It maybe virtual but that does not stop it being immersive that even students who dislike the experience offered
by conventional schooling can be absorbed by a true alternative.
Curriculum that has been used
by conventional schools place the teachers position as the only source of knowledge for the students.
Not exact matches
Milyutin — who confesses that he struggled with math in primary
school — cited a 1984 review
by the late Benjamin Bloom, which reports that students who received one - on - one tutoring performed better than 98 % of students taught in a
conventional classroom.
A recent study
by two Canadian business
schools into what causes inflated executive pay upends some of the
conventional wisdom about what causes executive salaries to increase over time.
Alberta's oilsands operations are getting increasingly more efficient in producing energy, though they still lag behind
conventional oil, according to a new study published
by researchers at the Haskayne
School of Business and China University of Petroleum (Beijing).
It is
conventional to distinguish between theological
schools that focus on the education of ministers
by attending to the «heart knowledge» of God that people have through their Christian experience, through their piety or spirituality, and theological
schools that focus on the education of Christian intellectuals
by attending to the «head knowledge» of God that people have through critical intellectual inquiry.
The overarching weakness, he thought, was «a deep need to fulfill the emasculating and benign - to - a-fault role of the good little boy who pleases Mom
by following all rules (the civil law,
school rules,
conventional morality, politeness, etc.)[while] remaining unthreatening and unphysical.»
Christianity and Mohametanism: — For two thousand years the Greek art - forms lifelessly repeated: The Greek
schools of philosophy, Stoic, Epicurean, Aristotelian, Neo-Platonic, arguing with barren formulae:
Conventional histories: A stabilized Government with the sanctity of ancient ceremony, supported
by habitual pieties: literature without depth: Science elaborating details
by deduction from unquestioned premises: Delicacies of feeling without robustness of adventure.
The answers vary
by individual and
by the type of degree earned, but
conventional wisdom from operators and
school administrators alike is that it's hard to go wrong
by hiring an individual who's graduated from a top culinary program.
In other words,
conventional parenting and
schooling model that the way to survive in our world is
by getting really good at controlling people and conditions, whereas partnership / pleasure - oriented parenting models that the way to thrive in our world is
by using our creativity to maximize our joy and deepen our loving connections.
Certifications earned under these regulations will only be valid at charter
schools authorized
by SUNY, so teachers who want to transfer to other charters or to traditional public
schools will need to take additional steps to earn a
conventional state certification.
Moskowitz complained that lawmakers decided to raise charter funding
by only 2.9 percent instead of linking new funding to the 9.4 percent hike
conventional public
schools got last
school year.
«
By measuring naturally occurring ammonium and iodide in numerous samples from different geological formations in the Appalachian Basin, including flowback waters from shale gas wells in the Marcellus and Fayetteville shale formations, we show that fracking fluids are not much different from
conventional oil and gas wastes,» said Jennifer S. Harkness, lead author of the study and a PhD student at Duke's Nicholas
School of the Environment.
Similarly, if replacing the lowest - ranked
school in the survey with a top - quintile
school, student test scores would improve
by 0.39 of a standard deviation using a
conventional VAM, and 0.53 of a standard deviation when using the MIT team's own VAM method.
By the time I graduated from medical
school, heart transplant surgery had become
conventional, so I moved to Los Angeles and did something I've never told anyone else about: I spent a couple of years rolling pennies and eating canned spinach and pasta while I tried to understand the universe, an effort I felt had reached a dead end.
Thanks to a breakthrough led
by researchers in the Cockrell
School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, treatment for hemophilia can now be administered via a biodegradable system, a capsule, giving people affected
by the hereditary bleeding disorder hope for a less expensive, less painful treatment option than
conventional injections or infusions.
«Certainly for the next several decades, the majority of electricity will be generated
by fossil fuels in a fairly
conventional way,» says Bill Moomaw, an international energy policy expert at Tufts University's Fletcher
School of Law and Diplomacy, primarily because it is cheap and readily available.
But the
conventional wisdom on the benefits of owning vs. renting still holds when done right, according to a newly published study led
by the Brown
School's Center for Social Development (CSD) at Washington University in St. Louis.
These potentially game - changing technologies, developed
by Peter Rogan, PhD, students and his collaborators from Western's Schulich
School of Medicine & Dentistry, reveal gene variants that were missed
by conventional genetic testing.
Read about the cause, the lack of treatment
by conventional medical means (your doctor probably never learned about it at medical
school) and natural ways to reduce high homocyateine levels.
MD residencies are mandated and regulated
by conventional medical
schools.
The study also suggests that the average green
school can cut energy use
by one - third compared with
conventional school buildings.
So - called «green
schools» — which are designed specifically to provide healthier and more productive learning environments — cost just 1.5 percent to 2.5 percent more than
conventional schools, but provide significant long - term financial benefits, concludes a study
by the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative in Westborough.
A study
by Josh Goodman published in Education Next challenges the
conventional wisdom that the number of
school days cancelled due to snow has a significant impact on student learning.
A recent investigation of achievement in one large Tennessee
school district (in which I am collaborating with Sanders and Paul Wright of the SAS Institute) has found that 20 percent of math teachers are recognizably better or worse than average
by a
conventional statistical criterion.
«Unlike
conventional corporate consulting, where experts create a plan for change but are rarely involved in the implementation process,» Wagner explained, «the Change Leadership Group will support the growth and development of
school leaders
by drawing on their knowledge and working with them on the process of improvement over time.»
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
BY MURIEL SPARK Set in the 1930s, this novel is about a free - spirited teacher at a girl's
school in Scotland who ignores the
conventional curriculum, bringing her into conflict with the
school's leadership.
L.A. currently operates 15 magnet
schools and 173 magnet programs, many hosted
by conventional public
schools.
During Lewis - Carter's four years as principal, she has led these children — disadvantaged
by every
conventional measure and further handicapped
by the hardships of Katrina — to a stunning performance record on state - mandated standardized tests, one that compares favorably with the city's selective - admissions
schools.
As a student's wellbeing improves, they can use the online platform as pathway to reintegrate into mainstream or as a way to complement a
conventional environment
by simply reducing the days spent in
school.
Likewise, many of the ideas we regard today as education reform's
conventional wisdom - linked standards and assessments, consequences for poor performance, testing new teachers, paying some teachers more than others, and charter
schools - were given prominent public voice
by a teacher union leader, the late Albert Shanker of the American Federation of Teachers.
Naeyaert cited a Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) study done
by Stanford University that found Detroit
school children are learning at a rate of an extra three months in
school a year when in charter public
schools compared to similar counterparts in conventional Detroit Public S
schools compared to similar counterparts in
conventional Detroit Public
SchoolsSchools.
The results of such an analysis allow us to reality - test the broad cautions voiced
by the Friedman Foundation, the Cato Institute, and others — in particular their warning that holding
schools to account for student achievement (especially via
conventional state testing programs) will surely cause them to turn their backs on such programs and thus leave needy children without good educational options at all.
If in fact
conventional schools are to be disrupted
by technology, it is unlikely to happen soon.
There are those who contend that online learning will simply bypass
schools, that
conventional school classes will be disrupted
by new digital models that operate outside the brick - and - mortar
school.
If one judged public opinion
by conventional public discourse, one would soon conclude that parents in the United States are neatly divided between devotees of district - operated
schools and choiceniks determined to avoid them.
The program, informally called the Harvey Milk
School, is one of 39 «off - site educational services» provided by the New York City public schools in conjunction with community - based organizations to serve youths who have problems in conventional schools, according to Joseph Mancini, a spokesman for the school
School, is one of 39 «off - site educational services» provided
by the New York City public
schools in conjunction with community - based organizations to serve youths who have problems in
conventional schools, according to Joseph Mancini, a spokesman for the
school school board.
A study
by Josh Goodman challenges the
conventional wisdom that the number of
school days cancelled due to snow has a significant impact on student learning.
We ca n`t say a priori whether shifting the weight of emphasis from informal to formal evidence for decision making will improve
schools; it is an empirical question.226 The current emphasis on using student performance data to guide improvement efforts also calls for greater attention
by those in
schools to measurable patterns of student performance at the
school level, or
by student sub-groups, in addition to the
conventional interest in individual student needs and progress.
Make honest assessments of your
school and teaching methods
by examining
conventional practices from a fresh, critical perspective.
In contrast, charter
schools, which are not bound
by calendar restrictions contained in
conventional teacher contracts, are using large portions of the summer for instruction.
According to
conventional wisdom, there should be bedlam in the classroom here at this charter
school operated
by the University of Chicago.
Charter opponents used to claim, without much in the way of evidence, that these
schools would harm
conventional public
schools by «cherry - picking» white, high - achieving students and leaving poor, struggling minority students behind.
It is true that charter
schools are exempt from some of the regulations and bureaucracy that hamper
conventional public
schools, but charter
schools are subject to civil - rights and safety regulations and most of the academic requirements mandated
by the state.
Galloway (1995) investigated homeschooled graduates» potential for success in college
by comparing their performance with students from
conventional schools and found insignificant differences, except in the ACT English subtest scores.
Charter
schools are often started
by administrators, teachers, parents, etc. who feel constrained
by conventional public
schools.
Charter
schools are innovative public
schools designed
by educators, parents or civic leaders that are open
by choice, accountable for results, and free from most rules and regulations governing
conventional public
schools.
To require revenue extracted
by future regional enhancement property taxes that are levied
by Intermediate
School Districts and distributed to conventional public school districts to also be shared with public charter schools within the ISD's terr
School Districts and distributed to
conventional public
school districts to also be shared with public charter schools within the ISD's terr
school districts to also be shared with public charter
schools within the ISD's territory.
Charters are publicly funded but run
by non-profit boards instead of
by a
conventional government
school board.
Analysis
by Mathematica revealed that online
schools «on average provided students with less live teacher contact time per week than students in
conventional schools had in a day.»