nonacademic

• “Nor should we begrudge funds spent on certain "nonacademic" activities.”

  The Huffington Post: David J. Skorton: We Can Do Better on College Costs

• “He said the call for disclosure in nonacademic work, though nonbinding was particularly important because it will help "set norms of behavior that colleagues, the press, students and citizens can help hold economists accountable to.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Economists Set Rules on Ethics

• “Sounds great to librarians, but not of much concern to average nonacademic bloggers.”

  The Future of Today’s Legal Scholarship, Part 3

• “We are told that "the foundation's strategy emphasizes rebuilding a general, nonspecialist, and, crucially, nonacademic audience for poetry.”

  Poetry

• “U-Va. is one of the nation's top public universities, a campus of overbooked overachievers, well-rounded students pulling down good grades even as they juggle busy schedules filled with athletics and nonacademic extracurricular activities.”

  The Washington Post: A University of Virginia student has a bright idea: 'Flash seminars'

• “Finally, a large proportion of those nonacademic people I know with European experience have obtained it through the military.”

  Matthew Yglesias » The European Bogeyman

• “They arrive with the preschool experiences they need to be ready for grade-level work; their health and mental-health needs are largely being met; they enjoy a range of both academic and nonacademic learning experiences beyond the school day that complement what they learn in class; and they receive the family support that ensures they are motivated and prepared to learn during the school day.”

  The Huffington Post: Michael Rebell: U.S. Schools Have a Poverty Crisis, Not an Education Crisis

• “Likewise, as Hacker and Dreifus highlight, most athletic programs lose money, and so students end up subsidizing these nonacademic departments (157).”

  The Huffington Post: Bob Samuels: Higher Education? Everything You Know Is Wrong (about Research Universities)

• “Visit a KIPP school or another high-performance institution and you find that a big reason for the longer day is that it accommodates these nonacademic pursuits without sacrificing the instructional core.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Case for Saturday School

• “Intelligent – scarily intelligent in a nonacademic way – honest, courageous, intuitive, fiery and very sensitive – too sensitive sometimes, perhaps" is how it starts.”

  The Guardian: School sports scandal: MPs should give Michael Gove short shrift

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