Sentences with phrase «larger than the academic»

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Rather than competing with the largest pharma companies in the world, she'd be competing with only a few academic groups.

The Government must encourage collaboration among Canadian industry companies on a much larger scale than at present, where most of the incentives were focused on collaboration between Government labs and industry and on ways to get more academic institutions to license their inventions to industry.

By and large theological schools are still bogged down in traditional academic concerns designed more to produce scholars than strategists.

But in fact they allowed theology to become one academic discipline among others, with theologians writing more for one another and for seminary students than for the church or the larger society.

Cardinal Dulles says that the «works of the Jesuit order are prospering because its universities have larger enrollments and more academic prestige than ever before.»

Its universities in the United States have larger enrollments and more academic prestige than ever before, Jesuit high schools are attracting large numbers of excellent students, and some Jesuit publications and parishes are very successful.

With more than 600 students total, RSS is large and diverse enough to offer a stimulating and academic program, yet small enough to guarantee that every child receives the individualized attention he or she deserves.

Keynes was larger than life, with an assured academic and social background.

In spring 2015, the boycott grew so large — with parents pulling more than 200,000 students out of testing in English language arts and mathematics, about 20 percent of those eligible statewide — that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo called for a sweeping review of the state's academic standards and exams.

More than 700,000 students in more than 1,200 New York City schools — including large high schools in all five boroughs — would face higher class sizes, have fewer teachers and lose after - school academic and enrichment programs if President - elect Trump makes good on a campaign promise to pull billions of federal dollars away from public schools to pay for private vouchers, a UFT analysis has found.

The latest round of state standardized academic test scores showed gains both across New York State and locally.But rather than celebrate the largest bump since New York adopted new tests tied to the Common Core Learning Standards, education officials reported the increases with caution.

Star professors may have larger networks of collaborators not just, as the authors suggest, because they have more students and postdocs than lower - ranked competitors, but because more of those students and postdocs win academic jobs that permit them to participate in collaborations as independent investigators; the rest just disappear from academe.

Some scientists mistakenly believe that start - up biotechnology employers have fewer political players than academic labs or larger corporations; I can tell you this isn't true.

Their interest is more than purely academic, because triggered tremors - if that is what they are - may warn that a really large quake is on the way in the same place.

But some academics criticized the system because they perceived that it focused on the «impact» of research in society at large rather than on its scientific merit.

For the world's third largest economy, a thriving R&D landscape based on excellent academic research seems more important than ever before.

Those that did large amounts of industrial rather than academic research said they received less money than they deserved.

With more than 30 tenured and tenure - track faculty members and lecturers, UMBC's Department of Biological Sciences is one of the university's largest academic departments encompassing a wide breadth of research and teaching.

At the University of Chicago, the rate of complications and death for the Whipple procedure is 1 to 2 percent, which is equivalent to — and in many cases better — than other large academic medical centers.

On the other hand, the universal preschool programs being proposed today have a more academic orientation than kindergarten has had, and may therefore have larger impacts on long - term well - being despite significantly «crowding - out» enrollment in other programs.

When we looked at retention rates by district in Colorado, we found even larger gaps than in North Carolina, and academic work from John Papay, Andrew Bacher - Hicks, Lindsay Page, and William Marinell found similarly large disparities when they looked at longitudinal teacher retention rates in 16 large school districts spread across seven states.

Is there evidence that pupils taught in smaller classes do better in academic and other non-cognitive outcomes than pupils in larger classes?

The University of Johannesburg is one of South Africa's largest city universities and offers technological and traditional academic programs to more than 46,000 students.

Those who are further behind will have the added motivation of larger paychecks for getting caught up, allowing them more time on work sites rather than the academic space.

At the other extreme, in countries that stream students into different kinds of secondary schools (for example, academic and vocational), between - school variance is much larger than in Australia.

Even after adjusting for observed demographic differences, researchers always wondered whether unobserved differences that were not being accounted for, such as parental motivation or the intellectual richness of home life, played a larger role than the schools themselves in causing differences in academic performance between public and private schools.

The academic says that although the total number of Indigenous teachers identified by the National Teacher Workforce Dataset (NTWD) was larger than anticipated, a three-fold increase by 2018 would be required to meet the Close the Gap employment target (in the education sector), as agreed by all Australian governments.

Dr. Weast led Montgomery County Public Schools — 16th largest school district in the nation — to achieve both the highest graduation rate among the nation's largest school districts for four consecutive years and the highest academic performance ever in MCPS at a time when the non-English-speaking student population more than doubled and enrollment tipped toward low socioeconomic demographics.

A large body of research indicates that the type of television content children watch is a truer determinant of students» future academic success than the amount of time they spend watching.

Academic achievement gaps between high - and low - income students born in the 1990s were much larger than among cohorts born two decades earlier.

Research has consistently demonstrated that low - income students who attend smaller high schools have better academic outcomes in terms of achievement, graduation rates, and discipline issues than their peers in larger schools.

The policies that were criticized were those that increased attention to academic outcomes at the expense of children's exploration, discovery, and play; methods that focused on large group activities and completion of one - dimensional worksheets and workbooks in place of actual engagement with concrete objects and naturally occurring experiences of the world; and directives that emphasized the use of group - administered, computer - scored, multiple - choice achievement tests in order to determine a child's starting place in school rather than assessments that rely on active child engagement, teacher judgment, and clinical opinion.

«The [Tulane] authors also report that the [academic] gains were not equal across groups: white students gained more than black students from the reforms,» according to the NEPC, also noting that a large - scale out - migration of higher income students may have resulted in inflated growth scores for the charter schools.

While multiple meta - analyses and large - scale research studies have found that models following the bilingual approach can produce better outcomes than ESL models, as measured by general academic content assessments or measures of reading comprehension or skills, other studies indicate that the quality of instructional practices matter as well as the language of instruction.

A Mercury News investigation published in April revealed how the state's online charter schools run by Virginia - based K12 Inc., the largest for - profit charter operator in the country, have «a dismal record of academic achievement» but has won more than $ 310 million in state funding over the past dozen years.

In the 2013 academic year, that will help to fund 90 new TFA corps members and a total cohort of more than 180 teachers, the largest in TFA's five - year history in Indianapolis.

One academy has a much larger special ed populace than the other, and this plays out as a significant difference in academic culture and test scores.

• YES Prep Hispanic and low - income students outperformed their peers statewide in reaching advanced academic levels more often than other large urban CMOs.

Weast led Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) to achieve both the highest graduation rate among the nation's largest school districts for four consecutive years and the highest academic performance ever in MCPS as the non-English-speaking student population more than doubled and enrollment tipped toward low socioeconomic demographics.

Partnership schools had the largest rate of academic improvement of any California public school system of more than 10,000 students

«We chose to give to the Greater Good fund because we have been so happy with the Great Hearts approach for our daughter, and the idea that the same high - level academic environment and classical education is offered in communities that are less fortunate than ours is very important... I see the Great Hearts schools as a larger community, and it's important to us that this community be diverse and support young people from all socio - economic backgrounds.»

raised graduation rates by more than 60 %, and had the biggest academic improvement of any large school system in California.

In light of this study's consistency with the larger cooperative learning research base, we conclude that Jigsaw, as modified (i.e., Jigsaw II), tends to produce higher levels of academic achievement than conventional whole - class, noncooperative instructional procedures in secondary social studies classes.

He cofounded SuperCamp, the first and largest brain - compatible academic enrichment program, held in sixteen countries with more than 65,000 graduates.

Specifically, we're examining whether implementing challenging state academic standards led to larger improvements in student outcomes in states with lower prior standards than in states with higher prior standards.

On the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) in math, the performance of male students exposed to the intervention was much higher than that of males not exposed to the intervention; for females, the difference was even larger.

However, every academic I'm familiar with expects that, over the long term, stocks will continue to have higher returns than bonds, that small - cap stocks will continue to have higher returns than large - cap stocks and that value stocks will continue to have higher returns than growth stocks.

An evolution in the architectural style, from its supposed beginnings in the 1880s through to the 1940s, ensures that resort feels like a collection of individual boutique hotels, rather than a large resort, and each building is modelled after an academic department.

Universities: With more than 2,200 graduate and undergraduate students and a student to faculty ratio of 10:1, Dominican University is able to successfully blend personal attention associated with smaller schools with the academic resources of a larger university.

Painting, however, continues to have a large public and young artists setting out to be painters now need more than ever to see how artists of earlier generations successfully resisted the status quo and remained outside what evolved into an academic style, for this is what much of the conceptual, film and photographic work has become; merely another academy.