Sentences with phrase «more academic opportunities»

In their view, dual enrollment is presumed to lead to a long list of positive outcomes for all participating youth, including increasing the academic rigor of the high school curriculum; helping low - achieving students meet high academic standards; providing more academic opportunities and electives in cash - strapped, small, or rural schools; reducing high school dropout rates and increasing student aspirations; helping students acclimate to college life; and reducing the cost of college for students.

Not exact matches

«Our research shows that this generation of business leaders wants greater control over educational choices, continued exposure to peers with deep, global experience and more opportunity in their academic experience to self - analyze and self - reflect.»

There is strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats analysis (or SWOT thinking) and more than a fair share of theoretical or academic quadrants within which you can plug your business challenge and find a solution — in theory anyway.

We modernized the environment, creating more opportunities for collaboration, while maintaining the same academic atmosphere revered by our culture.

The children at the Fresh Foods distribution, who were not even 10 years old, were already considerably behind in terms of academic and enrichment opportunities than their peers from the more affluent neighborhood.

And perhaps we can also start to be more aware of the persistence of social class in this country, where political leaders are drawn from a narrow social elite and where birth cohort evidence shows that parental background has a huge influence on academic attainment, health and labour - market opportunities.

Students will also receive more academic time with the core subjects, and teachers will have the opportunity to teach students, in special classes, something different about their passions.

Interviews and emails between Kogan and his Cambridge Analytica colleagues, provided by Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie to The Washington Post, reveal Kogan as an ambitious academic who traveled the world to lecture and made inroads in some of the most elite universities in the United States and Europe as he sought new opportunities to build more elaborate databases and profit from his work, such as by working with for - profit firms such as Cambridge Analytica.

A lot of the modeling opportunities are probably more academic than commercial.»

Learn from sources other than your advisor: Your mentor may have grown up in a different world entirely, when the world's scientific infrastructure was in the growth mode and opportunities on the academic track were more widely available.

Core academic requirements, parent or student preferences for electives and the financial burden of hiring more teachers can limit opportunities to expand health education courses.

Such activities offer academic scientists great opportunities to apply their expertise to real - world challenges, impacting human health more directly, learning how business works, and even improving their financial situations.

The results, Thompson points out, would likely differ in less - developed countries where children don't have equal access to education; academic achievement in these places is shaped more by opportunities than genetics.

«I think there is more open opportunity in small biotech for people with an academic background,» he says.

«In the academic environment, there's much more independence and more opportunity to pursue your own ideas.

For the majority of scientists who won't get tenure - track positions — and may not want them — Research Universities states that the great need is to «better position new PhDs for the careers they will have by providing more information about career options and by providing opportunities to acquire, in addition to the knowledge of one's field, skills that are useful for academic positions (teaching, grant writing, publishing, presentations) and positions in government, business and non-profits (oral and written communication, project management, regulatory compliance, business ethics and innovation.)»

During 2005, Science's Next Wave also offered more of the same: the same insights into career opportunities for scientists, in and out of the academic world and sometimes out of science itself.

Young Scientists in Spain Want More Forward - looking Action Elisabeth Pain, 30 September 2005 The five - year Ramón y Cajal research contracts were launched by the Spanish government in 2001 to give young scientists much needed opportunities within academic research.

The Industry Partnership Group is a working group set up by the BSI to identify ways in which immunology can benefit from a stronger academic interface and develop pragmatic recommendations which will influence government and partners, and create networking opportunities to foster more collaboration.

The university empowers undergraduates to chart their own academic path, combining experiential learning opportunities on seven continents with more than 150 undergraduate majors and concentrations, including interdisciplinary majors and major - minor combinations.

On the bright side, this can provide gender - in - film academics an opportunity to comment whether or not the Siegel's macho character indictment and comeuppance from 1971 is not ultimately more feminist in its offerings and outcomes.

In an age where classroom teachers find themselves defending their profession and their results, the discussion of race in the classroom seems like one more opportunity for the finger - pointers who seek deeper understanding about the declining academic performance of all American students.

It's hard to know whether that's due to lack of funding or an obsession with more academic, college - oriented pursuits, but it's clearly a lost opportunity that could and should be remedied.

Miriam Freedman, an attorney specializing in issues of testing, standards, and students with disabilities, expressed the concern of many academics and practitioners («Disabling the SAT,» Education Next, Fall 2003) that the deflagging decision would drive requests for special accommodations skyward as more students saw an opportunity to secure an advantage without anyone knowing it.

I am sure she is more than deserving of the praise she receives, but, unfortunately, the reporter misses an opportunity to look more deeply into Catholic academic traditions.

We know that more privileged students are far more likely to have the opportunity to learn advanced vocabulary and a broad range of academic, historical, geographic, and other content from a variety of sources outside the classroom.

Instruction that takes students into the broader community provides opportunities for all students — especially experiential learners — to connect to academics in a deeper, more powerful way.

To date, we can count a multitude of policy wins — better data, stronger accountability systems, and a move toward more rigorous academic standards — along with a universal acceptance that we must aim to close gaps in achievement and opportunity.

As one of 20 leading social scientists appointed as a visiting scholar for the 2008 - 2009 academic year, Yoshikawa will have an opportunity to pursue research and writing projects that reflect the foundation's commitment to strengthening the social sciences and applying research more effectively to important social problems.

Between the hours of 3 and 6 pm, ASAS programs provide academic support, creative enrichment opportunities, and fitness activities to more than 72,000 low - income children in 13 cities nationwide.

So why not give parents looking for more academic rigor the same opportunities?

Schools also need to identify more high - potential youngsters for inclusion in gifted education, and equip all them, especially children of color, to succeed in these challenging academic opportunities.

Nothing is more important to our nation's future than ensuring that we provide all children with the opportunity to reach their full academic potential.

It means that we have the opportunity to develop a curriculum that's more creative and more inclusive, not one that's more academic.

The way for high schools to do this, he says, is to offer more options for students beyond the traditional approach to learning, referred to as «multiple pathways» in academic circles, he says, because everyone should have an opportunity at a good job, not just a job.

The towns» bucolic settings and low cost of living — not to mention the good academic reputation of North Dakota's schools — apparently are not enough to keep superintendents from seeking work in neighboring states where the pay is better or there are more job opportunities for their spouses.

Charters lack some key features of private schools — notably the opportunity to educate one's child in one's religious faith — but they are more reliably accountable for their academic results.

The hope is that this in turn will lead to schools providing more learning outside the classroom opportunities, as group leaders and parents can be more confident that school trips are safe; leading to better educational experiences, which are vital to the development and academic achievement of students.

As evidence has mounted showing that failure is often determined by what happens in the toddler years, educators have converted kindergarten and preschool from «playful social experience to a more narrow educational opportunity focused on so - called cognitive and academic skills.»

A thought - leader in higher education, she has spent more than two decades at prominent national educational institutions and at the highest levels of government, working to implement effective strategies to raise academic achievement and opportunity for low - income and minority students.

In mapping afterschool programs to high - poverty zip codes, BLOCs hopes to draw attention to the need for more opportunities in these areas to support academic success.

The best language programs are more than mere classes within the walls of a school — they are jumping - off points for explorations in and beyond the target language that offer students the opportunity to interact and communicate across linguistic and cultural borders, and to develop a range of cognitive and academic skills that can be applied across subject areas.

It's become a catch - all phrase to broadly describe educational inequity, a problem which is not simply about academic achievement but also about the development of character strengths and personal identity and access to opportunities and so much more.

Despite decades of increased funding, these students are far too often left behind in the traditional system, and we need to make sure they have more opportunity to succeed — and that those opportunities are available from the outset of their academic lives.

It inaugurated big - time federal aid to K - 12 education, initially in the name of equitable opportunity, now more targeted on academic achievement and gap - closing.

I plan to change the current conversations regarding strategies on narrowing the achievement gap and create more opportunities for the academic and social advancement of black male students.

Whilst the school will focus on academic rigour it will also provide the opportunity to follow a more vocational route.

With an extended school day, week, and year, students have more time in the classroom to acquire the academic knowledge and skills that will prepare them for competitive high schools and colleges, as well as more opportunities to engage in diverse extracurricular experiences.

In fact, I believe low - income students who have fewer opportunities outside of school need integrated learning that builds academic, social, and emotional skills even more than their more affluent peers.

As a vast body of research now makes clear, young people's success in school, college, the workplace, and the rest of life depends not just on their mastery of core academic content and skills but also — and often to a greater degree — on their beliefs and attitudes, personal dispositions, relationships, emotional intelligence, creativity, nutrition, mental health, knowledge about college and work opportunities, financial resources, willingness to engage with new people and cultures, openness to new experiences, and more.