Sentences with phrase «other academic department»

Brian checked with other academic departments on campus and discovered that he could get a degree in sociology on schedule.

Are there other institutes or other academic departments or schools that are kind of focusing on similar things and that you are collaborating with?

More than 50 % of college graduates attend more than one higher education institution before receiving a bachelor's degree (Ewell, Schild, & Paulson, 2003), and approximately 60 % of teacher education occurs in general liberal arts and sciences, and other academic departments outside of teacher education.

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Webcast live, the invited audience included academics, other central bankers, private sector economists and financial market experts, labour union representatives, senior officials from government departments and Crown agencies, representatives from policy think tanks, and the media.

The State Department should begin by supporting three initiatives: the development of an academic sub-discipline of international religious freedom studies, the engagement of big business, and the building of partnerships with other, like - minded governments.

Because there is only a small amount of academic literature on religious freedom (including virtually no mention of it in the four major academic human rights journals) the State Department should make a short - term commitment to provide seed funds to better understand the linkages between religious freedom, national economics, political development, and other fundamental liberties.

Nevertheless, because it was located within an academic department, it did little more than argue with others in that department against dualism and in favor of the relevance of scientific knowledge.

When that failed, the department was both an academic liability (as the least scholarly unit in the university) and a financial one (as unlikely to attract endowment from any other source, and a possible obstacle to the university's ability to receive funds from the state and certain foundations).

The department partners with vendors and various other university departments including academic colleges, athletics and student affairs when it adopts new technology or introduces new dining concepts.

Individuals who may be eligible for this award include, but are not limited to: physicians, other allied health professionals, athletic directors, coaches, academic administrators such as principals, secretaries, department chairs, school deans, chief academic officers, and presidents of organizations that support Athletic Trainers, the Athletic Training profession in Wisconsin and / or the WATA.

«The 112 academic staff promoted comprised 36 senior lecturers, 41lecturers to Lecturer I category and 35 lecturers to Lecturer II category while others came from technical, registry and medical departments of the university,» the statement said.

For example, upon my arrival in Canada in 1969 (after completing a master's degree in zoology at the University of Kansas), I took two positions simultaneously - one as a part - time teaching assistant in the zoology department at the University of Toronto, the other as part - time editorial assistant for a professor who was the editor of an academic journal.

It is my sincere hope that other associations, serious about dealing with the lack of diversity in academic departments, will follow its lead.

COPENHAGEN — Surely, one reason women scientists are relatively rare on university faculties — in academic leadership posts such as department chairs and deans, on the programs of scientific meetings, as experts interviewed by the media, on boards, and in other prominent positions — is that women are less visible than men.

Having experienced the loneliness of being one of only a very few minorities in an academic department, Inniss urges others seeking higher degrees to select their graduate programs very carefully.

Such rules include restrictions set up by the Department of Commerce and the State Department that prohibit the export of certain items, the hiring of foreign nationals to work in dual - use fields such as aerospace or biotechnology, or the sharing of information through academic papers or other means.

Other researchers on the study were Ahmet Denli, Christopher Benner, Thomas Lazzarini, and Apuã Paquola of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies; Jason Nathanson and Gene Yeo of the University of California San Diego, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine; Keval Desai of the University of California San Diego, Division of Biological Sciences; Roberto Herai and Alysson Muotri of the University of California San Diego, School of Medicine; Matthew Weitzman of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine; and senior and corresponding author Fred H. Gage of the Salk Institute and Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny.

In fact, within academic departments women of different social or professional «ranks» cooperate with each other less well than men do, according to Joyce Benenson, an Associate of Harvard's Human Evolutionary Biology Department and Professor of Psychology at Emmanuel College, Richard Wrangham, the Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology and Henry Markovits, from the University of Quebec at Montreal, the study's co-authors.

The expertise displayed by the teams and the platforms of the Department of Translational Research allows the support for maturation of translational research projects (proof of concept in vivo, target / biomarker identification and validation, ancillary biological studies coupled to clinical trials,...) of the Institut Curie alone or in collaboration with other academic teams or industrial partners.

A diverse range of projects is carried with the help of the department: internal projects involving clinicians and researchers from the Institute, but also collaborative projects with other academic institutions or pharmaceutical / biotech companies.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People had filed a suit against the state department of education and the district in late August to prevent the dispersal to several other schools of students from the James Lick Middle School, which was one of 18 schools targeted for increased funding and special academic...

A Department of Education 2008 report determined that students who seek to master an academic topic with mastery - oriented goals show better long - term academic development than do their peers whose main goals are to get good grades or outperform others, thus the value of including feedback other than formal grades and of metacognition.

Department for Education data also reveals that children in many English secondary schools are being taught other core academic subjects, including chemistry, geography and languages, by teachers lacking subject expertise.

In Chairman Alexander's words, ESSA «specifically prohibited the U.S. Department of Education from requiring or even incentivizing any state to have Common Core or any other academic standard.

The U.S. Department of Education and numerous other researchers have sought continually to assess the effectiveness of the federal role in education in terms of its impact on the academic achievement of the targeted populations, but much less attention has been given to the effectiveness of the funding approach.

The scale and rapidity of the changes were grounded in the conviction of the New York City Department of Education, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and other key local stakeholders that small schools could more effectively meet the academic and socioemotional needs of disadvantaged students.

A concept paper inviting community - based organizations to partner with the New York City Department of Education (DOE) noted the approach «is based on a growing body of evidence» showing that «an integrated focus» on academics, health and social services, and other community supports are «critical to improving student success.»

SIM is based on extensive research which has been reviewed by scientific panels at the U.S. Department of Education and other public agencies and which has been documented in leading academic publications.

Assessment activities at UNI are conducted by academic, administrative, and student affairs departments and units and may take the form of surveys, standardized tests, program evaluation forms, focus groups, student projects, student reflective activities, or any of a variety of other mechanisms.

For the latest information and updates on Student Support and Academic Enrichment Grants and other ESSA programs, see the U.S. Department of Education ESSA website.

In addition, in October 2016, the Department of Education issued new guidance on the Every Student Succeeds Act describing how funds from Title IV, Part A's Student Support and Academic Enrichment Grants can help state and local educational agencies provide all students with access to a well - rounded education.42 According to this guidance, local educational agencies «may use funds for activities in social emotional learning, including interventions that build resilience, self - control, empathy, persistence, and other social and behavioral skills.»

The OneSourceMe Learning catalog includes trainings available by HISD Curriculum & Development, Leadership Development, Human Capital and Accountability, and Assessment, Multilingual, Special Education, Advanced Academics, and other central departments that provide trainings for Teachers, Administrators, or other designated roles.

Its effectiveness has also been recognized by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP, 2003); the Collaborative for Academic, Social, Emotional Learning (CASEL, 2002); and other regional and state groups.

Other highly gifted children attend regular classrooms, but instead of working at appropriate academic levels and having «an equal opportunity to struggle» (Morreale, 1993), spend much of the school day tutoring others in cooperative learning groups or reviewing curriculum that they mastered years ago on their own (Robinson, 1990; U. S. Department of Education, 1993).

(PDE, 2017, August 2) Currently, the SPP, available on the PA Department of Education website for public viewing, evaluates schools based on indicators of academic achievement, indicators of closing the achievement gap (all students), indicators of closing the achievement gap (historically underperforming students), indicators of academic growth, and «other academic indicators.»

Vocational teachers need expertise in their field in order to effectively train others, and SUNY Oswego requires that applicants to the Department of Vocational Teacher Preparation possess either extensive professional experience or a minimum of 30 academic credits in their occupational field.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, 4.85 million English language learners, or ELLs, were enrolled in public schools during the 2012 - 13 academic year, representing nearly 10 percent of the total K - 12 student population.17 Nearly one student in four speaks a language other than English at home — the same is true for only about one in eight teachers.18 Teaching also remains a female - dominated profession.

Among other alterations, the state education department announced Feb. 10 that full implementation of the Common Core program — which has been panned by parents, teachers and students across the country and on Long Island for being too tough, flawed and detrimental to students» academic and physiological well - being, among other concerns — would be delayed until 2022 instead of its previously planned 2017 deadline.

On the other hand, in order to comply with ESSA, states may use additional academic subjects such as science and social studies as the second academic indicator for elementary and middle schools, or as an indicator of school quality or student success for any schools, according to initial feedback from the Education Department.26 The analysis in this brief excludes these measures when identifying and weighting measures of school quality or student success.

(e) The board shall establish the information needed in an application for the approval of a charter school; provided that the application shall include, but not be limited to, a description of: (i) the mission, purpose, innovation and specialized focus of the proposed charter school; (ii) the innovative methods to be used in the charter school and how they differ from the district or districts from which the charter school is expected to enroll students; (iii) the organization of the school by ages of students or grades to be taught, an estimate of the total enrollment of the school and the district or districts from which the school will enroll students; (iv) the method for admission to the charter school; (v) the educational program, instructional methodology and services to be offered to students, including research on how the proposed program may improve the academic performance of the subgroups listed in the recruitment and retention plan; (vi) the school's capacity to address the particular needs of limited English - proficient students, if applicable, to learn English and learn content matter, including the employment of staff that meets the criteria established by the department; (vii) how the school shall involve parents as partners in the education of their children; (viii) the school governance and bylaws; (ix) a proposed arrangement or contract with an organization that shall manage or operate the school, including any proposed or agreed upon payments to such organization; (x) the financial plan for the operation of the school; (xi) the provision of school facilities and pupil transportation; (xii) the number and qualifications of teachers and administrators to be employed; (xiii) procedures for evaluation and professional development for teachers and administrators; (xiv) a statement of equal educational opportunity which shall state that charter schools shall be open to all students, on a space available basis, and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, creed, sex, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age, ancestry, athletic performance, special need, proficiency in the English language or academic achievement; (xv) a student recruitment and retention plan, including deliberate, specific strategies the school will use to ensure the provision of equal educational opportunity as stated in clause (xiv) and to attract, enroll and retain a student population that, when compared to students in similar grades in schools from which the charter school is expected to enroll students, contains a comparable academic and demographic profile; and (xvi) plans for disseminating successes and innovations of the charter school to other non-charter public schools.

A report commissioned by the Connecticut State Department of Education entitled Evaluating the Academic Performance of Choice Programs in Connecticut compared student achievement in public schools, charter schools, magnet schools, and among those students bussed from urban areas to the suburbs and did not find evidence that students in charter schools had greater achievement than other students, even with their more select student body.

For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter school tuition payments exceed 9 per cent of the school district's net school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment of a commonwealth charter school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record of operating at least 1 school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve, from the following categories of students, those: (i) eligible for free lunch; (ii) eligible for reduced price lunch; (iii) that require special education; (iv) limited English - proficient of similar language proficiency level as measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2 of the past 3 years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk of dropping out of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have dropped out of school; or (viii) other at - risk students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups of students.

R and A converted the immediate credibility and recognition it received from the 2011 Academic Update into momentum that would drive the Data - to - Action, results - oriented culture beyond the realms of the department to other educational arenas within DPS.

Prior to PDK, Bushaw held other education positions including: learning systems director at the University of Michigan's Merit Network, deputy superintendent and chief academic officer at the Michigan Department of Education, and director of the Michigan North Central Association.

Research Building Support for English Language Learners: Strategies for Creating a School Culture of Academic Success (PDF) This research brief released by Center for Schools and Communities with funding provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, identifies key strategies that principals and other educational leaders can use to foster collaboration among ESL specialists and content / classroom teachers that support the academic achievement of English lAcademic Success (PDF) This research brief released by Center for Schools and Communities with funding provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, identifies key strategies that principals and other educational leaders can use to foster collaboration among ESL specialists and content / classroom teachers that support the academic achievement of English lacademic achievement of English learners.

other education positions including: learning systems director at the University of Michigan's Merit Network, deputy superintendent and chief academic officer at the Michigan Department of Education, and director of the Michigan North Central Association.

The results of this exam, or other components of the student; s academic standing could be considered to determine whether or not the child is an English Learner (Connecticut State Department of Education, 2010).

Your academic advisor and other figures in your department are there to guide you along this challenging journey.

In early October 2017, the Education Department's statistical arm released data on repayment outcomes within 12 years of entering higher education for students who started in the 2003 - 04 academic year.20 By combining student surveys and administrative data from transcripts, financial aid databases, and other sources, these data allow for the most robust analysis of loan default to date.

Math, and many other disciplines, seem to have an independent definition that is quite congruent with what the academic department of that name does, but I don't know a definition of philosophy that makes it clear that ethics, epistemology and the history of science are all parts of a coherent whole.