Sentences with phrase «from conventional schools»

That's why I harp so much about getting a good RE and business knowledge from conventional schools, not gurus, know financing rules and being in absolute compliance with rules, regulations and laws.

Galloway (1995) investigated homeschooled graduates» potential for success in college by comparing their performance with students from conventional schools and found insignificant differences, except in the ACT English subtest scores.

We can say in this case that we are different from the conventional schools.

Not exact matches

Christianity and Mohametanism: — For two thousand years the Greek art - forms lifelessly repeated: The Greek schools of philosophy, Stoic, Epicurean, Aristotelian, Neo-Platonic, arguing with barren formulae: Conventional histories: A stabilized Government with the sanctity of ancient ceremony, supported by habitual pieties: literature without depth: Science elaborating details by deduction from unquestioned premises: Delicacies of feeling without robustness of adventure.

The answers vary by individual and by the type of degree earned, but conventional wisdom from operators and school administrators alike is that it's hard to go wrong by hiring an individual who's graduated from a top culinary program.

Professor Armani, the Ray Irani Chair in Engineering and Material Sciences at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, likens the change from conventional silicon to organic materials as analogous to the change of «gas to electric.»

«By measuring naturally occurring ammonium and iodide in numerous samples from different geological formations in the Appalachian Basin, including flowback waters from shale gas wells in the Marcellus and Fayetteville shale formations, we show that fracking fluids are not much different from conventional oil and gas wastes,» said Jennifer S. Harkness, lead author of the study and a PhD student at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

Using HUNT, a Norwegian population - based health cohort study based in a rural county with 130,000 residents, the Bristol Medical School team, with co-workers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, were able to see how mortality in the parents related to both their own BMI (the conventional approach) and to the BMI of their adult children.

«Our analysis confirms that this accumulation of radioactivity is derived from the disposal of conventional oil and gas wastewater after 2011, when authorities limited the disposal of unconventional oil and gas wastewater,» said Nancy Lauer, a Nicholas School PhD student who led the study.

For decades, the conventional wisdom was that increasing the number of minority scientists requires addressing every aspect of the pipeline — from elementary school through hiring and promoting faculty members.

In this scenario, what might look like a lack of student achievement, using a conventional VAM estimate, could result from a school having a larger number of disadvantaged students.

By the time I graduated from medical school, heart transplant surgery had become conventional, so I moved to Los Angeles and did something I've never told anyone else about: I spent a couple of years rolling pennies and eating canned spinach and pasta while I tried to understand the universe, an effort I felt had reached a dead end.

Some people enter the field from conventional medical school residencies; others are biomedical researchers with interest in epidemiology and biostatistics.

These potentially game - changing technologies, developed by Peter Rogan, PhD, students and his collaborators from Western's Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, reveal gene variants that were missed by conventional genetic testing.

They may be using an outdated reference range, using «normal» reference ranges from their medical school days, and are unfamiliar with newer guidelines that in fact have a narrower optimal range (see the conventional versus optimal lab ranges below).

Research Bomb — In a study from the Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering in Japan it was found that conventional milk contains large amounts of estrogen and progesterone and is shown to suppress gonadotropin, which suppresses testosterone.

ARTIFICAL HORMONES: A study in the International Journal of Obesity from researchers at 10 different universities, including Yale University School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Unversity, found that the use of steroid hormones in meat production and on conventional dairy farms could be a possible contributor to the obesity epidemic.

Unchained from conventional Pixar practices, My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea is one of the more visually stunning comedies in recent memory.

QC also tacitly privileges the conventional education - school path into the classroom, though it no longer rewards states for having their new teachers emerge from «nationally accredited» institutions.

From Nikhal Goyal to Sam Levin to just speaking with our students about their schooling, it should be conventional wisdom that student voices matter.

The experiment in place - based education earned the 17,000 - student Grand Rapids school district a coveted $ 10 million grant from XQ: The Super Schools Project in 2016, one of 10 awards made to schools and districts around the nation that challenge conventional ideas of what high schSchools Project in 2016, one of 10 awards made to schools and districts around the nation that challenge conventional ideas of what high schschools and districts around the nation that challenge conventional ideas of what high school is.

EW: How is teaching in an open International Baccalaureate school different from working in a conventional middle school?

Lifelong learning arrangements, particularly those in informal and non-formal settings, can confer a number of benefits: they can provide people who live in countries that do not have universal education with access to learning opportunities on a continuous basis; they can address the problem of conventional formal schooling being too far removed from local cultural and social environments; and they can alleviate economic hardship, particularly for young people in developing countries who may experience strong pressures to earn income to help support their families or, particularly if they are girls, to take on significant responsibilities at home (1, 4).

Counter-organization and outreach to groups that will benefit from reform (particularly parents of children doing least well in the conventional school system) can counter opponents» initiatives.

But the factors suppressing participation in Portland — which appears to have made a good - faith effort to implement the program — suggest that there may be a natural limit to how many parents will move their children from one conventional public school to another.

They, and their disadvantaged counterparts in big - city schools, must be protected from the fairy tale we adults so glibly tell: doing conventional school work guarantees a good job.

But state - run Florida Virtual School (FLVS), a decade - old public education experiment, departs from this conventional script.

Authors Elizabeth McGhee Hassrick, Stephen W. Raudenbush, and Lisa Rosen argue that schools can close achievement gaps, but only if they are willing to depart from the conventional organizational model.

FREEDOM OF CHOICE What sets Academies and Free Schools apart from the more conventional community school is the freedom of choice.

Gary Naeyaert, executive director of the Great Lakes Education Project, said charter schools are often a better academic option for students than the conventional school district they came from.

Thus, from the 1950s and well into the 1980s, the conventional wisdom among mayors was to shun control of the schools: the political costs exceeded the benefits.

Republic of Noise is a truly brilliant book, but one so remote from the daily activities associated with the life of a conventional classroom teacher as to make one question its relevance to school improvement.

The wealth of information that Chetty et al. have about families from tax records and some clever analyses effectively rule out the possibility that conventional estimates of value - added based only on school administrative data are misleading.

From the 1950s and well into the 1980s, the conventional wisdom among mayors was to shun control of the schools: the political costs exceeded the benefits.

We ca n`t say a priori whether shifting the weight of emphasis from informal to formal evidence for decision making will improve schools; it is an empirical question.226 The current emphasis on using student performance data to guide improvement efforts also calls for greater attention by those in schools to measurable patterns of student performance at the school level, or by student sub-groups, in addition to the conventional interest in individual student needs and progress.

Make honest assessments of your school and teaching methods by examining conventional practices from a fresh, critical perspective.

We can and should keep trying to fix our conventional schools, but we should also step up our efforts to create new small schools that are different from traditional schools and different from each other.

It is true that charter schools are exempt from some of the regulations and bureaucracy that hamper conventional public schools, but charter schools are subject to civil - rights and safety regulations and most of the academic requirements mandated by the state.

It also enrolls students with a wide range of abilities, from those who would be categorized as failures or potential dropouts to those who would be regarded as academically able in any conventional school.

The rigid rules in conventional schools continually distract students from important work in the classroom.

Unlike the conventional public schools that intentionally remain under the radar, charter schools operate under intense scrutiny from teachers unions, the media, and lawmakers.

In response to infractions and rule breaking great and small, these schools do not shrink from using conventional sanctions, including in - school and out - of - school suspensions, community service, corrective exercises, and occasional expulsion.

Charter schools are innovative public schools designed by educators, parents or civic leaders that are open by choice, accountable for results, and free from most rules and regulations governing conventional public schools.

In fact, a new report out from The Center for Reinventing Public Education, «A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2011,» argues that the relationship between conventional districts and charters is evolving «from a traditional paradigm of opposition, competition, and indifference to a partnership based on trust and collaboration through a shared mission, shared resources, and shared responsibility.»

While their intelligence levels are average to above average, they process information in a way that is different from what is expected in a conventional school environment.

Public charter schools in Michigan are closing the performance gap with conventional district schools in some subjects, according to recently released results from a national assessment test that was given last year.

The same can be said of a student moving from a conventional public school to a charter school.

And if it used a conventional admissions system, based on distance, it would be very likely to become a magnet for middle - class families and be accused of poaching pupils from existing schools.

Students at New Orleans charter schools show more academic growth than their peers in conventional schools, according to a new study from Stanford University.

Diplomas from quality high schools are scholastically equal to those earned in the conventional high school setting, and ought to be perceived in that capacity by potential businesses and universities and colleges.