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Ever since John Dewey explored hands - on learning at the University of Chicago Laboratory School more than a century ago, lecture - style presentations have been criticized as old - fashioned and ineffective.

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Each year, our 60 faculty and staff members work with more than 6 intern teachers, 25 student teachers, researchers, and visitors to perform the major functions associated to Laboratory Schools: the development of innovative practices in education, research, the preparation of new teachers, professional development for practicing teachers, and the education of children using best established principles of education.

Each year for the last decade, students have planted more than 2.5 acres of prairie grasses near the high school, creating a living laboratory they can observe and study.

Captured in its recent manifesto launch, the policy will involve the acceleration of ICT education by training more teachers in the subject area while continuing the supply of computers to basic schools and establish ICT laboratories for selected schools.

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, Andrew W. Lo, director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Laboratory for Financial Engineering, and Mark T. Mueller, a senior lecturer at MIT's Sloan School of Management and a visiting lecturer at MIT's physics department, warn against the belief that physics tools have more than limited applicability in finance and economics and offer a useful taxonomy of risk and ignorance.

Maybe we need more Phil Jackson - like Zen masters to get us through graduate school, burning sage in the laboratory, sending good vibes our way.

OMB's statement «sends a clear signal that NIH is recognizing that this is a training period and that training is more than just doing work in a laboratory or driving a research project forward,» says Naomi Rosenberg, dean of the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University, Boston.

Mary Carskadon, Ph.D., director of the Bradley Hospital Sleep Research Laboratory, commented on Orzech's study, «We have long been examining the sleep cycles of teenagers and how we might be able to help adolescents — especially high school students — be better rested and more functional in a period of their lives where sleep seems to be a luxury.»

This will allow us to research obstructive sleep apnea in pregnant women more effectively, and to develop and implement more effective treatments,» said co-author Dr. Suzanne Karan, a visiting researcher at the Hebrew University - Hadassah Medical Center who is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Director of the Anesthesiology Respiratory Physiology Laboratory at the University of Rochester School of Medicine.

During medical school and residency, I hope to address these unresolved questions by gaining still more experience in clinical research laboratories.

Davidson, along with Arjun Yodh, director of the Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter and the James M. Skinner Professor of Science in the Department of Physics & Astronomy in the School of Arts & Sciences at Penn, and Peter Collings of Swarthmore, an adjunct professor at Penn, then decided to investigate this in a more controlled fashion.

The new work, by James Mitchell at the Harvard School of Public Health and colleagues, suggests that holding back calories causes cells to produce hydrogen sulfide, which somehow makes tissues more resilient and prolongs the life of laboratory organisms.

«Smart access systems that use fingerprinting and iris - recognition are very secure, but they're probably more than 10 times as expensive as our VibWrite system, especially when you want to widely deploy them,» said Chen, who works in the School of Engineering and is a member of the Wireless Information Network Laboratory (WINLAB) at Rutgers University - New Brunswick.

«We are more bacteria than we are human,» says Scheiman, who is a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of George Church, Ph.D., at Harvard Medical School.

The Cavendish wants to encourage more girls to take physics A level by giving them practical experience in a laboratory full of kindred spirits, and with no boys to hog the equipment — a problem in mixed schools.

«We had the idea for this study more than seven years ago, but it took the laboratory three months to finish quantifying telomere length for just 100 samples, which was not enough to draw any meaningful conclusions,» said Yuan, also a professor of epidemiology at Pitt's Graduate School of Public Health.

Family Science Night is also an important part of the curriculum for the more than 40 high school and undergraduate participants in the MDI Biological Laboratory's summer fellowship programs.

The # 6 million refit would also include giving the academy more than one science laboratory and a school library which is spaced more appropriately for children to sit down and read books.

HISD partnered with Harvard University's Education Innovation Laboratory to identify successful strategies, such as getting effective principals and educators into each school, providing more instructional time, and using data to drive instruction.

To scholars, experimentation further suggests: 1) conducting studies in laboratories where external factors can be controlled in order to relate cause more directly to effect; or 2) randomly choosing which schools, classrooms, or students will be exposed to a reform and which will be exposed to the alternative with which the reform is to be compared.

While it's easy for those focused on the urban agenda to dismiss suburban reform as a distraction or a novelty, it may be more useful to think of high - performing communities as terrific laboratories for bold solutions and as the place where high - functioning systems working in advantageous circumstances may have much to teach about how to help schools go from good to great.

More talented students would pursue careers in science and engineering if they could engage in laboratory work and independent research while in high school, according to at least 70 percent...

Staff at the college started with the idea of a traditional school garden typically aimed at a lower year level and imagined a redesign more like a laboratory for a senior cohort; a higher standard facility where students can do research, capture data and make use of technology.

The School District of Philadelphia partnered with the Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic to carry out the study, involving more than 51 000 students in Grades 1 to 12 attending 217 schools — roughly 40 per cent of the total student population in the school disSchool District of Philadelphia partnered with the Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic to carry out the study, involving more than 51 000 students in Grades 1 to 12 attending 217 schools — roughly 40 per cent of the total student population in the school disschool district.

And at Lady Bird Johnson Middle School in Irving, Texas, the biggest net - zero public school in the country — it generates more energy than it consumes — the building itself is a laboratory for leaSchool in Irving, Texas, the biggest net - zero public school in the country — it generates more energy than it consumes — the building itself is a laboratory for leaschool in the country — it generates more energy than it consumes — the building itself is a laboratory for learning.

Educators, policymakers, researchers, and other stakeholders in the Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Mid-Atlantic region and across the country acknowledge the need to reduce chronic student absenteeism (typically defined as missing 10 percent or more of a school year).

Selvin Chin - Chance, who directs testing at the DOE, said the findings are skewed by the fact that the larger, more established and higher - performing conversion charter schools, such as the Education Laboratory in Manoa, Wai'alae Elementary School, and Lanikai Elementary School, are over represented because more of their students take the tests.

Regional Educational Laboratory Central worked with Aurora Public Schools in Colorado to conduct a randomized controlled trial study in the 2013 - 14 and 2014 - 15 school years during implementation of the district's innovative Read more about Study Finds Positive Impacts of Retired Educators to Support New Teachers -LSB-...]

As more schools focus on STEM education, other design elements making their appearance are makerspaces, robotics rooms, and fabrication laboratories dedicated to project - based learning not easily conducted in a regular classroom.

But it remains to be seen just how much autonomy school principals in the more autonomous «laboratory schools» will really have and which provisions of the teachers» contract a school can really choose to ignore.

To learn more about Price Laboratory School and its approach to a whole child education, read the press release.

Indeed, in a 2013 examination of charter school laws, researchers found the most popular purpose cited in state law for charter schools was to provide competition.41 The triumph of the market rationale over the laboratory theory also helps explain why more than 80 percent of states with charter school laws allow public funds to go to private, for - profit charter operators.42

The Southwest Educational Development Laboratory reported, «When schools, families, and community groups work together to support learning, children tend to do better in school, stay in school longer, and like school more» (source).

«These results suggest that Ex-miRNA expression changes may be more specific to disease states than total plasma miRNA,» said Andy Hoffman, DVM, Ph.D., professor and director of the Regenerative Medicine Laboratory at Cummings School and corresponding author on the study.

Formal training includes national certification as a CMT (certified medical transcriptionist), years of formal training in school including courses in anatomy, physiology, medical terminology, laboratory and diagnostics, medical language, pathophysiology, pharmaceuticals, and much more.

Since 2008, the school's PCR Laboratory has tested more than 6,300 samples from a wide variety of febrile horses showing signs of respiratory illness and / or neurological disease.

More than 300 faculty members serve in the classrooms, clinics and laboratories of the School of Veterinary Medicine.

Disturbing news was just released by the Shelter Medicine Program at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine indicating cats as well as dogs can become ill from a new strain of canine influenza virus (CIV), H3N2: [Dr. Sandra] Newbury, in collaboration with Virology Section Head at the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Kathy Toohey - Kurth,... Learn More

There's enormous untapped potential to use schools as laboratories for studying energy, the handling of waste and water, and much more.

In fact, said author Margaret Taylor, a researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) who conducted the study while an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy, the success of some cap and trade programs in achieving predetermined pollution reduction targets at low cost seems to have reduced incentives for research and development that could help develop more appropriate pollution control targets.

At the present moment, the application is functional and has been live - tested on June 13 in front of more than thirty people, as part of the Cyberjustice Laboratory Summer School 2014.

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The largest treatment effects occurred in the older and / ormore severely depressed adolescents, consistent with findings in the adultIPT literature.35 This finding suggests thatmilder depression in younger adolescents can be more easily treated with supportivepsychotherapy, whereas more severe depression is more effectively treatedwith a structured treatment specifically targeted for adolescent depression.The current findings extend treatment effects observed in carefully controlledclinical trials with depressed adolescents17, 18 totreatment in school - based health clinics, and are an important first stepin the study of the transportability of treatments from the laboratory tothe clinic.