Sentences with phrase «economic schools found»
A 2014 study that used the same tools to assess multiplicative thinking in over 1700 Year 7 - 9 students from lower socio - economic schools found that the proportion for Year 8 students was closer to 55 per cent (Siemon, Milne, Sharpley & Vanderpal, 2014).
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She knew by her second year at Stanford Law School that she wanted to be an employment lawyer to practice anti-discrimination law in the places people find economic empowerment.
In a carefully researched article (Yale Journal of Regulation, Summer 2001), Yale Law School professor Roberta Romano summarized studies on the economic impact of splitting the chair and CEO roles in U.S. companies (where combined CEO / chairs are the norm), finding that there is no statistically significant difference, in terms of stock price or accounting income, between companies that split the roles and those that don't.
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Although there are many schools, a view of economic behaviour that can be reconciled with the Christian understanding is found in hardly any of them.
Founded in 1932, Miquon is a Progressive independent school that values racial, ethnic, economic, religious, gender, and social diversity.
«We found that one out of six kids hadn't had breakfast before they got to school — and it wasn't tied to socio - economic status,» said Mary Begallethe director of food and nutrition service for the Minnesota Department of Children, Families & Learning.
Shauvon Simmons - Wright, the alliance's N.C. relationship manager, who helps support students» efforts, said she first made contact with school districts to find out which schools had a need for resources based on the socio - economic status of students.
A study from the Economic Research Service arm of the USDA found that just making more fruit and vegetables available in school cafeterias led to black and Hispanic students, students from Spanish - speaking households, younger students and females all eating more of these healthy foods.
The findings also demonstrate the links between the actual built environment and social mobility: a better built environment, including schools, hospitals, homes and infrastructure, provides greater opportunity for economic and social progression.
In a landmark ruling, the OSA has found the 2014 and 2015 admissions policies of the London Oratory School to be discriminatory on the basis of ethnicity and socio - economic background.
So you will find very little beyond broad political narrative on big policy issues on economic policy, schools policy, health, employment, home affairs, prisons, civil liberties, development, foreign policy, Europe.
A 2010 paper by researchers at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics found the long - run effect was negligible or positive.
If we don't address longstanding cost - drivers now, then schools will find themselves in a similar fiscal crisis during the next economic downturn.»
Findings from a project led by London's Institute of Education and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Department for International Development (DFID) show that using new ways of encouraging young children to stay in regular schooling cut drop - out rates by 42 per cent in just a year.
A Centre for Economic Performance report by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) found there had been an incentive effect for those teachers gaining above - average performance related pay, but that this was offset «by a more widespread demotivating effect arising from difficulties of measuring performance fairly».
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Polls have consistently revealed that the vast majority of the public — as many as 73 % — oppose religious selection of any kind in state - funded schools, and research has found time and time again that religiously selective schools worsen religious, ethnic, and socio - economic segregation in their local areas.
Vogl and co-author Marcos Rangel, assistant professor at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy, detailed their findings in a working paper titled «Agricultural Fires and Infant Health» released online in December by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
These are the key findings from an investigation carried out by Imperial College Business School with funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
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Researchers from the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School and the University of Wisconsin found that belief in the so - called «American Dream,» or the prospect that upward economic mobility is possible, limits impulse spending among materialistic consumers.
A rigorous Northwestern University study of a quarter - century of data has found that economic insecurity is related to the rate of gun violence at K - 12 and postsecondary schools in the United States.
«Our findings highlight the importance of economic opportunity for the next generation and suggest there are proactive actions we could take as a society to help decrease the frequency of gun violence,» said Pah, clinical assistant professor of management and organizations at the Kellogg School of Management.
The findings, published recently in the Eastern Economic Journal, show that a one - point increase in high school GPA raises annual earnings in adulthood by around 12 percent for men and 14 percent for women.
The study, from researchers at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), the University of Göttingen, Germany, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, and the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, found that economic growth was associated with small or no declines in stunting, underweight, and wasting — all signs of undernutrition.
,» researcher Richard B. McKenzie, Gerken Professor of Economics and Management Emeritus at the UC Irvine Paul Merage School of Business and a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis, found the practice of tipping restaurant servers and bartenders has economic advantages for everyone concerned: restaurant owners, their customers, servers and other workers.
Director Dot Harris, Office of Economic Impact and Diversity at the Department of Energy, will be on the line with Dr. Rebecca Spyke - Keiser, Associate Deputy Administrator for Strategy and Policy at NASA; Jill Fuss, Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Stephanie Stilson, Engineer at Kennedy Space Center and NASA Headquarters, and a class at Andrew Jackson Middle School in Titusville, Florida, to discuss ways to find role models for young people in STEM fields and answer questions from students and the general public about STEM careers.
After moving from California to New York for law school and working for a few years at a prestigious law firm in Manhattan, she found herself jobless after 2008's economic downturn.
According to an Ofsted report on The Importance of ICT — Information and communication technology in primary and secondary schools, 2005/2008 it was found that: «Using ICT was contributing positively to the personal development and future economic well - being of pupils and students.
The National Science Board in 2004 found that completion of rigorous math courses in high school was a predictor of college success, across race, ethnic, and socio - economic lines.
«Schools and learning need a movement to change not just the way we teach, but also how we think about teaching and learning,» Yamashiro says, noting that education needs to be valued in American society and focused on not only test scores and economic success, but also on the whole child and finding joy in learning.
A Powerful Collaboration Burdette and Smethurst have found that their school's quality and Montessori - like educational philosophy and practices work well for students from varying socio - economic conditions and of varying abilities and skill levels.
Alan Krueger and Mikael Lindahl found that changes in years of schooling had a positive effect on economic growth.
Evaluating data from the 40 - year follow - up to the High / Scope Perry Preschool Program Study, Belfield and his colleagues show how preschool participation by low income children relates to significant economic benefits both to the children by the time they are in their 40s and to society more generally (Belfield et al. 2006).1 Summarizing over 160 studies conducted from 1960 through 2000, Camilli et al. found that preschool had a range of shorter and longer term positive relationships to cognitive gains, progression through school, and social - emotional development (Camilli et al. 2010).
Founded in 1992 in the heart of Casablanca, Morocco's largest city, financial hub and economic capital, ESCA Ecole de Management is a school of reference in North Africa and in the Mediterranean region in the fields of education and training in management.
(Watson, Louise and Ryan, Chris 2010) also found a higher proportion of public school students came from low socio - economic status backgrounds.
While the declines are not good news for schools — it means they're competing for a smaller number of candidates — a recent paper found that teachers hired during the recent recession tended to be stronger than those hired during better economic times.
For example, a study released by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that giving middle school math teachers access to lesson plans from the company Mathalicious resulted in a statistically significant increase in student achievement.
In a new study for Education Next, Eric Hanushek of Stanford University, Jens Ruhose of Leibniz University Hannover, and Ludger Woessmann of the Ifo Center for the Economics of Education at the University of Munich find that if states take advantage of this opportunity and invest in school quality, they can reap massive economic gains.
Among the more salient conclusions are: 1) that what children bring to school is vastly more important than what happens thereafter, as the Coleman Report found; 2) in examining all of the variables that impinge on student academic performance (teacher effectiveness, socio - economic advantage, appropriate evaluation criteria, etc.), none is demonstrably more significant than time spent learning «one - on - one»; and 3) that only an individualized computer program can address all these issues effectively and simultaneously.
As a nation in the midst of unprecedented, 21st - century economic challenges, we can no longer afford to rely on the luck of the draw to find the leaders our schools need.
The typical study finds that quantity of schooling is highly related to economic growth rates.
When choosing schools, the authors find, parents of all economic and ethnic groups place academic quality first.
Brian Jacob and Lars Lefgren find no relationship between teachers» pay and their performance in a mid-sized, western school district (see «When Principals Rate Teachers,» research, page 58); and Eric Hanushek, Steven Rivkin, and Daniel O'Brien, in a 2005 working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, report no relationship between teacher productivity and changes in pay, suggesting that surrounding districts do not pull the most effective teachers from the city by offering higher salaries.
The use of interdistrict - choice programs is unlikely to increase most students» educational opportunities significantly, a new report concludes, despite recent attention to the idea as a means of reducing economic and racial segregation and giving students in low - performing public schools a chance to find a better school.
When this is equated to other countries via the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), we find (in math, for the high school graduating class of 2009) that sixteen other nations had at least twice as large a fraction of their fifteen - year - olds scoring at that level.
These differences also correlate with important long - run economic outcomes as documented in a new work by Chetty and co-authors, where they find suggestive evidence that «quality of schools — as judged by outputs rather than inputs — plays a role in upward mobility.»
Shanker allied with liberals on trade unionism, public schools, and economic equality, while finding common cause with conservatives on issues like standards, public school choice, racial preferences, bilingual education, and communism.
The analysis, from the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics, also found the teaching method has large, initial benefits for all students at age five and age seven.