Sentences with phrase «more academic time»

BART students receive more academic time than their peers in local school districts.

«The children need more academic time; even though it's a longer school day, the kids get tired in the afternoon and are not as productive,» said Muldrew.

«Why give students three days off when they need more academic time?»

Scheduling more academic time is not for everyone.

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.

Not exact matches

Telfer is updating its part - time program starting next year to provide more flexibility, allowing students to better balance their professional and academic lives.

Natalie M. Houston is an English professor and personal productivity coach who works with academics, writers, and entrepreneurs who want to stop procrastinating, gain more control over their time, and move forward on the projects and goals that matter most to them.

In a meta analysis of 225 academic studies by Sonja Lyubomirsky, Laura King and Ed Diener (as reported in the 2012 Harvard Business Review) it was shown that happy employees have a higher productivity rate by 31 %, increased sales by 37 % and are 3 times more innovative and creative.

On average, Americans are patenting 2.3 times more per academic publication than Canada.

China is patenting at a rate almost 15 times more per academic publication than Canada.

At the same time, Posner, in describing moral academics as split between «two main subsets, the liberal «secular and the conservative «religious,» may mislead readers into believing that the academy is more or less equally split between those two groups.

It was in this way that fundamentalism, under the guise of evangelicalism, was becoming more dominant in the churches at the very same time as academic theology and biblical scholarship were becoming more radical.

I am sure a lot more needs to be said about this, and the topic really deserves an academic - level research paper, but right now I have neither the time or the interest.

In When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture, Paul Boyer, a senior historian at the University of Wisconsin, and one of the best in the business, seeks to address the world of secularized academics and journalists who can scarcely imagine, let alone appreciate, the breadth and depth of popular apocalypticism in contemporary America.

At the same time, Catholic professors criticized their institutions for intellectual mediocrity, redefined «academic excellence» in line with the standards of leading graduate schools, and turned (with equivocal success) to theology to provide what Holy Cross historian David O'Brien has termed «the bridge between the older Catholic identity and the newer, more excellent version of Catholic higher education.»

The period which followed, initiated by well - meaning and believing administrators of the first generation, was a time of high morale, because academic standards and aspirations were on the rise, funding and prestige were up, and the residual religious atmosphere was durable enough (even somewhat more sophisticated) to reassure the reformers that the intellectual gain had been without religious loss.

Save the World on Your Own Time by Stanley Fish Oxford University Press, 208 pages, $ 19.95 Here is Stanley Fish, writing Save the World on Your Own Time: «Not only is the genuinely academic classroom full of passion and commitment; it is more interesting than the alternative.

Over time, academic and ecclesial institutions hired more of us.

While at times community colleges have been criticized for a lack of academic rigor, there can be little question that they have made formal education more readily accessible to larger segments of our population, and fostered a sense that education is an ongoing, lifelong process.

The task has been accepted in academic theological circles for a long time, but only in the last few years has there been more popular and widespread interest in what is going on.

One more thing I did not anticipate: that 40 years later a well - meaning student of a brand - new academic subject called «Holocaust Studies» would ask me: «Why didn't you leave Germany while there was still time?»

Yet another sign of the flourishing of AATS - member graduate professional schools in the United States was the astonishing — from the vantage of the 1990s — statistic that despite the intervening economic depression they averaged three times as much endowment per student ($ 6,103) as all privately controlled academic institutions ($ 2,040), and more than ten times as much as publicly controlled institutions ($ 455).13

UNC athletics is under fire again, this time for allegations of academic impropriety that may stretch back for more than a decade.

Good academic standing includes: satisfying the requirement of at least one semester of residency; full - time student (enrolled for 12 credits); evidence of normal academic progress (successful completion of 24 credits during the two preceding terms); and the completion of four seasons of eligibility in no more than 10 semesters of attendance at any institution.

And perhaps what students need more than anything for these positive academic habits to flourish is to spend as much time as possible in environments where they feel a sense of belonging, independence, and growth — or, to use some of the language of Deci and Ryan, where they experience relatedness, autonomy, and competence.

As her report put it: «The research suggests that, while there may be little return to trying to make students more gritty as a way of being (i.e., in ways that would carry over to all aspects of their lives at all times and across contexts), students can be influenced to demonstrate perseverant behaviors — such as persisting at academic tasks, seeing big projects through to completion, and buckling down when schoolwork gets hard — in response to certain classroom contexts and under particular psychological conditions.»

However, these student - athletes continue to play because they don't want to lose scholarships, disappoint their parents and, more often, they haven't taken the time to develop other social or academic skills.

Signs to Watch For Thurston cites the following signs that might indicate your teenager is experiencing a mood disorder such as depression: - Low mood - Changes in social activity, academic performance, hygiene or eating habits - Negativity - Irritability - Reckless behavior - Expressions of being misunderstood Whereas it is true that most teenagers experience these periodically, their appearance for prolonged periods of time could indicate more than just teenage woes.

About the Book: Most parents spend more time helping their kids succeed at academics or athletics than infusing shared spiritual experiences into the rhythm of everyday family life.

The athlete's guidance counselor impressed upon the faculty the need for academic accommodations, including allowing the athlete more time to complete his final exams.

If you know your child needs more time after school for academic help or because he or she plays a sport, you might be able to take advantage of free sit time.

Since good behavior in schools generally translates to more time teaching and more time on task, cutting or reducing recess time could affect everything from test performance, to grades, to academic progress.

As our girls head towards their teenage years, small things begin to get more and more complicated to figure out sometimes — why they're left out, how to juggle academics when there is the obsession with beauty amongst their friends every day, how to deal with irritating (and gorgeous) boys, how to manage time effectively; the list goes on.

Nonetheless, the 13 chapters here provide a useful guide to the shifting sands of politics since 2005, and they suggest that Conservatism may be more fashionable in academic circles than for a long time past.

Over 50 tributes are now online, with more being submitted all the time, and academics and several Humanists UK patrons have hailed the initiative.

Again most analysts and academics know that if anyone wanted to demonstrate the strange hypothesis that multiple and widely divergent exchange rates do not affect foreign investment, he could cite the evidence of more recent years, but that obviously not being consistent with the facts, our economist then went over two decades back to 1994 to cite an exception, a single investment in an environment of otherwise grossly low investment, in a sector where people invest even in times of war, to justify a faulty hypothesis!

But more time in school doesn't necessarily guarantee better academic performance.

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 law, which bases as much as 50 percent of teachers» job ratings on student test scores, was strengthened during a time when more rigorous standardized exams, based on the national Common Core academic standards, were being introduced into classrooms.

Peers still spend almost 50 % more time discussing academic education.

According to research commissioned by City & Guilds, in the first three years of the Coalition, MPs spent a total of 88 hrs 47 mins on academic debates — more than four times the amount spent on vocational education.

At the time of his resignation, Goldsmith, who Bloomberg had hailed as a «superstar,» merely said that he was leaving office to provide «more flexibility for me and my family» and begin his academic work.

The grant also gave Boivin more flexibility to reconcile her professional and personal lives at a time when she and her husband — who is also an academic — were struggling with the two - body problem.

A new study in SLEEP, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that delaying school start times results in students getting more sleep, and feeling better, even within societies where trading sleep for academic success is common.

The current academic funding system, which allocates public money to researchers based on the submission and peer review of countless research proposals, has served science well — but some people believe that the time has come to find more efficient ways to distribute the money.

Those who intend to stay in academic science may have an easier time moving on in their careers, as they can more easily acquire information from their environment.

The aim of the «3 +2» reform (see sidebar) started this year is not only to harmonise Italian academic degrees with those of other countries, but also to ensure that more people graduate in the scheduled time.

If in the end the student feels that it is logistically more feasible or even more desirable to pursue another academic route, sometimes that is the best for that particular student at that time, and as a mentor, you have no choice but to support the student in that decision.

In general, the academic staff has more time available for research (and teaching) than in Japan.