Sentences with phrase «generation students do»

A common presumption has been that low - income, first - generation students don't possess college - going aspirations, or that they lack information about what is required and necessary.

Not exact matches

Hilary Stout illustrated this problem in The New York Times in June: «After all, the millennial generation has less wealth and more debt than other generations did at the same age, thanks to student loans and the lingering effects of the deep recession,» she wrote.

But the bottom line is this: Millennials face an impossibly high amount of student debt, their college degrees don't hold the same value as they did in previous generations, and this has influenced a new approach to life — one that integrates life and work as one unified concept.

The cluster also helped Intelligent Generation get access to graduate students to do market research.

You have student loan debt like many this generation do?

«Instead of supporting the next generation, the BC Liberals have done things like levy a secret tax on youth through a minimum 2.5 % student loan interest surcharge.

It does slight justice to Father Copleston's own achievements as a historian of philosophy to whom students have been indebted for generations.

But if you are a student of Latin, don't forget the most important rule, passed down through generations of Latin scholars: Semper Ubi Sub Ubi.

How do professors address the current generation of students whose overriding concerns seem to be their careers and financial success?

Unlike previous generations, many students today do not attend full time.

And I want to bless this current generation of Calvin students who are doing difficult theology, in real time, in real life, right now.

Everything in society is now viewed through that very instrumentalized lens and unlike a lot of other people who hold the kind of job that I do, it's totally understandable that that would be the orientation, because higher education has done a spectacularly poor job of delivering on its promises: It has racked up over $ 1.4 trillion in student loan debt, putting an immense burden upon the next generation, not only financially, but dampening their ability to innovate and create.

A move toward de-emphasis of preaching did appear in the «60s, but it has now been completely reversed; there is every indication from this generation of Reformed seminary students that good biblical preaching will be a continuing interest for some years to come.

The center also wants to bring younger generations into the conversation and does so by encouraging students and researchers to submit ideas to BCFN YES!

That said, Turow found «there are a lot of unknowns for this generation: we grew up in the recession, we've got a trillion dollars in student loan debt, we don't trust our government (the first political event I can remember is the Lewinsky scandal, and then the Gore versus Bush election, when the popular vote did not get the presidency).»

I don't think it's the student generation that's implementing this.

Students attend or do not attend college football games without any of the sense my generation had of taking a stand.

If you do it right, when the time comes to bring back football at «this generation's Stanford,» your students and alumni will walk tall again.

(Ask any prospective first - generation college student about the disadvantages of not knowing what you don't know.)

Her book, «Doing School»: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students (Yale University Press, 2001) was awarded Notable Book in Education by the American School Board Journal, 2001.

She is the author of, «Doing School»: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students, and co-author of Overloaded and Underprepared: Strategies for Stronger Schools and Healthy, Successful Kids.

The book club is slated to meet two more times over the school year to discuss «Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic and Miseducated Students» and «The Homework Myth,» by Denise Pope and Alfie Kohn, respectively.

Dr. Denise Pope is a Senior Lecturer at Stanford and the author of «Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed - Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students» and the soon - to - be-released «Overloaded and Underprepared: Strategies for Stronger Schools and Healthy, Successful Kids.»

In many schools, kindergarten students have nightly assignments, and most students today spend dramatically more time doing homework than previous generations.

He's a Boettcher Scholar, an Eagle Scout, a member of the DU Pioneer Leadership Program, and the Founder of the University of Denver Roosevelt Institute — a student non-profit organization focused on empowering young generations in political change.

I don't think we can pass on a generation of students.

«I am from a generation that doesn't come to tell Africans what to do,» Mr. Macron said during a speech to university students in the Burkinabe capital Ouagadougou, prompting an applause.

He expects the town will have to go through high school yearbooks to track down generations of the students who left and didn't return to see if they are suffering any ill effects.

Perez Williams said younger generations in the city don't have the opportunity to work because the education system doesn't offer a lot of resources for students.

Once we do this — and make that value portable — we will allow generations of students to reshape their higher education experience.

«This is the real scandal in Albany, the alarming fact that state government has stood by and done nothing as generation after generation of students have passed through failing schools,» Cuomo said in a series of press releases he issued Thursday naming each failing school and the legislators whose districts they are located in.

For many of us, especially those who are first - generation graduate students, that what we do at «school» is foreign to a lot of our friends and family.

And though I think we've done pretty well with the first two items, I'm not convinced that we're doing so well with the third — creating the next generation — and I think we need to convene thoughtful faculty members to talk through, with postdocs and graduate students, what we need to enable effective postdoc training.

The fundamental unity of science training and science scholarship does not relieve research scientists — their labs teeming with graduate students and postdocs supported by stipends paid from research grants — or their host institutions, or the funding organizations, of the responsibility to take training the next generation of scientists very, very seriously.

Like other foreign medical students from generations past, they are trying to carry out the American dream, doing good for others and in that way also trying to do good for themselves and their families.»

And one of the main aims I have really in these countries is to find young, local people that are enthusiastic about being out, that go with me, work with me, and then, one hopes continue, on in this work and WCS has been funding some of these people and now we are already in the third generation of some of whom that started out with me, went onto become professors, and have their own students doing the same thing.

First - generation and working - class students and faculty often do not realize that they possess a set of attributes that can help them all the way up the academic ladder.

As a first - generation college student from a working - class background, educated at a state university, he didn't know his way around the academic system.

She does see some cause for optimism: A new generation of tests are being developed in the U.S. to assess how well students have met the Common Core State Standards, the set of academic benchmarks in literacy and math that have been adopted by 43 states.

Generations of biology students have been convinced — in part because of drawings done 123 years ago by the German biologist Ernst Haeckel — that vertebrate embryos of different animals pass through an identical stage of development.

«The extra copy of the Guy1 gene is only passed down to half of the progeny, leaving some females among the mosquitoes that did not inherit the gene in the next generation,» said Frank Criscione, who is the first author of the paper and worked on the project when he was a graduate student in the Tu laboratory.

I've written a few times (here and here, for example) about the great work that the Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) is doing to help schools push the design envelope on what's possible for students.

In the absence of proactive outreach to and support for low - income and first - generation students, many bright, resilient students who have worked hard to get to college and ardently want to go may fail to do so as a result of the behavioral obstacles they encounter.

Just because that's the way we've done it here for generations doesn't mean that's what leads to student growth.

With school systems stagnant, high - school students graduate without learning any more today than they did two generations ago.

Snow and her colleagues carried out a quasi-experimental study comparing nearly 700 sixth - to eighth - grade students in five Word Generation schools to more than 300 students in three other Boston Public schools that did not choose to implement the program.

While it may have served the purpose for the older generations, it does not meet the deeper learning needs of students today and tomorrow.

Although she is not a first - generation student herself, Cotignola says that her father was, and his story serves to remind her of the importance of the work she is doing.

Our teachers and families know that if we don't get this right — and really fast — we won't live to see another generation of students graduate.

So how do schools provide outlets for these Generation Z students to pursue their passions, be active participants in community life, and steer these learners toward their futures?