Sentences with phrase «real academic issues»

If we mask real academic issues with grade floors year after year, we risk missing a chance to hold everyone — community, parents, the school board, district administration, school leaders, teachers, and students — accountable for rectifying the issue.

Not exact matches

We know a lot from various kinds of evidence: a) the experience of the real estate sector, where recent studies by Macdonald Realty and Re / Max have confirmed the dominance of foreign buyers at the top end of the market especially, as stated for years by individual realtors (accounts often denigrated as «anecdotal»); b) there is the digging of several investigative journalists, and most notably by Ian Young of the South China Morning Post who has boldly and effectively raised issues native journalists have sometimes shied from; c) academic work, including the books by Katharyne Mitchell (2004) Beyond the Neoliberal Line and David Ley Millionaire Migrants (2011).

APF Canada Disclaimer: Given the controversial nature of this topic, APF Canada has attempted to provide a transparent, fact - based backgrounder that, while referencing the main studies published to date on the issue of foreign - ownership in Vancouver real estate, does not delve into a rigorous academic critique of these studies.

It would indeed be interesting to survey how many health problems, emotional disorders, and academic issues would start to disappear if children were served these real foods instead of what they are currently eating.

ENDS Notes to Editors UK Alcohol duty context For a short video summary of the issues around alcohol pricing, please visit: https://vimeo.com/191959217 Following heavy lobbying from the alcohol industry, the last four Budgets have seen real terms cuts in alcohol duty Alcohol is 60 % more affordable than it was in 1980 — the alcohol duty escalator, introduced in 2008, which ensured that duty rose above inflation, helped mitigate this trend, but this progress has reversed since the duty escalator was scrapped in 2013 In real terms, spirits duty has halved, and wine duty fallen by a quarter since 1978 - 9 The Government estimates suggest that the duty cuts since 2013 will cost the Exchequer # 2.9 billion over four years The University of Sheffield estimated that an additional 6,500 people would be hospitalised each year as a result of the alcohol duty cuts in 2015 The report The report was peer reviewed by academic experts the fields of economics, public health and public policy prior to publication.

Each scenario gets students thinking about real issues, while drawing on the academic skills (like writing and reasoning) that they use all day.

This administrative issue can create very real logistical challenges for charter schools, parents, and students, such as difficulties with recruitment and children's academic stability.

This proposal addresses chronic issues with alternative routes to teaching: poor induction methods into the profession, difficulty connecting academic certification requirements with real - life classroom challenges, and difficult school placements.

Wendy Lecker's column successfully lays out the historical context and the real issues surrounding our nation's failure to close the academic achievement gap, and by doing so, she lays bare the lies and deceit being perpetrated by the education reform industry.

Dr. Yee described Linked Learning as «a universal high school transformation» that can «help students apply the academic skills they are learning in school to solve real world issues and, ultimately, show them how their high school education directly relates to their career interests and aspirations.»

Hands - on tasks spark curiosity, encourage teamwork, and help students to make connections between academic subjects and real - world issues.

The Real Deal: School is divided into clear sections, each focusing on a specific teen issue, including peer pressure, academic challenges and friendships.

As an academic myself I have seen that most of the Deciders in academia due to both age and disposition may be aware of the issues in some general way but lack any real direct experience with digital reading so they are ill equipped to set policy in any meaningful way even if they agreed with most of what advocates such as this author say.

The second «is a careful survey — applying a number of selection criteria — of those professional and academic analysts who did «see it coming», and who issued public predictions of financial instability induced by falling real estate prices and leading to recession.»

Their initial piece, «Climate change is real: an open letter from the scientific community,» is on The Conversation, an academic Web site aiming to provide a credible source of information and analysis on important issues as traditional journalism shrinks.

We bring academic rigor, objectivity, and real world industry experience to bear on issues arising from competition, regulation, public policy, strategy, finance, and litigation.»

Well, since I am not an academic, and live in the real world, the fact that the «whole policy issues» do exist, and are being implemented by deluded progressive governments as we speak based precisely on «science» like this, I find your argument irrelevant.

My blog work facilitates the exposure and scrutiny of my legal ideas to a national and international readership that includes not only judges, policymakers, and practitioners at all levels in many jurisdictions, but also academics from other disciplines, journalists of all stripes, many nonlawyers interested in criminal justice issues, and also — perhaps most valuably — the real people whose lives are most impacted by the policies and doctrines that I discuss.»).

«The way I want to work is I want to consult with the private sector, with government and with the academic community to see what are the issues that they feel are the ones that need to be pursued right now as a priority, and I don't want to create an agenda that is not grounded in real - life concerns of Canadians,» she says.

The firm's higher education services include: day - to - day academic, business and corporate matters; labor and employment; student discipline and affairs; NCAA compliance; tax matters (including tax - exempt issues); real estate, financing and construction; employee benefits; litigation; higher education regulatory issues; and health care.

To put it in more concrete terms, I think it does law students a real disservice if they graduate with lots of training in writing 40 - page academic papers about legal issues, and no training in writing brief, economical memos on legal issues which are more like the work product clients need.

In the last year, Ian Young, a reporter at the South China Morning Post highlighted how the Centre for Urban Economics and Real Estate, run by UBC business professor Tsur Somerville — the academic most often quoted in the media regarding Vancouver's housing issues — receives part of its funding from developers.