Sentences with phrase «kind of students do»

The problems in American education are across the board, with every kind of student doing poorly when compared to students in other industrialized countries.

Not exact matches

And when I say procto - parents, I mean parents who are totally into minding their kids» and everyone else's business, but don't know the first thing about effective education, or how to build the kind of self - sufficient, self - starting students that we actually do need to compete in the global marketplace.

«We still have some work to do to ensure that students who take out private student loans have the same kinds of protections offered by federal loans.»

Currently, the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act - the strongest law of its kind on the books - does not bar companies from sharing students» data, as long as the user consents.

«Alone among all kinds of debt, we don't allow student loan debt to be discharged in bankruptcy,» he said.

You also don't necessarily have to be the parent or guardian of the student — you could just be a very kind family friend or sibling.

Unfortunately, some instructors do not have that kind of sensitivity to the realities of their students» lives.

Niebuhr didn't mean to be funny when he said that Lutheranism evinces a «mystical fear of action,» but for a Lutheran student of theology that's gut «wrenching humor» which, upon further thought, is kind of sad.

«In the end, even the most religious students had to settle for a kind of mutual tolerance, do - no - harm stance, which they increasingly recognized was important but just not enough.»

I did not know what kind of engagement to expect from our students, but I know I was not prepared for their response.

We expect the student to develop the kind of religious understanding which quietly bears witness to its value and reality and hence does not have to be compulsively sold to others.

Everything in society is now viewed through that very instrumentalized lens and unlike a lot of other people who hold the kind of job that I do, it's totally understandable that that would be the orientation, because higher education has done a spectacularly poor job of delivering on its promises: It has racked up over $ 1.4 trillion in student loan debt, putting an immense burden upon the next generation, not only financially, but dampening their ability to innovate and create.

Some of my lovely students were wondering what effect the material of the loaf pan had on the bread and one of them decided to do a test and bake a loaf in each kind of pan.

In the same way that responsive parenting in early childhood creates a kind of mental space where a child's first tentative steps toward intellectual learning can take place, so do the right kind of messages from teachers in school create a mental space that allows a student to engage in more advanced and demanding academic learning.

If the exam is easy to copy and far removed from the kind of work folks do outside of school, then perhaps we need to design a more cheat - proof assessment that will challenge students before, during AND after they receive feedback.

Even though I have two 20 - something sons, one a recent grad and one in his final year, and I read a lot about popular culture and was quite aware of hookups, I still was kind of clueless about how hookup culture's changed how college students enjoy — or, more accurately, don't enjoy — sex.

I kind of can't believe that preschool teachers don't just spend their days laughing at their own students as they're told that pictures that appear to be traced images of male anatomy are actually drawings of airplanes, worms, or fictional superheroes.

To me, the solution to the attrition issue, whether it's at a KIPP middle school or the Promise Academy middle school, is the Harlem Children's Zone's «conveyor belt» model, which provides continuous, high - quality early - childhood and elementary education to precisely those «disengaged families and students,» so that when those children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first few years.

(And I can't help but ask, what kind of example does this set for students?).

Kirabo correctly intuited that these were reflections of a certain kind of attitude in students, and that the students who did better in those dimensions would be the ones who were engaged and motivated.

It doesn't matter what kind of work you do, if one partner is a stay at home parent, a student or if you're both in the workforce making good money at your chosen profession; money stress is a factor -LSB-...]

Setting the emotional tone aside, the Commonwealth doesn't benefit India much either financially or doesn't give any other kind of benefits to Indian citizens or students in the UK.

«It's a challenge day - to - day (for student borrowers), but the need to focus on dealing with this debt takes away the opportunity to do other kinds of investments or purchases that would actually benefit everyone in the economy,» said DiNapoli.

«But I commend the governor because this is the kind of thing that we need to do and obviously the state has control both over the SUNY and the CUNY system and it's needed to be more affordable so this is the kind of thing that could be really helpful to students here in New York City.»

«I know that they are working very hard to do what they can to maintain the same programs that allowed those students to have that kind of success last year, even though there has not been funding, but it is effecting them and I think it is important for us all to be aware of that,» remarked Elia.

«We don't want to go with the doom and gloom and give the worse case scenario and get everybody all up in a panic, and we also don't want to sugarcoat it and later on pull the carpet out from underneath the students and the teachers that are expecting some kind of program.»

«We would reserve to see what kind of receivership would be offered we don't want a receivership that doesn't focus first and foremost on student improvement.

But the sheer number of students I've met over the years who've run into significant snags with these kinds of studies suggests that you do not want your academic future hinging on one of these kinds of projects.

«This is kind of humbling to admit,» Williams confesses, «But collectively, the students know more about programming the robots than I do.

«There's still a kind of recognition that they can't quite [offer] what the big American research universities can do for their students.»

Jackson took advantage of summers jobs — at Argonne National Laboratory, Bell Labs, and as a tutor for MIT's Interphase program for undergraduates — and recommends that students try different kinds of science jobs to get an idea of what to do later on.

If a teacher doesn't have this special kind of knowledge, though, it's nearly impossible to change students» ideas.

Baker thinks this kind of information could ultimately help teachers and guidance counselors figure out not only which students are at risk of academic problems but also why they are at risk and what can be done to help them.

«This kind of work is actually so cutting - edge that it takes a really good student to learn how to do this and then bring the technique back to the lab,» says Sokolowski.

«It would be much more inspiring to the young people and others in the community to have a Nambé student doing the kind of helper work that I'm doing,» she says.

Low - income students, on the other hand, usually don't have access to this kind of support and must use a great deal of their college - prep time for other pressing issues.

But on balance, Long sees working with undergraduate students, instead of graduate students and postdocs, as an advantage: «Because their lives aren't dependent on it if a project fails, we can do all kinds of crazy stuff here.

Sabine: Do you think that Iyengar and Pattabhi attracted different kinds of students?

However, if you wish to become the kind of teacher your students deserve you need to do the advance level i.e. 300 hour yoga teacher training course.

Having trained with Sadie and other viniyoga / Kaminoff students, I found doing this kind of roll - up has eliminated dizziness and low back pinching associated with less skillfully taught roll - ups.

I have done a fair bit of online research to find satisfactory explanations as to what benefit headstand might offer the average yoga practitioner, and have found some valuable information, but nothing that gave me the kind of «why» I would want / need to offer a student.

And with this kind of cueing, there's no need to tell students what not to do, something that can breed negativity in class.

I completely understand what you're saying, I kind of had to do the same thing from being a college student and dressing more casually to more professional.

As a college student, Sara knew what kind of person she wanted in her life, but she didn't know where to find him.

I am a college student who loves to hang out with friends and do all kinds of sports, smile and makes others laugh as well.I am from pa and am a christian lookin for guy to know

Although the film didn't connect as strongly with mass audiences (although it's considered a «sleeper hit,» you have to wonder what it could have done if it had been released after Whedon's little art house film «The Avengers «-RRB- and more than a few critics found it befuddling and arch (it's neither), «The Cabin in the Woods» is the kind of movie that will ultimately live on as a deserved cult classic, perfect for drunken film studies students and bored kids at slumber parties alike.

I certainly don't think my own career as a high - school teacher, a student at a fine college, now a film reviewer could attract the kind of crowd that Donald Trump seems to dig up.

The idea of students trapped in an auditorium after dark and chased by vengeful spirits isn't without promise, but rookie directors Travis Cluff and Chris Lofing show no facility for the kind of plausibly claustrophobic camera setups that make Paranormal Activity (or its sequels) so visually compelling; it also doesn't help that their cast of fresh - faced young actors (all playing characters under their real names) never quite inhabit the supposedly pants - wetting terror of their situation.

I admire any teen comedy that strays off the beaten path and thoroughly entertains — films like Mean Girls and Superbad come to mind — and now Easy A. Story centers on one particular student named Olive (Emma Stone), who doesn't really follow any kind of clique, mostly stays by herself or with her BFF, Rhiannon (Aly Michalka), and is one smart cookie.

What kind of commitment do students have to exhibit to be accepted into a prestigious school such as this?