Sentences with phrase «more conventional school»

Zhu Da's brushstrokes appear careless, but confident, and his landscapes carry the distortion of the Southern tradition, which, at a time, must have been shocking to the disciples of the more conventional school.

In effect, he explains, the Baltimore school encouraged teachers who were against the school's new direction to consider transferring to more conventional schools.

Not exact matches

Alberta's oilsands operations are getting increasingly more efficient in producing energy, though they still lag behind conventional oil, according to a new study published by researchers at the Haskayne School of Business and China University of Petroleum (Beijing).

Conventional wisdom assumes that the defining goal of a theological school is to educate clergy for the churches, or, more broadly, to educate leadership for the churches (whether it is lay or ordained leadership is probably irrelevant).

The study thus challenges the conventional wisdom that a more demanding school will improve the performance of students who are already performing well, but only at the cost of forcing out poor performers.

I wanted to focus on environmental issues like substituting conventional school cleaning products with more environmentally friendly options; introducing waste - free lunches; eliminating the throw - away styrofoam trays used in our lunchroom; replacing Sally Foster fundraisers with more eco-friendly options; and stopping the Cheap Plastic Crap giveaways used at school fundraisers.

«This is another great example of how using a synthetic «bottom - up» engineering approach and leveraging the power of biological design — this time at the scale of individual molecules interacting on cell membranes — can lead to breakthrough technologies for medicine that overcome limitations that hold back more conventional approaches,» said Wyss Institute Founding Director Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children's Hospital and Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

5/19/2008 A Modest Glass of Wine Each Day Could Improve Liver Health UC San Diego Researchers Pose Major Shift in Thinking Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine are challenging conventional thinking with a study showing that modest wine consumption, defined as one glass a day, may not only be safe for the liv... More...

It showed that Los Angeles high school students who vaped were more likely to start smoking conventional cigarettes than were kids who didn't.

Thus, conventional medicine practitioners will likely follow the standard reference range for TSH to determine if a person has hypothyroidism — in some cases, they may even follow a more lax range if the lab they are using hasn't updated their levels or if the practitioner is old school.

Unchained from conventional Pixar practices, My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea is one of the more visually stunning comedies in recent memory.

Now an enjoyable, though less daring and more conventional sequel has reunited the two young stars of that bizarre and bizarrely thrilling escapade: Dave Lizewski, Kick - Ass himself (Aaron Taylor - Johnson) is painfully readjusting to civilian existence in high school, and the newly orphaned Mindy, or Hit - Girl (Chloë Grace Moretz) is trying to maintain her superhero vocation while dealing with adolescence.

So - called «green schools» — which are designed specifically to provide healthier and more productive learning environments — cost just 1.5 percent to 2.5 percent more than conventional schools, but provide significant long - term financial benefits, concludes a study by the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative in Westborough.

According to a recent report, five studies have shown that farm - to - school meals generally cost more to prepare than conventional fare but typically increase student participation in meals programs, which drives up revenue.

Conventional schools tend to assume that new teachers arrive with more teaching experience and skills.

Most of the proposed remedies are thoughtful, as far as they go, but they amount to little more than the accumulated conventional wisdom of traditional school reformers.

Likewise, many of the ideas we regard today as education reform's conventional wisdom - linked standards and assessments, consequences for poor performance, testing new teachers, paying some teachers more than others, and charter schools - were given prominent public voice by a teacher union leader, the late Albert Shanker of the American Federation of Teachers.

But are schools of education more ready for reform than the conventional wisdom supposes?

Yet we've organized conventional schools in an industrial model and we batch - process students in ways that made sense to «cult of efficiency» experts circa 1920, that lent themselves to uniform teachers delivering a uniform curriculum to groups of twenty to thirty same - age pupils in more - or-less identical classrooms during a six - hour day and 180 - day year that made perfect sense for a country that lacked air conditioning and that wanted to standardize the school year.

FREEDOM OF CHOICE What sets Academies and Free Schools apart from the more conventional community school is the freedom of choice.

Gender gaps in educational attainment, which are not unique to the United States, are more difficult to explain using conventional economic models than gaps based on socioeconomic status or race, because males and females grow up in the same families and attend the same schools.Recent evidence provides one possible explanation for the especially large gender gap in high school graduation rates among blacks and Hispanics.

«Why do state officials value conventional schools more than charter schools?

(Va.) Despite recent efforts of the Obama administration to provide states more flexibility in developing new accountability systems, school districts across the nation continue to rely on performance measures tied to conventional testing systems, according to a new report.

Charters have more flexibility than conventional public schools in exchange for being held to additional standards to make sure they are meeting their student goals.

The conventional answer is that some schools will be «lucky», taking more pupils who underperformed at an earlier stage and caught up.

The academy, he said, can change things much more quickly than conventional schools of education.

In the first example, teachers have far more power than in conventional schools, but students and parents still have virtually none; whereas in the second, everyone who attends the meeting, regardless of age or status, has an equal voice.

In contrast, conventional elected school boards are often more responsive to powerful interest groups than to the concerns of parents.

More recently, Dr. Scripp has posted the Partnership in Arts Integration Research (PAIR) Report on ArtsEdSearch — a publication that details the expansive scope of arts learning research methods and findings in the Chicago Public Schools (see www.pairresults.org)-- and the Oakland Unified School District Principal Investigator's report, which demonstrates how a Music PLUS Music Integration Curriculum Intervention optimizes both music learning and its impact on academic performance when compared to conventional music control school proSchool District Principal Investigator's report, which demonstrates how a Music PLUS Music Integration Curriculum Intervention optimizes both music learning and its impact on academic performance when compared to conventional music control school proschool programs.

«What about the special education teacher who challenges conventional ways of schooling and opts for a more inclusive method over his superiors failed methods?

In the six months of my «residency,» I've come to see that arrangements of great schools look more like polyphonic score sheets than conventional organizational charts.

«Conventional wisdom suggests that the interests of teachers unions and charter schools are Read more about Teacher Union Launches Charter School Authorizer in Minnesota -LSB-...]

Founded in 1881 as a farm school in the city, the school had a way of developing authentic learning experiences that countered many of the traditions and confines of its more conventional peer schools.

This report analyzes the effective practices of eight public schools which feature at least fifteen percent more time than the conventional schedule.

Paramount now functions more like a home school, yet it remains on the Division of Non-Public Education's (DNPE) list of recognized conventional private schools.

Although charter public schools are deregulated and given much more autonomy than conventional public schools, they are, in return, held to a much higher level of accountability.

Students at New Orleans charter schools show more academic growth than their peers in conventional schools, according to a new study from Stanford University.

Charter schools are actually more accountable to parents and scholars than conventional schools.

The PDK transmission is not quite as smooth as more conventional automatic shifters at crawling speeds but it offers near - instantaneous shifts and if you want to go old - school the manual transmission is great too.

Tawnie was also a tomboy in her youth, preferring turning over rocks in hopes of finding a snake to take to school to the more conventional little girl's pets.

Surf & Stay San Diego offers more highly skilled surf coaching than conventional surf schools.

The Ashcan School was a core - group within this larger movement of American Realism, and shocked viewers with its «art for life's sake» rather than the more conventional «art for art's sake.»

First we are limited to a minimum of 700 sq. feet, and building permits and school taxes can get us up to $ 30,000 and much more before you turn any dirt on even the tiniest of conventional homes.

More interesting, many of these schools - such as City University of New York or University of Dayton - are not considered «top tier» by conventional standards, so it's gratifying to see that those at top schools are open minded enough, and concerned enough about improving legal education to look to these programs as models.

Data - driven law school decisions and more hands - on technology courses are upending conventional legal education.

Check out the Gas Mileage Impact Calculator fact sheet to see just how much more efficient our driving school fleet is versus the competition's inefficient conventional training vehicles.

Most schools today are interested in a more conventional yet highly professional look and style.

Most school districts today are fascinated with a more conventional yet highly professional look and style.

Children who are rejected by their peers may take more distance from the norms of conventional social institutions (such as school), putting them at risk for problem behaviors (Coie, 1990; Hinshaw, 1992; Masten et al., 2005).