Sentences with phrase «economics classes professors»

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At 31 years old, I'm 3 classes away from my undergraduate, have run and lost a State Senate race, can debate Hayek and Keynes with economics Professors, debate Nietzsche and Schopenhauer with philosophy professors, and talk occupy politics with working class youth, unemployed workers and homeless bums on the streets of Atlanta.

Thus, said Lazonick, the economics professor, maximizing shareholder value has «concentrated income at the top and has led to the disappearance of middle - class jobs.

«We became interested in studying the effects of economic downturns on public spending during the Great Recession of the late 2000s, when media outlets were filled with stories about states cutting optional Medicaid benefits, increasing school class sizes and reducing course offerings,» said Ho, who is also a professor of economics at Rice and a professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.

Most notably his schedule includes an entry - level economics class instructed by a deadpan professor (hilariously played by George Takei) and a public speaking course taught by Mrs. Tainot (Julia Roberts).

All West Point students take a semester - long, introductory economics class, taught by professors in sections of no more than twenty students.

In this episode, Susan Payne Carter, assistant professor of economics at the United States Military Academy, joins EdNext editor - in - chief Marty West to discuss her new study which found that students whose professors banned laptops and tablets from class outperformed students whose professors allowed the devices.

The class was at 8 a.m., and the professor had office hours beforehand at 7 a.m. Fryer would go each time, «with more ideas and more applications and more questions about what the tools of economics could understand.»

Raj Chetty, a professor of economics at Harvard, in 2010 published a study that estimates that having an above - average kindergarten teacher in a classroom of 20 will generate about $ 320,000 more in total lifetime earnings for each of his or her students, compared to the same class with a below - average teacher.

As Harvard economics professor N. Gregory Mankiw recently observed in the New York Times, «after 30 years as an educator, I am convinced that the ideal experience for a student is a small class that fosters personal interaction with a dedicated instructor.»

Partnering with Harvard University economics professor Roland Fryer, HISD embraced many tenets proven to increase student achievement, including more time in class, data - driven instruction, additional tutoring, and creating a culture of high expectations.

My economics professor the 1st day of class threw a balsa model airplane, & it flew, then crashed.

«Air pollution is an immediate problem that is directly linked to many of the economic, energy - related activities that are also responsible for greenhouse gases,» added the study's other co-author, Valerie Karplus, the Class of 1943 Career Development Assistant Professor of Global Economics and Management in MIT's Sloan School of Management.

A similar experiment at West Point (U.S. Military Academy) divided an introductory economics class into three categories — electronics allowed, electronics not allowed, and tablets face - up on the table where professors could see them.

One of the study's author's, Dabo Guan, professor of climate change economics at the University of East Anglia's School of International Development, UK, says the growth in the carbon footprint of the urban middle class and the rich in China is a big problem that has to be tackled.