Sentences with phrase «higher aspirations find»

And MOOCs might be able to help some 20 - year - olds with higher aspirations find their calling.

Not exact matches

«The demands on a CEO can be very high and you need to first of all find the person who shares your goals and aspirations.

Our «highest spiritual ideals and aspirations also threaten to lay the most crushing burdens on humankind,» and Taylor therefore finds it quite understandable that the modern self might turn from such lofty aspirations to the goods of ordinary life and the satisfactions of creative self - fulfillment.

Now the Singapore - born, U.S. - trained materials scientist will be addressing the fault lines in global higher education by becoming the founding president of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), a new graduate university in Saudi Arabia with a $ 10 billion endowment and aspirations to become a world - class research institution.

I'm an open minded person, with high educational goals, and expect to find someone with mildly similar aspirations and world views.

What we found in our initial prototypes — launching an innovation lab space, creating a design thinking professional development experience, and running student - facing design challenges for middle - and high - school classes — was that the design thinking process functioned as a kind of oasis for educators, reconnecting them to their creativity and aspirations for helping students develop as deep thinkers and doers, not just as test takers.

The report also found that disadvantaged students were less likely to believe they will go on to university, with 27 per cent having higher education aspirations, compared to 39 per cent of their better off peers.

«The research would suggest that there are a number of parents who start off with high aspirations for their children but gradually disengage, partly because the schools don't talk a language they understand, because they have poor experiences themselves with school and they find them frightening places to go to...»

The latest findings, based on six well - regarded charter schools in Boston, released Wednesday by the Boston Foundation and MIT's School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative, adds to the accumulating evidence that at least a subset of high - performing charters are measuring up to the movement's early aspirations of giving disadvantaged kids a shot at a better life.

School staff have high aspirations for their students, and they have found that using these digital resources helps engage students in learning.

With advances in videotaping and the science of feedback, every teacher can now view their classroom interactions like scientists and find inspiration to narrow the gap between their current performance and highest aspiration.

Her findings reveal that low SES Black families held high expectations, aspirations, and standards for their children, as well as positive achievement orientations.

While some aspects of traditional publishing are important to pursue as a self - publisher (high quality editorial and design, most importantly), don't let bookstore aspirations blind you to the opportunities you have to find your readers through other, equally if not more successful, distribution channels.

A new report, released by the National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (NCSEHE) and conducted by CQUniversity, has found that access and bridging programs are vital when it comes to raising education aspirations among Indigenous students.

Consistent with previous studies, we found that (a) being less prosocial and more physically aggressive at age 10 was characteristic of those children with the high rejection trajectory; (b) being less attractive was related to higher peer rejection from age 10 to 14; and (c) boys with a high rejection trajectory showed high levels of delinquency and anxiety - depression and low levels of academic aspiration at age 16 — 17, whereas girls with a high rejection trajectory showed low levels of academic aspiration and social competence at age 16 — 17.