Sentences with phrase «schools characterized»

SRI believes that better action happens in schools characterized by collaborative, reflective practice.

CES worked with school districts and other entities to shape the policy conditions that support and promote schools characterized by personalization, democracy and equity, intellectual vitality and excellence, and graduates who experience success in all aspects of their lives: educational, professional, civic, and personal.

Because of the entrenched practice of assigning students to public schools based on their neighborhood of residence, urban public schools tend to concentrate highly disadvantaged students in schools characterized by low levels of safety and achievement.

They may also be appropriate for schools characterized by a high degree of staff cohesion, in which teachers work collaboratively to improve student learning and it is difficult to isolate the performance of a single teacher.

(0ne school characterizes its attitude toward other denominations as magnanimous; another recognizes only two church bodies — one of these in Europe — as soundly Christian; some denominational programs for the development of theological education move easily from praise of the ecumenical spirit to exclusive concern for the advancement of the denominational ministry.

The mission school characterized the ambiguous relationship that Christians in India have toward celebrating Dalit festivals.

The lawsuit, filed in May and set for a September hearing, caps a tumultuous period at the school characterized by increasing bitterness between the Palmer and Trinity camps.

Not exact matches

«What is your approach and philosophy on K - 12 education, and how would you characterize the state of our K - 12 public school infrastructure?»

Though JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon characterized his throat cancer as «curable,» it's «not exploitative» to think about his successor, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a professor at the Yale School of Management, told CNBC on Wednesday.

A section of the press has mis - characterized Governor Dr. Raghuram G. Rajan's remarks at the AQR conference at London Business School on June 25, as saying «the world is at risk of a Great Depression».

Noel once told me that he started his walk away from Christianity in that context; graduate school finalized that journey and when I came to know him, he was a massively articulate, Bible - steeped skeptic with little taste for the cultural Christianity that characterized all too much of the deep South.

Donne, seventeenth - century poet and Anglican divine, was perhaps the premier exponent of the «metaphysical» school of poetry that was characterized by «wit,» the clever deployment of language in grappling with large subjects pertaining to God and the soul.

This is the force of characterizing a theological school, not simply as a group of people whose overarching goal is to understand God, but as a group of people whose overarching goal is try to understand God more truly simply for the sake of understanding God.

Within individual schools, it may characterize groups of faculty and students and their various social and cultural locations.

Not only does the pluralism in question characterize past and present construals of the Christian thing and their respective social and cultural locations; it also characterizes particular theological schools, the practices that constitute them, and their respective social and cultural locations.

Then there is the school of Christianity characterized by Quakers, Congregationalists, and others, who understood that slavery was a terrible evil and didn't pretend to justify it with their religion.

The juvenile stage, which is characterized by a need for more extensive relationships among one's peer group, then takes over and dominates personality development throughout one's early years in school up to and including the initial awareness of one's sexual identity.

Specialized scholars stand at the summit of academic prestige, and subject - matter compartmentalization characterizes the curriculum, even to some extent in the elementary schools.

Asked to characterize the American groups, sometimes called «orthodox Episcopalians,» Leslie Fairfield, professor of church history at Trinity Episcopal School of Ministry in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, said in an interview: «In general, they are Anglo - Catholic in liturgy, evangelical in theology and charismatic in piety.»

Plain persons are those characterized by everyday practices such as sustaining families, schools, and local forms of political community.

The Sunday school is characterized by the use of mindless methodology.

Stereotype 4: The Sunday school is characterized by the use of mindless methodology.

It is this school, characterized by Cantor as having high «communicative skills and marketing techniques» overlaid on Marxist presuppositions, that has so influenced American medievalists lately.

In general, this school can be characterized by its acceptance of a logic of science; that is, its members maintain that there is a logic with respect to such scientific activities as the testing of theories, theoretical explanation, and conceptual change.

The poll also identified characteristics among evangelicals which correspond to other characteristics already noted as significant in distinguishing the religious television audience from the non-audience: the typical U.S. evangelical was characterized as a white female Southerner, aged 50 or over, with a high - school education and a modest income.

The acrimony that characterized church - state relations in France at the beginning of the 20th century should have led to those very hazards feared by our court when the Fifth Republic instituted a serious discussion of government aid to nonpublic schools.

The point is that some such pattern characterizes every school and the tensions within it profoundly shape the distinctive ethos of that school.

Earlier I characterized a school as «a particular community of persons whose central purpose is to understand some subject truly.»

While it's risky to characterize so complex a phenomenon as theological education as «the seminary,» the world of theological schooling is more uniform and standardized than the world of the church.

Should we think of the goal of theological schooling as the preparing of «professional» church leadership; if not, how should we characterize its goal;

Turow characterized the quintessential Millennial experience this way: «You got into a top tier high school, you hustled through college — you've done everything society told you — and you're not rewarded.

The period of 6 - year - old child development is characterized by an explosion of learning as children enter school.

Grapefruit fields, pine trees, parrots, and marshes characterize this spot, which also houses schools for young Cuban and foreign students.

The middle school years are often characterized as a stage of life to survive, to get through — jumping from the comfort of childhood into a roughly three - year storm of hormones, insecurity, and nagging, drowning in the frenetic angst of adolescence, frantically rowing to make it to the shore of young adulthood.

For example, in discussing the snacks that parents were sending in as part of the school's «Healthy Snack» program, two items particularly aroused his ire — Mott's applesauce and Go - Gurt yogurt — which he describes this way: «It would hardly be a stretch to characterize Mott's Apple Sauce as a fruit - added corn syrup or Go - Gurt as a sugary blend of suspicious synthetics with a modicum of milk to connote actual fermented dairy.»

Because new school breakfast standards go into effect on July 1, the SNA characterizes its request for a meeting as «urgent.»

Selective Mutism is a complex childhood anxiety disorder characterized by a child's inability to speak and communicate effectively in select social settings, such as school.

Selective mutism (SM), formerly called elective mutism, is best understood as a childhood anxiety disorder characterized by a child or adolescent's inability to speak in one or more social settings (e.g., at school, in public places, with adults) despite being able to speak comfortably in other settings (e.g., at home with family).

Selective mutism (SM), formerly called elective mutism, is defined as a disorder of childhood characterized by an inability to speak in certain settings (e.g. at school, in public places) despite speaking in other settings (e.g. at home with family).

King and Smith characterize these two polarizing schools of thought as durable coalitions of political actors, social groups, and governing bodies, drawing on the civil rights messaging initiated by Martin Luther King, Junior and the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Cuomo early in his tenure criticized what he characterized as excessive superintendent pay in some school districts.

One Republican strategist characterized the McGrath campaign as «traditional» and the school funding and tax cap message as «stale.»

By many accounts, he is part of a disturbing trend of control - freakism in executive office, characterized by micromanagement, a leadership style your grade - school principal would call bullying and immediate and massive retaliation against anyone who opposes him.

«He characterized sexual assault, grabbing women in the most private of areas, as a thing that all guys do and that all normal guys do,» said Drew Ludwig, a parent of students in the district and one of the dozens of protesters gathered outside the location of the latest school board meeting.

NYSUT even publicly lauded Republican candidate Rob Astorino for an open letter he wrote to teachers expressing his respect for their work after Cuomo characterized public education as a monopoly that he intends to break with stricter evaluations and competition from charter schools.

But Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins characterized the education measures, which were negotiated by Republicans who lead the Senate, as holding school aid «hostage» to the teacher evaluation changes.

Is Joyce Bawa Mogtari aware of the horror deterioration that characterized the education system and learning in our schools and colleges and universities?

A newly characterized group of pharmacological compounds block both the inflammation and nerve cell damage seen in mouse models of multiple sclerosis, according to a study conducted at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published online this week in the journal Nature Neuroscience.

His teachers at Far Rockaway High School (also the alma mater of Bernie Madoff and Carl Icahn) nurtured his interests, and at age 15 he undertook a project that he called «Extension of Cauchy - Reimann and LaPlace Equations to Analytic Functions of a Quarternion Variable» — which characterized some of the mathematical properties of differentiable functions (smooth operations) in a four - dimensional arithmetic system.

Now, a team of scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed the Just EGFP Death - Inducing T - cell, or JEDI T - cells, which enable the visualization of T - cell antigens, allowing researchers to study T - cell interactions with different cell types, model disease states, and finally determine the functions of otherwise poorly characterized cell populations.