Sentences with phrase «high academic school»

«I wanted a high academic school.

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Tensions were high Wednesday at New York University's Stern School of Business, as a group of academics, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs faced off during a panel discussion on the future of higher education.

«As an open admission high school, students come to us from various schools throughout the metro New Orleans area and we don't necessarily know the academic acumen of students coming through the building,» he says.

In Kilduff's most recent research, which has yet to be published, he finds that U.S. universities engaged in a long - standing rivalry (Harvard vs. Yale, USC vs. UCLA) benefit from increased merchandise sales, as well as a a higher proportion of alumni who donate to the school, even after controlling for factors like academic and athletic rank.

Geared toward marketing professionals and academics, expect to hear from high - level speakers including giants the likes of Google, Mercedes - Benz USA, Time Inc., Columbia Business School.

«Yale also enrolls the top law school applicants in the country, and has maintained the highest reputation among both academic peers and lawyers and judges / hiring partners,» Morse continued, circling back to subjective assessments that factor into the ranking.

High school students could then access all the information for free and come away with a pretty good idea of, say, the academics, the cafeteria, or how hot (or not) the girls and guys were.

The senior management team of the Rotman School consists of leaders who are accountable for ensuring high standards of excellence across academic, program, operations and advancement functions.

Teach full - time as a highly - qualified teacher in a high - need field at an eligible low - income elementary school, secondary school, or educational service agency for at least 4 academic years.

Postsecondary teachers instruct students in a wide variety of academic and technical subjects beyond the high school level.

Jewel Brangman, an academic all - American in high school, about to pursue a...

All this despite the fact that private schooling doesn't actually yield better outcomes for students, according to a recent Statistics Canada report (instead, the apparent academic success of private school student is due to their socioeconomic backgrounds).9 A UBC study also found that students from public schools scored higher in first - year university classes than their private school counterparts.10

In view of his approach to solving the problems facing higher education, it's not surprising that, although long a tenured professor at prestigious schools, Taylor evinces little respect for academic disciplines.

Many conservative commentators point, as the icon for all that went wrong, to the 1967 Land O» Lakes statement, in which the presidents of Catholic colleges declared that their pursuit of academic excellence served a high Catholic goal and thus exempted Catholic schools from direct obedience to the hierarchy and magisterium of the Catholic Church.

Meanwhile, the Church in Philadelphia is undergoing a painful downsizing, as newly installed Archbishop Charles Chaput announced in early January that 48 Catholic schools (both elementary and high schools) will be closed and / or consolidated at the end of the present academic year.

Wood is not much troubled by the fact, which so disturbs Farley and Hough and Cobb, that the way in which academic disciplines are institutionalized in American higher education also dictates the structure of the curricula of theological schools.

Murray draws on those studies, but in Coming Apart, Fishtown, like Belmont, is shorthand for a statistical cohort: people with blue - collar or low - level office jobs and no academic degree more advanced than a high - school diploma.

At the same time, Catholic professors criticized their institutions for intellectual mediocrity, redefined «academic excellence» in line with the standards of leading graduate schools, and turned (with equivocal success) to theology to provide what Holy Cross historian David O'Brien has termed «the bridge between the older Catholic identity and the newer, more excellent version of Catholic higher education.»

Yet despite the upheaval in the education system from the 1960s onwards some schools have managed to maintain high academic levels of excellence.

The reasons for the association of Bible literacy with higher academic outcomes are many, but the data remind us that America's schools can not claim that their graduates are well educated unless they have knowledge of the Bible.

In April of 1995, a group of students at Steinmetz High School in Chicago were suspected of cheating in the statewide Academic Decathalon by receiving the answers beforehand from their coach.

Its universities in the United States have larger enrollments and more academic prestige than ever before, Jesuit high schools are attracting large numbers of excellent students, and some Jesuit publications and parishes are very successful.

I have also learned not to take for granted students» knowledge in some general academic areas that may have been expectations at the high school, or dare I say, even junior high level, in my generation.

Pastors and parents need a seat at the table for district and state decision making so we can advocate for high academic standards in every school.

Here the character of Brown's argument that theological schools ought to adopt higher academic standards is particularly revealing.

In order to address this problem, high academic standards will need to be achieved in every school, and communities will have to provide the necessary resources for those students facing additional challenges.

It is not clear, however, whether Brown's constant stress on high academic expectations simply assumes the canons of critical, orderly, disciplined inquiry that the research university model had made commonplace in the 1930s in American graduate education outside of theological schools, or whether he is rather calling for theological school teachers who are very learned but are not necessarily themselves engaged in original research.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

TEMECULA, CA — Great Oak High School is celebrating a win from the weekend's Riverside County Academic Decathlon.

The high school placed among the top scorers in this year's Riverside County Academic Decathlon.

High school athletes are balancing sports and academics during their season.

These disclosures will embarrass programs that don't stress academics and will help high school recruits choose among schools.

Yet most athletic officials, even those who oppose it, regard Prop 42 as a well - intentioned effort to strike a balance between academic integrity and the need to provide an opportunity for the disadvantaged athlete who wants a degree and is willing to work hard to get it — a kid like John Thompson was as a high school senior in Washington, D.C. Thompson says he could not have gone to college under Prop 42, but he's careful not to paint Proposition 42 in racial terms.

He left Cherokee High School in North Carolina with the best rebound record in the state, both All - District and All - State, and was named his school's Academic Athlete of theSchool in North Carolina with the best rebound record in the state, both All - District and All - State, and was named his school's Academic Athlete of theschool's Academic Athlete of the Year.

In the meantime, Van Dyke's focus will be on high school academics, being a senior, and team success on the football field.

Sources told Yahoo! Sports in September that the NCAA has been investigating the recruitment of 2012 Auburn signee Jovon Robinson, whose Memphis Wooddale High School academic transcript was found to be forged and was subsequently declared ineligible in August to play this year at the sSchool academic transcript was found to be forged and was subsequently declared ineligible in August to play this year at the schoolschool.

If that isn't enough, Adu's accelerated high school program set up by IMG, the Edison Academic Center — through which he will earn his diploma next month — has included community service at a child - care center, which requires another form of superhero work: taking three - year - olds to the bathroom.

At least two of those schools (Mich, Stan) have very high academic standards and can't recruit players who can't make it into the university on their own merits, I am personally not sure about Southern Cal, but wouldn't be surprised if they can't recruit someone without the academic bona fides as well.

Which is always a little weird in the world of high school sports because we're only through a third of the academic year.

Since the fall of 2000 he has been working at Jefferson Senior High in the Denver suburb of Edgewater as an academic coach in the National Football Foundation's (NFF) Play It Smart program, which provides educational counseling and mentoring to football players in at - risk high schoHigh in the Denver suburb of Edgewater as an academic coach in the National Football Foundation's (NFF) Play It Smart program, which provides educational counseling and mentoring to football players in at - risk high schohigh schools.

Once most of the high schools are done with their academic year, colleges will host prospects for camps where players will come and sometimes overnight at a school, staying in the dorms and running through drills overseen by a coaching staff.

Without the confines of the academic season sporting schedule, we can stretch our legs and find stories about high schoolers whose sports rarely find a spotlight from September to June.

«I am extremely excited to be part of a great academic and athletic high school,» said Christmas.

The full plan calls for 17 NBA regulation courts, one 5,000 seat Arena, 34 high school courts, 38 volleyball courts, six indoor turf fields, 15 batting cages, beach volleyball courts, racquet ball courts, a track, a martial arts and boxing center, two fitness centers, a water plyometrics training center, dance studio, banquet hall, sports bar and grill, four restaurants, retail stores, and a full service academic / tutoring center.

16:55 After a narration touting sophomore defensive end Rashan Gary's commitment to academics in high school, we're treated to a scene in which Gary explains his favorite seat in his most important college class:

They are a demographic, in other words, that in many big - city middle and high schools is seen as a behavioral challenge and an academic liability.

She started with some universally acknowledged positive academic outcomes for students: getting good grades, graduating from high school, and earning a college degree.

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We believe that these are the most critical years in a child's development, when we can help establish a cultural identity and academic foundation that will allow students to flourish in high school and beyond.