Sentences with phrase «about research schools»

Aaron is passionate about research schools.

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To figure this out, the research team recruited 1,874 participants from business schools and online discussion panels, and then surveyed them both about time spent abroad and how those travel experiences impacted their self - knowledge.

Oliver Levine, an Assistant Professor in Finance, and the Patrick A. Thiele Fellow in Finance, at the Wisconsin School of Business, and Brent Glover, an Assistant Professor of Finance at Carnegie Mellon University, are two of the authors behind this paper, and I recently had a chance to speak to them about their research.

The research out of Baylor University's business school surveyed nearly 500 adults about how a phenomenon the researchers dub «phubbing» — i.e. snubbing someone for your phone — impacts relationships.

In fact, Arnold's research demonstrates that students who truly enjoy learning the most often struggle in school, where students must balance attention given to subjects about which they're truly passionate with the demands of their other coursework.

He learned about West Africa's counterfeit drug epidemic while at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College; his Ph.D. research eventually yielded an embryonic version of the MPA service.

«It's [that] you genuinely know about their programs,» says Pirkul, who led the creation of an alternative rankings system based on schools» research output.

The Top 20 schools are spending on average about $ 450,000 per faculty member, on everything from research to career services.

To understand why graduation rates in computer science are so low for women, we only need to answer one question: Why do 74 % of high school girls report affinity for STEM subjects in school and yet, according to a report by the Girl Scout Research Institute, only about 20 % pursue STEM - related undergraduate degrees?

Between 1980 and 2005, U.S. buyout funds, one of the main categories of private equity, heavily outperformed the S&P 500, according to research from Chris Higson at the London Business School, with about 60 % of the funds he studied beating that benchmark index.

Passionate about the University of Calgary, Schmidt and Laricina Energy Ltd. both played pivotal roles in the Engineering Leaders Campaign at the Schulich School of Engineering, funding a five - year scholarship program, a chemical and petroleum engineering graduate student space, a boardroom in the new engineering building expansion, and a portion of the Canada Research Chair in Energy and Imaging.

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...

The poll on education funding, done by Environics Research for the Alberta Teachers Association, dealt only with public attitudes about public funding for private schools.

A new survey by the Pew Research Center shows that 57 percent of US teenagers are worried that a shooting could take place at their own school — and one in four are «very worried» about the chance.

I was researching «what the bible says about bullying» for my age 4 - 9 Sunday school class, and the «church bullies» phrase really grabbed my attention.

, and by working to lower the occurrence of unwanted pregnancies in the first place — which means better sexual health education in schools, funding for birth control measures and education about using that birth control, promoting research into methods of safe male birth control, and creating an environment where the women in your life can come to you to discuss safe sexual choices.

In an effort to save you some research time (and a possible nervous breakdown), we spoke to several admissions counselors from various types of educational institutions (Christian university, state school, media school and private college) about the most important elements to consider when deciding on a school.

A medical school, for instance, is a research and often also a healing center, directly concerned with the increase of knowledge about the human organism and with its health; but it is also a training center where men are prepared to work in many other institutions of the society, from private practice to public health offices.

National Public Radio, citing its own research done in conjunction with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Harvard's School of Public Health, says that «about one - third of Latino Catholics in the U.S. identify as Charismatic.»

Family Research Council President Tony Perkins has responded to my story yesterday about Exodus International pulling its sponsorship of Day of Truth, an annual event that encourages school students to «counter the promotion of homosexual behavior.»

Second tale: Defying all the best previous research on how readily people change their opinions, a young PhD student in political science at a top research university teams up with a senior scholar in his field at another top school to publish a brief report in America's leading scholarly scientific journal that upends everything we thought we knew about the subject.

When I attend weddings, I'm not provided with the opportunity to talk about the really exciting ways that God's moving and using me — through my Master's degree classes, or the research project I'm wading through writing, or the middle school and high school girls Sunday school class I'm privileged to teach, or the fun trips I'm taking and the new people I'm meeting.

It has been nurtured in many ways: by research into basic issues in theological education underwritten by competitive grants offered by the Association of Theological Schools (ATS) and funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc.; by the work of some theological educators commissioned by the Endowment to think about these questions; and by a series of seminars and conferences convened by the ATS to discuss some of the results of this research and reflection.

She researched other schools that already had salad bars and talked with them about the successes and challenges they faced.

Steve Mellalieu, Professor in Sport Psychology and the Associate Dean for Research for the Cardiff School of Sport, notes that the nature of elite sport — specifically the intensive focus on training and performance and the eternal demand for complete commitment — means that players have little opportunity to contemplate what might lie beyond; Garner has confessed, «I never thought about what I'd do after playing.

I read all the time about mal - practice in hospitals, incect cases in churches or schools, not even speaking about how our education system fails in a basic thing like teaching all of our children to read (you do your research and find out the number or illiteracy in this country).

Farrington's research background, plus her history as a teacher in high - poverty neighborhoods, helped her think differently about what happens to students when they're at school.

What I've learned from my research is that in addition to making sure our classroom practices are engaging, we also need to talk to students directly about their beliefs about school, helping them see how disengagement works against them, and what engagement actually is.

At the same time that she was ingesting all this psychological research about motivation, Farrington was also studying the related sociological literature, which was concerned with how institutional structures affect individual behavior and, specifically, how certain educational structures — like school funding mechanisms, teacher contracts, or patterns of segregation — might incline students toward success or failure.

«How to Succeed takes readers on a high - speed tour of experimental schools and new research, all peppered with anecdotes about disadvantaged youths overcoming the odds, and affluent students meeting enough resistance to develop character strengths.»

Increased technology allows our children to learn about different parts of the world, research for school and interact with...

I spend the better part of the spring and the summer researching about every school in the area, and ended up applying for open enrollment for 2 public schools, enrollment at the elem.

-- Christof Wiechert Social Emotional Intelligence: The Basis for a New Vision of Education in the United States — Linda Lantieri Rudolf Steiner's Research Methods for Teachers — Martyn Rawson Combined Grades in Waldorf Schools: Creating Classrooms Teachers Can Feel Good About — Lori L. Freer Educating Gifted Students in Waldorf Schools — Ellen Fjeld KØttker and Balazs Tarnai How Do Teachers Learn with Teachers?

It's an incredible opportunity for school nutrition professionals in Arizona to learn more about breakfast - in - the - classroom, to hear from their peers who have successfully implementing BIC, and to network with state - level partners as well as the original Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom: Food Research and Action Center (FRAC), the National Association of Elementary School Principals Foundation (NAESPF), the National Education Association Health Information Network (NEA HIN), and the School Nutrition Foundation school nutrition professionals in Arizona to learn more about breakfast - in - the - classroom, to hear from their peers who have successfully implementing BIC, and to network with state - level partners as well as the original Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom: Food Research and Action Center (FRAC), the National Association of Elementary School Principals Foundation (NAESPF), the National Education Association Health Information Network (NEA HIN), and the School Nutrition Foundation School Principals Foundation (NAESPF), the National Education Association Health Information Network (NEA HIN), and the School Nutrition Foundation School Nutrition Foundation (SNF).

Pope, a former high school English teacher, stumbled upon her findings about student stress while doing research for a doctoral dissertation at the Stanford School of Educschool English teacher, stumbled upon her findings about student stress while doing research for a doctoral dissertation at the Stanford School of EducSchool of Education.

We also spoke with 2016 School Nutrition Hero Sam Ingram about the impact winning the award had on her efforts to raise awareness — and money — for childhood cancer and cancer research.

Specifically, for fathers, higher expectations about their children's educational level, and greater level / frequency of interest and direct involvement in children's learning, education and schools, are associated strongly with better educational outcomes for their children, including: • better exam / test / class results • higher level of educational qualification • greater progress at school • better attitudes towards school (e.g. enjoyment) • higher educational expectations • better behaviour at school (e.g. reduced risk of suspension or expulsion)(for discussion / review of all this research, see Goldman, 2005).

In school I was interested in doing scientific research and learning about ways to improve health.

She researched other schools that already had salad bars and talked with them about the successes and challenges they faced.

To obtain the best education for your child research into your local public school system as well as research about homeschooling will help you to make a decision that makes sense for your own family.

First we sat down with SNF Director of Development Janet Hedrick to talk about the three pillars of the School Nutrition Foundation mission: Education, Research, and Scholarship.

The findings of the research summarized in The Wellness Impact echo what child nutrition advocates have been preaching about school breakfast (and comprehensive school wellness approaches) for years.

However, while I was researching this article I was unable to find any information about a school that opted out of the USDA program that did not also provide free and reduced meals to low - income students.

I have done a fair bit of work in schools here and some research on lunchboxes and I am afraid that the comments about the state of the majority (rather than the concerned food educated few) are entirely justified.

About Color Me Cured: Founded by Phoebe Steinfeld, a high school sophomore in New Jersey, Color Me Cured is a non-profit organization with the sole purpose of raising money in support of cancer research.

About 72 percent of California high schools serve reheated processed meals more than half the time, according to recent research by Woodward - Lopez.

However, research shows only about 9 percent of high school students are getting enough sleep on a regular basis, which is detrimental to the brain's development.

When I first started researching issues related to school food and nutrition, I was pretty shocked to learn about the stigma surrounding school lunches and breakfasts, and to hear about the way that the federal program is implemented in most areas.

The Food Research and Action Center's report, «Hunger Doesn't Take a Vacation,» said that nationally about 3.2 million children are enrolled in summer nutrition programs, compared with 15.3 million who receive free and reduced - price lunches during the school year.

It's time to think about packing school lunches, and we've done the research for you!