Sentences with phrase «most of the academic year»

We met with the teachers working with us at least once a month for most of the academic year.

Not exact matches

Indeed, though an 2014 academic study of bridge failures found roughly 120 bridges collapse or partially collapse every year, most do so because of floods, fires and collisions rather than structural decline.

Today most of us think of back - to - school time in terms of getting the kids ready for another academic year.

The two left New York in 1980, spending an academic year in Philadelphia before settling in Western Massachusetts in 1981 — and founding Accurate Writing & More with an initial marketing cost of $ 12 and a total start - up under $ 200 (most of it for a 13 - year - old IBM Selectric typewriter).

We know a lot from various kinds of evidence: a) the experience of the real estate sector, where recent studies by Macdonald Realty and Re / Max have confirmed the dominance of foreign buyers at the top end of the market especially, as stated for years by individual realtors (accounts often denigrated as «anecdotal»); b) there is the digging of several investigative journalists, and most notably by Ian Young of the South China Morning Post who has boldly and effectively raised issues native journalists have sometimes shied from; c) academic work, including the books by Katharyne Mitchell (2004) Beyond the Neoliberal Line and David Ley Millionaire Migrants (2011).

BTW: For most Americans, a $ 75,000 / year income is really good; so, I can kind of see what the academics are thinking.

I hope you realize anything that is quoted «Spoken by Jesus» is questionable at best as in the academic world (Biblical scholars) most of what was written by anonymous scribe 200 - 300 years after the event are consider Pseudepigraphic and if nescessary I can supply historical reference.

Most of my preaching in the last fifteen years has been in academic chapels.

Every year an interdisciplinary jury, featuring some of the world's most influential chefs, academics and experts, chooses the candidate who best embodies the mission of this unique global award created by the Basque Culinary Center (BCC) with the support of the Basque Government as part of the Euskadi - Basque Country Strategy.

Indeed, of the Crimson's 41 varsity teams (the most at any Division I school), football, which travels five or fewer Fridays each academic year, might miss the fewest class days during the regular season.

FSU had to vacate most of its wins from those years due to an academic cheating scandal.

Once most of the high schools are done with their academic year, colleges will host prospects for camps where players will come and sometimes overnight at a school, staying in the dorms and running through drills overseen by a coaching staff.

Thus, the rhythm of the day begins with the work that requires the most attention, and each academic subject can receive a full measure of attention over the course of the year.

Many parents today also choose alternative options, such as academic redshirting, or the practice of postponing for a year school entry for kids whose birthdays are close to cut - off date (often in or around September for most districts).

In no uncertain terms, the authors of The Wellness Impact: Enhancing Academic Success Through Healthy School Environments, summed up what most School Nutrition readers have known for years.

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!

However, an analysis of the 32 free schools set to open in the next academic year shows 13 are in the most affluent half of England with only two in the 10 % most deprived areas and 10 in the 20 % most deprived areas, as ranked by the government's English Indices of Multiple Deprivation, 2010.

The highest goal of most 2 - year college academic (as opposed to vocational) programs — and it is a high goal indeed — is to send graduates on to 4 - year colleges.

Fishing in an academic database called Scopus, they pulled out the most highly cited 20,000 papers for each of the seven years from 2007 to 2013.

NSF, primary supporter of academic basic research in most non-biomedical fields, is also a winner, with 4.8 percent more to spend this year than it had in FY 1994, aided by a significant increase in last year's appropriations cycle.

These benefits are available for up to four academic years, so in most cases, they won't cover the costs of both undergraduate and graduate or professional education.

While this year's inventors were already talking about possible collaborations among the group, 2015 - 16 ambassadors Juan Gilbert, whose inventions include a universally designed voting technology; Lisa DeLuca, who is IBM's most prolific female inventor; and Michael Smith, who is director of the Intel Academic Program for Data Science and the Internet of Things, said the friendships and networks begun during the program will endure.

On the academic side, if you want to be on the faculty at a Research I university, you'll most likely need a fabulous postdoc in a well respected lab for however many years, some plum publications, plenty of grant - writing practice, and contacts with the big - wigs in your field.

After 40 years writing sober, academic accounts of the world's most hubristic, atrocity - littered engineering projects, it may be time for Josephson to bare his teeth a little.

For 40 years, a high - prestige, low - profile group of about 40 academic scientists has advised the U.S. government on some of the most sensitive technical issues of the day.

Most of the senior program managers at the $ 6.5 billion agency are academic scientists who spend a few years at NSF headquarters in Arlington, Virginia.

But then there is the so - called 12 - year academic qualification limit — undoubtedly the most controversial of the bunch.

Most were males (72 percent) 40 years of age and older (76 percent) and worked in academic institutions (70 percent) and government organizations (13 percent).

Most German research organizations have also welcomed the idea of restricting the academic qualification period to a total of 12 years.

Review: Chemistry and the construction of life — A new academic year always finds students searching for the right texts to make the most of their limited budgets.

CANU, which is 40 years old, has 42 members, most of them affiliated with academic institutions or retired, who receive monthly payments from the state budget to carry out projects in science and the arts.

The academic publishing industry has been rocked by scandals in recent years, most of them uncovered by outsiders.

Yet academic scientists have failed to disclose most results on time — within a year of a study being completed or terminated.

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And so, in choosing it as the film from the past ten years I would most like to discuss in the context of the future of the medium, I might be asserting, against my better judgment, the primacy of the auteur over and above national cinemas and identity art — the ferocious and aggressively confrontational cinema of Lucrecia Martel serving as evidence that an ethos long - since debunked in serious academic circles still has credence or at least value in the second century of the movies.

«We look forward to Mary's contributions to our School Leadership Program, to our efforts to envision and plan online offerings for school leaders using the edX platform, and, most importantly, to the leadership of PPE during the next academic year.»

After years of stagnation in the late 1980s and early 1990s, achievement began to rise again in the late «90s — particularly in the earlier grades and most notably in math — as states set new academic standards, started testing their students regularly, and installed their own versions of «consequential accountability» systems.

Kelley has spent most of the past six years cold - calling school administrators, flying around the United States, and figuring out how to build NCAA - style bracket competitions in academic subjects.

Most importantly, these innovative educators are creating a next generation of citizens with academic knowledge and problem solving abilities that will serve our country for years to come.

In three short years in Washington, [he] has changed the Office of Education from custodian of highly forgettable statistics to the nation's most energetic nerve center of academic ferment.»

The most effective advisories meet regularly, stay together for several years, and involve staff development that helps teachers support the academic, social, and emotional needs of their students.

Rather than focus solely on a teacher's performance during the most recent academic year, the teacher evaluation system should allow tenured teachers to accumulate a longer - term track record of excellence.

The U.S. Department of Education's National Postsecondary Student Aid Study for the 2011 - 12 academic year (the most recent survey) includes data on how much graduate students borrow broken out by race and type of school.

Here, John Dewey, no fan of the Catholics or their schools, which he pronounced «inimical to democracy,» may have had the last laugh: Once known for their rigorous academic and organizational structure, Catholic schools now implement many of the instructional theories and practices that predominate in Dewey - inspired progressive - education schools (the dominant principle of our public schools for most of the last fifty years).

I dutifully affirm the conventional wisdom: Take the most challenging courses in core academic disciplines like English, languages, history, math, and science for the required number of years, participate in extracurricular activities, volunteer...

Even if you have not done this earlier in the year, at the end of the year, you can ask students to reflect on what they see as their social - emotional and academic strengths and where, in each of these areas, they feel they grew the most over this past year.

The authors found that even in districts that were identified by NCPI as having merit pay plans, «most were so weak that they represented no meaningful change from traditional compensation systems,» which typically are based on the number of years on the job and academic credentials.

One of the most ambitious educational improvement projects in recent years was the adoption of new, more rigorous college - and career - ready academic standards by more than 40 U.S. states.

Students pursue most of their academic studies in single - sex classrooms, where they can «risk trying your best,» and stay with the same group of students and teachers for two years.

Jim O'Connor, principal of the KIPP Ascend middle school in Chicago, told me this month that five students from his last year's eighth grade who are in regular public high schools are having the most difficult time, because their schools lack the focus on strong academic results they found at KIPP.