Every day, I see my students work hard to overcome obstacles just to be in the classroom.
Clearly there are plenty of students who work hard and make sacrifices for their degrees.
We must also eliminate barriers for those students who work hard to acquire STEM skills but lack the funds to attend four-year colleges by providing scholarship programs and support through organizations like NACME ( National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering), Society of Women Engineers (SWE), and Industry groups like the American Council of Engineering Companies.
And then, once they start work, their students pay attention and work hard (when I asked Finns whether there were some families who despised education and resented schools, they seemed puzzled by the question).
Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa in their great book Academically Adrift have taken data from a respectable indicator of critical thinking and problem solving skills, the Collegiate Learning Assessment, as well as the National Survey of Student Engagement and have concluded, roughly, that typically students neither work very hard nor learn very much.
If success in school is a function of intelligence and hard work, and less intelligent students have to work harder to achieve the same grades as their more intelligent counterparts, only hard work seems to matter in predicting career success.
The students did much of the hard work of bringing out voters and watching over ballot boxes.
Chairman Tyson Grinstead said even though he has had to work hard to get students involved, his group still holds a vital role at UNC.
It happened thanks to the hard work of students here at Forsyth, the commitment of local leaders, foresight of local business leaders -- most importantly, it happened because there was a decision made to invest in the collective future of this community.
It is very gratifying to receive recognition for all the hard work done by students, families, teachers, staff, school board members, administrative leadership and the community as a whole.
But as I work hard every day to inspire students, it is ultimately they who inspire me.
Her message to students was to follow their hearts, to do what they love, and to work hard because there are no short cuts.
If anything, it penalizes those who work hard because they spend time, energy and their own money to help students, only to get the same check each month as the worst teacher in the district (or an even smaller one, if that teacher has been there longer).
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Students said they found it hard to explain what it meant to them to lose their physical body of work.
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