Sentences with phrase «of prompts students»

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As you've no doubt guessed, it's a digital revolution that calls into question the very principles of education, prompting Peter J. Wells, chief of higher education at UNESCO, to remark that: «Industry employers contend that half of what students learn in the first two years of a four - year technology degree will be out of date by the time they graduate.»

He fixed the transformer connections and all of the lights turned on, prompting cheers from the students who had been learning in the dark for five months.

According to the Michigan Free Press, the agitated goose was prompted to attack Couling after a group of students got too close to the bird's nest, which was near the course's seventh hole.

While some are clamoring for an Intern Bill of Rights, and other interns are filing lawsuits, which prompted Reuters to declare that a wave of intern lawsuits was just beginning, I'm saying, why should we prevent students from exchanging 20 hours a week of their time for some experience and a reference?

Ms. Singer was previously a reporter in the Sunday Business section where her series on the consumer data industry, called «You for Sale,» helped prompt several congressional and federal investigations, as well as the enactment of a student online data privacy law in California.

The project, intended as more of an inside joke than a wide - release software product, spread virally through the student community, where it quickly prompted outrage and was taken down.

The NRA, bolstered by Trump, has been a vocal proponent of allowing more guns in public places, including schools, but the exception for the convention has raised eyebrows and prompted skepticism among students and at least one parent who lost his child in the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in which 17 people were killed and others injured.

The mass shooting has prompted a wave of youth activism that has reverberated from South Florida to Washington, where hundreds of students gathered outside the White House gates on Wednesday before the listening session, chanting, «Enough is enough!»

A week after a gunman opened fire with an AR -15-style assault rifle at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., killing 17 people and prompting a rash of student - driven lobbying for new gun restrictions, Mr. Trump met for more than an hour with grieving people in search of solutions.

Health officials have not yet pinpointed the source of what sickened students from St. Clement School in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood, following their April 17 visit to the aquarium, or what prompted more than 100 Andrew students to fall ill following their April 27 prom held at the Shedd.

Today's attack prompted the student wing of a Pakistani Islamic group Jamaat - e-Islami to protest against the Taliban's violence.

Mark Elder's visit to Auschwitz with his wife Zoe, a teacher, and a group of her history students prompted... More

This new confidence was first prompted, unless memory at this point is all wrong, by two very hard facts: the invincibility of a clear - headed medical student dying of cancer, and the impassive bulk of the Rockies above timber line, which I saw for the first time four months later.

The alarm is prompted, of course, by the efforts of school districts to teach students that evolution is a theory.

In the past 25 years they have undertaken endless self - diagnoses which prompted cycles of curriculum change, the development of unwieldy student - faculty - staff bureaucracies and modes of governance, and all sorts of societal field experimentation.

In terms of our previous discussion of the rhythm of education, the subject matter and an interesting manner of presenting it, the challenge of new ideas hopefully touches the recesses of creativity within each student, and stimulates their interest, prompting interest in further inquiry.

Hans - Georg Gadamer wrote Truth and Method at the age of sixty, after years of prompting from his students.

His questioning mind, his study of the Jewish law (the perplexing reference to the fig tree in verse 48 probably points to the fact that Nathanael was a student of the law, for the rabbis used to say that the best place to study the law was sitting under a fig tree) prompted Jesus to praise him as a true Jew and an honest man (1:47).

Based on a high - level audit of all reports of sexual harassment or violence for three academic years from 2012 - 2013 through 2014 - 2015, Pepper found that the University's student conduct processes were wholly inadequate to consistently provide a prompt and equitable response under Title IX, that Baylor failed to consistently support complainants through the provision of interim measures, and that in some cases, the University failed to take action to identify and eliminate a potential hostile environment, prevent its recurrence, or address its effects for individual complainants or the broader campus community.

Coaching is part of what we give to student - athletes,» Klein said last month before a bribery scandal prompted the suspensions of Jurich and Pitino.

It was Senz's work ethic and dedication to her students that prompted Nutrition Services Supervisor of Newberg Public Schools Cheri Meeker to nominate her for a First Timer award.

if school administrators weren't too busy to plan and would approve parent volunteer lunch monitors then parents could fill some of the lunch room void by left by over-extended cafeteria staff and teachers, explaining to kids what lunch options were and encouraging the healthier choices as well as providing more prompts in the cafeteria as students have their tray.

Mrs. Hollenbeck was employed for 20 years in the library at Glenbard West High School in Glen Ellyn prompting many students to share her lifelong love of books and reading.

Critics of the school lunch block grant idea warn that the measure does not provide enough funding to keep up with growing needs, does not guarantee a free lunch to needy students, and would prompt many schools to offer fewer complete meals or to drop their lunch programs altogether.

Diamond Lake School District in IL demonstrated to district administration the importance and impact of fresh fruits and vegetables and proved that students will eat them, which prompted the scheduling of a strategic planning session to implement more scratch cooking and continued fruit and vegetable tastings.

One of our big things last year was the Pedometer Challenge, with a goal of 10,000 steps a day, and it started with employees but made it to the student level — at the elementary level it prompted some schools to form walking clubs, where students were able to do a lap around the park and walk back to school.

She spread a conspiracy theory that the government's anti-extremist Prevent strategy is a plot by «all manner of Zionist and neo-con lobbies», prompting alarmed Jewish students to complain of her «virulent strain of anti-Zionism.»

The vote came a few months after the state's teachers unions, closely aligned with the Assembly, claimed a victory in December when the Regents, prompted by the governor and Legislative leaders, placed a moratorium on the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations.

The Vice chancellor of University of Ilorin, Professor Abdulganiyu Ambali has blamed the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Osun state chapter, for the recent religious crisis in the state which attracted nationwide attention, by resorting to «self help» by prompting some students to wear choir attire to school to counter the Muslim students who wear Hijab, instead of appealing the judgement in court.

His death prompted her to start the Back to School / Stop the Violence barbecue, which provides students with backpacks full of school supplies.

«Upon request and consistent with institution policies and procedures, [students have the right to] be afforded a prompt review, reasonable under the circumstances, of the need for and terms of» the «no contact» order, housing adjustment or interim suspension.

It was the worst school shooting since the February assault on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., where a young man with an AR - 15 rifle left 17 people dead and prompted a wave of nationwide, student - led protests calling on lawmakers to tighten gun laws.

Enrollment at City Honors School has been lopsidedly white for years, prompting the federal government to step in recently and order changes in the admissions procedures to ensure that black students are not the victims of discrimination.

The Trump administration wants to invest in an unprecedented expansion of private - school vouchers and charter schools, prompting critics to worry that certain private or parochial schools might expel LGBT students or refuse to admit students with disabilities.

But a boycott led by parents and unions prompted 200,000 students in grades three through eight to opt out of taking state math and English exams this year.

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City officials have argued the new requirements will require twice as many stops as before and likely prompt parents of students at charter schools and other private schools to clamor for equal treatment.

While the journalists drew the attention of the principal to the 2011 West African Examinations Council (WAEC) results of the school in which 39 out of 135 students passed at credit level in Biology and five out of 135 in Chemistry, thereby prompting mass withdrawal of students from the school, some people who claimed to be policemen in mufti with horsewhips from the «C» Division of the State Police Command, stormed to the office to arrest the newsmen.

Most previous studies on evolution views were done in the Midwest and Northeast, Rissler said, and hearing many of her students say the topic was avoided in their high - school science classes helped prompt the study, she said.

An in - depth genetic analysis, performed with the participation of graduate students Tal Lupo and Lihee Asaf, pointed to a gene called WNT5B, which was revealed to be the factor prompting stem cells to differentiate into lymphatic cells.

This, «for the upwardly mobile student, creates a fair amount of cognitive dissonance» — which, Jensen adds, prompts some students to drop out of school.

To tap into that reserve, the Andersons built an interface for ethicists to train AIs through a sequence of prompts, like a philosophy professor having a dialogue with her students.

The survey then prompted the students to think carefully about what kinds of questions the exam would probably include.

The state cut UC's budget by $ 813 million, prompting the university to raise student fees, furlough faculty and enact a range of other painful cost - cutting measures.

Across two different cohorts of students in a college statistics class, the researchers randomly assigned half the student participants to receive the intervention prompt; the other half received no prompt, serving as the comparison group.

College students who participated in a self - administered intervention prompting them to reflect about their use of classroom resources had final grades that were higher than their peers, according to new findings published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

Participating students received a writing prompt from their teachers, who were not aware of the research hypothesis.

Already, medical students around the world are, from this year, learning about the mesentery as a continuous organ, after research by Professor Coffey prompted an update in one of the world's best - known medical textbooks Gray's Anatomy.

Using software connected to the desks themselves, Benden and another graduate student, Parag Sharma, are studying what factors and behavioral prompts affect the behavior of about 1000 people in three offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra, Australia.

His students are then prompted to extract DNA from the plants, characterize the leaf material, make phenotypic measurements, complete genetic sequencing, and finally, contribute data to a developing molecular map of the marama bean.