Sentences with phrase «make generations of students»

By elevating what we do, and holding ourselves to the highest standards, we are working to make generations of students who will be prepared, confident and analytical.

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How one retired professor made a fortune by co-authoring a textbook that would shape how generations of MBA students learned finance.

It's not just the big - name corporations that are making a point to engage the next generation of scientists and innovators — Space Angels - funded Because Learning, previously known as Ardusat, has their own ideas for how to engage students in STEM fields.

Also, the presence of women, plus racial diversity, and denominational diversity, makes for a student body that's different from what it was a generation ago.

Over three and a half decades, Peter became the embodiment of spirituality at the university, imparting to generations of students that their purpose was not to make a living but a life.

Let's embrace that so we can make better choices for the sake of our planet and the next generation of students.»

Community defines us and enables us to foster a new generation of thoughtful, socially responsible students, who will one day make our world a better place to live.

This year, Camp Kesem will have 54 chapters around the U.S. Not only is Camp Kesem helping children affected by cancer, but they're simultaneously developing and empowering a generation of student leaders by training college students to become camp counselors and make a meaningful difference in the lives of these children.

Once we do this — and make that value portable — we will allow generations of students to reshape their higher education experience.

«With Black History Month coming this February, it is appropriate to provide support to a new generation of students who will soon be making history thanks to what are sure to be their many outstanding future accomplishments,» Borough President Katz said.

Consistent with recommendations in the Next Generation Science Standards, the new THSB unit is designed to help students understand and use scientific practices of reading scientific texts, analyzing and interpreting data, building and using models, and constructing explanations along with a coherent set of core ideas about chemical reactions to make sense of interesting physical and life science phenomena.

Gig.U intends to accelerate the deployment of next - generation networks in the U.S. by encouraging researchers — students and professors alike — to develop new applications and services that can make use of ultrafast data - transfer rates.

«As far as we can tell, our technologies with both the silicon anode and sulfur cathode are among the most cost - effective solutions and therefore show promise for commercialization to make the next - generation of lithium - ion batteries to power portable electronics and electric vehicles,» said USC Viterbi graduate student Rong.

The next generation of CubeSat students will get their satellites into space even more efficiently, as improving technology makes launches economically and environmentally easier.

But the real dearth — the lack of clear pathways into careers that could enable today's generation of gifted young Americans to become the researchers who make tomorrow's great discoveries — is convincing more and more of the nation's best students not to seek careers in fields such as law, finance, medicine and other fields that offer much better short - and long - term career prospects instead of dedicating an average of seven years to PhD study plus an additional five years or more of postdoctoral training now considered necessary to compete for an academic career in many scientific fields.

Gig.U's goal is to accelerate the deployment of next - generation networks in the U.S. by encouraging researchers — students and professors alike — to develop new applications and services that can make use of ultrafast data transfer rates.

Our findings suggest that rising student loan debt may serve to make the black middle class more fragile, because the latest generation of black young adults are more burdened with debt while also getting fewer payoffs to college.

«The original goal of the neural dust project was to imagine the next generation of brain - machine interfaces, and to make it a viable clinical technology,» said neuroscience graduate student Ryan Neely.

COMPETES also bolsters this Administration's already groundbreaking activities to enhance STEM education — to raise American students from the middle to the top of the pack and to make sure we are training the next generation of innovative thinkers and doers.

The student will make extensive use of current - and next - generation telescope and computing facilities, including the ground - based Rapid Oscillations in the Solar Atmosphere (ROSA) instrument that has been designed in - house at QUB, to examine the coupling of magnetic fields from their photospheric footpoints, through to their outermost extremities in the solar corona.

Although the visit lasted less than a fortnight, the Japanese students said that their experience in Russia made them more mature and more aware of how their generation is responsible for Japan's future.

The Next Generation Science Standards are focused on helping students use science to make sense of real - world phenomena and use engineering to solve problems.

They should first keep in mind, as Levinson has written in Making Civics Count: Citizen Education for a New Generation, that schools are duty and legally bound to embrace all students, regardless of their legal status.

Inspiring a generation In Autumn 2015, the DfE awarded St John Ambulance a portion of its Character Education Grant funding with the aim of developing 100,000 students» skills in areas such as integrity, confidence, resilience and inspiring them to make a difference in communities.

The list includes some good news for education reformers, including an examination of how one state is already seeing positive results from its decision to put a high - quality curriculum at the heart of its reform efforts; a look at how the hottest show on Broadway is inspiring a generation of students to explore American history; and a deep dive into the world of higher education with an array of new experiments that are making college degrees more accessible, especially for at - risk students.

But in fact, by suppressing the student's natural tendency to make — and to want to make — moral judgments; by relentlessly denigrating the student's core western cultural heritage; and by pandering to the supposed victim status of some cultures in relation to others, this ideology is a recipe for further alienating a generation already too comfortable with a fashionable distrust of authority.

Ed School students and alums are an increasingly important part of making this dream a reality, Lauenstein - Denjongpa says ---- a dream that, like the student's story of his uncles» tham - tsig, stretches across cultures and generations.

But it's also increasingly clear that the new generation of teacher evaluations have the potential to strengthen instruction, make teaching more attractive work, and raise student achievement on a wide scale — if states and school districts stay the course on reform.

Graphic organizer guide students to compare aspects of different generations / cultures to their own in order to make connections to the world aroun...

Such innovative features have the potential to improve the efficacy of the substantial investments already being made to increase college success for low - income and first - generation college students.

Teach about classism, consumer culture, the dissolution of labor unions, environmental pollution, and other injustices disproportionately affecting the poor, preparing new generations of students to make a more equitable world.

«NGV Digital Creatives introduces students to computer code and digital technologies and prepares the next generation of Australian artists with new art making materials,» he said.

For the younger generation making career choices, I think this has a lot to do with the lack of investment in teachers as well as the unreasonable requests made of them, e.g. to teach classrooms of 50 - 100 students, to catch up children who are 5 - 10 years behind.

A new generation of e-books is creating opportunities for students to engage with challenging texts, and also to make their own meaning from curated resources.

It could well be that, as compared with earlier generations of students, the current cohort of blacks has made real gains relative to whites.

The collaborative effort needed is made worthwhile by the importance of developing a generation of strong, skilled leaders who can create schools that provide expert teaching for all students in settings where they can succeed.

Regardless of the type of schools where they teach, our educators have the same goal in mind, which is to cultivate a generation of students to be great leaders, thinkers and to make a...

«The adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards in California mark a crucial step in making sure our students are prepared to succeed after they leave our classrooms,» Torlakson said.

We can not afford to lose another generation of Colorado students because of a school, a district, or our state's unwillingness to make the changes necessary to support students.

Sent to the Principal: Students Talk About Making High School Better (Next Generation Press, August 2005) by Kathleen Cushman and the students of What KidsStudents Talk About Making High School Better (Next Generation Press, August 2005) by Kathleen Cushman and the students of What Kidsstudents of What Kids Can Do.

In a new book, Sent to the Principal: Students Talk About Making High Schools Better (Next Generation Press, May 2005), Cushman shares their insights on a range of issues that exert a largely unnoticed effect on how they learn and thrive.

One can make a strong case that the reason there's such a push for school choice today, especially from urban parents, is from the now generation or so of students being dumped into classes without their consent, or even worse into schools implementing the latest education fad without parents having any options for their children.

While there have been strides made in the number of first - generation students attending college, research has demonstrated that first - generation students graduate a lower rate (40 %) than their peers whose parents

By making college a reality for our students, Noble is committed to changing the trajectory of the lives of our students and impacting their families for generations to come.

im currently in a school doing extra sixth lessons and im actually finding it detrimental to my learning giving me more work homework time and my mock results are down from my last year many schools do less school and achieve much higher pass rates i fell that this extra time is making students feel worse and limits there ability to socialize when they go to school until 4:10 pm and arrive home at about 5 making it dark in the winter while walking home may i add it also means that when we get home are daily 2 hr of hw leaves us being at home with no extra work at about 7 pm on top of this there is revision for exams and catch up work for students to complete all of this removes a students ability to have fun were we are hunting success in fear of punishment To conclude extra lessons punish the mind and form a generation of students that dislike school and even sometimes even become suicidal all because schools think they are doing things right

For students of color — who are disproportionately first - generation students74 — low pay can make it difficult to repay student loans, purchase a home, or support family.75 For teachers who are their family's breadwinner, salaries are often so low that they may qualify for means - tested assistance just to afford the daily necessities of life.76 High - achieving students of color are often heavily recruited by many far more lucrative sectors, ensuring that they are well - aware of other available career opportunities.

After Generations of Failure, a School and Its Students Head for Success Jordan High has made big strides in academic performance.

The Jay D. Scribner Mentoring Award honors Educational Leadership faculty who have made a substantive contribution to the field by mentoring the next generation of students into roles as university research professors, while also recognizing the important role (s) mentors play in supporting and advising junior faculty.

Dr. K: I'm a huge fan and advocate for Michelle Obama's «Better Make Room» and «Reach Higher» initiatives because they inspire every student, especially first - generation and low - income students, to take charge of their future and complete an education past high school.

After years of progress and innovation in building data systems, states are now poised to tackle the next generation of recommendations, DQC's Four Policy Priorities to Make Data Work for Students.