Sentences with phrase «best schools in our study»

The best schools in our study took this broader view of professional development and developed their leadership, culture and teaching through a variety of different coaching, mentoring and development programmes.

Not exact matches

Earlier this year, for example, Judy Zaichkowsky of Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business published a study indicating that the presence of just one woman on a company's board resulted in significantly higher standards of corporate governance (which has an established correlation to better financial performance).

And when it comes to the «real world» after school, study after study has shown that gender diversity within boardrooms leads to better decisions, higher earnings, fewer ethical issues — in short, stronger businesses.

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.

The study sampled both parents of high school students intending to go to college, as well as the students themselves, to determine overall outlook on college expenses, money - saving habits, and life after college in today's workforce.

New Jersey — a wealthy, educated state with ready access to world - class health care in Philadelphia and New York City — has «better access to higher - quality information that lets us be more complete» in screening, Walter Zahorodny, a New Jersey Medical School professor and director of the New Jersey Autism Study, said in a conference call about the findings.

Studies show that kids who eat breakfast tend to perform better in school.

Exactly how health and wellness impact a company's profits, particularly in Canada, may soon be better understood: the University of Western Ontario's Richard Ivey School of Business School has recently launched a five - year study of the subject, working in collaboration with the Sun Life Wellness Institute.

For schools, theater groups, young producers, directors and performers, BroadwayHD provides a crisp, clear digital way to study the craft from the best in the business — and even go backstage.

«This is because people, other than very close friends and relatives, don't seem to relate well to those who constantly share photos of themselves,» lead study author David Houghton, of Birmingham Business School, said in a release.

«Many federal integration programs are not working particularly well,» says Naomi Alboim, a fellow at the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont.

Mark Cohen, director of retail studies at Columbia Business School and former Sears Canada CEO, discusses Macy's decision on buying Story, a retail entertainment concept, to implement in their stores as well as Amazon and Walmart in the race to acquire India's Flipkart.

Williams has a Ph.D in economics from Stanford, where he studied under famed economist John Taylor, as well as an MS from the London School of Economics, and an BA from Cal - Berkeley.

Studies suggest firstborns score higher in IQ tests, earn higher salaries and perform better in school than their siblings.

She'll have to quit her well - paid job at a respectable company and tell her parents that although she studied hard throughout school and got into a great college and graduated in 3 years that she is now leaving it to change the way that manufacturers sell products electronically through their distribution systems.

In a study, JP Vergne, a professor at Ivey Business School, discovered that the best indicator of the short - term price development of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, in general, is developer activity around iIn a study, JP Vergne, a professor at Ivey Business School, discovered that the best indicator of the short - term price development of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, in general, is developer activity around iin general, is developer activity around it.

The additional dollars are making sure our schools are well maintained so our students can study in safe, supportive environments.»

The Best Employers in Canada study measures the level of employee engagement at participating organizations and is based on results from a national survey conducted by Aon Hewitt, in association with the Queen's Centre for Business Venturing at the Queen's University School of Business.

A research study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, led by a team at the Rotman School of Management, shows that taking a moment to assess your best qualities leads to better results when negotiating a high - stakes deal with someone who has more power than you.

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

• Perhaps you noticed the NYU Child Study Center's questions target only certain children, kids somewhere in the A and B range with potential for getting into a good school.

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.

This school is one part of the Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies, an interdisciplinary project which engages in wide - ranging research, publishes the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol as well as a variety of books and articles, and maintains the «Classified Abstract Archives of the Alcohol Literature» with over 10,000 entries on punch cards for automatic retrieval by topic.

Moreover, study of each of them may involve the use of any or several of a variety of well - established types of inquiry: sociological, anthropological, psychological, philosophical, or - the dominant mode of inquiry in theological schooling today — historical.

In addition, we conducted case studies of four theological schools that have reputations for being good places to work.

The prime motive for going to school, for doing well in studies, and for staying in school to the highest level possible is to secure a good job.

Mary Somerville, overcoming, as her daughter says, «obstacles apparently insurmountable, at a time when women were well - nigh totally debarred from education»; Charlotte Bronte, writing in secret and publishing under a pseudonym because only so could she hope for just criticism; Harriet Hunt, admitted to the Harvard Medical School in 1850 but forced out by the enraged students; Elizabeth Blackwell, applying to twelve medical schools before she could secure admission, and meeting with insult and contumely in her endeavor to study and practice medicine; Mary Lyon, treated as a wild fanatic because she wanted American girls to be educated — such figures are typical in woman's struggle for intellectual opportunity.

The courses of study in denominational as well as interdenominational schools are even more indicative of their participation in the common life of the whole Church.

The most famous catechetical school was in Alexandria in Egypt, where the syllabus included the best in Greek science and philosophy as well as Christian studies.

Well - schooled in scholastic thought, Pesch studied economics with Gustav Schmoller, Max Sering, and Adolph Wagner, leading members of the «younger historical school» of economics.

The technical emphasis in recent theological education has given us better pedagogies, opened up the larger society as a field for ministry, redistributed authority and power in the schools, and added new and important areas of study.

It may well be that, in addition to requiring a coherent picture of ministry, recovery of unity in a course of study requires profound changes in the way in which critical inquiry is conducted in disciplined ways within theological schools.

Every summer the Witherspoon Institute offers a seminar on the Moral Foundations of the Law, open to rising 2L and 3L students in law school, as well as those in LLM and JSD programs (and we've been known to have students in the seminar studying jurisprudence in other disciplines, like....

That allowed me to show why various subject matters that ought to be studied by a theological school (e.g., Bible, Christian history, theology, psychology and sociology of religion, etc.) are best studied in their theological significance (i.e., as means to understanding God) by studying them in their relation to the common life of actual congregations.

[5] If a theological school wants to understand God more truly, if truth is really the issue, surely it would be better to focus study on the foundations that justify our getting involved in a congregation in the first place.

The theological school, for its part, would assume responsibility for course work that studies Christian congregations in all their variety, as well as course work that focuses on models of practice, thus cultivating students» capacities to reflect on ministerial practice (cf. 121 - 25).

One of the more important purposes of a school chaplain, IMO, is to be an adult, perhaps the only adult in the kids lives, who isn't asking the kids to perform / become better / grow up / score well / study hard / etc.

I made this back in the days of boards - studying (good food gave me something to look forward to in my otherwise rather - bleak existence), and brought some to school with me to share with my fellow basement dwellers in the catacombs.

Studies have shown that children with good omega - 3 intake do better in school and have fewer behavioral problems.

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We are making these again this year for our family and also providing the GF dough for our synagogue's Purim Carnival (where many hamantaschen will be made) as well as the recipe for our older daughter's 3rd grade (public Waldorf) class, which is studying Judaism this year, and learning about Purim, in part by making hamantaschen as a school activity.

In California The Fairmont San Francisco and The Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn are supporting local agricultural studies by purchasing two student - raised hogs from the Sonoma Valley High School Agriculture Department so that they can make their own sausages, bacon and dried meats, as well as support local schools and help strengthen the regional farming community.

After completing her studies, Carolyn moved to Los Angeles where she served as the head of Adat Ari El Day School in Valley Village and as a consultant on issues of learning and instruction to Jewish day schools across the Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform Spectrum, as well as to elementary and secondary schools of all types.

But a recent study by Joseph Allen, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia, and Robert C. Pianta, the dean of the education school there, demonstrates that when teachers are trained in how to create a better environment in the classroom, that can have a measurable effect on student performance.

Baseline pre-injury and post-injury neuropsychological or neurocognitive testing is now commonplace at the professional and collegiate level, and has become more and more common at the high school level as well, with a recent study showing computerized neuropsychological testing being used to assess fully 41.2 % of concussions at schools with at least one athletic trainer on staff in the 2009 - 2010 year, [2] an increase of 15.5 % from the 25.7 % of concussions in which such testing was used in assessing concussions during the 2008 - 2009 school year.

In fact the authors point out that there are no studies of meditationamong children in a general school population that are designed well enough to meet the standards of the gatekeeping organizations — like CASEL (Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning), the Department of Education, or the Society for Prevention Research — that would endorse program changes in schoolIn fact the authors point out that there are no studies of meditationamong children in a general school population that are designed well enough to meet the standards of the gatekeeping organizations — like CASEL (Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning), the Department of Education, or the Society for Prevention Research — that would endorse program changes in schoolin a general school population that are designed well enough to meet the standards of the gatekeeping organizations — like CASEL (Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning), the Department of Education, or the Society for Prevention Research — that would endorse program changes in schoolin schools.

A study by the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis supports the idea that babies sleep better when swaddled.

According to Robert Hall, professor of pediatrics at the University of Missouri School of Medicine in Kansas City, there was no statistical difference in growth, language development, vision or cognitive development among the children studied, although in most categories the breast - fed infants did show slightly better performance.

Healthy children also have fewer school absences, are more engaged in their studies and quite possibly will behave better.

Countless studies have found that kids perform better in school when their parents are involved with their schoolwork.