Sentences with phrase «school academic history»

Because you may not have any college - level experience, your education section can include a brief look at your high school academic history.

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Moderator: William V. Harris, William R. Shepherd Professor of History and Director, Center for the Ancient Mediterranean, Columbia University Speaker 1: L. Randall Wray, Research Director of the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability and Professor of Economics, University of Missouri - Kansas City Speaker 2: Michael Hudson, President, Institute for the Study of Long - Term Economic Trends and Distinguished Research Professor, University of Missouri - Kansas City Tuesday, September 11, 2012 About the Seminar Series: Modern Money and Public Purpose is an eight - part, interdisciplinary seminar series held at Columbia Law School over the 2012 - 2013 academic...

He spent most of his distinguished academic career at Duke Divinity School, where he was the Ragan Kerns Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the History of....

Ryan Valentine of the Texas Freedom Network takes a different view: «Academic study of the Bible in a history or literature course is perfectly acceptable,» he says, «but this curriculum represents a blatant attempt to turn a public school class into a Sunday school class.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

Prairie Moon Waldorf School offers a rich and comprehensive academic program which includes English based on world literature, myths, and legends; history that is chronological and inclusive of the world's great civilizations; science that surveys geography, astronomy, meteorology, physical and life sciences; and mathematics that develops competence in arithmetic, algebra, and geometry.

There was, however, a decline in the number of pupils taking core subjects such as geography and history and modern languages, and a marked rise in the number of non - academic / vocational qualifications being taken, particularly by pupils from the poorest backgrounds or those attending schools in disadvantaged areas.

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.»

Academic History: Graduate schools want to know what colleges and universities you have attended.This information is used to assess your educational experience.

The school's motto, Knowledge, Vision, Integrity, has shaped the academic and character goals of Montclair Kimberley throughout its history.

Over the past few decades, many schools have embraced national and even international academic competitions such as the National Geographic Bee, the Scripps National Spelling Bee, MATHCOUNTS, National History Day, and Odyssey of the Mind, among others.

Though often mistaken as one man's prescription for what should be taught in school, Cultural Literacy was a pioneering study of the history of education theory as applied in our schools — and it came to the rather damning conclusion that those schools had wrongly forsaken the importance of transmitting knowledge in the classroom; the academic failures were not the result of moral or character imperfections but of knowledge deficits.

«No One Way to School» investigates political philosophy, constitutional history, cultural theory, and academic and civic outcomes in depth.

The curriculum — which embeds all - purpose academic words the students will need to read high school and college textbooks in math, English, science, and history — has helped to «build a bridge toward greater understanding of what is being read by students,» says Ben Honoroff, the literacy coach for MSQI in the Department of Education.

By the time high school students make it to Jeremy Green's AP psychology and U.S. history classes, some seem convinced that their academic shortcomings are innate and permanent.

The kind of data schools are likely to collect, and therefore need to be wary of, include personal data on members of the school community, including names, addresses, contact details, legal guardianship contact details, disciplinary records; academic data such as class lists, progress reports; professional records of employment history, taxation, national insurance records and appraisal records.

Academic learning that comes to mind includes more prosaic elements of law, such as contract vs criminal vs administrative law; the developmental history of their own city; recent (50 years) political history of their city; basics of land law; current vs past thinking in urban planning; specific budgetary investigations at both the state and local level; school funding law in their state; essentials of Leadership, EPA impacts on dismantling abandoned structures; economic price theory; or the competitive strengths and weaknesses of their own city or region.

Hoping to establish the same recognition for academics that athletics receives, former high school history teacher Will Fitzhugh founded The Concord Review, a quarterly journal of outstanding high school history essays.

- Marc A. Epstein teaches history and serves as an academic dean at Jamaica High School in Queens, New York.

In the new paper, published by the Migration Policy Institute, Dryden - Peterson looks at how pre-resettlement histories can affect refugee children's academic experiences later in their school lives.

Charter - school advocates say the shift in resources is warranted because charters often excel where traditional schools have failed, posting stellar test scores even in impoverished neighborhoods with little history of academic success.

The newsletter now has an expanded focus: the range of new California academic standards — from the Common Core standards in English language arts and math, to the Next Generation Science Standards and the history - social science standards — as well as how schools will be held accountable for measuring their progress on them.

This rapid growth, mirroring a national trend and pushed by Florida Gov. Rick Scott, comes as charter schools are delivering better academic results and stronger financial controls than at any time in their 15 - year history...

The policy of having students repeat their grade placement based on insufficient academic or social development has a history of fluctuation in the public schools.

Schools used the widest range and types of data to inform these decisions, including results on standardized testing, academic and social history, and teacher observations.

During our 9 year history, we like to build out full partnerships with schools in which we are able to align our support and training with the overall school goals to support academic achievement for all urban students.

The other programs allowed private schools to deny students admission or grant preference to certain students for many reasons including disciplinary history, academic achievement, and religious affiliation.

This rapid growth, mirroring a national trend and pushed by Florida Gov. Rick Scott, comes as charter schools are delivering better academic results and stronger financial controls than at any time in their 15 - year history in the state.

One recent analysis had to discard 75 % of its research because it had failed to account for differences between the backgrounds and academic histories of pupils attending the schools.

Many of our charter schools were featured prominently in the stories, which covered topics ranging from the state's rich history of school choice to how families can pick the right school for their students, whether it's an arts, academics, online or STEM school.

CSDC is focused on helping to «stand up» and stabilize those schools so that they become independently creditworthy, without the need for CSDC's further assistance, by virtue of their successful operating history and demonstrated ability to meet their enrollment goals and produce good academic and financial results.

Dr. Bullock previously worked in Temple ISD serving in several positions during his time there including high school history teacher, department chair, advanced academic coordinator, and later principal of Temple High Sschool history teacher, department chair, advanced academic coordinator, and later principal of Temple High SchoolSchool.

Further, while we already had a network of school - based teams charged with coordinating social services and academic supports (the district had a long history of doing this kind of work), we realized that we had to expand it, given that our EWI system promised to identify many vulnerable students who had previously slipped through the cracks.

The academic intensity of the student's high school curriculum still counts more than anything else in precollegiate history in providing momentum toward completing a bachelor's degree.

As the recent history of the school district has shown, special interest groups have been a hindrance, rather than an asset, in the drive for academic success.

Students who have experienced years of repeated academic failure or have a history of attendance challenges are likely to drop out of school.

For many, that meant a rapidly shrinking school system with a long history of academic issues and a low graduation rate of about 60 percent.

His academic interests include school finance, effective schools, teacher quality, organizational behavior, public school supervision, educational history and computer applications.

The lawsuit — which was filed in 2011 and became the longest legal battle over school finance in state history — was brought against the state after the Legislature cut $ 5.4 billion in public education funding from the state budget while schools were already struggling to implement new academic standards.

Transformational Leader nominees are those individuals that have served a minimum of three years in a leadership position at their current school, and have a documented history of improved student achievement and student academic growth.

Assembly Bill 484, which has been approved by the Assembly and is currently being debated in a state Senate committee, would eliminate all of the California Standardized Tests that high school students would have taken over the 2013 - 2014 academic year — tests in subjects like history, algebra, chemistry and physics.

Public schools are educating the most diverse student population in history and have been helping students achieve more academic success despite significant societal challenges, mandates, and regulatory requirements that curbed school board members» ability to devise even more innovative educational opportunities.

There have been fears across the schools community that the government is pushing schools away from arts education with the introduction of the EBacc — a performance measure for ranking schools whose pupils secure a grade C or above across five «core» academic subjects: English, mathematics, history or geography, the sciences and a language.

Facing History Tech, along with 11 other public, parochial, and charter schools in our partner schools network, are dedicated to engaging students with rigorous interdisciplinary content to foster academic skills and ethical awareness.

Independent and parochial schools that work toward a mission of service, moral education, social responsibility, and academic excellence find that Facing History exposes students to rich content that resonates with adolescent development and the choices they are facing.

Orleans Parish School Board has an impressive pre - and post-storm history of letting autonomous schools draft their own attendance zones and set their own academic criteria for entry.

The plan doesn't do enough to address the long history of shortchanging the city's east side, they said, such as changes to boundaries and transfer policies, and comprehensive strategies to boost enrollment and improve academics at struggling schools.

Graduates of a program designed to inculcate school principals with unconventional thinking have gone on to help drive up English test scores even though the graduates were often placed at schools with histories of academic failure, according to a study released on Monday.

The Oklahoma School Testing Program (OSTB) administers seven end - of - instruction (EOI) exams in English language arts, math, and science course subjects as well as U.S. History, in compliance with ESSA and aligned with the Oklahoma Academic Standards.

Facing History fosters empathy and reflection, improves students» academic performance, reinvigorates teachers, and builds safe and inclusive schools.