Sentences with phrase «by nonacademic»

Research shows that at least half of long - term chances of success are determined by nonacademic qualities like grit, perseverance and curiosity.

Looking back, I can see that my colleagues and I were struggling to counteract powerful tendencies that work against high student achievement in urban schools: If teachers work in isolation, if there isn't effective teamwork, if the curriculum is undefined and weakly aligned with tests, if there are low expectations, if a negative culture prevails, if the principal is constantly distracted by nonacademic matters, if the school does not measure and analyze student outcomes, and if the staff lacks a coherent overall improvement plan — then students fall further and further behind, and the achievement gap becomes a chasm.

Well - qualified and savvy Ph.D. scientists could very likely land substantially more lucrative offers on their own, but the program serves a useful purpose by aiming to ease the way to a first industrial position for scientists unfamiliar with or intimidated by the nonacademic job market.

Not exact matches

Yet many nonacademic readers are indeed impressed by Dawkins» belligerent, scientistic blather.

A remarkable flourishing of spiritualities has combined thoughtfulness with passion, often by women who also write in other genres (academic and nonacademic), such as Loades, Soskice, Grey, Coakley, Hampson, Jantzen, Ursula King (a German teaching in Bristol), Sarah Maitland, Monica Furlong and Elizabeth Stuart.

With the exception of the program at New York Theological Seminary, all the organizations participating were founded and are directed by people involved in ministry outside the academy (and even NYTS requires its professors to engage in nonacademic ministry).

So, although speakers agreed that the need for new approaches to graduate education is pressing, effective reform to prepare students for existing nonacademic opportunities will take strong action by entities that are currently finding it hard to work together.

Most Ph.D. researchers doing nonacademic work were employed by government or for - profit companies.

A study released on 1 April by the American Institutes for Research, The Nonacademic Careers of STEM PhD Holders, casts revealing light on which Ph.D. researchers do what kind of nonacaNonacademic Careers of STEM PhD Holders, casts revealing light on which Ph.D. researchers do what kind of nonacademicnonacademic work.

While more than two - thirds of nonacademic organizations consider performance reviews standard practice, almost half the academic institutions questioned in a survey conducted by COSEPUP said they do not officially review their postdocs.

He alleged that the university did not hire him as director of its observatory because, according to an initially confidential e-mail by a member of the search committee that later became public, Christian beliefs that Gaskell expressed in nonacademic lectures and articles made him «potentially evangelical.»

The UW On - Ramps workshops aimed to broaden the universe of women from which universities can hire — and ultimately to change the culture of STEM departments and make them more welcoming to underrepresented groups — by helping highly qualified women with nonacademic career trajectories navigate the transition to academic employment.

Although comedy is an unusual choice, most Ph.D. - trained researchers will eventually pursue, out of choice or necessity, nonacademic careers, according to a survey by the National Postdoctoral Association.

On Aug. 24, the women, all of whom work in nonacademic positions, filed individual charges with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission; the same charges were also filed by the union with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars job discrimination on...

As talked to lots of teachers when we were launching ClassDojo, the big insight was the other half of education that's almost completely unaddressed by tech is the nonacademic half, the side that goes beyond facts to developing who you are.»

of the nonacademic courses combined; by 1982, more than 39 percent of all high - school coursework was in nonacademic subjects.

In 1928 nonacademic courses accounted for about 33 percent of the classes taken by U.S. high - school students; by 1961 that number had increased to 43 percent.

The «comprehensive» high school, for example, could grow ever more comprehensive by offering more courses, many of them nonacademic.

In that job, I was often confronted by the glaring disconnect between my school's academic priorities — I was charged with preparing students for the New York Global Studies Regents exam — and my students» nonacademic needs.

«Multimetric accountability promotes comprehensive student achievement and well - being by using multiple measures of performance, incorporating a range of subjects, including nonacademic factors, and promoting continuous improvement and support.

The law freed states to expand the ways they hold schools responsible for improving student success by adding at least one «nonacademic» indicator to an accountability system primarily based on standardized tests scores in reading, math and science.

This flexibility, though, is limited by the existing ESSA regulations, as the weighting of nonacademic indicators can not be used to remove a school from a low performance designation.28

Teachers, coaches, after - school staff, and employers can use this resource to facilitate conversations about how young people can reach their full potential by developing nonacademic skills.

Ultimately, community schools benefit students, families, and teachers in three important ways: They reduce the demand on educators and other school staff by addressing the academic and nonacademic challenges that students bring to school.

The new federal law also broadens the narrow focus on test scores of the previous version of the law, No Child Left Behind, by requiring states to create a school accountability system that includes at least one nonacademic indicator.

Balancing the needs of these children against the mandate to educate and now to meet academic standards set by state agencies is a formidable task, and schools are finding their curricula bulging with special units on what are sometimes seen as nonacademic and irrelevant frills — social skills training, anger management, conflict resolution, and safe sex, to name a few.