Sentences with phrase «high school studies over»

For instance, when researchers tracked American middle and high school studies over 18 months, they found that kids who identified their parents as more authoritarian were more likely to reject their parents as legitimate authority figures.

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High school students all over America study Shakespeare plays.

over the last seven months coaches from high school to Division I have studied the spread - option offense that carried Utah to a 12 — 0 season, helped Smith become the No. 1 pick in the 2005 NFL draft and landed Utes coach Urban Meyer, who first conceived the offense four years ago while he was Bowling Green's coach, a seven - year, $ 14 million deal from Florida.

The latest study published in June 2012, showed that high school students in the United States had significant progress over the past two decades in improving many youth risk behaviors associated with the leading cause of death in their age group, car crashes.

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

As with magnitude, the impact frequency reported in the current study fell between those of 6 - to 9 - year - olds and high school athletes, with the average player experiencing 240 impacts over the course of a season compared to 107 impacts per season for 6 - to 9 - year - old players, and 565 for high school players.

Limiting contact practices in football to one session per week, or eliminating contact practices altogether, for example, would, according to a 2013 study [10] by researchers at the University of Michigan, result in an 18 % to 40 % reduction in head impacts respectively over the course of a high school football season.

A national study of concussions reported by high school athletes shows a dramatic increase over the last few years.

McCluskey said Spanish was chosen because students at Glenbard West High School in Glen Ellyn choose to study Spanish over other languages offered.

Over 2,000 NYC Students Visit Computer Science Fair at The Armory The NYC Computer Science Opportunity Fair is New York City's largest annual college and career inspiration event for public high school students studying computer science.

That's the conclusion of a new study that logged the neural activity of 12 high school students and their teacher with electroencephalography (EEG) headsets over 11 classes.

«Skipping breakfast may lead to one or more risk factors, including obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes, which may in turn lead to a heart attack over time,» said Leah E. Cahill, Ph.D., study lead author and Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Mass..

It will bring together talented high - school students from all over the Commonwealth to study advanced math and science year - round for college credit.

Online charter school enrollment grew around 60 percent during the period studied, from approximately 22,000 students in 2010 to over 35,000 students in 2013, with high schools making up the majority of online charter enrollment.

«In our study, it did not matter whether their sodium levels were high at the beginning of the study or if they were low to begin with, then gradually increased over the years — both groups were at greater risk of developing high blood pressure,» said Tomonori Sugiura, M.D., Ph.D. the study's lead author and an assistant professor in the Department of Cardio - Renal Medicine and Hypertension at the Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences in, Nagoya, Japan.

A new study by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that death rates among people over 65 are higher in zip codes with more fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) than in those with lower levels of PM2.5.

The results of the study by Marc Baguelin and colleagues from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the UK, Public Health England, and Athens University of Economics and Business, show that the current flu vaccination policy that targets people aged 65 years and over and also those in high risk groups has reduced the number of flu infections and associated deaths in these groups over the past 14 years.

It provides a general high - throughput approach to identify genes that enhance the fitness of microbes over time as they grow in complex living organisms,» says Georg Gerber, one of the lead authors on the study, and Assistant Professor at Brigham and Women's Hospital at Harvard Medical School.

«We were struck by how severe [harassment] was for some of these kids who were getting highly victimized over their four years of high school,» said study author Brian Mustanski in a news release.

Unfortunately, this led to some sleepless nights in high school and college as I stayed up all night studying or making sure a report was perfect, but over time, I've learned to harness my perfectionism and love of systems to actually save time rather than take time.

In this Harvard Medical School / Brigham and Women's Hospital study, which collected data on over 74,000 female nurses aged 38 - 63 years over a 12 year period, weight gain was inversely associated with the intake of high - fiber, whole - grain foods, such as whole wheat, but positively related to the intake of refined - grain foods, such as products made from refined wheat.

And a second study, involving more than 1,200 high school athletes, found no differences in self - reported quality of life over two years of follow - up, regardless of whether or not they'd had a concussion.

In the second study, Allison Schwarz, also an athletic trainer at the University of Wisconsin, sought to assess whether high school athletes who'd suffered a concussion were at any higher risk for depression over the longer term.

Evaluating data from the 40 - year follow - up to the High / Scope Perry Preschool Program Study, Belfield and his colleagues show how preschool participation by low income children relates to significant economic benefits both to the children by the time they are in their 40s and to society more generally (Belfield et al. 2006).1 Summarizing over 160 studies conducted from 1960 through 2000, Camilli et al. found that preschool had a range of shorter and longer term positive relationships to cognitive gains, progression through school, and social - emotional development (Camilli et al. 2010).

The Big Picture Over the last year, Making Caring Common (MCC) set out to investigate gender bias in young people, conducting a large study of roughly 19,800 middle and high school students from a diverse...

Despite a significant rise in government spending on school and higher education over the past decade, spending on Vocational Education and Training (VET) has declined comparatively, a new study shows.

In a recent session of Christopher Benson's AP U.S. History class at Marble Hill High School for International Studies, a public school in the Bronx set high above the Harlem River, students reviewed for an upcoming test by going over sample AP questiHigh School for International Studies, a public school in the Bronx set high above the Harlem River, students reviewed for an upcoming test by going over sample AP quesSchool for International Studies, a public school in the Bronx set high above the Harlem River, students reviewed for an upcoming test by going over sample AP quesschool in the Bronx set high above the Harlem River, students reviewed for an upcoming test by going over sample AP questihigh above the Harlem River, students reviewed for an upcoming test by going over sample AP questions.

Among male high school students at high risk of criminal activity, winning admission to a first - choice school reduced felony arrests from 77 to 43 per 100 students over the study period (2002 - 2009).

CAMBRIDGE, MA — Studies of two middle - school programs for high - achieving students — known as gifted and talented (G&T) programs — show that being placed in programs with academically strong peers does not boost students» achievement over and above what is learned in a regular classroom from the start of 6th grade to mid-way through 7th grade.

The Institute of Fiscal Studies estimates that schools in the UK will face up to 12 per cent real term cuts over the next Parliament while forecasts suggest pupil numbers will increase by seven per cent, a result of rising immigration and higher birth rates over the next five years.

Over the years, a number of studies (from Minnesota, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Texas) have documented dismal outcomes in virtual schools, including low course - completion rates and higher - than - average school dropout rates.

Our study will not end the debate over test - based promotion, but we do hope it will prompt policymakers to take the next step: identifying and implementing changes in high schools that will help translate students» better preparation into better results.

These higher rates of educational attainment due to the Milwaukee voucher program represent improvements of 15 — 20 percent over the rates obtained by the comparison group of public - school students — nearly as large as those for the African American students in the New York City study.

Over the last two years, Pennsylvania's Classrooms for the Future program has put 100,000 laptops on student desks in high school English, math, science, and social studies classrooms.

For dropouts, the economic picture is even bleaker: According to Northeastern University's Center for Labor Market Studies, over a working lifetime from ages 18 to 64, high school dropouts are estimated to earn about $ 400,000 less than those with diplomas.

Studies conducted over the past several years have repeatedly demonstrated that far fewer American students are completing high school with diplomas than had previously been realized.

Over the past few years, as higher stakes have been attached to the tests, we have seen schools devote more time to test prep, leaving less time and fewer resources for instruction in music, the arts, social studies and physical education.

But what I kept thinking about while reading wasn't rowing, but the high - performing schools that serve disadvantaged students that I've studied over the years.

The study, released Wednesday by Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes, which has conducted extensive research on charters across the nation, also concludes that significant improvements in charter school performance over time is rare among middle and high schools, though it occurs more often in elementary schools.

The study also relates the index to changes in student retention in the 9th grade and to changes in high school completion rates over the same period.

Knapp (1995) studied 140 grade 1 - 6 classrooms in 15 high - poverty schools in California, Maryland, and Ohio over a two - year period.

From the 40 schools included in the first round of site visits, we selected the four with the highest principal - turnover rates as case study schools, based on the principal survey question about the number of principals that those 40 schools had had over the past 10 years.

Ronald Tabano has over 40 years experience in education beginning his work as a 6th grade teacher, moving to teaching social studies and ELA at the middle and high school levels, eventually becoming an Assistant Principal.

The study found that students from particular demographics were even less likely to use a voucher: just over half (51 percent) of high school students awarded a voucher used it the next year, and only 63 % of students from «schools in need of improvement» (the target students for the program) who recieved a voucher used it the next year.

«What we've been trying to do in these studies is, firstly, to show that even among very high performing students, sleep restriction to five hours in bed over multiple nights - simulating a school week - can degrade performance.

A 2011 study of the effects of teacher turnover on the performance over five years of more than 600,000 fourth - and fifth - graders in New York City found that students who experienced higher teacher turnover scored lower in math and English on standardized tests — and this was «particularly strong in schools with more low - performing and black students.»

Rhone said her second - grader once went without homework for several weeks, while her high - school son coasted after a sub took over his social studies class.

One of the studies cited indicates «that even though family communication and engagement is often strong in the early years, it tends to decline over time so that by the time students are in high school, family engagement has often fallen off tremendously.»

This ranking was generated by combining school funding and spending capacity, adjusts for inflation over the 10 years of the study; then uses a formula to «equalize» districts based on high needs student rates (as defined in Vincent v. Voigt).

Westinghouse's performance was not captured in the new federal analysis; none of the SIG schools in Pennsylvania are part of the study because the state high school exams changed in 2013, making it impossible to compare test scores over time.