pupils purely by the academic achievements of students in the best schools, but if used well, the premium is the way to lift barriers...

Work toward the creation of a successful vocabulary program, guided by both academic and content - area terms taken directly from the mathematics and English language arts standards.

During the pilot period, states should meet individually with representatives from each preparation program to discuss data on accepted applicants, broken out by academic and demographic indicators.

Rubrics similar to those developed by the Academic - Year Governor's School directors are used to evaluate the Summer Residential programs.

This phonics program was created by Academic Therapy Publications and contains easy - to - use 10 - 15 minute lessons that are appropriate for students with learning disabilities.

It's a unique service established by the academic team teaching the rigorous courses that are the foundation for weather forecasting and staffed by some of UWM's brightest students.

Assessment activities at UNI are conducted by academic, administrative, and student affairs departments and units and may take the form of surveys, standardized tests, program evaluation forms, focus groups, student projects, student reflective activities, or any of a variety of other mechanisms.

In this interactive map, the district's 189 public, charter, magnet and pilot high schools are color - coded by their Academic Performance Index score and sorted based on Adequate Yearly Progress proficiencies.

The government must provide greater clarity for parents and students by ensuring the school and college performance tables, for too long now dominated by academic measures, place greater emphasis on technical qualifications and the destinations of students.

The results are disseminated into 9 categories that are all backed by academic research.

«Schools are very good at selecting students by their social background, but they're not very good at selecting students by their academic potential.»

Some highly, exceptionally and profoundly gifted children are happiest placed by their academic achievement, learning side - by - side with students who are intellectual peers.

The superintendent of Dade County, Fla., schools has put his principals and teachers on notice that those who are not performing up to standard this year may be removed by academic «swat teams» armed with the authority to take over deficient schools and develop improvement plans.

The reason is that students» college choices are constrained by their academic credentials and geographic location, as well as by their personal career interests.

Should teachers be judged by the academic value they do or don't add to their students?

They understand and actively work to eliminate gaps in school success between different groups of students, as measured by academic achievement, high school graduation rates, and preparation for college and other postsecondary pursuits.

This concept is supported by the academic and health - improvement community, by parents, Parliamentarians, providers and has the overwhelming support of stakeholders.

We can also describe instruction as it exists across a wide variety of U.S. classrooms, for example, asking whether — as is often assumed — instruction in urban districts is inferior to those in other areas and whether differences in instructional or teacher quality by academic track (honors, general, or remedial) exist.

And be ready to respond to questions raised by academic research on the effectiveness of personalized learning strategies.

What we are calling for is the safe, non-invasive measurement of children's fitness in a way that is fun, inspiring and engaging for children and young people, informed by the academic community but shaped by young people themselves.

The World of Work initiative is backed by academic research showing pupils are likely to achieve more in school if they have work aspirations [1]; they prefer careers information directly from employees [2]; and the more employee contacts they have, the more they learn about work [3].

With advances in data - based instruction and differentiation, should we be reconsidering the practice of tracking students by academic ability?

After brief introductions by Academic Dean Robert Schwartz and Associate Professor Nonie Lesaux, Deshler quickly reminisced about his first encounter with the late Jeanne Chall, a former Ed School professor and celebrated leader in reading research and instruction.

Building on earlier work done by the Academic Cabinet, a faculty committee, Lagemann made the development of a case - based core curriculum one of her first priorities as dean.

The draft School Quality Snapshot says clearly and unambiguously that the days of measuring a school by academic performance in New York City are over.

In suburban San Antonio, the schools are too new to evaluate by academic achievement, and self - selection bias will make it hard to do so: schools that are designed to appeal to students and parents looking for faster - paced academics would be expected to appear at the top of state school rankings.

«Having Dean McCartney participate in such an important way was an enormous example of what can be done by the academic community,» she says.

Some parents never have overcome negative experiences they had as students; others are intimidated by an academic inferiority complex.

The idea of cross-sector leadership was also stressed by Academic Dean Robert Schwartz.

Led by Academic Dean Robert Schwartz and Ferguson, the Pathways to Prosperity project launched in late 2008 to explore promising solutions to these immense challenges, including developing a range of «multiple pathways» to help more adolescents successfully complete the journey to entering the adult workforce.

To be upset by academic standards is to invest them with a power they neither have nor deserve.

That is, we don't expect to find one approach universally better than the others, but rather a complex pattern of effectiveness that may vary by age, by gender, by ethnicity, and by academic achievement.

Most of the time I miss it, distracted by the academic and behavioral irritations that plague my daily involvement with students.

Data Wise: A Step - by - step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning, edited by Academic Dean and Thompson Professor Richard Murnane, Lecturer Kathryn Parker Boudett, and doctoral student Elizabeth A City, provides a solid blueprint of what to do with the increasing quantitative information educators face.

Both are distinguished by academic excellence, and their respective leaders are resolutely committed to single gender as a vital part of the school's program.

Second, despite a decade of calls by everyone from leading educators to leaders in the business community to shift our schooling from fact - based learning structured by academic disciplines to one that develops creative, flexible thinkers using a more interdisciplinary approach, this change is still not happening in any widespread way.

Building on two years of work by the Academic Cabinet, led by Catherine Snow before I arrived, we have made considerable progress in the development of core courses.

«As the assistant principal at my school, my job deals mainly with students who have behavioral issues, which are often accompanied by academic struggles.

We noted that few supervisors had ever been asked to consider the reliability and validity of the school's observations — whether these were of undergraduates by academic observers or of more experienced and expert teachers by more experienced and expert teachers.

The films of Nicholas Ray, more than any other contemporary American director's, were singled out by the up - and - coming Cahiers du Cinéma crowd (on the cusp of their own splashy Nouvelle Vague) as justification for their politique des auteurs — more a personal stance on critical practice than dogmatic superstructure, and long since codified and ossified by academic film criticism into hierarchy - happy «auteur theory.»

The full - length commentary by academic Casper Tybjerg is dry and very scene specific, probably best sampled if the other extras don't prove sufficient.

Deanna starts a physical relationship with a younger guy (Luke Benward) that's played with sincerity, and she's warmly accepted by her academic peers who are two decades her junior.

In a statement, eHarmony acknowledged that its algorithms are proprietary, but said that its methods have been tested by academic experts.

eHarmony is one of the few successful products developed entirely by academic researchers using accepted scientific techniques.

You will be notified by the Office of Graduate Admissions or by the Academic Director of the program if an interview is required.

After years of being criticized by the academic and scientific communities for their «excess» protein intakes, bodybuilders today have received their vindication; It is no longer a theory that protein intakes higher than the RDA are more effective for building muscle, it is now scientific fact.

Candidates for this advanced standing should indicate this in their application essay, and must submit an academic paper on a topic approved by the Academic Director.