Sentences with phrase «way of academic results»

We've been spending billions of dollars on school modernization for decades, and I suspect we could keep on doing it until the end of the world, without much in the way of academic results.

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Brittney Kaiser, a former employee for Cambridge Analytica — who left the company in January and is today giving evidence in front of a UK parliament committee that's investigating online misinformation — has suggested that data on far more Facebook users may have found its way into the consultancy's hands than the up to 87M people Facebook has so far suggested had personal data compromised as a result of a personality quiz app running on its platform which was developed by an academic working with CA.

Third, acknowledging that some of the blame for the biased and one - sided media reporting on head injuries rests with some members of the scientific community who issue one - sided press releases and feed cherry - picked results about their findings to selected members of the media, the authors look to a day when the «harsh division and polarization» in the research community (an almost inevitable byproduct, unfortunately, of the intense competition for grant money in Concussion, Inc.), gives way to greater collaboration among researchers and a more «cordial discourse» between scientists via letters and responses to journal editors and back - and - forth debates at large academic conferences.

The results, published in the academic journal Nature Biotechnology, could pave the way for new varieties of better tasting tomatoes with improved postharvest life through conventional plant breeding.

These results point the way forward by showing just how much our schools can accomplish when academic rigor meets a community of faith.

As a result, in the past decade researchers have grown interested in ways of measuring and comparing the gains in academic achievement that a school or teacher elicits — in other words, a school or teacher's «value added.»

One result is that the public square is filled by impassioned advocates (including academics with little in the way of scholarly accomplishment), while we hear far less than I'd like from those who may be best equipped to recognize complexities, offer essential context, and explain hard truths.

The opponents of bilingual education cite the STAR results as proof that those warnings were misguided and that bilingual education is not the best way for students to learn English — or other academic subjects.

Now in its sixth year, that turnaround approach is seen by some as a first of its kind — both for its academic results and, education experts say, for the inclusive and pragmatic way it got traditional public schools, charters, nonprofits, and families to work together.

One result is that the public square is filled by impassioned advocates (including academics with little in the way of scholarly accomplishment), while we hear far less than I'd like from those who are best equipped to recognize complexities and explain hard truths.

Annual results of the assessment for 2005 indicate that the government is some way off achieving these targets, currently 85 %, for the academic years 2006 - 2008, but results indicate a steady improvement from the levels achieved in 1998.

Equitable schools always deliver academic results, but they do so in a way that develops in students key habits of autonomy, mastery, and independent thought.

Our student achievement is measured in many ways, and we continuously strive to improve by studying results of not only the STAAR tests (State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness), but also of district - level ongoing assessments, PSAT, SAT, and ACT.

FUNecole ® lessons promote useful ways of thinking that lead to positive results such as healthy mind - set, resiliency, optimism, health and academic improvement.

While noncompliance is certainly a critical concern and risk factor, the overall costs of a poorly planned and executed parent communication strategy result in much more impactful consequences: lost dollars that could be spent furthering success in the classroom and a failure to actively engage all students and parents in a way that serves as a foundation for achieving sustained and long term academic achievement.

These changes were possible because of some additional staffing that was worked out with the other schools in the district, and have had good results so far, both in terms of strengthening our school community (improving the way students treat each other and giving us a forum to strengthen students» sense of belonging and safety), as well as strengthening academics.

Budgeting and writing down expenses during academic life has proven to be an important way of managing the debt and it has been observed that students tend to neglect budgeting and take on things as they come which results in disastrous upcoming life.

He reported on a sentence he read in the Journal of Finance which he said «perfectly encapsulates (in an academic way) the exact point I had been trying to make about the rolling period results».

Today's financial markets are the result of a recent but obscure revolution that took root in the groves of ivy rather than in the canyons of lower Manhattan... In their quiet way the academics overcame the old guard and liberated the city of capital.