Sentences with phrase «more academic focus»

Andreozzi somewhat provocatively suggested that the future of legal technology may lie somewhere in the middle between his self - described non-visionary focus on law practice and Wilens» more academic focus on technology.

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The coalition is a cluster of more than 50 businesses, academic institutions and other organizations focusing on the state's flexible electronics industry.

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.

As managers and academic researchers have tried to remedy the inadequacies of current performance measurement systems, some have focused on making financial measures more relevant.

We suggest that academics focus less on artificial benchmarks and more on client satisfaction.

The program facilitates teamwork between Micro Focus Training Services, Authorized Instructors, Academic and Commercial Training Partners to provide training to customers wanting to learn more about Micro Focus products and solutions.

Professional journals and academics generally favored interpretations of American society that focused more on race than religion.

So many are so focused on academic pursuits and gaining more Bible knowledge that we have abandoned our responsibility to follow Jesus into the world.

That's why if DJ continues to recruit good kids that care about education, they are more likely to stay and get their degree while focusing on football, academics and their career.

More important than the labels of «play - based» or «academic - focused,» though, is what actually happens in the classroom and how teachers respond to emotional situations, so ask about specific scenarios when you're considering a school.

PS 116's principal Jane Hsu told DNA Info that the school «spent over a year «analyzing studies focused on the effects of traditional homework» and decided that it was more important for the Pre-K through fifth grade students to do activities that «have been proven to have a positive impact on student academic performance and social / emotional development» such as reading at their own pace and playing.»

While at a preschool like this the kids will learn more academics earlier, I feel the focus on developing positive discipline and good, self - respecting social skills is far more important for kids this age.

There are also specialized camps that usually focus on more specific activities, such as academic camps that focus on science, chess or math, for example.

You need a good writing service to help you with your academic papers, so that you can focus on more important matters - and this is where we come in.

«Students who completed more hours of homework per night were at greater risk for these negative outcomes; they were also more likely to drop activities or hobbies they enjoyed in order to focus on their academic work.»

She looks at the students as whole people, and at this stage she is focused more on social and emotional skills, rather than academic milestones.

Democratic schools like Longview School focus on teaching the whole child, so they not only learn rigorous academics, but also develop into more independent, responsible young adults.

Many teachers would argue it would be great if they could focus more on academic subjects and worry less about these.»

Inspired by the 1980s solidarity movement in Poland and the more recent Orange Revolution in Ukraine, Ms. Onuch's academic work focuses on «Revolutionary Moments and Revolutionary Movements», the title of her dissertation which inspired her and her father to host a 2009 exhibition and symposium in Kiev, aptly called «Revolutionary Moments».

However, a spokeswoman for the Department for Education and Skills said the new science GCSE would «maintain a clear focus on academic rigour» while engaging young people so more of them continued the subject after GCSE.

The Buffalo Board of Education has decided to cut its meeting schedule in half, a move aimed at allowing staff members more time to focus on academic programs and district operations.

«SUNY Poly is moving toward a more fiscally sustainable future through strategic decisions that are ensuring short - and long - term strength so that we can focus on our core academic and research missions,» Sammakia said in a statement provided to the Times Union on Wednesday.

The weekly Common Purpose meeting shares some aspects with Grover Norquist's long - running Wednesday Meeting of conservative activists, but is more focused on messaging day - to - day politics and doesn't include journalists and academics, people involved said.

Yet, despite her taste for research with «bigger picture implications,» she found even this more broadly focused academic research too specialised.

More than two - thirds of IRACDA graduates end up in academic careers, most of them at teaching - focused and minority - serving institutions.

To accomplish them, the nation needs research organizations that are far more mission - focused and collaborative than the current principal investigator (PI)-- centered model of academic research.

In industry, an interview with hiring managers and other scientists will be significantly different from an academic interview — more focused on «what can you do for us» than you are used to — but much of the interview will still be science - centered.

But generally in academic labs, without these industrial - scale resources, scientists are focusing more and more on learning how to control analog quantum simulators.

When, in the last year of his Ph.D., Thales decided to build a prototype based on his experiments, Schwartz moved over to his academic lab to work on a related but more fundamental project focused on the use of atoms — instead of photons — to detect movement.

Increasing emphasis on «translation» in academic life science focuses more research on applications and encourages universities to hire faculty members with a practical bent — and, often, industrial experience.

As during previous panels, speakers Moon Duchin, Rafael Luna, Joan Reede, Alberto Roca, and Jessica Tytell made it was obvious that more data is needed for us to fully understand the precise makeup of academic researchers and, in fact, one of the projects developed during the Saturday Hack Day Session focused on finding this information and making it more easily digestible / available.

«The combination of a focus on validating new therapeutic targets and mechanisms at CBCS and the more commercial output at SciLifeLab DDD is clearly satisfying both the academic investigator and the industrial partner.»

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The Brain Balance Program is designed to offer a drug - free, integrated approach that focuses on the whole child and brings parents and kids together to achieve a common goal of improving a child's processing and learning ability, leading to a more successful academic and personal life.

She's become more reluctant to play with him as she's started to focus on her academic career more, but Frank persists, and that's good for us, because it means we get to hear the wonderful tunes they write together.

Scholars can do as many studies as they please to determine some average age at which this foundation becomes sturdy enough to support more focused academic instruction.

Perhaps because the research literature on the strength of Boston charter schools is so compelling, charter proponents have focused more on touting academic benefits than debating financial costs.

We met with three hundred charter leaders around the state to learn more about what could be done, and then built goals and objectives for the California charter schools movement by first providing insurance, cash - flow financing, and other resources to schools willing to focus on academic quality (measured in many different ways).

Ultimately, students did focus more on academic and grit skills (especially when I began returning quests instead of simply assigning low grades to mediocre submissions).

The power of culture - and its effect on student achievement - is evident in adolescents» lesser concentration on academic endeavors as they focus more on television, video games, and excessive employment during the school year.

One researcher suggested that recent studies saying current middle school programs focus more on developing a nurturing climate than strong academics, and the emphasis on high - stakes tests in eighth grade, may have spurred some principals to drop service - learning programs, according to Kielsmeier.

The focus on Ebacc subjects comes as part of the government's focus on promoting core academic subjects, which it claims will open more doors for young people as they are more respected by universities and employers.

While traditional instruction has focused upon reading words quickly and precisely, Lesaux's research suggests that English language learners need a more focused kind of reading instruction — in the domain of academic language — that continues beyond the early elementary years.

While historically, education has been focused on academic outcomes, student wellbeing is becoming increasingly more salient, relevant, and prioritised.

«For the first time in this country, we have agreement among 45 states and D.C. on a set of language arts and mathematics standards, which is critical in allowing us to share a common focus and implement a far more rigorous academic environment.

Although there is some indication that the implementation of MCAS testing has improved curriculum and helped push students and teachers to focus more aggressively on academic achievement, the potential consequences of depriving thousands of students a high - school diploma is simply unacceptable to most teachers.

These strong long - term outcomes — which tend to be much more significant than any short - term test - score gains — likely reflect Catholic schools» focus on discipline and character as much as their excellent academics.

«Helping students to have freedom to feel mistakes are part of the learning process will allow for students to focus more on developing effective strategies connected to the academic task at hand, rather than worrying about getting a perfect score on a test.»

In the end, de Novais ended up focusing more broadly and exploring the dynamics and possibilities of learning about race in academic spaces.

Conservatives, for instance, are less likely than liberals to say that funding is a barrier to academic achievement, and liberals are more likely to put less focus on improving student learning.