Sentences with phrase «on their academic track»

Charlotte gradually gets back on the academic track, but too late to save her first semester grades.

I was really enjoying my work on surface catalytic reactions, and the next obvious step, if I was to keep on the academic track, was a Ph.D..

Learn from sources other than your advisor: Your mentor may have grown up in a different world entirely, when the world's scientific infrastructure was in the growth mode and opportunities on the academic track were more widely available.

180,000 prospect to help lower any barrier that may prevent students from going on the academic track.

So I'm on the academic track currently.

This is one reason why we propose to create 2,500 new partnerships between middle schools and America's colleges and universities to get many more young people on the academic track to go to college.

Schools are using lunchtime detentions, Saturday schools, alternative schools, and other forms of in - school suspension to keep students on the academic track.

I started out adult life on an academic track but then rethought and ended up in high tech.

I am on the academic track to receive my B.S. with honors, and I have demonstrated proven leadership skills.

Not exact matches

The idea behind the lab is simple — its student and academic supporters use the same technological tools to track security agencies as those bodies use to spy on other individuals and organizations.

Whether it was beating a friend at a video game (Street Fighter 2 on SNES comes to mind), playing sports (my favorite sport was basketball although I was always better at running track) or academic competitions (yes, I was a bit of a math nerd).

He has a lot in common, in that respect, with Summers — also an academic who seemed on track to win a Nobel Prize one day who decided to shift to policymaking rather than research.

Regarding Schumer's point on enrollments, the number of computer science graduates bottomed out in the 2006 - 07 academic year, with only 8,021 students receiving bachelor's degrees in computer science at the 170 Ph.D. - granting institutions tracked by the Computer Research Association.

I've been saying for six or seven years now (four of those spent adnitcnujg post-degree) that I could and should be looking for work outside of academia, but only after five rollercoaster years on the academic market and coming * this close * to landing a tenure - track position can I happily and healthily say I quit.

Pupils may further be put into classes on the basis of prospective occupation or occupation type, as in the European multiple - track system, in which at a certain age — say, twelve — pupils are separated into «industrial» or «vocational,» «business» or «commercial,» and «academic» or «college preparatory» segments.

«I had to let schools know that I wanted to compete on the track as well as in academics.»

When the first murmurings of this scandal began to surface in 2011, Roy Williams was adamant in his assertion that he had no inkling of an idea that something was going on, and was actually outspoken in his defense of his programs» academic track record.

Some tasks include: Review, clean out, and notify me of important emails on a regular basis; Draft responses to important emails upon discussion and review with me Review daughters school blogs and notify me of all important dates, projects, performances; Assist in responding to emails and drafting emails to teachers on issues related to daughters Track daughters school grades and academic performance on a regular basis via a website.

At the start of the 2014 - 15 academic year, Shipley embarked on an ambitious project: The school wanted to track every head impact received by its athletes.

On a typical Wednesday in Pamela Victor's home classroom, her 14 - year - old son works on structured academics while her 12 - year - old daughter heads out to a wilderness program to learn to track animals, find edible plants and build a firOn a typical Wednesday in Pamela Victor's home classroom, her 14 - year - old son works on structured academics while her 12 - year - old daughter heads out to a wilderness program to learn to track animals, find edible plants and build a firon structured academics while her 12 - year - old daughter heads out to a wilderness program to learn to track animals, find edible plants and build a fire.

The students are therefore calling on the government to desist from delays in payment of scholarship allowances in order to fast track the achievement of academic goals.

This Parliament is on track to be the most rebellious ever, with the academics studies showing that the current cohort of MPs to be the «most troublesome they have been».

Some «serious soul - searching» was required, but Conry took her professor's advice and set her sights on a tenure - track academic career.

While most of my classmates, at that point, were either postdocs or had given up on academe, Tan told me she was on the «academic administrative track» at the University of California, Berkeley, which she assured me was actually a thing.

«It's very different from the academic track that I was on from graduate school to postdoc, but it's certainly been exciting and it's fun,» says Rogers.

Should I just go with the academic flow, continuing down the research path that so many have taken before me — to a postdoc or two, a temporary research position perhaps, and, if I'm extremely lucky, on to a tenure - track position?

Being on the team track has also helped me establish a work - life balance that I am happy with, which is admittedly hard to achieve in academic science.

Clauset and co-authors reported on the conclusions they drew from «complete and hand - curated data on the placements of nearly 19,000 tenure - track or tenured faculty, among 461 North American departmental or school - level academic units, in the disciplines of computer science, business, and history -LSB-, which]... represent highly distinct scholastic traditions.»

As documented in Free to Think: Report of the Scholars at Risk Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, which tracked and analyzed attacks between January 2011 and May 2015, scholars and students may be persecuted for the content of their research or teaching or for exercising fundamental rights such as the freedom to express their opinions, whether on academic or unrelated Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, which tracked and analyzed attacks between January 2011 and May 2015, scholars and students may be persecuted for the content of their research or teaching or for exercising fundamental rights such as the freedom to express their opinions, whether on academic or unrelated academic or unrelated matters.

Finally, because there are far more postdocs becoming career postdocs than tenure - track professors, some say that rungs on the academic ladder are more likely to be awarded to colleagues who build the appearance of being the most collegiate.

Werwa stuck to academic science longer than most — long enough, in fact, to get on the tenure track and back off again.

But despite these two tracks being completely separate, two recent rounds of interviews for clients on either side of this divide helped me recognize what a successful Indian plant breeder has in common with an equally first - rate American cell biologist: The passion they have for what they do still drives their career success a decade after leaving the academic lab.

Compared to academic research, private labs need to commercialise research results as rapidly as possible; therefore, research is focused on promising tracks for commercialisation.»

On completion of their postdoctoral studies, 62 percent of former postdocs and 55 percent of current ones hoped to land a tenure - track academic position.

Much reporting on the plight of adjunct faculty members emphasizes what sets them apart from academics on the tenure track: low pay, lack of job security, and lack of fringe benefits.

1) Agricultural Biotechnology with guests Samuel Gattis, Ph.D., and Barbara Wedel, Ph.D. 2) Tenure - Track Academic Positions with guests Jennifer Ingram, Ph.D., & Rebecca Fry, Ph.D.: On the third Thursday of each month, the Brown Bag Lunch highlights a different set of Ph.D. careers to provide fellows the opportunity to meet with a few individuals with firsthand experience.

The emphasis in the selection is on the excellence of the academic track record; evidence of unusual creativity and ingenuity in addressing scientific problems; both the novelty and feasibility of the proposed approach; and the quality, adequacy and appropriateness of the host environment.

I enjoy sports like volleyball, soccer, and track and field, but I took a break from sports my freshman year year of high school to focus on academics.

Like Knight's track, culturist Frayling's is far more informative than entertaining, but if you're checking out bonus features on Criterion Collection films, chances are you'll appreciate the academic approach.

Burris combines reviews of academic studies, as well as personal anecdotes from her own experience as an educator, to argue that ability tracking has a negative effect on the educational achievement of «low track» students while also undermining social cohesion.

My teachers noticed immediately that I was withdrawing from academic life, and through a series of roundtable discussions and weekly one - on - one conversations, they gave me a safe space to talk about what I was going through, helped me create a plan to get back on track, and reminded me how far I had come and how far I could still go.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

Recently, Witney won approval to hire 20 academic advisers whose job is to get high school students on track to both enter college and then graduate from college.

These questions generally don't sound academic, at least at first, and that's how you know you're on the right track.

At schools on Long Island and in Connecticut, Hopkins watched how students were «tracked» into academic paths despite their potential.

Rather than focus solely on a teacher's performance during the most recent academic year, the teacher evaluation system should allow tenured teachers to accumulate a longer - term track record of excellence.

Similarly, the tracking of students into classrooms based on ability or academic performance may group disadvantaged children with the most disruptive students.

Instead, we try to pretend that most, if not all, should be on an almost exclusively academic track, thereby requiring that standards of achievement be lowered and curricula watered down to accommodate the average to below - average ability student.

Board members could turn to the report — a «dashboard» in education parlance — to see if the school is on track to meet its academic goals.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.