Sentences with phrase «fundamental academic subjects»

It also required testing of all students in grades 3 through 8 and once in high school to measure whether they were progressing adequately toward proficiency in those two fundamental academic subjects.

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As Heather Staker and I have written, the models of blended learning most likely to scale into the core academic subjects at all levels of schooling in the near term are sustaining innovations, in which online learning is essentially an augmentation to the traditional classroom, but there is still a fundamental shift in the learning model from the student's perspective.

But here we become impaled on the fundamental dilemma of civic education: if we teach civic virtue in a way that respects the integrity of the academic curriculum, civics becomes ancillary and irrelevant; but if we attempt to incorporate civic education into the academic subjects, we inevitably subvert the inherent moral aim of those subjects by subordinating the pursuit of truth to civic uplift.

But the term «graduate school» also suggests academic rigour, extensive scholarship, and detailed research into a subject's fundamental nature, usually with a major thesis or dissertation requirement.