Sentences with phrase «standard academic ways»

The Center promotes Whitehead scholarship in standard academic ways.

Not exact matches

Tobacco giant Philip Morris is doing its best to get its hands on research about teen smoking, and along the way encouraging some U.K. academics to violate ethical standards.

Yet, more cleverly exposed are the ways the intellectual class, in processing the tale and its history through the standard academic apparatus, fosters the advent of the next authoritarian regime by its naïve belief in its own objectivity and its refusal to judge Gilead's practices.

One can think of many other ways in which shame follows from our failure to measure up to familial, societal, academic, ethical, psychological, and perhaps especially, «religious» standards of performance.

At a school with absurdly rigorous academic demands (both in terms of admissions standards and classwork), his recruiting opportunities are limited, but he has figured out ways to recruit as well as possible.

«If you want to be the person who is setting the standard of care and changing the paradigm of the way we treat disease, then stay in academic medicine,» says Chung.

Specifically, they agreed to develop academic standards and assessments in every state and to expand the use of information technology as a way to improve student performance and aid in the measurement of student achievement.

In her first year on the job, Jewell - Sherman launched Excellence for All, a comprehensive plan aimed at improving teaching and learning to enable students to reach high academic standards, and promoting involvement with the community as a way of addressing nonacademic barriers to student achievement.

Steve realized that his students were truly interested in finding ways to help people impacted by such disasters, and that such a project could incorporate many of the academic standards that he would have to cover in that class, such as volume, fractions, measurements and averages.

Our approach to valuing pensions, which considers both the generosity and the risk of pension benefits, is entirely consistent with economic theory, the way in which liabilities of all types are valued in the private sector, public - sector accounting standards in Canada and Western Europe, academic writings, and the judgments of officials at nonpartisan government agencies such as the Congressional Budget Office, the Federal Reserve, and the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Schools minister Nick Gibb said: «Converter academies are leading the way in strong academic standards and over time we will see the excellence and expertise of strong sponsors spread.

Next, ask yourself: While teaching students the required skills and academic standards in the curriculum, in what ways can I center this as a topic in our unit of study?

While providers of public education certainly face the temptation to do what might look like taking the easy way out by letting academic standards decline, there is also countervailing pressure in the direction of higher standards.

Some of the country's largest subject - matter groups are worried they will be ignored in the process of setting national academic standards that is now under way.

The states that made the most progress after allowing for other factors — Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Kentucky, and Georgia, to name the top five — have taken steps, in various ways, to raise academic standards and back them up with rigorous assessments, implement tough but thoughtful accountability systems, and strengthen human capital practices to attract, develop, and retain educators who can deliver on high standards.

The most obvious and even - handed way to do this is through statewide academic standards and assessments in core subjects.

Among other topics, parents were asked how satisfied they were with various aspects of the school their child attended, including the school overall, the teachers their child had that year, academic standards, order and discipline, and the way the school staff interacted with parents.

Teachers at Pearl - Cohn work together in small groups called flocks, an approach devised by a group of teachers as a way to ensure that academic expectations and standards of behavior were applied consistently across the school.

Cobb County Schools describe the Common Core State Standards as a way to build upon the strength of current standards to boost the competitive advantage of American students, who for the first time will have the opportunity to meet the academic standards set by top - performing countries.

While providers of public education certainly face the temptation to do what might look like taking the easy way out by letting academic standards slip, there is also countervailing pressure in the direction of higher standards (especially, as long as there are competing standards in other states).

According to professional standards, high - quality pre-k programs are based on early learning standards that address multiple domains of development — academic, social - emotional, and physical — to ensure children are growing in all the ways that enable them to be healthy and ready for school.National Education Goals Panel, Reconsidering Children's Early Development and Learning: Toward Common Views and Vocabulary (Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1955).

What gets in the way in part, Becker laments, is Minnesota's extensive number of academic standards, a heavy emphasis on standardized tests as a single measure of success, and an exhausting number of state mandates.

A bipartisan group of governors and state school officials created the Common Core in 2010 as a way to inject some consistency in academic standards, which have varied wildly from state to state.

«It's another tool in the tool box to provide districts with ways to help students meet (academic) standards.»

Brad Carl, associate director of the center, said while it's possible to do that, the most accurate way to compare test takers is to have all students taking the same test on the same academic standards.

Our flagship professional development program challenges teachers of all academic subjects to build student achievement and meet rigorous standards in creative and effective ways.

Kentucky hasn't seen a statehouse challenge of new, nationally - crafted academic standards known as the Common Core the way neighboring states have.

Allowing educators to relate academic standards to student interests and aspirations, PBL is an especially effective way to engage older students who might otherwise be disengaged from the classroom.

Student Growth Objectives (SGOs): Developing and tracking SGOs provides a structured way to think about academic standards, assessing what students know and can do, and adjusting instruction to help students meet short and long term learning goals.

A student with a learning disability may be assigned school work that teaches the same academic standard as her typical peers, but the teacher may adjust the way the special needs student is taught the standard or completes the assignment to meet the child's unique needs.

Sometimes schools offer Academic Parent Teacher Teams or other ways parents can get up to speed on grade - level standards and specific strategies to help their child learn.

«In my nine years at CCSSO, including five as executive director, state chiefs raised academic standards for all kids, improved the way student learning is assessed, transformed the way new teachers are prepared to enter the classroom, and crafted a better federal education law that returns flexibility to the states.

The likelihood that students will achieve the aims of the standards will be substantially shaped by how well teachers teach challenging academic skills in ways that support a wide range of learners.

And now, the political battles over thorny issues such as testing, academic standards and the best way to ensure quality teachers will migrate from Washington to 50 state capitals, observers say.

Charter schools and test scores fit into four broad goals that Obama wants states to pursue - tougher academic standards, better ways to recruit and keep effective teachers, a method of tracking student performance and a plan of action to turn around failing schools.

States must intervene in their lowest - performing schools, for example, in ways that are consistent with the Education Department's «turnaround principles» such as «ensuring that the instructional program is research - based, rigorous, and aligned with State academic content standards.»

HOT Schools Orientation participants will experience HOT Schools theory in action as they observe and are guided through the ways in which Lyman structures instruction through the HOT School core components of strong arts, art integration and democratic practice; providing each student with the tools to achieve high academic standards and become a creative, successful, life - long learner.

«CCSA has led the way for increased accountability by raising standards that value academic rigor, while also giving schools credit for academic growth, and for taking on the challenge of serving traditionally disadvantaged students,» said Elizabeth Robitaille, senior vice president of Achievement and Performance Management, CCSA.

But what ultimately resulted in New Living Word's expulsion from the voucher program was not its low academic standards; rather, it was found to be charging voucher students higher tuition rates than students paying their own way — which is prohibited under Louisiana's law (nothing in the North Carolina statute specifically addresses this potential consequence).

That's because the WKCE is expected to give way in a few years to tests based on new national academic standards proposed last month that could become final this spring.

HOT Schools Orientation participants will experience first - hand, HOT Schools theory in action as they observe and are guided through the ways in which Lyman structures instruction through the HOT School core components of strong arts, art integration and democratic practice; providing each student with the tools to achieve high academic standards and become a creative, successful, life - long learner.

Duncan has dispensed plenty of tips: Lift restrictions on the growth of charter schools; build data systems that show individual student progress under specific teachers and principals; seek out new ways to turn around perennially struggling schools; and sign on to efforts to develop common academic standards that are tough enough to withstand international scrutiny.

In describing the specific ways in which they use data from other nations, states most frequently pointed to the role of international indicators in comparing student achievement and developing academic - content standards.

When all the teachers in your school focus on the same academic vocabulary and teach it in the same way, your school has a powerful, comprehensive approach to meeting standards.

Writing academic content standards and designing ways to measure them are required by the Title I provisions of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).

As states and districts adopt and implement new academic standards based on Common Core State Standards, it is critical to enable and examine ways for teachers to work and learn together with a shared goal of strengthening curriculum design, classroom practices, and student work products.

The 11 members were politically appointed to review and possibly make changes to the academic standards after lawmakers heard complaints from parents and teachers that they do not progress in a natural or developmentally appropriate way.

The National Council for the Social Studies for the first time published guidelines on how to study religion «in ways that are constitutionally sound» and consistent with high academic standards.

North Carolina law requires nothing in the way of academic standards, curricula or accountability measures for its non-public schools.

The only way that academic standards can enhance student performance is by enhancing student motivation.