Sentences with phrase «on challenging academic»

Title I provides formula grants to states and, in turn, to districts to help disadvantaged children achieve proficiency on challenging academic standards and to improve the performance of low - achieving schools.

The current law hinders states» actions as they work hard to fulfill the main goal of No Child Left Behind: ensuring that all students have the opportunity to obtain a high - quality education and reach proficiency on challenging academic standards.

Not exact matches

With an admittance rate around roughly 2 percent, getting into an IIT is one of toughest academic challenges you could take on in your teens.

The «students» tend to be scientists and academics who are working on big science challenges — hairy problems in biotech and pure technology — funded by the NSF.

Chen said the purpose of the course is not to defy or challenge academic conventions but to focus on the implications and problems in the rapidly developing gaming industry in China.

Along with his professional and academic commitments, Mr. Wang is also involved in the Cooper Union Entrepreneur Society, which will be hosting its second Cooper Union Startup Challenge on May 21st 6 - 9 pm in the Rose Auditorium.

Martin Luther's protest initially took the form of a public challenge to an academic debate on a swathe of theological niceties.

Eleven representatives from Piedmont attended the Challenge Success Fall Conference to discuss the social and academic climate at participating high schools on Sept. 25 and 26 at Stanford University.

Why spent money on sports programs or academic challenges if you can't fuel your students with premium ingredients, which are not any more expensive when used wisely?

Bad parenting can cause a lot of problems such as academic challenges, delinquency, depression and so on.

A study of seventh - graders revealed that those who put more value on learning than on making good grades were able to push through academic challenges more easily than those who had fixed ideas about how smart they were.

Denise Pope, the founder of Challenge Success, in August released a book, «Overloaded and Underprepared,» that provides practical recommendations for schools based on years of academic research on workload and achievement.

The second technique they use is really challenging academic work — rigorous, long - term projects that students take on, where they can't help but learn in a deeper way.

In their white paper on academic integrity, Ms. Levine and Challenge Success have a series of suggestions for parents (and educators) interested in fully supporting the message that honesty is more important than grades.

Challenge number two is — this is something that I became more aware of working on Helping Children Succeed — that even going beyond the challenges that low - income kids face and the gaps in our academic outcomes, there are significant problems with some of the basic approaches to teaching and education that we have in our schools: The basic principles of American pedagogy, how we teach math, how we teach anything.

While you may find it challenging to pull your little ones away from their iPad or Xbox, the truth is that playing Minecraft (and video games in general) can be beneficial for your kids on many levels, including problem solving, building self - confidence, enhancing creativity, understanding teamwork and improving academic performance.

He focuses on wider audiences using video material to help communicate the emotional significance of «Attachment Theory,» a potentially dry academic subject with very personally challenging significance.

Conversely, over-parenting — where academic achievements are elevated above emotional needs — creates a disproportionate reliance on external affirmation, so the child doesn't possess the internal resources to overcome unexpected challenges and is liable to crumple at the first obstacle.

Children with learning challenges, attention problems, academic weaknesses, constant agitation, irritability or defiance have behaviors that place greater demands on you as the coaching and teaching parent.

Sally wondered if the exclusive focus on Max's dose of medication and his ability to get his homework done - they had added an evening dose when he got in to middle school and the academic challenges increased - had distracted them from seeing Max's true nature.

In other e.politics news, I'm doing a call - in show on Minnesota Public Radio tomorrow morning about YouTube debates, chatting with academics from Princeton and Wake Forest (hope my Palestine (Texas) High School degree is up to the challenge).

He called on the nation's English scholars to address the academic challenges by embarking on projects to encourage serious innovative scholarship on English language.

The report draws on government and trade statistics, academic evidence and economic theory to challenge arguments that the health and social benefits of reducing alcohol consumption are likely to come at a cost to the economy, finding: · Any reduction in employment and income resulting from lower spending on alcohol would be offset by spending on other goods · Econometric analysis of US states suggests that a 10 % decrease in alcohol consumption is associated with a 0.4 % increase in per capita income growth · Lower alcohol consumption could also reduce the economic costs of impaired workplace productivity, alcohol - related sickness, unemployment and premature death, which are estimated to cost the UK # 8 - 11 billion a year The analysis comes at a timely moment, with health groups urging the Chancellor to raise alcohol duty in next month's Budget.

During a contentious three - hour debate on Thursday, Jewish lawmakers condemned the legislation as anti-Semitic, arguing that many of the state's roughly 700 school districts have faced similar fiscal and academic challenges to East Ramapo.

In subsequent articles, I will focus on some of the challenges and opportunities specific to the academic consultant.

There has only been one legal case in which academic privilege and researcher - participant confidentiality were on the table: In 2014, CAUT funded a legal challenge on behalf of two University of Ottawa criminology professors resisting police efforts to obtain records related to a study about male escorts.

Given all the challenges of being an academic, the most important thing to do is prioritize and capitalize on the flexibility of the position.

The salary issue remains a challenge in France, and is even more sensitive for people just starting on the academic ladder.

Bouyed by her success in the innovation challenge, Pray has her sights set on graduate school and an academic career.

Educational improvement efforts, Eye concludes, should focus not on correcting a nonexistent overall deficit but on improving the academic performance of the students «in the lower portion of the performance distribution,» many of whom face social and familial challenges that interfere with their education.

In the Science perspective, the researchers discuss the gains they have made in understanding latency over the past five years and the challenges that remain as the team of academic and industry investigators — from UNC, Duke University, Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, the University of California at San Diego, Emory University, MacroGenics, and other institutions — embark on the next steps in HIV cure research.

I have a few grants under review at the moment to build on my research identifying the challenges faced by disabled academics in the workplace and develop training for line managers and universities on how to best support their disabled colleagues.

As for the challenges I face through my job, they often have to do with the discrepancy between the interests of industrialists and academics, the first being preoccupied with short - term issues while the others are turned on by longer - term problems.

Heather Hava, right, who is working on a doctorate in aerospace engineering sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, describes a computerized system she is developing with other graduate students participating in the eXploration HABitat (X-Hab) Academic Innovation Challenge.

The new methodology is already challenging widely held beliefs by finding that teachers can not be judged solely on the basis of their academic credentials, that classroom size is not always paramount and that students may actually be more engaged if they struggle to complete a classroom assignment.

On the other hand, there will be a few who are motivated by the academic challenge and, in addition, want to improve the system from within.

Rationale The rationale for describing this proposal as an initial step derives from a corpus of published research on the incorporation of research findings into policymaking (e.g the 1978 National Research Council report, Knowledge and Policy: The Uncertain Connection) as well as the project directors» own professional experiences in a number of academic and professional settings about the intellectual and networking challenges of fostering substantive dialogue across analytical perspectives, including the subfield perspectives on science policy.

Whichever team you end up playing on, whether corporate or academic, funding will always remain a challenge.

Without a large government grant, Beall knew that no academic team could take on this challenge.

This outlook, the team argues, causes students to respond to challenges by trying harder and has a greater impact on Asian - Americans» academic achievement than does cognitive ability or socioeconomic status.

Defense and industry researchers will join scientists from Indiana University and other academic institutions in a groundbreaking forum Oct. 12 - 13 designed to foster collaboration on mutual technology challenges and regional economic growth.

Retired Army veteran and College of Education graduate Jeremiah Butler overcame many challenges on his road to commencement, and WFXG shared the details of his academic journey in the news story...

We will explore topics such as how policies differ globally, the challenge of steering through the regulatory landscape for both academic researchers and manufacturers, and the number of unproven cell therapies being advertised on the market.

Sharon Grimster, General Manager Wales, ReNeuron, commented: «This is a challenging but vital part of the broader commercial manufacturing strategy for the therapy and we are pleased to be working with leading academic and commercial manufacturing partners on this important program of work.»

Our academics regularly advise on policy issues around major global challenges such as poverty reduction and environmental sustainability.

Chris» academic background and scientific approach allow him to shed light on the «how's» and «why's» in a way that ensures that both Paleo adherents and skeptics will come away enlightened and challenged.

A Season With, Season 3: New episodes air every Tuesday at 10PM ET / PT on SHOWTIME throughout the season as the Midshipmen balance the rigors of academics, athletics and military service while navigating a challenging college football schedule.

He tries out and gets a spot on an academic quiz team that is training to compete on the BBC series «University Challenge» — the title for the film comes from a catch phrase of the show.

The DreamWorks comedy, based on Dav Pilkey's extremely popularized children's book series, marvelously boasts crisp and energizing CG animation to go along with a roguish tale of grade school pranksters as they challenge the patience of the bothersome authority figures that oversee their academic misery.

In a world where students are often still assessed based on their right and wrong answers, I wonder: how are teachers meeting the challenge of communicating other critically important academic values to developing thinkers?