Sentences with phrase «different academic points»

In other words, students start grade levels at different academic points, and how much they improve deserves more attention, not where they finished.

Not exact matches

Today it is commonplace to point out that the major fault line within academic theology goes between conservatives and liberals rather than between different confessional traditions.

«This is one of the very first studies of human iPSC models for type 2 diabetes, and it points out the power of this technology to look at the nature of diabetes, which is complex and may be different in different individuals,» says C. Ronald Kahn, MD, Joslin's Chief Academic Officer and the Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Her litany of complaints about the academic results of Klein's «radical restructuring» is somewhat familiar — «inflating» test results and «taking shortcuts» to boost graduation — except for the charge that «the recalibration of the state scores revealed that the achievement gap among children of different races in New York City was virtually unchanged between 2002 and 2010, and the proportion of city students meeting state standards dropped dramatically, almost to the same point as in 2002.»

We had to figure out how to integrate different learning modalities, different student starting points, and different academic objectives.

At the same time, classes are designed to address the differing learning needs, academic orientations and points of engagement of boys and girls at different stages in their mental and emotional development.

My point is that simply picking up a school of children who come from low - SES households, who often have emotional and behavior problems, along with their academic problems, and placing them in a different building is not going to solve any problems.

Although academics, including cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, and education researchers, have waged fierce debates about what these different needs are — some talk about multiple intelligences and learning styles whereas others point to research that undermines these notions — what no one disputes is that each student learns at a different pace.

Cesene said that because students enter Bronx Arena at different points in their academic careers, it is impossible to get all 200 on the same schedule.

Data are collected longitudinally using student records and by surveying students at different points in their academic careers.

The students may require dealing with different types of dissertation paper writing at some point in their academic life.

According to a study conducted by Vija G. Mendelson, a program manager at Academic Programs International (API), many students studying abroad in Spain expressed their hopes of seeing the local culture from a different point of view.

The number of scholarships and grants that an individual will qualify is based on a number of different criteria, including grade point average, class ranking, and proficiency in different academic categories.

As we know, practitioner and academic markets are quite different and I'd have thought that the academic one is both less appealing from a commercial point of view and has less of a future.

The bigger story as pointed out by CNN Money reporter, Lydia DePillis, and widely acknowledged by attorneys and legal academics is the patchwork of different state labor laws and how they will impact the gig economy and workers.

tippie.uiowa.edu An important point of consideration is that letters of recommendation for academic purpose should not be mixed with recommendation letter for professional roles in an industry primarily because the demand of both the positions is different.

The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (www.CASEL.org) has used rigorous criteria to vet programs for students at different grade levels, and its online guides provide a helpful starting point for states, school districts, and schools.

Future studies involving three (or more) time points in which the parental behaviors, EF and academic outcomes were measured at different time points would permit the underlying assumptions of stationarity and equilibrium to be tested formally (Cole and Maxwell, 2003).