Sentences with phrase «graduates of a particular school»

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I'm a little pessimistic, because faculty members come out of graduate schools with a loyalty to a particular field, and it's very hard to get their attention or arouse their passion for larger sets of problems, such as pedagogy or the reform of theological education.

«U.S. schools show steady improvement in math and science, the U.S. is not at any particular disadvantage compared to most nations, and the supply of S&E [science and engineering] graduates is large and ranks among the best internationally,» continues Eye, which was co-authored by two labor force experts, B. Lindsay Lowell, director of Policy Studies for the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and Harold Salzman of UI's Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population.

His journey through graduate school took longer than usual because he taught at several universities, traveled quite a bit and undertook extensive research in astrophysics, looking in particular at how the composition of asteroids and meteoritic fragments affects their size.

Lessons in Space Inside Higher Ed, 6/18/15 «Lecturer and Project Zero Director Daniel Wilson at the Harvard Graduate School of Education commented, «space is simply a context for human behavior,» it does not necessarily motivate particular kinds of behavior (learning or otherwise) on its own.»

Free Online Courses Impact Models of Higher Learning The Retriever Weekly (University of Maryland - Baltimore County), November 5, 2013» «Everyone in the research field agrees that, for the particular purpose of replacing on - campus education, the evidence is ambiguous at best,» said Andrew Ho, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.»

In particular, independent research — once viewed as controversial but now increasingly acknowledged by elected and appointed officials in the highest levels of government — has revealed a state of affairs in which three in ten students fail to finish high school with a diploma and in which barely half of historically disadvantaged minority students graduate.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

This year, the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) launched «Community Conversations» that aim to focus the entire community on a particular series of dialogues for each academic year.

In particular, he runs four charter school campuses on Chicago's South Side that are graduating more than 90 percent of their students with 95 to 98 percent of those students attending college.

First, the benefits of attending a private school are greatest for outcomes other than test scores — in particular, the likelihood that a student will graduate from high school and enroll in college.

«The literacy achievement gap in particular is important because literacy achievement often serves as the proxy for overall achievement,» said Dorothy Strickland, Samuel DeWitt Proctor Professor of Education at Rutgers Graduate School of Education.

The AOCC seeks to inspire and impact the improvement of the education sector by annually convening Harvard Graduate School of Education alumni, students, and friends concerned with issues of race, class and education as they pertain to all people, and in particular to communities of color.

For instance, did the requirement that all students pass a minimum - competency test in order to graduate from high school encourage more students (in particular, minorities) to drop out of high school, as many critics feared?

The growth in the wage gap between dropouts and high school graduates, particularly during the 1980s, stemmed largely from changes in the economy that increased the demand for particular skills during a period in which the supply of workers possessing those skills grew more slowly.

Currently only 3 — 4 percent of US high school students in any particular grade (and less than 10 percent of all graduates) take an integrated math course.

«You're seeing the accumulated progress and gradual incremental progress... with particular attention toward equity and closing the achievement gaps,» says Paul Reville, a professor at Harvard's Graduate School of Education and former secretary of Education for Massachusetts.

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Jason has also held senior positions with Open Universities Australia and the University of Melbourne, where he headed up the new Graduate Online initiative and worked closely in particular with Chancellery, the Centre for the Study of Higher Education (CSHE), Melbourne Graduate School of Education (MGSE) and the Centre for Program Evaluation (CPE).

Utah's charters are graduating anywhere from 27 percent to 100 percent of their students, depending on the particular school.

In particular, he thinks all candidates should have to answer how they'll increase access to early childhood education (and if they won't, why not), what their goals are for high school graduation and dropout rates, and how they'll get the U.S. to once again be the global leader in percent of college graduates.

Children who experience poverty in their preschool years, in particular, have a substantially higher risk of not graduating from high school and so of suffering all of the resulting economic consequences.

Master's programs can focus on a specific area of teaching practice like elementary or secondary education, a particular academic subject, or put a graduate on a track towards school administrator jobs or curriculum and instruction jobs.

It's interesting to see that the graduates of a particular program are more likely to teach in what the Department of Education refers to as highest - need schools, or that the teachers from a particular program are more likely to leave the district than those from other programs, but what do such things mean?

Any words of wisdom on how a graduate might gain professional experience in a particular writing field, short of going back to school?

When a graduate school professor contacted Rendall recently about that particular title's availability for the Kindles that were being distributed to all of the MBA students in the university's program, Rendall's book was not yet published digitally; it took no effort to have CreateSpace convert it to an e-book because they already had the digital version stored for print - on - demand purposes.

Being more educated, and specializing in a particular field, is one of the most effective ways to get hired for a better position than you would receive as simply a high school graduate.

• There are many important issues prospective college students need to consider — such as expected occupational earnings, the value of a particular college brand - name in a given field, the market value of a major field of study, the prospect of graduate or professional school, and the like — that must be considered in evaluating the costs and benefits of higher education and the level of student - loan debt that is reasonable in any particular circumstance.

This particular profession requires a 4 year bachelor's degree and three years of graduate school.

Prior to veterinary school, Dr. Gennette attended the University of Central Florida, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in biology and a particular focus in marine biology.

Artists leaving graduate school are in their own particular moment of transition, as they will soon disperse from one dense social body into a wider frame of relations and activity.

The School of Engineering's B.E. degrees are designed to prepare students for either direct industry employment or continued, graduate - level engineering education in their particular field.

These three painters are graduates of the New York Studio School, well known for its connection to the original New York School luminaries and its emphasis on a particular facet of composition known as «the picture plane.»

The Court used its equitable powers to waive a particular requirement of a court rule concerning admission to the bar, and more specifically the law school accreditation requirement set out in S.J.C. Rule 3:01, § 3.3, that an applicant have graduated from a law school accredited by the ABA.

When we take temporary employment into account, it appears that approximately 45 percent of 2010 graduates of this particular top - 50 law school had real legal jobs nine months after graduation.

Talk to those who have recently graduated in the particular driving school where you want to learn about the quality of the training they can provide.

The resume objective statement must be prepared accordingly at the time of applying to attend a high school or applying to a community college or applying to a university for undergraduate studies or focusing on the graduate / post-graduate programs of a particular university.

In particular, compared with their sisters, less - advantaged boys «have a higher incidence of truancy and behavioral problems throughout elementary and middle school, exhibit higher rates of behavioral and cognitive disability, perform worse on standardized tests, are less likely to graduate high school, and are more likely to commit serious crimes as juveniles.»

They are deeply committed to this program; one of them, a former school counselor, enrolled in a graduate program and earned his master's degree in teaching solely for the purpose of earning the qualification necessary to teach this particular course.

I met three girls in particular and it is definitely no coincidence that all four of us were accepted to a high - ranking magnet high school graduated in the top 10 % of our class and were accepted to some of the most prestigious universities in the nation including UT Austin A&M College Station NYU and many more.