Sentences with phrase «further educational studies»

«More than half of the graduating JROTC seniors pursue further educational studies.

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Accordingly, the educational system makes far greater provision than ever before for scientific and technical studies.

While the study found that high schools in the state were meeting the law's minimum guidelines - likely left purposefully vague as a necessary legislative compromise for an unfunded mandate - Chrisman and her co-authors thus expressed the hope that further revisions of the law would beef up the educational requirements for athletes and parents.

Further study is required to assess the impact of a strong, focused, educational program on improving breastfeeding rates.

Most studies so far have found that educational achievement is influenced by a combination of thousands of genes.

This study raises the question of how far it is possible for educational policies alone to promote greater social mobility.

In addition to the benefit to educational opportunities, investments in herbaria result in increased potential for further retrospective studies.

Here, we present a large (n = 107,207) genome - wide association study (GWAS) of general cognitive ability («g»), further enhanced by combining results with a large - scale GWAS of educational attainment.

It is widely hoped that the Institute's study, along with further research by SRI, will prove conclusively that cognitive skills are significantly improved by playing educational video games.

Fortunately, the national curriculum programmes of study provide us with numerous opportunities for learning in our school grounds, local community and further afield during educational visits and residentials.

He further adds, «Given his vast experience in the field of global education and his current research on a cross-national project to study K - 12 educational programs that support the development of 21st century skills in Chile, China, India, Mexico, Singapore and the United States, we are certain that his visit to Singapore will bring along with it deep and valuable insights to the Singapore education fraternity.

A task force studying educational improvement in Nebraska has called for a long list of reforms, including a new school - finance formula, far more state aid for schools, higher pay and longer contracts for teachers, a master - teacher program, and the establishment of statewide high - school graduation requirements.

Kamras» experiences as a teacher in D.C. - where over 90 percent of his students live in poverty - have further shaped his interest in educational inequities, which he studied at HGSE.

Naturally, we wanted to maintain our core educational philosophy, which for a Steiner school includes providing a comprehensive, general humanist education, which aims to educate students for life beyond employment and further study.

The studies should be at the center of any discussion of educational reform, because they offer by far the clearest evidence about which parts of it are working and which are not.

Middle - class students are lagging far behind their peers in other countries, adding a new perspective to beliefs that low - income students are most in need of better educational opportunities, according to a new study.

The dominant theme of this book (and much of her work) is educational equity and how to advance it, but these pages range far and wide, across state case studies, international comparisons, and quite a lot of research.

That document and the N.C.L.R. study both show that Hispanics currently lag far behind whites in both educational attainment and income, and that Hispanic children are especially affected by social disparities.

This is also regardless of the fact that the federal government's «What Works Clearinghouse» - also positioned in this NPR interview by Kane as the closest entity we have so far to an educational FDA — noted grave concerns about this study at the same time (as have others since; see, for example, here, here, here, and here).

Furthermore, in so far as a study of children will help, it is far wiser to prevent problems from becoming acute than to introduce clinical aid and other external correctives into the educational program after the problem child has become a truant or delinquent.

Whether it's so their kids can do homework, play educational games or work with classmates on school projects, many low - income parents are motivated to purchase technology to further their children's learning, according to a study released today by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop.

These studies provide further evidence that education can not be postponed until children reach school - age; rather, nurturing early educational environments employing research - based practices provide a critical foundation for children's later achievement.

Seeking to further understand how technology can be used in social studies classrooms, this paper examines the ways in which a skilled high social studies teacher used educational technology as a tool for multicultural democratic education.

Three studies have examined these effects so far and found positive effects on educational attainment for at least one subgroup of students.

The K — 12 curriculum should be globalized, with opportunities for high school students to study abroad, and existing international educational activities and opportunities need to be further publicized, including study - abroad offerings for underrepresented fields, especially STEM.

Many are under financial, social and educational pressures that might preclude further study in art.

Founded in 1979, The Melvin M. Belli Society was established for the purpose of furthering the study of lawby charitable and educational means through funding scholarly research and lectures, gifts, endowments and teaching.

These studies culminated in the establishment of a nine - month program to test the tentative format and to further develop educational philosophy, curriculum, and modus operandi.

This old study notwithstanding, the far and away most powerful predictors of child educational attainment have been established by the research; they are the mother's education and household economic well - being (married or not.)

A study of Norwegians born between 1912 and 1975 found that educational achievement was highest in first - borns and diminished the further down the birth order you got, despite little difference in IQ.