Sentences with phrase «university model schools»

According to NAUMS (National Association of University Model Schools) «the UMS model of education takes the best attributes of home schooling and combines them with the best attributes of traditional, Christian education.»
Returning to more personal topics, I also previously homeschooled my two children two days a week in partnership with Lucas Christian Academy, a university model school.

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Setups like Jigsee's are a growing model among Canadian startups, says Benson Honig, a professor at McMaster University's DeGroote School of Business.
«Convertible debt at this later stage sends a signal that [Foursquare's] business model is still not proven enough, and they still need to work on it and significantly ratchet it up,» says Ari Ginsberg, professor of Entrepreneurship and Management at New York University's Stern School of Business.
«It really comes down to this combination of funding and mentoring — the two key areas high - growth startups need,» says Michael Goldberg, visiting assistant professor of design and innovation at Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management where he created an online course that uses Cleveland as a model for other communities.
The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School model found that the current iteration of the Senate's tax bill, called the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, would decrease federal revenue and add to the national debt outside of a 10 - year window.
Republicans talk of sparking economic growth rates in the range of four per cent, but models run by non-partisan forecasters, such as the Wharton business school at the University of Pennsylvania, predict only a modest increase over the shorter term.
The failure to model this dichotomized economy is not the fault of mathematical economics as such, but reflects the constrained reasoning at the hands of the monetarist school that has monopolized economics departments in the world's universities.
The Conference Board and Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, in partnership with The SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins University, developed a scenario model that companies can use to enhance the gender diversity of their boards.
Scholasticism Theology moved from the monastery to the university Western theology is an intellectual discipline rather than a mystical pursuit Western theology is over-systematized Western Theology is systematized, based on a legal model rather than a philosophical model Western theologians debate like lawyers, not like rabbis Reformation Catholic reformers were excommunicated and formed Protestant churches Western churches become guarantors of theological schools of thought Western church membership is often contingent on fine points of doctrine Some western Christians believe that definite beliefs are incompatible with tolerance The atmosphere arose in which anyone could start a church The legal model for western theology intensifies despite the rediscovery of the East
As schools like the University of LaVerne model the needed changes at institutional and curricular levels, and as more and more faculty are helped to think about how their own teaching can be greened, the pace of change can increase.
The other model of excellence in schooling is the modern research university, for which we may let the founding of the University of Berlin in 1810 serve as tuniversity, for which we may let the founding of the University of Berlin in 1810 serve as tUniversity of Berlin in 1810 serve as the emblem.
I am grateful to Professor Patricia Benner of the University of California Medical School (San Francisco) for calling my attention to the model proposed by Stuart E. Dreyfus in «Formal Models versus Human Situational Understanding: Inherent Limitations on the Modeling of Business Expertise,» Air Force Office of Scientific Research (Contract: F 49620 -79-C0063), National Technical Information Service, February 1981, AD - AO97468 / 3.
The endowments of the wealthiest universities should be taxed to fund a common purse for education that can be spent on tuition tax credits to help all Americans afford some form of post-high school education, which is what we need today as the old student loan model becomes burdensome for young people.
Kim looks at SGKAs who are students at one highly selective public university and asks why, given their proficiency in English, impressive educational credentials earned in interracial high schools, and rosy occupational prospects — the attributes that make them «whiz kids» or a «model minority» in the eyes of some — they so often prefer to worship with their own kind.
Whereas prior to World War II liberal arts colleges provided the model for higher education, and universities were liberal arts colleges with graduate and professional schools attached to them, now the heart of higher education became preparation for a job.
It is not clear, however, whether Brown's constant stress on high academic expectations simply assumes the canons of critical, orderly, disciplined inquiry that the research university model had made commonplace in the 1930s in American graduate education outside of theological schools, or whether he is rather calling for theological school teachers who are very learned but are not necessarily themselves engaged in original research.
And yet theological schools in North America are inescapably driven to try to meet standards set both by paideia and by the research university as models of excellence in schooling.
It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.
The model of excellent theological schooling symbolized by the inclusion of a faculty of theology in the University of Berlin tied «practical» education for a socially necessary profession (the clergy) to the «theoretical» education of a research university on the grounds that future clergy would be best equipped for their ministerial functions if they acquired capacities for rigorous criticalUniversity of Berlin tied «practical» education for a socially necessary profession (the clergy) to the «theoretical» education of a research university on the grounds that future clergy would be best equipped for their ministerial functions if they acquired capacities for rigorous criticaluniversity on the grounds that future clergy would be best equipped for their ministerial functions if they acquired capacities for rigorous critical research.
Dunkin' Donuts offers restaurant models to suit any university, including full retail shops and kiosks that are perfect for campus centers, student unions, dining commons and other high - traffic locations at or near the school.
(While this was also arguably the original goal of academies / universities centuries ago, the modern university model has become a vocational school of sorts — preparing students for success in future endeavors, rather than seeking discovery, enlightenment, and progress through the efforts of its constituents.
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Responding to an increase in academic and emotional problems among kids in the United States, experts in child and adolescent well - being convened at Stanford University in July 2007 to envision a coordinated approach to helping schools and families develop alternative success models to align with research on healthy child development.
Deborah A. Widiss, the associate law professor at Indiana University's Maurer School of Law I interviewed and whose paper is the basis of my article, says it just could be that when more same - sex couples are able to marry, they, too, might decide to specialize — and there goes our hoped - for equality model.
According to Twang, the program is the first and only countywide, University - assisted community schools model in the country.
Every concept the local committee is now considering incorporates the intermodal model, said Robert G. Shibley, dean of the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and a committee member.
Paterson rejected nearly $ 200 million in member items, including $ 5,000 grants promised to Central New York non-profit groups like the Onondaga Oswego Chapter of the Red Cross and the North Syracuse Babe Ruth League, and bigger amounts for Syracuse University, the Syracuse Chargers Rowing Club, the Syracuse Model Neighborhood Facility, Jubilee Homes and several libraries and schools.
In a University of California, San Diego School of Medicine study published July 13 in the online journal Nature Neuroscience, a research team led by Takaki Komiyama, PhD, assistant professor of neurosciences and neurobiology, reports that in mouse models, the brain significantly changed its visual cortex operation modes by implementing top - down processes during learning.
In 2003, during a postdoc with John Moran in the Human Genetics Department at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, he set out to develop a new model.
«We're trying to build models that describe how tumors grow and respond to therapy,» said Yankeelov, director of the Center for Computational Oncology at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) and director of Cancer Imaging Research in the LIVESTRONG Cancer Institutes of the Dell Medical School.
In a recent study, a team of researchers from the University of Sydney's School of Geosciences has designed a new model that simulates sediment transport from mountains to coasts, reworking of marine sediments by wave - induced currents, and development of coral reefs.
Using a mouse model that expresses an altered form of the normal human prion protein, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have determined why the human proteins aren't corrupted when exposed to the elk prions.
She received her Ph.D. in Water Quality Modeling and Decision Analysis from the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University in 2007.
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Among them is a group of scientists at the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University, Bloomington, who proposed a new funding model in an article published last week in EMBO reports.
Starting from the observation that the properties of water seem to appear fine - tuned, a collaboration between Dr John Russo from the University of Bristol's School of Mathematics and Professor Hajime Tanaka from the University of Tokyo, harnessed the power of powerful supercomputers, using computational models to slowly «untune» water's interactions.
In preclinical studies using cell models that mimicked liver cells of patients with the rare disease Friedreich's ataxia (FA), a widely used cholesterol - lowering drug increased a precursor of HDL (high - density lipoprotein), the «good cholesterol,» according to new research published in PLOS ONE from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
In a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience, researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine showed certain immune cells — neutrophils — can clean up nerve debris, while previous models have attributed nerve cell damage control to other cells entirely.
«Before our work in rhesus monkeys, it has not been possible to detect or observe some of these symptoms in other HD animal models, especially emotional dysregulation,» says senior author Chan, associate professor of human genetics at Yerkes National Primate Research Center and Emory University School of Medicine.
«The previous cellular models were great,» says John Hogenesch, Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, «but they needed high end imaging equipment that is out of reach for most labs and early stage startups.»
Raz and his colleagues Cheryl Dreuhl, professor at George Mason University School of Management, and Vered Blass, professor at The Leon Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration at Tel Aviv University, approached this research using the newsvendor model, a methodology that captures demand uncertainty, thus differentiating between functional and innovative products.
In Design for the Environment: Life - Cycle Approach Using a Newsvendor Model, University of Virginia Darden School of Business Professor Gal Raz and research colleagues investigated which segments of a product's life cycle create the biggest environmental impacts and where firms should invest their resources in order to reduce those impacts.
Engineered human immune cells can vanquish a deadly pediatric brain tumor in a mouse model, a study from the Stanford University School of Medicine has demonstrated.
Professor Dan Lunt, from the School of Geographical Sciences and Cabot Institute at the University of Bristol said: «Because climate models are based on fundamental scientific processes, they are able not only to simulate the climate of the modern Earth, but can also be easily adapted to simulate any planet, real or imagined, so long as the underlying continental positions and heights, and ocean depths are known.»
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have devised a computational model that could enhance understanding, diagnosis and treatment of pressure ulcers related to spinal cord injury.
This tough decision could become a little easier, say Prajna Banerjee at Stanford University School of Medicine in California and colleagues, who have developed a model that can better predict the likelihood that a second IVF treatment will succeed.
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine report that a single infusion of wildtype hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) into a mouse model of Friedreich's ataxia (FA) measurably halted cellular damage caused by the degenerative disease.
«If you see consistent phenotypes in different models, the things that are happening are probably important,» says Guo - li Ming of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, who led the earlier studies of Zika in human neural progenitor cells.
In the research, recently published in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Daniels and her co-authors — Gérard Cachon, professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and Ruben Lobel, former assistant professor at Wharton now in the private sector — used analytical modeling to study surge pricing and its effects.
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