Sentences with phrase «much as academic»

However, while 71 percent of OECD students attended schools where the principals agreed that their teachers foster social - emotional development as much as academic achievement, the United States fell behind at 64 percent.

Indeed, at a time when parents are being admonished to develop their children's emotional and social intelligences as much as their academic ones, it may well undermine parents» confidence in a results - based accountability system if all that system does is measure academic outcomes.

With new platforms like these, we are witnessing a particularly exciting breed of edtech that focuses on relationships and networks, as much as academic content and assessment.

Employers are very clear that personal qualities matter every bit as much as academic qualifications, if not more.

«So, as much as academic and non-academic amenities move the needle on rankings, then the investments pay off.»

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

Conversely, the law and economics movement (yes, it's a political platform as much as an academic one) takes a decidedly dim view of government and regulation, treating those things as sand in the gears of the market.

Not exact matches

Academic studies show that retail investors spend about nine times as much effort in formulating buy decisions than they do sell decisions.

The question is hardly academic in my business; publications are scratching their heads as to how many readers will be using devices to access publications in the future, and how much resources they should devote to meet that demand.

As an academic who wrestles with the ethics of pain management both professionally and personally, I think stories like Dumas» are important, but that inferring too much from them is dangerous.

What it's like: Ron Owston, dean of the Faculty of Education at York University in Toronto, was initially surprised at how much time he spent on human resource issues, such as dealing with the concerns of faculty members and mapping out the academic year so professors can handle their course loads.

The academic component of the program is overseen entirely by the partner school (in much the same way as the International Exchange Program) but does take place over the course of 1 - 2 weeks.

The historical app audit was announced in the wake of last month's revelations about how much Facebook data Cambridge Analytica was given by app developer (and Cambridge University academic), Dr Aleksandr Kogan — in what the company couched as a «breach of trust».

«Provocative and timely, Ellsberg lays bare what he sees as a giant hole in much of traditional education — a focus on «academic» knowledge and a de-emphasis on the knowledge and skills necessary to actually succeed in life.

GLEN ARNOLD, PhD, used to be a professor of investing but concluded that academic life was not nearly as much fun, nor as intellectually stimulating, as making money in the markets.

During Raymond's academic years, Camden's schools spent about one - half as much per student as did schools in Princeton, New Jersey.

In order to get as much advanced standing as possible, I shamelessly bypassed the Yale admissions office, accepting the offer of Henri Peyre, the chairman of Yale's French department, that he accompany me on a visit to Dean De Vane, who presided over the academic affairs of the college.

Hence I want to claim the biblical heritage as a source of authority against what has happened to the modern world, including academic theology and much of the life of the church.

academic / professional — as in, «This school puts so much stress on professional training that it slights academics»; alternatively, this school may be strong academically but it provides little help in preparing for professional ministry»;

In the past decade, most decisive for me has been not so much a change of mind as a change of academic - geographical location.

Gary: The reason I'm hesitant about your definition of «religious» is because, as you say, your definition has everything to do with your personal views and beliefs, and not as much to do with how people who call themselves religious perceive themselves, nor with the 150 or so years of academic research into religious phenomena.

A general review of the endnotes from Gunter's paper reveals a fair number of sources who will corroborate the claim that Bergson's scientific views are nor only not outdated, but go very» much to the heart of current scientific methods and insights, but particularly, see A. C. Papanicolaou and Pete A. N. Gunter, eds., Bergson in Modern Thought Towards a Unified Science (New York: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1987), and for important background on how Bergson came to be seen as dated when he was not, see also, Milic Capek, Bergson and Modern Physics, (cited above) and The Philosophical Impact of Contemporary Physics (Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand, 1961), and the volume edited by Gunter, Bergson and the Evolution of Physics (cited above).

The twentieth century has seen considerable growth in the study of religions as an academic discipline and much discussion about what is involved in this study.

The crucial test of academic freedom is not as much the celebrated A.A.U.P. or A.C.L.U. case as it is the daily practice of the professor in classroom

For left «wing academics and intellectuals, the problem isn't anger itself so much as its object.

To treat them as though they were less serious and less interesting than this is to misunderstand and mistreat them, as interreligious dialogue and much of the academic study of religion typically do.

On the other hand, his narrative of Louverture's tragic end — lured across the Atlantic by Napoleon and then locked away to die in a stone fortress in the Jura without so much as a trial — is told with more pathos than the average academic historian could manage.

I'm pleased that I am not an academic as I feel many of them who claim to be believers, think so much as to wheather they really believe or is it really true?

For example, although David Ford's work is much respected among academic theologians, and he is one of the most important public theologians in the UK, his name is probably unknown to most Christians in the U.S. Educated in Ireland, Germany and the U.S. (as well as in the UK), Ford brings a wide range of intellectual resources to bear on his interpretation of the faith.

Even if one identified every academic discipline that touches on the problem humanity now faces and added together such contributions to understanding and response as one can find within them, one would not have much help toward an appropriate response.

The difficulties with «strongly religious» colleges even today, much less between 1870 and 1920, are sometimes buried in Marsden's notes, as when he admits that academic due process is often absent from such schools and «dictatorial rule is particularly common.»

The defenders often try to make these new programs as much like new academic disciplines as possible.

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

For example, are there ways in which such conventional contrasts as «theory / practice» or «academic / professional» or «objective / subjective» serve as much to obfuscate issues as to clarify them?

Within the real academic world untainted by the pollution of religion in their brain, there exists much debate as to whether Jesus ever existed.

Twice therein occurs the statement, «Any certain extent of academic education shall never be a requirement for credentials...» (22) While there is always more to learn for any student of Scripture, however brilliant or trained, I am not at all prepared to say that such simple pietistic use of Scripture is defective; it is not so much wrong as limited.

As a result, the academic Catholic establishment, which invested so heavily in liberalism, is now very much on the margins of the Church.

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.

Much of what will be said in this chapter may be condemned as unwarranted «psychologizing»; but when a meticulous academic procedure has taken us as far as it can go, there is still a legitimate place for imagination, properly guarded.

The complaint may be that the curriculum is too «academic» and insufficiently «Professional»; too «theoretical» and insufficiently «practical»; or, conversely, that it is too single - mindedly focused on producing «Professional ministers» in a certain model and too inflexible to allow individual students to pursue their own intellectual interests; and, above all, that the curriculum consists of too many small pieces of information that are not adequately «integrated,» that it provides not so much a course of study as — in H. Richard Niebuhr's wonderfully wry phrase - «a series of studious jumps in various directions.»

I thought science was cool, but I never gave it as much academic attention as the humanities classes that I took.

From there it was pretty much academic as both teams scored eight times and give MU the easy win.

The question is an academic one as far as Fabio Capello is concerned, because Rooney is banned from England's next competitive games and therefore unlikely to feature in any of the preceding friendlies, yet one would doubt very much that the Italian left Old Trafford on Wednesday pondering whether to leave out Scott Parker or Gareth Barry to accommodate Rooney when he next becomes available, or thrilled at the prospect of giving Darren Bent or Jermain Defoe a clear run up front instead.

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.

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

Even though your child is young, it is advisable to read to them so as to give them a much better chance of having good behaviors as well as academic success.

Not only are there social pressures and additional obligations such as sports or after - school jobs, but the academic requirements are much more rigorous than previous years.

Moreover, kids seem to eat their breakfast quickly as the day is starting — a period of about ten minutes in which I personally am skeptical that much serious academic work was getting done anyway.

Soon afterwards, as luck would have it, my husband was able to move his academic job to a branch campus much closer to home.

food manufacturers have managed to invade what should be a commercial - free zone through vending machines and «pouring rights»; branded foods (like Pizza Hut pizzas) sold in the national school lunch program; the sale of a la carte foods; the use of Channel One television in the classroom; the creation of textbooks replete with math problems that use the products» names; give - aways of branded items like textbook covers; offering their products as rewards for academic performance (read X number of books over the summer and earn a gift certificate to McDonald's); and much more.