Sentences with phrase «less traditional environment»

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Collaboration may look less productive by traditional measures — which may mean we have to discover new ways of proving the business value of collaborative environments.

Navigating this environment suggests investors consider less traditional approaches.

As I write in a recent paper, «Brave New World: Investing for Longer Retirements,» this rule is likely to prove less effective in today's environment of longer lives, fewer traditional pensions and low interest rates, where many people haven't saved enough to finance a multi-decade retirement.

It alleges that a review of the research on charter schools leads to the conclusions that, overall, charter schools: 1) fail to raise student achievement more than traditional district schools do; 2) aren't innovative and don't pass innovations along to district schools; 3) exacerbate the racial and ethnic isolation of students; 4) provide a worse environment for teachers than district schools; and 5) spend more on administration and less on instruction than public schools.

Topics to be covered include: • The # 1 reason hospitalized or homebound students often fail in traditional models • How a targeted online homebound education program can be less costly while improving educational outcomes • How K12 provides homebound students access to the same rigorous learning experience as their in - school classmates • How this model also works effectively in alternative learning environments, such as addiction centers or juvenile detention facilities

Westgate Community School is a small school of innovation that seeks to serve gifted students who would benefit from a creative, collaborative and less traditional educational environment.

As for cultural diversity, research has shown that schools that do the best job of educating low - income students tend to favor a traditional curriculum, strict discipline, and a paternalistic environment, whereas typical middle - class schools tend to be less structured and more child - centric.

As I write in a recent paper, «Brave New World: Investing for Longer Retirements,» this rule is likely to prove less effective in today's environment of longer lives, fewer traditional pensions and low interest rates, where many people haven't saved enough to finance a multi-decade retirement.

Not only does this mark a new era of investment alternatives from traditional assets like stocks and bonds for investors to use in order to protect against portfolio risks but as investors allocate to commodities in local Asian markets, the futures growth may help standardize the quality of energy and food to make prices less volatile and their environment cleaner.

Some consumers believe that those harsh chemicals that can make traditional cleaning products less safe for both the environment and pets also make those products more effective.

In addition, because of that convenience factor, mobile grooming services can command premium prices, so groomers who decide to go this route can potentially earn more while working less than they would in a traditional salon environment.

In a traditional shelter environment, the older the animal, the less chance it has to make it out of the shelter alive.

The short video shows clips of gameplay from the game, including 2D side - scrolling sections featuring Classic Sonic, and his counterpart Modern Sonic navigating less traditional 3D environments.

(Probably the leading example is the Inuit and other Arctic people, who often still depend to a surprising degree on traditional lifeways — but whose profound practical knowledge of the environment is becoming ever less relevant to current conditions.)

To perform large ensembles of such runs presents a challenge in the traditional academic environment where compute clusters are often configured to limit single CPU jobs to less than 4 days and an individual user is unlikely to be permitted exclusive use of the resource.

Each of these three traditional patterns of attachment are considered to represent organized strategies for dealing with the stress of separation from the parent in a strange environment (Main, 1990), although attachment to the mother has repeatedly been found to predict less favorable outcomes than does secure attachment in later childhood (see Cassidy and Berlin, 1994, and Main, 1995, for an overview of the foregoing studies).