Not exact matches
According to
well - established research lasting motivation does not happen
with incentives, but rather when employees (1) feel a sense of
achievement, (2) have choice and the ability to participate on their own terms, (3) have opportunities to interact
with others, (4) feel connected to a
higher purpose, and (5) have fun.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the
best knows in the end the triumph of
high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be
with those cold and timid souls who neither know neither victory nor defeat.
Katherine
High, Spark's president and chief scientific officer, expressed her enthusiasm for the early clinical data related to SPK - 8011: «The encouraging start of our SPK - 8011 clinical trial reinforces the strength of our gene therapy platform, delivers human proof - of - concept in a second liver - mediated disease — a significant
achievement in the gene therapy field — and positions us
well to potentially transform the current treatment approach for this life - altering disease
with a one - time intervention.»
All our
best achievements, all our
highest hopes and aspirations, all that the mind and soul of man has attained or even dreamed, this ancient thinker asserts, is in accord
with the deepest nature of things.
Israel, we may say, would have granted the supremacy of the invisible church, the custodian of the nation's
best social
achievements and
highest idealism; but the visible church was too fallibly human to be trusted
with so
high a responsibility.
It is a small book, and the supporting sociological evidence is mainly referenced in the footnotes, but Greeley does propose evidence that, among other things, Catholics have, compared to non-Catholics, a significantly
higher appreciation of the arts and
high culture; they have more satisfaction and fun in sex; they
better understand the uses of leisure; they have a deeper and more stable relationship to family and community; they have a greater respect for the life of the mind,
with educational
achievements reflecting that respect; and they understand the nuanced connections between freedom and authority.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the
best knows in the end the triumph of
high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be
with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the
best, knows in the end the triumph of
high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be
with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.»
Am never one to excuse our continuous failings and Wenger's general ineptitude but all this talk of Afobe been another one we missed out on is a bit preposterous and very very premature... yes he's scored a few goals for Bournemouth but can we all take a step bck and recognise that playing for a team who will be happy just to avoid relegation is very different from playing for a club which demands trophies and
high achievements every season (yea, I know we have been found wanting on these fronts for a long time)... some players are
better in small clubs
with limited expectations and very neat to no pressure... that is why history is littered
with stories of
good players who went to big clubs and flopped only to go down a few levels and find their form again....
Studies have linked social skills
with better academic
achievement, stronger friendships and
higher self - esteem.
Table 1 shows clear and highly significant (P <.0001) tendencies for increasing duration of breastfeeding to be associated
with higher scores on measures of cognitive ability, teacher ratings of performance, standardized tests of
achievement,
better grades in School Certificate examinations, and lower percentages of children leaving school without qualifications.
In general, the results suggest that after adjustment for confounding, there were small but consistent tendencies for increasing duration of breastfeeding to be associated
with increased IQ, increased performance on standardized tests,
higher teacher ratings of classroom performance, and
better high school
achievement.
With sharper accountability, a more ambitious curriculum and world class qualifications, I believe we can create an education system which can compete with the best in the world — a system which gives every young person, regardless of background, the high quality education, high aspirations and high achievement they need and dese
With sharper accountability, a more ambitious curriculum and world class qualifications, I believe we can create an education system which can compete
with the best in the world — a system which gives every young person, regardless of background, the high quality education, high aspirations and high achievement they need and dese
with the
best in the world — a system which gives every young person, regardless of background, the
high quality education,
high aspirations and
high achievement they need and deserve.
They say that if our job allows us to work towards one of those four
higher - order goals — status, autonomy,
achievement, and communion, or being
with other people — then we find a level of psychological fulfillment that intrinsically motivates us to perform our jobs
well.
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.
«Students
with higher intelligence had
better grades and test scores, but those who also enjoyed and took pride in math had even
better achievement.
His technical contributions and
achievements have been recognized
with several prestigious awards: he has received Technical
Achievement Awards from all three major international organizations in the field (IEEE, IEE, and EURASIP), the Society Award of the IEEE Signal Processing society (which is the
highest level award bestowed by the said society), and several important
best paper awards including the Baker Prize which is presented to the author (s) of the most outstanding paper that appeared in all IEEE publications.
I found, after being a professional track and field athlete for 13 years, that the
best way to cope
with the emptiness that typically follows a career
high is to always remember that your
best and most important
achievements are AHEAD of you.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the
best knows in the end the triumph of
high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be
with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.»
This intense calculation has prompted a
higher dating
achievement rate and, utilising your outcomes, permits Elite Singles to recommend up to 10 new matches a day, all by and by
good with your own particular identity.
With director Mark Waters at the helm (no stranger to these high concept «comedies», with the actually - pretty - decent «Freaky Friday» remake and «The Spiderwick Chronicles», as well as crowning achievement «Mean Girls» under his belt), «Penguins» barrels down to one of most asinine climaxes in recent memory, culminating with a press announcement that unites all the major and minor characters, and involves plot twists that ring of desperation to wrap up on a self - congratulatory n
With director Mark Waters at the helm (no stranger to these
high concept «comedies»,
with the actually - pretty - decent «Freaky Friday» remake and «The Spiderwick Chronicles», as well as crowning achievement «Mean Girls» under his belt), «Penguins» barrels down to one of most asinine climaxes in recent memory, culminating with a press announcement that unites all the major and minor characters, and involves plot twists that ring of desperation to wrap up on a self - congratulatory n
with the actually - pretty - decent «Freaky Friday» remake and «The Spiderwick Chronicles», as
well as crowning
achievement «Mean Girls» under his belt), «Penguins» barrels down to one of most asinine climaxes in recent memory, culminating
with a press announcement that unites all the major and minor characters, and involves plot twists that ring of desperation to wrap up on a self - congratulatory n
with a press announcement that unites all the major and minor characters, and involves plot twists that ring of desperation to wrap up on a self - congratulatory note.
Despite his inclusion in the guild's
highest honor, Davis failed to secure an Academy Award nomination for
best director; the «Lion» helmer and his team were nevertheless rewarded
with the award for outstanding directorial
achievement of a first - time feature.
Other highlights of the night included Kumail Ninjiani's witty Holly Hunter introduction — «what's ironic is that this is my
highest career
achievement, presenting Holly Hunter
with this career
achievement award» — and Hunter's recollections of her experience starring opposite William Hurt in «Broadcast News,» the 1987 film for which she was nominated for
best lead actress.
The character is associated
with having a
good time, and expectations are
high for that
achievement to be unlocked again.»
The 2006 Child
Well - Being Index, released in March by the Foundation for Child Development in cooperation
with Duke University and the Brookings Institution, suggests a general lack of progress for K - 12 students, evidenced by flat scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, persistent
achievement gaps, and falling
high school graduation rates.
These «whole school» models appear to offer the kind of dedication to
high achievement, as
well as reinforcement from similarly focused peers, that serve students
with exceptional abilities
well.
How will we know whether places
with lots of school choice are producing
higher achievement than those without, or which of the state - specific accountability regimes likely to follow ESEA reauthorization are working
best?
As is
well known, the economic benefits of a college education have risen dramatically during the past quarter century, and substantial evidence shows that students
with good grades or
high scores on
achievement tests tend to pursue more education.
«Education governors,» many from southern states in need of an
achievement boost, joined forces
with leading business organizations to promote
higher expectations and a
better - educated workforce.
The Launch of the Turning the Tide Report Marks the First Step in Efforts of Coalition to Inspire Concern for Others in
High School Students, Reduce
Achievement Pressure, and Create Greater Equity for Economically Diverse Students New York, NY — Today, admissions deans and other leaders from the nation's top colleges and universities joined together to announce the launch of Turning the Tide: Inspiring Concern for Others and the Common
Good through College Admissions, a report
with concrete recommendations to reshape the college admissions process and promote greater ethical engagement among...
Among students assigned to different teachers
with the same Overall Classroom Practices score, math
achievement will grow more for students whose teacher is
better than his peers at classroom management (i.e., has a
higher score on our Classroom Management vs. Instructional Practices measure).
Kids Today Focused on Winning at All Costs ABC News /
Good Morning America, 6/25/14 «Harvard researcher Rick Weissbourd found a high percentage of children showed more concern with achievement than being a good person.&ra
Good Morning America, 6/25/14 «Harvard researcher Rick Weissbourd found a
high percentage of children showed more concern
with achievement than being a
good person.&ra
good person.»
It is
better than twice as important for
achievement that children living in a low - income family have a mother
with a
high school diploma (as compared to one without the diploma) than that the family has 50 percent more income.
Although, as the authors note, «most non-urban students do reasonably
well in any case,» the causal effect of a year of non-urban charter attendance is a substantial reduction in
achievement in all levels and subjects, on the order of 0.16 standard deviations in middle school
with almost a quarter of a standard deviation decline in
high school math.
As students feel more comfortable in school, they may build
better relationships
with peers and
with teachers — relationships that support
higher levels of
achievement in the future.
States set annual district and school targets for grade - level
achievement,
high school graduation, and closing
achievement gaps, for all students, including accelerated progress for subgroups (each major racial and ethnic group, students
with disabilities, English language learners, and students from low - income families), and rate schools and districts on how
well they meet the targets.
These same schools report poor
achievement by other major student groups as
well, and have a set of characteristics associated generally
with poor standardized test performance — such as
high student - teacher ratios,
high student enrollments and
high levels of students living in or near poverty.
As
with parental education, family income may have a direct impact on a child's academic outcomes, or variations in
achievement could simply be a function of the school the child attends: parents
with greater financial resources can identify communities
with higher - quality schools and choose more - expensive neighborhoods — the very places where
good schools are likely to be.
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high percentage of children showed more concern
with achievement than being a
good person.
The measures of teacher quality that are used by most public school systems to screen candidates and determine compensation — certification, experience, and education level — have been
well researched, but there is little definitive empirical evidence that these characteristics, defined in general terms, are associated
with higher student
achievement.
2) the indirect channel that works through families» choices of schools, in which the school characteristics relevant to
achievement are more fully captured by what parents observe than by the short list of school descriptors in the regression (for instance,
well - educated parents choose teachers
with higher value - added); or
In a briefing paper prepared for the National Academy of Education (NAE) and the American Educational Research Association, Linda Darling - Hammond and three other distinguished authors reached the following conclusion: «
With respect to value - added measures of student
achievement tied to individual teachers, current research suggests that
high - stakes, individual - level decisions, as
well as comparisons across highly dissimilar schools or student populations should be avoided.»
Setting a benchmark of
high achievement at our school wide History Fair, our very best students and their projects were celebrated at Lane Tech High School on the North Side along with the rest of the city's best stude
high achievement at our school wide History Fair, our very
best students and their projects were celebrated at Lane Tech
High School on the North Side along with the rest of the city's best stude
High School on the North Side along
with the rest of the city's
best students.
«SST is in
good standing
with the TEA and our students»
achievements show that we have a history of providing
high - quality STEM education to primarily economically disadvantaged children,» Nalcaci said.
[11] For this reason, we would expect the test to align
better with lower or middle tracks, implying that teachers in these tracks have an easier time showing
achievement gains — and therefore
higher value - added.
This brief asserts that students
with the
highest truancy rates have the lowest academic
achievement rates, and because truants are the youth most likely to drop out of school, they have
high dropout rates as
well.
Robert Lee, Ph.D., superintendent of Kenston Local School District, has announced that beginning
with the 2012 - 2013 school year, middle and
high school start times will be delayed 30 minutes to 7:50 a.m. Lee cited improving student
achievement and
well - being as the basis for the change.
The group had recently read a research brief
high - lighting the effect of teachers on student
achievement as
well as the inequitable distribution of teachers within districts,
with higher - income,
higher - performing schools getting the pick of the litter.
Even if the curricula is aligned
with the standards, the curricula won't work if teachers are not capable of improving student
achievement, if school cultures damn some kids (notably those from poor and minority backgrounds) to low expectations, and if school operators aren't held to
high expectations (as
well as rewarded and punished accordingly).
These include: · Use of instructional programs and curricula that support state and district standards and of
high quality testing systems that accurately measure
achievement of the standards through a variety of measurement techniques · Professional development to prepare all teachers to teach to the standards · Commitment to providing remedial help to children who need it and sufficient resources for schools to meet the standards ·
Better communication to school staff, students, parents and the community about the content, purposes and consequences of standards · Alignment of standards, assessment and curricula, coupled
with appropriate incentives for students and schools that meet the standards In the unlikely event that all of these efforts, including a change in school leadership, fail over a 3 - year period to «turn the school around,» drastic action is required.