Sentences with phrase «american studies classes»

This study found no differences in content acquisition (as measured by a standardized test) of 167 gifted 10th graders in American Studies classes who received either a problem - based learning approach or traditional instruction.

Overall, during his time at UNC McCants received six C's, one D and three F's in the 10 non-African American studies classes that he took.

It's a big deal in light of North Carolina's other and very similar academic shenanigans (Peppers struggled at everything but African and African - American studies classes, which we'd assumed was a more recent thing for UNC).

Not exact matches

They bought into the American Dream of studying for a degree, becoming a professional of some sort, and hoping for a decent middle class existence.

A previous report released in 2012 revealed a long history at UNC of classes in the Department of Afro and African - American Studies that never met, as well as a culture of changing and improving grades.

RAMPANT REBUKES: Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Scientologists, and Americans United for Separation of Church and State quickly condemned the Court's decision, which could make it harder for parents to exempt their children from offensive classes or for prisoners to participate in Bible studies.

I was an African American Studies minor, and in one of my classes we had a chance to write a short reflection each week.

This, Robert Bella argues in his book, Habits of The Heart — a study of the central values of the American middle class — along with criminal justice is the central meaning of justice in the states.

North Carolina Tar Heels athletes were directed by their academic advisers into questionable classes in the school's African and Afro - American Studies department, according to a special subcommittee report.

What's noticeable is that Peppers received high grades - some of his best at UNC - in classes in the Department of African and Afro - American Studies.

That class, Seminar in Afro - American Studies, included only two students.

The issue with the NCAA and their investigation, is that they completely missed the fact that the African - American studies department has had 54 fake, no - show classes.

Although the IFPS II over sampled disadvantaged mothers (illiterate, non-English speaking, very low - income, very low education and without a stable home) compared to IFPS I, the results of our study may best describe practices of middle class American mothers rather than of disadvantaged American mothers [28]; thus, results can not be generalized to all women in the United States.

The new research, published recently as two separate studies in ACS Central Science and the Journal of the American Chemical Society, demonstrates that a new class of drugs called small molecule RNA inhibitors can successfully target and kill specific types of cancer.

Steele and his colleagues performed a series of studies to prove that regardless of class, racial pressures depress the academic performance of African - American students.

Specifically, getting adjusted to being the only African - American in your class, having to abandon old study habits, the lack of African - American faculty members with whom to identify, and finding the time to complete a variety of tasks in a limited amount of time.

They studied more than 200,000 middle - class Americans who had common operations — hysterectomies, bariatric surgery, hernia repair and reflux surgery — over a 42 - month period, and who spent at least one night in the hospital.

Also valuable are classes that focus on a particular group of people — African - American studies, Native American culture, for example — as well as social science and history courses.

An analysis of more than 600 class I (procedure / treatment should be performed / administered) American College of Cardiology / American Heart Association guideline recommendations published or revised since 1998 finds that about 80 percent were retained at the time of the next guideline revision, and that recommendations not supported by multiple randomized studies were more likely to be downgraded, reversed, or omitted, according to a study in the May 28 issue of JAMA.

The new study provides substantial evidence of significant reduction of risk of onset of dementia for African American men and women age 65 and older with hypertension when they take any of a variety of drug classes for their high blood pressure.

The research offers support for the recommendations of organizations such as the Centers for Disease Control, Institute of Medicine, and the American Academy of Pediatrics, all of which have advocated increasing the amount of time that elementary school children spend in gym class, says lead researcher and Cornell professor of policy analysis and management, John Cawley, who conducted the study with Chad Meyerhoefer of Lehigh University (Cornell Ph.D. 2002) and David Frisvold of Emory University.

The decline and disappearance of stable, unionized full - time jobs with health insurance and pensions for people who lack a college degree has had profound effects on working - class Americans who now are less likely to get married, stay married, and have their children within marriage than those with college degrees, a new University of Virginia and Harvard University study has found.

A 2006 analysis published in the American Journal of Psychiatry found that 90 percent of manufacturer - sponsored studies of antipsychotic drugs led to claims that the study drug was as good as, or superior to, every other drug in its class.

«This is a fabulous study because it is a big population from a known site, and we have all these bodies from people who are relatively lower class,» said Salima Ikram, an Egyptologist at American University in Cairo, who was not involved in the study.

For example, if you learn that the class is studying the American Revolution, you might devise a story about a soldier's journey and incorporate it into your lesson plan.

In class, we walked through yet another case study of a stereotypical American: overweight, addicted to processed food, slowly eating his way to premature death.

The film's first act embarrassingly reduces the book's study of class, race, masculinity, and American gun worship down to a series of sketches in which bad actors and misplaced celebrities utter amateurishly presentational dialogue.

Actually, it Doesn't, Harvard Study Finds Boston Globe, 12/11/13» «We don't teach our children Shakespeare and Dante and Tolstoy because it makes them do better in American history class or at learning the periodic table of the elements,» said Samuel Mehr, a graduate student at the Harvard School of Education who led the work.

In Building a Better Teacher, Elizabeth Green documents how Japanese education researchers studying American school classes in the 1990s were shocked by the quantity of interruptions American teachers endured; they found that almost a third of classes were thus interrupted.

His recent research includes a four - year study of urban school leadership, an examination of the implications of social class for African - American parents»...

Many of the suburban, middle - class Chinese - American parents in her study had the means to buy their children academically enriching afterschool experiences — tutoring, test - preparation courses, or language classes — and to send them to high - performing, often private, schools.

Several students from my class had projects, such as a look at Italy, a report on the Titanic, a study of area Native American tribes, and an exploration of his father's career as a local police officer.

A study from the Center for American Progress also notes, «The average cost - effectiveness ratio of switching curriculum was almost 40 times that of class - size reduction.»

In a Trinidad Garza social studies class, Engelhart recalls how a teacher introduced her students to robber barons — unethical American businessmen in the late 19th century, and later big businesses throughout the 1930s and 70s: «I want you to read this information about the robber barons, and then write down two questions: one about a fact that you don't understand and what you need to know about it, and a thinking question: How?

Studying the history and development of American and world media can be a fascinating topic in English or social studies classes.

Inspired by the drums she brought to class, the Spanish teacher's advanced students studied African influences on Latin American music, while the high school librarian added African authors to her book collection.

Jan Davidson, who is 66, has a PhD in American studies and is small, blond, and motherly: On a visit to the academy, she busily hugged students in the few minutes between classes.

Another study found that class - size reduction in Tennessee's K — 3 classrooms increased college enrollment rates by about 6 percentage points among African American students, although no impacts were observed for white students.

The class is The History of American Higher Education, and the goal is for students to study the development of higher education in America as a way to understand the origins of contemporary problems and practices.

Likewise, history class has a renewed relevance for Joe Leon's seniors at Fowler High School, as they put their civics knowledge to work conducting weekly study sessions for adult Punjabi immigrants studying for their American citizenship tests.

These patterns are consistent with the findings of a 1997 study by Dominic Brewer and Dan Goldhaber, which found that more in - class problem solving for American 10th - grade students in math is related to lower test scores on a standardized test.

Beatty, who has been using and studying CRS products for more than a decade, acknowledges that the language and purpose of the question cycle, which he says is «to form habits of mind and find the limits of knowledge,» sound more ivory tower than AP Bio, but he contrasts the current norm — the quick and shallow recall of facts required of American high school science and math students — with his larger objective: renouncing the myth of coverage, the idea that what a teacher covers in class matters.

A study sponsored by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development found that only 4 percent of first - grade class time in American elementary schools is spent on science and only 2 percent, on social studies.

In Teaching Middle School Social Studies III, Ali Brown — director of history achievement for the Achievement First schools — asked her class to write an «essential question» that would frame a unit they were soon to teach on the American Revolution.

Second grade social studies classes are studying American Immigration in new and innovative ways!

A recent Stanford study on achievement gaps shows that African - Americans perform worse academically when it comes to standardized tests, class work, attendance and enrollment in honors, Advanced Placement (AP) and college classes.

In my 8th grade American history class in Liberty, Missouri, my students now read books and blog about them with people who live in different states, interact online with authors and panels of experts, and study for tests where and when they want by listening to information downloaded to their MP3 players.

On Thursday, November 16th, visitors will have the opportunity to observe resident artist Gabrielle Zane, currently working with three 4/5 classes focusing on a social studies unit, integrated with the performing arts and writing from the Native American perspective.

The new American students also went into every social studies class in their high school to raise awareness about cultural diversity, overcome stereotypes, and build empathy.

Three quarters of the school year had passed by the time school officials presented a proposal to us: Our son could withdraw from the 6th grade social studies and math courses and be placed in the ongoing 8th grade American history and first year French classes.