Sentences with phrase «from academic»

Scholars as diverse as Diane Ravitch and E.D. Hirsch have argued persuasively that teacher preparation turned from academic content to knowledge - neutral skills — a hundred years ago.

Most of them looked at me dubiously as I pulled out the silver box of practice impromptu speech topics from Academic Decathlon, but they sat with their pencils at the ready.

The RSD had been established in 2003 to manage «recovery» from academic failure, not from Hurricane Katrina, as the name is sometimes taken to imply, but had seized only five New Orleans schools before Katrina.

In the second major blow in as many months to the forces seeking to subject evolution to greater skepticism and scrutiny in science classrooms, the Ohio state board of education has voted to strip language from its academic standards that encourages students to «critically analyze» the established biological theory.

A student does not need to have poor grades to receive help from an academic coach.

The recommendations come from the Academic Achievement and Accountability Commission, known as the A + Commission, which has spent a year weighing how to hold the state's public schools and districts more accountable for students» academic performance.

My experience from the academic side is that many junior scientists from a variety of fields would be eager to participate in something like this.

Union leaders steered the debate away from the academic records of two big city school systems.

From an academic standpoint, theyve invested 870 extra hours in reading.

raise awareness of the European Commercial Communications Education offer from academic partners, members of the network;

In Larry Cuban's recent piece in the Washington Post, ``,» he in essence says that our research showing that online learning is a disruptive innovation that has the potential to transform K — 12 education into a student - centric learning design that can allow each student to realize his or her fullest potential is unfortunate hype from academic gurus.

She asked to start small, with just one teacher from each academic department.

As an instructor, I learn more than expected from these academic conversations.

The main support for his position came from academic studies and Chief Justice Warren Burger's opinion in Swann.

But as long as lousy charters are allowed to languish, the many critics of charters — teachers unions and superintendents who dislike the competition — can successfully stave off more charters capable of saving millions of students from academic abysses.

Stress from academic expectations is not the experience of the average American teen.

Artificial Intelligence has been in the news a lot lately, from ominous warnings of its future implications from academic leaders like Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk, to panic around Facebook AI developing its own language.

Often, we discuss social and emotional development very distinctly from academic growth.

She found that drawing from the academic grounding in the classroom, students became more intellectually brave, and displayed greater interpersonal empathy.

We encourage all applicants from all academic fields to develop their own original independent study topics, methods of research and presentation of findings at the end of study to the project's Website: Yasuni-Amazona.Org.

(It introduces some of the more common words from the Academic Word List as well.)

We think our students benefit in the way that they do from an academic education for precisely the opposite reason.

Piñeda, a student at California State University, Chico, had been asked in early fall 2002 to mentor the academy's students through his membership in a national organization called Students in Free Enterprise, which enlists mentors from the academic and business worlds to help university students create socially conscious, profitable businesses.

Studies have shown that schools offering intense physical activity programs have seen positive effects on academic performance such as improvements in math, reading, and classroom behavior — even when the added time takes away from academic instruction time.

Bottom Line: From the academic to the playful and everything in between, the Folger Library's Shakespeare for Kids is a tremendous resource.

My teachers noticed immediately that I was withdrawing from academic life, and through a series of roundtable discussions and weekly one - on - one conversations, they gave me a safe space to talk about what I was going through, helped me create a plan to get back on track, and reminded me how far I had come and how far I could still go.

Digital literacy encompasses vital skills that teach children how to be effective users of IT, but those are distinct from the academic subject of computer science that includes learning how computers work and how to create software.

But such discretion (or «safe harbor» provisions) need not equal the vague 1994 language or allow states to use measures that are divorced from academic results or are purely subjective and porous.

We group students based on an area of need ranging from academic to personal and social, such as conflict resolution, stress management, and self - management skills.

Lynch says he's proud of the fact that the schools he's worked in — which have tended to serve working - class students — have had good records and that «a high percentage of the students got jobs; some of them have done quite well from an academic point of view.»

There were plenty of folks feeling frustrated because charters, on the whole, weren't focused on quality from an academic perspective, and in general were somewhat opposed to an increasingly powerful standards movement.

Unfortunately, his family has been ridiculed and ostracized from the academic community, as they believe that the founding fathers of United States hid a vast treasure from the British and left clues to the fortune's whereabouts on historic documents.

At the risk of antagonizing readers from academic background, I venture to suggest that film criticism has as much obligation to learn from film academia as experimental filmmaking has to learn from genre cinema.

My high school offered an elective class that featured one of the English teachers showing great movies and talking about them from an academic point - of - view.

The abduction leads the family to seek help from academic and professional ghost hunters — namely a team from a local university led by Dr. Brooke Powell (Jane Adams) and reality - television star Carrigan Burke (Jared Harris).

Marion, exercising an evolutionary maternal reflex, repeatedly criticizes her daughter about everything from her academic talents — or lack thereof — to her indulgent use of not one, but two bath towels, an insignificant act that receives a much more vociferous reaction than, say, when Lady Bird hints that she is considering having sex for the first time.

Terri Orbuch, aka the Love Doctor, draws from her academic background to provide data - driven relationship advice.

It is part of their up bring to be well reversed in many different areas of interest from academic studies to art and fashion.

It contains knowledge and research articles from academic staff at UWE Bristol.

I don't think I am aware of the anatomy of my vagina either, like the clitoris, and erogenous zones, apart from the academic stuff that my mother (a gynaecologist) seems to be talking about.

We also wanted to move away from academic writing to have a book that anyone could dive into any chapter and find what they were looking for; the book doesn't have to be read cover to cover to get the information you seek.

I actually look at things from this academic perspective first... then I take that base of knowledge and apply the insanity to it.

Sarah's transition from academic researcher to stay - at - home mom to award - winning and internationally - recognized health advocate and educator was driven by her own health journey, which included losing 120 pounds and using both diet and lifestyle to mitigate and reverse a dozen diagnosed health conditions.

«In this study, the researchers gathered and analyzed data from academic papers since 1977.

These mechanisms cause substantial changes from academic traditions.

The program will send 22 experts from the academic, non-profit, and private sectors in the United States to act as consultants and speak at engagements throughout the Western Hemisphere.

In addition to the scientists named above, the contributors to the first paper, «Broadly neutralizing HIV antibodies define a novel glycan - dependent epitope on the pre-fusion conformation of gp41 on cleaved Envelope trimers,» were Alejandra Ramos, Jeong Hyun Lee, Chi - Hui Liang and Pascal Poignard, all from TSRI and IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center; Alejandro Ramirez, Ryan McBride, Michael B. Zwick and James C. Paulson from TSRI; Katie J. Doores from King's College London School of Medicine; Ronald Derking, Marit J. van Gils and Rogier W. Sanders from the Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam; Sachin S. Shivatare, Chung - Yi Wu and Chi - Huey Wong of Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan; Po - Ying Chan - Hui and Kristine Swiderek of Theraclone Sciences, Inc., Seattle; Yan Liu and Ten Feizi of Imperial College London; Michael S. Seaman of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston; John P. Moore of Weill Medical College of Cornell University; and Wayne C. Koff of IAVI in New York City.

It includes representatives from Google and Kernel (a neurotechnology start - up in Los Angeles, California); from international brain projects; and from academic and research institutions in the United States, Canada, Europe, Israel, China, Japan and Australia.

This seminar, intended for students from all academic majors, will examine the evolution of energy supply, energy demand and the global energy system as a whole, from the rise of photosynthesis to the development of agriculture, the Industrial revolution, and the modern, carbon - constrained world.

NEWMEDS brought together top scientists from academic institutions with a wide range of expertise, and partners them with nearly all major biopharmaceutical companies.