Sentences with phrase «century of research»

If anything, the half century of research on student achievement has strengthened arguments for a policy focus on teacher quality.

This worldview is obviously extremely convenient for us as a species, and has been the foundation for centuries of research and discovery.

Over a quarter century of research into refining or replacing expensive material reviewed by team at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

The data on charter - school performance is perhaps mixed, but a half century of research proves, as Ravitch acknowledges, that «minority children in Catholic schools are more likely to take advanced courses than their peers in public schools, more likely to go to college, and more likely to continue on to graduate school.»

A half century of research shows conclusively that student's socioeconomic status accounts for the majority of the variation in test scores.

And while we have learned, after the last century of research into the history of its extinction, that direct human harvest and disturbance are responsible for the extinction, we still do not understand just how these components caused the collapse of the species.

A half century of research finds that separate schools for rich and poor are seldom equal, and that when low - income students (of any race) are given a chance to go to lower poverty schools, they tend to perform better.

Seasoned by an additional half century of research and thought, Henry became convinced that speculative theories in general and empiricism and existentialism in particular had not only permeated western culture but had also penetrated our churches.

How this would play out in practice remains to be seen, though a half - century of research into market competition suggests that increased competitive pressures usually lead to increasing quality and falling prices.

When you're in the hospital with a cellulitis and the only thing that will save your life is more than a century of research and development, I'd like to be there to see if you take a side.

There's a new study out after a century of research suggesting that the smarter you are, the less...

There's a new study out after a century of research suggesting that the smarter you are, the less likely you are to believe in God.

Where that part of the argument is concerned, the way through the jungle of facts has been cleared by a century of research and discussion.

Centuries of research, tens of thousands of fossils unearthed, dated with the most reliable scientific methods (radioactive istopes such as Carbon - 14, potassium - argon, uranium - lead, etc), ample amounts of geological data, comparing rock formations from Africa and South America, from the British Isles and the Appalachians, coming to the evidence that these rocks were once united under the same continent (Pangaea, Gondwanaland, Rodinia, etc), etc, etc...

It is in some ways a fresh approach which has emerged from more than a half - century of research, writing, and meditation.

Almost half a century of research has found that physical contact improves overall health, helps babies and toddlers to become secure and trusting, and enhances relationships.

Schools should use both ability grouping and acceleration to help academically talented students, reports a new Northwestern University study that examined a century of research looking at the controversial subject.

After a half - century of research, scientists find a promising solution to mysterious abortions in beef cattle.

After more than half a century of research, fusion remains technologically elusive.

As Rafael Yuste and George M. Church note, a century of research on the brain has only inched us toward complete understanding of this most crucial human organ.

But despite more than half a century of research, the underlying molecular and cellular machinery remains a mystery.

Scientists had so far recognized only one giraffe species and up to 11 subspecies while the distinctness of each subspecies of the animal still remains unclear even after a century of research.

The common thread through over a century of research has always been the commitment to make discoveries aimed at improving human health as efficiently, quickly, and inexpensively as possible by choosing the animal models and tools that best match the problems under study.

More importantly, a century of research has determined definitively that blood pressure is a very good indication of risk for heart disease.

After more than a century of research, we still don't understand how chromosomes are kept as individual bodies throughout mitosis.

What's clear from more than half a century of research on the subject is that we all have different levels of stress tolerance.

Despite decades of relying on standardized test scores to assess and guide education policy and practice, surprisingly little work has been done to connect these measures of learning with the measures developed over a century of research by cognitive psychologists studying individual differences in cognition.

Kahlenberg and Potter's argument about the relationship between diversity and achievement relies on a «half century of research» showing that «high - achieving, high - poverty schools are rare.»

Indeed, Guskey and Bailey (2001) documented nearly a century of research on grading practices.

The truth, however, is that it relies on nearly a century of research and development at GM and incorporates contributions from the farthest - flung corners of the company's once - vast industrial empire.

In superb prose and with an instinct for the dramatic scene, he describes the centuries of research and experimentation - from Aristotle and Pythagoras to Mendel and Darwin, from Boveri and Morgan to Crick, Watson and Franklin, all the way through the revolutionary twenty - first century innovators who mapped the human genome.

April 2, 7:38 p.m. Updated with new Hansen study below After nearly half a century of research in planetary and climate science for NASA, James E. Hansen is retiring on Wednesday to pursue his passion for climate activism without the hindrances that come with government employment.

«Half a century of research has found that when we are exposed to a «weak form of misinformation,» this helps us build resistance so that we are not influenced by actual misinformation.

So wasn't the preceding half - century of research a waste of effort?

And yet, despite of a century of research, major questions remain about whether the changes seen today are exceptional.

The study upends more than half a century of research that assumed outdoor air pollution in cities was to blame for higher asthma rates — a hypothesis repeatedly used by EPA regulators to justify the agency's regulations.

All of these ideas have proved difficult to back up, despite a century of research.

You also benefit from local case studies, bringing a century of research know - how to your backyard to examine local issues and provide answers.