Sentences with phrase «more challenging academics»

Instead, they fed into a larger shift at schools, which began devoting money and staff to expand AP programs and to prepare students for more challenging academics.

Our kids are facing significantly more challenging academic demands, and they're expected to balance that with a schedule full of extracurriculars.

And of the students who score well on the PSAT / NMSQT, indicating a 70 percent likelihood of thriving in an AP course, of those students, six out of ten Asians will take an AP course, [compared with] four out of ten white students and two out of ten African American students... In other words there is a racial break among kids who could achieve at a high level and are being propelled into more challenging academic experiences; that data needs to be understood.

«Knowledge Matters» by TNTP Chris Hayes had been teaching for 20 years before she discovered that her second graders could handle — and would enjoy — far more challenging academic content.

Parents who press for more challenging academic courses probably also press their children to work harder, do their homework, and so on — generating higher achievement.

White himself highlighted that scores were 10 points lower on a writing question that reflects new, more challenging academic standards - and next year the entire math and English LEAP and iLEAP exams will follow those standards.

Not exact matches

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.

A Dutch academic later challenged that view, saying the answer was more complex.

Other U.N. and international bodies» critiques were widely lacking, even though it is the U.N. itself which will be challenged to contribute to the issue more than others, perhaps through its still widely unused academic instrument, the United Nations University (UNU).

As computing infrastructures grow ever more complex, the task of finding cost effective industry standard training courses to educate the next generation of IT professionals is becoming more challenging for academic sites.

Her challenge is to academic culture; a more pertinent challenge for most of us is the technological impact of sciences.

Demand for our program is growing, and Challenge Success is working hard to ensure that we continue to provide research - based assessment and interventions that reduce student stress and increase academic engagement for more schools and families across the country.

Why spent money on sports programs or academic challenges if you can't fuel your students with premium ingredients, which are not any more expensive when used wisely?

Bullying tends to peak in 6th grade, and many students find that the academic challenges of middle school are far more difficult than in elementary school.

A study of seventh - graders revealed that those who put more value on learning than on making good grades were able to push through academic challenges more easily than those who had fixed ideas about how smart they were.

In their white paper on academic integrity, Ms. Levine and Challenge Success have a series of suggestions for parents (and educators) interested in fully supporting the message that honesty is more important than grades.

Challenge number two is — this is something that I became more aware of working on Helping Children Succeed — that even going beyond the challenges that low - income kids face and the gaps in our academic outcomes, there are significant problems with some of the basic approaches to teaching and education that we have in our schools: The basic principles of American pedagogy, how we teach math, how we teach anything.

So what ideas exist to help more students with similar stories and how does that happen in a district that maintains low academic standing and graduation rates along with many other challenges?

Much of my awareness of academic challenges comes from my work running development programmes for new and recent principal investigators and more senior academics, listening to them describe the challenges of their roles.

Disabled academics face formidable challenges, but with more awareness, many could be addressed relatively easily

The salary issue remains a challenge in France, and is even more sensitive for people just starting on the academic ladder.

With 82 tenured / tenure - track and 40 additional full - time faculty, 1,300 undergraduate students, 700 graduate students and more than 23,000 alumni, we are working to leverage our partnerships with academic and industry partners — across disciplines and across the world — to contribute to solving the greatest global challenges of the 21st century.

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 study found that teachers are more likely to see academic challenges as disabilities when white boys exhibit them than when boys of color exhibit the same difficulties.

However, Mendick proposes that to challenge the ever - increasing pace and expectation of the Higher Education sector, academics could treat their work more as a job and less as a vocation.

When teachers read a case study of a boy with academic challenges, meant to suggest learning disabilities, they were more likely to refer white boys than black and Latino boys for testing.

The new methodology is already challenging widely held beliefs by finding that teachers can not be judged solely on the basis of their academic credentials, that classroom size is not always paramount and that students may actually be more engaged if they struggle to complete a classroom assignment.

Q: What challenges does the academic engineering community — and more broadly, the U.S. engineering enterprise — face today?

Its popularity has extended to academic researchers, who are intrigued by the challenges of probabilities and decis... More...

I attended a private school to learn English and because the academic programme was more challenging.

NUNM has been a recognized authority in providing ground - breaking naturopathic medical education for more than 50 years — providing and fostering a challenging, eclectic, and rigorous academic experience.

But improving academic performance is especially challenging in the Silver State, where the number of public school students increased by more than 50 percent between 1994 and...

The «Teenage Apprenticeships: Converting awareness to recruitment» report states that more needs to be done to ensure equal guidance for both academic and vocational pathways and challenge views about the suitability of different apprenticeships across genders.

Voices From the Field Challenge Education Week, May 1, 2011 «I believe strongly that wisdom lies close to the ground; as an academic, I always learn more when I'm in schools listening to people doing the work,» writes Assistant Professor Jal Mehta.

The report, funded by the Commercial Education Trust, revealed that the negative perceptions around apprenticeships among students, teachers and parents hampers take - up and highlights how more needs to be done to ensure equal guidance for both academic and vocational pathways and challenge views about the suitability of different apprenticeships across genders.

At the same time, the traditional system often prevents students from engaging more deeply in their interests, excelling when they are ready, or pursuing additional academic challenges.

An interview published this week with NPR asks education professor Diane Schanzenbach of Northwestern University about her motivation to gather the research on academic redshirting in her recent article for Education Next «Is Your Child Ready for Kindergarten: «Redshirting» may do more harm than good,» which challenges Malcolm Gladwell's assertion that being among the oldest in one's peer group is always an advantage.

But a child who feels supported is more likely to be excited for school; she will persist amid challenges and make strides toward following expectations and absorbing academic content.

Led by Academic Dean Robert Schwartz and Ferguson, the Pathways to Prosperity project launched in late 2008 to explore promising solutions to these immense challenges, including developing a range of «multiple pathways» to help more adolescents successfully complete the journey to entering the adult workforce.

Pupils who may find traditional academic subjects more challenging can thrive in music, drama or art.

(Such services take various forms but most commonly involve separate classrooms with more challenging curricula and specially prepared teachers, at least for core academic subjects.)

Adherence to standard textbook - based teaching means that nothing is being done to challenge this perception when it's all too clear that unlocking curiosity and wonderment across all academic disciplines is not only essential to the mastery of tests, but also key to ensuring that more students are inspired enough to pursue further study and even pursue teaching as a career later in life.

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.

Insofar as students benefit from peer effects in classrooms, corridors, and clubs, and insofar as being surrounded by other smart kids challenges these students (and wards off allegations of «nerdiness»), schools with overall cultures of high academic attainment are apt to yield more such benefits.

«Combining Academic and Career - Technical Courses To Make College an Option for More Students: Evidence and Challenges,» David Stern and Roman Stearns, November 2006

The complex challenges facing 21st - century education require researchers who can collect and analyze information from multiple academic disciplines — economics, biology, psychology, the arts, history, and more — and translate those findings into transformative ideas for education policy reform and practice.

Whether your sights are set on more rigorous academic standards, foolproof reading instruction, greater teacher effectiveness, expanded school choice, overhauled governance, or almost anything else that would benefit from big - time change, the challenge is huge.

As a special educator with seven years» experience as a public school teacher and now seven more as a private tutor, I've worked with students with huge academic and behavioral challenges.

Infused with state and federal money but facing more requirements and students with challenges, staff at two Native American schools in Maine talked with Education World about meeting their two missions: passing on Native American culture and boosting academics.

More than two years after governors and business leaders endorsed the idea of reforming schools through competitive academic standards, the group they created to carry on their agenda says it is ready to show states whether they are meeting that challenge.