Sentences with phrase «school as irrelevant»

Too many middle and high school students experience school as irrelevant or boring.

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What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

Sex education is currently taught in Guatemala schools but campaigners say it is often incomplete or irrelevant, as less than half the girls in Guatemala attend secondary schools.

Do they not, in the first place, reintroduce the distinction between «theoretical» and «practical» (or «academic» and «professional») which, once adopted as a way to organize the world of a theological school, ends up alienating the «theoretical» or «academic» and making it functionally irrelevant to the «practical» or «professional»?

These superficial and accidental traits which are taken as marks of race are in themselves educationally irrelevant and should be so treated in the allocation and conduct of schooling.

There is another school of thought that dismisses such personal likes and dislikes as irrelevant to allegiance to a church, the lone legitimate Christian fellowship, all the more virtuous if you find some of your fellows insufferable.

It is appalling that seminaries and divinity schools continue their business as usual — analyzing so many interesting and irrelevant things — but ignoring the people who could help us to understand the meaning of black exploitation and rage in this society.

By this stage of our life, I was keeping almost no records of our home education as such; with the boys both beyond «compulsory school age» in both the UK and Cyprus, it seemed irrelevant.

Skeptics see many new technologies as irrelevant for the daily lives of poor people: «Do poor people who are struggling to put children in school and find health care really need the Internet?»

Nutrition is blown off by the medical establishment and medical schools as being totally irrelevant to health.

When those students forget their lunch, for instance, that paper plan is likely to prove irrelevant to what the school does in practice, as teachers are unlikely to have read it and the real - time response will probably be a product of circumstance, experience, and acquired routine.

What's more, in an increasing number of schools around the country that I've visited, this isn't a futuristic vision; many of these techniques have already been rendered irrelevant, even as their fundamental cognitive underpinnings remain critical.

That said, one of the biggest ironies I noted was how much of the book's techniques may be, to varying degrees, irrelevant for the jobs of teachers in the future, as online learning continues to grow in blended - learning settings and remakes the learning environments in schools.

Unless the arts finally wins the same respect and status as sport both in and out of schools, the financial gains and our voices will be diminished to the back of the class and deemed an irrelevant luxury.

After throwing up the standard straw men — «At its core, the reform movement believes that great teachers and improved teaching methods are all that's required to improve student performance, so that's all the reformers focus on,» «reformers act as if a student's home life is irrelevant,» «Dodd [the teacher] does everything a school reformer could hope for» — he rolls out the woefully tired and hopelessly unhelpful nostrum: «What needs to be acknowledged, however, is that school reform won't fix everything.»

He does hit all the high notes — the ravages of poverty, the lessons of James Coleman, the further lessons of Richard Rothstein, even bringing in Joel Klein as the heartless reformer who thinks a student's home life is «irrelevant» — but ends up being completely off - key, forgetting that we now have dozens, if not hundreds, of schools that are succeeding in educating poor children.

Also, the seniority system will be exposed as the dinosaur that it is, meaningful school reform just might begin to take hold and the union will become much less powerful, and perhaps even irrelevant.

The amount of time students spend in schools becomes irrelevant as brick - and - mortar structures fade away.

The result is what is referred to as the «silos of schooling» that often appear to students as boring and irrelevant, «hermetically sealed containers» of academic content — with no connection to the real world outside of school.

New standards and tests with a myopic focus on text without regard for the reader (i.e. the child actually doing the reading), without regard for their interests, knowledge, and passions, will serve to further disengage children from the splendor of reading and give students more reasons to see school, and reading, as irrelevant.

As a condition of basic funding, they demand concrete results, like standardized test scores, that are often irrelevant to important educational and life outcomes; and that often force schools to deprive poor children of the types of learning that are most important in life.

And we used the initial opportunity to work with middle schools over a three year period in what we called the PSI KEYS Initiative, because we used KEYS as sort of a baseline to help identify the one or two big problems that — if they weren't solved — made what else they did irrelevant.

While some education researchers such as Tom Loveless of the Brookings Institution may want to argue that the PISA data is irrelevant because it supposedly doesn't reflect what American kids are learning in school, the fact that kids from highly educated households (as well as kids whose parents are high school dropouts) are not performing well makes such theorizing seem silly.

«Middle school students overwhelmingly describe the information texts they read in science classes as boring, irrelevant, and difficult to understand — hardly a recipe for positive motivation to read this material.»

This is not, as the Amish say, «mox nix» (irrelevant); it is an essential question in the school choice debate.

Such charter organizations as the Alliance for College - Ready Public Schools have, in effect, tried to make segregation irrelevant by offering a college - prep curriculum in small classes within small sSchools have, in effect, tried to make segregation irrelevant by offering a college - prep curriculum in small classes within small schoolsschools.

I usually find this kind of car irrelevant to me these days (well out of reach of my bank - balance and driving ability), but I felt the school - kid re-emerging from me as I watched, the blue - tinged exhaust emissions in particular evoked a primeval urge to laugh maniacally.

It is entirely irrelevant whether the authors of some papers also distribute pamphlets to school headmasters, just as it is scientifically irrelevant what the political affiliation or religion or hair color of authors are.

It is time for a different tack for the science is becoming irrelevant as the brainwashing of the young is total in the schooling system.

He dismisses the often cited ivory tower / professional school dichotomy as irrelevant, and locates the trouble in the fill - in - the - blanks approach, where legal writing (and research) is seen as a rote or unceative exercise.

To the extent that Palmer suggests a generally applicable proposition that legislative purpose is irrelevant in constitutional adjudication, our prior cases — as indicated in the text — are to the contrary; and, very shortly after Palmer, all Members of the Court majority in that case joined the Court's opinion in Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U. S. 602 (1971), which dealt with the issue of public financing for private schools and which announced, as the Court had several times before, that the validity of public aid to church - related schools includes close inquiry into the purpose of the challenged statute.

If you're in need of space, consider removing old or outdated info such as clubs or extracurricular activities from high school or college or irrelevant, short - term, or seasonal jobs from early in your career.

On the same note, do not include any positions that are irrelevant to the position for which you are applying, such as the time you spent flipping burgers at Wendy's during high school.

Resumes written without pre planning contains all sort of irrelevant information such as the height and weight of the applicant to the first aid course he or she underwent in high school.

In addition, avoid repetition and irrelevant information, such as the clubs you belonged to in high school.

Balancing the needs of these children against the mandate to educate and now to meet academic standards set by state agencies is a formidable task, and schools are finding their curricula bulging with special units on what are sometimes seen as nonacademic and irrelevant frills — social skills training, anger management, conflict resolution, and safe sex, to name a few.