Sentences with phrase «new academic term»

It's halfway through the first week of the new academic term and time for me to revisit my summer projects list.

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Academic research on the benefits of mindfulness is still in short supply since the movement is new, but there are studies that show the long - term impact stress has on the brain, and more specifically the hippocampus.

At the same time, Catholic professors criticized their institutions for intellectual mediocrity, redefined «academic excellence» in line with the standards of leading graduate schools, and turned (with equivocal success) to theology to provide what Holy Cross historian David O'Brien has termed «the bridge between the older Catholic identity and the newer, more excellent version of Catholic higher education.»

In terms of developing myself, I have learnt a host of new skills that help me in my day - to - day life as well as my academic and professional pursuits.

Here you will find articles about information on the latest research about the long - term effects of concussion on an athlete's cognitive function, articles on whether the new state concussion safety laws are increasing concussion safety, advice on the academic accomodations concussed student - athletes often need when they return to the classroom, and about the latest in concussion research.

The trouble is, she writes in a new article in Academic Medicine, that too many of these programs — called STEGH, or short - term experiences in global health — focus on the needs of the student trainees and not on what's best for their patients or for overall health care in the countries they visit.

Over the next 5 years, Microsoft will spend $ 80 million on the new center, which will employ about 40 leading researchers and accommodate other short - term academic staff and graduate students.

Chen, a former Oppenheimer Fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, says: «This high ratio of professors with [training from] foreign universities makes South University a leader in Chinese academic and scientific communities in terms of the level of globalization.»

Thousands of children will begin the term in 52 new schools as the next wave of free schools open their doors for the next academic year.

The work before us, then, may not be to level an academic playing field for which there is no even, but rather to create new terms for why we learn, how, and where — and then change the expectation for what we do with what we know.

«The effects of basic psychological need fulfilment were seen not only during the Christmas break itself, but also in the first few weeks of the new term in January,» the academic notes.

Although students in the Southeastern region of the United States appear to have made some of the greatest academic strides over the long term, the overall picture of student performance in the nation is one of some early gains followed by a recent stabilization, a new U.S. Department of Education study reports.

New Project Hopes to Learn Which Pre-K Experiences Lead to Later School Success (Education Dive) Professor Nonie Lesaux and colleagues are seeing success with the Early Learning Study which is designed to identify indicators for long - term academic and social achievement rooted in Pre-K experiences.

This September, more than 11,500 pupils returned to school for their first term in new buildings, with 22 buildings re-opening for the start of the new academic year as a result of # 160 million of construction work from the programme.

Students must come to terms with challenges such as leaving home, fitting in with a new group of peers, managing new freedoms, and meeting academic goals.

So, she left her position as chief executive officer and lead tutor to become a long - term substitute teacher in the New York City Public Schools, hoping to have a greater impact on the academic performance of students of color.

Syllabus Points: This year, we added a new category to the scoring formula, intended to measure long - term academic impact on what gets taught to new generations of students.

The proportion of chief academic leaders reporting online learning is critical to their long - term strategy reached a new high of 70.8 %.

Thousands of children will start the term in 52 new schools as the next wave of free schools, studio schools and university technical colleges open their doors for the new academic year.

A new year and academic term brought with them the release of 2017's teacher recruitment figures and the overall picture is bleak with the number of students training to become teachers falling by a third.

Never in a million years were we going to see forty - five states truly embrace these rigorous academic expectations for their students, teachers, and schools, meet all the implementation challenges (curriculum, textbooks, technology, teacher prep, etc.), deploy new assessments, install the results of those assessments in their accountability systems, and live with the consequences of zillions of kids who, at least in the near term, fail to clear the higher bar.

These two groups of students are nearly identical in terms of academic skills and other characteristics, but differ in the extent to which they were exposed to this new approach to algebra.

With the Word Works approach to thoughtful vocabulary learning, you will be showing your students how to develop a preliminary understanding of new words and academic terms, how to revise that understanding as they read and learn, and how to practice new terms so that they understand what they mean and how they are used.

Professional learning windows also offer choice and variation, here are our windows for the first half term of the new academic year:

The new law includes major revisions to the previous law in terms of how states design their accountability systems and provide supports to improve academic outcomes in their lowest - performing schools.

New Jersey, for example, defines an SGO as «a long - term academic goal that teachers set for groups of students and must be: Specific and measureable; Aligned to New Jersey's curriculum standards; Based on available prior student learning data; A measure of what a student has learned between two points in time; Ambitious and achievable» (for more information click here).

A new study offers its own take on the issue: Holding students back at third grade can give them a short - term boost to their academic achievement, lead to higher grades in high school, and doesn't reduce their chances of graduating high school.

During a second term, Torlakson said he would prioritize additional funding for implementing Common Core, ensure an effective transition to the new school funding formula that directs more money to schools with the most disadvantaged students, and continue championing programs that meld academics with career preparation.

A new longitudinal study highlights the stark reality in the U.S. that class matters far more than academic achievement up to grade 12 in terms of graduating from college.

As the new school year is beginning, every school and district has been given the data to identify these students, called Long Term English Learners (LTELs), and hopefully will have plans to accelerate their language and academic growth.

The network also provides schools with access to: a national «knowledge network» of CWC teachers and principals who can share best practices with one another, meaningful professional development opportunities and evaluation tools, student assessment tools and help tracking student achievement, training in school operations, interest - free start - up loans to help new schools get off the ground and long - term financial planning assistance, and help resolving outstanding academic issues when requested by the school.

Many secondary schools and districts, feeling the urgency of meeting the needs of these Long Term English Learners, are attempting to modify curriculum or create new courses that address the unique language and academic gaps of these students.

Though the new policy won't require reporting of daily attendance, there is an expectation that the schools will require and monitor student participation in the online academic delivery model — but the policy also allows the virtual schools to define on their terms what they consider to be student participation, or «student activity» as it's mentioned in the new policy document.

I teach in a program called the Narrative Medicine program at Columbia University in New York, and I also teach in the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, but my whole career, in terms of academics and as a pediatrician, has been concerned with people's need for stories.

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Greenblatt, perhaps dismayed at the fact that he dragged the horses all the way to the water to find they still wouldn't drink, has a new idea: value - weighted indexing (not to be confused with the academic term for market capitalization - weighting, which is, confusingly, also called value weighting).

We strongly believe that Nicolas will develop an intriguing exhibition considering his esteemed curatorial and theoretical practice, his in - depth academic studies as well has his long term collaborations with artists and active engagement with new generations.

Wearing my academic hat, I'm currently helping * the new Center for Energy Governance and Security at Korea's Hanyang University develop partnerships here to examine how to foster responsible development of shale gas in China as a near - term path away from coal.

«It's really breaking new ground and that's why we are going kind of cautiously — in terms of Great Northern Way Campus partnership and the concept of sustainability itself,» said Marshall Heinekey, dean of academic planning at BCIT.

Behind this RICO campaign of climate desperation lies a feeding machine of «Big Green» money: wealthy foundations with climate agendas (Energy Foundation, Soros Foundations, etc), well - funded media operations (InsideClimate News, Media Matters for America, etc), older environmental organizations anxious for a new strategy (Natural Resources Defense Council, Audubon, etc), billionaire newbies (Tom Steyer, Nathaniel Simons, etc), and clean - energy companies looking for long - term government subsidies that could only become available if larger, older organizations can no longer rececive them (Tesla, Solyndra, etc), and academics.

Over the past few decades, the term «Anthropocene» has climbed out of academic discourse and into the popular imagination — a name given to the geologic era we live in now, and a way to signal that it is a new era, defined on the wall chart of deep history by human intervention.

It is likely that they will have received notification via an Education Health and Care plan, which will detail the new school their child will be attending the following academic term.

Because Rise is a teaching clinic and our services are offered to align with the university academic calendar, there are transition periods between terms when our outgoing students have left, and our new students are undergoing training.

«I look forward to working with my new colleagues in enriching the academic program through offering an elevated curriculum designed to facilitate long - term student success and to establish Queen's Law as a focal point for high - level research activity in business law.»

Reports emerged over the weekend in the Observer and The New York Times that Aleksandr Kogan, a lecturer in the psychology department at Cambridge University, created a personality test app that he used to amass personal data for Facebook users, as well as their friends, in part via a Facebook API, in apparent compliance with Facebook's terms of service for academic researchers.

A new study finds that children who who are born and grow up in stable single - parent homes generally do as well as those in married households in terms of academic abilities and behavior problems.