Sentences with phrase «into traditional academics»

Though social learning is not new, the Sacramento school district is incorporating it into traditional academics as never before.

When it finally accepts students in 2012, the Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology (OIST) aims to provide a new model of a Japanese research university, scrapping the division into traditional academic departments, focusing on interdisciplinary research, conducting business in English, and drawing roughly half of its faculty members from overseas.

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We look beyond traditional credit scores and tap into student academic data to expand student lending opportunities that empower borrowers on the path to success.

As these tools evolve over the next decade, the academics we work with expect to see radical change in training and workforce development, which will roll into (although probably against a longer timeline) more traditional institutions of higher learning.»

By using laser - generated, hologram - like 3D images flashed into photosensitive resin, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, along with their academic collaborators, have discovered they can build complex 3D parts in a fraction of the time of traditional layer - by - layer printing.

«It validates our approach, which strives to move technologies into the clinical space much faster than would be possible in a traditional academic environment.

The use of iPads has seen individual academic progress in literacy, removed the threat of «pen and paper», challenged traditional teaching methods, and resulting in a shared passion and enthusiasm for the ICT across the whole school, which feeds into all learning.

Based on these statements, we can categorize the schools roughly into five groups: those that have a child - centered or progressive educational philosophy and typically seek to develop students» love of learning, respect for others, and creativity (29 percent of students); those with a general or traditional educational mission and a focus on students» core skills (28 percent of students); those with a rigorous academic emphasis, which have mission statements that focus almost exclusively on academic goals such as excelling in school and going to college (25 percent of students); those that target a particular population of students, such as low - income students, special needs students, likely dropouts, male students, and female students (11 percent of students); and those in which a certain aspect of the curriculum, such as science or the arts, is paramount (7 percent of students).

In this randomized controlled study on the impact of the arts on performance in traditional academic subjects, theater arts were integrated into language arts and social studies curricula for fourth - and fifth - grade students (14 experimental classrooms, 14 control classrooms).

As Heather Staker and I have written, the models of blended learning most likely to scale into the core academic subjects at all levels of schooling in the near term are sustaining innovations, in which online learning is essentially an augmentation to the traditional classroom, but there is still a fundamental shift in the learning model from the student's perspective.

«It is the best educational initiative in which I've ever been involved, and I believe it has the potential to change the traditional high school into a place where students are actively, independently engaged in setting and reaching academic and professional goals.»

Ravitch tracks how the anti-intellectualism of progressive educational leaders translated into policies and programs that restricted students» access to traditional academic subjects.

Based on comparative study of curriculum innovations, I can point out six «beyonds,» where educators are venturing beyond the traditional disciplines, in brief: beyond content, infusing 21st century skills, competences, etc.; beyond local, embracing global perspectives, problems, and studies; beyond topics, transforming topics into tools of broad understanding; beyond the traditional disciplines, renewing and extending those disciplines; beyond discrete disciplines, embracing interdisciplinary topics and problems; beyond academic engagement, fostering personal significance, commitment, and passion.

Most students will do some of their academic coursework outside the brick - and - mortar setting — making home schooling a very mainstream activity — and traditional home schoolers will be more fully integrated into the larger education system (see «Home Schooling Goes Mainstream,» features).

A shift in college requirements away from traditional remediation to this new, evidence - based, strategy of placing students into college - level courses with concurrent support «could positively affect the academic progress of hundreds of thousands of college students each year,» the authors report, and «the benefits of a college degree are considerable and wide - ranging.»

«What is tricky to do is to figure out how to change the typically traditional high school model of educating students into the proposed model that incorporates academics and a new skill set,» he says.

Central to the new approach is the notion that this group of young people are turned off by traditional academic education with a focus on pathways into higher education and that these young people need to be energised by a different approach to education which sees the world of work at its core.

The Innovation Zone is a hot spot for collaboration, presentations, and social activity, challenging the traditional separation of schools into academic and non-academic areas.

YES Prep Public Schools, winner of the 2012 Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools, has an enviable academic track record: They've eliminated achievement gaps, achieved a 100 percent graduation rate with all students accepted into 4 - year colleges — plus they partner with local traditional public schools.

When it is done well, teachers layer global education into students» experience throughout the day, as they learn traditional academic subjects.

While the incorporation of technology into the classroom is essential, the academic success rate of for - profit virtual charter schools is incomparable to that of traditional public schools, where academic success is the paramount concern.

«We're increasingly recognizing the importance of physical activity for children even as the academic demands placed on them are cutting into the traditional programs of recess and physical education,» said Gerd Bobe, an assistant professor in the OSU College of Agricultural Sciences, an expert in public health nutrition and behavior, and principal investigator with the Linus Pauling Institute.

Transforming the traditional school into a «community school» — one that is open from dawn until dusk, including on weekends and during the summer, and that offers medical, social, and psychological supports as well as academic help, sports, and activities — can help to offset these disadvantages.

The school's course offerings are traditional academic with a focus is on traditional academic and it does an excellent job of getting preparing students into selective colleges.

Because the intent is to transform young people into responsible adults, traditional forms of academic assessment do not take center stage.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), signed into law in December 2015, further provides that none of the funds made available by this Act be used to allow 21st CCLC initiative funding for expanded learning time unless these activities provide enrichment and engaging academic activities for students at least 300 additional program hours before, during, or after the traditional school day and supplements, but does not supplant school day requirements.

The avenues and opportunities of the expansion of traditional roles into new areas of work and expertise are addressed in this volume, aimed at academic - and medical - librarian professionals.

And I doubt they would have had an editor on staff who could have talked him, a PhD, through turning academic writing into something that a sophisticated general reader would appreciate (his topic: using traditional Hawai'ian Ho'onoponopono in a therapeutic context as well as for self - healing).

The company looks beyond traditional credit data and taps into students» academic data history to expand and enhance loan options, offering loans with better terms that may not even require a cosigner.