Sentences with phrase «of conventional schools»

Dynamic Driving School offers DMV - approved Internet - based driver's education course that enables the student and their parents to enjoy the convenience of taking the course at home, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year without the time, travel or expense of conventional schools.

When I started teaching in a classroom of a conventional school, the «common» methods I followed kept my performance as a teacher acceptable.

The high priest (or, as McLaren puts it, «inaugural protagonist») of critical pedagogy is the late Paulo Freire, whose view of conventional schooling (a teacher instructing students in the canon of established academic curricula) was captured in the title of his seminal 1970 book, The Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

Not exact matches

Milyutin — who confesses that he struggled with math in primary school — cited a 1984 review by the late Benjamin Bloom, which reports that students who received one - on - one tutoring performed better than 98 % of students taught in a conventional classroom.

A recent study by two Canadian business schools into what causes inflated executive pay upends some of the conventional wisdom about what causes executive salaries to increase over time.

Alberta's oilsands operations are getting increasingly more efficient in producing energy, though they still lag behind conventional oil, according to a new study published by researchers at the Haskayne School of Business and China University of Petroleum (Beijing).

Often such parents are aware of the fact that external and conventional ways of doing this — attending church school and saying grace at meals, for example - are not in themselves adequate, unless something else is also present.

Eventually one discovers that there is another piece of conventional wisdom about conversations that use these phrases to diagnose theological schooling's ills and prescribe cures: The conversations are interminable and inconclusive.

It is conventional to distinguish between theological schools that focus on the education of ministers by attending to the «heart knowledge» of God that people have through their Christian experience, through their piety or spirituality, and theological schools that focus on the education of Christian intellectuals by attending to the «head knowledge» of God that people have through critical intellectual inquiry.

Conventional wisdom assumes that the defining goal of a theological school is to educate clergy for the churches, or, more broadly, to educate leadership for the churches (whether it is lay or ordained leadership is probably irrelevant).

The overarching weakness, he thought, was «a deep need to fulfill the emasculating and benign - to - a-fault role of the good little boy who pleases Mom by following all rules (the civil law, school rules, conventional morality, politeness, etc.)[while] remaining unthreatening and unphysical.»

The study thus challenges the conventional wisdom that a more demanding school will improve the performance of students who are already performing well, but only at the cost of forcing out poor performers.

The contrast struck Bucer very forcibly, between the conventional language of the schools and what Luther was putting across.

There he was expected to conform to the rather conventional public school version of Christianity.

Christianity and Mohametanism: — For two thousand years the Greek art - forms lifelessly repeated: The Greek schools of philosophy, Stoic, Epicurean, Aristotelian, Neo-Platonic, arguing with barren formulae: Conventional histories: A stabilized Government with the sanctity of ancient ceremony, supported by habitual pieties: literature without depth: Science elaborating details by deduction from unquestioned premises: Delicacies of feeling without robustness of adventure.

The answers vary by individual and by the type of degree earned, but conventional wisdom from operators and school administrators alike is that it's hard to go wrong by hiring an individual who's graduated from a top culinary program.

It's amazing the number of things you never have to consider before becoming a parent — breastfeed or formula feed; cloth diapers or disposables; vaccinations; when to start solids; organic vs. conventional foods; public school, private school or homeschool; and, of course, if you are having a boy — whether or not to circumcise.

Whatever your interests or learning style, with hundreds of families in the region choosing to leave conventional education in favour of home schooling you are soon bound to find others to share your journey with.

Milk served in schools is conventional and full of hormones.

Investigating successful kids and programs at low - income schools and high - achieving prep schools, as well as interviewing psychologists and neuroscientists, Tough challenges some conventional wisdom on causes of failure (poverty, teacher quality) and contends that nurturing character in children and young adults is the key to success.

«As insiders, we are in a position to state that the process of vetting in respect of the new NIA DG negates conventional practice, as nobody has visited Chad where he claims to have grown up and schooled to probe into his differential associates, or even his likely espionage roles.

The North - East sub-region harbours one of the largest concentrations of Almajri, numbering over two and a half million, who are outside the conventional school system.

He has hammered Emanuel for closing 50 failing conventional public schools and increasing the number of Chicago's charters.

Moskowitz complained that lawmakers decided to raise charter funding by only 2.9 percent instead of linking new funding to the 9.4 percent hike conventional public schools got last school year.

Speaking on The Andrew Marr Show, Mr Twigg added such schools opened in England would be brought into line with the teaching standards of conventional education.

Professor Armani, the Ray Irani Chair in Engineering and Material Sciences at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, likens the change from conventional silicon to organic materials as analogous to the change of «gas to electric.»

«By measuring naturally occurring ammonium and iodide in numerous samples from different geological formations in the Appalachian Basin, including flowback waters from shale gas wells in the Marcellus and Fayetteville shale formations, we show that fracking fluids are not much different from conventional oil and gas wastes,» said Jennifer S. Harkness, lead author of the study and a PhD student at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

«Our study shows the significant impact of adding carotid plaque measurement using vascular ultrasound and coronary calcium scoring with CT scan to our conventional assessment for cardiovascular disease,» says Roxana Mehran, MD, the study's co-lead author and Director of Interventional Cardiovascular Research and Clinical Trials at the Zena and Michael A. Weiner Cardiovascular Institute at Mount Sinai Heart at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Using HUNT, a Norwegian population - based health cohort study based in a rural county with 130,000 residents, the Bristol Medical School team, with co-workers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, were able to see how mortality in the parents related to both their own BMI (the conventional approach) and to the BMI of their adult children.

«Our analysis confirms that this accumulation of radioactivity is derived from the disposal of conventional oil and gas wastewater after 2011, when authorities limited the disposal of unconventional oil and gas wastewater,» said Nancy Lauer, a Nicholas School PhD student who led the study.

For decades, the conventional wisdom was that increasing the number of minority scientists requires addressing every aspect of the pipeline — from elementary school through hiring and promoting faculty members.

Associate Professor Xu Rong, Interim Chair of the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, said the burgeoning global population increasingly strains conventional food sources, so there is a need to innovate new foods and processes to alleviate the increasing demand.

In this scenario, what might look like a lack of student achievement, using a conventional VAM estimate, could result from a school having a larger number of disadvantaged students.

Similarly, if replacing the lowest - ranked school in the survey with a top - quintile school, student test scores would improve by 0.39 of a standard deviation using a conventional VAM, and 0.53 of a standard deviation when using the MIT team's own VAM method.

Wise is a veteran physics teacher who believes conventional schooling often «gets in the way» of what kids can achieve.

«Conventional wisdom is that academic performance in high school is important for college admission, but this is the first study to clearly demonstrate the link between high school GPA and labor market earnings many years later,» says French, director of the Health Economics Research Group (HERG) in the Department of Sociology at the UM College of Arts and Sciences, and corresponding author of the study.

But a new type of lens created at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) turns conventional optics on its head.

Bulky, hefty and downright expensive, conventional school textbooks may rank as the most outdated part of our nation's public education system.

Asthmatic children living in green homes experienced substantially lower risk of asthma symptoms, asthmatic attacks, hospital visits, and asthma - related school absences than children living in conventional public housing.

Diana W. Bianchi, a reproductive geneticist at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Mass., agrees that fetal genomes could inform treatment in the future, but she questions the need to replace conventional genetic testing with whole - genome sequencing to diagnose genetic diseases such as beta - thalassaemia and cystic fibrosis.

By the time I graduated from medical school, heart transplant surgery had become conventional, so I moved to Los Angeles and did something I've never told anyone else about: I spent a couple of years rolling pennies and eating canned spinach and pasta while I tried to understand the universe, an effort I felt had reached a dead end.

«This is another great example of how using a synthetic «bottom - up» engineering approach and leveraging the power of biological design — this time at the scale of individual molecules interacting on cell membranes — can lead to breakthrough technologies for medicine that overcome limitations that hold back more conventional approaches,» said Wyss Institute Founding Director Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children's Hospital and Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

«About 15 to 20 percent of patients who start conventional treatment for drug - resistant TB don't finish, mostly because of the length, expense and discomfort associated with it,» says Emily Kendall, M.D., an instructor in the Department of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Thanks to a breakthrough led by researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, treatment for hemophilia can now be administered via a biodegradable system, a capsule, giving people affected by the hereditary bleeding disorder hope for a less expensive, less painful treatment option than conventional injections or infusions.

This complexity contributes to its aggressive nature and resistance to conventional therapies such as chemotherapy and radiation therapy,» says Fisher, Thelma Newmeyer Corman Endowed Chair in Cancer Research and co-leader of the Cancer Molecular Genetics research program at Massey Cancer Center, professor and chair of the Department of Human and Molecular Genetics at the VCU School of Medicine, and director of the VIMM.

«Certainly for the next several decades, the majority of electricity will be generated by fossil fuels in a fairly conventional way,» says Bill Moomaw, an international energy policy expert at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, primarily because it is cheap and readily available.

But the conventional wisdom on the benefits of owning vs. renting still holds when done right, according to a newly published study led by the Brown School's Center for Social Development (CSD) at Washington University in St. Louis.

Professor Ken Naitoh of Waseda University's Faculty of Science and Engineering (Department of Applied Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, School of Fundamental Science and Engineering) and his associates have discovered a revolutionary energy conversion principle (new compressive combustion principle) able to yield stand - alone engines with double or higher the thermal efficiency potential of conventional engines, independent of their size.

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Eleftherios Mylonakis, a professor of infectious diseases at Brown's Warren Alpert Medical School and chief of infectious diseases at Rhode Island Hospital and the Miriam Hospital, led a multidisciplinary team of researchers searching for drugs to target bacteria that have developed a resistance to conventional antibiotics.