Sentences with phrase «years of the academic life»

The wider philosophical conceptuality that includes them is that one known today as Process Thought, with which I have been working for more than forty years of academic life.

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«I never wanted to do research on one thing for the rest of my life, which tends to be the academic model,» says the 34 - year - old Lathan.

In the early 1970s the 18 - year - old Yuki, the son of a university vice president, rebelled against the Tokyo academic life in which he was raised, defying his parents and moving to the U.S..

In her twenty - plus years as an entrepreneur, Kim has had the opportunity to speak in front of thousands of people in the business, nonprofit and academic worlds about how to create a vibrant and rewarding work culture that enhances the company's bottom line as well as her coworker's and customer's lives.

This is my eighth year living in Cairo, where I serve as the Rector of St. John's Church, an international Episcopal church that serves the diplomatic, NGO, academic, and business communities.

The initiative follows on he heels of another report by Oxford academics, which last year found that levying a tax on animal products — pricing them to reflect more accurately their harmful impact — could reduce meat eating to the extent that 1 billion tonnes of carbon a year would be saved... and 500,000 lives.

This was a remarkable time not only for the typical rites of passage — figuring out out how to live independently and negotiate the partying and alcohol and social pressures that accompany the college experience — but after my first year my parents pulled the financial plug so I not only needed to be responsible for my general behavior and academics, but also for paying for college.

Studies about the lasting importance of a child's experiences in the first three years of life, once relegated to scientific or academic journals, are now fueling a broad national conversation about what this growing body of research means for families and communities across the country.

Residents of Syracuse proper — those who live within the city limits — are eligible to vote in the general election, including SU students who registered to vote using the address at which they live during the academic year, said Dustin Czarny, commissioner of the Onondaga County Board of Elections.

«Our program is the only one of its kind that provides life - saving interventions to Latina teens between the ages of 12 and 17 years old, by using emotional and physical wellness, academic programs, and creative arts activities.

Assembly Member Kim said, «A number of leading academic and psychological experts have proven in recent years that individuals become successful in life due to non-cognitive skills like grit, determination, and being able to collaborate with others.

I made a great effort during last 4 years to obtain positive results in my thesis and now I feel like I have wasted my time: I have no options to get a job neither in academic nor industry unless I refresh or recycle myself, but how I could do so when I'm 35 and spent the main time of my life studiying and giving up so many things just to get a better future?

For the first 5 years of her daughter's life, Katerina Michaelides, a senior lecturer in hydrology at the University of Bristol, had to keep her full - time workload to the standard hours of professional child care so that she could look after her daughter in the mornings and evenings as sole parent while her academic husband spent his weeks working at a university approximately 650 kilometers away.

As a scholar of science and technology studies (a social science field that aims to understand the social processes of knowledge production), I focused the 4 years of my Ph.D. on studying how the academic landscape in which today's postdoctoral life scientists develop their careers influences their working practices.

In recent years, researchers in artificial intelligence (AI) have used this computational firepower on the scads of data accumulating online, in academic research, in financial records, and in virtually all walks of life.

The postdoc and the first 6 years of the independent academic career are crucial: Your performance during that time and the decisions you make establish the foundation for the rest of your professional life (Pfirman, 2005).

Review: Chemistry and the construction of life — A new academic year always finds students searching for the right texts to make the most of their limited budgets.

Measures instituted in recent years to encourage the sharing of scientific information appear to have reduced the overall level of withholding of data and materials among academic life science researchers.

The new research has enabled scientists to test the ideas of Alfred Russel Wallace, an early 20th century anthropologist whose life and work are being celebrated at UCLA throughout the academic year.

Gregory has lived and worked in China for the better part of the last twenty - five years facilitating exchanges between academic, governmental, and professional organizations in both countries.

This results in a glut of postdoctoral trainees who, even though they are aware that only 14.3 % of PhDs in the life sciences end up in tenure track position 5 years after receiving their PhDs, still strive to become academic researchers themselves (44 % of postdocs in the life sciences name faculty - research as their preferred career outcome - see below).

Academic life is full of lots of different tasks which occupy our time more or less at different parts of the year.

I joined PlentyofFish.com because, to be perfectly honest, I've had my nose to the academic grind for the past six years, and am now, post-graduation, finally getting back into the swing of social life.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid (PG for crude humor and mild epithets) Combination live action / animated comedy based on Jeff Kinney's illustrated children's novel of the same name chronicling the misadventures of a wisecracking, junior high school student (Zachary Gordon) and his best friend (Robert Capron) over the course of a very eventful academic year.

Consider another example: the Progressive Education Association officially expired in 1955, yet 20 years later many schools were still providing the curriculum recommended by its Life Adjustment subsidiary - that 20 percent of high - school students should receive vocational training, 60 percent a «general» curriculum, including such courses as «marriage and the family,» and the remaining 20 percent academic instruction.

As examples, she cites the Myra Kraft Transitional Year Program at Brandeis University, which gives students who haven't had access to AP and honors courses a year of academics designed to prepare them for advanced undergraduate level coursework, and Northeastern University's Foundation Year, a similar program for students living in BosYear Program at Brandeis University, which gives students who haven't had access to AP and honors courses a year of academics designed to prepare them for advanced undergraduate level coursework, and Northeastern University's Foundation Year, a similar program for students living in Bosyear of academics designed to prepare them for advanced undergraduate level coursework, and Northeastern University's Foundation Year, a similar program for students living in BosYear, a similar program for students living in Boston.

He had just spent two years studying the «climate of values» at several midwestern high schools, interviewing students about their academic lives, their social lives, school culture, and their rapidly evolving teen culture.

Now, with a year of the Ed School behind her, she is looking at ways that technology — and a small academic scholarship program that she started while in Iraq for three high school seniors each year — can help students all over Thailand improve their lives.

Many parents believe that so - called «academic redshirting,» or the act of delaying a student's kindergarten entrance by one year, will give their children a leg up not only when they first enroll in school, but throughout their educational careers and later in life.

The hope is that the students, clustered in small groups of only 25 each year, will build a cohort for life, a close network of leaders who are ready and equipped to transform the education sector as superintendents, chief academic officers, chiefs of staff, commissioners, executive directors, and more.

But, proportionally speaking, the billions of ideas diligently pursued and presented by students each year have the academic half - life of say... a mayfly.

Creighton, who will vacate her position as president of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass., at the end of the 2009 - 10 academic year, is in no rush to decide on her post-Mount Holyoke life, however.

Teaching students that they are the «conductors of their own brains» conveys the need to master a wide range of thinking and learning tools for use across core academic subjects, in their personal lives, and later in their college years and careers.

Last year, Education Next published the findings of a study of the academic achievement of two groups: those who in adolescence lived in single - parent households and those who lived in two - parent households (see «One - Parent Students Leave School Earlier,» features, Spring 2015).

The figures are based on the standard HGSE student budget and allowable living expenses for the 9 month academic year - also known as the estimated cost of attendance.

Academic Gains, Double the # of Schools: Opportunity Culture 2017 — 18 — March 8, 2018 Opportunity Culture Spring 2018 Newsletter: Tools & Info You Need Now — March 1, 2018 Brookings - AIR Study Finds Large Academic Gains in Opportunity Culture — January 11, 2018 Days in the Life: The Work of a Successful Multi-Classroom Leader — November 30, 2017 Opportunity Culture Newsletter: Tools & Info You Need Now — November 16, 2017 Opportunity Culture Tools for Back to School — Instructional Leadership & Excellence — August 31, 2017 Opportunity Culture + Summit Learning: North Little Rock Pilots Arkansas Plan — July 11, 2017 Advanced Teaching Roles: Guideposts for Excellence at Scale — June 13, 2017 How to Lead & Achieve Instructional Excellence — June 6, 201 Vance County Becomes 18th Site in National Opportunity Culture Initiative — February 2, 2017 How 2 Pioneering Blended - Learning Teachers Extended Their Reach — January 24, 2017 Betting on a Brighter Charter School Future for Nevada Students — January 18, 2017 Edgecombe County, NC, Joining Opportunity Culture Initiative to Focus on Great Teaching — January 11, 2017 Start 2017 with Free Tools to Lead Teaching Teams, Turnaround Schools — January 5, 2017 Higher Growth, Teacher Pay and Support: Opportunity Culture Results 2016 — 17 — December 20, 2016 Phoenix - area Districts to Use Opportunity Culture to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — October 5, 2016 Doubled Odds of Higher Growth: N.C. Opportunity Culture Schools Beat State Rates — September 14, 2016 Fresh Ideas for ESSA Excellence: Four Opportunities for State Leaders — July 29, 2016 High - need, San Antonio - area District Joins Opportunity Culture — July 19, 2016 Universal, Paid Residencies for Teacher & Principal Hopefuls — Within School Budgets — June 21, 2016 How to Lead Empowered Teacher - Leaders: Tools for Principals — June 9, 2016 What 4 Pioneering Teacher - Leaders Did to Lead Teaching Teams — June 2, 2016 Speaking Up: a Year's Worth of Opportunity Culture Voices — May 26, 2016 Increase the Success of School Restarts with New Guide — May 17, 2016 Georgia Schools Join Movement to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — May 13, 2016 Measuring Turnaround Success: New Report Explores Options — May 5, 2016 Every School Can Have a Great Principal: A Fresh Vision For How — April 21, 2016 Learning from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality Charter Schools — April 15, 2016 School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Different?

Never in a million years were we going to see forty - five states truly embrace these rigorous academic expectations for their students, teachers, and schools, meet all the implementation challenges (curriculum, textbooks, technology, teacher prep, etc.), deploy new assessments, install the results of those assessments in their accountability systems, and live with the consequences of zillions of kids who, at least in the near term, fail to clear the higher bar.

Kids growth in academic achievement can vary dramatically from one year to the next depending on health, home life, etc., regardless of the teaching.

Accounts published by the Transforming Lives Education Trust show that Lois Reed's pay increased by at least # 50,000 in the 2016 - 17 academic year, leaving her with a salary of between # 270,001 and # 280,000.

This year, CCSA is excited to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the California Charter Schools Act of 1992, legislation that sparked a movement transforming the lives of students and unlocking their academic potential.

94 % of employers say that life skills are at least as important as academic results for the success of young people, with nearly one third saying even more so, however 68 % say 18 year old school leavers they are looking to recruit don't have the required skills for the workplace.

Transportation: If parents / caregivers choose to continue their child's education in the school of origin, the Board will provide transportation to and from the school of origin, and to all school - related activities, as long as the child or youth is in a temporary living situation, or if the student becomes permanently housed, until the end of the academic year.

A child or youth in a temporary living situation has the right to attend his / her school of origin for as long as he / she remains in a temporary living situation, as defined above, or if the student becomes permanently housed, until the end of the academic year.

The announcement also comes on the day that the Academies Annual Report for the 2013/14 academic year provides clear and credible evidence of the positive impact academies are having on young people's life chances, it finds:

Research shows young children are wired to learn multiple languages, that the brain is most receptive to language learning in the earliest years of life, and that the home language is central to developing English proficiency and overall academic achievement.

To probe these questions, The Wallace Foundation in 2011 launched a five - year, $ 75 million initiative to help six large districts build stronger principal pipelines by (1) creating clear job requirements detailing what principals and assistant principals must know and do, (2) ensuring high - quality training for aspiring leaders, (3) developing more selective hiring procedures, and (4) using well - crafted evaluations to identify the needs of principals and ongoing support to address them.79 Over the life of the initiative, it is expected that participating districts will have filled at least two - thirds of their principal slots with graduates of high - quality training programs - enough to enable independent researchers to gather meaningful evidence on whether and how better leadership can transform the academic fortunes of children.

On March 18, the window opens for field tests of the new Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, the computer - based adaptive test that will go live next year to replace the Connecticut Mastery Test (CMT) and Connecticut Academic Performance Test (CAPT).

ClemsonLIFE ™ is a two - year program incorporating functional academics, independent living, employment and social / leisure skills in a public university setting with the goal of producing self - sufficient young adults.

Endowed Chair in Early Childhood Education (Maryfrances Shreeve Chair in Teaching Excellence) Best place to live and teach in the U.S.: The Phyllis J. Washington College of Education and Human Sciences is seeking a full - time, tenure - track professor beginning in the 2018 - 2019 academic year to continue to build a nationally - recognized program in early childhood education.

There has, however, also been evidence in recent years that separate (often charter) schools can change the trajectory of the lives of gifted, poor children — as long as families are willing to enroll them, get them to school regularly, and tolerate a demanding academic schedule.