Sentences with phrase «less rigorous»

Each of these studies is no less rigorous for the relevance it bears on the pressing problems of education in our time.

Products without any research (much less rigorous research) will continue to be available to teachers and find their way into classrooms.

A lot of other studies use less rigorous methods.

He gets frustrated by students who view and treat online learning as less rigorous than brick - and - mortar coursework.

Despite the spread of such programs, the vast majority of the nation's annual supply of new teachers graduate from more traditional programs that offer less rigorous instruction in science and math.

Whether you're short on time, learner motivation, or just need to improve your learning culture, informal eLearning experiences offer a fresh, less rigorous way of thinking about learning.

Students who join the school from less rigorous elementary and middle schools often face the biggest challenges in catching up and being successful.

The study analyzes data from randomized controlled trials and less rigorous evaluations to compare treatments, treated populations and findings across programs.

We are so caught up in the corporate, factory - style educational process that alternatives seem less rigorous and therefore less desirable.

I am interested in seeing some mathematical analysis of these options, although I realize it may depend more on psychology or other less rigorous information.

They were allowed to become less rigorous options under the last Government.

A slow - paced, less rigorous yoga class, where the emphasis is on alignment and breath.

Making standards less rigorous doesn't change what's in the mirror.

The DE education is no less rigorous than attending classes on campus every day.

The rules governing how brokers and advisers must treat customers aren't the same, but perhaps the most important difference is that oversight of advisers is much less rigorous.

But overall, the university offered less rigorous, hands - on classroom coaching from experienced teachers — the most important kind of teacher preparation.

Fast - forward three years, and the nation is split between higher - performing states chafing at the prospect of less rigorous standards leading to declining student performance, and their lower - performing counterparts that are unwilling or unable to fund the transition to Common Core tests.

If even rigorous research fails to show a consistent relationship between test scores and later success, why would we think that regulators and policy makers with less rigorous approaches to test scores could use them to reliably identify school and program quality?

A slightly less rigorous approach has yielded interesting insights about spontaneity, uncertainty, and impermanence.

Teachers union representatives filed suit in Manhattan State Supreme Court today to prevent the Charter Schools Committee of the State University of New York from creating a new and less rigorous set of certification standards for some of the state's charter schools.

It's hard for us to grasp how pipelining Canadian oil is worse than importing oil in much riskier tankers from unstable, unfriendly places like Venezuela and the Middle East — or how it's better for the global environment to transport Canadian oil by tanker to China, where it will be burned under far less rigorous pollution laws and controls.

Promising Practices are also techniques that have a positive impact on students, but that also have some research data (from very rigorous to less rigorous study designs) to support their claims of effectiveness.

Non-college enrollees took fewer academic courses — and less rigorous courses — than their peers.

Not the educators; not the suburban parents who are complaining about the «out - of - control testing regime»; but those students, mainly poor and minority, who are the most vulnerable, many of whom will be «tracked» into less rigorous vocational curriculum pathways in ways that benefit school district graduation rates and ratings and the educator bonuses that follow.

In Florida, while regular schools like Olympia get letter grades for performance, alternative schools can opt for less rigorous ratings tied to testing progress.

For a fee or less rigorous academic work, diploma / degree mills are fraudulent schools, selling fake high school diplomas or college degrees (Washington Student Achievement Council [WSAC], n.d.).

Additional special risks associated with international securities may include less rigorous regulation of securities markets, different accounting and disclosure standards, government interference, higher inflation, and social, economic, and political uncertainties.

ike deep into the canyon on Bright Angel Trail, or enjoy less rigorous activities offered along the rim trails, including bike rentals.

Disproportionally labeling CLDs as special needs students can lead to unwarranted or inappropriate services, reduced expectations, less rigorous curriculum, stigmatization, and racially segregated environments.

Smithsonian Bird - Friendly certification deals exclusively with shade growing methods (it also requires organic certification), while Rainforest Alliance certification includes less rigorous shade criteria (quick comparison here), as well as standards relating to other aspects of farm management.

Four local state lawmakers are drafting legislation that would see the state create less rigorous programs for would - be members of volunteer firefighters who don't join because they don't have the time for the extensive training the state requires of full - fledged firefighters.

This is not surprising in some ways, given problems in current educational practice: we tend to provide less funding, have fewer outstanding teachers and principals, and require less rigorous coursework in schools that serve lower - income students.

Compounding this, students with disabilities typically have access to less effective teachers and less rigorous coursework.

Teachers and leaders were struggling to address this attainment challenge without simply selecting less rigorous curricular resources.

The FHA has mortgages with less rigorous lending requirements than banks and credit unions.

Hike deep into the canyon on Bright Angel Trail, or enjoy less rigorous activities offered along the rim trails, including bike rentals.

As such, Schiess and Rotherham begin their work by asking whether rural high schools graduate a higher proportion of students under less rigorous standards than non-rural high schools.

That kind of work got the artist pining to make something less rigorous.

Previous complaints about Beiersdorf's advertising suggest the company's own standards are somewhat less rigorous.

But some in the city's investor community had pushed hard to prevent Hong Kong from changing its rules, arguing that it will mean less rigorous corporate governance.

The desire to raise rates reflects less some rigorous Philips curve analysis than a sense that zero rates are a sign of pathology and an economy creating 200,000 jobs a month is not diseased.

The Board of Regents voted in April to allow student - teachers who fail the new exam, called the edTPA, to take an old, less rigorous exam instead for two years.

The threat from aflatoxin is not new or limited to Africa but the toxin disproportionately affects people in poorer countries with less rigorous crop testing.

Preclinical studies of vaccine candidates have typically shown post-infection virologic control, but protection against acquisition of infection has previously only been reported using less rigorous viral challenges.

You can become an informed consumer and see if the supplement you are taking has an FDA - qualified health claim, or if it boasts the more common but less rigorous structure - function claim.

Pulse consumption under less rigorous feeding conditions (e.g. ad libitum dietary intake, except for the provided pulses and control foods, with advice given to maintain usual dietary and exercise habits) over 2 — 16 wk also did not affect body weight (112 — 116).