Sentences with phrase «generations of students in»

As we approach the 20th anniversary of the California Charter Schools Act next year, we want to also take the time to highlight accomplishments from our state's charter schools, and their continued commitment to serving generations of students in California.

But this generation of Catholics — this generation of students in general — is incredibly busy.

This is the outcome after well over a generation of students in a standards - based education system.

Not exact matches

Siemens has been a leader in cutting the company's carbon footprint and a strong supporter of apprenticeship programs that train students for next - generation manufacturing jobs.

But when it comes to locating the wellspring of her entrepreneurial drive, her ex comes in a distant second to the woman known to generations of students as Woj.

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.

Reshef says that in Syria alone, there are between 100,000 and 300,000 college aid students who have left off their studies as a result of displacement and the conflict, and this represents a terrible crisis for education, and the risk of creating an entire lost generation.

Thousands of high school students and other gun - control advocates gathered in Washington and across the U.S. Saturday to demand tougher firearms restrictions from an older generation that's delivered little change after years of mass shootings.

They bought 2.07 million new homes in total, a 7 percent jump from 2016, and a big reason for this is that the oldest members of the millennial generation have started looking for houses as they exchange student loan debt for marriages and children.

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.

It's clear this generation of students values diversity in the workplace more than any generation before them.

All alumnae and students will participate in the NextGen event during the National Conference, focusing on building the next generation of the women - owned business network.

Now the generation of students that grew up performing lockdown drills in school are echoing those calls in their own schools and communities.

But todayâ $ ™ s generation of students is in for a very different experience from the ones their parents had.

Conventional wisdom holds that the millennial generation, influenced by the 9/11 attacks, burdened with student debt and reared in a world of high - speed mobile devices, is a unique group of young people.

For example, our Institute for Sustainable Investing helps develop the next generation of long - term - oriented business leaders, in partnership with INSEAD and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, challenging teams of graduate students from around the world to demonstrate how investing can go hand - in - hand with positive social impact.

We've got a generation of students who are much more interested in working for startups, and we've got lots of great companies that need to reinvent themselves from within.

On the show, Swisher and Hayes talk to Cook about technology's role in powering learning for the next generation of students and workers, including how to teach code across the U.S. and also how it impacts the future of job creation.

In the real world, this is simply not true» Guy Spier «A whole body of academic work formed the foundation upon which generations of students at the country's major business schools were taught about Modern Portfolio Theory, Efficient Market Theory and Beta.

It's not just the big - name corporations that are making a point to engage the next generation of scientists and innovators — Space Angels - funded Because Learning, previously known as Ardusat, has their own ideas for how to engage students in STEM fields.

Founded in a trailer in 1994 by two Stanford graduate students, it was the front door to the web for a generation of internet users but failed to keep up with Google in search technology and then missed the social media and mobile revolutions.

He also serves as Massachusetts Board Chair of Generation Citizen, a non-profit organization that is dedicated to training students in civic education.

These mass shooting drills have become the new normal, and a generation of American students have learned to lock and barricade their classroom doors the same way they learn to drop and roll in case of a fire.

He is the co-founder of Edison Universe, a non-profit organization focused on fostering the next generation of innovators (future Thomas Edisons) in the K - 12 grade level and using tools like creativity, collaboration and immersion to prepare students to identify new opportunities and create solutions around the opportunities.

The state, and the republican school in particular, must play its role in transmitting this inheritance to each new generation and to immigrants by assuring mastery of French language, literature, and history, and socializing students into the French way of life.

It is young men and women such as these that encourage me in my conviction that the world is much safer in the hands of the newer generation than it ever was with those of my own older generation or of the generation between me and those former students.

«Our campus access challenges give this generation of students an opportunity to reinvent campus ministry,» stated Greg Jao, InterVarsity's national field director, in a press release which noted:

In his scrupulous hands, the disputing voices of the Talmudic house of study, however cacophonous to the untrained ear, revealed their multiple strands of meaning and invited his students to become participants in this dialogue of the generationIn his scrupulous hands, the disputing voices of the Talmudic house of study, however cacophonous to the untrained ear, revealed their multiple strands of meaning and invited his students to become participants in this dialogue of the generationin this dialogue of the generations.

He was excited by Alasdair MacIntyre's early and enthusiastic review of The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative and later proud and pleased about a new generation of his students beginning in the early 1970s, theologians like Charles Wood and Ronald Thiemann — proud that they had learned from him, pleased that they were independent enough to disagree with him on occasion.

When Hahn was a college student at the University of North Carolina in the mid-1980s, he met Jimmy Long, who later wrote a book about ministering to Generation X. Long predicted that Hahn would be part of a new generational ministry.

Until the student of origins can produce repeated examples of spontaneous generation (living organisms created entirely from non-living matter) followed by an evolutionary process, his speculations remain in the realm of philosophy and outside the strict standards of modern science.

Because of the diversity of programs in seminaries and the number of students who are not oriented toward congregations, the seminary agenda is probably wider than it was a generation ago, when most students were bound for congregations.

The two outstanding members of this third generation, in fact, were both Hartshorne's students: Schubert M. Ogden and John B. Cobb, Jr..

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

The slogan of «freedom now» is not only the cry of civil rights demonstrators; it is also the watchword of a generation of college and university students seeking for meaning and motivation in their academic work.

I believe that the contemporary student generation's concern for freedom in higher education and their recognition of the slavishness of much of what goes by the name of liberal studies points toward the need to restore the lost element of leisure in the life of learning and to renew the conviction that understanding contains its own rewards.

It's the sound of the next generation: in a study published in the Journal of Voice, more than two - thirds of female college students spoke with vocal fry.

However, I'm 36, and grew up in the last generation of High School students who had to get updates and spread gossip the old - fashioned way — by a locker, between classes.

They are the most indebted generation in history: The average graduate of the college class of 2016 carried $ 37,172 in student loan debt.

The purpose of the S.V.M. was to enlist students for foreign mission work, and its slogan, «The Evangelization of the World in This Generation,» spoke of their zeal and determination.

The student rebellion is directed in part at the failure of the older generation to take seriously the values it presumably espouses.

There sat before me a student who, in his own experience of an eroded Christian ethos and understanding and in his equally certain longing to find a faith with a magnitude equal to his problems, was a living symbol of millions in our generation to whom the gospel must be preached.

Because, therefore, I see these three facts so deeply determinative among theological students in particular, but generally evident in this generation as a whole, I devote the remainder of this lecture to a description of them:

This is why it really could help Violet and her generation if more social conservatives, Porchers, dorm supervisors, student - activity administrators, school boards, and especially more Christian youth leaders, would consider the very practical sort of advice available in my second - favorite self - help book, The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After, by Elizabeth Kantor.

Passion is a worship collective that serves as the musical arm of the wildly popular Passion movement, a series of global conferences led by Atlanta's Passion City Church pastor Louie Giglio that brings together 20 - somethings and college students, united with the mission of «worship, prayer and justice for spiritual awakening in this generation.»

«The failure to incorporate studies in the liberal arts and humanities, along with STEM education, will deprive the next generation of students the critical thinking skills and context necessary to address the challenges they will face in the future.»

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.

The movement sparked by students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, in the wake of 17 of their classmates being killed in a mass shooting, ought to tell us some things about Generation Z that church leaders should take note of if they want to reach this generation fGeneration Z that church leaders should take note of if they want to reach this generation fgeneration for Christ.

A mark of very different thinkers in the current parent generation and of many of their students is a sense of reveling in the riches of premodern resources.

Under the slogan «The Evangelization of the World in This Generation» the Student Volunteer Movement enlisted thousands from colleges, universities, and theological seminaries and spread to the British Isles and the Continent of Europe.