Sentences with phrase «for performance in a college»

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Founded in 2009 by twins and former college athletes Adam and Ryan Goldston, APL (which stands for Athletic Propulsion Labs) set out to create sneakers that combined performance and design.

For example, a college student's relentless pursuit of academic excellence in order to become a very successful professional may, in considerable part, be an unconscious performance before his or her parents, teachers, or others who embody an important cultural ideal.

His performances for the Blues in Hilary Term continued in the same vain, where he also helped Keble secure the College League Crown and narrowly miss out on the double, when Teddy Hall took the honours in Cuppers Final.

Our College Basketball Best Bets continued their stellar performance with a 2 - 1 record yesterday and our Square Plays went 3 - 1, placing both of our NCAAB betting systems in the green for the season.

Baseball continues to be the sole driver of Index performance in August — but Sports Insights is preparing for college and professional football.

While the monster season opener put Browning on the radar, it was his steady performance week in and week out that kept him in the spotlight, and placed him on every college recruiter's schedule for the 2013 season.

The College of Education and Human Services develops the knowledge, skills, competencies and moral and ethical values necessary for outstanding performance in teaching, educational leadership, professional psychology and family therapy.

«We congratulate our students, teachers and administrators for their continued exceptional performance on these new tests, which shows they're mastering knowledge crucial to career and college readiness, and we have set our sights on greater success for every child in the coming year,» Superintendent of Schools Dr. Brian V. Hightower said.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia has quietly dropped plans to raise passing scores on Common Core Regents exams in English and math by the year 2022 — plans originally pushed as a linchpin in efforts for students» strengthened academic performance and preparation for college and careers.

«Dr. Nader has been an instrumental member of the SUNY Delhi leadership team for several years, helping to make the college a national leader in online education and ensure the implementation of its performance improvement plan,» SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher said in a statement.

years; exempts vehicles owned by firefighter first responders used in the performance of duty from motor vehicle registration fees and vehicle use taxes; authorizes local volunteer fire companies and ambulance companies to offset the cost of health insurance for their volunteers through the use of funds collected from a 2 percent fire insurance premium tax from out - of - state insurers; allows fire companies to select up to three candidates to participate in the state's college tuition assistance program, known as Volunteer Recruitment Service Scholarships; and directs the state Higher Education Services Corp. to create a volunteer recruitment service college loan forgiveness program.

No candidate qualified for university admission from four Federal Government colleges in the 2015 West African Senior School Certificate Examination where Abia State topped the performance register, CHARLES ABAH writes

But the seeds for The Monti were planted much earlier, when Polish was in college and saw a live performance by monologist and writer Spalding Gray.

The study is co-authored by Jeff Russell, an assistant professor in Ohio University's College of Health Sciences and Professions and director of the Clinic for Science and Health in Artistic Performance (SHAPe Clinic), and Brooke Daniell, who collected data for the study as a senior athletic training undergraduate in the School of Applied Health Sciences and Wellness honors program.

«About 28 percent of the students in our sample would have actually procured no performance - based funding for the college.»

«While there is no perfect performance funding model, our study can help inform policy discussions about the ways in which Texas» model for community colleges could be improved,» McKinney said.

«Conventional wisdom is that academic performance in high school is important for college admission, but this is the first study to clearly demonstrate the link between high school GPA and labor market earnings many years later,» says French, director of the Health Economics Research Group (HERG) in the Department of Sociology at the UM College of Arts and Sciences, and corresponding author of thecollege admission, but this is the first study to clearly demonstrate the link between high school GPA and labor market earnings many years later,» says French, director of the Health Economics Research Group (HERG) in the Department of Sociology at the UM College of Arts and Sciences, and corresponding author of theCollege of Arts and Sciences, and corresponding author of the study.

«Not only are there applications for healthy people to better realize their potential, but EEG - neurofeedback work has been extended to pathology, as in the case of children with attentional disabilities and [transcranial magnetic stimulation] for depression,» notes psychologist John Gruzelier of Goldsmiths College in London, who has been working on training musicians to control their own brain waves, thereby improving performance.

The discovery was a surprise finding for investigators Lori Altmann, an associate professor of speech, language and hearing sciences at the College of Public Health and Health Professions, and Chris Hass, an associate professor of applied physiology and kinesiology in the College of Health and Human Performance.

«Many educators believe engagement leads to better school performance and is necessary for developing student motivation and interest,» said Ze Wang, associate professor of educational, school and counseling psychology in the College of Education at MU.

As a professor of health and exercise sciences and director of the Human Nutrition and Metabolism laboratory at Skidmore College, Dr. Paul J. Arciero has been a leading figure in research on protein pacing for losing weight and athletic performance.

At the same time, I can honestly say I'm probably more stressed and sleep deprived now as a mom of six than I was in college and over the last few years I have researched and evaluated several natural types of nootropics for their effect on cognitive performance (without the negative side effects of smart drugs).

He designs and implements performance training systems for professional athletes in all sports as well as elite youth and college athletes.

Wear the combination as you participate in the college speech competition and win applauses for your performance and style.

You studied acting performance in college and now work in development for a nonprofit — not a typical career path by any means!

After graduating from Trinity College Dublin and then from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, West won the Ian Charleson award for Best Newcomer for his performance in Sir Peter Hall's production of THE SEAGULL.

Chicago native Emily Bergl honed her performance skills reciting poetry in competition for the National Forensics League when she was enrolled at the prestigious Grinnell College in Iowa.

Uninterested in signing up for her sexually adventurous lifestyle, Mitch moves into a place directly next to the local college campus, and his friends — smart - alecky Beanie (Vince Vaughn) and recently married Frank (Will Ferrell)-- promptly throw him a huge bash (featuring a Snoop Dogg performance) that's so popular that the three guys attract the negative attention of the school's Dean Pritchard (Jeremy Piven, in an about - face from his PCU days).

What gives the movie its sting is found in the performance by John Leguizamo as Michael, the hapless husband who gets the ball rolling by referring his friends to 16 - year - old Shirley, an honours student with a bad case of obsessive - compulsive disorder and the brains to see a quick way to save for college tuition.

For those out of the loop, it tells the story of a sweet - natured girl named Justine (Garance Marillier in a standout performance) who joins her older sister (Ella Rumpf) at a veterinary college that features hazing rituals that makes the opening of «Full Metal Jacket» seem tame by comparison.

He's in town for a two - night performance at Alverno College's Pitman Theatre called «Lend Me Your Voice,» where he's joined by some of the many musicians he's collaborated with over the years.

I'm loath to quote myself, but I'll make an exception for «Hearts in Atlantis,» which was one of the first movies I wrote about as a college film reviewer for USC's Daily Trojan, and from which I singled out Yelchin's performance as «wonderfully engaging.»

Gerwig squeezes in two romantic relationships for Christine, plus ongoing minor and major melodramas involving her heroine's college applications, her courting of the popular crowd (at Julie's expense), her middling academic performance, her unemployed dad's job search, and her ongoing arguments with her mother Marion (Laurie Metcalf) about all of the above.

It begins with Salinger's growing years at Columbia college, following multiple removals from other colleges, he finds a place for himself and a mentor in creative writing professor Whit Burnett (a shape - shifting performance from Kevin Spacey).

It begins with Danny (played by Sandler in, I kid you not, his best performance ever), a father who's recently separated from his wife and struggles with his daughter (Grace Van Patten) leaving for college at Bard University.

Scarlett Johansson (Marvel's Avengers series), Kate McKinnon (TV's «Saturday Night Live»), Jillian Bell (Office Christmas Party), Ilana Glazer (TV's «Broad City») and Zoë Kravitz (TV's «Big Little Lies») give laugh - out - loud performances as college friends who reunite for a girls weekend getaway in Miami in this shockingly funny comedy directed by Lucia Aniello (TV's «Broad City») and co-starring Paul W. Downs (TV's «Broad City»), Ty Burrell (TV's «Modern Family») and Demi Moore (Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle).

For their part, colleges — the final arbiters of high school performance — are signaling a surprising willingness to depart from traditional assessments that have been in place since the early 19th century.

While funding for arts education continues to take a hit, the arts continue to be a valuable tool for engaging students and improving performance, according to Putting the Arts in the Picture: Reframing Education in the 21st Century, a study published by the Center for Arts Policy at Columbia College in Chicago.

Also in this issue, Joanne Jacobs explores how NCLB and Common Core have transformed instruction for English language learners; Michael Petrilli and Brandon Wright argue that poverty does not explain away America's lackluster academic performance; and Sara Goldrick - Rab and Andrew Kelly debate whether community college should be free.

After teaching classroom vocal music and private piano for seven years, she acquired a Masters degree in Voice and Opera Performance from the University of Maryland, College Park.

The nervousness, however, didn't seem to affect her performance, as her coach, Mr. Cowett, noted the following year in his college recommendation for her: «Beth has the largest store of worthless information I have ever seen in a human being.»

Longer - term outcomes are especially desirable for such a line of inquiry, as there is greater agreement on the value of enrolling in college or finding success in the labor market than in performance on a particular test.

To move our scholars from whatever grade or performance level they enter to be ready for success in the college of their choice and a life of active citizenship takes us at least five years.

In an attempt to curtail criticism of college - based teacher - training programs and improve the quality of their graduates, the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education is calling for a national evaluation system for prospective educators, as well as the development of a database that links their alma maters to pre-K-12 student performance.

To achieve these objectives, KIPP schools leverage strong student - behavior policies with rewards and sanctions; contracts between students, parents, and teachers; longer school days and school on Saturdays; substantial autonomy for principals; and close monitoring of school performance in terms of student achievement and college readiness.

In exchange for that flexibility, the administration will require states to adopt standards for college and career readiness, focus improvement efforts on 15 percent of the most troubled schools, and create guidelines for teacher evaluations based in part on student performancIn exchange for that flexibility, the administration will require states to adopt standards for college and career readiness, focus improvement efforts on 15 percent of the most troubled schools, and create guidelines for teacher evaluations based in part on student performancin part on student performance.

by Brett Wigdortz, founder and CEO, Teach First; Fair access: Making school choice and admissions work for all by Rebecca Allen, reader in the economics of education at the Institute of Education, University of London; School accountability, performance and pupil attainment by Simon Burgess, professor of economics at the University of Bristol, and director of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation; The importance of teaching by Dylan Wiliam, emeritus professor at the Institute of Education, University of London; Reducing within - school variation and the role of middle leadership by James Toop, ceo of Teaching Leaders; The importance of collaboration: Creating «families of schools» by Tim Brighouse, a former teacher and chief education officer of Oxfordshire and Birmingham; Testing times: Reforming classroom teaching through assessment by Christine Harrison, senior lecturer in science education at King's College London; Tackling pupil disengagement: Making the curriculum more engaging by David Price, author and educational consultant; Beyond the school gates: Developing children's zones for England by Alan Dyson, professor of education at the University of Manchester and co-director of the Centre for Equity in Education, Kirstin Kerr, lecturer in education at the University of Manchester and Chris Wellings, head of programme policy in Save the Children's UK Programme; After school: Promoting opportunities for all young people in a locality by Ann Hodgson, professor of education and director of the Learning for London @IOE Research Centre, Institute of Education, University of London and Ken Spours, professor or education and co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University of London.

But in mathematics, PARCC set a higher standard for college - ready performance than MCAS» «proficient» standard — and meeting the PARCC standard provided a better indication of whether a student was prepared to earn a «C» grade in a college math course.

The American Diploma Project, a joint venture by four national education groups and five states, will help participating states align their high school tests in reading, writing, and mathematics with the skills students need for college and high - performance workplaces.

Since states using PARCC have discretion in setting their performance levels, it is important for policymakers in these states to note that PARCC chose appropriate thresholds for deeming a student «college - ready,» giving students good information about whether they are prepared to succeed in college courses.