Sentences with phrase «educational researcher at»

- Dr. Pedro Pedraza, educational researcher at the Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos, Hunter College, City University of New York, working in the area of K - 12 public education, with a focus on Latino students.

John Easton, current director of IES and a former educational researcher at the University of Chicago, believes the clearinghouse is particularly useful as a way for the government to vet products that school districts might feel pressured to buy.

Not exact matches

In 2011, Farrington and a team of researchers at the consortium began a comprehensive review of the literature on noncognitive capacities and the role they play in educational success.

An educator and researcher turned mother raising four children (born 2006, 2007, 2009, and 2012), she blogs at Mama Smiles about crafts, outings, and educational activities that her family enjoys.

The researchers looked at other factors, like educational attainment and household income.

Researchers are designing educational video games for use at home and in the classroom.

It can be a significant expense for societies to investigate these claims and in some cases it is unclear whether these societies have legal obligations to inform the researchers» home institutions of their findings, said Jodi Wesemann, assistant director for educational research at the American Chemical Society.

The software will be provided free for other researchers to use and will be used as an educational tool for undergraduate students at Georgia Tech.

That response drew yet another from the university and its public record custodian urging the state appellate court to either protect the competitive interests of Arizona's higher educational institutions by defending «the freedom, vigor, candor and integrity of the researchers who work there» or rule on its own that «the need to protect the confidentiality and privacy of the work done at Arizona's universities» outweighs the public's right to know.

I like to think of my work as building systems and networks to support researchers in the same ways that my many mentors helped me at all stages of my educational and professional career.

L. Penny Rosenblum, an educational researcher and professor of practice at the University of Arizona in Tucson, applauds the team's efforts.

In the study, researchers looked at 80 English - language educational materials that were designed to be printed and read by patients in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom.

The study of Syrian refugee children, presented by researchers on June 6 at BAU International University in Washington, DC, suggests that digital games can be a cost - efficient and scalable approach to meeting the educational and psychological needs of refugee children.

Andee Rubin, a mathematician and computer scientist at TERC, a nonprofit educational researcher and development company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, agrees.

By investigating the role of lived poverty at both the individual and neighborhood level in transactional sex behavior among African - American MSM, the researchers pinpointed a significant association between educational attainment and HIV risk behavior.

The researchers from King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the United States found falls in IQ start in early childhood, and suggest educational interventions could potentially delay the onset of mental illness.

«Most students have disappeared at the level of the master or Ph.D. thesis, and the ones that survived are as good as those from other educational directions,» says Emanuel Dupoux, a researcher in cognitive and brain science at the ENS.

Researchers looked at the geographical distribution of habitual dietary salt intake in Britain and its association with manual occupations and educational attainments, both indicators of socio - economic position and key determinants of health.

Two graduates of the AACR Scientist ↔ Survivor Program, a special educational experience that gives patient advocates the opportunity to attend and learn from researchers at the AACR Annual Meeting, have put together some tips to help guide advocates who are attending this or any large scientific conference.

While the talk is open to the public, all tour guests are encouraged to arrive early to enjoy an interesting and educational chat about the latest scientific discoveries at the Institute with a Salk researcher.

«At the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, neuroscientists work hand - in - hand with behavioral and educational researchers — along with clinicians, service providers, and individuals with disabilities and their families — to solve the puzzles of complex developmental disabilities,» says Elisabeth Dykens, who has directed the center since 2009.

It would also have a negative impact on the use of such resources by scientists working on other organisms — often motivated by hunches from other MODs — more casual users or those who lack significant funds, such as researchers at under - resourced institutions and those using such data repositories for educational purposes.»

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, administered either a yoga program or educational program to 23 adults at high risk for diabetes for 12 weeks.

Researchers from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Yale University found having shared political beliefs with matches increases messaging rates between 9.5 and 10.8 percent, which is nearly the same produced by shared educational levels at 10.6 percent.

Researchers studying clownfish at Moorea in French Polynesia have found hormonal changes occur in males after a partner is eaten, causing them to become To identify the factors that influence educational assortment in an online dating setting, we analyse 219,013 participant contacts by 41,936 members of the

28 - July 1 — Dropout prevention: Summer Leadership institute, sponsored by the National Dropout Prevention Center / Network, and the College of Health, Education, and Human Development at Clemson University, for teachers, administrators, counselors, educational policymakers, researchers, and business leaders concerned about at - risk youth, at the Madren Conference Center at Clemson University in Clemson, S.C. Contact: John Peters, NDPC / N, 205 Martin St., Clemson, SC 29634; [phone]; fax: [phone]; e-mail: [email protected].

As with many notions that challenge the educational status quo, this one can be traced to Paul Hill, the protean researcher at the University of Washington's Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE).

School choice programs which allow parents to select the schools their children attend deepen educational inequality and fail to yield consistent learning gains, according to nine studies of choice initiatives coordinated by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

A new effort, Project for Policy Innovation in Education (PPIE), based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is bringing together university - based researchers with district and state educational leaders to pursue policy research that will have a real impact in their communities.

This may sound «woolly» at first, but many psychological researchers have found this effect in educational context.

At the same time, observes Lagemann, Diamond will bring his own experience with large qualitative research projects to bear upon the guidance of the doctoral student researchers being trained at HGSE, and he will be an important complement to many of our existing faculty with his research on educational equitAt the same time, observes Lagemann, Diamond will bring his own experience with large qualitative research projects to bear upon the guidance of the doctoral student researchers being trained at HGSE, and he will be an important complement to many of our existing faculty with his research on educational equitat HGSE, and he will be an important complement to many of our existing faculty with his research on educational equity.

The idea that the education system, and the nation, ought to embrace many different pedagogical approaches may seem to undermine this aspiration, since this effort has rested, at least in part, on the assertion that educators and educational researchers possess a scientific knowledge base and expertise that distinguishes them from laypersons.

Researchers at The Civil Rights Project recommend the following policy actions in order to curb racial and ethnic polarization and educational inequalities:

Researchers and policymakers must carefully balance the need for data - driven evidence with the reality that educational choice is, at its core, an issue of parental empowerment.

This year's new cohort consists of principals, researchers at major educational research organizations and centers, teachers who have been highly effective in the classrooms, an executive director for a region of Teach for America, policymakers from ministries of education, a founder of a volunteer organization working on programs for homeless youths, an education fellow on the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, leaders of professional development programs for teachers, a director of development for a private school, and individuals who bring years of experience in the corporate sector and are now turning their energies to the education sector.

Fryer, the Henry Lee Professor in the Department of Economics, is a bold researcher who has focused his work on race and education, testing theories and evaluating policies aimed at expanding educational opportunity and improving outcomes for disadvantaged students.

Washington — Proposals by President Bush and others to create a national testing system are unlikely to improve schools and could set back reforms already under way, educational researchers cautioned at a meeting here last week.

86, and his wife, Lynley Hicks Anderman, who teach at The Ohio State University, are researchers who've studied and published in the area of educational motivation for 20 years.

Diversity Challenged, edited by noted researcher Gary Orfield, forecasts that affirmative action's legal and political future may turn on a single question — whether or not the educational value of diversity is sufficiently compelling to justify consideration of race as a factor in admissions decisions at colleges and universities.

Although the changes were intended to hold school officials accountable for the educational experiences of disadvantaged children, Congress left intact a short clause in the main K - 12 education law that, in practice, has failed to ensure that money from the federal Title I program only supplements state and local money, researchers and advocates said at a conference here last week.

I was also a researcher for STEM digital libraries and other educational technology programs at UC Berkeley.

Researchers from the Urban Institute have released a study looking at how long it takes students to travel from home to school in five different cities where families have a significant amount of educational choice.

Courtney Hall: Courtney Hall is an educational consultant and a researcher at the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard.

In all, for - profit educational management companies run 79 online schools around the country, according to the study by researchers at Western Michigan University.

The literature that describes proficiency - based education systems includes the work of Dr. John Hattie, professor and director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute at the University of Melbourne, Australia and Dr. Michael Fullan, Canadian educational researcher and former dean of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

As researchers at a school of education, says James, the findings «speak to the need for educational supports to help youth navigate backlash or the risk of unwanted consequences, rather than simply silencing their voices online.»

At the same time, however, others, primarily educational researchers, argue that the research on matching learning styles to teaching styles has produced inconclusive and contradictory results.

By contrast, researchers have devoted considerable attention to studying racial disparities in educational opportunities and outcomes — and there is compelling evidence that when students have a teacher of the same race, they tend to learn more at school (see «The Race Connection,» research, Spring 2004).

And for the students who identify with targeted groups, it can be «dehumanizing not to have their experiences addressed in schools and by their teachers who they spend so much time with,» says former teacher and school administrator Aaliyah El - Amin, now a lecturer and researcher on educational justice at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

In addition, researchers looked at the initiatives» potential to meet their shared goal of reducing educational inequity.