Sentences with phrase «conceived by college students»

And since we're celebrating International Bacon Day — a holiday conceived by college students, I believe instant gratification is in keeping with the true spirit of the day.

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Inspired by her own experience as an Indian American student in the 1990s and, later, as a visiting professor at the University of London, Warikoo, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, set out to understand how students of various backgrounds at Brown, Harvard, and Oxford conceive of diversity and merit in the college - admission process.

In addition, they pontificate that students learn best when schools are mandated to use the ill - conceived Common Core standards so classrooms become little more than Common Core testing factories and the teaching profession is opened up to those who haven't been burdened by lengthy college based education programs designed to provide educators with the comprehensive skill sets necessary to work with and teach the broad range of children who attend the country's public schools.

Confronted by the dominant attitude that demographics were destiny, a group of committed educators, led by Dacia Toll and Doug McCurry, set out on a mission to provide equal education access to all America's children and conceived of a school in which high expectations and strong student outcomes were the norm — where access to four - year college for low - income students and those of color was a right, not a privilege.