Sentences with phrase «do the best job for students»

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But those universities that are left standing, he says, will have to do a much better job at identifying talented students, who can't afford to pay $ 61,000 a year for school.

We've all heard about recent graduates so buried in student loans they don't feel like they can have children, buy homes, or leave a good - paying job for the job they really want.

However, this bank does do a good job of providing free checking for seniors and students.

And so in terms of financial repression, perhaps the one key sector that we need to look at is student loan debt because so many millennials are carrying student loan debt, and you know a small student loan debt is like $ 25,000 - $ 30,000 if someone can escape with a bachelor's diploma and only have $ 30,000 in debt they're considered to have done quite well, but when you think about it that's a pretty large debt for somebody who doesn't even have a full - time job yet.

«Government must be a force for good,» Wynne averred; it must «mak (e) a positive difference in the long and short term»: thus billions in promised infrastructure spending and the jobs that come with it; free tuition for 150,000 students; and 100,000 more daycare spaces — all done «prudent (ly),» mind you, with a balanced budget to come in the spring.

I still remember the student who said that she left church for good when she was 12, right after she read the Bible for herself and discovered what a colossal snow job her Sunday school teachers had done on her.

The initial duty in applied science, research, or teaching is to do the job well: to design an airplane wing that will hold under stress, to find a valid equation for chemical equilibrium, or to help students gain sound understanding of metabolism.

We don't do so only because we need jobs, or because students who should learn close reading for future success might as well learn it from reading the Bible, Augustine or Kierkegaard as from anything else.

Churches need to do a better job preparing high school students for the college experience.

Furthermore, the schools (in general) do not provide teachers with the adequate resources to perform their jobs effectively, such as teacher - requested books for their students; presentation items such as chalk, whiteboard markers, or projectors; basic classroom organizational needs such as storage bins, filing cabinets with adequate files, and functional modern computers with adequate software to make results tabulating more efficient; or motivational equipment designed to reward students for good behavior, scores, or attitudes (grades simply are not enough of a motivational tool).

He told members of the Tertiary Students» Confederacy Network (TESCON) «This government is doing its best to create job opportunities and me for instance, I told my people over there [that] it is because of NPP that I'm here so the NPP man is my priority.

While applauding the rector for the job well done, Ajimobi urged for more understanding of staff, students for smooth running of the institution.

«Mayor Michael Bloomberg has proposed a bonus for new teachers to help pay off their student loans and $ 20,000 extra pay for those doing a good job and voters agree with both ideas,» Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said in a statement.

If the student, conscientious about time management and studying, explains that the job pays for needs such as the financial support of her family and there are not too many wants to sacrifice, then you will need to discuss either potential income sources that would negate the need to work full - time or a decreased course load so that the student will have enough time to do what is necessary to do well in her courses.

«So, in essence one branch of the federal government is funding unemployed ITers to «retrain» for something well beneath their qualifications, while another federal agency is approving work permits for foreign students [for jobs] that unemployed Americans could easily do,» writes the man to whom I owe my knowledge of this piquant contrast, computer science professor Norman Matloff of the University of California, Davis.

Sometimes graduate students delay their search for postdoc positions because they are waiting to have a paper in press, but this strategy does not always work to their advantage because «if the lab is already full and finances are limited, they will not get the job, even if they have good publications,» warns Gardner.

Madeline Butler, academic coordinator for undergraduate laboratories in the division of biological sciences at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), says, «Our students with undergraduate degrees in biology seem to do well getting jobs in academic institutions and at biotechnology companies.»

The head of human resources at Qiagen's U.S. headquarters in Germantown, Maryland, Paula Green, cites Montgomery College, the University of Maryland, Hopkins, and Georgetown University as local institutions that do a particularly good job of preparing students for careers in biotech.

For high - priority items, such as mentoring my graduate students and writing grants, I budget enough time to allow myself to do as good a job as possible.

For students, the job is not just to go and do what they are told well, but to participate as fully as possible in the work and life of the company while on the internship.

«We just aren't doing a good enough job of teaching our students evidence - based methods of intervention and care for our obese patients,» Vitolins said.

Although we have a few models that have been able to personalize learning and do a better job of instituting mastery - based learning for students, no one has figured out how to do it at scale per se yet, and there is still plenty of room for growth in student outcomes.

The governor said he wants an Alaska where youths turn to education over alcohol and drugs, and that the state must do a better job of preparing students for the future.

When a student sees something great happen, they can give a code that links to messages such as «Good Job from Andrew» and «Thanks for doing your part for the team.»

Ultimately, it is about the students: if we are to prepare them for jobs that do not yet exist, we have to achieve the best with the technology we already have, invest in further appropriate technology, and of course, that all important training.

If the integrity of the chartering strategy is to be upheld, authorizers need to do a better job of closing schools that fail to deliver results for students.

Measuring the student benefit of mentoring can be tricky, but «presumably, if teachers do a better job, students learn more,» says Sharon Nemser, a professor of education at Brandeis University and senior researcher behind Learning from Mentors, a study published by the National Center for Research on Teacher Learning.

The best CTE programs, like Career Academies, tend to do a better job with both career skills and academic skills, and create a glide path for students into postsecondary education of the technical variety.

If students do not have opportunities to develop their higher order, cognitive skillsets they won't develop the reason, logic, creative problem solving, concept development, media literacy, and communication skills best suited for the daily complexities of life or the professional jobs of their future.

I like that I can send notes to help students prepare for presentation day, to bring their food items to share on holidays, or just to complement them for doing a good job.

When you look at the fact that the average in - state student spent $ 19,548 in 2015 (~ $ 34,000 if they're out of state) on tuition and fees for college, are coming out of university with $ 80,000 or more in debt, and even though 2016 saw the best job market for grads since the Great Recession, 51 % of graduates from the classes of 2014 and 2015 said they are working in jobs that do not require their college degree.

While promising economic growth in rural states, this model doesn't directly address the needs of rural high school students who aren't within driving distance of, or willing to relocate for, good jobs in their state.

Our job as educators is to set a stage that maximizes the amount of learning done by our students, and teaching students mathematics in this visual way provides a powerful pathway for us to do our job well.

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills argues that the U.S. must do a better job of teaching students key world languages to help them succeed in the 21st - century economy.

Whether charter schools do a better job than regular schools in closing the achievement gap between English - learners and students who already have a command of the language is expected to be a thread in testimony at a hearing scheduled for Sept. 17 before...

In a survey of high - school students released by the National Governors Association in July 2005, more than a third of respondents said their school had not done a good job of challenging them academically or preparing them for college; almost two - thirds said they would work harder if the courses were more demanding or interesting.

As the last student sits down, you say, Thank you class for doing such a good job of cleaning up and arranging your desks.

U.S. News and World Report has released its 2016 rankings of the country's best high schools, identifying the public high schools that do the best job of preparing students for college and careers.

Colleges and universities must both prepare students to succeed in a competitive job market and provide the liberal arts foundation necessary for lifelong learning, said the participants in the series, «Preparing for a Good Future: What Kind of Education Do We Want After High School?»

The way for high schools to do this, he says, is to offer more options for students beyond the traditional approach to learning, referred to as «multiple pathways» in academic circles, he says, because everyone should have an opportunity at a good job, not just a job.

Its critics contend that the requirement has done little or nothing to advance its stated goal of better preparing students for an increasingly technological job market.

This could help tremendously in addressing the job for which students are hiring virtual schools — and help them see that there may be other options to get that job done better than the particular virtual school they have chosen.

Be specific when naming what students do well: Instead of a generic «nice job,» for example, use concrete, reinforcing, specific language.

In a column for the Washington Post, Jay Mathews considers whether schools need to do a better job of preparing students to be good citizens.

The new tools are offering up real - time feedback on what children know, quick access to an array of tailored instructional materials, and important data for teachers to use to improve their own approaches — all in an effort to do a better job personalizing learning in ways that address students» individual strengths and weaknesses.

The Center for Research on Educational Outcomes at Stanford University found that charter schools do a better job teaching low - income students, minority students, and students who are still learning English than traditional schools.

The term has become popular shorthand among policymakers convinced that schools must do a better job preparing students for an economy that will require different and more technically...

Math is a frustrating subject for many students and their parents and educators and policymakers agree the U.S. needs to do a better job to remain competitive in an increasingly technical global economy.

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It had to have a letter grade of C or better, practice restorative discipline, do a good job of listening to students and families, have low teacher turnover, and — my personal top priority — not require girls to wear plaid uniforms (that's a topic for another post but to sum up, they are gender discriminative and illustrate another form of «pink tax»).