Sentences with phrase «point does academic»

At what point does academic pressure become too great?

Not exact matches

Academic economists do not need to concede the fiscal stimulus point to Bay Street — but we should at least acknowledge that they may have one.

But doing so would miss a vital point: the endowment tax is an attack on academic freedom, and it is an attack on all colleges and universities.

And while Kogan maintained he had never drawn a salary from the work he did for SCL — saying his reward was «to keep the data», and get to use it for academic research — he confirmed SCL did pay GSR # 230,000 at one point during the project; a portion of which he also said eventually went to pay lawyers he engaged «in the wake» of Facebook becoming aware that data had been passed to SCL / CA by Kogan — when it contacted him to ask him to delete the data (and presumably also to get him to sign the NDA).

But advanced academic work does have a point to it; there are great riches in the Christian tradition, and it's often only the trained theologian who will see the dangers to which an argument might lead or remember the beautiful passage from one of Augustine's sermons that best illumines a point.

Many fingers have been pointed from lazy consumers to greedy food companies to inept governments but it has done little to solve the problem — obesity and overweight rates continue to rise.In this keynote roundtable we bring consumer, industry and academic...

But as cases of academic fraud and evidence of steering continue, it's becoming easier for those attacking the NCAA to point to substantive evidence that the NCAA does promote education enough to allow it to blatantly violate antitrust laws.

He did, moving on to the University of Pennsylvania as a basketball player, then transferring to Grand Canyon University to become a 20 - point - per - game scorer and academic All - American.

The point of all this is not to abandon the concept of doing academic work outside of school, or eliminate extracurricular activities.

The academics Peter Allen and Philip Cowley have pointed out that within three years the Cameron Cabinet included exactly the same number of women as Tony Blair's did at the same point in his premiership (though Mr Blair had rather more to choose from).

A final point: Not only does this mix of activities change each day, it changes during the course of an academic year, grant cycle, etc..

The results, Thompson points out, would likely differ in less - developed countries where children don't have equal access to education; academic achievement in these places is shaped more by opportunities than genetics.

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«And even if you do get to the point of being committed,» said author Aditi Paul in an academic study on the effectiveness of online dating, «you can cop out easily, without too many mental scars, because you know you can reactivate your profile and there will be a bunch of others waiting for you.»

And even though the poetry is not always too poetic (Ash somehow gets away with saying, «You take my breath away») and a competing academic seems a poor attempt to add conflict (he does get points for attempting to recite poetry before digging up a grave), there's no denying the film's intelligence and heady appeal.

Lynch says he's proud of the fact that the schools he's worked in — which have tended to serve working - class students — have had good records and that «a high percentage of the students got jobs; some of them have done quite well from an academic point of view.»

Academics may point to publication citations or Rick Hess» Edu - Scholar Rankings as indicators, but those metrics don't quantify practitioner use; they measure recognition and repetition.

I guess some of that early work done by Marzano shows that we can actually have academic achievement scores increase by 20 percentile points and engagement scores go up by 23 percentile points, higher in classrooms where effective management techniques are being employed.

This is not a function of SAT prep courses available to the affluent — such coaching buys only a few dozen points — but of the ability of these students to do well in a challenging academic setting.

A meta - analysis of 213 programs, primarily covering three decades of research, found that social and emotional learning interventions that address the competencies listed above increased students» academic performance by 11 percentile points, as compared to students who did not participate in such SEL programs (Durlak et al., 2011).

Ms. Sadia White, Chief Academic Officer of the NPS made this point crystal clear to school leaders in that district when she stated «we do not and will not seek a silver bullet, we will focus on the work of improving instruction every day in each of our schools.

Some colleagues and myself were frustrated with exact this point when we tried to do some work on growth mindsets last academic year.

Compared to students that didn't receive the program, growth was seen in social and emotional skills, attitudes, behavior, and academic performance that reflected an 11 - percentile - point gain in achievement.

The salient points of the academic literature did not yet exist in the sources designed for practitioners, making it challenging for teachers to access current, relevant research and innovation.

Your editorial, «Evaluating the schools chief» (March 12), does a good job of pointing out the fact that Baltimore City schools CEO Gregory Thornton has not articulated a clear vision of how to move the academic performance of the Baltimore City Public...

«Even two percentage points of students moving from basic to proficient is, for us, a huge victory, knowing, absolutely, that we have so much more to do,» said Briony MacPhee, a United Way director who oversees academic efforts.

Students trained in social and emotional skills had academic achievement scores which were an average of 11 percentile points higher than those who did not, according to a meta - analysis of 213 studies (Weissberg, et al., 2015).

CHICAGO — Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) President Karen Lewis criticized the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) list of schools targeted for closures and other school actions by pointing out that not only does the policy do little to improve student achievement, but the District has a poor record of improving academic achievement among the city's most vulnerable students.

Performance on state standardized tests also rose — as did the Academic Performance Index (API) score, which increased 54 points.

And with these students less distracted and more engaged in school, they do better on their academics; they average 11 percentile points higher on standardized test scores than do students without SEL training.

While Hanushek's rebuttal is devastating, the more important point is that Baker simply pretends it does not exist — he paints a story of academic consensus that is entirely false.

Don't hide the harsh realities that will lead to unpleasant conversations, a point that former Kentucky chief academic officer Felicia Cumings Smith made.

In describing what the student can do in the academic areas, the IEP team will use as its reference point the academic expectations from the general education curriculum for the student's age appropriate grade.

Downer and his team point out that while many studies have pointed to increased levels of engagement and learning related to teacher - student racial and ethnic match, notably,» no studies of ethnic match / mismatch effects in preschoolers have examined academic achievement outcomes,» and most of the work done in this area has been based on interviews with teachers or classroom observations, Downer said.

She pointed out that other academics, such as Professor Rob Coe, have previously shown that peer observations focused on rating individual aspects of a lesson did not change pupil outcomes, and have suggested that it is hard to judge teaching quality in this manner.

While it does already show favoritism to urban charter schools, not non-urban, from a purely performance - based point of view, Massachusetts» balance still is off; if the state designed the policy exclusively to maximize academic gains, it would raise the cap in urban areas and lower the cap in non-urban areas.

In a recent press release, the Italian automaker didn't specifically mention the names of the three models that they are planning on releasing, but it's all pretty academic at this point unless they have something up their sleeves that we've never seen before.

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It doesn't matter whether you are lacking proper writing skills or you do just fine with academic writing — you will come to a point where you will be simply unable to complete a certain task because of a part - time job, family obligations, health issues, social events, or other college requirements.

2) is an interesting academic point, but I don't think it really causes much problem in the real world... plenty of v large & successful companies (& investment companies) out there who don't pay a dividend!

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The first clearly and effectively traces the rise of curators as bestowers of value in the artworld (and elegantly glosses struggles for the control of value — between critics, dealers, artists and curators — along the way), up to the point at which curating's deskilling and populism means that everyone can do it and inherently contradicts the discipline's quest to professionalise itself via academic courses and qualifications.

Who is pointing or orating, who wears that academic gown, and what dignity or indignity did they bear?

«It was a master class taught by a master, and if someone were to ask me what exactly is it that academics do, I would point to these lectures and say, simply, here it is, the thing itself.»

It really points to very serious widespread problems in the U.S. academic and journalistic professions — you can't do research on renewable energy in the U.S. academic system, because of fossil fuel influence, and you can't get honest coverage of renewable energy initiatives in the U.S. press, also because of undue influence by vested interests — and more often than not these days, those vested interests are in finance, not in industry.

As a result of this sensitivity we conclude, as we did with the DICE model, that the FUND model, although an interesting academic exercise, is at least at this point completely unfit as a tool to justify trillions of dollars of economic regulations.

Anybody with an education in the sciences can tell when a credentialed charlatan is violating scientific method, «cherry - picking» data, manipulating computer simulations (climate models) to «draw the curve, then plot the points,» concealing his raw observational data sets from properly skeptical examiners, corrupting academic peer review (both to suppress the publication of colleagues» studies casting doubt upon the reviewing officers» pet hypotheses and to ensure that the submissions of «The Team» do not suffer impediments to publication), and concerting all these violations of professional ethical standards by way of back - room confabs and some of the most incredibly stupid e-mails this side of Enron's «Smartest Guys in the Room.»

The only thing that counts is the hypothesis itself — attack that, point out specific flaws, backing your critique with specific scientific evidence — but don't simply attack the academic authority of the person proposing this hypothesis.