Sentences with phrase «on academic success while»

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This means that while I am pursuing an academic career with commitment and passion, I am also aware that that the odds are stacked against our generation of young scholars and that success and failure depend on more than our personal effort.

While it is now widely recognised that social - emotional wellbeing is a protective factor for wellbeing and mental health, as well as a key to educational success, the current emphasis on academic achievement and data - driven accountability in schools tends to relegate social and emotional learning to one side.

While there is no «magic bullet» that can explain Match's success, many point to a unique feature of the school: a built - in corps of highly educated tutors who live on the school premises and provide students with intense academic support throughout the school day.

While higher education has made necessary strides in the past few decades, as Jack recently wrote in The New York Times, «they have thought less about what the inclusion means for academic life, or how colleges themselves might need to change to help the least advantaged on their road to success.»

Stipek found that children in didactic, content - centered programs generally do better on measures of academic skill than do children in child - centered classrooms, while children in child - centered classrooms worry less about school and have higher expectations for success than children in content - centered classrooms.

While PISA is a test of everyday knowledge, TIMSS measures performance on the sorts of academic disciplines students are normally taught in school, and which are often required for success in higher education.

While some earlier studies questioned the role of grade configuration in school success and student achievement, including the 2008 National Forum «Policy Statement on Grade Configuration» and a 2010 study by EdSource, «Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades: Why Some Schools Do Better» in California, «the evidence on academic benefits has become much stronger in the past two years,» West says.

While we acknowledge school leaders are under great pressure to achieve quantitative results on standardized measures, we urge that educating for the head, heart and hand offers the best potential for success in academic measures.

While NCLB's emphasis on academic measures of success was deemed important, the Obama administration also felt that non-academic measures should be taken into account (this includes social emotional learning or SEL).

Recent surveys and focus groups show that while parents place a high value on their child's success they don't fully understand the connection between good attendance and academic achievement.

While attending Biola, Kalee was a part of the Women's Track and Field team and worked as a member of the Student and Academic Success Team on campus.

The program is designed to catch these students early on in their academic careers to support their success in college coursework (all while still attending high school) with the hopes of them earning as much as an associate degree — debt free.

«While these are essential steps toward improving K - 3 quality, they are also just that: first steps in a long line of work that can be done to ensure that the foundational years of public schooling set students on a path to becoming lifelong learners who experience academic and social success,» the report suggested.

While not much research has been done on programs with this structure (mostly because not many yet exist), we maintain that if all afterschool programs can establish strong building blocks in these core areas, success in academics, social situations, and their future life endeavors will come far easier.

While academic success is considered when selecting candidates, Will Davidson LLP does not rely on academic performance alone and prides itself on taking a more holistic approach to selecting candidates which includes a review of work experience, life experience and individual interests.

While some of the most common New Year's resolutions may not focus on academics, the offshoots may very well include improved academic performance, better grades and greater success at school.

Educational television viewing among children in preschool has been shown to have long - term positive effects on children's academic success, 46 while early viewing of violence predicts aggression and violent crime in adulthood.47