Sentences with phrase «targeted at academic»

These residencies are targeted at academic researchers, artists and other specialists in contemporary art and related topics.

Not exact matches

On the academic side, Northwestern sponsors several opportunities for innovation, including two startup incubators and a certificate program in entrepreneurship specifically targeted at undergraduates.

«The Albany proposals have the right goal, to target resources at enhancing academics and test prep for promising black and Latino students,» Cary said.

Project BOOST is an enrichment program targeted at elementary and middle school students who have demonstrated a commitment to academic success but come from disadvantaged or underserved neighborhoods.

Project BOOST is an enrichment program targeted at elementary and middle school students who have demonstrated a commitment to academic success but come from disadvantaged neighborhoods.

Project BOOST (Building Options and Opportunities for Students) is a program targeted at elementary and middle school students who have demonstrated academic talent but come from disadvantaged neighborhoods where they may not have the opportunity to develop their talent.

This article cites the widely publicized studies showing that» [r] esearchers at Bayer could not replicate 43 of 67 oncological and cardiovascular findings reported in academic publications,» and» [r] esearchers at Amgen could not reproduce 47 of 53 landmark oncological findings for potential drug targets.»

Academics have been frequent targets of killings and abductions in Iraq the past year — part of a campaign that appears aimed at thwarting reconstruction efforts and silencing intellectuals; some estimates put the death toll in the hundreds.

For instance, if your career fair is going to include graduate students, then your task is relatively simple: You target academic departments at your institution or at surrounding universities.

Thus, increasing women's representation in academic science not only requires a shift in emphasis toward GEEMP fields in particular, but also a shift away from alleged bias in the academy toward interventions that are targeted at earlier time points in the lives of girls and women.

The Lund University Global Scholarship programme is a merit - based and selective scholarship targeted at top academic students from countries outside the EU / EEA.

Grijalva is targeting academics who have testified before Congress at the invitation of Republicans and have generally contested the scientific consensus around the reality of human - induced climate change or downplayed the risks.

«The combination of a focus on validating new therapeutic targets and mechanisms at CBCS and the more commercial output at SciLifeLab DDD is clearly satisfying both the academic investigator and the industrial partner.»

Les Hughes, global vice president of cancer research at AstraZeneca, said: «AstraZeneca is committed to the discovery and development of new, targeted anti-cancer therapies to improve the lives of cancer patients but if we are going to be successful in delivering new treatments for cancer patients, it will be important for charities, academics and industry to work collaboratively.

James Mason, at his bitchy best, is Humbert Humbert, a snooty academic who marries Shelley Winters to get close to his real target, teen coquette Sue Lyon, though he faces stiff competition from a pursuing Peter Sellers.

Such conclusions may look obvious, even banal, but in fact it was unprecedented for the federal education research agency to treat teachers, principals, and parents as key clients, rather than targeting its products at academics and policymakers.

Although acknowledging the need for strong, core academic curriculum, Wilshaw will argue that England is neglecting its less academic pupils at its own peril and will call for a more «inclusive» system that does not leave behind students who fail to attain targets.

In a targeted assistance school, however, Title I funds may be used to provide services only to those students who are not meeting, or most at risk of not meeting, a state's academic achievement standards.

Parents can then review academic performance data and learn how to help their child with targeted skills at home.

Make sure to target your questions at students from different academic levels, or even better, use checks for understanding that require the whole class to respond (whiteboards, thumbs up / down) and allow you to see what everyone's thinking at the same time.

Project BOOST (Building Options and Opportunities for Students) is a program targeted at late elementary, middle and high school students who have demonstrated academic talent but come from disadvantaged neighborhoods where they do not have the opportunity to develop their talents.

MPS, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee and City Year Milwaukee are partnering to provide early literacy interventions, targeted mathematics programming and social - emotional learning at four MPS schools: Carver Academy, James Madison Academic Campus, Alexander Mitchell Integrated Arts School and Rogers Street Academy.

In the early 1990s, after decades of concentrating on programs designed to target individual students at risk of academic failure, a new idea based on a comprehensive approach to school reform was conceived.

Research behind VAL - ED (the Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education tool to assess principal performance, developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University) suggests that there are six key steps - or «processes» - that the effective principal takes when carrying out his or her most important leadership responsibilities: planning, implementing, supporting, advocating, communicating and monitoring.40 The school leader pressing for high academic standards would, for example, map out rigorous targets for improvements in learning (planning), get the faculty on board to do what's necessary to meet those targets (implementing), encourage students and teachers in meeting the goals (supporting), challenge low expectations and low district funding for students with special needs (advocating), make sure families are aware of the learning goals (communicating), and keep on top of test results (monitoring).41

The harsh reality is that this new emphasis on increased academic rigour and memorising ever increasing amounts of information has been targeted at the most distracted generation.

FAST provides benchmark targets for performance to help identify students at - risk for academic failure.

The data help teachers determine which students are at - risk for academic failure, on - target for success, or may need enrichment instruction.

The program targets low income four - year olds who are at risk of later academic failure for high quality pre-kindergarten services.

Rick Stiggins, in Revolutionize Assessment, states that, «If we expand our vision of formative assessment to include student / teacher partnerships, we can empower students to understand the learning targets, gather continuous evidence of their growth, recognize how to move consistently forward toward success, make instructional decisions that enhance their own learning, and feel — at long last — in control of their own academic well - being.»

According to analysis from legislative staff, the state currently requires that a charter school must meet at least one of five criteria to receive renewal, including having attained its Academic Performance Index growth target in the prior year or in two of the last three years or in the aggregate for the prior three years.

Stories of students at different grade levels and with various academic and behavioral goals illustrate the process, and full - color interdisciplinary growth plans show how the elements combine to ensure consistent and targeted support in everyday settings, uniform data collection, and easy reporting.

But academic performance doesn't seem to be the most important factor in selecting which schools are targeted for charter takeover and which are not, at least not in Nashville.

White, whose proposal to count academic gains at 25 percent is part of an overall draft proposal, noted that even in D - rated schools, up to 66 percent of struggling students exceeded academic growth targets during the 2015 - 16 school year.

Title IIA, funded at $ 2.3 billion last year, supports professional learning that improves both the content knowledge and practice of teachers in all academic areas as well as professional learning targeted directly to the specific needs of school principals and assistant principals.

Paul Tough, author of a book about the Harlem Children's Zone, describes the philosophy behind «no excuses» secondary schools that target at - risk students: «The schools reject the notion that all that these struggling students need are high expectations; they do need those, of course, but they also need specific types and amounts of instruction, both in academics and attitude, to compensate for everything they did not receive in their first decade of life.»

Developed by faculty at Smith College and Springfield Technical Community College and funded by the National Science Foundation, Through My Window targets traditionally underrepresented groups in engineering — especially girls — and provides academic enrichment in engineering, technology, and literacy.

K12 will provide comprehensive wraparound services targeted to individual student needs and for the benefit of the school community: development of strong community within the virtual academy; access to the best and most current virtual instruction curriculum, assessment and instruction based on solid research; customizing each student's education to their own individual learning plan; academic success at the school and individual student levels resulting from teachers» instruction and constant monitoring of student growth and achievement with interventions as needed; national and local parent trainings and networking; frequent (i.e., every two to three week) teacher / parent communication through emails and scheduled meetings; establishment of unique settings for students and parents to interact; connecting students on a regular basis with students across the United States in similar virtual academies and across the world through networking and K12 national competitions (e.g., art contest and spelling bees) and International Clubs; access to the entire K12 suite of services and instructional curriculum (currently including K12, Aventa, A +, and powerspeak12) to include world languages, credit recovery courses, remedial courses, and AP courses; participation in a national advanced learners programs; a comprehensive Title I program that will provide additional services for students; school led trips, for example, visits to colleges, grade level specific trips such as student summer trips overseas, etc.; School prom; school graduation ceremonies; national college guidance through a network of K12 counselors; school community service opportunities; student developed student body council; school extracurricular activities: possibilities would include the development of a golf club, chess club, bowling club.

At Sherwood Forest, part of living up to our «Einstein Way» is to not only provide natural academic supports for students on multiple levels, but also to provide targeted instruction to our large population of English Language Learners.

CWC students are consistently exceeding state targets and performing at a higher level of academic achievement than students at neighboring LAUSD schools.

For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter school tuition payments exceed 9 per cent of the school district's net school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment of a commonwealth charter school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record of operating at least 1 school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve, from the following categories of students, those: (i) eligible for free lunch; (ii) eligible for reduced price lunch; (iii) that require special education; (iv) limited English - proficient of similar language proficiency level as measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2 of the past 3 years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk of dropping out of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have dropped out of school; or (viii) other at - risk students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups of students.

Targeted academic initiatives are relatively easy to assess: if you are putting in a new reading program, you can assess its success by looking at test scores (from state tests, district benchmarks, or other internal assessments) and comparing results before and after the program was put in place.

All but one of the students at her school, San Pedro Street Elementary, are impoverished and most are not fluent in English, according to the state's database, yet the school's most recent Academic Performance Index score was 814, above the state target of 800.

The third webinar in FCAN's series on Connecting Education and Jobs in Florida featured Dr. Jan Ignash, Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs for the State University System of Florida Board of Governors and Dr. Michael Georgiopoulos, Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Central Florida discussing the Targeted Educational Attainment (TEAm) Grant, an initiative funded by the Florida Legislature in 2013 to boost degrees in high - demand fields requiring bachelor's degrees.

Benchmark standards (i.e., «cut scores» or «targets») are built into the system to assist in determining which students are at - risk for academic failure, on - target for success, or may need enrichment instruction.

Coordinated the Academic Intervention Management (AIM) program targeted towards at - risk students.

Further, another size segment coming up is the one offering 12.2 inch or so of display which is targeted more at the professionals, academics, or artists.

Besides, they should license their panels to other integrators (e.g. Amazon for a new Kindle DX targeting academics) as themselves proved quite incompetent at delivering a full product on time.

In a new publication entitled «Applying Goal - Based Investing Principles to the Retirement Problem», EDHEC - Risk Institute and Professor John Mulvey of the Operations Research & Financial Engineering Department at Princeton University outline the shortcomings of existing retirement products, and lay the academic foundations for a new generation of risk - controlled target - date funds (TDFs).

released by academics at the University of Oxford today, coal and gas plants can only be built for one more year before emissions that will exceed this target are locked in.

There is some real interest in this approach, mainly from academics, and there is also what I would characterize as «strategic interest,» principally from those who recognize that once the focus is on carbon taxes rather than other instruments, political debates will inevitably result in less ambitious targets or, in fact, no policy at all.