Sentences with phrase «book value of their education»

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The value of this book extends way beyond the world of education.

Value investor Guy Spier, who won the lunch in 2008 bidding alongside his friend Mohnish Pabrai, recounted the experience in his book «Education Of A Value Investor.»

Have written an acclaimed value investment education book teaching everything from the concepts of value investing, to various valuation techniques, how to develop the proper mindsets and processes, etc..

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

We are delighted at the outpouring of support from the public, media and celebrities for the value of books and education in prison.

A revealing new book, Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity, and Faculty Gatekeeping by University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, education researcher Julie Posselt, investigates the processes at 10 top - ranked departments — including astrophysics, biology, physics, economics, linguistics, political science, and sociology — and examines the values and practices that appear to govern them.

«By and large — both in public and independent school education — there is still a tendency to focus on the disciplines separately, and, frankly, there's a lot of value in that,» says Heidi Hayes Jacobs, a highly regarded education consultant, president of Curriculum 21, and author of several influential books on improving K - 12 education, including Interdisciplinary Curriculum: Design and Implementation and Active Literacy Across the Curriculum.

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In our book, we point out that the research methods, most valued by American researchers, which involve the random assignment of research subjects to «treatments,» can not be used when researching entire national education systems, because it is not possible to randomly assign national populations to the national education systems of other countries.

I agree that poorly prepared teachers is one cause of the high dropout rate, but as with most problems, many causes exist, including an anti-intellectual culture that values over-paid athletes and celebrities w / no obvious talent (e.g. Kim Kardashian); parents who think all their male children will grow up to be Yankees so never put books in the kids» hands; pseudo education reformers who sell a narrative that a first year teacher is no different from a veteran with a grad degree and thirty years teaching experience, administrators who hire based on coaching rather than teaching, school boards that cut library programs rather than sports, etc..

In a new book, Stanford scholar Susanna Loeb encourages education policy - makers to consider the many different values of an education, beyond test scores, alongside available research evidence when crafting their decisions.

Suzanne E. Mol, Adriana G. Bus, and Maria T. de Jong, «Interactive Book Reading in Early Education: A Tool to Stimulate Print Knowledge as Well as Oral Language,» Review of Educational Research 79 (2009): 979 — 1007; Suzanne E. Mol, Adriana G. Bus, Maria T. de Jong, and Daisy J. H. Smeets, «Added Value of Dialogic Parent - Child Book Readings: A Meta - Analysis,» Early Education and Development 19 (2008): 7 — 26; and National Early Literacy Panel, Developing Early Literacy: Report of the National Early Literacy Panel (Washington, DC: National Institute for Literacy, 2008).

As background, Randi wrote the foreword to the only academic book that has been released on VAMs to date — Value - Added Measures in Education — written by now Tulane Associate Professor of Economics, Douglas Harris.

Thus far, there have been four total books written about value - added models (VAMs) in education: one (2005) scholarly, edited book that was published prior to our heightened policy interest in VAMs; one (2012) that is less scholarly but more of a field guide on how to use VAM - based data; my recent (2014) scholarly book; and another recent (2011) scholarly book written by Doug Harris.

Literary critic William Deresiewicz discusses his charming new memoir, A Jane Austen Education, and Austen's timeless appeal.Your book describes a series of «life lessons» you learned by reading Jane Austen's novels, such as how to truly listen to other people's stories and the value of a true friend.

The Publishers Association's Publishing Yearbook showed UK publishing earnings in 2016 were # 4.8 bn, a rise of 7 % on 2015 value, across consumer, education and academic / professional, both physical and digital books, journals and including home and export.

Their support and valued input made Publishers Launch a success in its inaugural year, and we look forward to another year of providing critical and practical advice and education for the trade book publishing business.

Since that time, I've read some of his annual letters, watched the videos of his student Q&A visits, listened to a podcast he has been on and read his book, The Education of a Value Investor.

This «Little Book» is one of the most appealing investment books available because it contains a straightforward strategy (a «magic formula») for long - term value investing and provides readers the education and tools necessary to achieve long - term success.

So, today I finished reading Guy Spier's new book The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom and Enlightenment.

Guy Spier is the author of the excellent book The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, -LSB-...] READ ARTICLE

One corollary to the foregoing is one of those lessons that stick from sit - down education, that «Book Value» is not a standard of value but rather a mathematical idenValue» is not a standard of value but rather a mathematical idenvalue but rather a mathematical identity.

Guy Spier is a Zurich based investor and author of a book in investing entitled The Education of a Value Investor.

In 2014, he published his first book, The Education of a Value Investor.

Think of the education's cost as its «book value.»

In other cases, the intrinsic value of an education will far exceed its book value, a result that proves capital was wisely deployed.

You can gain some insight into the differences between book value and intrinsic value by looking at one form of investment, a college education.

As an editor and co-author, he has collaborated on books such as Guy Spier's much - praised memoir, The Education of a Value Investor, and Guy I've known recently and he's fantastic, and that's how we actually were fortunate enough to connect.

So this is what Guy Spier writes in his book, The Education of a Value Investor, about how he deals with such situations --

If you have not yet got around to reading his excellent book — The Education of Value Investor then this Hurricane Capital article provides a brief summary of Guy's approach to using checklists and also includes some of Guy's checklist items.

«Teaching Knowledge, Skills, and Values of Professional Identity Formation,» in Building on Best Practices: Transforming Legal Education in a Changing World (2015)(book chapter; coauthored with L. O. Natt Gantt, II)

Assets will continue to provide value even after you buy them - real estate investments, stocks, college education (value in the form of smarts rather than money), educational books, etc..