Sentences with phrase «schools than these institutions»

And both educators and the public who have so often been critical of education in recent years should also resist «the temptation to place more responsibility for moral education on the schools than these institutions can reasonably be expected to carry,» said Samuel M. Craver, professor of education...

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The school offers more than 20 off - campus study groups — a study - abroad - like experience in which Colgate faculty lead a course at an international institution.

As local educational institutions go, the WA School of Mines has a higher - than - average representation of 40under40 First Amongst Equals winners.

Today, Milton Hershey School, the institution he and his wife founded, nurtures more than 2,000 financially needy boys and girls in grades K - 12.

The American Association of Christian Schools, with more than 1,000 member institutions, makes as a condition of affiliation acceptance of the statement, «We believe in creation, not evolution.»

The Association of Theological Schools (ATS), which includes more than 270 institutions in the US and Canada, found that extension enrollment has dipped by about 26 percent over the past decade, according to self - reported and adjusted figures, while online numbers have more than doubled.

I get confused about what excellence can mean from institution to institution, given the American practice of grading colleges; even the much less than superlative schools claim to be excellent.

Update (April 18): The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Snow College has settled its lawsuit with Solid Rock Christian Club, which sued the school last winter claiming «that the school's policy unconstitutionally treated student groups affiliated with religious institutions differently than other student groups.»

When the institution of the university developed in the Middle Ages and the writings of Aristotle were rediscovered, theological schooling stressed far more than it previously had discursive reasoning, technical logical skill, and academic specialization.

We have a morally despicable problem in America and that is that the «sacredness of the institution», weather it be a church, school, sports team, you name it, has more value to be «protected» than the individuals who's lives that are being destroyed.

Is the institution of marriage in worse shape than the schools?

I learned later that the only invitation he received from a department of religion in an institution of higher education for more than a single lecture was for a summer course in the Claremont Graduate School.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

They are all «church schools» rather than state institutions in distinction from many European theological faculties; but the word «church» may mean denomination.

As Kuyper's heirs immigrated to North America, they brought over his penchant for establishing and maintaining Christian institutions of all sorts, including a network of Christian day schools, a Christian trade union, more than one political organization, and a network of institutions of higher education.

These associations, rather than faculty members» own theological schools, are the institutions by which professional academic status and recognition are awarded and acknowledged.

Yet another sign of the flourishing of AATS - member graduate professional schools in the United States was the astonishing — from the vantage of the 1990s — statistic that despite the intervening economic depression they averaged three times as much endowment per student ($ 6,103) as all privately controlled academic institutions ($ 2,040), and more than ten times as much as publicly controlled institutions ($ 455).13

Access to public schools and to other institutions from which they had previously been largely excluded turns out to be less beneficial than they had expected.

Wherever and whenever there has been intense intellectual activity in the Church a theological school has arisen, while institutions possessing the external appearance of such schools but devoid of reflective life have quickly revealed themselves as training establishments for the habituation of apprentices in the skills of a clerical trade rather than as theological schools.

Then I realized that «back to school» means more than just the traditional matriculation to an educational institution and that the members of my little family were each about to embark on their own form of «school» journey.

But few things are logical in the Southern Conference, a strange assortment of public, church and military schools that has changed borders more often than Czechoslovakia; 32 institutions have been members at one time or another since its founding in 1921.

ACEs Connection is a social network that accelerates the global movement toward recognizing the impact of adverse childhood experiences in shaping adult behavior and health, and reforming all communities and institutions — from schools to prisons to hospitals and churches — to help heal and develop resilience rather than to continue to traumatize already traumatized people.

Rather than preach reform in the way parents and schools prepare students for higher education, Stanford and its fellow institutions could quickly improve student well being by basing admissions on finding the appropriate students rather than on generating statistics the school can use to promote its brand.

Although there are more than 1,000 institutions worldwide that share our philosophy, since 1983 we remain New Jersey's only accredited Waldorf school.

Private institutions were even less likely than public schools to provide athletic training services or employ trainers, researchers found.

With links to more than 800 companies and 50 academic institutions across 40 different countries, Nottingham Business School has partnerships with leading management schools across the globe.

Under the Tennessee Promise program, more than 16,200 students were enrolled in the 2015 - 16 school year at 41 institutions across the state, including at 13 community colleges, 27 colleges of applied technology and other eligible institutions offering an associate's degree program, according to the Tennessee Higher Education Commission.

«I believe also that this particular special edition is going to go down as a historic edition and I don't want to miss that point because it's something that we must be able to put in all our institutions so like I said we are going to get many copies to be able to give to embassies, our hotels, our schools, our libraries, all our institutions, in the secondary schools and also to be able to keep for those yet unborn to be able to see in pictorial form of the things we have tried to do in the last 50 years and maybe inspire some other people to do greater things than what has been recorded here,» the Governor said.

Tisch says that only slightly more than one third, or 37.2 percent, of today's ninth graders will graduate high school college or career ready, and most of those who attend higher education institutions will have to take costly remedial classes.

Almost 6000 students are now pursuing PSM degrees at more than 130 institutions, said Debra Stewart, who is president of the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS).

On another occasion, when the dean was asked to explain the medical school's slippage in ranking, he said, «We are getting better; it is just other institutions are getting better faster than we are.»

Visiting 12 of the more than 500 schools that had received NSF grants during the last decade to host students, Story found great variations in how the programs were carried out, who they served, and why institutions and students participated.

More than 80 % are public institutions, and they typically require a high school diploma or a GED for admission.

Opponents of affirmative action are requesting admissions data from institutions of higher learning to make sure the schools are adhering to the policy of using race as one of many factors rather than having it be the determining factor.

I was well prepared for graduate study in bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego, by the historically black colleges and universities in the Atlanta University Center (AUC, consisting of Clark Atlanta University, Spelman, Morehouse, and Morris Brown Colleges), as well as by Georgia Tech, an institution that graduates more minority engineers than most other engineering schools because of its participation in the dual - degree engineering program, a partnership with minority - serving institutions.

On Saturdays 40 years ago, when Singer (then Alison Tepper) was 5 years old and wanted to be in ballet class, she and her parents would set out on a very different errand: visiting her autistic 7 - year - old brother, Steven, at the Willowbrook State School, an institution on Staten Island, New York, that housed more than 5,000 people diagnosed with mental retardation and developmental disabilities.

«There should be a study,» says graduate school dean Lawrence Martin of the State University of New York, Stony Brook, who is also head of a panel of land - grant colleges that has drafted a position paper urging coverage of more fields, greater use of objective research criteria, exploration of some measures of program outcome, and ranking institutions by cluster rather than individually.

It took her longer than most to finish graduate school, but she enjoyed the challenge, and the teaching experience made her more marketable for a faculty post at an undergraduate institution.

The school is a distance learning institution headquartered in New York City and has graduated more than 100,000 students in all 50 states and over 150 countries.

You see, all throughout medical school (at Harvard, MIT, and more institutions than I care to remember) I felt on some level that I had a «higher» calling.

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Scenes from the London period (which go on much longer than necessary) are just like the bad orphanages described in Oliver, The Rescuers, Annie and the institution that schooled Matilda.

For this to happen it is necessary for our financial institutions to invest in the sustainable low carbon economy of the future, rather than repeated casino capitalism leaving the poor in the community to bear a disproportionate burden of the banks bailout, including high youth unemployment and extortionate university fees for many post school students.

At this point, as far as I am concerned, proper information and counseling to families and children regarding the dangers of FGM would be more useful than the observation of laws.I would propose the operation of free institutions, coordination of campaigns and obligatory seminars at schools that would be sponsored by the government of every state in the world.

In a previous regional water consumption programme water2business, working with over 500 schools, identified that more than 20 % of schools were considered «high users» and a number of institutions used up to nine times more than was needed.

Part of the answer certainly lies in the policy arena — giving charter schools equitable access to funding (including capital funds), cutting unnecessary regulations, ensuring that institutions other than local school boards can issue charters in every jurisdiction.

As part of its «Benchmark Best Practices» series, COACHE surveyed faculty at its member institutions — more than 200 colleges and universities across the United States — about the effectiveness (or ineffectiveness) of mentoring both on and off campus, while also gauging the adequacy of existing support at individual schools.

Even though elementary schools are the most universally attended educational institutions — between prekindergarten and 8th grade, a child attends school for more than 9,000 hours, more than twice the time spent in high school — the attention to, and regard for, elementary education is inversely proportionate.

An Ernst & Young study of 430 loan transactions by 15 community - development financial institutions (CDFIs) involving 336 charter schools found a foreclosure rate of 1 percent, lower than the corporate sector debt - default rate of about 3 percent.

[xv] While this may be a positive trend in general, we also find that among graduate school enrollees, more than a quarter (28 percent) of black graduate students enroll in for - profit institutions — compared to just 9 percent among white graduate students.