Sentences with phrase «educational experiment for»

In its days it was a unique educational experiment for artists, designers, scientists and writers who conducted it, and as such an important incubator for the creative avant - garde.

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NASA had use of the satellite for scientific experiments while India was gearing up its educational network.

-LSB-...] with children provides vital stimulation and educational opportunities for children, and these fun science experiments for Halloween are just perfect for inquiring minds.

If your children want to experiment with baking or desserts, try to keep one afternoon each week for doing so and think of it as an educational experience if you don't happen to enjoy baking for its own sake.

For the experiment, students in an MSU introductory - level educational psychology course, which is required of all teacher education students, were randomly assigned to receive either the peer rationale, the instructor rationale or no rationale for why the course was important and beneficial to their potential careers as teacheFor the experiment, students in an MSU introductory - level educational psychology course, which is required of all teacher education students, were randomly assigned to receive either the peer rationale, the instructor rationale or no rationale for why the course was important and beneficial to their potential careers as teachefor why the course was important and beneficial to their potential careers as teachers.

The independent New Roads School in Santa Monica is a fitting location for this educational experiment.

Academic journals ranging from educational research, psychology, language learning, psycholinguistics and so on cite experiments which demonstrate how detrimental pictures are for beginner readers.

Mobile apps have proved to be valuable educational tools, but laboratory instructors thus far have been limited to using mobile devices only for virtual laboratories with simulated experiments.

In it, he calls Head Start «the most important social and educational experiment of the second half of the 20th century» — and offers the following controversial proposal for extending its benefits beyond early education:

It will be difficult to persuade the current community of educational evaluators to begin doing randomized experiments solely by informing them of the advantages of this technique, by providing them with lists of successfully completed experiments, by telling them about new methods for implementing randomization, by exposing them to critiques of the alternative methods they prefer, and by having prestigious persons and institutions outside of education recommend that experiments be done.

The interviews conducted in Baltimore shed light on the explanations for why the MTO experiment didn't lead to better schools and educational achievement.

To examine how the heated rhetoric now attached to Common Core influences opinion, the2015 Louisiana Survey, an annual survey of the state's adult residents sponsored by Louisiana State University's Reilly Center for Media and Public Affairs, used an experiment featuring two versions of a question assessing support for common educational standards.

«Conclusive evidence has shown the benefits of class sizes of 1:15, especially in the primary grades,» says Charles M. Achilles, a professor of educational administration at Eastern Michigan University, in Small Classes, Big Possibilities, an article he penned for The School Administrator: «Since the early, 1980s, a large - scale project in Indiana, a major experiment in Tennessee, numerous smaller studies and evaluations of projects that use low adult - to - student ratios have found that youngsters in small classes (1:15 or so) as compared to youngsters in larger classes

The first activity, in late August, worked to help parents see that the «dreaded» science fair experiment could be fun and educational for parent and child.

What's needed are experiments with different types of vouchers plans are needed, regulated in a variety of ways but focused on enhancing educational access and opportunities for low - income groups.

If these schools were funded and staffed appropriately, there would be no need for charter, voucher, privatization or other «educational experiments.»

While those help to mitigate the rigged market problem that exists in our state, only vouchers may prove sufficient for those of us who are aware of the limitations of the Common Core and who want to experiment, with our own (rather than someone else's) children and their like - minded friends, with educational models based on curricula already proved to have worked in helping students prepare for the world's finest universities.

And with no overarching plan for that coming from the district, UCLA has stepped in with its own experiment: «a laboratory where we are learning and sharing solutions to 21st - century educational challenges,» UCLA's Graduate School of Education and Information Studies Dean Marcelo Suárez - Orozco said.

But in either case, public school officials who seek to safeguard their educational (and vocational) turf aren't going to end the experiment any sooner by stonewalling legitimate requests for information.

ALEC bills also allow schools to loosen standards for teachers and administrators, exclude students with physical disabilities and special educational needs, eschew collective bargaining, and experiment with other pet causes like merit pay, single - sex education, school uniforms, and political and religious indoctrination of students.

Although induction and mentoring generally occur within the confines of a school, there are a number of educational organizations and professional associations experimenting with online technologies as a medium for support and guidance.

Sweden, where the free schools experiment originated in the early 1990s, has slipped dramatically down the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) rankings and there is clear evidence that free schools have increased educational and social segregation.

Charter schools were meant to be laboratories for educational innovation — a place to develop experiments that could be incorporated into the public school system — and not a replacement for inclusive, high - quality public education.

Penguin Books has launched a cloud reader for its resurrected Pelican educational imprint — to experiment with delivering e-books in the browser.

K - 12 schools are starting to experiment with using e-readers for textbooks and for other educational needs.

Basically, this bill attempts to limit pound seizure which is the policy of providing shelter animals for research, experiments, testing, or «educational purposes».

In 2012, Eliasson relocated his Institut für Raumexperimente (Institute for Spatial Experiments), an experimental platform for arts education (2009 — 14) affiliated with the Berlin University of the Arts, to Addis Ababa for an intense programme of artistic exchange and educational collaboration.

The four main goals are to: (1) develop a 13 - acre block in the center of the city as a «Green Arts District» beyond the LEED Platinum level for neighborhood development and use that development to catalyze a prosperous city - wide economy; (2) develop a post-carbon energy system for both the city and the College based on efficiency and renewable energy; (3) develop a 20,000 acre greenbelt around the city to revive local agriculture and forestry; and (4) create the most exciting educational experiment in the U.S. by using the entire effort as an educational laboratory for all students in the Oberlin area.

The first step has to lead you somewhere Other big first steps we heard about at The Do Lectures included Alice Taylor's wildly successful experiment to create educational computer games for kids at Channel 4, which had previously only ever made TV programs.

• Hands - on experience in setting up and calibrating laboratory equipment for educational and experimental purposes • Track record of promoting safety within the lab by ensuring that all safety precautions are taken and that chances of accidents and fires are reduced • Focused on ascertaining that students are aware of laboratory procedures such as specimen handling and dedicated experiments as part of their educational programs

I am responsible for creatively introducing children to new ways of problem solving through educational games and experiments, I am responsible for all tuitions paid, record keeping of that tuition and handling of all monies distributed to me until I could deliver to my supervisor.