Sentences with phrase «education researchers on»

SAN FRANCISCO — Secretary of Education Arne Duncan acknowledged serious flaws in the standardized tests that currently drive American schools, telling an audience of education researchers on Tuesday that the tests are an inadequate gauge of student and teacher performance.

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Canada also receives «D» s on patents and researchers engaged in R&D (including researchers employed in businesses, higher education and government).

The methods were based on a 2015 study conducted by researchers at Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce.

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 the early days of the federal War on Poverty in the 1960s, researchers provided three - and four - year - olds from impoverished Ypsilanti, Michigan, with enriched preschooling, and then compared their life trajectories over several decades with those of Ypsilanti peers who had not received any early childhood education.

The researchers say this high incidence indicates the need for better parental education on how to prevent the condition, especially before the 2 - month well baby check - up.

NHERI executes, evaluates, and disseminates studies and information (e.g., statistics, facts, data) on homeschooling (i.e., home schooling, home - based education, home education, home school, home - schooling, unschooling, deschooling, a form of alternative education), publishes reports and the peer - reviewed scholarly journal Home School Researcher, and serves in consulting, academic achievement tests, and expert witness (in courts and legislatures).

When the researchers accounted for a number of variables — like mothers» weight and education, family income and race — bottle - feeding itself was still linked to lesser self - regulation later on in infancy.

The strength of the association varied depending on the child's weight, time spent at school, the mother's education and the time of day and week, according to the researchers.

The researchers also looked at the effect of other variables on chronic pain including surgical technique, pain in the first 24 - 72 hours, maternal education and occupation, and anxiety during breastfeeding.

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Terry is a researcher, course instructor, director at Forefront, a non-profit focused on innovative solutions to sustainability in underdeveloped countries, and a Ph.D. student studying historical approaches to understanding the racial inequalities in education in the U.S. I am an education policy consultant, writer, and co-founder of Guardians of Our Sons, a Philadelphia based non-profit for boys of color.

«In new figures released today, IFS researchers estimate that total public spending on education in the UK will fall by over 13 % in real terms between 2010/11 and 2014/15,» the IFS said of their findings.

The British Humanist Association has commented on a YouGov poll commissioned by Oxford University's Department of Education to accompany its announcement of a new national intervention project by Oxford researchers to «support teachers tackling the subject of Christianity in schools».

But, as study co-author Schaffer, quoted by Basken, observes, «there is no evidence that there is a shortage of young, well - trained biomedical researchers to take their place on faculties in schools of higher education or as principal investigators on NIH research grants.»

The proposals include creating a single research and higher education ministry, an independent higher science council to advise the government on strategy, a new body to evaluate all researchers, a long - term jobs plan for public agency researchers, and more crossover between the two groups.

There is a body of evidence showing the benefits of synchronizing education times with teens» body clocks; interestingly, while «studies of later start times have consistently reported benefits to adolescent sleep health and learning, there [is no evidence] showing early starts have a positive impact on such things», add the researchers.

Ann Childs, a lecturer in science education at the University of Oxford, says that the main reason most researchers want to retrain as teachers is that they «want to impart their enthusiasm for science on young people.»

New research, the result of a long - standing collaboration among researchers from Northwestern University, the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin, the American Indian Center of Chicago Education Department and the University of Washington, sheds light on this topic.

«In participating schools, ADAP is delivered as part of the standard health education curriculum, which facilitates its sustainability,» says Holly Wilcox, Ph.D., M.A., associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the researcher who oversaw the study on the effectiveness of the ADAP curriculum.

The economic recession seems to be having a mixed effect on the market for mathematics - education researchers.

The researchers suggest that better education of the public, and insurance plan designs that ask patients to pay part of the cost based on the likely value of the scan for them, may be needed to reduce unnecessary use and spending.

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.

This information might assist clinicians in choosing clinical treatment, and help researchers develop effective strategies for coping with the negative effects of weather - related effects on cognition that impact independence, education, employment and activities of daily living.»

As the German minister for education and research, Edelgard Bulmahn, argued in a previous Next Wave article, the major objective of the 12 - year qualification limit was to finally call a halt to the insecurity that results from the ongoing employment of young researchers on temporary contracts.

The known risk factors the researchers focused on included depression, lower education levels, physical inactivity, high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity and smoking.

Researchers have long studied and documented the influence religion has on social groups; however, few have examined the role it plays in education.

Then, the researchers collected data on how well each individual scored on the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) exam, an exam that all students in the United Kingdom must take and which is used for admission to advanced classes or colleges.

Bell, a faculty member with the School of Education, is the lead author on the report, which is co-authored by Department of Kinesiology Ph.D. students Eric Post and Stephanie Trigsted; Scott Hetzel, an associate researcher with the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics; Timothy McGuine, a senior scientist and research coordinator with the UW Health Sports Medicine Center; and Alison Brooks, a medical doctor with the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.

Researchers said the findings point to a need for education on the risks of «simultaneous use» of alcohol and marijuana.

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.

When the researchers controlled for the influence of about 50 environmental factors, such as smoking and education, they found that selection acted on these traits and, for example, led women with lower cholesterol to have more children, although the reasons are unknown.

At Missouri S&T, McMillin and other researchers are working to improve cyber security with an emphasis on safeguarding the nation's infrastructure while educating students in this field through its National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education.

To measure a state's investment behavior, the researchers used state statistics for spending on state parks, pre-kindergarten education, highways and per - pupil education.

Gabrielsen, an assistant professor in BYU's Counseling Psychology & Special Education department, and Miller, who is now at the Center for Autism Research at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, worked on the study with four other researchers.

Researchers found that children who participated in the nutrition - education program were about 39 percent more likely to drink or use low - fat / fat - free milk on their cereal than children who were not exposed to the program.

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.

Researchers from NYU Langone's Department of Population Health will evaluate these services so that the NYC Department of Education and other urban school districts can continue to improve on efforts to provide high - quality family - centered educational experiences to all children.

A blue - ribbon panel has recommended creating a secure, digital portal for researchers to study the impact of U.S. government spending on health care, education, housing, labor markets, and other sectors of the economy.

The option was also more popular among researchers from less prestigious institutes, based on their 2016 Times Higher Education rankings.

To determine the best management practices for cattle transport, researchers focused on issues facing the supply chain, previous research, expectations for transport, and current methods of education and training for cattle transporters and managers.

After accounting for numerous other factors such as income, education and political ideology, the researchers found that for each one point increase (on a scale from one to five) in symbolic racism there was a 50 percent increase in the odds of having a gun in the home and a 28 percent increase in support for policies allowing people to carry concealed guns.

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.

PARIS — The French government has agreed to two key demands of its protesting researchers: nixing proposed job cuts and giving individual scientists the final say in how much time they spend on education.

The Sandra K. Abell Institute for Doctoral Students gave the Ph.D. students access to eight established researchers on science education.

According to the researchers, who report their findings in a recent issue of Management Science, business support organizations offer recommendations and programs, including energy audits and pollution prevention education, on how to improve efficiency and increase environmental compliance.

But officials at the so - called mission agencies — labor, justice, treasury, education, health, housing, and so on — have historically paid relatively little attention to how researchers outside the government might be able to use their data.

Without consensus on how, and when, to teach science, cognitive psychologists and education researchers differ regarding what aspects of the research are most important.

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.

Prof. Ilana Ritov of Hebrew University's School of Education and The Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality was also a researcher on this study.