Sentences with phrase «of academic competition»

They also are not too keen on the idea of academic competition as it conflicts with the collaborative zeitgeist!

07, Ed.D.» 11, a native of China, examines the genesis of academic competition between Chinese schools and between Chinese students, and what she sees as a lack of compassion that has led to high test scores and toxic levels of stress.

Writing two years later in his 1961 book The Adolescent Society, he noted that educators had long been suspicious of academic competition, but that they unwittingly used it every day when handing out letter grades.

When the Harvard knowledge bowl team snubs Eli's adulation, he nominates himself de facto captain of Whittman's team and goes on a mental rampage through the ranks of the academic competition.

In the Summer 2010 issue of EdNext, June Kronholz discusses the recent comeback of these academic competitions and why some educators remain suspicious of them.

Egor is a winner of academic competitions in mathematics and informatics, as well as numerous programmer contests.

Not exact matches

Whether it was beating a friend at a video game (Street Fighter 2 on SNES comes to mind), playing sports (my favorite sport was basketball although I was always better at running track) or academic competitions (yes, I was a bit of a math nerd).

The Competition Policy Council comprises top - ranked academics and practitioners active in the field of competitCompetition Policy Council comprises top - ranked academics and practitioners active in the field of competitioncompetition policy.

JDC West is a three - day competition that challenges students in the areas of academics, athletics, debate and social events.

The competition is a three - day event that showcases academics, athletics, debate, and an out - of - the - box social competition.

«It's a big, robust, solid looking structure and the star shape ties in with the name of the product,» says MSU packaging instructor Dennis Young, who organizes this annual competition with Rick Bayer, GPI Academic Subcommittee Chair, as part of GPI lectures to MSU packaging students.

This academic year has seen Eley Hawk, a leading cartridge manufacturer, join as an official sponsor of the club and the Varsity competition.

St. Ignatius was bullied out of the San Francisco's Academic Athletic Association because the league made a stand against S.I.'s non-San Francisco residents taking part in league competition.

Third, acknowledging that some of the blame for the biased and one - sided media reporting on head injuries rests with some members of the scientific community who issue one - sided press releases and feed cherry - picked results about their findings to selected members of the media, the authors look to a day when the «harsh division and polarization» in the research community (an almost inevitable byproduct, unfortunately, of the intense competition for grant money in Concussion, Inc.), gives way to greater collaboration among researchers and a more «cordial discourse» between scientists via letters and responses to journal editors and back - and - forth debates at large academic conferences.

The modern emphasis on ever - earlier independence and academics seems to inadvertently be sacrificing the very things they are designed to accomplish, and the modern view of parenting as a «competition» is setting the stage for stress, conflict, and failure.

Vicky Abeles, the mother of three kids who were scorched by the heat of extreme academic competition, framed her film as a cautionary tale.

Recipient of: Superintendent's Key Scholar Award, Honor Roll, Georgia Scholar, Optimist Club Essay Contest — First Place, National Latin Exam — Gold (Latin I, II, and III), Spirit of Learning Award, Academic Excellence Certificate, Academic Letter, Lamp of Knowledge, Georgia Certificate of Merit, Governor's Honors Program Nominee, Student of the Month, National AP Scholar, AP Scholar with Distinction, GHSA State Literary Competition Essay Writing — First Place Divisional, Hugh O'Brien Youth Leadership Conference and Leadership 56, Mock Trial Lawyer Award, Daughters of the American Revolution Youth Citizenship Award

Selby adds that beyond seeking stellar academic records coupled with demonstrated leadership skills and motivation, the committee also looks for candidates who have made links with a French scientist in advance of the competition.

A field with a higher share of postdocs is likely to have stiffer competition for scarce academic careers, and a large proportion of postdocs very likely indicates that the field offers few compelling alternatives to the academic track.

And, as the academic «precariat» grows, said Hackmann, referring to postdoctoral researchers who work on successive contracts without the opportunity to become salaried professors, «so do regimes of competition rather than collaboration, and the pressure to play by business as usual rules persists.»

Given the pressures of competition for academic positions, to follow Einstein's path is to risk the price that he paid: unemployment in spite of abundant talent and skill at the craft of theoretical physics.

(Stryland's $ 200 million figure refers to the fact that the winner of the competition must at least match DOD's contribution with funding from dozens of industrial, academic, and nonfederal public partners.)

Their findings, published in the academic journal Animal Behaviour, are the first to indicate a positive correlation between in - group affiliation and the intensity of competition with perceived «outsiders» among primates.

To search for medicines, to boost science, to preserve nature, to strengthen industrial competition, to strengthen academic educational programs, to improve health care, to correct misuse, and to support positive interactions with indigenous populations: These have been the goals of the Brazilian autochthonic medicine programs for the past 20 years.

And, although he does not anticipate «a gush» of new positions, Goldin says academic job prospects for physicists are «looking better» than they have in recent lean years — not only because of faculty retirement but also because fewer physicists are choosing to remain in the ivory tower, meaning less competition for openings.

Awards and honors include: the Society of Analytical Chemistry Silver Medal (Royal Society of Chemistry)(1981), British Technology Group Academic Enterprise Competition Award (1985), Prince of Wales Award for Innovation and Production (1989), Queens Award for Technological Achievement (1990), Rank Prize for Opto - Electronics (1991), the AACC Award for Outstanding Contributions to Clinical Chemistry in a Selected Area of Research (1998), and the Ullman Award (2006).

In general, academic research is a field of fierce international competition, but also a field of amicable international collaboration where researchers are commonly working together beyond national boundaries.

Academic year curriculum includes a number of interdisciplinary courses offered by Center faculty at the University of Washington, including Neural Engineering and NeuroVentures, Practical Ethics in Neuroscience and the Tech Studio Competition.

The SEI 2016 does not directly address the destructive effects of hyper - competition on academic science.

While Jack warns the White House of the impending climate shift, his 17 year - old son Sam finds himself trapped in New York City where he and some friends have been competing in a high school academic competition.

Over the past few decades, many schools have embraced national and even international academic competitions such as the National Geographic Bee, the Scripps National Spelling Bee, MATHCOUNTS, National History Day, and Odyssey of the Mind, among others.

Kelley has spent most of the past six years cold - calling school administrators, flying around the United States, and figuring out how to build NCAA - style bracket competitions in academic subjects.

Academic PB goals are effective because they maintain the energising properties of competition (because a student competes with him / herself), they reduce the counterproductive effects of excessive comparison with others, they motivate the student to close the gap between where they are now and where they want to be, and they are accessible to all students (whereas only one student can top the class, potentially all students can achieve a PB goal).

The role of local authorities is changing dramatically, increasing pressure on school based teams, and the free school programme (an off shoot of the academies programme) has introduced competition between schools which focuses attention not just on academic performance but on the image a school wants to project.

Technology is bringing academic competition from the podium of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, where only top students participate, to classrooms across the United States.

These students are brainy — brainy enough and quick enough on the buzzer to have made it to the qualifying round of High School Quiz Show, a weekly academic quiz competition produced by Boston's PBS station, WGBH.

«Game Plan for Learning: Building on Coleman's early theories, new academic competitions motivate students to achieve» will be available Wednesday, January 20 on educationnext.org and will appear in the Spring 2016 issue of Education Next, on newsstands by March 1.

Of course, not all academic competitions at the high school level are televised.

June Kronholz wrote about spelling bees and other academic competitions in the Summer 2010 issue of Ed Next.

The concerns of educators about the harmful effects of competition haven't slowed the growth in participation in bees, bowls, and academic Olympiads of all stripes.

But as long as lousy charters are allowed to languish, the many critics of charters — teachers unions and superintendents who dislike the competition — can successfully stave off more charters capable of saving millions of students from academic abysses.

He told me that he was not aware of anyone doing something similar (quite surprising given ~ 15 years of internet expansion by that time) and he directed me to an article titled «Academic Achievement and the Structure of Competition» by James Coleman.

June Kronholz wrote about the popularity of spelling bees and other academic competitions in the Summer 2010 issue of Education Next.

Thus the title of his classic work, The Adolescent Society, published in 1961, the germ of which first appeared in the Harvard Education Review in 1959 as «Academic Achievementand the Structure of Competition.»

One of the most notable «laboratories of democracy» was Texas, where governors on both sides of the aisle pursued a reform agenda, starting in the early 1980s, centered on higher academic standards, standardized testing, school accountability, competition, and choice.

The competition was launched as research carried out by Dulux revealed that a staggering two thirds of schools lacked the funding to make basic refurbishment improvements, with an overwhelming majority of teachers and head teachers considering the school environment to affect pupils» academic life.

The Eco-Schools competition will run over the 2016 - 17 academic year over three terms, with a winner at the end of each term, and an overall winner announced in June 2017.

All of the factors facing Cleveland — low academic performance, financial strain, enrollment loss, charter school competition — are familiar to many urban school systems.

(That takes some of the pressure off this game as an academic competition.

Rather than purely basing performance on grades and academic performance, the use of a work board related activity can help to create an atmosphere of healthy competition where students can benefit from recognition and reward then and there.