Sentences with phrase «education researchers do»

«Declaring education to be an implicit fundamental right would raise difficult constitutional questions about other essentials such as food, shelter, and health care,» say Lindseth, Testani, and Peifer, as well as questions about the adequacy of school funding levels about which education researchers do not agree.

Not exact matches

The unemployment rate in a region does not make a difference, say the two Census researchers, but education levels do.

«A study in the United States, published in the Social Forces journal and conducted by Sociology researcher Lisa A. Keister while she was at the Ohio State University, found that adherents of Judaism attained the most wealth, believers of Catholicism and mainline Protestants were in the middle, while conservative Protestants accu - mulated the least wealth, while in general people who attend religious services achieved more wealth than those who do not (taking into account variations of education and other factors).

Researchers from the Hockey Concussion Education Project, an independent collaboration of specialists from Canada and the United States, examined the effects of concussions on 45 male and female Canadian university hockey players through magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) analyses done on players before, during and after a single hockey season.

In research published in The Journal of Perinatal Education, researchers concluded that while breastfeeding has some ramifications for having sex, it doesn't have to end your sexual relationship with your partner.

Ten years ago, researchers used data from the Listening to Women survey to examine associations between childbirth education and knowledge about childbirth interventions.3 The results were disappointing, women who attended childbirth education were no more likely to have knowledge of the risks of interventions than women who did not take classes.

The largest urban health systems, which serve as safety nets for large patient populations with lower socioeconomic status and greater likelihood to speak English as a second language, do worse on government patient satisfaction scores than smaller, non-urban hospitals likely to serve white customers with higher education levels, according to a new study by Mount Sinai researchers published this month in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

Jeremy Roschelle, a mathematics - education researcher and the director of SRI's Center for Technology in Learning, says his work is similar to that of a university professor except that he doesn't have teaching responsibilities.

While parents use DVDs and other media in an attempt to teach their infants to read, these tools don't instill reading skills in babies, a study by researchers at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development has found.

After adjusting the data for age, sex, race, education, smoking, alcohol use, blood pressure, diabetes, high blood pressure medication, cholesterol levels, statin use and body mass index, the researchers found that those people who met both the recommended activity levels and had vitamin D levels above 20 nanograms per milliliter experienced about a 23 percent less chance of having an adverse cardiovascular event than those people with poor physical activity who were deficient for vitamin D. On the other hand, people who had adequate exercise but were vitamin D deficient didn't have a reduced risk of an adverse event.

Researchers also analyzed participants» childhood socioeconomic status by asking them to recall their parents» education, home ownership and household amenities but they didn't find a link.

Amid all the findings of concern, including the overall trend and disparities of income, education, insurance and ethnicity, the researchers did find one bright spot: Black men, who are known to be at higher risk for prostate cancer incidence and death, were more likely to report having discussed advantages and disadvantages than men on average.

In the new study, people with one «low» MAOA gene and one «high» MAOA gene reported having credit - card debt 7.8 percent more often than did people with two «high» versions, the researchers found, even when they controlled for factors such as education and socioeconomic status.

«What we want to do is provide a guide for researchers who want to investigate STEM teacher preservice education,» said Yolanda George, deputy director of the AAAS Education and Human Resources Programs, adding that the resulting information would be disseminated «as widely as possible» throughout the educatieducation,» said Yolanda George, deputy director of the AAAS Education and Human Resources Programs, adding that the resulting information would be disseminated «as widely as possible» throughout the educatiEducation and Human Resources Programs, adding that the resulting information would be disseminated «as widely as possible» throughout the educationeducation field.

Sharon Lynch, a science education researcher at George Washington University, says e-books such as these may eventually become mainstream but adds that research needs to be done on whether or not they are actually better than traditional textbooks.

The researchers, reporting in the journal Neurology, found that those with the equivalent of at least a college education are seven times more likely than those who didn't finish high school to be disability - free one year after a TBI serious enough to warrant inpatient time in a hospital and rehabilitation facility.

For Alzheimer's prevention, researchers have long advised to keep your brain active by acquiring a higher level of education, doing puzzles, and practicing other mental exercises.

At the same time, CSNE neuroethics researchers are pioneering a framework for deep integration of ethics into neural engineering research and education, and we are doing this in close partnership with neurotechnology end - users.

«Weight - loss camps are not an easy or quick fix,» says Jennifer Hester, a sports exercise and education researcher at Leeds Metropolitan University, in the U.K. «The short - term investment of time and money does not automatically equate to healthy weight management in the long term.»

Interestingly, those who ate mostly meat and fried foods and drank alcohol did not have a higher risk of death than those who ate healthy food after the researchers took into account other factors that could affect the results, such as age, gender, race, education, physical activity and total calorie intake.

Researchers at Wake Forest University have found that medical schools simply do not provide obesity education to their students, and only a small minority of major medical centers even provide adequate, effective training to students in caring for obese patients.

«If it's a skill deficit, a kid doesn't know how to behave,» says Joseph Ryan, a special education researcher at Clemson University who has worked in schools for disabled children.

As education researcher Eileen Raymond states, «The ZPD is the distance between what children can do by themselves and the next learning that they can be helped to achieve with competent assistance.»

The study by researchers at the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, N.J., also warns that an impending shortage of college - educated workers could undermine the United States» place in the world unless the nation does a better job preparing young people for higher education and expanding access to it.

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.

There was even a study done by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education that Anderson was reminded of last June at commencement.

Based on a review by independent researchers, the Education Commission of the States is discounting the conclusions of a small study that showed teachers from Tennessee who received national board certification did not markedly affect their students» achievement.

As parental education has been shown to be a reliable indicator of a student's readiness to learn at school, the researchers categorized students into 1) those with a parent who had a college degree, 2) those with a parent who had only a high school diploma, and 3) those whose parent (s) did not have a high school diploma.

I don't know whether something got lost in the translation between the researchers and Gates education chief, Vicki Phillips, or between her and Sam Dillon at the New York Times, but the article contains a false claim that needs to be corrected before it is used to push changes in education policy and practice.

While grades on the Chance - for - Success Index are sometimes interpreted as measures of school quality, researchers from CREDO found that the grades are closely related to measures of family income and the level of education achieved by parents in a state, and do not represent the contribution of a state's schools to the success of its youngsters.

Measuring the student benefit of mentoring can be tricky, but «presumably, if teachers do a better job, students learn more,» says Sharon Nemser, a professor of education at Brandeis University and senior researcher behind Learning from Mentors, a study published by the National Center for Research on Teacher Learning.

They're just not being done by researchers who were trained in education schools.

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.

Most states provide professional development, but the RAND researchers did not find other clear examples of state departments of education working to make explicit connections between professional - development providers and specific curricula.

Customization Is the Future of Teaching, Harvard Researcher Says The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 25, 2012 «It doesn't have to be that way, says Chris Dede, a professor of learning technologies at Harvard University.

The president may be certain that reducing class sizes will enhance learning, but he doesn't have much company among education researchers.

Put aside the crystal clear anecdotes that go beyond the on average results — something education researchers are not good at doing — that show that for certain students in certain circumstances, full - time virtual charter schools are absolutely the best place for them to learn and that these students have not only been successful in these environments, they have also thrived in ways they would not have in traditional brick - and - mortar schools.

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.

Rachel Flynn, an education researcher at New York University, recently studied the impact of such professional development and found when its done well it has «the potential to improve teacher behavior management practices and reduce exclusionary discipline.»

As someone who was on the Department of Education's «naughty» list for much of the Bush era, and who has a, shall we say, complicated relationship with the current administration, I don't think the nation is well - served when analysts, researchers, and critics are either attack dogs or cheerleaders.

Several pieces of the Title I program are broken and doing little for the disadvantaged students the law is intended to help, according to seven researchers offering new analyses of the multi-billion-dollar cornerstone of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

A similar disparity exists between the difficulty of teaching well and doing good education research, on the one hand, and, on the other, the low prestige and modest rewards of teachers and education researchers and the schools of education that prepare them both.

He is Co-director (with Dr Paul Carr) of the Global Doing Democracy Research Project, an international project examining perspectives and perceptions of democracy in education to develop a robust and critical democratic education with over 60 researchers in 20 countries.

Senior Lecturer Joe Blatt, director of the Technology, Innovation, and Education (TIE) Program, is pleased that Dockterman's course was added to the TIE curriculum as it asks, he says, important questions such as «What does the term [adaptive learning] mean to school leaders, teachers, artificial intelligence researchers, and students?

When Bryan Mascio entered the Mind, Brain, and Education (MBE) Program, he did so with the intention of transitioning from his role as a teacher to that of an education neuroscience reEducation (MBE) Program, he did so with the intention of transitioning from his role as a teacher to that of an education neuroscience reeducation neuroscience researcher.

«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.

-LSB-...] Assuming a proposed intervention involves students doing virtually anything more cognitively challenging than passively listening to lecturing - as - usual (the typical straw man control in education research), then a researcher is very likely to find a positive difference as long as the sample size is large enough.

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.

In fact, according to a scholarly 2011 content analysis published in Education Researcher by Andrew Porter and colleagues, the Common Core math standards bear little resemblance to the national curriculum standards in countries with high - achieving math students: «Top - achieving countries for which we had content standards,» these scholars note, «put a greater emphasis on [the category] «perform procedures» than do the U.S. Common Core standards.»