Sentences with phrase «which kind of student»

Cahill and Lynch reached out to the Parthenon Group, a data analysis and research firm in Boston, to find out how many of which kind of student was out there, which students fell behind, how they progressed through the system, what the outcomes were, and how those outcomes differed by program.

A useful opportunity exists here to explore differences between «long stayers» and «short stayers,» which may improve our understanding of which kinds of students benefit from voucher programs.

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It is reasonably common for people to make the kind of mistake that Ross and Navarro are making here, which is why professors generally make it a point of emphasis when introducing the GDP concept to students.

The Knowledge Society (TKS), founded by tech entrepreneurs Nadeem (Next 36, 2011) and Navid Nathoo, is a first - of - its - kind after - school innovation program for students aged 13 to 17, which the...

Moreover, it is now doubtful whether the efficient market hypothesis makes any kind of sense. Indeed, a great many economists and bankers have discovered Minskyâ $ ™ s views on financial fragility and his financial instability hypothesis, according to which banks and financial markets can not be left to themselves: we need regulations even though regulating markets may not succeed in avoiding another crisis once the memory of the current crisis has faded away.As told to me by a law student recently hired by Blackrock, the largest asset manager in the world, with assets totalling more than 3,500 billion dollars â $ «thatâ $ ™ s one and a half times larger than UBS and twice as large as PIMCO â $ «many asset managers are now turning away from hiring neoclassical economists and actually prefer hiring engineers, sociologists and even philosophers.

Grasping the literary dimensions of these writings enables students to see what kinds of questions readers can expect such religious texts to answer, and which they can not answer.

Niebuhr didn't mean to be funny when he said that Lutheranism evinces a «mystical fear of action,» but for a Lutheran student of theology that's gut «wrenching humor» which, upon further thought, is kind of sad.

«In the end, even the most religious students had to settle for a kind of mutual tolerance, do - no - harm stance, which they increasingly recognized was important but just not enough.»

Most strikingly, it faults colleges and universities for the kinds of students they enroll, shaped as they have been by the forces of the larger cultures from which they come, while paying no attention to the kinds they graduate.

And in a world in which a college degree has become» probably foolishly and unfortunately» a kind of «credential» one needs to gain employment (even employment for which the degree provides precious little preparation), students and parents are wise to ponder their options.

In a much less blunt statement, which nevertheless is not so clear, the student is encouraged to find the kind of profession to which he can give himself wholeheartedly from internal and not external motivation.

Basically, it'll be a network of students, groups, leaders and causes for what they're calling a «Common Good Exchange,» which sounds like the best possible kind of exchange.

This is especially true in small, rural churches, which can provide none of the kinds of support most seminary students have become used to.»

This kind of contextual approach has a dual impact, because both professors and students are forced to see what these disciplines mean in terms of the types of issues that the students are going to face in the parish, and the ways in which they actually arise.»

In discussing the kind of doctrine that ought to be taught to Jesuit students, he wrote in the Constitutions: «The doctrine which they ought to follow in each subject should be that which is safest and most approved, as also the authors who teach it» (no. 358).

We expect the student to develop the kind of religious understanding which quietly bears witness to its value and reality and hence does not have to be compulsively sold to others.

To the extent that we succeed in this, the student then becomes the kind of pastor who can help others find a religious faith which is viable for them.

While I'm very sympathetic to Dreher's hope (I teach at a school that advertises itself as Christian), I see something problematic in a kind of greenhouse theory of conservative education in which students are reared and taught within an engineered, not - in - the - world atmosphere.

Similarly, the test of admission to a Christian university ought not be church membership, but the prospective student's need for the kind of healing — wholeness — for which the university possesses special competence.

The other kind of bacon is less popular — which is why students are trialling a Meat Free Wednesday.

To me, the solution to the attrition issue, whether it's at a KIPP middle school or the Promise Academy middle school, is the Harlem Children's Zone's «conveyor belt» model, which provides continuous, high - quality early - childhood and elementary education to precisely those «disengaged families and students,» so that when those children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first few years.

«This is an issue we're trying to resolve,» said Michael Cook, a spokesman for the Las Cruces, N.M., Public School District, which he said was trying to make certain that any student who can't afford the main meal on the menu «is served some kind of alternative» rather than go hungry.

Modern tech means that our county has an online payment system where students can «bank» school lunch money and debit the system based on how many lunches they buy, which is kind of neat!

As co-chair of my school district's student nutrition committee for the past 8 years, I get exactly the same kind of feedback from parents and other advocates — some demand farm - to - school, some want only organic, some want to ban HFCS, etc. — and few understand the USDA regs which govern the meal program, or the limits of what can be accomplished on the inadequate government reimbursement.

However, there really is not enough information here (either in the original Chicago Tribune article, or in your interview) to be able to say whether this kind of program, which certainly is unique, could be replicated elsewhere, or even (as Chef Paul claims) scaled up to 8,000 students in an NSLP setting.

«I kind of want to be the majority of one, myself, and serve the majority, the actual majority which are the students of the city of Buffalo,» he said.

These students» voices, which have the earmarks of a budding national movement, may very well herald the start of the kind of discussion that must happen in America about the «right» to own military - style firearms, and gun control in general.

In addition to a steady supply of free condoms — which are already available to students — Christine Quinn has pushed for the program, one of the first of its kind in the nation, stating that since kids are having unprotected sex and getting pregnant, they should also have access to the abortion drug.

In order to give students practice at this kind of discernment, problems within class and homework assignments need to be interleaved — mixed up, all jumbled together, so that the student never knows in advance which type of problem she will be confronting but needs to figure it out afresh each time.

«Although right now we are focusing on developing a cancer vaccine, in the future we could be able to manipulate which type of dendritic cells or other types of immune cells are recruited to the 3D scaffold by using different kinds of cytokines released from the MSRs,» said co-lead author Aileen Li, a graduate student pursuing her Ph.D. in bioengineering at Harvard SEAS.

Baker thinks this kind of information could ultimately help teachers and guidance counselors figure out not only which students are at risk of academic problems but also why they are at risk and what can be done to help them.

Having these kinds of experiences as an undergraduate helps students decide which path to take once undergraduate studies are completed.

In the program, which is the only one of its kind in the United States, students devise business plans for solving environmental problems.

But his interest in Serono's work dated back to a meeting with a Serono representative at a student career fair, which clarified the kinds of opportunities available to him.

The series of eight projects used with the Raspberry Pi Projects Kit from the Science Buddies Store guide students in using Scratch to write short programs that work with a breadboard on which the student creates a circuit using various kinds of sensors to cause something to «happen» in response to real - world input.

The project, which invites an investigation of solar and alternative energy, uses a small and inexpensive robotic bug to let students see, hands - on, how a solar panel works to convert certain kinds of light energy to electrical energy.

Its the kind of subject that students actually enjoy taking, which helps, but.

«I realized that all my students were using Tinder, which sounded to me like some kind of scam.

I am a single dad with a daughter Graduate astronomy student - which you can take to understand that I'm also into the usual geeky things like games / sci - fi / marvel / GoT / cospla y etc Open minded, kind, loyal, and honest, I have a sense of humour.

Directed by Patrick Creadon and produced by Christine O'Malley and Neal Baer, If You Build It offers a compelling and hopeful vision for a new kind of classroom in which students learn the tools to design their own futures.

The scene ends with Swinton's mother waking up and leaving her house to find it (and her car) splashed in red paint by her fellow citizens, as her son, possibly stewed in the resentment and frustration of the mother, has grown up to become a neurotic sociopath responsible for murdering his fellow students in a school shooting — which of course is young people splashed in a different kind of red.

Yet states have a long way to go before they have the kinds of data systems that will help drive student improvement, according to the latest progress report from the 3 - year - old Data Quality Campaign, which works to improve state systems.

The kind of trust I am talking about is that which forms the most basic attitudes of the teacher and his students — it means that I, as teacher, trust the student's capacity to learn.

Until last week, the North Carolina Community College System, which as of the 2006 - 07 academic year had 112 degree - seeking undocumented high school graduates among about 800,000 students of all kinds at its 58 campuses, followed the same policy.

He does two kinds of schools: high schools that are tech related, where the kids are engaged in projected based learning and discovery, and that have deeply embedded partnerships with local industry; and also schools that are K — 8 flex programs, in which students attend school two days a week, work from home two days a week, and one day is an enrichment day.

Because of its heavy reliance on academic letter grades, the typical American high school had created a kind of free market in which every student was competing against every other student for rank.

The Boston Arts Academy is the kind of place where students have their teachers» home phone numbers, and where music teacher Allyssa Jones's graduation gift to one student she had grown especially close with was the piano on which she herself had learned to play.

In fact, it may be accurate to say that schools like the most effective schools in our study may be the first to produce students for whom these two types of cognitive ability are consistently decoupled, providing an opportunity to study just which kinds of outcomes are enabled by gains in crystallized knowledge alone.

The kinds of assessments the consortia are developing, which rely more heavily than most state tests on open - ended tasks and student writing, are more expensive to develop than many current state tests.

We have flexible furniture, which means my students are able to move around the room and choose which kinds of seating (or standing) areas work best for them.