Adelman contributed to key
background studies of the high school curriculum to the landmark, including: A Nation at Risk (1983), Involvement in Learning (1984), The Toolbox (1996), and The Toolbox Revisited (2006).
Background Studies of the Final Report of the National Academy of Education Panel on the Evaluation of the NAEP Trial State Assessment.
Kenneth Bailey is one of the leading scholars in the world on cultural
background studies of, and his books on Jesus and the parables have been extremely helpful in my own research of Scripture.
I am convinced that the historical cultural
background study of Scripture is probably more important than the grammatical word studies that seem to be so popular.
Not exact matches
It's intended to give graduates a solid
background in both economics and finance, and like Schulich, has a vast network
of partner schools you can opt to
study abroad in.
Even if you have the willpower to ignore the constant tones and alert lights in the
background, the sound can still impair your concentration, according to a
study published in the Journal
of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
Law professor James Kwok, for instance, recently cautioned on this blog that, while a humanities degree from a top - tier school often opens doors, if you don't come from the sort
of background that allows you to
study at an elite institution and undertake a few prestigious (probably unpaid) internships, then the calculus rapidly becomes much more difficult.
To analyze foot traffic patterns to the dozens
of Trump - branded hotels, casinos and golf courses in this
study, Foursquare looked at explicit check - ins as well as implicit visits from Foursquare and Swarm app users who enable
background location and visit these locations in the U.S.
This is probably the bit
of advice that's the easiest to argue with, but the seniors in this
study insisted that «marriage is difficult at times for everyone... but it's much easier with someone who shares your interests,
background and orientation.
To avoid the problem, do thorough reference checks, and really
study the candidate's
background, to get a sense
of what's driving them, suggests Chris Von Der Ahe, a senior client partner at Korn / Ferry International in Los Angeles.
While silence may be golden, it has been shown to impair innovative ideas; the same
study found that moderate noise was more effective than a quieter level
of background sound — a whispering 50 decibels — for abetting creative thinking.
But she stresses that
study groups show that investors have an affinity for advisers
of a similar gender or ethnic
background — those «who «get them» and share common experiences,» she says.
He has a
background of study in mass media and film from Clarion University
of Pennsylvania and currently resides in NYC.
In this section, we provide
background and motivation for
study of flash crashes, the October 2014 U.S. Treasury Bond Flash Crash, mini flash crashes, and the possible relationship between the October 2014 U.S. Treasury Bond Flash Crash and mini flash crashes.
Given the considerable number
of background studies and the solid work
of various groups such as the Jenkins Panel, the Mowat Centre for Policy Innovation, and the C.D. Howe Institute, CATA argues that it is time the Government considers and tables an action plan and commits to milestone deliverables in the 2012 Budget to foster an effective environment for successful commercialization
of Canadian innovations.
But we haven't yet looked at one facet
of startup investors» educational
backgrounds: what they
studied in college.
As the debate has taken on a decidedly Asia focus, with some recent
studies and popular media coverage pointing to investors from Asia as one
of the drivers
of Vancouver's soaring housing prices, the Asia Pacific Foundation
of Canada (APF Canada) has written a
background document aggregating the available facts, outlining similar challenges in other jurisdictions, and raising the question: Is public policy required?
As an educational
background he has business
studies from Haaga - Helia, he follows investment world very actively and through this he can bring a touchpoint into our daily activities also from investor point
of view.
Revealing what it means to achieve your own version
of success with case
studies and interviews with women
of diverse races, ages,
backgrounds, and industries
The National Institutes
of Health said today that it's launching a huge research
study with the aim
of making precision medicine available to people
of all
backgrounds.
There are number
of alternatives that are discussed in [the SEC staff
study on accredited investors] that are being considered as, again, proxies for sophistication and being able to fend for yourself depending on your
background, your professional qualifications, how much you have been involved in investing.»
You've got a historical
background in your
studies of the banking crises during the Great Depression, do you see economic history making a comeback?
As we enter the Asian Century, more and more students from a variety
of backgrounds — whether it be in engineering, arts, business, or science — are looking to China as a
study abroad destination.
The unions were supported by the powerful United Steelworkers Union, which commissioned a
study to investigate the
background and ownership
of the Chinese company at the centre
of the dispute.
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
You just need to register with Fiancia limited and
study the
background of the listed traders.
Its CEO has less than four years
of professional work experience and a non-technical
background (she has an MA in business management and dual BAs in Africana
studies / Spanish), and is running a company whose market cap went from $ 7.2 m to $ 60m in a single month, despite not having a finished product or revenue, much less profit.
This crowd in terms
of the
study group, each
of whom comes from a distinctive and important
background, nonetheless establishes a situation whereby they can each and all become friends.
«Nope» you neglected to mention this portion
of the
study: «One caveat is that with so many individuals receiving prayer from friends and family, as well as personal prayer, it may be impossible to disentangle the effects
of study prayer from
background prayer,» said co-author Manoj Jain, Baptist Memorial Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
Interestingly, the most comprehensive
study of such things found atheists to be above average intelligence and education, but with lower levels
of success and achievement than Christians
of camparable
background.
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.»
The past two years have seen the appearance
of an informative Encyclopedia
of the American Constitution (4 vols., edited by Leonard W. Levy [Macmillan]-RRB-, several outstanding
studies on its intellectual
background (including Forrest McDonald's Novus Ordo Seculorum: The Intellectual Origins
of the Constitution [University Press
of Kansas] and Morton White's Philosophy, The Federalist, and the Constitution [Oxford University Press], at least one pathbreaking effort to trace the document's role through the years (Michael Kammen's A Machine That Would Go
of Itself The Constitution in American Culture [Knopf]-RRB- and a gaggle
of good books on its religious themes (see Martin Marty's review in The Century [«James Madison Revisited,» April 9.
The
study found that during those three years, only 17 states plus D.C. required some level
of background check and in those states, there were 45 percent less school shootings compared to the other states.
One discerning
study of modern uncertainties about historical practice, by Joyce Appleby, Margaret Jacob and Lynn Hunt, even began by pointing out that their own participation in the historical profession, as women from nonelite social
backgrounds, could not have happened without the intermingled social and intellectual changes
of recent decades (Telling the Truth About History).
One big area
of study for me right now is related to Jewish
backgrounds and Israelite history.
In its original context the second important root
of the presumption against war was a formulation
of this concept
of just war set out in the Jesuit journal Theological
Studies in 1978 by James F. Childress, an American academic ethicist
of Quaker
background.
Only 9 % indicated that they had made an intensive
study of the biblical cultural
background; 43 % had undertaken a limited
study, while 48 % had not made any attempt to do so.
The main objective
of our
study tour was to see the
background of growing sex trafficking
of Thai women into Japan and other countries.
Another is the
study of the social
background and situation
of the members composing the group, these factors having a bearing on its nature and structure particularly in the case
of transitory phenomena (meeting, festival).
This self -
study included a careful analysis
of the church's group structure against the
background of the obvious needs
of the congregation.
They come from a variety
of church
backgrounds, from Pentecostal to Roman Catholic, and are
studying different subjects at university or college.
However, as with everything else, there is a lot
of wiggle room when it comes to how much historical and cultural
background studies help us understand the text.
So historical - cultural
background studies are helpful, but even they will not give you absolute certainty about the meaning
of any text.
I have not the
studied background of scripture that you have, but I would like to submit for consideration one disagreement with your article.
One source that really provided some
background details for my
study was a series
of blog posts by Ron Goetz on gays and lesbians in Luke.
You might be interested in this online commentary «Putting God on Trial: The Biblical Book
of Job» (http://www.bookofjob.org) as supplementary or
background material for your
study of the Book
of Job.
Third, one my favorite things to
study is the historical / cultural
background of the books
of the Bible.
One
of the best ways
of learning what the Bible means is by
studying the historical and cultural
background of the various Biblical books.
The present most widely accepted theory
of the origin
of the universe — that
of the hot big bang — claims that most
of the helium is the product
of the big bang itself and occurred within the very first minute
of the existence
of the expanding universe, and that the
background radiation which is now being
studied so intensively provides some evidence
of the date
of this initial explosion.
In the succeeding chapters we shall examine the distinctive marks
of the Judeo - Christian heritage, as they come to light when the Bible is
studied against the
background of the mythological world
of ancient man.