Sentences with phrase «of academic rigor with»

High Tech High School, located in North Bergen, New Jersey, is a county - wide vocational school that combines high levels of academic rigor with a strong focus on vocational subjects.

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Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.

Sheehan et al. have studied everything (including rum and cider, the focuses of the beverage menu) with a nearly academic rigor.

The Patriot League, a Division I - AA nonscholarship conference modeled after the Ivy League, with a level of talent and academic rigor that's close to the Ivy's, began accepting football playoff bids in 1997, and its teams have gone 2 - 6 in the postseason.

And my bet — I could be wrong, but this is my bet — is if we start with kids very early, and we provide them with the kind of intense and continuous academic rigor and support that they need, then when they get to the middle school and high school level, we're not going to need those superhuman strategies at all.»

Waldorf is dedicated to providing its middle school students with an academic curriculum with rigor and purpose — one that is creatively designed to meet the particular needs of middle school students — along with exceptional teachers, regular class travel, a no - cut athletic program, and fine arts and performing arts courses.

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Capacity: The new two - story facility, with a capacity of 1,600 students (an increase of 400 from the former campus), allows for the standard middle school configuration of Grades 6 - 8 on one campus... which provides sixth - graders with greater opportunity for academic rigor, fine arts and career electives and athletic and extra-curricular activities, as well as 30 additional minutes of instructional time each day, compared to an elementary schedule.

He not only found that a significant percentage of the academic units still need to come into compliance with the standards, but that there was sufficient concern about academic rigor to warrant consideration of issuing a third warning.

A Season With, Season 3: New episodes air every Tuesday at 10PM ET / PT on SHOWTIME throughout the season as the Midshipmen balance the rigors of academics, athletics and military service while navigating a challenging college football schedule.

Yet the inherent strengths of Catholic education — a focus on values, faith formation, and academic rigor, coupled with the belief that all children can succeed — are as sturdy a foundation as they have always been.

In this Harvard EdCast, Chu discusses her experience with the Chinese way of schooling — including the positives, such as academic rigor and respect for teachers — and suggests what the United States and China could learn from each other regarding education.

Even if educators manage to skate past the dizzying array of standards and value - added evaluations, they must still contend with this fundamental divide: academic rigor, with its unflinching emphasis on measurable success, seems strangely at odds with emotional intelligence, a soufflé of moods and feelings.

The Partnership's turnaround plan combines some of the central components of Catholic schools — strict discipline, a focus on character development — with a new infusion of charter - inspired efficiency and academic rigor.

Flooding academic courses with underprepared students may have had the net effect of driving the rigor out of these courses.

In an article that appeared in the Summer 2008 issue of Ed Next, Paul Peterson and Rick Hess examined the rigor of each state's academic standards as compared with NAEP and found that only three states — Massachusetts, South Carolina, and Missouri — had established world - class standards.

In the United States, educational reform financed by federal Race to the Top funds and standardized through the Common Core State Standards Initiative has brought buzzwords like «grit» and «rigor» into the national lexicon, while quietly doing away with play - based developmental learning in the lower grades in favor of an increasingly academic structure.

Topics in the Overall School Experience section of the survey address Student Engagement, Academic Rigor, Relationships with Peers and Teachers, School Culture, and College and Career Readiness.

ICs dictate the level of academic rigor during Summerbridge's summer program through their interactions with TFs.

· Collaborating with other members of the academic team, establish a unified vision of academic rigor grounded in data - driven instructional decision making.

Meetings allow Daniel to talk with teachers about two of her biggest concerns — building up students» inventory of academic language and increasing the level of rigor.

The report, Removing Roadblocks to Rigor: Linking Academic and Social Supports to Ensure College Readiness and Success, was released to offer a broad definition of academic and social support aligned with rigor and focus on integrating a range of intentional strategies that enable students at all levels to successfully undertake challenging courseRigor: Linking Academic and Social Supports to Ensure College Readiness and Success, was released to offer a broad definition of academic and social support aligned with rigor and focus on integrating a range of intentional strategies that enable students at all levels to successfully undertake challenging couAcademic and Social Supports to Ensure College Readiness and Success, was released to offer a broad definition of academic and social support aligned with rigor and focus on integrating a range of intentional strategies that enable students at all levels to successfully undertake challenging couacademic and social support aligned with rigor and focus on integrating a range of intentional strategies that enable students at all levels to successfully undertake challenging courserigor and focus on integrating a range of intentional strategies that enable students at all levels to successfully undertake challenging coursework.

Known for its academic rigor based on more than 40 years of research into how students learn, Compass Learning partners with educators to ensure that students achieve record academic results, one learner at a time.

• Large numbers of students with high school diplomas admitted to county and community colleges require remediation to pursue college - level courses, especially those requiring academic rigor, including math and science.

The Academies of Pre-Engineering, Pre-Business, and Health & General Medicine at Renaissance Charter School at Central Palm provide qualified students with a curriculum of academic rigor, integrated with hands - on experiences in preparation for future endeavors in high school and college.

OCCRA combines the academic rigors of engineering with the excitement of sports to get large numbers of students enthused about science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).

Goalbook partners with districts around the country, helping educators bridge the gap between the theory of academic rigor and its practical application in the classroom.

Quite frankly, given the rigors of the IB program, I continue to be impressed by his academic achievements coupled with his devotion to, and leadership positions in, a multitude of clubs and organizations,» said Theory of Knowledge instructor Jonathan Illuzzi.

Graduates move on from Catholic elementary school with a solid academic and social foundation necessary for the academic rigors of high school, college and beyond.

At Cloud9World, we believe that 21st Century learners need to be prepared for the rigor of learning and career with more than academics.

«What we are seeking here today are lead California industries partnering with school districts, partnering with community colleges and partnering with regional and economic leaders to move forward multi-million dollar applications that will establish pathways that combine academic rigor and career application in the leading growth sectors of our economy,» Senate leader Darrell Steinberg, who championed the Career Pathways grant program through the Legislature, said during a media call.

We also offer Academies of Pre-Engineering, Pre-Business, and Health & General Medicine to provide qualified students with a curriculum of academic rigor, integrated with hands - on experiences in preparation for future endeavors in high school and college.

Under both the IASA and NCLB, each state wrote its own academic standards and developed its own tests, leading to wide variation in content and rigor.11 But with the global economy growing increasingly competitive and connected, two - thirds of jobs will require at least some college training by 2020.12 State leaders, acknowledging this economic reality, began to recognize that schools needed to expect more of students for them to succeed and that these expectations need not be dramatically different among states.13

The dramatic increase in the graduation rate has turned some heads in the academic world, with some experts questioning the validity and rigor of online credit recovery courses.

Academic content is charged with rigor through the curricular structures of learning expeditions, case studies, projects, fieldwork, consultation with community experts, service learning, and exhibitions of student work.

We also added quality elements that we've come across in extensive research of best practices to create a unique design we call STEA3M with academic rigor, relevance, opportunity and community!

A Latina student defended the difficulty of my assigned reading material to another student because she did not want the teaching of the art of her ancestors watered down but rather taught with the same academic rigor as any European art class.»

To that end, the overall aim for the initiative is to generate a robust learning experience where the intimacy, intellectual rigor, social engagement, and critical reflection of a private academic seminar merges with the urgency of facing the public sphere.

Of course, I could be wrong, but I felt it my duty to point out, as much as I can while wearing my journalist hat, but with academic rigor (the facts in my book are carefully cited so readers can check them), that there is more than one side to climate science.

The peer - review status of articles are also clearly marked, in this open source journal system, with links to the journals» review policies, an aspect of reputation and authority taken for granted with traditional journals that have not had to worry about their reputation for rigor outside of the academic community.

For analytically oriented or research positions, employers favor candidates with a strong record of academic rigor and achievement.

Explicit teaching and practice of self - regulation and social - emotional emotional skills must go hand - in - hand with academic rigor for students to become the citizens they are capable of becoming.

All three were accepted into their college of choice with scholarships and all three were well prepared for the rigors of college academics.