Sentences with phrase «kinds of schools upon»

For if there were no variation between schools in pupils» achievement, it would be fruitless to search for effects of different kinds of schools upon achievement [emphasis added].

Not exact matches

I left Methodism upon graduation from high school, concluding that while the community had nurtured me all my life, I could not accept all of the teachings in any kind of literal way.

Traditions of every kind, hoarded and manifested in gesture and language, in schools, libraries, museums, bodies of law and religion, philosophy and science — everything that accumulates, arranges itself, recurs and adds to itself, becoming the collective memory of the human race — all this we may see as no more than an outer garment, an epiphenomenon precariously superimposed upon all the other edifices of Nature (the only truly organic ones, as it may appear): but it is precisely this optical illusion which we have to overcome if our realism is to reach to the heart of the matter.

The sort of liberalism which looks with contempt upon conservative groups and their schools or even on conservative tendencies in theology in general, calling them all «Fundamentalist,» and the kind of conservatism that abhors all critical movements alike, cut themselves off from each other in the theological world more effectively than do Baptists from Presbyterians, Methodists from Anglicans.

Worst of all, Peyton barely if at all references the game upon which it was based, even as an Easter egg for nerds like yours truly; but then again, that game itself was kind of a Frankensteinian hybrid of old - school monster movies, making this adaptation's departures feel like some sort of feeble and unsuccessful full - circle gesture to liberate its ideas from a derivative foundation.

I've known (screenwriter) Scot Armstrong since «Old School,» and he was telling me he was working on this crazy 70's basketball movie and the foundation was there, and I kind of built upon that, basically.

Keeping in mind that test - based accountability mostly focuses on the level of test scores, not changes, and virtually never relies upon a rigorous identification of how test scores are caused by schools and programs, we have no way of knowing that that the kinds of schools, programs, and practices that we are pushing in education will actually help kids later in life.

Most of the gains that can be found upon entry into school ebb over time, and the differences attributable to various kinds of programs tend to wash out, too.

Depending upon the kind of school you work in and the pupils you have, the depth with which you go into when it comes to Python programming will vary greatly.

Upon meeting that teacher myself I wondered what her IQ was and if she had some kind of social issue... That being said the school itself is fine (even though overcrowded) and the Parent Coordinator happens to be wonderful.