Sentences with phrase «students in a new setting»

It's not surprising that students in a new setting and instructional model might show less academic growth than those who stayed put.

Not exact matches

Fox 5 News reported that a group of students from Northwestern High School in Prince George County, Maryland, were traveling along the New Jersey Turnpike when the wheel of their bus caught fire, setting the whole vehicle ablaze.

The Canadian AI talent pool has been refilling with former students and new international researchers alike, with Montreal leading the charge (Facebook, Google, Uber, Samsung, DeepMind have all set up labs there, among others) and Toronto, Edmonton and Vancouver close in tow.

Lawmakers also decided to set aside $ 400 million in new spending on school security and mental health after a troubled 19 - year - old brought an AR - 15 rifle into the campus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland on Feb. 14, killing 17 students and educators.

«The largest competition of its kind in Canada, the RBC Fast Pitch Competition sets the Haskayne School of Business apart by providing startup cash, advisory support and mentorship, and it has led to the creation of new opportunities for students from all disciplines across our great campus,» says Kim Neutens, director of the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

Each private student loan lender has a set of criteria that must be met in order to qualify for a new private student loan, and the terms of each loan vary depending on the credit history of the borrower and co-signer.

Fisman and his colleagues rightly assume that these students represent the new liberal meritocrats, the people likely to occupy important positions in government, exercise influence over public policy, and set the tone for establishment institutions.

Set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, shortly after the massive changes ushered in by the modernizing Vatican II conference in Rome, the story quickly sets up a conflict between the old - school nun who serves as principal and runs the school like a prison (played by Meryl Streep) and the young, new priest (Philip Seymour Hoffman) who wants to shake things up by treating the students as fully rounded young people who deserve doses of freedom and respect as well.

The caution is against replacing the old set of abstractions, brought to the learning situation by the student, with a new set of abstractions chosen on the basis of a pattern apparent only to the person in charge, i.e., the teacher.

It's all happening — what next — prayer times set aside for Muslim students during school, wash basins like at University of Minnesota so they don't try to wash their feet before praying in the school basins for washing hands, demands for special cafeteria food, demands that girls cover their heads, then faces, then disappear from school altogether, wake up New York and hold on to our great city before they knock down the rest of the buildings!

This replicates in a course setting the real dilemmas faced by students upon graduation — trained in New Testament exegesis, they suddenly find themselves in congregations, facing problems involving family breakdown, or difficulties with adolescents in the church.

Still, there is no way that, for this Jerusalemite and all other Israeli husbands and fathers» along with students at university who miss their exams, and beginners in new jobs or careers who are one way and another bound to be set back» the burden of yearly, as I like to think of it, «fulfillment» is not at the least a nuisance and more often than not downright onerous.

The Elector was pleased with the good intake of students being achieved, and was placing no opposition in the way of the formation of a new policy which was generally accepted now that Karlstadt had come round to it, and a formal set of Theses on the subject had been successfully defended.

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) Juwan Parker's teammates do not call him Dr. J yet, but the graduate student set new a career high Wednesday night in Georgia's 71 - 60 Southeastern Conference win over Ole Miss..

In this century, deeper - learning proponents argue, the job market requires a very different set of skills, one that our current educational system is not configured to help students develop: the ability to work in teams, to present ideas to a group, to write effectively, to think deeply and analytically about problems, to take information and techniques learned in one context and adapt them to a new and unfamiliar problem or situatioIn this century, deeper - learning proponents argue, the job market requires a very different set of skills, one that our current educational system is not configured to help students develop: the ability to work in teams, to present ideas to a group, to write effectively, to think deeply and analytically about problems, to take information and techniques learned in one context and adapt them to a new and unfamiliar problem or situatioin teams, to present ideas to a group, to write effectively, to think deeply and analytically about problems, to take information and techniques learned in one context and adapt them to a new and unfamiliar problem or situatioin one context and adapt them to a new and unfamiliar problem or situation.

The new findings, published in JAMA Pediatrics on Monday, bode well for the standards introduced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in January 2012 that - among other moves - set maximums for calories offered during lunch and mandate that only skim or reduced - fat milk are offered to students.

As students get back to work in classrooms, Congress is rolling up its sleeves to debate new rules involving the Child Nutrition Act, which sets standards for 30 million school lunches a day and is scheduled to expire later this year.

Westminster College welcomes campers to our 300 - acre campus in New Wilmington PA. (Directions) Summer finds our grounds an especially quiet and secure setting, which has hosted thousands of students at a variety of sports camps in recent years.

Caldwell said she first became worried about SNA's new direction in March, when she attended the group's legislative conference and was handed a policy paper asking for significant changes to the school meal regulations, including eliminating the requirement that students take a fruit or a vegetable and rescinding strict sodium limits set to begin in 2017.

«We congratulate our students, teachers and administrators for their continued exceptional performance on these new tests, which shows they're mastering knowledge crucial to career and college readiness, and we have set our sights on greater success for every child in the coming year,» Superintendent of Schools Dr. Brian V. Hightower said.

The new policy sets nutrition standards for all vending machine food and a la carte items sold in cafeterias and excludes energy drinks — with one exception: Gatorade, a PepsiCo product, «can only be used after students have engaged in a school sports activity.»

Foreign students bring # 8 billion a year to the UK, with total investment set to double by 2025 — although that forecast has been brought into question since students started looking elsewhere for courses due to new restrictions on studying in the UK.

The new law requires public and private colleges to adopt a set of comprehensive procedures and guidelines, including a uniform definition of affirmative consent, a statewide amnesty policy, and expanded access to law enforcement to ensure the safety of all students attending colleges in New York Stanew law requires public and private colleges to adopt a set of comprehensive procedures and guidelines, including a uniform definition of affirmative consent, a statewide amnesty policy, and expanded access to law enforcement to ensure the safety of all students attending colleges in New York StaNew York State.

«We look forward to working with the governor to improve implementation while maintaining the higher standards we have set to ensure that New York's students have every opportunity to succeed in life.»

«Now that we've had a chance to study the budget documents carefully there are two items in the budget that are not fair to New York City, that will be harmful to New York City, that will set us back and will particularly set back our students at CUNY and will set back the people of this city in terms of healthcare,» de Blasio said at an unrelated press conference in Queens.

At 8 a.m., the New York City Special Education Collaborative hosts its 6th Annual Education Conference, themed «Build Your Skill Set, Challenge Your Mindset,» designed to highlight best practices in serving all students, not just students with disabilities.

The IDC is helping black and Hispanic students gain entry to top city schools with $ 2 million in new state funding, setting aside the money in the $ 155 billion state budget that was finalized by the state legislature and Cuomo April 1.

We have set out new limits on the type of student who can bring in their dependants not undergraduates.

The bill would ensure that schools can notify parents they can refuse to have their children in grades 3 - 8 participate in Common Core standardized tests, protects schools from having state aid withheld & ensures that students are not punished for their lack of participation in those tests, and it would set - aside alternate studies, Last year, parents of 60,000 students refused New York State Common Core tests.

Common Core is a new set of academic standards adopted by New York's Board of Regents in 2010, outlining which math and English skills students should be able to demonstrate at each grade levnew set of academic standards adopted by New York's Board of Regents in 2010, outlining which math and English skills students should be able to demonstrate at each grade levNew York's Board of Regents in 2010, outlining which math and English skills students should be able to demonstrate at each grade level.

States and districts across the country have set out to implement new teacher evaluation systems in an effort to improve teacher quality and raise student achievement.

«In the last two weeks, Nigeria and Nigerians have been inundated with the news of the incredible performance of Mr. Ayodele Dada, a student of the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Lagos, who set a new academic record by graduating with a 5.0 Cumulative Grade Point Average.

There was something for everyone on the menu: using Apple technology, developing research - based practices to teach students in the early grades, engaging students through digital instruction, understanding the new teacher evaluation system as set by state law, preventing high - risk student behaviors and how Community Learning Schools meet the needs of students and their families.

On Wednesday, students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where the Florida shooting occurred, along with parents and teachers are set to march on the state Capitol in Tallahassee to call for new gun laws.

«Student interns come to the Assembly because this setting provides an unparalleled opportunity to learn about the legislative process and New York's political landscape,» Silver said in 2008.

Over the course of the three - year curriculum project, the research team will design materials for students along with a professional development program and materials for teachers and a set of assessments for evaluating students» understanding of the energy concepts and science practices that are targeted in the new unit.

Consistent with recommendations in the Next Generation Science Standards, the new THSB unit is designed to help students understand and use scientific practices of reading scientific texts, analyzing and interpreting data, building and using models, and constructing explanations along with a coherent set of core ideas about chemical reactions to make sense of interesting physical and life science phenomena.

«Having more Greenlandic archaeologists would be very important for Greenland so that they can set their own priorities,» says Konrad Smiarowski, a graduate student at the City University of New York in New York City who leads the dig here.

As U.S. officials consider new education standards in mathematics and English, a long - term AAAS science literacy initiative continues its efforts to encourage a standards - based approach to science education and set specific learning goals for K - 12 students.

Toward High School Biology is designed to align closely with a new set of science education standards, called the Next Generation Science Standards, which were developed with help from 26 states and organizations like AAAS and the National Research Council, in an effort to teach students to read scientific texts, analyze data and construct coherent explanations of scientific phenomena.

Under the supervision of Professor Robby Stoks, KU Leuven doctoral student Lin Op de Beeck set out to find a new strategy in the fight against mosquitoes.

As New Math curricula spread across the country, elementary students became fluent in the abstract vocabulary of concepts like set theory, which uses representative collections of objects to explain how numerical families overlapped or combined.

This can create pressure for a postdoc or grad student during an oral or poster presentation, but Duina claims that some of this energy can be saved for meeting new colleagues: «I think it is a well - known fact that usually one gets different kinds of information out of talking to people in an informal setting, i.e., over lunch or dinner, than while attending talks or surfing the poster exhibits.»

She does see some cause for optimism: A new generation of tests are being developed in the U.S. to assess how well students have met the Common Core State Standards, the set of academic benchmarks in literacy and math that have been adopted by 43 states.

The students set up a new compost receptacle at Radina's Coffeehouse and Roastery in the university's Leadership Studies Building.

In a new study published in Materials and Design, noted materials researcher Nikhil Gupta, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, his doctoral student Fei Chen and former student Gary Mac show how certain intentionally induced defects can disappear when the part is printed under a very specific set of conditionIn a new study published in Materials and Design, noted materials researcher Nikhil Gupta, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, his doctoral student Fei Chen and former student Gary Mac show how certain intentionally induced defects can disappear when the part is printed under a very specific set of conditionin Materials and Design, noted materials researcher Nikhil Gupta, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, his doctoral student Fei Chen and former student Gary Mac show how certain intentionally induced defects can disappear when the part is printed under a very specific set of conditions.

Because the settlement allowed Harran to avoid criminal penalties, the landmark case that many had hoped would set a new standard for accountability in labs across the country ended without settling the legal question of whether the lab chief has personal responsibility for the safety of students and workers.

With this in mind, Tonks and a team that included Mathangi Ramesh, a Ph.D. student in his lab and first author of the new paper, set out to find weaknesses «downstream» of the HER2 receptor, inside breast cancer cells.

The student in return acquires a new set of mind - tools — logical thought, critical appraisal — and a self - confidence which he or she can bring to bear on future endeavours.

In 1968 he and his students went to New York to set up a theater company, and from there to New Mexico, where they started a commune near Santa Fe.