Sentences with phrase «education researchers came»

No organizations, leaders or education researchers came forward to back his argument or confirm his skepticism until the Think Twice analysis was released four weeks later — three weeks after the election.

In other words, education researchers came to share usable knowledge.

Not exact matches

@BADGUY In response to your request for where my cited statistics come from, I refer to a 2004 study commissioned by the US department of Education and conducted at Hofstra University, Lead researcher was Dr Charol Shakeshaft.

However, Janet Bowers, a math education researcher at San Diego State University in California, notes that 70 % of the subjects came from middle - and upper - middle class families and questions whether the result can be generalized.

To come to this conclusion, the researchers examined data from a qualitative comparative case study that explored two secondary schools organized for the inclusion of students with disabilities in general education classrooms.

The researchers examined respondents» deference to science on a scale of 0 - 10 when it came to 14 policy issues, including child vaccinations, stem cell research, global warming, child obesity and diet, AIDS prevention, birth control education, legalizing drug use, gun control, regulation of nuclear power, animal testing, and teaching evolution in schools.

Immigrants who came to the United States illegally as small children and who meet the requirements of the Development Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, more commonly known as DREAMers, are at risk for mental health distress, according to a new study from researchers at Rice University.

A new study by French and UK researchers published in a leading journal this week suggests that should no cure be found for dementia, then the biggest impact on reducing rates of this progressive brain destroying disease is likely to come from eliminating diabetes and depression and boosting education, as well as encouraging people to eat more fruit and vegetables.

Now, education researchers at California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo have come up with a new and effective way to do just that, in the process reenergizing teacher assessment through a classic film technique known as point of view.

But a new report from researchers at Stanford University's Graduate School of Education has found that young people do experience difficulties when it comes to evaluating information they find online.

Equally important are school / university partnerships and the coming together of like - minded researchers and classroom teachers who recognize the fertile opportunity to research, measure, and disseminate findings in Mind, Brain, and Education Science to enhance teacher quality, student achievement, and professional satisfaction.

John Hattie, an education professor and researcher in Australia, has done the wonky work of evaluating mountains of data to determine which decisions make the biggest difference when it comes to learning.

A Rising Tide Harvard Gazette, 6/12/14 «Researchers at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) have studied the first round of academic achievement data to come out of Lawrence since the turnaround effort started.

Researcher Andrew A. Zucker was designing a federally financed study of middle school science teaching two years ago when he came up against new U.S. Department of Education security rules that would have required him to undergo fingerprinting and an extensive background check.

New York University educator and researcher Andrea DeCapua notes that students who have missed a lot of formal education often come from communities where new learning has immediate and direct relevance.

This may not much matter when it comes to the study of material science or Renaissance poetry, but it does if we hope to see responsible researchers contribute to public discussion of education.

«The Urban Scholar Fellowship provides students who possess a demonstrated passion for urban education the opportunity to come to HGSE with significant financial support and the ability to take part in a co-curriculum that exposes them to the leading researchers and practitioners in the field,» says Jennifer Petrallia, assistant dean for master's programs.

From lead - researcher Linda Darling - Hammond comes this groundbreaking international comparative study of teaching quality in the world's top - performing education systems.

«We didn't know if in fact what we were seeing — the differences we were seeing between teachers were about the teacher or about the students who were coming into their class,» Steve Cantrell, Gates» chief education researcher, told The Huffington Post.

There are alternatives that could have been discussed: Some education reformers insist that student portfolios are a better basis for assessing student learning than standardized tests, and researchers using ethnographic methods sometimes come up with insights that we do not find in standard statistically based research.

That's because the meeting comes as the Bush administration is stepping up its commitment to what it calls «evidence - based education practice,» and education researchers may be key to the success of that effort.

East Brunswick, NJ — Calling the issue of pay equity «the most revolutionary thing that's come about since labor organized,» a researcher with the New Jersey Education Association last week said the association will probably test the concept in a suit designed to set a precedent for the state's school districts.

The following assessment of what influences standardized test scores comes from education researcher Christopher Tienken via education blogger Peter Greene.

That's why researchers from the Harvard Graduate School of Education came up with Brain Games and teamed up with the nonprofit HopeLab and Daylight to develop this powerful tool to help get kids ready to learn

To give you a taste of what is coming in Part 2, the arguments can be summarized as: 1) Education does not lend itself to a single «best» approach, so the Gates effort to use science to discover best practices is unable to yield much productive fruit; 2) As a result, the Gates folks have mostly been falsely invoking science to advance practices and policies they prefer for which they have no scientific support; 3) Attempting to impose particular practices on the nation's education system is generating more political resistance than even the Gates Foundation can overcome, despite their focus on political influence and their devotion of significant resources to that effort; 4) The scale of the political effort required by the Gates strategy of imposing «best» practices is forcing Gates to expand its staffing to levels where it is being paralyzed by its own administrative bloat; and 5) The false invocation of science as a political tool to advance policies and practices not actually supported by scientific evidence is producing intellectual corruption among the staff and researchers associated with Gates, which will undermine their long - term credibility and iEducation does not lend itself to a single «best» approach, so the Gates effort to use science to discover best practices is unable to yield much productive fruit; 2) As a result, the Gates folks have mostly been falsely invoking science to advance practices and policies they prefer for which they have no scientific support; 3) Attempting to impose particular practices on the nation's education system is generating more political resistance than even the Gates Foundation can overcome, despite their focus on political influence and their devotion of significant resources to that effort; 4) The scale of the political effort required by the Gates strategy of imposing «best» practices is forcing Gates to expand its staffing to levels where it is being paralyzed by its own administrative bloat; and 5) The false invocation of science as a political tool to advance policies and practices not actually supported by scientific evidence is producing intellectual corruption among the staff and researchers associated with Gates, which will undermine their long - term credibility and ieducation system is generating more political resistance than even the Gates Foundation can overcome, despite their focus on political influence and their devotion of significant resources to that effort; 4) The scale of the political effort required by the Gates strategy of imposing «best» practices is forcing Gates to expand its staffing to levels where it is being paralyzed by its own administrative bloat; and 5) The false invocation of science as a political tool to advance policies and practices not actually supported by scientific evidence is producing intellectual corruption among the staff and researchers associated with Gates, which will undermine their long - term credibility and influence.

A crescendo of support from education researchers, analysts, reform advocates, and lawmakers about the need for additional learning time for our nation's under - performing students may well result in the coming months in meaningful reform.

``, by Richard Rothstein of the Economic Policy Institute cautions researchers against using poverty or family income when crunching numbers to come up with education policies.

Coming on top of years of uncertain funding, the reductions could stymie the agency's recent attempts to bring a new and more diverse generation of education researchers into the field.

Researchers will be looking at this data for years to come, but for now, one thing is clear: This time period also saw one of the most dramatic changes in education policy agendas this nation has ever seen.

In the coming year, SRI Education researchers will visit all nine districts in the Initiative to learn more about how the districts are sustaining Linked Learning as Irvine Foundation funding for the pilot ends.

According to national education researcher, Diane Ravitch, K12 INC keeps «coming up with new ideas to put children in front of computers and absorb public dollars.»

The issue came to light after NUT researchers analysed the contracts of 38 education advisers published on a government website.

The time has come for federal and state education leaders to ask themselves, If social - emotional and character development (SECD) is as important as researchers and employers are telling us, then what can we do to promote such development in our schools?

The National Center for Science Education has adopted as part of its mission the task of attacking researchers and commentators who question the biased and alarmist position on global warming staked out by the Obama administration and environmental advocacy groups, so Steven Newton's highly critical essay comes as no surprise.

The time has come for federal and state education leaders to ask themselves, If social - emotional and character development (SECD) is as important as researchers and employers are telling us, then what can we do to promote such development in our schools?

Prior to coming to the Center, she worked at Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education as a Project Manager and Pedagogical Documentation Specialist for Making Learning Visible — a long - term collaboration between early childhood educators in Reggio Emilia, researchers and educators from the U.S. — and other projects.

An recent article titled «Contributions to College Costs by Married, Divorced, and Remarried Parents» by researchers Ruth N. LÃ ³ pez Turley, associate professor of sociology at Rice University, and Matthew Desmond, a junior fellow at Harvard University, proposes that students coming from families of divorced or remarried parents will have to pay twice as much of their share of college education as students whose parents stay married.

Likewise, the time has come for federal and state education leaders to ask themselves, If social - emotional and character development (SECD) is as important as researchers and employers are telling us, then what can we do to promote such development in our schools?