Sentences with phrase «concerned about all of their students»

Too many teachers think that ignoring the racial identity and social class backgrounds of their students is the best way to show that they are concerned about all of their students equally.

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Mark Emmert, president of the NCAA, expressed concern last week about «how this legislation could affect our student - athletes and employees.»

An advocate for a local teachers union also expressed concern to the New York Times Magazine about the quality of the education, arguing Bridge focuses less on getting poor students to the baseline as enticing public school students to switch to Bridge schools.

On Tuesday night, Peterborough City Council approved a plan for a for - profit corporation to own and operate a new student residence at Trent University. I'm concerned that this may signal a new trend at Canadian universities; about a year ago, I blogged about a similar plan at the University of Toronto.

Eureka High School in Eureka, Calif., postponed its drill that had been scheduled for Thursday, partly because officials were concerned about the mental state of students, said Fred Van Vleck, the district superintendent.

Irene Lanzinger, president of the BC Teachers Federation, echoed the call for public investments and stricter regulation of banks, and added particular concerns about schools, women and students.

guy as he launches his cross-country tour of campuses today, speaking with students about their concerns for the future.

A recent report from the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center at the George Washington University said 54 % of millennials are concerned about their ability to repay their student loans, and nearly half don't think they could come up with $ 2,000 for an emergency.

VANCOUVER — New Democrat advanced education critic David Eby is beginning a province - wide advanced education tour by meeting with students in the Okanagan to listen to their concerns about the state of post-secondary education.

The survey of 1,002 Canadians was commissioned by Trade Justice Network (TJN), a coalition of social, labour, environmental, student and other groups concerned about the secrecy and anti-democratic provisions of international trade negotiations.

But government regulators, lawmakers and consumer advocates have voiced a host of concerns about the practices of companies that collect payments on student loans on behalf of the federal government and private lenders.

Stevens offered not a word of concern about whether religious students might feel themselves to be less than full members of the political community if, by order of the nation's highest court, their messages and only their messages are categorically excluded from the school's public arena.

I think that much of the critics» distress about changes in church - related higher education rests ultimately on their epistemological concerns: Christian higher education, the scholarship it produces and the students it graduates should be substantively different from its secular counterpart.

Joseph Knippenberg raised a serious concern at First Thoughts last week about the way University of Central Florida professor Charles Negy reacted to students arguing for the validity of Christianity.

That is why students in liberal arts colleges are rightly concerned about the reality of the freedom their education is meant to exemplify and promote.

Part of my recent wonder about local churches grows from my need as a professor of world religions to demonstrate how my courses meet concerns in the ministry that my students will enter.

Many scholars and students have struggled with the structure of 1 Corinthians, as it seems to be a loosely connected assortment of ideas about various topics and questions that concern the Corinthian church.

The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.

Indeed, he does this so rarely that many students of his letters have decided that he was not at all concerned about the» historical Jesus»; some have gone so far as to affirm that he did not even know of his existence.

Other students are concerned about some of the issues mentioned in the Washington Post article like the extension of benefits to same sex partners, or the way that the university dealt with the Health and Human Services mandate.

This theologically trained medical student and I were not concerned about medical ethics, as important as they are, but about the personal dimensions of medical education and the long - term personal consequences of that experience.

The day I read Curt Lampkin's letter, the Wall Street Journal had an op - ed entitled «Writing Off Student Loans Is Only a Matter of Time,» which cited financial data that make Lampkin's concerns about runaway tuition sound all too modest.

Since the 1980s, the country's leaders have been concerned about the quality of the educational system and its ability to prepare students for contemporary economic and social life.

Faculty and student expressions of concern about the treatment of Muslims have been grounded in a desire to live peaceably and respectfully with all people, including our neighbors of Islamic and other religious faith traditions.

Or maybe you think that what makes a university Christian today is real concern about a student's life outside of the classroom.

As far as I am concerned, however, the hiring of ethicists in medical schools and business schools to lecture to students about what it means to be ethical or to teach values is to try to cure the illness with but another form of the disease.

Sustainability First Although students several years ago had expressed concern about the quality of food offered by Cal Dining, the program's patrons today have few doubts when it comes to what's on their plates.

A visit to a small New England college campus offers a snapshot of the novice daily fantasy football player, and illustrates the reasons administrators and parents are concerned about students playing DFS

For example, after the high - profile suicide of a Chinese - American graduate student in 2007, Stanford University's Asian American Activities Center surveyed all undergraduate and graduate students of Asian descent about their mental health and the problems that concerned them most.

At the same time that she was ingesting all this psychological research about motivation, Farrington was also studying the related sociological literature, which was concerned with how institutional structures affect individual behavior and, specifically, how certain educational structures — like school funding mechanisms, teacher contracts, or patterns of segregation — might incline students toward success or failure.

«Overloaded and Underprepared» joins an increasing number of voices expressing concern about the future of the stereotypical high school student of today — the one with the non-stop schedule who is overstressed, anxious, not getting enough sleep and locked into rigid definitions of success that don't leave room for genuine engagement, critical thinking skills and creativity.

Interesting article:» «Overloaded and Underprepared» joins an increasing number of voices expressing concern about the future of the stereotypical high school student of today â $ «the one with the non-stop schedule who is overstressed, anxious,» Anxiety is comorbid with suicide, and yet PAUSD teachers criminalize anxiety through everyday worst practices in the classroom: excessive homework, test stacking, project stacking, inflexible deadlines, and uncaring response to pleas for relief.

The school board said it wanted to see numbers on how other districts that opted out have been affected and expressed concern about the health of students.

I recently exchanged e-mails with one of my former students about the perennial question concerning human nature: Are humans good or bad?

School board member Gary Wapinski was concerned about the drop in the number of lunches, wondering whether it was a sign that students were displeased with the service.

Every afternoon, Mrs. Q — who asked to remain anonymous out of concern for her job — photographed the lumps on her orange school lunch tray, and shared her observations about the food and how it affected students.

Because most of Chicago «s public schools have closed campuses and 88 percent of the children attending receive free or reduced - price lunches, Phillips is more concerned about getting the students to eat than losing them to outside competition.

So, how should CPS balance the needs of so many hungry students against concerns about lost instruction time, sub-par food, and chronic waste?

LEILANI WILDE: What did your friends and your fellow students, did they make any comments or were you ever concerned about what they thought about the whole process of you being a mom that wanted to breastfeed?

The author of the post, J. Brian Phillips (a local property rights advocate), also mocks my concern about making healthy cafeteria options available only to paying students («Why should those paying for their own lunch have a choice that is denied to those who aren't?»

The high school environment does not generally promote or support a path to purpose, according to Denise Pope, a lecturer with the Stanford University School of Education and co-founder of Challenge Success, an organization concerned about students who compromise health, integrity and learning due to performance pressure.

The Ghana National Union of Technical Students (GNUTS), is threatening to boycott lectures and embark on nationwide demonstrations by Tuesday [March 27, 2018], if the government does not respond favorably to the concerns lecturers have raised about the Technical Universities (Amendment) Bill 2017.

He questioned what message this sent out about the UK and said that of special concern was what would happen to students in their final year of university.

To concerns about out - of - state students coming to New York for free tuition, Zimpher could not give lawmakers the plan's residency restrictions.

The new laws «covers a big loophole in student school bus transportation that we were greatly concerned about,» said Jon Terry, founder of the Allergy Advocates Association, which is based near Rochester, in a statement.

The Town Board last July voted down the development after tenants of the nearby Bryant Woods Office Park raised concerns about student misconduct and traffic safety.

Several presumptive mayoral candidates have expressed concern about the NYPD's tactics following a series of reports from the Associated Press, including one that described officers trolling Muslim student associations» websites and even accompanying one group from City College on a whitewater rafting trip upstate.

The governor, who has said in recent months that he wants to break the public education monopoly, says New Yorkers have concerns about the quality of the schools and whether they are adequately preparing students.

MIAMI — Officials were so concerned about the mental stability of the student accused of last month's Florida school massacre that they decided he should be forcibly committed.

According to him, most of the students at the University, a large number of whom are females, are more concerned about what they wear than their training.