scholarship
(noun)
Monetary aid given to a student to assist them in paying for an education.
Examples of scholarship in the following topics:
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Staking the Desk: Unequal Funding
- In 2000, affluent students, students who could otherwise afford to pay for college, received "merit" scholarships worth 82% of the need-based aid received by students with the lowest family incomes.
- What's more, because colleges want to maintain their rankings in various college ranking systems, colleges favor students with higher standardized test scores and aggressively recruit them using "merit" scholarships.
- In 2000, affluent students, students who could otherwise afford to pay for college, received "merit" scholarships worth 82% of the need-based aid received by students with the lowest family incomes.
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Review
- On average, 5 students from each high school class get full scholarships to 4-year colleges.
- X = the number of students from a high school class that get full scholarships to 4-year school.
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The Bottom Line: Family Background
- News & World Report), colleges favor students with higher standardized test scores and aggressively recruit them using "merit" scholarships.
- In 2000, affluent students, students who could otherwise afford to pay for college, received "merit" scholarships worth 82% of the need-based aid received by students with the lowest family incomes.
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Reviewing the Literature
- In writing the literature review, the purpose is to convey what a researcher has learned through a careful reading of a set of articles, books, and other relevant forms of scholarship related to the research question.
- It offers an explanation of how the researcher can contribute toward the existing body of scholarship by pursuing their own thesis or research question .
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Teaching at a Private School
- At some private schools, students may be able to get a scholarship, which makes the cost cheaper, depending on a talent the student may have, e.g. sport scholarship, art scholarship, academic scholarship, etc.
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The Passive Voice
- Traditional scholarship says the wolf-figure is Etruscan, 5th century BC, with figures of Romulus and Remus added in the 15th century AD by Antonio Pollaiuolo.
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Higher Education
- The Act increased federal money given to universities, created scholarships and low-interest loans for students, and established a national Teacher Corps to provide teachers to poverty-stricken areas of the United States.
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Biography - Malcolm Knowles
- Knowles earned a full scholarship to Harvard University in 1930 where he finished his bachelor's degree in 1934.
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Introduction to This "Textbook" (for Instructors and Scholars)
- For more details on the open-source ideology behind this textbook or the process of using it for your own purposes, please read Kris Shaffer's articles in Hybrid Pedagogy: "Open-Source Scholarship" and "Push, Pull, Fork: GitHub for Academics."
- Scholarship is, by its nature, open source.
- In his article, " Open-source Scholarship ", Kris Shaffer argues that the open-source software model has lessons to offer the academic community.
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Evaluating Sources
- These types of publishers have very different standards on scholarship, with academic publications going through a more rigorous review process.
- Scholarship develops rapidly, and information that was novel or accurate several decades ago may have become outdated or been proven wrong today.