Sentences with phrase «offering academic pathway»

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Syracuse's increase in graduating students can be attributed to the district's commitment to offering multiple pathways to graduation, said Linda Mulvey, the chief academic officer of the Syracuse City School District.

But the real dearth — the lack of clear pathways into careers that could enable today's generation of gifted young Americans to become the researchers who make tomorrow's great discoveries — is convincing more and more of the nation's best students not to seek careers in fields such as law, finance, medicine and other fields that offer much better short - and long - term career prospects instead of dedicating an average of seven years to PhD study plus an additional five years or more of postdoctoral training now considered necessary to compete for an academic career in many scientific fields.

In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.

On technical education routes, Neil said: «The CBI has long underlined the need to raise the profile of technical pathways that match academic options in terms of the quality and progression they offer, and it is good to see Ofsted highlight this in their latest report.

Allison's experience was transformative — for her, her parents, and the educators in the room — as an example of personalized learning, an academic model offering flexible pathways for students to progress toward a diploma in ways that are personally meaningful.

41 % believed none of these universities offered the courses they were interested in — there was a lack of understanding of career pathways from «academic - sounding» degree courses.

The way for high schools to do this, he says, is to offer more options for students beyond the traditional approach to learning, referred to as «multiple pathways» in academic circles, he says, because everyone should have an opportunity at a good job, not just a job.

We offer crosswalks and alignment studies — which identify the academic skills required by and embedded within various CTE pathways and courses — and develop curriculum frameworks for CTE that incorporate research - based instructional strategies.

She then served a student population of over 5,000 as a senior academic advisor in General Studies, offering advice about course and major selection, university and departmental policies, and career pathways.