Sentences with phrase «from traditional assumptions»

«It is time to move away from traditional assumptions about how schools should look, how teachers should teach, and how students should learn,» argued Maria Worthen and Lillian Pace, authors of a new policy paper in support of competency - based learning.

And as that optimism diminished, the Century also turned from its traditional assumption that American - style democracy was so superior to any other political option that it deserved automatic celebration wherever it encountered opposition.

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Critical New Testament studies, in contrast to the traditional Christian assumption that Jesus was God on earth, have started from the historical Jesus of Nazareth.

On the traditional assumption that knowledge is justified true belief, we may interpret Whitehead as asserting that from the fact that we have a strongly held, possibly even unshakable, belief we may conclude — apparently only on that basis — that the belief is true and adequately justified.

But the traditional assumption that the word has reference to something that is real apart from language is now often rejected.

«Far from the traditional risk - focused assumptions, extreme sports participation facilitates more positive psychological experiences and express human values such as humility, harmony, creativity, spirituality and a vital sense of self that enriches everyday life,» Professor Schweitzer said.

Today, researchers are challenging traditional assumptions about transplant eligibility and donor matching in an effort to expand the universe of patients who can benefit from this treatment while improving long - term success rates.

The call by some educators and policymakers for a back - to - basics approach to math and science to improve student achievement is based on a false assumption that curriculum and instruction have strayed from traditional roots, a new report argues.

But even some of the most strenuous charter advocates are wary of a blanket assumption that charters are superior, in part because they are so different from traditional schools and from one another.

Our interest, however, arises also from democratic assumptions underlying the organization of the U.S. school system and from the traditional resistance of schools to greater community - level participation.

Certainly it's a break from traditional expectations and assumptions around teaching and assessment.

The implied assumptions of the aforementioned linear formula are overly simplistic given the nonrandomness of the teacher candidate population... If teacher candidates who enroll in a traditional teacher education program are arguably different from teacher candidates who enroll in an alternative program, and both groups are compared once they become teachers, one group might have a distinct and unfair advantage over the other... What can not be overlooked, controlled for, or dismissed from these comparative investigations are teachers» enduring qualities that go beyond their preparation (Boyd et al., 2006; Boyd, Grossman, Lankford, Loeb, & Wyckoff, 2007; Harris & Sass, 2007; Shulman, 1988; Wenglinsky, 2002).

The observation that Amazon pays traditional publishers based on a wholesale reduction of list, but sells those books at a substantial discount from list, is a valid one... and in fact, we built that assumption into our spreadsheets and pie charts.

No matter where markets are on the continuum from very cheap to very expensive, traditional Advisors will make recommendations on the assumption that investors should expect 6.5 % inflation adjusted returns on stocks over all investment horizons.

NOTE: The USDA has exempted traditional «retail pet stores» from licensing — with the assumption that the consumer gets to see / evaluate the puppy of kitten at the pet store.

can, if answered adequately, create a sort of chain reaction, expanding not merely to encompass the accepted assumptions of the single field, but outward to embrace history and the social sciences, or even psychology and literature, and thereby, from the outset, to challenge the assumption that the traditional divisions of intellectual inquiry are still adequate to deal with the meaningful questions of our time, rather than the merely convenient or self - generated ones.

Drawing from Hughes» remark on the assumption that «all of us had a sense of rhythm», this exhibition presents an original research into rhythmic sources in performative, material, and immaterial productions within African traditional and contemporary cultures, and extends this assertion to the field of contemporary art; opening up the «us», referring to black people, to a cross-cultural and multidisciplinary engagement with notions of rhythm.

They have departed from the traditional paradigm based on assumptions only valid in linear systems.

You have certain assumptions about what readers know, and if they're going to read your words in a different order than you expect, that may require substantial changes from the traditional presentation.

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