Sentences with phrase «more academic freedom»

The professor responded that he had more academic freedom in Serbia than in Melbourne.

To incorporate a project such as this into a «regular» classroom, a school would have to give the instructor more academic freedom than the average classroom teacher usually has.

Not exact matches

To spur innovation, some support giving academics more freedom to start entrepreneurial ventures.

The university is defending the economist's academic freedom after several people with homes worth more than $ 3 million sent complaints about him supporting the tax.

Ironically, while black theology theoretically relies heavily upon expressions of the people, such as freedom and sorrow songs and sermons, the more academic elites of black theology — those who have the luxury of tenure and endowed professorships in prestigious white seminaries and universities — seem to have little respect for the modern black church.

That, if they would only listen to themselves more carefully, is what some advocates of academic freedom are asserting in current debates about Christian higher education.

Professional issues like academic freedom and the social impact of research are important, but so are more personal issues like vacations, holidays, and good social insurances for temporary personnel.

«I think Regeneron's founders sought to create something that was the best of both worlds, where you have the scientific freedom of academia but in a much more collaborative environment, where you wouldn't have the isolation of individual academic labs,» Morton says.

AMSTERDAM — For more than 3 years, virologist Ron Fouchier has battled the Dutch government over a fundamental question in the balance between academic freedom and biosecurity: Did he need a government license to publish his hotly debated gain - of - function (GOF) studies on the H5N1 influenza strain?

But generally there's less academic freedom and more restriction to a project.»

According to Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel at Thomas More, Dawn and Julie's method of presenting the material and asking the students to pick a theory and debate it, based on the evidence, is a method of teaching that's supported by the judicial concept of academic freedom: that teachers and students have the right to pursue knowledge, wherever it may lead.

«My own sense is that private institutions have been more proactive about defining academic freedom and faculty rights pertaining to them.

We have an ironic situation in which private universities are not protected and, knowing that, have provided more robust protections for faculty speech and academic freedom.»

The practical implications of LeRoy's research is that the First Amendment isn't the shield that most academics believe it to be, «which means that professors and academics must think much more deeply about strategies to preserve academic freedom,» he said.

The move allowed Changizi to continue to conduct academic work with more intellectual freedom and less of a reliance on grants.

Whatever parents are seeking for their children — improved academic performance, more engaged teachers, social acceptance, freedom from bullying, special needs programming, and so on — they are more likely to find it when they have more than one choice.

«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 1960s, reformers said that the schools were too academic and that students were stifled by routine and dreary assignments; the reformers wanted more spontaneity, more freedom, and fewer requirements for students.

The idea behind them is to allow them to innovate with ideas to improve academic performance; to that end, they've been given more freedom to operate.

This educational model supports them through their challenges at a pace that is more flexible and allows them the freedom to grow into their academic potential.

«Academic freedom generally provides much more potent protection for what a teacher says as a citizen outside the school than for what the teacher says in the classroom, where the school board is largely in control of the curriculum» (p. 43).

We offer students much more flexibility and freedom in their daily academic routine.

Wisconsin charter schools are granted more freedom to use alternative methods of education and in exchange have greater accountability for academic results.

Wisconsin charter schools have more freedom to use alternative methods of education and in exchange have more accountability for students» academic results.

These days, some critics of tenure say it is an outmoded concept, more appropriate to a university setting where it is earned over years, granted more sparingly and serves to protect academic freedom.

Charters are free public schools that are independent of local school districts but still follow the same academic standards as traditional public schools while allowing teachers much more freedom in student instruction.

Charters follow the same academic standards as traditional public schools, but because they are independent of the district, they allow more freedom in student instruction.

Our public schools should be more like Lakeside, the private school in Seattle where Bill's kids go and have small class sizes and academic freedom to explore their potential — not like the KIPP schools Bill wants to subject our children to.

What you have described as» Tenure» is much more like the system that has built up in American's colleges and universities and is part of what is traditionally called academic freedom.

I agree that emeritus status provides many more degrees of expression and idea exploration freedom than a secure academic position.

I would have expected a scientific journal to have more backbone, certainly when it comes to the crucially important issue of academic freedom.

More documentation of Koch academic freedom concerns is available on the Koch Universities page.

As for the aforementioned New York Times piece about Peltz's lawsuit, it concludes with what may be a classic case of understatement: «The Arkansas case could do more than give law students practical experience before they take the bar; it could also renew debate about free speech on campus and academic freedom.»