Sentences with phrase «students than the quality»

My research shows us that «reputation» and place on ranking tables is more important to students than the quality of teaching, degree content, quality of facilities, or cost.

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Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.

• Food Allergy Management: It's About More than the Food While student tastes have become more sophisticated and students are seeking healthy, nutritious, and restaurant - quality dining experiences, access to safe foods has become an important part of the college experience for tens of thousands of allergic students.

Some schools have developed comprehensive approaches to teaching character strengths, and in classrooms across the country, teachers are talking to their students more than ever about qualities like grit and perseverance.

Focusing on the nutrients that are in a food product rather than looking at the impact of the food as a whole causes schools to focus on looking for cheap ways to meet the minimum guidelines instead of focusing on finding quality items to feed their students.

They largely refused to acknowledge that poverty rather than school quality was the root cause of the educational problems of disadvantaged kids, for fear that saying so would merely reinforce a long - standing belief among public educators that students unlucky enough to live in poverty shouldn't be expected to achieve at high levels — and public educators shouldn't be expected to get them there.

Offering admiration and praise specific to the emotional task at hand, rather than focusing on the actual task, is one way to esteem the development of qualities of a good student.

Klopfenstein and Thomas (2010) offer three significant ways in which non-AP students at a school may pay the price for the AP program: they may receive lower instructional quality, as the best teachers are siphoned off to teach AP students; they are in larger classes, as AP classes are smaller than typical high school classes; and non-AP course offerings are reduced or limited in order to fund, staff, and expand AP course offerings.

Stanford educator Denise Pope finds that quality is more important than quantity when it comes to evaluating homework assignments for K - 12 students.

It's important to note that the study did find that «high levels of fruit and vegetable waste continued to be a problem — students discarded roughly 60 % -75 % of vegetables and 40 % of fruits on their trays,» but the authors conclude that this finding means that districts must «must focus on improving food quality and palatability to reduce waste,» rather than seeking to roll back the new meal standards.

These heroes may work behind the scenes more than other cafeteria employees, but they are working hard to ensure everything on the frontline is running smoothly — by maintaining the quality of the school meal programs through student interaction, menu planning and a commitment to serving nutritious, tasty and well - balanced school meals.

A relatively well - to - do community, with perhaps only 35 % low income students, may be better able to support a paid meal price of $ 4 or more, to help cover the cost of scratch cooking and better quality food, than a district with 60 % -70 % low income students.

«It's more important than ever that students have access to quality health instruction taught by experts,» Board of Regents Chancellor Betty A. Rosa said.

But, CUNY needs a substantial increase in state funding to ensure the quality of the education that it currently provides, and far more than that to provide free, quality education to its entire student body,

The levels of motivation, teamwork and leadership required of service personnel are significant, and these are qualities that can only benefit Britain's students both at school and beyond: who better to teach them, than those who have had to learn them to the highest level themselves?

National Union of Students president Aaron Porter said:» «The government have provided no reassurance that requirements on access, employability, quality or the student experience would be any more effective than they are now.

About Mount Vernon City School District: With more than 8,000 students in 16 schools, the Mount Vernon City School District is committed to providing a quality education to its children as well as developing programs that meet the diverse academic and social needs of its students.

With more than 8,000 students in 16 schools, the Mount Vernon City School District is committed to providing a quality education to its children as well as developing programs that meet the diverse academic and social needs of its students.

PEF calls on the SUNY Board of Trustees to provide the funding necessary to allow Downstate to fulfill its mission to continue to provide top quality education to its students, and the best possible medical care to the more than two million people living in Brooklyn.

«Pre-K is a critical foundation for our students» long - term success, and families across the city will have access to more high - quality pre-K programs than ever before,» Chancellor Farina said.

AAAS Science Assessment Website — Science educators have easy access to more than 700 high - quality multiple choice items for testing middle and high school students» understanding of 16 important topics in earth, life, and physical science and the nature of science.

In the eyes of the FJI too many PhD students tend to pick a host research group based on a personal contact or a grant opportunity rather than the quality of the project or even their research interest.

In testing five different ways to convey Oldowan stone - knapping skills to more than 180 college students, the researchers found that the demonstration that used spoken communication — versus imitation, non-verbal presentations or gestures — yielded the highest volume and quality of flakes in the least amount of time and with the least waste.

Rather than dwelling on shortcomings, she encourages students to take advantage of the Bologna Process to bring about changes at their institutions and in their national governments: «If you want to fight for more quality in higher education, you can use Bologna.

Although that sentiment is widely shared by legislators, many also think that NSF is better equipped than ED to run a high - quality program with a lasting impact on student achievement.

The frequency of messaging was also found to be a factor in the interruption of learning: Students who tweeted or sent messages with higher frequency on content not related to the class took lower quality notes than those who tweeted less frequently on non-classroom related subjects.

And it is incorrect to believe that the quality of students taking A-level sciences is lower than for other subjects; A-level scientists have higher GCSE scores than A-level students of other fields.

Another fallacy is that students entering higher education courses in physics and engineering are poorer in quality than students in other subjects.

The number of U.S. medical students choosing careers in family practice plummeted by more than 50 percent in just the last eight years, but ironically, the more specialists there are in a state per capita, the lower the quality rank of medical care in that state and the higher the cost.

The research council asserts that it is now focusing more on the quality than the number of Ph.D. s. That's embodied by a shift to centers for doctoral training (CDTs) that provide 4 - year Ph.D. s, including skills - development programs, rather than 3 - year project student Ph.D. s.

Since the No Child Left Behind Act went into effect in 2002, more data than ever have been made available on schools, the quality of their teachers, and their student achievement.

Students who imagined being homemakers rated their anticipated spouse's provider qualities as more important than that spouse's homemaker qualities.

With a mission of supporting science literacy for all students, Science Buddies offers more than 1,100 free projects and activities that provide quality, scientist - authored experimental procedures.

Our aim is to provide excellent quality of yoga education to our students and help them experience what is «more than just training».

;) I offers quality TASIS The American School in Switzerland Our student body represents more than 60 nations and speaks more than 30 languages.

It examined a larger number of students over a longer period of time with more in - depth data than many earlier studies, allowing for a deeper look at how much the quality of individual teachers matters over the long term, the Times reported.

The quality of student work speaks more eloquently about the good things going on at the local high school than anything else can.

Use the design process to drive your students to produce higher - quality work than they are used to doing when they create only a first effort.

Even if we ignore the fact that most portfolio managers, regulators, and other policy makers rely on the level of test scores (rather than gains) to gauge quality, math and reading achievement results are not particularly reliable indicators of whether teachers, schools, and programs are improving later - life outcomes for students.

The teacher wins because going deeper on a few topics generally takes less time than marking everything, and students win because they get clear, quality feedback that does a better job of teaching them the most important lessons.

My third piece of advice is to set high standards for the quality of work students should submit; provide clear feedback about the strengths and limitations of students» work products, assign grades of B + to work products that are solid responses to the assignment, and reserve grades higher than B + for work that is truly distinguished.

a move to skills, rather than scores: broader measures of success to monitor students» capabilities... and the quality of our education system;

Because of this, a very good teacher with a large number of teaching colleagues can do less to raise school - wide student performance than a teacher of the same quality in a school with fewer teachers.

Evaluations led by Harvard's Tom Kane and MIT's Josh Angrist have used this lottery - based method to convince most skeptics that the impressive test - score performance of the Boston charter sector reflects real differences in school quality rather than the types of students charter schools serve.

Furthermore, low - income students and students of color are less likely than their peers to have access to high - quality civics experiences.

The NEPC report paints a dismal picture of student learning at K12 - operated schools, but the fatal flaw of the report is that the measures of «performance» it employs are based primarily on outcomes such as test scores that may reveal more about student background than about the quality of the school, and on inappropriate comparisons between virtual schools and all schools in the same state.

Factors other than school quality could help to explain high levels of achievement of charter school students in these states — including the ability of parents to close underperforming schools.

The Best Teachers in the World: Why We Don't Have Them and How We Could observes, as is now customary, that nothing is more important for student achievement than teacher quality.

Each fortnight, more than a dozen student volunteers from Kincumber High School walk down to their local creek to conduct water quality tests — monitoring the health and the quality of the waterway in their local community.

Without their voice, motives that have more to do with profit reports and meeting compliance requirements rather than high quality, effective eLearning design will become the drivers to a continued disengagement of employees and students in formal education.