Sentences with phrase «ends of the achievement»

The issue is gaining increasing attention as more educators eager to motivate students, especially those at the low end of the achievement gap, are, like Shakur, experimenting with financial incentives for kids.

So there is an issue: traditional ways of organising and delivering school education are sometimes failing students at both ends of the achievement spectrum.

Although we found substantial drops in achievement during middle school for both groups of students, the first - year drop and cumulative deficit were, respectively, 50 percent and more than 200 percent greater for students who start at the lower end of the achievement distribution.

They also share a similar student body: largely low - income, minority students, sliding off the bottom end of achievement charts.

Virtual schools appeal to a wide array of students, attracting children from both ends of the achievement spectrum.

Only charter school operators with successful track records will be allowed to open or expand charter schools in these districts, and they must make meaningful efforts to attract, enroll, and retain low - income students, students scoring sub-proficient on the MCAS, English Language Learners, special - education students, students who have dropped out or are at risk of dropping out, and other students who are on the short end of our achievement gaps.

In algebra proficiency, the group's school - by - school comparison also shows schools at both ends of the achievement spectrum failing Latinos.

Learn more about the experiences of low - income students and students of color at the high end of the achievement spectrum in Ed Trust's «Falling Out of the Lead.»

Suppose one school draw students from the upper end of the achievement distribution while another school draws students from the lower end.

Students who are on the low end of the achievement gap — usually children of color and often also of poverty — have been getting messages about their «ability» all their lives and have experienced being behind academically so long that they have internalized these messages.

«Falling Out of the Lead» is the third installment in our Shattering Expectations series, which focuses on gaps at the high - end of the achievement spectrum.

Also — you don't need periods at the end of each achievement or responsibility.

You can condense your awards to a single bullet summarizing them at the end of your achievements on each job.

Following the end of the achievements section are Rodney's professional experience information.

Not exact matches

Co-founder and president Ed Calnan also highlights the achievements he has seen from individual employees in his «Friday Night Lights» email, sent out at the end of each week to inspire employees to come back into work excited to hit the ground running on Monday morning.

Yes, the year's biggest story was Serena Williams and her push to become the fourth woman ever to complete a calendar grand slam (win all four of the sport's Majors in one year) by winning this Open — a push that ended Friday in a crushing defeat that did not take away from the achievement of how close she came.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know neither victory nor defeat.

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Republicans are under intense pressure to pass a tax bill or face ending a year of near - complete control over the federal government without a a single major legislative achievement to bring voters and donors.

Thin Power is the unauthorized biography of former mayor of Calgary, Rod Sykes, featuring the achievements and bitter controversies of his eight - year term ending in 1977.

At the end of each fiscal year, the Committee certifies performance against the applicable performance targets, and units representing the level of achievement during that fiscal year are «banked» for potential payout at the end of the three - year performance period.

Do we perpetuate our human existence until the end of time, when all of mankind's achievements will be forgotten and perish into nothingness?

To this day, the greatest achievement of theological mediation in this direction is Bultmann's method of demythologizing, which assumes that any objective meaning of the gospel, any meaning that speaks of the world or reality as such, including the idea that the end of the world is at hand, belongs to the world of myth and not of gospel, and therein is consigned either to the premodern age of humanity or to the realm of the old Adam or «flesh» (sarx).

Attempts by the academic community to erase distinctions between levels of intensity, and the «ends» of which Aristotle spoke, leave little room for the civility that is one of our society's almost accidental inventions and one of its most cherished if precarious achievements.

For Thomas Aquinas, whose achievement culminates and, in that sense, represents the medieval consensus, law is «an ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by him who has the care of the community» (61 5), and the natural law is «the rational creature's participation» (618) in the divine perfection that is the final end of all things.

One of the real glories of the preaching image is its unabashed concern with means as essential to the achievement of ends.

Above all, the Anglo - Americans need a faith that places their achievements under prophetic judgment, encourages them to accept their limitations, and understands that the end of history remains securely in God's hands.

Human liberation is a fruit potentially made increasingly possible by the achievements of technological society, an ideal realizable by means of our growing capacity to transform nature so that without violating its transhuman integrity it might serve, genuinely and profoundly, our collective ends.

By contrast, our achievements in freedom and prosperity seem both valuable and real, even if we sometimes exaggerate them and even if they may not endure to the end of time.

But we will also understand that our achievements will always be at risk unless we understand them in relation to God as the source and end of history.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

Therefore, the use of devices or chemicals to prevent the achievement of the end - state toward which the natural power is directed before it ever exercises its activity is to interfere with a relation of a function to the goal that is determinative of it.»

The statement of a final end can never be a final statement until the whole community confesses it in the moment of its achievement.

Repentance is called for not because we have chosen false means to the achievement of our ends but because our ends themselves are idolatrous.

To the differences between them in the achievement of this end some attention will be given in the next chapter, but these differences in no way abrogate for either their common subscription to the Later Helvetic Confession: «Preaching the Word of God is the Word of God».

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.»

That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins — all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand.

The great achievements of the Hebrew prophets, from one point of view, were their insistence that God is not to be approached in this external fashion and their success in securing a general consent by the Jewish people to the proposition that «the sacrifices of God are a troubled spirit» — that God wishes the offering to Him of the whole life of His people, both as individuals and as a group, not for His own glorification but rather so that He might effectively use them for the accomplishment of great ends: the redemption of the world and the opening of rich life for His children.

The emergence, in the course of history, of the ability to think of the other as another subject and to appreciate the moral demand that this lays upon one — to treat the other as an end and not only as a means — is an achievement of civilization that most of us are not willing to abandon.

Therefore, the achievement of «system,» while finished by its author, does not mean the end of philosophy.

That man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental concatenations of atoms; that no force, no heroism, no intensity of thought or feeling, can presume an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labors of the age, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noon - day brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruin... all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand.

They do not see it as a fixed entity, already made and finished; for them the creation is a directed movement in which novelty occurs, in which the unexpected may and indeed often does happen, and in which great ends are in process of achievement.

Genuine pluralism is a civilizational achievement: the achievement of what Murray called an «orderly conversation» — a conversation about personal goods and the common good, about the relationship between freedom and moral truth, about the virtues necessary to form the kind of citizens who can live their freedom in such a way as to make the machinery of democracy serve genuinely humanistic ends.

The humanist movement in its turn gave him a confidence in human culture, a love of the classics and a connatural feeling for language, for beauty in the form of words, and for words in their natural setting of everyday language that eventually flowered in the German Bible, a whole language coming both to birth and to a first apotheosis — a miracle of the sixteenth century to set beside the achievement of Shakespeare in England at the end of the century.

If we give «religious end» an abstract meaning — the achievement of some religious fulfillment among several possible alternatives and / or the use of religion to serve some generic social role — then we can say that many if not all paths truly achieve religious ends.

Bachofen believed matriarchy was a conscious achievement by women after a long struggle to end conditions of debasing promiscuity and to achieve a higher, purer life.

For the whole tale of man's struggles, discoveries, achievements, insights and aspirations ends automatically when this little planet becomes either too hot or too cold to support human life.

This is evidently a never - ending task, in the accomplishment of which each stage of achievement provides the opportunity for the next higher stage.

It included short presentations and proof points from global dairy leaders as well as from Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on the contribution of the dairy sector to the achievement of key Sustainable Development Goals such as ending poverty and hunger, and protecting the environment.

HTW in its ends plant has successfully manufactured more than 4 billion world class quality ends of which 1 billion have been exported, while also been accredited as a «Star Exporter» by the Government of India, is a great achievement in itself.