Sentences with phrase «prevail at most schools»

They're showing that students, especially those growing up in adverse environments, aren't deeply motivated by the kind of reward - and - punishment structures that prevail at most schools.

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That, of course, is not the prevailing view at most business schools, whose finance curriculum tends to be dominated by such subjects.

More important, however, is the larger implication I take from Mr. Bedrick's thesis: that private school choice advocates in America, Mr. Bedrick among them, have failed to establish a coherent, prevailing belief system about the role of private schools in providing an education of measured quality, at scale, for the nation's most disadvantaged youth.

Law schools have been heavily criticized for lacking coherent educational missions and for having no means of assessing whether they accomplish what they ostensibly intend to accomplish.82 More particularly, the prevailing «case method» of instruction in law schools, at least standing alone, is criticized as ineffective in training law students to become practicing lawyers.83 Thus, although most law schools say they intend to train students to become practicing lawyers, many fall short of that goal, leaving students to learn various fundamental lawyering skills on the job or elsewhere.