Sentences with phrase «day of the academic year»

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Each year, more than a million kids will leave school without earning a high school diploma — that's approximately 7,000 students every day of the academic year.

It is clear that students are necessary to write essays and other assignments each day of their academic years.

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His name is on the honour roll at Aquinas College for academic excellence, which I brought to the attention of my grandson on grandparents day in May of this year.

During the 2015 - 2016 academic year, I chaired the Government of Alberta's Climate Change Leadership Panel, for which I was compensated by the government for 30 days of work with the balance of my time commitment (at least 34 additional days) being covered by a release from the Dean of the Alberta School of Business.

Now, so too has the academic who advised our federal minister of finance that it would be a smart idea to change the 40 - year - old rules that govern Canada's small businesses, with a mere 75 - day «consultation» process, in the dog days of summer.

Today's shocking sticker price of meal plans has risen nearly 47 percent over the past decade.The average meal plan works out to roughly $ 18.75 per day, or approximately $ 4,500 for a full eight - month academic year.

There is something of a boom going on these days in Melville studies, with Kelley's book and at least half a dozen other major academic monographs appearing from university presses, and with two new full - length biographies published last year: Laurie Robertson - Lorant's relatively unimportant but informative Melville: A Biography (Potter, 752 pages,, $ 40) and the first volume of the endlessly detailed Herman Melville (Johns Hopkins University Press, 941 pages,, $ 39.95) by Hershel Parker, the grand old man of Melville studies.

Indeed, of the Crimson's 41 varsity teams (the most at any Division I school), football, which travels five or fewer Fridays each academic year, might miss the fewest class days during the regular season.

Thus, the rhythm of the day begins with the work that requires the most attention, and each academic subject can receive a full measure of attention over the course of the year.

The next stop is an all - day language - focused pre-kindergarten for 200 4 - year - olds, who then graduate into a K - 12 charter school that has an extended day and an extended year and employs some of the intensive academic practices developed in the KIPP schools.

The trend these days is to start children in academic - centered preschools as early as two years old and then move them into academically rigorous kindergarten programs, often while still four years of age.

GLSEN also manages a number of programs / events to engage school communities of all grades throughout the academic year, including Ally Week, ThinkB4YouSpeak, the Day of Silence, No Name - Calling Week, and the Safe Space Kit.

Prof. Naana Opoku Agyemang commenting further noted the beneficiary students in the free SHS program exclude day students in the 2015/16 academic year that are benefiting from other forms of scholarships such as the Ghana Cocoa Board Scholarships, Northern Scholarships, Secondary Education Improvement Project Scholarships, and those on scholarships provided by NGOs, corporate bodies and individuals.

The NPP Government surreptitiously used last academic year's GES approved fees of 1,022.20 for boarders and GHS 560 for day students in order that it can beat down the actual cost of Free SHS.

Academics have also savoured the encounter, with Dr Alban Webb of the University of Sussex writing: «The refrain of «Did you threaten to overrule him» subsequently came to denote a high watermark in the style of persistent, robust, but cordial interviewing technique pioneered by Robin Day and others 40 year earlier.»

Last month, GhCampus.com reported that, the Director - General of Ghana Education Service (GES), Mr Jacob Kor at a press briefing in Accra indicated that a total of 42 Community Day Senior High Schools (SHS) are expected to start admission of their first batch of students for 2016/2017 academic year.

The money, which was released last week, will cover the first seven days for the first term of the 2016/2017 academic year.

The seven days represents part of payment for the first term of 2017/2017 academic year, and we are hoping to make another payment next week Friday, which will be for 16 days, but afterward, we will request for additional funds to be able to clear all the arrears that we owe the caterers, «he said.

Gadêlha and the Oxford SIAM committee planned the agenda of the events they will hold this academic year, including an induction day for newcomers, student seminars, scientific talks by professors, networking events, visits to industry campuses, and an annual conference.

A final point: Not only does this mix of activities change each day, it changes during the course of an academic year, grant cycle, etc..

For 40 years, a high - prestige, low - profile group of about 40 academic scientists has advised the U.S. government on some of the most sensitive technical issues of the day.

These days, wells travels about 26 weeks a year as the unofficial head of a loosely affiliated cadre of academics, lawyers, and police officers proselytizing new procedures for judging eyewitness testimony.

After 29 years of fulfilling the responsibilities of a science faculty member, administrator, and mentor to younger scientists, Johnson describes his experiences, from his early days as an assistant professor to his transition to administration, and offers advice to academic scientists who are just starting out.

We at Science Careers see little ethical equivalence between the chattel slavery practiced in the United States before 1865 and employment in an academic institution, but there is a coincidental connection: Seven years (the approximate length of the average biomedical Ph.D.) plus 5 years (the maximum allowable time for a postdoc supported by the National Institutes of Health, and the length of many postdocs these days) equals 12 years.

«Our recent research revealed that over the past academic year, over a quarter of a million school days were lost due to teacher stress.

Writing two years later in his 1961 book The Adolescent Society, he noted that educators had long been suspicious of academic competition, but that they unwittingly used it every day when handing out letter grades.

The findings, which were released by the discount online retailer just days before the start of the new academic year, indicates that as many as 1.9 m students returning to higher education, or starting university for the first time, will need additional support to make ends meet.

Professional learning and support is provided to team leaders by the principal and academic partners and all participants are released for four half days to work on key elements of the project throughout the year, in addition to meeting regularly for planning, to discuss evidence and to provide feedback to each other.

The Mississippi Senate has voted to give school districts the option of keeping children in class five fewer days for each of the next two academic years.

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character development).

In the year - round program at Fairview Elementary School, in Modesto, California, for example (see «Power to the People,»), students benefit from an emphasis on civic literacy and responsibility in addition to a regular academic program with about the same number of school days as traditional schools.

Pages included are: - Editable cover - Academic year calendar - All 52 weeks of 2017 - 18 diary pages: 5 versions are included for 4 / 5/6 / 7/8 lessons per day.

This for a place that promised longer days (an hour more than the regular public schools), an extra 25 days of school per academic year, tough discipline, uniforms, and rigorous academic standards.

The academics carried out observations in the preschool room of a long - day care centre in New South Wales, looking at the nature of literacy programmes, practices and perspective in supporting children as they prepare to transition to Kindergarten (the first year of formal schooling in the state).

Real personalizing of education, for example, would disrupt just about everything: from school architecture to teacher preparation, from state academic standards and grade - level class assignments to the scheduling of the period, the day, the week, and the year.

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Photographing an entire school full of wiggly, wind - blown youngsters is not only disruptive to the academic schedule, but the results of that lost day seem to become more and more disappointing every year.

«The social media will hopefully provide people an opportunity to share their photos and reflections so that they can see themselves as part of a global, as well as local, Harvard community,» DeAmicis said, noting that plans are already underway to host another Global Day of Service in the upcoming academic year.

By shading each of the dates a certain colour (e.g. green represents a day when both students and staff are present at school)- the model will calculate how many of each day are present in the academic year.

Chronic absenteeism (missing just 2 days per month or 18 days over the school year) can be an early warning sign of academic trouble starting as early as kindergarten and preschool.

During the academic year, 1,500 Year 9 students from state and independent schools across United Learning competed for the chance to design an app addressing one of their learning needs, which would then be created and sold in the App Store.The first stage of this was a 21 - day roadshow, which saw 7billionideas staff visit 38 United Learning state and independent schools around the country to launch the competition and to teach students how best to generate ideas, refine a creative concept and build confidence in their own business skiyear, 1,500 Year 9 students from state and independent schools across United Learning competed for the chance to design an app addressing one of their learning needs, which would then be created and sold in the App Store.The first stage of this was a 21 - day roadshow, which saw 7billionideas staff visit 38 United Learning state and independent schools around the country to launch the competition and to teach students how best to generate ideas, refine a creative concept and build confidence in their own business skiYear 9 students from state and independent schools across United Learning competed for the chance to design an app addressing one of their learning needs, which would then be created and sold in the App Store.The first stage of this was a 21 - day roadshow, which saw 7billionideas staff visit 38 United Learning state and independent schools around the country to launch the competition and to teach students how best to generate ideas, refine a creative concept and build confidence in their own business skills.

Schools that offer extended - year will provide an additional month of instruction, taking the academic school year from 180 to 200 days.

Yesterday a state auditor's report found that a Kinston charter school's CEO mismanaged hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars over several years, ultimately leaving that school's students without an academic home just a few days into the 2013 - 14 school year.

Project goals will be accomplished through ten days of professional development for math and CTE teacher teams and sustained contact between teachers, investigators and educational specialists during the 2017 - 18 academic year.

Across that period, charter schools statewide consistently provided greater academic growth than their district peers: on average, charter students over the course of the study saw the equivalent of 34 additional days in reading and 63 in math each year.

The school also keeps the cafeteria open throughout the summer, feeding an average of 150 students each day during those months in between academic years.

With an eye toward helping boys get more rest to improve school performance, McCallie will institute a new weekly schedule for the 2017 - 18 school year, moving the start of academic classes to 8:55 a.m. every school day.

According to Every Student, Every Day: A National Initiative to Address and Eliminate Chronic Absenteeism, the problem is «typically defined as missing at least 10 % or more of school days in a year for any reason, excused or unexcused, chronic absenteeism affects as many as 7.5 million kids a year and is a strong predictor of low academic achievement and high school dropout.»

There, teachers combined small group teacher instruction with computer - based learning throughout the school day, producing within one school year a 47 - point increase on the state's 1,000 - point measure of academic performance.