Sentences with phrase «higher education academic»

The best part of this title, though, is it's only one shining example of how digital reading can be put to use in educational settings, especially for the often forgotten readers that fall in the gaps between the incredible children's ebooks and the higher education academic e-texts.

It is perhaps simplistic to migrate a pre-digital taxonomy to a digital environment and to ignore the function of and relationship to digital scholarship for the educator or higher education academic.

Members of the higher education academic and research communities, K - 12 educators and technologists and workplace technology integrators.

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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.

«It is our intention that this endowment provide more students with access to higher education and support the goal of enhancing facilities to make Saint Mary's a compelling choice for both students and members of the academic community,» said Paul Sobey, then - Empire CEO.

It's to send a warning shot at all colleges and universities to restrain academic freedom or risk further economic assaults on higher education,» Wilson wrote for Inside Highhigher education,» Wilson wrote for Inside HigherHigher Ed.

«We have all this evidence that the academic benefits are limited to high - needs kids,» says education expert David Johnson, an economist at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ont.

I am 72 and retired, female and divorced, with graduate degrees and 45 years an academic in higher education.

Other positive results include reduced absenteeism rates, increased representation in the academic stream, and higher graduation and postsecondary education rates.

Interest on private education loans qualifies, provided that the higher education expenses are attributable to a particular academic period and the disbursement used to pay for those expenses occurred during the academic period or a 90 - day window at the start and end of the academic period.

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.

To a young academic such as I was, facing the corrosive impact of critical theory on higher education, Newman's ecclesiastical polemic against the «suicidal excesses» of unfettered human thought retained a powerful relevance.

The major resistance to the total victory of economism in higher education is commitment to academic disciplines.

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.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

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.»

Great academic leaders have been persuaded that the church is a counterproductive sponsor of ambitious higher education.

The first three meanings of «liberal» in the academic sphere are all familiar and have frequently been treated in discussions of 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.

That, if they would only listen to themselves more carefully, is what some advocates of academic freedom are asserting in current debates about Christian higher education.

Of the 1990 apostolic constitution, Ex Corde Ecclesiae, Curran writes: «The document theoretically limits academic freedom by truth and the common good, sees local bishops not as external to the college or university but as participants in the institution, and includes canonical provisions for those who teach theology in Catholic higher education.»

Many of my friends believe that the push for diversity in higher education has led to a decline in emphasis on academic achievement.

With the academic year in full swing on American university campuses — and bipartisan discontent over higher education's sorry state now stronger and louder than ever — it's worth asking what we can learn from Augustine's example.

As historian Richard Hofstadter has documented, the principles of academic freedom had relatively little place in American higher education prior to this century.

If our account of alienation as a repeating process is reliable, then the American Catholic institutions of higher education are nearing the end of a process of formal detachment from accountability to their church, and instead of exerting themselves to oblige that church to be a more credible patron of higher learning, they are qualifying for acceptance by and on the terms of the secular academic culture, and are likely soon to hand over their institutions unencumbered by any compromising accountability to the church.

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.

In doing so, they had powerful support from the secular media of communication and they made very effective use of a conception of academic freedom that had been designed to promote the secularization of higher education.

The roots of that hatred, and the assumption that Christianity is the bane of true knowledge, can largely be found in that great shibboleth of contemporary higher education, «academic freedom.»

The Chronicle of Higher Education and Change have been much concerned about values recently, as have the American Association of Higher Education and the other Washington - based educational agencies; the Danforth Foundation recently held a workshop on values in liberal arts education, and the whole issue has been given academic credibility by programs in moral development and in value analysis at several univEducation and Change have been much concerned about values recently, as have the American Association of Higher Education and the other Washington - based educational agencies; the Danforth Foundation recently held a workshop on values in liberal arts education, and the whole issue has been given academic credibility by programs in moral development and in value analysis at several univEducation and the other Washington - based educational agencies; the Danforth Foundation recently held a workshop on values in liberal arts education, and the whole issue has been given academic credibility by programs in moral development and in value analysis at several univeducation, and the whole issue has been given academic credibility by programs in moral development and in value analysis at several universities.

The rash of phony transcripts and academic cheating spells out the fact that athletics are now an abomination to the ideals of higher education.

The panel respects the importance of academic freedom in higher education.

Thus Stephens, where two - thirds of the girls go on to higher education after graduation, is convincing evidence of the benefits of properly coordinated physical and academic education.

A 2005 Sociology of Education study called «The Frog Pond Revisited: High School Academic Context, Class Rank and Elite College Admission,» suggests that when you control for scholastic ability, attending a school surrounded by fellow academic superstars actually has a negative effect on your admissions chances at an elite Academic Context, Class Rank and Elite College Admission,» suggests that when you control for scholastic ability, attending a school surrounded by fellow academic superstars actually has a negative effect on your admissions chances at an elite academic superstars actually has a negative effect on your admissions chances at an elite college.

The research that Tough explores also undercuts claims by Klein, Rhee, and other signers of the Education Equity Project manifesto that we can get impoverished students where they need to be educationally through higher standards, stronger teachers, and other academic reforms alone.

The balanced middle school program at Corvallis Waldorf School fosters confident students well - prepared for the challenges of high school, through academics, the arts, outdoor education, research projects and extra-curricular activities.

Be sure your middle schooler establishes a strong academic footing and be sure to spend some time during middle school to talk about high school and to prepare your child for the final years of his or her education.

However, a recent study suggests that this connection is false or actually the opposite and that the results are due to the fact that moms with an academic education (and supposedly a higher IQ) tend to breastfeed their babies more.

In some cases, continued academics in higher education may allow some rights or privileges of adulthood to be withheld until a later date; or conversely, if the children were held back and attended high school on a full - time basis, but have passed the age of majority.

The term «Gifted» is defined by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act as Students, children, or youth who give evidence of high achievement capability in areas such as intellectual, creative, artistic, or leadership capacity, or in specific academic fields, and who need services and activities not ordinarily provided by the school in order to fully develop those capabilities.

According to their framework, high - level «non-cognitive» skills like resilience, curiosity, and academic tenacity that are essential to success in middle and high school are impossible for a child to obtain without first developing, in the early years of formal education, executive function, a capacity for self - awareness, and relationship skills.

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Being required to execute a great number of academic projects is a natural part of the higher education life, certainly.

On her part, Ms Lankai Quarcoopome, who is an alumnus of the school (AGOSA» 76) and also the Guest Speaker, said she believes that «through quality education, we could make our lives better and also transform our nation and for this reason, we must insist on achieving very high academic and performance standards at all levels in the country.»

Among the signatories to the joint letter are former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams, Humanists UK Chief Executive Andrew Copson, President of the Accord Coalition for Inclusive Education Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain OBE, former government integration tsar Ted Cantle CBE, the General Secretaries of the National Education Union Dr Mary Bousted and Kevin Courtney, as well as a number of high - profile authors, academics, and entertainers.

Also at 6 p.m., Guillermo Linares of the state Higher Education Services Corp. hosts an Excelsior Scholarship information session, Onondaga Community College, Academic II Recital Hall, Room P100, 4585 W. Seneca Turnpike, Syracuse.

This follows a directive by the Ghana Education Service (GES), to heads of public Senior High Schools to charge final year students only half of the third term fees for the 2017/2018 academic year.

It also reorganised secondary education into two basic types: grammar schools, which focused on academic studies, with the assumption that many of their pupils would go on to higher education; and secondary modern schools, which were intended for children who would be going into trades, and which therefore concentrated on basic and vocational skills.

Despite promises by the Mahama administration to champion what he called a progressively free Senior High School initiative, no student received a scholarship for the 2016/2017 academic year, according to the Minister for Education, Matthew Opoku Prempeh.

The first resolution, introduced by Vice President for Academic High Schools Janella Hinds, articulated the union's view on the role of testing in public education.