Sentences with phrase «public schools studying»

According to the Hartford Courant («Public Schools Studying Future in Advertising,» April 24,1998), «In 1997, U.S. children 12 and under spent and influenced spending at a record $ 500 billion... increasing by 20 % a year,... that could lead to more than $ 1 trillion in such spending by 2002.

How is citizenship education defined by the U.S. public schools you studied?

Researchers from the University of Michigan, the University of Arizona, and Detroit Public Schools studied 5,000 students in grades seven and eight in 18 historically underserved middle schools who learned science with traditional instruction or the LeTUS inquiry - based science curriculum.

It is difficult to compare our findings with studies of general population youth because rates vary widely, depending on the sample, the method, the source of data (participant or collaterals), and whether functional impairment was required for diagnosis.50 Despite these differences, our overall rates are substantially higher than the median rate reported in a major review article (15 %) 50 and other more recent investigations: the Great Smoky Mountains Study (20.3 %), 56 the Virginia Twin Study of Adolescent Behavioral Development (142 cases per 1000 persons), 57 the Methods for the Epidemiology of Child and Adolescent Mental Disorders (6.1 %), 32 and the Miami — Dade County Public School Study (38 %).58 We are especially concerned about the high rates of depression and dysthymia among detained youth (17.2 % of males, 26.3 % of females), which are also higher than general population rates.51,56 - 61 Depressive disorders are difficult to detect (and treat) in the chaos of the corrections milieu.

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To help determine whether it will result in a real improvement in the lives of garment workers or in business results, Levi's has enlisted Harvard's School of Public Health to rigorously measure and study the initiative.

She graduated from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, where she studied magazine journalism.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

«Our findings suggest that frequent e-cigarette use may play an important role in cessation or relapse prevention for some smokers,» Daniel Giovenco, an assistant professor of sociomedical sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the lead study author, said in a statement.

A study out of the Stern School of Business and Harvard University found that private firms grow faster than public ones.

In a study commissioned by leadership consultant Green Peak Partners, and conducted by Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, researchers looked at 72 senior executives at public, venture - backed and private - equity sponsored companies and found that self - awareness was the biggest predictor of a CEO's overall success.

But Andrei Sulzenko, a fellow at University of Calgary's School of Public Policy, who has worked on and studied expert - advice panels like the Jenkins committee, says any proposal that demands a «machinery of government» change is bound to meet stiff resistance.

One recent (if small study) that followed a diverse group 183 teens who attended public high school for a decade, starting in middle school, found that «by the age of 22, these «cool kids» are rated as less socially competent than their peers.

The study, by Yusuke Tsugawa and colleagues at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, and other institutions, examined the record of a large random sample of Medicare patients, 65 years or older, who were hospitalized from January 2011 to December 2014.

For a recent study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health analyzed the eating habits of more than 200,000 health care workers over the course of more than 20 years.

After graduating from Syracuse University with a degree in English and a concentration in film studies, she returned to her Alma Mater for her Masters in Digital Communications from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

The study (available here) was done by Erica Blom, a consultant with Edgeworth Economics; Brian C. Candena, assistant professor of economics at the University of Colorado at Boulder; and Benjamin Keys, assistant professor at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago.

Expanding community health worker programs could save more than 3.6 million lives each year, according to a study by the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.

Megan Randall, a researcher at the Urban Institute who studies economic development policy, said companies cared most about a talented work force, which requires good schools and colleges, and amenities like affordable housing, parks and public transit that make a place desirable.

Moderator: William V. Harris, William R. Shepherd Professor of History and Director, Center for the Ancient Mediterranean, Columbia University Speaker 1: L. Randall Wray, Research Director of the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability and Professor of Economics, University of Missouri - Kansas City Speaker 2: Michael Hudson, President, Institute for the Study of Long - Term Economic Trends and Distinguished Research Professor, University of Missouri - Kansas City Tuesday, September 11, 2012 About the Seminar Series: Modern Money and Public Purpose is an eight - part, interdisciplinary seminar series held at Columbia Law School over the 2012 - 2013 academic...

Mayor Tubbs graduated in 2012 from Stanford University with a Master's degree in Policy, Leadership and Organization Studies, plus a Bachelor's degree with honors; he is a Truman Scholar and a recipient of the highest university award, the Dinkelspiel.Tubbs has been a college course instructor for Aspire Public Schools and a Fellow at the Stanford Institute of Design and the Emerson Collective.

Harvard Business School did a study: If you invested a dollar 20 years ago in a select portfolio of public companies focused just on growing their businesses, that dollar would've grown to $ 14.46.

Kesselman, who holds the Canada Research Chair in Public Finance with the School of Public Policy at Simon Fraser University, co-authored the 2001 study that laid the foundation for the TFSA introduced in 2009 with a $ 5,000 annual contribution limit.

Phil earned his MBA from the University of Oklahoma, his Masters in International Economics from SDA Bocconi (Milan), and his Masters in Public Policy from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University; and he completed his undergraduate studies in finance at Michigan State University.

At the event, which was hosted by the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law in New Haven, Powell highlighted three specific areas where blockchain technology is affecting change in regard to the Federal Reserve's «broad public policy objectives»: the creation of real - time payment systems, use of blockchain technology for clearing and settlement services, and the issuance of digital currencies by central banks.

All this despite the fact that private schooling doesn't actually yield better outcomes for students, according to a recent Statistics Canada report (instead, the apparent academic success of private school student is due to their socioeconomic backgrounds).9 A UBC study also found that students from public schools scored higher in first - year university classes than their private school counterparts.10

Nord's own conclusion is that «neutrality requires the integration of religion into the [public school] curriculum,» since it is essential to the study of culture, history, politics, society, economics, and the uses of science.

A more recent study is even more striking: «The achievement of students in Catholic high schools was less dependent on family background and personal circumstances than was true in the public schools.»

In one study of a fundamentalist Protestant academy (Bethany Bible Academy), a Jewish intellectual found the Bethany students more tolerant on issues of race, religion and freedom of speech and less concerned with making a lot of money than their public school peers.

This study found that «the achievement advantage of white over minority students... increases in public schools during the last two years of schooling, whereas the minority gap actually decreases in Catholic schools.»

David Johnston, author of Earth, Empire and Sacred Text, Christine Schirrmacher, a scholar with the Institute of Islamic Studies of the Evangelical Alliance in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and Joseph Cumming, director of the reconciliation program at Yale Divinity School, discuss whether Christians should support laws that ban Muslim women from wearing the face veil in public.

It might be supposed that we could turn to the schools, since the task of the schools is constantly being enlarged, but the very nature of the modern school precludes this, as we have already noted in Chapter I. (For a careful and scholarly study of this problem see Alvin W. Johnson, The Legal Status of Church - State Relationships in the United States with Special Reference to the Public Schools, University of Minnesota Press,schools, since the task of the schools is constantly being enlarged, but the very nature of the modern school precludes this, as we have already noted in Chapter I. (For a careful and scholarly study of this problem see Alvin W. Johnson, The Legal Status of Church - State Relationships in the United States with Special Reference to the Public Schools, University of Minnesota Press,schools is constantly being enlarged, but the very nature of the modern school precludes this, as we have already noted in Chapter I. (For a careful and scholarly study of this problem see Alvin W. Johnson, The Legal Status of Church - State Relationships in the United States with Special Reference to the Public Schools, University of Minnesota Press,Schools, University of Minnesota Press, 1934.)

The study of what used to be called «public administration» thus commands little prestige in the public policy graduate schools, which employ many of the authors represented in these and similar volumes.

Statistical studies of the frequency of sexual abuse of minors in the general population as well as statistics about abuse among other groups such as public school teachers lend support to MacRae's point.

Third, there are liberal constitutional arguments for requiring, not just permitting, the study of religion in public schools.

Some continue to believe, mistakenly, that our constitutional «wall of separation» between church and state prohibits serious study of religion in public schools.

With a consistency rare in educational research, studies have found that pupils in and graduates of religious schools are, if anything, more tolerant of racial and religious differences than are those educated in public schools.

There are good liberal, secular reasons for incorporating the serious study of religion into the curriculum of public schools.

No teacher should be or need be at a loss to deal intelligently and fairly with most religious issues that might arise in public schools in a pluralistic society, and every teacher can be and ought to be prepared to grasp the religious dimensions in any subject of study and to use sectarian differences to clarify issues and enrich the learning of all.

Right now the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada is conducting a major study of the public character of theological education, with a special focus on how seminaries can educate leaders who take their public role seriously.

How are you about using tax money to put a big fat elephant - headed Ganesh on top of your kid's public school, or to buy new Qurans for every single student to study?

Look up studies on whether girls in private schools are more chaste than public school girls.

After reviewing the apparent collapse of the freethinking movement after 1900, Schmidt turns to the post-war shift in Supreme Court jurisprudence: the rejection of blasphemy laws, limits on the school - supported study of religion, and the overturning of theistic requirements for public office or jury service.

Scientific naturalists who take this line sometimes add that they do not necessarily object to the study of creationism in the public schools, provided it occurs in literature and social science classes rather than in science class.

One may certainly refrain from insisting, as some Jewish leaders have, upon mandated Holocaust studies in the public school curriculum: for many people, such «mandates» might appear as an effort to establish the passion of the Jews as the larger culture's defining story, thus, ironically, giving plausibility to anti-Semitic claims about Jewish power.

One public school recently took kids on a field trip to a Christian festival and left all the other kids on campus in a day long study hall.

For years, Christians have asserted that the removal of the study of the Bible from public school curricula has had a negative moral and spiritual impact on American youth.

His most recent study, comparing 1,025 public and Catholic high schools, shows not only that the Catholic schools were more effective overall, but that they were especially beneficial to children from economically disadvantaged homes or where relationships between parents and children were disturbed.

@chad You will say something to get last word in so take it up with the courts It is illegal to teach creationism / ID or bible studies in public schools in US STEM science standards for 2013 They are making ears.

The study estimated that 15 percent of the country's fifty million public schoolchildren will be abused by a school employee.

Ryan Valentine of the Texas Freedom Network takes a different view: «Academic study of the Bible in a history or literature course is perfectly acceptable,» he says, «but this curriculum represents a blatant attempt to turn a public school class into a Sunday school class.