Sentences with phrase «mix of academic research»

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Still, teaching is a very important part of his professional mix, and there's less of a distinction between teaching and research than in most academic posts.

Although some research finds that such benefits exist, the available data have not permitted researchers to confirm the causal effects of desegregation on nonacademic benefits for the same reasons that it is difficult to produce convincing findings on academic benefits: the nonrandom sorting of students among school environments and the real possibility that forced busing may produce effects very different from those of living in a racially or socioeconomically mixed community.

While Mayor Bill de Blasio has made community schools a central part of his education agenda, critics have said there is mixed research on whether the community school model actually improves academic achievement in low - income neighborhoods.

Unfortunately, supporters of Preschool for All, including some academics who are way out in front of what the evidence says and know it, have turned a blind eye to the mixed and conflicting nature of research findings on the impact of pre-k for four - year - olds.

Dr. Stein has conducted quasi-experimental and mixed - methods research on school choice that has investigated the instructional conditions of charter public schools, parent involvement in charter public schools, and the effect of choice on student sorting by race and academic achievement.

A 2011 report by the Center on Education Policy (CEP) that reviewed a decade of voucher research found no clear positive impact on student academic achievement and at best mixed outcomes overall for students who attend private schools using vouchers.

The research clearly shows that obtaining a mix of academic knowledge and technical skills developed in high school, plus a professional certificate or license, is key to career readiness for our nation's students.

We had a long telephone conversation, in which Hill conveyed deeply mixed feelings about having accepted an invitation from anti-fracking campaigners to speak at a political forum on such a charged topic — one she is personally very concerned about as a young woman who plans to be a mother, and which has also become the focus of her academic research:

Decades of research by hundreds of independent scientific and academic institutions around the globe have discovered that human - caused climate change involves forcings such as the radiative forcing of well - mixed greenhouse gases, as well as land cover changes.