Sentences with phrase «much focus the school»

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Blount thinks that business schools have focused too much on markets and not enough on people and organizations.

John Kirton, co-director of the G - 20 Research Group at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs, called the summit a «very solid success,» pointing to broad agreement on the agenda, much of it focusing on less controversial issues such as women's empowerment and promoting digitalization.

The call ended, and, like most Americans who were near a TV, I quickly lost focus on pretty much all else aside from the grim details emerging from Newtown's Sandy Hook elementary school.

He does so in front of school kids and that's a clue: Primary education is a provincial responsibility, but it was symbolic of where much federal attention is focused these days, on funding matters in, or of relevance to the provinces.

Rather, as claimed by Clement of Alexandria and, with much greater intellectual power, Origen, his pupil and successor as head of the Alexandrian Catechetical school, Christianity is paideia, divinely given in Jesus Christ and inspired Christian scriptures, focused in a profound conversion of soul, and divinely assisted by the Holy Spirit.

A third trend in the postliberal school takes a very different tack, arguing that postliberal theology as a whole is overly preoccupied with epistemological debates and is too much focused on conserving tradition.

This focus on education also transformed the church itself, through the agency of the Sunday School — an institution that owed much of its nineteenth - century dominance and modern shape to such Methodist leaders as John Heyl Vincent, founder of Chautauqua.

The «we - they» theme runs through much of his writing on Islam, coming perhaps into clearest focus in a paper read to the Conference on Near East History held at the School of Oriental and African Studies London University, 1968, not yet published.

I am guessing you know that college doesn't focus on grammar / sentence structure as much as previous years of school.

The girls are given a more focused education — the classrooms are much smaller than in the coed schools that pack upwards of a 100 students in one room — and they perform, on average, much better than the rest of Kakuma on Kenya's standardized testing for secondary schools.

The powerhouse Southeastern Conference, for example, might focus on the fact their member schools generate so much revenue through college sports.

I only played competitive matches when in secondary school, so not sure how much that accounts for:) I do remember that focus was the key — once I had that dialed in, I was capable of ignoring the opposite fans and their bad influence.

For the last year or so, much of my writing on TLT (and in other outlets)- and my focus as an advocate - has been devoted to the long - running battle over school food nutritional standards.

The idea behind FOCUS is simple: large school districts procure so much food that they have considerable market power (second only to the U.S. military when it comes to food purchasing), which FOCUS helps them leverage to pressure manufacturers into producing better food.

I am glad the show is tackling an entire school system, rather than only focusing on the much - easier - to - mold - and - entertain pre-school and elementary school students.

I used to teach high school biology, but now I'm a private science tutor because I hated how much the administration focused on test scores and test - taking skills over fostering love of science and learning.

Much of her work focuses on parenting and educating preschool and school - aged children.

If you focus too much on what's ahead, your child will conclude that school is terribly hard.

We need to bring common sense to Common Core because New York is wasting too much time and money stressing children out to prepare for these tests which are of questionable educational value instead of focusing on supporting teachers so they can do their job and teach children what's really important,» said Assemblyman Jim Tedisco, a former public school special education teacher and guidance counselor.

Ed Miliband focused much of fire on Gove during his conference speech, but Labour supports most of the Department's of Education's free schools programme.

In over a third of schools, there was again too much focus on the «mechanics» of sex and not enough on the emotions surrounding it.

While de Blasio noted the increased funding heading toward the renewal schools that are the focus of much Department of Education effort and outside scrutiny, there are other key school - related additions to the budget, including $ 6.6 million for the DOE to «hire 50 additional physical education teachers and conduct a comprehensive needs assessment to address barriers and move schools toward full physical education compliance.»

«He's putting so much focus on test scores that are going to be detrimental to our school because the overwhelming majority of our kids don't speak English at home and don't perform as well on standardized tests,» she said.

Cuomo says he's tired of hearing the same «debate» over education that's occurred for the last twenty years, which he says focuses too much on what he calls «high priced» professional education lobbyists and the amount of money to be spent on schools.

Peneston says there's a cost for demanding schools focus so much energy on having elementary school students do well on standardized math and language arts tests.

«There is too much focus and too much stress on testing,» said Concetta Aloi, the PTA president of Public School 200 in Brooklyn.

The mayor's critics in the city's influential charter school sector have questioned why de Blasio has focused so much on early childhood while K - 12 schools suffer.

Neurologist David Holtzman of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis believes the tools will initiate a much needed revamping of Alzheimer's drug trials, which currently focus on subjects already exhibiting signs of the disease.

«I was surprised at how medical school was so memorization - oriented and wasn't focused much on how biological processes work,» he says.

Traditionally, after - school and museum programs about science have focused on the natural world, without too much attention on the human - made world of engineering, Cunningham noted.

«We need to focus our efforts on addressing the needs of young adults with autism in a much bigger and broader way,» said Nancy Cheak - Zamora, an assistant professor in the MU School of Health Professions and a researcher at the MU Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders.

Much of it has focused on developing a vaccine, with promising early results,» said senior author Alysson Muotri, PhD, professor in the UC San Diego School of Medicine departments of Pediatrics and Cellular and Molecular Medicine, director of the UC San Diego Stem Cell Program and a member of the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine.

High school students who take part in pre-college programs that focus on science are much more likely to pursue higher education and, eventually, careers in science, technology, engineering and medicine — the STEM disciplines.

Much focus has been on high school athletes, but younger kids also suffer concussions due to accidents and sports mishaps.

Although bullying prevention efforts tend to focus on middle schools and high schools, bullying behavior begins at much younger ages.

Athletes at the high school level typically put too much focus on bench pressing and those «beach muscles» and this leads me to try to fix these muscle imbalances when they get to the college level.

In this episode learn how to improve your speed, balance, agility and much more by focusing on mindset and state - of - the - art Parisi Speed School training techniques!

I'm pretty much 100 % focused on school for the next few weeks.

I didn't spend as much time as I probably should have focussing on learning haha but I did learn how to be efficient with my style for school... and those skills have translated to my work - wear.

Much to my parents relief, I stayed focused on school until graduation but as soon as my cap was in the air I took off and traveled all over the world working for clients and never looked back.

There are no shortage of opportunities to do so and they're out of school, which will ideally mean that they'll be able to sit still and focus that much more what with not having to do so..

New Age wisdom, old standby problems (ranging from school to the skeptical adoption agency), and far too much regurgitation all render the film's one unequivocal focus rather mundane.

Thus, reordering school priorities to focus on achievement - as Risk tried to do - was much more difficult with teachers and administrators who assumed their professional identities in an era when other priorities for schooling were in effect.

The public release of these ratings — which attempt to isolate a teacher's contribution to his or her students» growth in math and English achievement, as measured by state tests — is one important piece of a much bigger attempt to focus school policy on what really matters: classroom learning.

On - going trends involving public school segregation have been a primary focus of the CRP's research, and the expanding policy emphasis on school choice prompted analysis of the much smaller — but politically potent — charter sector.

In these times of austerity of course we need to cut our cloth on all spending; however, the government's proposals for the design and construction of future schools are far too restrictive with too much focus on short - term savings.»

Much of the research cited by the schools focuses on such objectives as improved discipline, campus climate, social attitudes, and community engagement.

Governors are focusing much of their attention on two critical areas of education policy — high school and preschool — a 50 - state look at the nation's governors and their leadership on education over the past year shows.

As schools around the world focus on how best to prepare students for success in the 21st century, there's been much debate about what approach works best.

One of the things they [architects] also do, which the accountants do too but they create an all - through schools — because we focus on secondary schools (from the age of 11 up to 16)-- but one of the things that the architects would do is that they would combine with a primary school so that they are teaching the children for longer and they are starting to embed the right culture and the right practice and the right behaviour much earlier on.