Sentences with phrase «largest education studies»

Not exact matches

The study targeted HR professionals working at medium to large global enterprises (minimum 100 employees) across different industry sectors (excluding education).

Financial aid encompasses grants, scholarships, low - interest loans, or work - study arrangements.The Four Primary Sources of Financial AidThe U.S. Federal GovernmentNot surprisingly, the federal government is the largest sponsor of education in the country.

Boston, MA — June 11, 2013 — Millennial Branding, a Gen Y research and consulting firm and Internships.com, the world's largest internship marketplace, today announced a new study called «The Future of Education.»

That a congregation is constituted by enacting a more broadly and ecumenically practiced worship that generates a distinctive social space implies study of what that space is and how it is formed: What are the varieties of the shape and content of the common lives of Christian congregations now, cross-culturally and globally (synchronic inquiry); how do congregations characteristically define who they are and what their larger social and natural contexts are; how do they characteristically define what they ought to be doing as congregations; how have they defined who they are and what they ought to do historically (diachronic study); how is the social form of their common life nurtured and corrected in liturgy, pastoral caring, preaching, education, maintenance of property, service to neighbors; what is the role of scripture in all this, the role of traditions of theology, and the role of traditions of worship?

Almost thirty years had passed since the last major, comprehensive, and theologically self - conscious study of Protestant theological education.1 It is also remarkable, indeed unprecedented, that such a sustained debate emerged, not in response to one large study of theological education, but as a conversation among several quite different theological points of view.

The technical emphasis in recent theological education has given us better pedagogies, opened up the larger society as a field for ministry, redistributed authority and power in the schools, and added new and important areas of study.

The «Berlin» type of excellent theological education, which 1 comprises the two distinct enterprises of Wissenschaft and «professional» education for ministry, came to dominate Protestant theological education in North America by the middle of the twentieth century, in large part in the wake of a series of major studies of theological education that were widely read and sometimes led to significant reforms.

A study released by the Department of Education in 2009 stated that blended learning — which mixes traditional classroom teaching with virtual instruction — «had a larger advantage relative to purely face - to - face instruction or instruction conducted wholly online.»

Large - scale studies reveal a number of social disadvantages in young fathers» families, such as low levels of parental education, large family size, not being raised by both birth parents and financial hardLarge - scale studies reveal a number of social disadvantages in young fathers» families, such as low levels of parental education, large family size, not being raised by both birth parents and financial hardlarge family size, not being raised by both birth parents and financial hardship.

(As I point out in the book, a recent study by the National Center for Education Research found that none of the many large - scale character - education programs in use in American schools produces any significant positive oEducation Research found that none of the many large - scale character - education programs in use in American schools produces any significant positive oeducation programs in use in American schools produces any significant positive outcomes.)

Participating children had higher rates of high - school completion, lower rates of grade retention and special education placement, and a lower rate of juvenile arrests.32 Another example showing more intensive programming has larger impacts is the Healthy Steps evaluation showing significantly better child language outcomes when the program was initiated prenatally through 24 months.33 These studies suggest that a more intensive intervention involving the child directly may be required for larger effects to be seen.

The Higher Education Statistics Agency warned of the largest ever reduction in people applying to study in the UK.

Initiatives by successive governments to provide better access to higher education for young people from less - privileged backgrounds have failed according to Understanding Society, the world's largest longitudinal study.

The election in 2015 is shaping up to be a desperate scramble for cash to fund public spending after the Institute for Fiscal Studies warned that the next government would need to impose large tax rises or even bigger welfare cuts to protect health and education spending.

Largest study to date of publicly funded early education program shows a major, sustained educational boost

«We've got a large new national study showing a threefold increase [in children's learning disabilities and special education].

The study, published in today's edition of CBE - Life Sciences Education, is the largest and most carefully controlled analysis to date of how participating in course - based undergraduate research experiences affects students» outcomes.

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.

Dr. McCrea and his team are also co-chairing the Concussion Assessment, Research and Education Consortium (CARE) project, a major national effort that will enroll more than 30,000 college athletes, making it the largest study of concussions to date.

AERA is the largest interdisciplinary research association in the United States devoted to the scientific study of education and learning.

So if, as our research suggests, dog intelligence is structured similarly to ours, studying a species that doesn't smoke, drink, use recreational drugs and does not have large differences in education and income, may help us understand this link between intelligence and health better.

The UI study, which was the largest of its kind in the world to date, recruited and assessed 95 pathological gamblers and 91 control subjects, matched for age, sex, and level of education, from Iowa, as well as 1,075 first - degree adult relatives of the study participants (first - degree relatives include parents, siblings, and children.)

«While many state - funded preschool programs in the U.S. do not begin until age three or later, this study provides some of the first large - scale evidence that public early education for children as young as age one can be critical for children's language skills,» said Dearing.

He turned to the California Wellness Foundation, a large private charity based in Los Angeles that focuses on health care and health education, and the foundation provided the funds to complete his study.

The new study shows the results of widespread adoption of salpingectomy in a large, integrated health care system following the development and implementation of a systemwide education program on the procedure.

Of the three alternative certification pathways studied, teachers who enter through the path requiring no coursework in education have the greatest effect on student achievement, substantially larger than that of traditionally prepared teachers.

Those findings are from the largest and most comprehensive analysis ever published of studies comparing lecturing to active learning in undergraduate education, said Scott Freeman, a University of Washington principal lecturer in biology.

Investigators looked at data from a large, nationally representative sample of preschool - aged children — the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study - Birth Cohort, conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics.

Lead author, Dominic Thorrington from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: «Our study found that measles infection causes people to miss a large number of days at school or work, which has wider implications for education and the economy.

Published March 29 in the journal Science, the largest - ever observational study of undergraduate STEM education monitored nearly 550 faculty as they taught more than 700 courses at 25 institutions across the United States and Canada.

The study was able to adjust for a large number of potential confounding factors, including education, lifestyle (smoking, alcohol, physical activity), dietary factors, and BMI.

The large - scale study focused on the following criteria: education level, how important education level of partner is, and how important it was to find someone with similar family plans.

Last month, researchers convened in Washington, D.C., to find out what we can learn from large - scale education studies that show no impacts.

Over the last few years as education researchers at University of Michigan and Michigan State University, we have worked to address this question through a large study of the effects of PBL on social studies and some aspects of literacy achievement in second - grade classrooms.

In 2010, ANet won a competitive $ 5 million Investing in Innovation (i3) grant from the U.S. Department of Education, which it is using, in part, to fund a large randomized study of its impact.

However, evidence presented in the report sheds doubt these large test score increases: according to an Education Writers Association study, when neighborhood schools were restored, the superintendent in Oklahoma City reduced the number of low - achievers taking the standardized tests by increasing the number of students retained (or «flunked») and implementing transition grades (in which students repeat all or part of the previous grade).

These interventions present an unusual opportunity to study the long - term effects of large state investments in universal preschool education.

A large - scale study by the NEA and Johns Hopkins University that examined school staff's perspectives on bullying and bullying prevention somewhat refutes that hypothesis, finding 98 percent of participants (all teachers and education support professionals) thought it was «their job» to intervene when they witnessed bullying.

The $ 6 billion funding for the federal Reading First program has helped more students «crack the code» to identify letters and words, but it has not had an impact on reading comprehension among 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders in participating schools, according to one of the largest and most rigorous studies ever undertaken by the U.S. Department of Education.

These charges seemed odd, given that the best studies available on the subject — from Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO)-- show that Michigan charter students make large academic gains relative to similar students at district schools, particularly in Detroit.

In a 2001 report [download PDF (212 KB)-RSB- prepared for the Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy, authors Suzanne M. Wilson, Linda Darling - Hammond, and Barnett Berry credit the Education Enhancement Act for Connecticut's «large, steady gains in student achievement and plentiful supply of well - qualified teachers.»

CAMBRIDGE, MA — A study showing the large impacts that highly skilled teachers have on students» academic achievement and lifetime earnings is available on the Education Next website, www.educationnext.org.

The study, «In Defense of Snow Days: Students who stay home when school is in session are a much larger problem,» appears in the Summer 2015 issue of Education Next.

These are among the findings of five former education - school deans who have spent several months studying the fiscal well - being of many of the nation's largest education schools — those housed in the state, land - grant, and major private universities.

The 2,308 students in the OSP study make it the largest school voucher evaluation in the U.S., making the achievement results even more compelling when compared to results from other, similar experimental evaluations of education policies undertaken by the federal government.

The study, carried out by researchers Alice Bradbury and Guy Roberts - Holmes from UCL Institute of Education, University College London, involved more than 1,400 teachers and leaders who took part in focus groups, interviews, and a large - scale survey.

In 71 of the nation's 100 largest cities, the percentage of public school teachers whose children attend private schools exceeds that of the general public, according to the study by the education analyst and consultant Denis P. Doyle.

If a single - salary schedule for a school district yields a large surplus of qualified applicants for elementary education, social studies, and physical education, but no qualified applicants in physics or speech pathology, is teachers» pay in this district adequate?

The study — part of a larger report put out by the National Charter School Research Project at the Seattle - based Center on Reinventing Public Education — found, for instance, that charter school parents are just...

In a large set of studies, Harvard economist Roland Fryer found that offering low - achieving students financial rewards for achieving learning goals, or outputs, was ineffective because students often lacked knowledge of the «education production function» (I love that phrase).