Sentences with word «nonacademic»

He highlighted several opportunities within ESSA that will help schools prioritize a comprehensive education for students, including the student supports in ESSA's new Title IV and the inclusion of nonacademic indicators in accountability systems.

But, given the disappointingly uneven picture of available professional development resources that the report paints, scientists who want to emerge from their graduate school or postdoc years ready to find and take advantage of nonacademic career opportunities must adopt an entrepreneurial approach to their own professional development and take the fullest advantage of all the chances they get to learn about the world of off - campus work.

To act on these findings, say Jones and Lesaux, early childhood teachers should weave opportunities for nonacademic skill - building and predictable routines throughout the day.

Research shows the importance of nonacademic factors for predicting outcomes such as retention, persistence, and engagement in college as well as graduation from college.

But even though she knew the path she wanted to follow, Christopherson realized that systemic pressures within academe could penalize her for looking for nonacademic jobs.

And those female Ph.D. scientists with small children — the scientists least likely to get tenure - track positions — «are disproportionately likely to be employed in contingent professorships and are less likely to be working in nonacademic jobs.»

I've also found additional information from Leeds University Careers Service for postdocs considering a change of career to the commerce and industry sectors and an index of articles published in the U.S. Chronicle of Higher Education on nonacademic careers for PhDs, which includes case studies and advice.

Compared with their peers, participating students also significantly improved on five key nonacademic measures: They demonstrated greater social skills, less emotional stress and better attitudes, fewer conduct problems such as bullying and suspensions, and more - frequent positive behaviors, such as cooperation and help for other students.

More schools are paying attention to climate issues as research continues to show that bullying and other nonacademic factors contribute to test scores and general student outcomes.

The flexibility to include nonacademic indicators, such as chronic absenteeism in school classification systems, provides an opportunity for states to identify indicators that provide unique and useful information about a school's performance and key student outcomes.

«It seems like there are not enough hours in the day for their work in the lab and home,» Trower says, adding that a work model that gives scientists flexibility and more time for nonacademic aspects of their lives is overdue.

The report said that the presence of so many nonacademic courses in the curriculum - such as preparation for adulthood, off - campus work experiences, and physical and health education - was compromising America's commitment to high - quality academics.

What are the best approaches to tapping community partners to help schools meet the wide range of nonacademic needs of students and their families?

We have often mentioned in this space that many nonacademic employers complain that early - career scientists don't understand business culture and such practices as budgeting and project management.

These learnings — as well as nonacademic skills such as completing assignments on time — can be broken into grade components that are assessed separately and then averaged into an overall class grade.

Campbell notes that the «self - selecting» people who apply to BALSA have «an appetite for something» that graduate school and postdoc training is not providing, namely the relationships and experiences that prepare them to move into nonacademic opportunities.

In my opinion, Science's Next Wave is a good starting point for learning about nonacademic careers.

No gender differences could be found regarding research funding, finding a permanent nonacademic research position, or pursuing alternative careers.

Sauermann sees internships as a useful way to experience and evaluate the reality of nonacademic work environments.

It is all the more imperative, then, that ample provision also be made for studies that are not subordinate to nonacademic interests, in order that the prevailing conditions of culture and society may not remain without challenge or alternatives.

Ex-postdocs who take nonacademic employment start out earning less than contemporaries who took jobs right after their Ph.D. s, and their incomes never catch up.

Examples of self - handicapping behavior include deliberately reducing effort, fooling around the night before a test, overcommitting on nonacademic tasks, such as too much employed work or extracurricular activities, or consuming alcohol prior to performance.

SR: Potential nonacademic benefits include expanded access to job networks, more interracial friendships, and enhanced access to educational networks, including private schools and colleges.

Eleven organizations — including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the National Urban League — have called on policymakers to ensure schools address nonacademic supports for learning, provide educators with the time and resources needed to effectively serve all students, ensure an equitable distribution of school resources, and use multiple measures to assess both students and schools.

In her first year on the job, Jewell - Sherman launched Excellence for All, a comprehensive plan aimed at improving teaching and learning to enable students to reach high academic standards, and promoting involvement with the community as a way of addressing nonacademic barriers to student achievement.

Under the new education law of the land, states have much more freedom to establish long - term goals for their students and are required to also focus on nonacademic school quality indicators, rather than just test scores.

On Aug. 24, the women, all of whom work in nonacademic positions, filed individual charges with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission; the same charges were also filed by the union with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars job discrimination on...

For example, teachers involved in such training programs will be better prepared to identify children's and families» nonacademic support needs and refer them to appropriate outside agencies and personnel.

Research shows that at least half of long - term chances of success are determined by nonacademic qualities like grit, perseverance and curiosity.

And their professors, having spent entire careers in academe, often lack the knowledge and experience needed to advise them on finding nonacademic jobs.

These new skills enable graduate students and postdocs to enter the next stage of their careers better informed and equipped to adapt to challenges the academic or nonacademic world sends their way.

After doing a Ph.D. in social science at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, she took a short training course at the University of Melbourne in Australia learning to write for nonacademic audiences.

While more than two - thirds of nonacademic organizations consider performance reviews standard practice, almost half the academic institutions questioned in a survey conducted by COSEPUP said they do not officially review their postdocs.

These students were disproportionately assigned to nonacademic tracks (particularly the general track) and watered - down academic courses.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires states to have, apart from four academic indicators of school success, an additional nonacademic indicator (the so - called «Fifth Indicator») that assesses school quality or student success.

The areas with the most nonacademic scientists of a particular type are also those with the largest number of jobs in the field.

The Association Bernard Gregory (ABG) was founded in 1980 to help recently qualified Ph.D. s find employment in nonacademic institutions and to promote the value of training through research among commercial enterprises.

Cutbacks in the Los Angeles Unified School District erased most summer school and other nonacademic programs this year.

Parents and teachers might fear that when students become too busy with nonacademic activities, they will lose their focus on schoolwork.

The program works like this: Full - time faculty members with independent research programs (postdocs are not eligible) apply via the program's Web site; researchers holding equivalent positions in industry of nonacademic labs may also apply.

Acknowledging these various needs, a new report from researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education describes fundamental nonacademic skills, shows how they vary, and advises education stakeholders about how to think about these skills in their individual practices.