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Showing 1 to 20 of 146 for “"Academies"”.
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Freshman Academies: A Study of Student Outcomes.
<p>The transition to high school has been identified by researchers as a pivotal point in students' lives. The addition of a Freshman Academy in some schools has targeted the 9th grade year to ease students' transition to high school and increase the likelihood of academic success.</p><p>One …
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Local government citizen academies : is knowledge power?
Government decision-makers and especially urban planners increasingly face difficulties engaging citizens given trends of public apathy, cynicism towards government, language and cultural barriers, and the growing complexity of government bureaucracy. As municipal governments increasingly focus on …
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Vico's Narrative Art: From the Forests to the Academies
<p>In this dissertation, I argue that Giambattista Vico (1668-1744), most famously considered a philosopher of history, is above all a philosopher of narration. I unfold Vico’s narrative response to and rejection of traditional philosophical discourse; through relating the story of himself and the …
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Implementing Career Academies in a Large, Comprehensive High School
… in implementing and sustaining Career Academies in a large comprehensive high school. The Career Academy is a high school reform model that integrates school-to-work elements in a personalized learning environment. The Career Academy structure provides partnerships between high schools …
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Teachers in California partnership academies: Roles, relationships and student success
… program settings, such as California Partnership Academies (CPAs). The participants were from four different school sites and districts and represented industry sectors related to energy, green engineering, or environmental science. This was a qualitative, collective case study using classroom …
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Adequacy of lacto-ovo-vegetarian diets in Seventh-Day-Adventist boarding academies
Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
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An Exploration of the Enrollment and Outcomes of the Virginia Governor's STEM Academies
… intervention for at-risk students, modern career academies have expanded their scope to programs designed to promote critical thinking, problem solving, and analytical skills to be successful in an advanced career path. Through the integration of career and technical education courses and a …
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An evaluation of the research done by the Academies for Rural Development in Pakistan
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, 1964
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The individual and collective programmatic characteristics of five selected string academies in the United States
… characteristics of five selected string academies that implement a curriculum developed by Mimi Zweig of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. The curriculum, available at stringpedagogy.com, is heavily influenced by the work of Paul Rolland and Shinichi Suzuki. The research …
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The development of the academies policy, 2000 – 2010 : the influence of democratic values and constitutional practice
… this thesis, in tracking the development of the academies policy, reveals a marked shift in decision-making style at the top of government. In the years of the Labour governments between 1997 and 2010, policy-making was robust more than consultative; urgent more than deliberative; experimental …
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An Exploration into the Provision and Delivery of Sport Psychology within Professional Football Academies in England
… of psychological support within youth football academies. However, the full integration of sport psychology into these academies remains a challenge, with several barriers hindering its widespread implementation. This thesis adopts a qualitative, interpretivist approach to explore the current …
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Nonclassroom Teacher-Student Association in Seventh-day Adventist Academies in the Northern and Central California Conferences
… teachers, and principals in the eleven SDA academies and two boarding academies in the Northern and Central California Conferences. The data from the questionnaires were summarized--totaling responses and calculating percentages, means, and standard deviations. Comparisons were made and some …
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A Case Study of the Evolution of High School Academies in a Large Suburban School System
… academic and career education. High school academies were established to replace the two vocational centers located within two existing high schools. The history that surrounded the implementation of the task force recommendations is presented in this study.
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Leading academies: challenge and complexity: an examination and analysis of the nature and dimensions for successful leadership
… and dimensions for successful leadership of Academies bearing in mind the challenges and complexities of the task in hand. At the time of writing no specifically designed or defined programme exists to train or support those becoming or already working as Principals of Academies. The focus …
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Guidelines for Campus Beautification With Special Reference to Seventh-day Adventist Academies and Colleges in North America
… beautification that could be applied to SDA academies and colleges. Ideas were gathered from personal contacts with chairs of other institutions in the area of landscape architecture and from the fifty states that had published guidelines for campus beautification. On the basis of the ideas …
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A Quantitative Study Comparing Traditional High Schools and High Schools Implementing Freshman Academies in the State of Tennessee.
<p>The purpose of this study was to compare 9th grade student achievement in Tennessee schools the year before and after the schools implemented a freshman academy, as well as compare such schools with traditional Tennessee high schools. The factors in this study that impact student achievement and …
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An experiential course in exploring music for the academies of the Seventh-Day Adventists : with syllabus and student reports
<p>The following study and the compilation of the accompanying syllabus have been prompted by the fact that Music Appreciation opens up large fields of knowledge and social cooperations for the teen-ager, and the curriculum of the Seventh-day Adventist secondary schools does not yet take proper …
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The illusion of autonomy: an ethnography of teachers’ professional lives in a primary academy in England
… educational setting that is a primary academy. Academies are independent schools that are funded by the state but are managed privately. In England, academies built upon the ideas of the City Technology Colleges project developed by the former Conservative Government. They were also modelled on …
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