Sentences with phrase «than academic school»

Here, students are given more than academic school education.

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Among the top 20 MBA programs in the U.S., at least four schools — Yale, Harvard, Northwestern, and UCLA — have increased their average scholarship payouts to students by more than 100 % since the 2004 - 2005 academic year.
All this despite the fact that private schooling doesn't actually yield better outcomes for students, according to a recent Statistics Canada report (instead, the apparent academic success of private school student is due to their socioeconomic backgrounds).9 A UBC study also found that students from public schools scored higher in first - year university classes than their private school counterparts.10
«This is more than an embarrassment,» wrote Russell D. Moore, dean of the school of theology and senior vice president for academic administration at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
By and large theological schools are still bogged down in traditional academic concerns designed more to produce scholars than strategists.
In the academic sphere, we have not always managed parents» expectations perfectly, and because we are young plant, any falling short makes us vulnerable; but some batches of results, especially in English and in languages, have been better than most schools back home.
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.
Murray draws on those studies, but in Coming Apart, Fishtown, like Belmont, is shorthand for a statistical cohort: people with blue - collar or low - level office jobs and no academic degree more advanced than a high - school diploma.
Div.s got a theological master's from a seminary or divinity school rather than, or in addition to, an academic master's from a religious studies program.
They are not only getting a * far * better academic education, they are also getting a far better moral education than can be had in a public school, where morality may not even be mentioned and there is little or no talk about ethics, either.
The Church needs to find its way in a world where public school administrations are more preoccupied with transgender rights than restoring a rigorous academic curriculum.
Its universities in the United States have larger enrollments and more academic prestige than ever before, Jesuit high schools are attracting large numbers of excellent students, and some Jesuit publications and parishes are very successful.
However, certain denominational schools have taken the step of appointing men primarily on the basis of their academic competence rather than their denominational affiliation.
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
That will provide the context for turning finally in the last two chapters to what makes the school's curriculum a course of study rather than a clutch of courses, what it can do to and for its students, to and for congregations, and to and for traditions of academic research.
The majority of seminaries, with the exception of interdenominational graduate theological schools, have little access to universities, and thus are more sensitive to the movements within the churches than to the trends in the academic world.
As the founding document of Union shows, such a school would quite deliberately be set in the midst of a major metropolitan center on the grounds that this environment was necessary to, rather than a distraction from, its proper academic purposes.
I attended a Torchbearer Bible school and the focus is not on academics, rather than personal journey and relationship — something I realized is lacking in Christian academics.
As for the academics thing, that's the kind of information that should be ingrained in the athletic department rather than just one football coach, because I doubt football is the only sport that may need to figure out how to get premiere athletes admitted to the school.
Both schools pull in more athletic revenue than the majority of front - line Big 12 candidates, but they have way worse men's basketball programs, smaller fanbases, less academic funding, and lower university rankings than the league's averages.
After the notoriety the COF gained from this, more than 1,000 readers chimed in on Reddit posts questioning whether College of Faith schools were «diploma mills» with subpar academic standards preying on deluded athletes.
Eastern Christian was established six months ago, and with less than three weeks until the start of the academic school year, 54 students are enrolled in grades six through 12.
The combination of Petit - Frere having a chance to play sooner rather than later at Michigan and the academics the school offers gives the Wolverines an excellent chance to land the 6 - foot - 6, 272 - pound player.
who participated in secondary school athletics during the 2011 - 2012 academic year, during which they sustained more than 1.3 million injuries, of which the NATA estimates that 22 percent were from concussions, *** a condition that continues to increase despite the overall decrease in youth sports injuries.
Not only are there social pressures and additional obligations such as sports or after - school jobs, but the academic requirements are much more rigorous than previous years.
More important than the labels of «play - based» or «academic - focused,» though, is what actually happens in the classroom and how teachers respond to emotional situations, so ask about specific scenarios when you're considering a school.
Bullying tends to peak in 6th grade, and many students find that the academic challenges of middle school are far more difficult than in elementary school.
The Waldorf School of Garden City's ideas and people cross more than academic disciplines — they transcend languages and nations.
My daughter is 6 and bought an easter craft home its prob the first artistic thing we have seen form school since Christmas she is cretaive rather than academic so at a recent parents evening we just got average average average becuse art and creativity do nt count.
After more than a decade of no - nonsense academics and harsh discipline, «He (Levin) had created the perfect middle - school student, but he hadn't created the perfect college student,» said Tough.
n Logistics — Rather than causing burnout, after - school activities can provide balance to a class schedule that is overly academic if locations and timing fit your lifestyle, Kuczmarski says.
She believes many schools have become a mere diversion from the academic agenda of middle - class parents — who want their children trained OUTSIDE the classroom by people better than «just teachers.»
Every school day, federal child nutrition programs provide nutritious meals that are critical to the health and academic success of more than 30 million students nationwide.
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.
Long Island public school districts would gain an additional $ 75.3 million in combined operating assistance, or a hike of more than 2.8 percent, under the state aid proposal for the 2017 - 18 academic year released by Cuomo's office.
NYC city was able to reduce the number of suspensions for school kids by 17 % over the last academic year — about 9,000 fewer suspensions than the year before, education officials said.
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.
On topic questions included: what defines a «community school», whether community schools are only located in low - income neighborhoods, whether there is a plan to extend universal pre-K to three year olds, how much more expensive community schools are to operate than «regular» schools, why was the UFT not at this announcement, whether academic gains are expected from community schools and how will such gains be measured, what programs are added to «regular» schools as they are converted into «community» schools, potential changes to the admissions process for specialized high schools and whether the seats announced today are new programs or new spaces.
The kerfuffle over his academic qualification is probably as far as he is concerned, a joke, because afterall, he doesn't need more than a secondary school certificate to be a member of the National Assembly.
More than 700,000 students in more than 1,200 New York City schools — including large high schools in all five boroughs — would face higher class sizes, have fewer teachers and lose after - school academic and enrichment programs if President - elect Trump makes good on a campaign promise to pull billions of federal dollars away from public schools to pay for private vouchers, a UFT analysis has found.
Health officials also say there's evidence that teen drinkers have more academic difficulties than teen nondrinkers in school.
She says that when anyone would accuse her of being not - a-real-doctor, she'd remind them that a Ph.D. requires more schooling than an M.D., that Ph.D. s walk ahead of M.D.s in academic processions, and that she has taught medical students.
The Physician Scientist Training Program in Internal Medicine, a research - oriented residency training program at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has reported that more than 80 % of the residents who completed the program remained in academic medicine, and about 70 % of those had faculty positions at Washington University (4).
Ranking schools based on their position within this faculty hiring network may be a more accurate predictor of a Ph.D. graduate's eventual academic placement than authoritative rankings by the U.S. News & World Report and the National Research Council, the authors say.
Those who do not master the language and remain English learners tend to score lower on academic tests and graduate high school at lower rates than their native - English speaking peers.
In service of that institutional need, academic culture has fostered the misleading narrative that graduate school and postdoc positions are solely intended to prepare young scientists for academic research careers rather than for a range of nonacademic and even nonresearch endeavors.
Children who started school a year later did not perform better in teacher ratings of their academic attainment than children who had started at an age appropriate time.
Birth weight makes a difference to a child's future academic performance, according to new Northwestern University research that found heavier newborns do better in elementary and middle school than infants with lower birth weights.
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