Sentences with phrase «of academic promise»

Selection Criteria Applications will be evaluated on the basis of academic promise, the analytic promise of the applicant's research interests, and the match between the candidates» interests and the strengths of our program and faculty.

Private schools can pick and choose their clients and not just in terms of academic promise, also behaviour.

Not exact matches

«When the central bank promises a smaller payment, reserves are a less attractive investment, so banks will... move away from reserves and into loans,» Reis, an academic at the London School of Economics, wrote in the paper.

The emerging system bears little relation to what academic textbooks describe, to say nothing of what politicians are promising.

In the early 1960s Hamilton was a jewel in the crown of up - and - coming American theologians; the most promising part of a traditional academic theological career was ahead of him.

I prefer a more primitive conception of heaven, a heaven that is concrete, peopled, concatenated, hierarchical and symphonic; as lush as the pure land of the celestial Buddha Amitabha, as visceral as the Islamic garden of the houris, as engrossing to an academic like me as the rabbinic vision of heaven as a Talmudic house of study, and as immediate as the paradise that Christ promised to the good thief dying at his side.

While the reader is promised that several academic disciplines are represented, eleven of the contributors are theologians in some guise or other (including professors of «social ethics»).

Though no clear - cut idea of the theological school or of theology as a whole is as yet in prospect, a sense of renewal and promise, a feeling of excitement about the theological task is to be felt in the academic climate and it is accompanied by invigoration of intellectual inquiry and of religious devotion.

UNC's outgoing chancellor, Holden Thorp, promises his school will improve academic standards for student athletes, the details of which will be announced in March.

Nor did he know he was about to find himself enmeshed in a welter of charges of broken promises on one side, countercharges of academic irresponsibility on the other and, ultimately, perhaps inevitably, litigation.

Thus, although improving the economic status of families promotes more positive outcomes for children's cognitive development and academic achievement, direct services and therapeutic interventions may be a comparatively more promising alternative for improving children's psychosocial development and reducing behaviour problems.

«Working collaboratively with the Broome County Promise Zone, those interested in serving as mentors will be matched with children in schools that are part of CCPA's University - assisted community school effort, which aims to level the playing field for students from low - income families who lack some of the supports for academic success from which children from middle - class families benefit,» Bronstein said.

«Entice families to stay engaged in the educational system, by promising free college tuition, but most important, we used our resources to put various types of support in schools for students and their families to enhance opportunities for academic achievement,» she said of the program.

Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo says the implementation of its campaign promise to provide free public senior high school (SHS) education will begin from the 2017/2018 academic year.

The Joint Action Committee of the non teaching staff made up of National Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT, Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated, NASU and Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU said they believed government would keep to the promise on the agreement the parties entered into.

Of course if Gordon Brown had not broken yet another manifesto promise then this would be all academic.

More than 700,000 students in more than 1,200 New York City schools — including large high schools in all five boroughs — would face higher class sizes, have fewer teachers and lose after - school academic and enrichment programs if President - elect Trump makes good on a campaign promise to pull billions of federal dollars away from public schools to pay for private vouchers, a UFT analysis has found.

SUNY students begin the academic season this year with a promise from the state: they can transfer any general education requirements as well as some discipline - specific courses from one school to another in what Chancellor Nancy Zimpher calls the «guaranteed seamless transfer of credits.»

Faced with this mismatch, it helps to remember that much of the fertility industry is a profit - making business that has been criticised by academics for making excessive promises and offering techniques that have never been properly validated.

Consequently, it is inviting industry to work with academics in research areas deemed to have the greatest promise of commercial success, adds Williams.

There is no longer any obvious linear path to the Promised Land of academic achievement.

How Not to Succeed In Academia 04 February 2011 Kathy Weston A once - promising academic scientist tells how she ended up jumping out a window of the ivory tower before she was pushed.

The unfortunate result is that some of the most promising upcoming researchers are finding no place for themselves in the academic community, while the for - profit world of industry stands by with deep pockets and open arms.»

For all its promise, though, big data also poses a real danger to academic science, warns Jake VanderPlas, a postdoc in astronomy and computer science at the University of Washington, in an illuminating essay on his Pythonic Perambulations blog.

Defense labs will pick up on promising results, Suzuki said at a November 2016 meeting of a new SCJ committee on security and academic studies.

In a 14 May Next Wave article, NIH's Ruth Kirschstein and colleagues noted that «portable or transitional grant awards to promising fellows should be considered as a means of facilitating their advancement into independent positions at academic institutions»; this, indeed, is one of several proposals «under consideration by the senior staff of NIH and the Advisory Committee to the director of NIH.»

«It looks promising, although it's too early to tell for sure,» says Tom Brockhuizen of the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam, who has treated ten patients with the paste.

Research funding: The Conservative's manifesto vaguely promises «a stable investment climate for Research Councils» and also pledges to «delay the implementation of the new funding system for universities — the Research Excellence Framework — and work with academics to ensure that there is a robust and acceptable way of measuring the impact of all research.»

But the only sign of a much - ballyhooed push for greater commercialization of university research is a promise to invest $ 38 million over 5 years in a program to train academic technology - transfer officers and create business - development offices.

To help ease the problem, the Education Ministry has promised to increase the number of university teaching assistant posts for doctoral students from 2000 to 2700 in the next academic year.

Many universities have already acknowledged this problem and have started spending money on programs to recruit both halves of academic couples, a change that Marx - Feree says is one of the most promising shifts in university policy.

It seeks to accomplish this goal by offering seed funding for new projects that promote meaningful academic and scientific exchange, and that show promise of leading to fruitful and sustainable collaboration.

As recently as two years ago, there was little evidence of any academic or biotech industry interest in pursuing clearance of AS as a therapeutic approach to PD, LBD, or other synucleinopathies of aging: after a promising 2005 report, [31] there had been virtual silence.

UT Southwestern's chest cancer team has access to the many resources of our academic medical center — from the newest therapies based on the most promising research discoveries to the expertise of colleagues in related disciplines.

James Coleman, who died in 1995, probably would have appreciated the cultural shifts that have made the single - sex school take on new meaning, since he was one of the first modern academics to propose that coed schools offered a false promise of equality.

Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth) follows a handful of promising kids through a system that he suggests inhibits, rather than encourages, academic growth.

True to promise, the authors deliver compelling stories of students once on the brink of academic failure who have thrived in four small schools, all based on principles from the Coalition of Essential Schools.

Study finds promise of non-merit-based academic college scholarship significantly decreases school - wide suspensions in urban school district.

By contrast, an initial study of the consortia by CRESST in 2013 shows promising results for the consortia's ability to measure students» ability «mastering and being able to apply core academic content and cognitive strategies related to complex thinking, communication, and problem solving.»

A report released just today by the University of Minnesota has found that charter schools are meeting and sometimes exceeding their promises to raise academic achievement.

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character development).

Led by Academic Dean Robert Schwartz and Ferguson, the Pathways to Prosperity project launched in late 2008 to explore promising solutions to these immense challenges, including developing a range of «multiple pathways» to help more adolescents successfully complete the journey to entering the adult workforce.

A 2005 NCREL report draft (which we received special permission to cite for this article) finds «new evidence supporting the apparent effectiveness of online programs and schools and generally demonstrating the potential of online learning as a promising instructional intervention that can, when implemented judiciously, and with attention to «evidence - based» practices, apparently improve student academic performance.»

This for a place that promised longer days (an hour more than the regular public schools), an extra 25 days of school per academic year, tough discipline, uniforms, and rigorous academic standards.

From Eliot's perspective, high schools fulfilled the promise of equal opportunity for education by insisting that all students take the same types of rigorous academic courses.

Finally, encouraging findings are emerging on initiatives that combine the financial benefits of place - based promise programs with coaching and academic support services.

Charter schools such as KIPP and the Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy have large positive effects on the academic achievement of their (mostly disadvantaged) students.

Among the most important factors influencing parents» decision to send children to the suburban system were the promise of the suburban academic program (68 % of surveyed parents) and preparation of their children for college (65 % of surveyed parents).

The promise of preparing children for academic achievement and upward mobility depends upon a base level of language proficiency.

As he follows a handful of promising kids through a system that inhibits, rather than encourages, academic growth, Guggenheim undertakes an exhaustive review of public education, surveying «drop - out factories» and «academic sinkholes,» methodically dissecting the system and its seemingly intractable problems.