Sentences with phrase «even current students»

Applicants with a high school diploma or even current students can apply with the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) and register as an Illinois pharmacy technician.

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Last week, a South China Morning Post article caught the attention of an informal seminar I hold every Sunday evening at my home, mostly for current and former Peking University students and a few outsiders.

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Whether he's speaking to individual investors, professionals in the financial advisory field or even college students, Josh brings a wealth of interesting information about Wall Street history, current industry trends and investment methodology to his audience.

They even have something called a Knowledge Center, which aims to provide outreach to students, graduates, and parents of current or former college students.

Moreover, it is now doubtful whether the efficient market hypothesis makes any kind of sense. Indeed, a great many economists and bankers have discovered Minskyâ $ ™ s views on financial fragility and his financial instability hypothesis, according to which banks and financial markets can not be left to themselves: we need regulations even though regulating markets may not succeed in avoiding another crisis once the memory of the current crisis has faded away.As told to me by a law student recently hired by Blackrock, the largest asset manager in the world, with assets totalling more than 3,500 billion dollars â $ «thatâ $ ™ s one and a half times larger than UBS and twice as large as PIMCO â $ «many asset managers are now turning away from hiring neoclassical economists and actually prefer hiring engineers, sociologists and even philosophers.

Nevertheless, given many seminary students» abilities, academic preparation and current schedules, it seems to me a very tough job to give them even a minimal version of a «traditional» seminary education.

Congress has failed to pass Child Nutrition Reauthorization that is now over a year past due and even if it had passed, would only have allocated 4 1/2 to 6 cents additional funds per student, so even for the mere pennies per lunch that we could have added to the current $ 2.72 that we spend on school meals, our elected officials couldn't come together for the health of our children.

With the current financial crisis and rising unemployment those would - be students may be forced to delay university even longer.

Even though the city and state (via the MTA) have traditionally shared the cost of free student MetroCards, the current push for a similar program with half - price cards for low - income NYC residents has focused on the mayor, not the governor.

Most of the current members are B.Sc., M.Sc., or Ph.D. students, but any young scientist with an interest in biotechnology — even with different backgrounds, as mentioned on the Web site — is invited to join.

Even so, the notice doesn't embrace any of the OIG report's suggestions on how NSF could improve its oversight of university RCR plans.One such change would be to broaden the scope of the training beyond the current requirement that applies only to undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers working on NSF - funded projects.

Even in the recession, «we haven't had problems with students finding jobs,» says NPSMA's current president, veterinarian and Ph.D..

Even before science's current fiscal squeeze, many graduate students and postdocs were working 60 to 80 - hour weeks under heavy pressure to produce meaningful results.

This holds true even for a newer theater like the eight - screen Gateway Film Center, which sits on the edge of Ohio State's campus, whose current students have practically never known a world where they can't watch whatever they want to watch, whenever they want.

Student - created podcasts reinforce course concepts, develop writing skills, hone speaking ability, and even help parents stay current on classroom activities.

You can even insert a quick survey into a current course; ask your students what is working for them, what they are confused about, and what their biggest challenge is in your course.

Even the most extreme school - closure program will leave the majority of students in their current schools, many of which are also inadequate.

Florida's system highlights information about former students, including the number of college graduates, how much they earn at their current jobs, and even how many went to prison.

Schifter has noticed that even for students who have worked in public schools, understanding the federal government's current role in education can be complicated.

In addition to information about the Celebrate the Century program, your students will find a gallery of recent stamp releases, an index of current stamp issues (with information and downloadable images for each), a schedule of upcoming releases, and even a Glossary of Postal Terms!

«Our hope is to inform a lot of people in the Harvard community, who may be interested in this topic, or for personal reasons, such as knowing family or friends who may have experienced a brain injury or even those working in medical or educational fields that may work with brain development or brain health or social services in the community,» says Nancy Meserve, the club's cofounder and a current student in the Mind, Brain, and Education Program.

But they've had to make do, to the chagrin of most educators, who — at least in these early - implementer districts — believe that their current state tests are poor measures of student understanding relative to the new standards and may even detract from proper implementation.

The day - long event provides an opportunity for prospective students of color to meet faculty, administrators, alumni, and current students, as well as to learn about academic programs, student life, admissions, and financial aid, and even to kick start their application process.

Several current and former staff members said that a lax policy had allowed students to remain on the rolls even when they failed to log in for days.

In other words, the NGSS not only don't prepare students for advanced science courses and STEM disciplines — they don't even prepare students for Ohio's current high school graduation requirements.

Even «college - ready» students seek other options — because college is too expensive, because college doesn't provide enough job security in the current economy, or because four years of highly academic coursework is simply not appealing.

Teachers should support and maximize this hard - wired desire on students» part to think and reason autonomously — and policy types should be encouraged to see that even if we're not satisfied with current levels of achievement, students seem to be willing to do better.

While interest in judging school performance based on the gains individual students make over time is high, the best way to do so is not even part of the current debate, one veteran testing expert argues.

Even though it seemingly makes sense to look at individual gains attributable to particular teachers, this method is fundamentally flawed due to the nature of current state tests, as well as the methods used to assign students to teachers and other reasons.

Accomplished formative assessment teachers work fluently and automatically within the current instructional context to address students» immediate learning needs in real time — rapidly processing evidence of student thinking and learning, automatically considering the learning targets, then making advantageous decisions about the next steps of instruction to move learning forward, sometimes with a plan B or even C in mind.

Students will need to gain as many points as possible on the RLA ER item, but even if a low number of points are obtained, all of those points will be counted towards the test - takers» score, unlike on the current writing test.

The study also found schools that serve many current and former English learner students tended to offer fewer advanced courses compared with schools that serve only a small number of English learner students — even when holding constant characteristics such as size and students» performance on state assessments.

We know that «rogue» teachers or administrators — by erasing incorrect student answers and changing them to correct ones — can show student achievement even if there is no such achievement, as scandals in Atlanta and Detroit during 2010 both revealed and the current erasure investigation in Washington, D.C. suggests.

Due to the projected state budget deficit these separate appropriations in our current system are likely to be ignored and / or underfunded in the foreseeable future even though our standard requires that these student populations be taken into account.

Our AEP Ethnic Studies PD will help develop teacher capacity for the implementation of Ethnic Studies in your school district through custom educator training experiences, as well as help your current Ethnic Studies program reach even higher academic outcomes for your students.

Students don't even need to leave their current school!

The shoddiness of curricula standards is matched by the slipshod quality of current curricula in schools; only one out of 63 elementary math programs surveyed by the Department of Education has been rated as having «potentially positive» effects on student achievement; even that rating is based on just one study that met the agency's stringent research standards.

Students can even take a class their current school does not offer.

A recent survey initiated by State Board of Education Chair Donna Bahorich, and to which over 27,000 educators, members of the public, and even students responded, indicates that there is very little support for our current system of high - stakes testing.

The current research on the effect of teacher turnover on students makes it even more imperative that we focus on ways to keep teachers in the classroom longer, especially in high poverty schools.

The huge number of K12 INC students who fail to take State testing calls into question even their current meager results.

When teachers worried that their students were incapable of meeting even their current, rather low - level standards — much less more complex demands — Cathy took them to a high - performing school with similar demographics to see what could be accomplished when all elements of success were in place.

Even the current principal, Karen Lott, admitted that the takeover was a failure, with only 13 % of Milner's students scoring proficient in Language Arts and a shocking 7 % in Math.

Even a teacher who is content to use geospatial tools at the current, shallow level of representation (Figure 3) will be nudged toward more sophisticated uses, whether via student project work with geospatial tools or by adopting materials produced by teaching colleagues, curriculum support staff, or social studies education researchers.

Advocates of value - added measures will argue that our current evaluation practices are even less accurate; we currently allocate teacher salaries based on years on the job and degrees obtained — criteria that have virtually no relationship to student learning.

A new cost study — which is sorely needed and which the school funding advocates (CCJEF) are calling for — one done to reflect current costs, taking into account all our new mandates and standards, and current student demographics and need — will undoubtedly show a similar if not even larger gap in state funding.

At a time when the most vulnerable students are further victimized and made to feel even more marginal, Wayne Au and Melissa Bollow Tempel have compiled a document that should be read by anyone who thinks there is something fundamentally wrong with the current emphasis on testing over quality education.»

Even more insidious, current preparation makes it easy for teachers who teach students much like themselves to dismiss multicultural study as being largely irrelevant to themselves and their students.

NCLB, even though it has not been reauthorized since 2002 (despite a failed attempt in 2007) is still foundational to current test - based reforms, including those that tie federal funds to the linking of students» (NCLB) test scores to students» teachers to measure teacher - level value - added.