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It's a risk, especially when the hiring is done by the dean over there, who is not an expert in all these different fields in which courses will be offered, ... I assume that in a well-run academic institution the people who are hired to teach the various areas are selected by peers in those areas.
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It's a retention rate, not just an academic rate. The spirit of this rule is right on. We're always pushing to get better. I don't think it's fair, but I am very confident we will be over 925 for the 2005-06 school year.
academic fine technical
It's a technical issue, not an academic issue. He's fine academically. Frank Martin
academic economic purely
It was purely for economic and academic reasons.
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It was the C average kids that really came through and won it for us this year. Academic Decathlon gives some kids who may not be the strongest students a chance to really prove themselves.
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It's curious how this parallels what goes on in academia. In academic fields like cultural studies, there's a lot of emphasis placed on finding and celebrating instances of audience "counter-hegemony" or audience "agency" instances of people not acting in the way that TV or the culture industry tells them to - the idea being that people really do have free will. Thomas Frank
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It's an evaluation off tape only. We do not call the school or do any investigative work whatsoever. Playing is a huge part of it, but there's no talking to the coach, no seeing the guy on the hoof, no talking to the academic people or the strength coach.
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It's another avenue that students have to get out and meet other people, and get away from the normal academic environment. Steve Case
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It's hard to maintain in high school unless you have your own feeder system. We have a lot of kids going to Academic Magnet or who choose to go to Bishop England. The next few years, we could do well, but the key is to keep getting the kids in. Stephen Jackson
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It's been pretty easy adjusting to the college life. I went to school for the first semester in Pennsylvania so I got real used to the academic perspective of it and it took me no time to get used to living up here. There are a lot of good people so it's been an awesome transition.
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That program is rather similar, so all of those students will live together in residence halls and there will be, again, a sort of academic and cultural component that comes into the residence halls.
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It's nice to have kids to come out and meet us, and we get to meet them. It's kind of a little reward for them for some of the things they are doing in their academic program. I'm glad to be a part of it and it's kind of exciting to see smart young kids.
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It's much more elegant and sophisticated to pretend it had to do with a violation of academic standards. Ward Churchill
academics central sort
It's sort of central to the academics rooms.
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It's not a Division I school. It's a good school, but they should really think about going to Division III and putting academics first if they're not going to put any money in sports. Bob Hill
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Einstein was a really interesting guy. He wasn't some dutiful little chap who went through the academic system and did everything proper. He had an enormous ego -- any lesser ego would have given up. He publishes this stuff and nobody pays attention for four years, but he is possessed -- and that's what makes him hell to be with as a human.
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Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the behavior of individuals, institutions, markets, and national economies. Most academic research falls in this category. Ben Bernanke
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At Valor, we believe that the personal, social and academic growth of students is a responsibility shared by our students, their parents, the Valor staff, the school district and the community in which we live.
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As long as there are no significant objections, the school should be given the status in time for the academic year beginning in September 2006. Harry Smith
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As long as students continue to corrupt this specialized academic network for the flagrant theft of music, we will continue to make it clear that there are consequences for these unlawful actions. Cary Sherman
academic achievement both britain education individual needs pretend pursuit society standards system universal wrong
Britain needs an education system that is appropriate to both society and the individual - and it is wrong to pretend that watering down academic standards in pursuit of universal achievement will do that, Liam Fox
academic bobby
Bobby and I come from academic schools. He comes from Furman and I come from Duke. We're academic guys. Steve Spurrier
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Black mothers are deciding to stay home because they want to be there when their children come home after school. They want to take a hands-on approach to their children's upbringing. Some black stay-at-home mothers are also home-schooling because they are tired of low academic achievement and racism of all sorts in the schools. Jennifer James
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Every high school player not being recruited by a major Division I program in the Pac-10, this gives them a reason to look at Davis. It's a great academic institution. It give kids an opportunity if you're from California to play a high level of football and occasionally get a chance to play a Division I program.
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It's not uncommon for private schools across the nation to hold kids back for a year, normally in the intermediate age, ... It's for academic reasons, emotional, physical reasons, to fully develop the child. It wasn't to gain an athletic advantage. It was to develop the study habits to succeed in college.
academic kids time worth
It's not worth our time to go after kids without the academic credentials.
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It's the best indicator of how much academic language they are acquiring. Occasionally, you have kids who all of a sudden get on a real learning curve and you just pour everything you can. It's amazing, they soak up so much.
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It is this type of leadership that promotes academic excellence in the public schools of Alabama. James Wright
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I've always been more of a nerdy, academic type. I loved 'Star Wars' growing up. I have three older brothers, so they were a big influence on me. We loved 'Danger Mouse,' and we love 'Monty Python'. We loved any kind of British comedy and 'Wallace and Gromit' and all of that stuff. Mara Wilson
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Teams that use the squad-size adjustment to escape penalty rather than improve their academic practices right away might find the 'pay-me-later' syndrome hard to accept. As more years of APR data become available, teams will find scores harder to change.
academics athletics compare great hate played players
I've had some great players, and I hate to compare players from different eras that have played for me. But I don't think there's too many players with a better combination of character, academics and athletics than Kane. He is a great one.
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An important one that comes to mind is the California Scholarship Federation, which requires a lot of bookkeeping and also supervising, as the advisor calculates and administers academic honors and rewards for graduation. I know the work of this club was begun well before it was clear there would be no stipend.
academics added background primarily public university wider
A public intellectual is not primarily a journalist, it is someone who has a university background and addresses a wider public than academics of the same background, he added