Sentences with phrase «of traditional academic subject»

Then I might, like E. D. Hirsch Jr., a University of Virginia scholar and author of Cultural Literacy, view mastery of traditional academic subject matter as supremely important to society's least advantaged and to social progress in general.

Other findings were: 82 percent of people supported focusing on building students» job or career skills even at the expense of traditional academic subjects; 86 percent said schools should offer licensing programs and; 80 percent said technology and engineering classes were a very important element of school quality.

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With the release of its new personal finance series, which was made in partnership with the City University of New York, the company's educational reach now expands beyond traditional academic subjects.

Many of the books reviewed in the regular «Book World» column dealt with social issues, but the editors also included notices of academic theological monographs and of books on subjects not traditional for religious publications: literary criticism, philosophy and psychology.

Encouraging the social - emotional development of students while teaching traditional academic subjects builds a positive school climate focused on fairness and caring about others — and helps to foster healthy, confident adults.

The introduction of the new English Baccalaureate (eBac) stemmed from the government's concern that there had been a «dramatic collapse» in the number of pupils taking GCSEs in traditional academic subjects including English, maths, science, foreign language and humanities.

At the High Tech High network of California STEM - based charter schools, academic subjects break free of traditional boundaries.

In this randomized controlled study on the impact of the arts on performance in traditional academic subjects, theater arts were integrated into language arts and social studies curricula for fourth - and fifth - grade students (14 experimental classrooms, 14 control classrooms).

As Heather Staker and I have written, the models of blended learning most likely to scale into the core academic subjects at all levels of schooling in the near term are sustaining innovations, in which online learning is essentially an augmentation to the traditional classroom, but there is still a fundamental shift in the learning model from the student's perspective.

Secretary Bell conceded that the report of the excellence commission «didn't touch enormously on vocational education» because vocational courses are not considered part of the traditional «academic core» subjects.

Ravitch tracks how the anti-intellectualism of progressive educational leaders translated into policies and programs that restricted students» access to traditional academic subjects.

But pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds focus this additional time «on traditional academic subjects such as English, science and mathematics», according to by Dr John Jerrim of the UCL Institute of Education, while their more advantaged peers opt for «music, sport and foreign languages».

Maybeck High School, a small independent teacher - led college - preparatory high school, in Berkeley... The school works to achieve a similar union between the traditional study of academic subject...

The state department of education has awarded 67 grants to high schools and school districts to develop innovative programs in those areas as well as in traditional academic subjects that are aligned to Common Core State Standards.

Schools are increasingly rating students on a variety of social competencies and «learning skills» alongside their traditional grades in academic subjects.

1) Teaching a range of student sessions based on qualifications and experience including Standardized Test Prep, Traditional Academic Subjects, and Learning Efficiency curriculum

1) Teaching a range of student sessions based on qualifications and experience including Learning Efficiency curriculum, Standardized Test Prep, and Traditional Academic Subjects

Baker, chairman of the Edge Foundation education charity, criticised the government's ambition for 90 % of young people to take the English baccalaureate, a performance measure that encourages schools to enter students to traditional, academic subjects.

In the past month, the Aspen Institute announced the formation of a new National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development, whose goal is to help schools better teach SEL skills along with traditional academic sAcademic Development, whose goal is to help schools better teach SEL skills along with traditional academic sacademic subjects.

Each campus provides ample opportunity for students to pursue interests beyond traditional academic subjects, both inside and outside of the classroom.

More - closely monitoring the academic progress of students, essentially subjecting schools to the same Value - Added analysis that is now being applied to teachers and schools in traditional public school settings also makes sense, as does monitoring their graduation rates; a private school that doesn't make the grade shouldn't be a school that families should send their kids.

For the first time ever, any student anywhere can take top - quality courses online in every major freshman college subject, taught by professors from the most prestigious universities, that lead to full academic credit at 2,900 traditional colleges, such as Purdue, Penn State, Colorado State and the University of Wisconsin - Madison, all absolutely free.

These results are highlighted in CCSA's Chartering and Choice as an Achievement Gap - Closing Reform: The Success of California Charter Schools in Promoting African American Achievement, which shows that, overall, charter schools in California are effectively accelerating the performance of African American public school students, and are earning higher Academic Performance Index (API) scores and proficiency rates statewide, in many urban districts and across all subjects when compared with traditional public schools.

Schools are increasingly rating students on a variety of social competencies and «learning skills» alongside their traditional grades in academic subjects.