Sentences with phrase «new academic system»

This was just after the breakdown of former East Germany, and so the new academic system was being built.

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«I've been working on a new electronic cash system that's fully peer - to - peer, with no trusted third party,» wrote a newcomer to the thread alongside an abstract and a link to a nine - page academic paper.

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.

The past half century or more has been a period of both confusion and daring innovation in the world of academic theology, with various great thinkers trying to work out new theological systems.

See especially Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World - System: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World - Economy in the Sixteenth Century (New York: Academic Press, 1974).

While studies have consistently shown that teacher quality is the greatest influencer of a child's academic success, few systems exist in New York State to influence teacher quality.

(New York, NY) Taxi medallion owners and advocates for the disabled will join academics to discuss the fate of the medallion system and accessibility on Tuesday, June 27th.

Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña, the New York City teacher who rose through the ranks to head the largest school system in the country, announced on Dec. 21 that she would retire by the end of the academic year.

At Tuesday's meeting, Pryor and his staff reported on progress made in key reform areas, including a new teacher evaluation system and a new set of academic goals called the Common Core State Standards.

Nationally, Natale's words struck a chord as teachers everywhere are dealing with reforms similar to those implemented in Connecticut this year — a new teacher evaluation system, new academic standards known as the Common Core State Standards, and the trial of a new computerized testing system.

Karen Scharff, executive director of Citizen Action of New York, said the varied makeup of the commission — a mix of elected officials, academics and policy experts — will encourage a healthy discussion on how to overhaul New York's campaign - finance system.

David Albert, director communications at the New York State School Boards Association, says the board is encouraged by the academic gains Elia sparked in Florida's Hillsborough County school system during her tenure as a teacher and administrator.

Despite Mayor Bloomberg's desire for a «gotcha» teacher evaluation system, as Commissioner King noted in his announcement of the new system on June 1, New York City «is not going to fire its way to academic success.&raqnew system on June 1, New York City «is not going to fire its way to academic success.&raqNew York City «is not going to fire its way to academic success.»

Publishing their findings in the academic journal ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, the team — Ehsan Toreini, Dr Feng Hao and Dr Siamak Shahandashti — say the findings offer a new way to verify physical documents and reduce the risk of forgery.

But if the assessments of Cao and Miller are correct — if UC postdocs will indeed rank among the nation's top postdoc earners, if the new workplace protections really are without precedent in so elite an academic system, and if the pact in fact heralds serious economic improvement — these facts say more about the generally dismal circumstances of young academic researchers than they do about the prosperity and security in store for those employed at UC.

More recently, new systems biology studies are bringing a sense of teamwork into academic life science labs, but there have been some growing pains.

But Cotgreave also cautions that, if the chancellor wants to maximise the impact of this new investment, he also needs to pay attention to the other side of the dual support system, which funds academic pay.

The American academic system, whose main features have changed little since the 1990s, could not take optimal advantage of either the new ideas or the new people.

First the strengths of the German university system have to be communicated in a more professional and successful manner (for example, the unity of research and teaching, the impressive diversity of disciplines, the high academic level, the availability of financial aid); then, new attractive products have to be offered in order to attract foreigners to Germany, the «heart of Europe.»

Research funding: The Conservative's manifesto vaguely promises «a stable investment climate for Research Councils» and also pledges to «delay the implementation of the new funding system for universities — the Research Excellence Framework — and work with academics to ensure that there is a robust and acceptable way of measuring the impact of all research.»

A new series of studies by academics at Royal Holloway, University of London and at University of London College found that people who have social power are strongly influenced by internal body cues stemming from their motor system when making judgements about preferences of paintings, objects, movements or letter sequences.

We will know that the university system is in terminal decline when intellectual leadership gives way to a new generation of academic hustlers with expensive suits, university cars, mobile telephones and a glib line of sales talk.

In this presentation, we discuss data from studies conducted with academic, clinical, and industry collaborators that demonstrates the utility of the system as a more predictive, human - relevant alternative for efficacy and safety testing of new chemical entitites.

The new name also more accurately reflected the broad - based academic training in mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology as well as specialized curricular elements related to understanding the oceans as a unified dynamic system and the study of its living components and resources.

Dartmouth - Hitchcock Medical Center is the flagship hospital of Dartmouth - Hitchcock, a nonprofit academic health system that serves a patient population of roughly 1.9 million in New England.

Susan Amara, USA - «Regulation of transporter function and trafficking by amphetamines, Structure - function relationships in excitatory amino acid transporters (EAATs), Modulation of dopamine transporters (DAT) by GPCRs, Genetics and functional analyses of human trace amine receptors» Tom I. Bonner, USA (Past Core Member)- Genomics, G protein coupled receptors Michel Bouvier, Canada - Molecular Pharmacology of G protein - Coupled Receptors; Molecular mechanisms controlling the selectivity and efficacy of GPCR signalling Thomas Burris, USA - Nuclear Receptor Pharmacology and Drug Discovery William A. Catterall, USA (Past Core Member)- The Molecular Basis of Electrical Excitability Steven Charlton, UK - Molecular Pharmacology and Drug Discovery Moses Chao, USA - Mechanisms of Neurotophin Receptor Signaling Mark Coles, UK - Cellular differentiation, human embryonic stem cells, stromal cells, haematopoietic stem cells, organogenesis, lymphoid microenvironments, develomental immunology Steven L. Colletti, USA Graham L Collingridge, UK Philippe Delerive, France - Metabolic Research (diabetes, obesity, non-alcoholic fatty liver, cardio - vascular diseases, nuclear hormone receptor, GPCRs, kinases) Sir Colin T. Dollery, UK (Founder and Past Core Member) Richard M. Eglen, UK Stephen M. Foord, UK David Gloriam, Denmark - GPCRs, databases, computational drug design, orphan recetpors Gillian Gray, UK Debbie Hay, New Zealand - G protein - coupled receptors, peptide receptors, CGRP, Amylin, Adrenomedullin, Migraine, Diabetes / obesity Allyn C. Howlett, USA Franz Hofmann, Germany - Voltage dependent calcium channels and the positive inotropic effect of beta adrenergic stimulation; cardiovascular function of cGMP protein kinase Yu Huang, Hong Kong - Endothelial and Metabolic Dysfunction, and Novel Biomarkers in Diabetes, Hypertension, Dyslipidemia and Estrogen Deficiency, Endothelium - derived Contracting Factors in the Regulation of Vascular Tone, Adipose Tissue Regulation of Vascular Function in Obesity, Diabetes and Hypertension, Pharmacological Characterization of New Anti-diabetic and Anti-hypertensive Drugs, Hypotensive and antioxidant Actions of Biologically Active Components of Traditional Chinese Herbs and Natural Plants including Polypehnols and Ginsenosides Adriaan P. IJzerman, The Netherlands - G protein - coupled receptors; allosteric modulation; binding kinetics Michael F Jarvis, USA - Purines and Purinergic Receptors and Voltage-gated ion channel (sodium and calcium) pharmacology Pain mechanisms Research Reproducibility Bong - Kiun Kaang, Korea - G protein - coupled receptors; Glutamate receptors; Neuropsychiatric disorders Eamonn Kelly, Prof, UK - Molecular Pharmacology of G protein - coupled receptors, in particular opioid receptors, regulation of GPCRs by kinasis and arrestins Terry Kenakin, USA - Drug receptor pharmacodynamics, receptor theory Janos Kiss, Hungary - Neurodegenerative disorders, Alzheimer's disease Stefan Knapp, Germany - Rational design of highly selective inhibitors (so call chemical probes) targeting protein kinases as well as protein interaction inhibitors of the bromodomain family Andrew Knight, UK Chris Langmead, Australia - Drug discovery, GPCRs, neuroscience and analytical pharmacology Vincent Laudet, France (Past Core Member)- Evolution of the Nuclear Receptor / Ligand couple Margaret R. MacLean, UK - Serotonin, endothelin, estrogen, microRNAs and pulmonary hyperten Neil Marrion, UK - Calcium - activated potassium channels, neuronal excitability Fiona Marshall, UK - GPCR molecular pharmacology, structure and drug discovery Alistair Mathie, UK - Ion channel structure, function and regulation, pain and the nervous system Ian McGrath, UK - Adrenoceptors; autonomic transmission; vascular pharmacology Graeme Milligan, UK - Structure, function and regulation of G protein - coupled receptors Richard Neubig, USA (Past Core Member)- G protein signaling; academic drug discovery Stefan Offermanns, Germany - G protein - coupled receptors, vascular / metabolic signaling Richard Olsen, USA - Structure and function of GABA - A receptors; mode of action of GABAergic drugs including general anesthetics and ethanol Jean - Philippe Pin, France (Past Core Member)- GPCR - mGLuR - GABAB - structure function relationship - pharmacology - biophysics Helgi Schiöth, Sweden David Searls, USA - Bioinformatics Graeme Semple, USA - GPCR Medicinal Chemistry Patrick M. Sexton, Australia - G protein - coupled receptors Roland Staal, USA - Microglia and neuroinflammation in neuropathic pain and neurological disorders Bart Staels, France - Nuclear receptor signaling in metabolic and cardiovascular diseases Katerina Tiligada, Greece - Immunopharmacology, histamine, histamine receptors, hypersensitivity, drug allergy, inflammation Georg Terstappen, Germany - Drug discovery for neurodegenerative diseases with a focus on AD Mary Vore, USA - Activity and regulation of expression and function of the ATP - binding cassette (ABC) transporters

He has worked to develop new biological technologies in both academic and commercial environments, focusing on molecular measurement and microfluidic systems.

Concentrating resources in the «healthy» part of the system is especially important at a time when funding is very limited and new positions are scarce: two conditions that are currently met by the Italian academic system.

The beginning of an academic year is not only a chance to connect with a new class of students but also a chance for you — the educator, the backbone of our public education system — to grow in the job, show leadership, and speak up about your school's and district's direction.

After years of stagnation in the late 1980s and early 1990s, achievement began to rise again in the late «90s — particularly in the earlier grades and most notably in math — as states set new academic standards, started testing their students regularly, and installed their own versions of «consequential accountability» systems.

The system would not meet the letter of the new ESSA law, which requires that academic indices weigh more heavily than non-academic ones in identifying low - performing schools.

Alternatively, it could be argued that NCLB should not be viewed as in effect until the 2003 — 04 academic year, when new state accountability systems were more fully implemented as well as more informed by guidance from and through negotiations with the U.S. Department of Education.

Articles in this special report explore the evolving roles of chief academic officers and chief technology officers in five school systems in California, Georgia, Iowa, Oregon, and New York.

New York — Addressing the federal group charged with recommending ways to improve American education, two researchers last week urged that elementary and secondary schools make tougher academic demands of students and experiment with new tracking systems, while another argued that such in - school factors were more important than has been commonly held in recent yeaNew York — Addressing the federal group charged with recommending ways to improve American education, two researchers last week urged that elementary and secondary schools make tougher academic demands of students and experiment with new tracking systems, while another argued that such in - school factors were more important than has been commonly held in recent yeanew tracking systems, while another argued that such in - school factors were more important than has been commonly held in recent years.

Under the Obama administration, the federal government used carrots and sticks to encourage states to adopt new academic standards and test - based teacher evaluation systems.

In New York state, we have moved from an essentially academic approach to a system that we'll put in place in a few years based on performance assessment [including] value - added requirements, as well as the use of video and attached rubrics, that focus on the practice of teaching.

The new law also requires states to use, as part of their rating systems, an indicator of academic achievement «as measured by proficiency on the annual assessments.»

Mired for decades in Byzantine bureaucracy that wasted untold millions of dollars and incalculable numbers of student academic lives, the New York City school system was wrestled to the ground by a billionaire mayor, and almost everyone applauded.

A new report has highlighted that there is concern that less academic pupils are being failed by an increasingly academic school system.

The states that made the most progress after allowing for other factors — Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Kentucky, and Georgia, to name the top five — have taken steps, in various ways, to raise academic standards and back them up with rigorous assessments, implement tough but thoughtful accountability systems, and strengthen human capital practices to attract, develop, and retain educators who can deliver on high standards.

(Colorado's new evaluation system also calls for half of a teacher's rating to be based on student academic growth, but the state is still finalizing this process.)

Without a doubt, I was convinced, he will look at this new flat world, where Americans must compete with people not from their own community or state but from all over the planet, and declare our patchwork education system — with its 50 sets of academic standards and tests — no longer up to the challenges at hand and say that the time has come for rigorous national standards and tests, political obstacles be damned.

Under this new system, teachers are evaluated on student academic growth and classroom practice and receive a rating of Highly Effective, Effective, Needs Improvement (called «Developing» if they are in their first three years of teaching), or Unsatisfactory.

The passports are part of a new project to address the academic problems of the more than 10,000 Puerto Rican high - school students who transfer between the two school systems each year.

Above all, we need a new policy regime that gives teachers and schools ample incentive to press for academic growth in all their students, just as we need a culture that embraces excellence as well as equity and demands that its education system raise the ceiling on achievement even as it also lifts the floor.

The Strategy — developed in partnership with the Gatsby Charitable Foundation and co-ordinated through an expanded role for the Careers and Enterprise Company — will help young people choose the career that is right for them, alongside the # 500 million investment in new T levels to deliver a world - class technical education system on par with the high - quality academic routes available.

These alternative certification systems are likely to provide alternative means for many individuals to demonstrate and be valued for their skills without a need to attend academic courses, to pay expensive tuition fees, to purchase new textbooks, and to pay for exam / certification costs.

So even as Stanford economist Caroline Hoxby reports solid gains by charter pupils in New York City, Ohio's school - rating system for academic year 2008 - 9 showed that just 16 % of Buckeye charter pupils were in schools rated «excellent» or «effective,» while 55 % of them attended schools on «academic watch» or in «academic emergency.»

In addition to the diagnostic screening required pursuant to section 117.3 of this Title, students entering the New York State school system for the first time, or reentering the New York State school system with no available records, shall be screened to determine the need for academic intervention services.

On March 15, 2017, the State Board of Education (SBE) and the California Department of Education (CDE) launched a new accountability system to replace the Academic Performance Index (API) to better measure our State's educational goals.