Sentences with phrase «new academic purpose»

Thus possessed of their identity, knowing themselves to be in but definitely not of the academy, these biblical people might then become one community of ongoing spiritual energy and moral insight for all those who are working to expose the academy's covert operative values and searching for new academic purpose.

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I first heard of homeschooling as a child growing up in a college town in New England, when the only people who homeschooled their children were hippies living on communes in the country or academics and political activists protesting against the regimented and regimenting education «the system» provided for its own repressive purposes.

Neither traditional liberal arts nor most of the new academic disciplines turn out to be very useful for this purpose.

If Christians are to contribute prophetically to the struggle for new meaning and purpose in academic life, they must attend with quickened imagination to «the teaching of the apostles, to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to the prayers.»

Other symptoms of this new spirit are to be found in the increased interest in the common worship of the academic community, though this is by no means universally evident; in the widespread and intensive discussions of faculties about the purpose and organization of the course of study; in the experiments that are being carried on to relate the work of the seminary more intimately to the work of other church agencies, particularly to the local churches.

Hayball was also appointed architect of the new Richmond High School, which comprises a four - storey academic precinct known as the Griffiths Street Campus and an adjacent Gleadell Street Campus which, when opened in 2019, will comprise of general purpose teaching spaces and community facilities.

The NYS Charter Schools Act of 1998 was created for the following purposes: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for students who are at - risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for teachers, school administrators and other school personnel; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement results.

«The Recovery School District has exhausted its academic purpose in the City of New Orleans,» Thomas said.

Additionally, ESSA created a new Student Support and Academic Enrichment Grants program which authorizes up to $ 1.6 billion annually to provide formula grants to states for multiple purposes, including improving student academic achievement and digital literacy through the effective use of tecAcademic Enrichment Grants program which authorizes up to $ 1.6 billion annually to provide formula grants to states for multiple purposes, including improving student academic achievement and digital literacy through the effective use of tecacademic achievement and digital literacy through the effective use of technology.

Since the 1995 - 96 academic year, a person who was discharged other than dishonorably from one of the military service academies (the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, the Naval Academy at Annapolis, the Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs or the Coast Guard Academy at New London) is considered a veteran for financial aid purposes.

Given the breadth of Rudy's documentation of New York City and its artists, Burckhardt's photographs have been reproduced hundreds of times for commercial and academic purposes.