Sentences with phrase «school as a case study»

Using a struggling New Hampshire school as a case study, the recent Atlantic article, «What Happens When Students Control Their Education?»

Not exact matches

Using the home mortgage interest deduction as a case study, Hemel and Kyle Rozema, a postdoctoral fellow at the Northwestern - Pritzker School of Law, argue that labeling a tax provision as «progressive» or «regressive» should not be done in isolation.

If you were creating a middle - of - the - funnel webinar discussing the teaching methodology your horseback riding school follows, and you were targeting an intermediate - level rider, you could include a case study of an intermediate rider who came to your school and, as a result of your methodology and training, became one of the top riders in their division and moved on to compete with more advanced - level horseback riders.

A school law attorney will provide a primer on the legal issues to consider in addressing food allergies on campus; and will provide three case studies serving as examples of how universities can provide accommodations for students with special dietary requests.

Based on over 10 years of work in the field and over 20 case studies from Challenge Success schools, Overloaded and Underprepared serves as a guide for change, offering practical solutions that can be implemented in a single classroom or on a school - wide scale.

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

Her adherence to feminist theory as it relates to birth was influenced while studying at the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing, Case Western Reserve University and Texas Woman's University, Denton.

Among them were the Purdue and Rochester studies of athletes in high school and college football [1,8,9,12,13, 31 - 38] and ice hockey, [8] which, as noted above, found subtle changes in cerebral function in the absence of concussion symptoms or clinically measurable cognitive impairment which researchers linked to the volume of head impacts, and a much publicized case - study autopsy of a collegiate football player, Owen Thomas, with no reported history of concussions, which revealed early signs of CTE.

We are incredibly excited to deliver these case studies to you, and hope they become an invaluable resource as you pursue school breakfast for your school.

The low dose required for infectivity and the severity of the disease it causes had led the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to classify F. tularensis as a Category A bioterrorism agent, and to track tularemia cases nationwide, according to Dr. Brook Peterson, a senior scientist at the UW School of Medicine who also participated in the study.

«For the last decade, America lost sight of the important linkages along the innovation - manufacturing - deployment chain and lost global leadership in multiple industries as a result,» he continued in a 2010 case study for Harvard Business School outlining DOE's approach.

«This study demonstrates the value of using the SEER database to analyze factors associated with surgery as a treatment for localized pancreatic cancer in a large number of patients over a prolonged period of time,» says Dr. Kim, who is also Chief Medical Officer of UH Seidman Cancer Center and the Charles Hubay Professor at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine.

Study collaborators included NIAID - funded scientists from Public Health Research Institute and New Jersey Medical School - Rutgers University, as well as researchers from Case Western Reserve University, the Houston Methodist Research Institute and Hospital System and NIAID's Rocky Mountain Laboratories, where the comparative genome sequencing took place.

Especially informative are the long - term studies on the effects of early childhood interventions, which indicate that an appropriate schooling of children as young as 3 years old produces remarkably large benefits for society, even in cases where the children do not perform significantly better academically.

Khalil served as co-senior author on the study with Radhika Atit, PhD, professor of biology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

Because most cases of Parkinson's disease appear to be at least partially caused by environmental factors such as pesticide exposure, these findings support the approach that targeting α - synuclein could slow or stop the progression of Parkinson's in most people with the disease, said study lead author Jeff Bronstein, a professor of neurology and director of movement disorders at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

â $ œWe canâ $ ™ t be that hard on Penfield, because the number of cases where he was able to study head movement was quite limited, and studying head motion as he did, by applying an electrode directly to the brain, creates some challenges, â $ says lead author Buz Jinnah, MD, professor of neurology, human genetics and pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine.

Visit the SCOPE project page for case studies on each school and a forthcoming cross-case analysis, a policy brief, as well as practitioner's tools.

As the government of South Africa argues in the case of Khosa, it has simply insufficient sources to cater for all the various persons who are in South Africa seeking assistance.32 The international community is not substantially assisting in sharing burden.33 Without financial assistance many refugees drop out of the schools and many others can not be able to pursue their tertiary studies.

In an article about Frankenberg's study that was published in The Birmingham News in December, U.W. Clemon, a retired U.S. district court judge who was involved in desegregation cases in the 1960s, said that as a result of fragmentation, the schools in Jefferson County are «resegregated» today, and not by accident.

The Campaign Ad Project also serves as a case study throughout our PBL chapter in Transforming Schools; in it, Justin reflects on designing and implementing this rich project - based learning experience.

Similarly, in a case study of four middle school math teachers who participated in a yearlong series of ten video club meetings to reflect on their classrooms, teachers in the video club «came to use video not as a resource for evaluating each other's practices, but rather as a resource for trying to better understand the process of teaching and learning» in a supportive, nonthreatening setting (Sherin and Han, 2004).

She and Mehta visited more than 20 schools to see what deeper learning could look like, including San Diego's High Tech High, which serves as the book's anchor case study.

The study, published Wednesday in The American Journal of Family Therapy, found students in the early elementary school years are getting significantly more homework than is recommended by education leaders, in some cases nearly three times as much homework as is recommended.

Sessions on day one included staff at Dakabin State High School sharing details of their pedagogical framework and explicit instruction guide known as «The Hive» model, an update on a student voice program at Pakuranga College in New Zealand and a case study on collaborative professional learning at Campbelltown Performing Arts High School in New South Wales.

We published the first of these reports recently as a series of case studies titled Proof Points: Blended Learning Success in School Districts.

There is a bank of free tools and templates to download and adapt for purpose, as well as videos and case studies available from schools sharing their practice.

In such cases, high - quality reading instruction in school is critical, as confirmed by recent studies of identical and fraternal twins.

The authors use case studies of schools involved in such structural reforms as site - based management and choice to buttress their policy recommendations for achieving greater efficiency with limited school funding.

The DfE has published details of the individual allocations at school level as well as scheme funding guidance and case studies showing how some schools have delivered a real impact for pupils through sports and physical activity.

The use of case studies and simulations as «problems» dates back to medical schools in the 1960s, and problem - BL is still more often seen in the post-secondary world than in K - 12, where project - BL is more common.

For further information, Soft Landings for Schools — Case Studies, detailing feedback from the early use of the Soft Landings Framework in schools, is available as a free PDF from www.bsria.co.uk/bookshop or www.usablebuildingsSchools — Case Studies, detailing feedback from the early use of the Soft Landings Framework in schools, is available as a free PDF from www.bsria.co.uk/bookshop or www.usablebuildingsschools, is available as a free PDF from www.bsria.co.uk/bookshop or www.usablebuildings.co.uk.

According to a case study, the university's Social Work Education Enhancement Program, an initiative to improve schooling in Vietnam, uses Cisco WebEx regularly as a means to facilitate two - way communication.

Based on a survey of practicing principals and education school deans, chairs, faculty, and alumni, as well as case studies of 25 school leadership programs, Levine concluded that «the majority of [educational administration] programs range from inadequate to appalling, even at some of the country's leading universities.»

A guide, produced by Mayer - Johnson, which explores strategies to support inclusion in the whole school setting, with topics such as: Hello, the National Year of Communication, The Inclusive Classroom: Using Technology to Support Teaching Assistants, Autistic Spectrum Disorder, National Association of Special Educational Needs, and case studies.

If the results are largely inconsistent with the hypothesis, as in the case of our study, one retains a healthy amount of doubt regarding the association between achievement and attainment results of school choice evaluations.

Make good use of case studies in magazines such as this, testimonials or social media to explore what others have to say of their experiences, how the product, has supported their unique circumstances, and what this might mean for your school.

OSEP and OSERS staff members attended, responding to questions from CSP grantees, as well as external stakeholders; 3) in June 2015, through the NCSRC contract, the CSP released a case study to highlight how Two Rivers Public Charter School in Washington, DC, is meeting the needs of its students with disabilities; 4) in October 2014, through the NCSRC contract, the CSP released a case study highlighting how Brooke Roslindale Charter School in Boston, Massachusetts, is meeting the needs of its students with disabilities.

The case focuses on Northern High School's tenth grade social studies team as they debate potential topics for an upcoming project, the Power of Persuasion.

This case study describes how one urban elementary school in a high - reform district and state has been able to develop strong connections with community businesses and organizations as part of its program of school, family, and community partnerships.

A very big thank you to our case study schools for agreeing to provide this open channel as they work towards development of effective school allergy policy and practice.

In this brief, the Gardner Center uses the work of the CORE Districts as a case study to explore deeper learning and its importance to educational equity and the goal of college and career and civic readiness for all public school youth.

As the first large urban school district to introduce a comprehensive accountability system, Chicago provides an exceptional case study of the effects of high - stakes testing - a reform strategy that will become omnipresent as the No Child Left Behind Act is implemented nationwidAs the first large urban school district to introduce a comprehensive accountability system, Chicago provides an exceptional case study of the effects of high - stakes testing - a reform strategy that will become omnipresent as the No Child Left Behind Act is implemented nationwidas the No Child Left Behind Act is implemented nationwide.

88, Ed.D.» 91, and Boston Public Schools Superintendent Carol Johnson — were held in a variety of formats such as large - group lectures, small - group discussions, and case studies.

The East Bay Area district south of Oakland offers a case study in the potential of an approach whose goal is to transform schools into hubs for the entire community by offering a range of services, such as mental health counseling, health clinics, after - school programs and classes for parents.

A school was coded as systematically assessing pupil progress if at least two thirds of teachers on the survey perceived this to be an attribute of their school, and if comments in the case studies and / or interviews supported this perception.

Sub-study two focused on data use and support for data use in schools and at the district level, along with case studies of six site - visit schools identified from our surveys as high data - use schools.

Building communication: Based on teachers» rating of «communication of ideas across teachers» (from survey) as indicative (5) down to absent (1) in school; also based on positive or negative comments in interviews, case study about communication and collaboration across teachers

We transcribed the interviews and used them as a source of information for writing case studies for each school and for generating several school variables.

From the 40 schools included in the first round of site visits, we selected the four with the highest principal - turnover rates as case study schools, based on the principal survey question about the number of principals that those 40 schools had had over the past 10 years.