Sentences with phrase «than any college course»

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It's so much easier to administer and grade a useless multiple choice test and to inflate every kids» grades for their college applications than it is to create challenging course work that excites, engages, and challenges them.

Currently, two thirds, or more than 2,000, U.S. colleges and universities now offer a course in entrepreneurship, according to the Kauffman Foundation.

More than 60 % of U.S. colleges and universities now offer Internet - based courses, according to the sAmerican Federation of Teachers.

For a recent study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health analyzed the eating habits of more than 200,000 health care workers over the course of more than 20 years.

The Institute offers several more courses than the previous colleges and considerably expands the ministry and education opportunities for lay members of the church.

The data on charter - school performance is perhaps mixed, but a half century of research proves, as Ravitch acknowledges, that «minority children in Catholic schools are more likely to take advanced courses than their peers in public schools, more likely to go to college, and more likely to continue on to graduate school.»

Following on the British government's decision in favour of promoting English rather than Oriental or Vernacular education in India, and to seek the help of private agencies in the task, the Missions started Christian colleges for imparting education in Western culture and modern science with the teaching of English literature at the centre of secular courses and spiritually interpreted by the teaching of Christian Scripture.

I think that a college religion course better prepares a person for a high score on this test than being a communicant of any religion, if the diversity of the questions are similar to the ten question quiz.

They have a number of common facilities, and students can take courses in colleges other than the one in which they enroll.

Bankers would be expected to be college graduates, but they normally learned the business of banking by experience in banks rather than by special courses in an institution of higher education.

The introduction of courses at the undergraduate level in colleges and seminaries, the promotion of graduate seminars, together with more than a decade of specialized training for clergy sponsored by the Foundation, reinforce this experience of ours by adding to the experience of others.

In the space of time available to him, of course, Mr. Clinton could offer little more than a hasty outline of this proposal, but he did manage to make clear that what he was referring to was some sort of system whereby American high school (and, as it was to turn out, also college) graduates would exchange some years of service, either as policemen, environmental workers, or offerers of some form of assistance to poor children, in exchange for the government's subsequently paying their college tuition» a kind of GI Bill for non-GIs.

The Glencoe series seems to suffer less from political correctness and revisionism than do some other texts, and it provides a fairly complete course in writing and literary analysis which my self - directed daughter can work through on her own during long days on the college campus.

Because of COURSE a few cells are FAR more important than the life of a girl who's in college!

Of course, sending inmates to Bible college raised more than a few eyebrows.

It may be more unified than most college curricula are but nonetheless it impresses the observer as a collection of studies rather than as a course of study.

I can not use bigger kitchen machine at the college and it's better than nothing of course.

Icing a wedding cake in buttercream is easier than you'd think — if it were a college course, it'd be called Caking 101!

Of course, in the end, in anything involving human judgment, there's a little subjectivity, but College Insider's poll and definition of who is and isn't included carries a bit more weight than blog commenters.

Of course every team will have different boards, as the ability to project college players at the next level is way more complicated than rating current NFL players like for free agency: both are subjective and fallible, but you have to trust the process of your evaluators...

More than half of that time, of course, is devoted to Allen's folksy, garrulous descriptions of 162 Yankee ball games, while most of the remainder is parceled out to the World Series broadcasts, college football and Rose Bowl games, a three - hour, $ 3 - a-minute segment of NBC Radio's Monitor on Saturday mornings and baseball All - Star games (his 23rd comes up next Tuesday).

Others may decide to take a degree course by correspondence, or to go to a vocational college where a portfolio of work is of more value than any qualifications.

But dual enrollment courses can be less structured than other college - level curricula offered in high school, such as Advanced Placement (AP) or International Baccalaureate (IB) classes.

i studied printed textiles at college in South Africa, did an art & design foundation course in Grimsby, and eventually graduated from Nottingham Trent University with a degree in textile design (specialising in embroidery), but i rediscovered the enthusiasm and passion for drawing & stitching i'd had since childhood through craft, rather than commercial design.

If your child find themselves in the fortunate position of doing better than expected they shouldn't necessarily stick to their plans - they could use their good grades to barter up to a more popular course or college.

Even though it has more than enough information for a college lecture, Lunch Line won't put you to sleep the way your freshman history course did.

Alan taught the first - ever college course on digital politics (1995), created and built the Center for American Progress's social media program (2007 - 13) and has trained more than 15,000 people across the world in digital & social media strategy, including civil society leaders across the Arab world in 2009; key staff at leading advocacy groups and news media outlets; Members of Congress and their staff; as well as political and business leaders from several countries, including a couple future kings.

The policy group highlighted North Carolina's state community college system as having established a new mechanism to place students in courses based in part on high school performance, rather than just through testing.

I have the opportunity to learn more practical science than I did in any of my molecular biology courses in college, as well as the taking advantage of all the resources at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

Of course nothing sucks more than being single and alone while you are going through your college experience.

Somehow meatier and more ramshackle than its counterpart, the film follows Eleanor as she makes an apparent suicide attempt, walks out on her husband, decamps to her family home, and begins taking college courses while she figures out next steps.

It recalls The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1964) but rather than just letting the idea of a mishap giving a college student special powers run its course through episodic fare, Computer actually has a plot and an engaging and consistently advancing one.

Amanda King, a recent Effingham High School graduate who plans to major in journalism in college, says that as a result of rewriting drafts of scripts based on her teachers» and classmates» critiques, the course has improved her writing skills more than her rhetoric class has.

A 2010 report, How College Students Evaluate and Use Information in the Digital Age, found that while nearly 75 percent of students reported using Wikipedia for school research, almost all of them said they turn first to course readings and consulted more with instructors and scholarly research than with Wikipedia.

Those with a college degree on average make $ 1 million more over the course of their lifetimes than those without a degree.

In contrast, many high school and even college course loads are about mastering pre-existing bodies of knowledge rather than engaging curiosity.

Treated students both attempted, and earned, 1.5 more credits (about half a college course) than those in the control group during their first semester.

Some kids just below the line will succeed in college nonetheless (and may even be able to skip remedial courses); some kids over the line will falter (probably because, not surprisingly, young people need to be «prepared» in much more than reading and math to finish a college degree).

The move has led to the creation of a college that today caters for more than 20,000 pupils studying for a wide range of vocational courses that lead to BTEC, NVQ, City & Guilds and other specialist qualifications, as well as higher education courses validated by the University of Greenwich and Canterbury Christ Church University.

The state reported that last year about 1 in 10 Innovations juniors and seniors took community - college classes and more than half took courses through the CTC, whose offerings range from computer programming and CD graphics to barbering and nail design.

However, it's about more than just attending a school or college online, taking a few courses, and getting a certificate.

The New York City - based College Board, the nonprofit organization that owns the Advanced Placement brand, said more than two - thirds of the 134,000 ostensible AP - course syllabuses submitted for review by teachers from 14,383 secondary schools around the world were immediately approved.

Scott Rusell, the college's technology specialist, insists that students learn more in the two - week course than simply how to surf the Web.

Another study found more than three - quarters of students who took Algebra I and Geometry went on to college within two years of high school graduation, while only one - third of students who did not take Algebra I and Geometry courses did so.

Concerned more with inclusiveness, validation, and graduation than with college preparedness, administrators encourage teachers to, for instance, consider pupil effort in their grading, and push students to take advanced courses for which they have the ambition but not the readiness.

For example, completing a course beyond Algebra II in high school more than doubles the odds that a student who enters college will complete a bachelor's degree.

We believe these «new designs for new schools» will produce a set of schools that show districts across the country that high schools can provide underprepared young people with the supports they need to graduate from high school, go to college, place out of remedial courses, and stay in college for at least two semesters at substantially higher rates than are commonly achieved today.

As part of its «Benchmark Best Practices» series, COACHE surveyed faculty at its member institutions — more than 200 colleges and universities across the United States — about their satisfaction with the amount of time they spent on teaching, the number and level of courses they teach, and how the teaching workload is distributed, among other questions.

More than half of the students going to our community colleges need remedial courses, and most who take them do not succeed in college.

In a new study, students in an introductory college statistics class who took a short online survey before each exam asking them to think about how they would prepare for it earned higher grades in the course than their peers — a third of a letter grade higher, on average.