In a 2012 position paper, the American Academy of Pediatrics stated that safe, supervised recess time benefits a student's cognitive, social, emotional and physical development by giving them a break from the "concentrated, academic challenges in the classroom".
For most respondents, the campus represented both residential and work environments during periods of concentrated academic activity.
Certificates offer concentrated academic pathways 3 to 5 courses to complete for students looking to enhance a specific set of skills or fill a knowledge gap.
The story is told through an extremely concentrated, academic-minded display of more than 200 items by dozens of Hungarian and international artists who influenced Moholy-Nagy, or were influenced by him, along with those who were part of a circle of modernist sympathizers in early 20th-century Budapest.
The region in the country's extreme Northeast boasts a long history, a variety of attractive scenery from coast to mountains, an abiding love of the Boston Red Sox baseball team, and -- even outside Genetown -- a concentrated wealth of top-flight academic, commercial, and nonprofit research institutions.
In place of the aimless elective system, he substituted a unified curriculum of general studies during the freshman and sophomore years, capped by concentrated study in one discipline (the academic "major") during the junior and senior years.
Carter was now in his 60s, and his life had long since settled into a pattern that mingled teaching and composing during the academic year with more concentrated creative work during summer retreats at the Carters' modest country home at Waccabuc in upstate New York.
But getting a concentrated dose of activists like Angela Davis and Dick Gregory, academics like Cornel West and Michelle Alexander, and the many other talking heads in this film is certainly a bracing change from the usual back-and-forth of the evening news.
If my career could be likened to a two-decade senior seminar – with colleagues, sources and readers serving as my instructors – then my academic major has been a concentrated focus on the exhilarating yet lump-in-the-throat transition from high school to college for students and their families.
Behind these extremes -- a mix of power and purity, flash and elegance, melodrama and eye-boggling academic precision -- lies a lifetime of concentrated work.
