Sentences with phrase «narrow opportunity»

It involves narrowing the opportunities we have for seeking and doing good so that we can respond more fully to a specific good.

Don't get caught narrowing your opportunities because your specific practice area is not relevant to the person you just met.

Among his responsibilities is the development of plans for narrowing opportunity gaps for students of color, and collaborating with district departments to analyze data and address areas of inequity.

Critical literacy and its implications for teaching and learning and for narrowing the opportunity gap

Only when the slow waves and spindles come together in a very narrow opportunity time window (approximately one - tenth of a second), can the brain effectively place new memories into its long - term storage,» said study lead author Randolph Helfrich, a postdoctoral fellow in neuroscience at UC Berkeley

The Croatian Academy has also criticized the pyramidal system as «radically narrowing opportunities for young researchers and practically enticing brain drain from the public universities, institutes and Croatia.»

In this edition of the Harvard EdCast, Smith speaks about Striving for Equity, and examines the strategies leaders can employ to progress toward narrowing opportunity and achievement gaps in traditional school districts.

In addition to making schooling more personalized and productive, edtech may help narrow opportunity gaps, the editors write.

Strong gains have also narrowed the opportunity gap between African - American students and the statewide average by about 25 percent in ELA and 20 percent in math in just two years.

First of all, a large number of variables in the stock selection filter meaningfully narrowed the opportunity set... meaning, usually, not enough tickers were regularly generated [through the filter] to absorb enough capital to tilt the performance meter at most large hedge funds... as position size was very limited [1 - 2 % maximum].

It's fairly simple to identify, says Robert Smith, former superintendent of schools in Arlington, Virginia, and coauthor of the Harvard Education Press title, Striving for Equity: District Leadership for Narrowing Opportunity and Achievement Gaps.

Undergraduate students preparing for careers as elementary educators who care deeply about the education of children and who are dedicated to narrowing the opportunity gap to ensure that children from all walks of life reach their true potential.

But since that doesn't seem imminent, GardaWorld must instead make the best of the narrower opportunities generated by an insecure world.

«I don't want to see the quality of universities cut, we don't want to narrow the opportunities for young people to go to university, so therefore the only possible way forward is by having a bigger graduate contribution.

His original intention had been to become a graduate student in ornithology, but as he learned of the narrow opportunities in the field, the difficulties in getting a job, and the limited salaries offered, he adopted an alternative plan.

American Indian and Alaska Native students often have unique needs that call for alternative approaches to narrowing opportunity and achievement gaps.

In places like Albemarle County, where school officials estimate up to 20 percent of students lack home broadband, all the latest education - technology tools meant to narrow opportunity and achievement gaps can widen them instead.

I have spent my career working to narrow the opportunity gap that creates the sub-standard conditions for teaching and learning that so dramatically impact the achievement gap.

ESSA replaces No Child Left Behind, and provides states, districts and schools with increased flexibility over how to use funding, how to demonstrate student progress and achievement and how to improve school performance and narrow the opportunity gap, among other changes.

In Rauschenberg and Johns's shared influences, their coded messages to each other embedded across many works, there was a window, according to Garza, a narrow opportunity to expose the public to the interior life of a gay couple.

This can be limiting and lead to narrow opportunities,» Ng - Quinn explains.