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.
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.
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.
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.