Sentences with phrase «by academic art»

Work by academic art stars like Bouguereau and Cabanel from the Paris Salon look like soft - core porn, and everybody knows that old master subjects like The Three Graces and The Judgement Of Paris are mostly a front for putting the -LSB-.....]

Unlike the work of Wassily Kandisky, Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich, who were considered by academic art historians to have been the pioneers of Abstract, most of Klint & rsquo»; «s works were never exhibited during her lifetime.

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The notion promoted by the Canadian technology council that an arts education leads to better results in a wide range of other areas was repeatedly deflated: «There is no evidence for a link between theatre training and overall academic skill... We found no evidence that dance education improves overall academic skills or reading... There is no evidence that training in visual arts improves overall academic skills or literacy.»

By centering on Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math [STEAM], the program underscores the importance of bringing diverse women from various academic interests together at the developmental stages of their career to build a support network for future women business owners and leaders.

The Chronicle of Higher Education and Change have been much concerned about values recently, as have the American Association of Higher Education and the other Washington - based educational agencies; the Danforth Foundation recently held a workshop on values in liberal arts education, and the whole issue has been given academic credibility by programs in moral development and in value analysis at several universities.

Journey School is a K - 8 public charter school guided by the Core Principles of Public Waldorf Education, which blends academics, arts, and ethics into everyday learning.

February Open House, 2018, Snapd Burlington Halton Waldorf School prides itself on revolutionizing education by integrating academics and the arts.

By integrating academics and the arts, the Waldorf curriculum responds to the developmental needs of the child, focusing not only on what children learn, but how they learn.

It provides a comprehensive academic education enlivened by the arts, music, movement, foreign language, and community festivals.

The school was established in 1974 by parents who wanted to offer an educational experience to their children that balanced academic rigor, arts and farm work.

Bridge and politics continued to dominate much of my life, alongside an academic career that by the late 1990s had seen me progress from history lecturer to Dean of Arts and Humanities at Lancaster University.

«Our program is the only one of its kind that provides life - saving interventions to Latina teens between the ages of 12 and 17 years old, by using emotional and physical wellness, academic programs, and creative arts activities.

Coss, who taught drawing classes early in his academic career and whose previous research focused on art and human evolution, used photos and film to study the strokes of charcoal drawings and engravings of animals made by human artists 28,000 to 32,000 years ago in the Chauvet - Pont - d'Arc Cave in southern France.

Numerical Recipes in Fortran: The Art of Scientific Computing by William H. Press, Saul A. Teukolsky, William T. Vetterling and Brian P. Flannery, Cambridge University Press, pp 963, # 35 * Numerical Computation Using C by Robert Glassey, Academic Press, pp 283, Pounds Sterling 25

New research by academics from the University of Leicester and the British Museum working with colleagues from the British Geological Survey and Cambridge University, outlines the science behind the largest concentration of indigenous pre-Columbian rock art in the Caribbean.

Under the AIA, academic scientists (and others) will now have 6 months from the publication of a patent application (by others) to submit prior art (e.g., disclosures, publications) that they believe the examiner should consider.

Today the two eminent science policy veterans came to Washington, D.C., to unveil a report from a panel of academic and industry leaders assembled by the Cambridge, Massachusetts — based American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Each applied research project, involving academics, SMEs and industrials partners, is undertaken by a team of high - level scientists and engineers integrating state - of - the - art technological equipment and expertise, dedicated to conceive and to develop new innovative and high value technology solutions.

Within Lancaster University, PhD candidates will be supervised by ImaginationLancaster in the Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts, led by Professor Rachel Cooper OBE, and by academics from other faculties including the School of Computing and Communications.

Academic appointments in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) are guided by policies of both SEAS and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS).

Students can distinguish themselves by showing a demonstrated passion for art and design throughout high school, both through rigorous academic engagement and through participation in extracurricular activities, summer courses, weekend programs and relevant internships.

In «Learning from Rudolf Steiner: The Relevance of Waldorf Education for Urban Public School Reform,» a study published in 2008 in the journal Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice, researcher Ida Oberman concluded that the Waldorf approach successfully laid the groundwork for future academics by first engaging students through integrated arts lessons and strong relationships instead of preparing them for standardized tests.

Teachers meet this mandate by linking academic subjects with the arts: The math curriculum, for example, incorporates principles of design, and science teachers use musical instruments to study sound and stage lighting to demonstrate the properties of light.

What Bates and many other arts - integrated schools across the country are showing is that by creating a richer, more memorable learning experience through the arts, they unleash not only a rising tide of academic achievement but they lay the foundation for what it means to be a truly creative community.

Parker's motivating idea is its common, carefully focused and interconnected academic curriculum, which is shaped by «essential» questions in two major areas: Mathematics / Science / Technology, including Health, and Arts and Humanities, including Spanish.

Improvements in states» academic standards in English / language arts have been widespread since the federal No Child Left Behind Act kicked in three years ago, but the mathematics guidelines are still generally «vague and undemanding,» concludes the latest 50 - state review by the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation.

By far the largest and most comprehensive study on this topic ever conducted, «THE ARTS AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT: WHAT THE EVIDENCE SHOWS,» confirms claims that listening to music temporarily enhances spatial skills (the controversial «Mozart Effect»), as well as claims that children who study music gain skill in spatial reasoning.

Academic Leagues at Edwards Middle School - Excerpt provided by NCTL from the Time Well Spent Report, explaining how Edwards has closed the achievement gap within Massachusetts in math, English language arts, and science with their Academic Leagues

Academic fieldwork clearly enhances the teaching of science and geography, but other subjects such as history, art and design and citizenship can also be brought to life by high quality educational visits.

Our findings are consistent with those of a recent study by Richard Patterson and Robert Patterson, which found that in - class computer usage reduces academic performance by between 0.14 and 0.37 points on a four - point grade scale among undergraduate students at a private liberal - arts college.

American youths are reading less in their free time than a generation ago, a statistic that bodes poorly for their academic performance, job prospects, civic participation, and even social well - being, a report by the National Endowment for the Arts says.

Add to this nebulous college entrance environment the challenge presented by the proliferation of four - year high schools, whose numbers skyrocketed from 2,526 in 1890 to 10,213 in 1910, and it is easy to see why the trustees of the Carnegie Foundation felt the need to define college: «An institution to be ranked a college must have at least six (6) professors giving their entire time to college and university work, a course of four full years in liberal arts and sciences, and should require for admission not less than the usual four years of academic or high school preparation, or its equivalent, in addition to the preacademic or grammar school studies.»

Like all of the other Symonds» students, he began his days with a morning meeting, worked with teacher support in large and small groups, experienced academic choice, lived by rules and consequences, attended art, music, physical education, and media classes, and became a part of the Symonds community.

The plan sets a target of 66 % of working - age New Mexicans earning a college degree or post-secondary credential by the year 2030 — a rigorous goal given the current attainment rate of 45 %.1 The plan also sets a vision for New Mexico to be the fastest growing state in the nation when it comes to student outcomes, with a goal to increase the percentage of students who demonstrate readiness to more than 60 % on the state English language arts (ELA) and math assessments.2 These efforts are significant considering New Mexico's historically lower student academic proficiency rates compared to other states and to national averages3, and demonstrate how leaders are driving a sense of urgency to improve.

Without activities, such as sports or the arts, that typically attract students to after - school programs, Bridge the Gap College Prep draws them in by offering one - on - one academic and emotional support.

Core classes taught by highly qualified teachers is the percent of core academic classes (defined as English, reading or language arts, mathematics, science, foreign languages, civics and government, economics, arts, history, and geography) taught by highly qualified teachers (defined as teachers not only holding a Massachusetts teaching license, but also demonstrating subject matter competency in the areas they teach).

In addition, ED shall annually award competitive grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements to eligible entities for the purposes of enriching students» academic experience by promoting: (1) arts education for disadvantaged and disabled students, (2) school readiness through the development and dissemination of accessible instructional programing for preschool and elementary school children and their families, and (3) support for high - ability learners and high - ability learning through the Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Program.

The supplemental blended instructional curriculum developed by our partner, Middlebury Interactive Languages, allows students in grades 4 — 10 to learn the fundamentals of academic English while completing projects that relate to English language arts, social studies, mathematics, and science.

The latest draft of proposed common academic standards offers more - detailed expectations of what students should know and be able to do by the end of high school in math and language arts, but also notes that some decisions about curricula should be left to individual states and schools.

The study by the National Center for Education Statistics says that more than 80 percent of elementary and secondary school leaders agree that music, the visual arts, and creative writing are «essential» or «very important» relative to other academic subjects.

Others, like art and music teachers, are subject to job reviews split between classroom observations and student learning targets — academic goals agreed to in advance by teachers and principals.

Monarch Academy Glen Burnie, a public charter school founded and operated by The Children's Guild and affiliated with TranZed Alliance, serves students in kindergarten through eighth grade with an enriched, rigorous, hands - on, academic curriculum emphasizing project - based learning and the arts and technology.

BART Charter Public School (BART) prepares students for college by promoting mastery of academic skills and content with a strong foundation in arts and technology.

Summer Advantage USA reverses that trend by providing students with rigorous academic programs and enrichment opportunities such as art, music, field trips and guest speakers.

Through hands - on learning experiences and arts integration in all subject areas, we provide our students a culture of academic excellence, foster a rigorous and nurturing learning environment, and instill within them a love of learning by identifying their positive distinctions, whether academic, artistic, or athletic, thus empowering them to be responsible, contributing members of a global community.

The summative evaluation of two years of the Arts for Academic Achievement (AAA) program examines student learning outcomes of arts - integrated instruction measured by standardized tests, as well as effects not captured by standardized teArts for Academic Achievement (AAA) program examines student learning outcomes of arts - integrated instruction measured by standardized tests, as well as effects not captured by standardized tearts - integrated instruction measured by standardized tests, as well as effects not captured by standardized tests.

This study examines the impact of the Whole Schools Initiative (WSI), an arts integration model for comprehensive school reform, on students» academic performance as evidenced primarily by their scores on standardized state exams.

Similar academic results are reported by Bobby Riley, principal of Integrated Arts Academy in Burlington, Vermont, and Debbie Broadnax, principal of Powder Springs Elementary in Powder Springs, Georgia.

Academic Atrophy: The Condition of the Liberal Arts in America's Public Schools was written by Claus von Zastrow with Helen Janc and published by the Council for Basic Education, Washington, DC, March 2004.

The EOCEP encourages instruction in the specific academic standards for the courses, encourages student achievement, and documents the level of students» mastery of the academic standards.To meet federal accountability requirements, the EOCEP in mathematics, English / language arts and science will be administered to all public school students by the third year of high school, including those students as required by the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA) and by Title 1 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).