Sentences with phrase «much academic value»

What one most wants to know about a school is how rapidly its pupils are making progress from wherever they started, i.e., how much academic value is the school itself adding.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education and Change have been much concerned about values recently, as have the American Association of Higher Education and the other Washington - based educational agencies; the Danforth Foundation recently held a workshop on values in liberal arts education, and the whole issue has been given academic credibility by programs in moral development and in value analysis at several universities.

How can we show that we honor kindness, honesty, service to others, excellent collaboration and communication skills — as much as we value academic mastery?

As much as it thrills my heart to see her interested in letters and numbers, my uneducated belief is that spending her time playing is of equal or greater value than any «academic» pursuit, at least right now.

And we need to value vocational education, just as much as academic education.»

There is often excellent blogging in more specialist spaces - academic, scientific, liberties / legal, environmental - which sometimes the political blogs pick up on, but there isn't that much linkage, and there might sometimes be some value in thinking specifically about the linking spaces.

SEI 2106 shows oodles of data that almost everyone will conclude is very solid evidence denying my prediction (i.e., since academic science in the US is doing such a productive job and provides so much of value to the public, then all must be excellent!).

Should Alice suddenly develop an interest in nutrition today and begin to read popular books on the subject, she would find herself in a bewildering world where small things are made large and large things small, where nutrition commentators engage in much reeling and writhing and where the academic tea party on macronutrient values never ends.

These results suggest either that the academic considerations parents value are better captured by principal ratings or that parents have difficulty observing how much value a teacher adds to reading and math test scores.

It turns out that students who feel valued as individuals become much more motivated in their academics, and teachers who see their role as helping to mold students» values get a lot more fulfillment from their jobs.

Indeed, as per a statement made by Ron Adler, president of the Ohio Coalition for Quality Education, not only is it «disappointing that ODE spends so much time denying that poverty and mobility of students impedes their ability to generate academic performance... they [continue to] remain absolutely silent about the state's broken report card and continually defend their value - added model that offers no transparency and creates wild swings for schools across Ohio» (i.e., the EVAAS system, although in all fairness all VAMs and the SGP yield the «wild swings» noted).

Attendees will learn about the CCS mission, vision, values, academic choices, enrichment activities and much more!

More worrisome to those of us who embrace academic honesty is how much our prospective next governor Phil Murphy will value the strings, purse and otherwise, that currently tie him to NJEA's leaders.

Everywhere schools are being told to focus on building this character skill — and to value character skills — just as much as they would with academic skills.

The morning handshake is a tradition from our past, a gesture that symbolizes our sense of respect and integrity, and a reminder that at Country Day we value much more than academic achievement.

We understand the value of submitting academic documents within the deadline, and thus we promise to deliver the order much before the submission date.

I've taken pretty much every survey Nick Yee has offered and while I'm 100 % behind the value of academic research, I'm pleasantly surprised to see what amounts to a «Steam Shopping List» for my motivations.

In revealing the failure of much academic art history, and a great deal of history in general, to take account of the unacknowledged value system, the very presence of an intruding subject in historical investigation, the feminist critique at the same time lays bare its conceptual smugness, its meta - historical naïveté.

Actually, by the time you approach 200ppmv for CO2, you have already reached the break point in the curve, beyond which additional CO2 has much less impact on the RF — and this is close to the glacial value — suggesting that CO2 changes do not drive the glacial cycles (CO2 changes are supposed to amplify T rise during deglaciation, but there is scant evidence for this and the assumption that it did also underlay the IPCC belief — and a great many references in academic papers give a T degrees C per ppmv CO2 without stating over which range of concentrations this is meant to apply.

«x» is the numerical value, rounded off to 3 decimal places, of the possibility that I'm not one of the «academic» spillers of ink to whom the SCC referred in Resurfice Corp. v. Hanke, 2007 SCC 7 at para. 20, [2007] 1 S.C.R. 333:» Much judicial and academic ink has been spilled over the proper test for causation in cases of negligence.

We value our business team as much as our lawyers and recruit them on the same principles — selecting individuals from the best commercial and academic institutions and offering them unrivalled opportunities for personal and professional development.

It would be beneficial to use any period of further study to seek to get some work experience at the same time as employers tend to value this as much as they do academic credentials.

While you've achieved a lot of expertise and valuable academic expertise through hard work during your graduate studies, it's a tough truth that employers don't always understand how much value the details on the education section of your resume really deliver.

They did not value education as much as she came to, and so she never received recognition for her academic achievements.