Sentences with phrase «earlier generation of students»

We couldn't possibly close a school based on how it affected an earlier generation of students.

Unlike an earlier generation of students, most of these are retaining identification with the movement.

It could well be that, as compared with earlier generations of students, the current cohort of blacks has made real gains relative to whites.

Not exact matches

He was excited by Alasdair MacIntyre's early and enthusiastic review of The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative and later proud and pleased about a new generation of his students beginning in the early 1970s, theologians like Charles Wood and Ronald Thiemann — proud that they had learned from him, pleased that they were independent enough to disagree with him on occasion.

Through his earlier books on Hegel, Taylor has introduced a generation of students to one of the most important modern thinkers.

However, contrary to an earlier generation of research, there are no significant differences in BA completion rates between those students who started at a community college and successfully transferred and their peers who began at four - year schools.

«Whilst it is too soon to evaluate the impact of the launch of the BBC micro: bit in changing the current generation of students from passive end users into creators of technology, showing capability in coding and digital creativity, feedback at this early stage is suggesting that the device has created excitement in learning amongst students and its widespread availability now means that schools can build upon this to create a diverse, cross-curricular platform for the teaching and learning of digital skills,» comments Geoff Hampson.

HGSE is well situated to develop a field - building program and train a new generation of early career researchers, building on current research, faculty, doctoral student interests, and activities relating to civic learning and civic action.

Put simply, by the early 1960s, most students in American high schools were getting, at best, a second - rate education compared with that of the generation before them.

During this phase the education system is evolving for the sake of betterment, as this generation's students are not born to be confined by the limits of simple learning; their curiosity is vast and can not be catered with educational systems that were designed earlier.

Ensuring hands - on, tech - centric experience early on has a dual benefit of helping students prepare for independent life, and fuel success for a new generation of employers.

President Obama earlier this year announced a new initiative, «Computer Science for All,» to empower a generation of American students with the computing skills they need to thrive in a digital economy.

The goals of Early College are to welcome students of racial and ethnic minorities, low - income families, first generation college attendees, and / or English language learners to higher education.

During her time at the Early Identification Program, Liza worked hands on to support first - generation students and their families through a myriad of experiences and challenges within the college access program.

According the to the ASU website, the «Hispanic Mother - Daughter program is an early - outreach middle and high school program designed to increase the number of first - generation Arizona students who are qualified and prepared to enroll at Arizona State University through direct family involvement.»

He spotlights three organizations he claims are leading a movement to reform teachers unions and make them partners in an attempt to improve the quality of public education — NewTLA, a dissident faction in the United Teachers of Los Angeles, Educators for Excellence, a reform group in New York started by two young Teach For America graduates, and Teach Plus, an organization that has gained traction in several states, whose goal is to «engage early career teachers in rebuilding their profession to better meet the needs of students and the incoming generation of teachers.»

His research interests center on how race, racism, and assimilative pressures affect the experiences and outcomes of students of color and early generation immigrant students in US K — 12 contexts.

The painting scene in San Francisco in the»40s centered around a small, tight - knit group of teachers and serious students at the California School of Fine Arts (renamed the San Francisco Art Institute in 1961), who were influenced by Clyfford Still (1904 - 1980), a major first - generation abstract expressionist painter, who taught at CSFA from 1946 until the early»50s when he moved to New York.

I recently sat down with Mary at her Dallas studio where we discussed early inspirations, Berkeley in the «60s, her love of art history, the evolution of the Meadows collection, her impact on generations of art students, her love of yupo and a run - in with Georgia O'Keefe.

As early as 1934 he became the official printer for the Arts Students League, New York, and taught there for 40 years, influencing a generation of artists including James Rosenquist, Knox Martin, Paul Jenkins and Cy Twombly.

There are two noteworthy gallery shows of artists who made their reputations in the earlier part of the 20th century: works by Regionalist Thomas Hart Benton are on display at Alan Avery Art Company in Atlanta, and Mr. Push / Pull, Hans Hofmann, whose students included a number of prominent «second generation» Abstract Expressionists, is on view at Ameringer McEnery Yohe in New York City.

We talked about Kuo's early exposure to Fort Thunder as a student at RISD, how wild and elegant color is, My Chemical Romance making good on their promises as a band, the lineage of emo, the best time of day to paint, getting into self - publishing, the new Obama portrait, anxiety and jokes, literally biting your tongue, how Peter Halley has made the same painting for decades and why that's the one of the most audacious radical painting moves out there, Kuo's band HEX MESSAGE, why Bart Simpson is still on every single thing in the zine tent at the New York Art Book Fair, Jeremy Lin and bootleg merch beef, Kuo's two - person exhibition «It Gets Beta» with Scott Reeder in 2015, avoiding knuckleheads so you can enjoy watching sports, being the last generation who for some reason is still afraid of selling out, his own roundball podcast Cookies, and embracing the simulation.

Law students, and the generation of lawyers now early in their careers, have a completely different relationship to digital information.