Sentences with phrase «of academic choice»

It promises to limit the authority of the Florida High School Athletic Association, create unfair advantages for a few schools and encourages athlete recruitment using the excuse of academic choice.

The district offers a variety of academic choices, from the School of the Arts in downtown Tacoma to the Science and Math Institute at the Point Defiance Zoo.

IB also provides students with a range of academic choices, so students can tailor their classes and activities to suit their interests and future career aspirations.

Not exact matches

In their new book, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work, brothers and academics Chip (of Stanford Graduate School of Business) and Dan Heath (of Duke) explore how to eliminate biases and improve the quality of our decisions.

«It is our intention that this endowment provide more students with access to higher education and support the goal of enhancing facilities to make Saint Mary's a compelling choice for both students and members of the academic community,» said Paul Sobey, then - Empire CEO.

«Our research shows that this generation of business leaders wants greater control over educational choices, continued exposure to peers with deep, global experience and more opportunity in their academic experience to self - analyze and self - reflect.»

That all makes it a treasure trove of health data for scientists, and it's resulted in more than 1,000 academic research projects about life choices and health.

Wealth, Tastes and Entrepreneurial Choice, a 2015 academic study on this topic, is a good example and references a number of related studies.

Or Middlebury, Amherst, Williams, Smith, Wellesley, Swarthmore, Haverford, Pomona, Reed, or... well, suffice it to say we had a choice of dozens of small colleges that present a similar profile: formally committed to the liberal arts, highly selective in admissions, well - regarded for the quality of their academic programs, and quite openly enthusiastic about a handful of contentious concepts.

The thing was with the college was more of the academic rigour and making an argument for an approach being consistent with the Christian faith more than whatever choice was made about that.

Freedom, then, stripped of its human aspects — free choice, social, political, academic and religious freedoms, etc. — is basically freedom from entropy.

Or the psychobabble counterpart to rational choice that claims to explain religion in terms of dependency, wish projection, and other tools in the analytical arsenal of the intellectually and spiritually stunted project that is academic religious studies.

«I love track but I know that academics will last a lot longer, so I wanted to have a good degree for engineering,» Clancy said of his choice.

In the Youth Indicators, 2005 report from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), we can see that athletic teams is the favored school - related extracurricular activity for boys in 1990 and 2001 at 43.2 % and 45.3 % respectively, out of a choice of music / performing arts, athletic teams, academic clubs, student council / government, and other school clubs / activities.

Voters in the 19th Congressional district are being offered a choice between longtime resident John Faso with a proven track record of cutting budgets, lowering taxes, and working with lawmakers from both sides of the aisle and a radical New York City academic, with no roots in the district, who supports higher taxes, the Iran Nuclear Deal, and ever larger government in Washington.

While the mayoral candidates wouldn't discuss their choices of replacement, among those who have been mentioned by campaign insiders as potential Walcott successors is the department's chief academic officer, Shael Polakow - Suransky, whose name is on many observers» shortlist.

He won the Philip Leverhulme prize for Philosophy and Ethics in 2005 and the Choice (American Library Association) Outstanding Academic Text Award for Understanding Philosophy of Science.

Agree the basic principles of a workable system based on academic excellence and social justice, possibly with pupil choice at 14, and at least both parties could demonstrate that Irish and British people who call this region home can agree on important issues.

Mr Kennedy said he wanted to maximise «real choice» in education, which meant freeing up the curriculum so it was responsive to the needs of all pupils, whether academic or more vocationally - inclined.

For example, a 2007 academic study at the University of Berkeley, Negative Advertising and Voter Choice, suggested that running negative ads raised turnout for candidates that ran them.

Your sentences and word choice might be so close that your advisor might question whether you «lifted» off some paragraphs, or worse, he or she may accuse you of plagiarism (one of the worst offenses in an academic environment).

«When scientists face the choice of an academic career or industry, many of those choosing industry do so because they want to make a difference that will improve people's lives,» Gregory says.

Institutionalized gender bias is likely the main reason women are underrepresented in the upper echelons of academic medicine, they write, and explanations involving women's choice can distract observers from unfair institutional practices.

I can't help wondering why, if only 15 % to 20 % of grad students and postdocs go on to academic careers, do we describe the career choices of the other 80 % as «alternative»?

Then again, academic science is perhaps not the wisest choice for a stable and secure livelihood, regardless of location.

She recently completed a national survey of doctoral candidates and junior faculty that examines how they make choices about working within or outside of the academy and what factors they use when deciding among more than one academic offer.

C. Frieden, B. J. Fox, «Career choices of graduates from Washington University's Medical Scientist Training Program,» Academic Medicine 66, 162 (1991)

Researchers, she adds, need to look not just in front of them on the academic path but also all around them at the job options in other sectors, making the best choice for themselves rather than the best choice for their labs.

The impact of student debt on career choice has been a concern of academic leaders since the early 1990s, when a series of commentaries published in medical journals warned of a serious drought in the physician - scientist pipeline unless something was done to help recruit and retain people on that career path.

The authors frame much of the discussion around women's choices about, for example, which high school math classes to take, what college major to enroll in, and whether to pursue an academic career.

The research looks simultaneously at the importance of a number of college characteristics including cost, reputation, academic facilities and recreational facilities, and bases findings not just on students» stated preferences but compares them with the actual choices they make.

• Three of us are now in tenure - track academic positions in our fields of choice.

Nikolaou conducted her study by examining food choices and weights of university students from two 36 - week academic years.

Will they be men and women of eminent statute in the academic community, as were most of Obama's choices?

We have a strong track record of being the partner of choice for academic, foundation and pharmaceutical partners, as well as generating original research and leads within our group.

Damon Runyon - Walter Winchell Postdoctoral Fellowship National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship McKnight Scholars Award in Neuroscience NIH Research Career Development Award McKnight Foundation Development Award R. P. Doherty - Welch Chair in Science at Baylor College of Medicine Student Choice Award in Teaching at Baylor College of Medicine Michael E. DeBakey Excellence in Research Award Academic Career Leadership Award McKnight Neuroscience of Brain Disorders Award NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Award Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholar in Aging

«Jim Mullikin is the ideal choice to champion the broad scientific portfolio of the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center, which is one of NHGRI's premiere research assets,» said NHGRI Scientific Director Daniel Kastner, M.D., Ph.D. «Dr. Mullikin brings a comprehensive experiential and academic background to NISC, taking on the wealth of basic and clinical research initiatives already underway and planning for the genomic contributions that this center will be making well into the future.»

Two findings of particular interest are: 1) our data suggest that academic research positions remain the predominant career choice of postdocs in the United States, although unequally between postdocs of different gender and residency status; and 2) receiving mentorship training during the postdoctoral period has a large, positive effect on postdoc mentorship satisfaction.

With 15,000 students, 160 academic programs, and an energized campus community, Western offers the focus on students and the faculty access of a smaller college and the academic choice, resources, multicultural diversity, and room to grow of a large university.

Perhaps due to the choices to cover older works, they're more able than ever to produce intelligent, thoughtful, and informative criticism — while this article maligns their production value as no better than «the average Youtube video,» editing a video review to provide context via clips of the film is a step beyond what the vast majority of populist or even academic film criticism has done in the past, let alone other related films in the genre and in the director's oeuvre for context.

Kramer neatly lays out aspects of Lawrence's life that influenced the source material, and he has some choice things to say about Lawrence's diminished reputation within a canon of modern literature that many academics and culture vultures no long even choose to recognize.

Peterson is one of the leading voices (perhaps THE leading voice) in the academic world for free markets and unfettered choice....

Once the rules are in place and students understand logical consequences, teachers can move on to other aspects of the Responsive Classroom approach, such as Academic Choice, which gives students more flexibility in their learning.

«At first, we put a lot of effort into Academic Choice.

Gross illuminates the Catholic struggle to create an alternative school system in sober, academic language free of the hysteria surrounding much of the contemporary debate over school choice.

Due to this (and a number of other factors), multiple choice questions are the leading question type both in the corporate and in the academic sector.

I was especially interested in the influence of a teacher's gender on students» perceptions, because engagement with an academic subject may be an important precursor to subsequent achievement levels, course selection in high school and college, and also occupational choice.

The end of another academic year approaches ~ and your friends at EdWorld want to give you a chance to win a $ 50 gift card to your choice of Starbucks...

On the contrary, the evidence seems to suggest that the families that are most in need of school choice — minorities, low - income households, and students with lower prior academic achievement — are more likely to apply.

Students need good judgment to successfully navigate the sea of information in their academic lives, as well as for the social and emotional choices and decisions that they will inevitably face.