Sentences with phrase «important than the achievement»

Remember that kids are more important than their achievements.»

Similarly, while teachers report that developing students» capacity for care is more important than their achievements, youth are much more likely to view their teachers as valuing their achievement over their caring.

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«Buffett's most important achievement, beyond vast fortune and generous philanthropy, is building an organization that is larger than himself.

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Unquestionably the issues raised are of far more fundamental theological and religious importance than cleaning up sexist language and electing women bishops, important as those achievements are.

Do you think that the greatness of an achievement makes it unnecessary for it to ask about a trivial wrong, that is, do you think that a wrong might exist which would be something of no significance, although as an obligation it is infinitely more important than the greatest achievement!

«Cardiometabolic risk factors may be more important correlates of academic achievement in girls than in boys, but this warrants more research.»

The American public likes science, but thinks that its achievements are less important than they were a decade ago.

If you want to keep doors open, then it is important to build successes in your research so you can demonstrate achievement to the cynical employers who might think you are leaving research because you've failed rather than because you want to.

Stability may be more important than the mere size, because uninterrupted, continuous occupation with research may be a major criterion in ensuring achievements for scientists.

A renowned molecular immunologist and pioneer in the design and delivery of DNA vaccines, Weiner has more than 25 years of trailblazing research in immunology and vaccine creation, and has contributed to important achievements in DNA vaccine development.

Sometimes who I become in the process of waiting is more important than the actual achievement.

With that in mind whenever you start a new training program, make sure you understand how long it takes to get stronger — and that sometimes achievements like full range of motion or no pain or discomfort are far more important than sheer strength.

And if it's about something other than finding the highest achievements then let it be about something MORE important like leveling the power dynamic in Hollywood, for instance.

One thing that I felt was important was reporting in terms of the progression rather than achievement.

Reading achievement is more dependent on learning activities in the home than is math or science achievement (The College Board, 1994) and the single most important activity for building knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children (Anderson et al., 1985).

The Best Teachers in the World: Why We Don't Have Them and How We Could observes, as is now customary, that nothing is more important for student achievement than teacher quality.

Research on teacher quality, charter schools, school leadership, class size, and other factors in school quality is likely to be as or more important than research on race - specific policies for reducing gaps in student achievement.

The campaign for a Broader, Bolder Approach to Education hints at the standard interpretation of the Coleman findings when it asserts that «poverty, which has long been the biggest obstacle to educational achievement, is more important than ever.»

Class size is more important than the length of the school day in the achievement of disadvantaged kindergarten children, concludes a study by the Chicago Board of Education.

It's important to stage more than one event and to space them out over the school year so there's a constant drumbeat for achievement that reaches into all of the nooks and crannies of the community.

It is better than twice as important for achievement that children living in a low - income family have a mother with a high school diploma (as compared to one without the diploma) than that the family has 50 percent more income.

How much Pennsylvania spends on schools is, in many ways, less important than how that money is spent, according to a new analysis of the state's education spending patterns and student achievement.

The concept is simple: A series of influential studies in recent years have shown that teacher quality is one of the most important factors in student achievement, so «good» teachers — as reflected in growth in student test scores — should be paid more than their less able colleagues.

So, again the framing of the conversation is really important, and the thinking about students» strengths rather than weaknesses, and to really think about «how can we create a portrait of student achievement with the variety of forms of information on student learning that we have?»

The Massachusetts result reinforces our analysis: significant structural changes that focus incentives on improved achievement are more important than just providing additional funding.

The failure of any other variable to add much to the achievement prediction simply shows that good reading habits are much more important to achievement than family income and other measures of social class.

... Teacher quality seems more important to minority achievement than to that of the majority.

In our view, nothing could be more important than documenting practices that help teachers in high poverty schools scaffold their students» learning and achievement.

Art, music, time with nature, exercise, play, awareness of beauty, and the development of personal character are considered less important than preparation for state achievement tests.

They apparently thought it more important to ensure that students would feel validated and supported than that they would perform well academically, and this view effectively displaced high expectations for achievement in many classrooms.

Creating and maintaining a results - focused learning environment is more important than ever to raise student achievement and to eliminate achievement gaps.

The Confucian philosophy of learning and achievement places primary emphasis on nonintelligence factors — such as personality traits (e.g., motivation, perseverance, effort) and environmental factors (e.g., parental and familial support, teacher and school instruction)-- rather than natural ability as the most important prerequisites for desired performance (Chen & Stevenson, 1995; Rosenthal & Feldman, 1991; Shi & Zha, 2000).

In particular, we wished to explore the general issue of whether professional development, which we view as targeted support for leadership, is more or less important than pressure to increase achievement, which is a major component of state policy.

Another important finding of this study was that, while prior effort did have an effect on current achievement — learning is cumulative, after all — the effect was much smaller than that of current effort.

Arguably more important than the Latino population's relative growth is the fact that their mathematics achievement lags behind that of students of other races.

But what's more important than sharing information about devices, is sharing the achievements of your students.

Perhaps more important than standardized achievement scores is the confidence that our students — and their families — brought with them when school opened.

And a new study from the National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt University — although not studying the important question of whether teachers who receive high scores on TAP evaluations tend to produce greater gains in their students» test scores — found that a small sample of secondary schools using TAP produced no higher levels of student achievement than schools that hadn't implemented the TAP program.

She cited the example of Finland, where the immigrant population's needs are more successfully addressed, where one out of seven teachers is an intervention teacher, catching up those students who are falling behind, and where achievement outcomes are more important than how much time is spent in school.

The latest results on the most important nationwide math test show that student achievement grew faster during the years before the Bush - era No Child Left Behind law, when states were dominant in education policy, than over the years since, when the federal law has become a powerful force in classrooms.

Most of the 40,000 teachers who responded to a 2009 online questionaire sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Scholastic said that state standardized tests are far less important in gauging student achievement than formative, ongoing assessments in class, class participation, and performance on class assignments.

In fact, social scientists universally agree that family poverty is a far more important predictor of achievement than teacher quality.

There are few, if any, researchers who would assert that teacher quality is a more important factor in student achievement than socioeconomic status.

Both research and experience tell us that nothing is more important in improving student learning and achievement than teacher quality.

With poverty rates in Illinois increasing and postsecondary attainment more important than ever, a new report from the Partnership for College Completion reveals low completion rates, persistent achievement gaps between groups, and highlights how the rising cost of college combined with state budget cuts has put college diplomas farther out of reach for low - income students and students of color.

Teachers are the most important in - school factor for student achievement.97 Indeed, research estimates that teachers have two to three times the effect of any other school factor, such as school services and leadership, on student academic performance.98 An oft - cited study underscores the scope of this effect, finding that students with three consecutive high - performing teachers scored approximately 50 percentile points higher than students placed with three consecutive low - performing teachers.99

Most teachers and parents say that developing caring children is their top priority and rank it as more important than children's achievements.

Perhaps most important, solving this problem will require moving toward a culture that celebrates achievement and the institutions that foster it rather than one that laments «cream skimming» and «wasting» resources on the most talented young Americans.

Another important finding of the study was that student surveys produced more reliable results from year to year than did objective measures of student achievement gains or classroom observations.53 In other words, student survey results were more stable.