Sentences with phrase «most education professors»

Most education professors simply aren't there yet.

And, most education professors tend to select theoretical courses that are in line with their training, that they are comfortable teaching, rather than teach what their students need.

Not exact matches

We calculated the so - called fair market value of college football players at the 20 most profitable programs using data provided by the Department of Education and based on the work of Ellen Staurowsky, a professor at Drexel.

It's power or productivity that can be measured, and the people who come up with the measurements aren't poets or even rocket scientists (most often they're professors of education).

Most professors, health care providers, and case workers are at best interested in people's education, health, and welfare and at worst are interested only in their own career goals.

So far at least, the data, says Dawn Comstock, PhD, an associate professor of Epidemiology for the Pediatric Injury Prevention, Education, and Research (PIPER) program at the Colorado School of Public Health, MomsTeam Institute Board of Advisor and a co-author of a 2014 study on injuries in high school lacrosse [5], «is quite clear - boys most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 75 %) from athlete - athlete contact, the kind of mechanism we all know helmets don't always do a great job preventing - while girls most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 64 %) from being struck by the ball or the stick, the kind of mechanism that helmets are actually quite good at preventing.

Speaking on the adverse effects of Social media, Professor Adewale decried the way most students place priority on its usage at the expense of their education.

Welsh Liberal Democrat Cabinet Secretary for Education Kirsty Williams has since implemented Professor Diamond's recommendations and created the most generous student finance system in the UK.

David Bloomfield, a professor of education at CUNY's Graduate Center and Brooklyn College, also said Success» likely expansion could create more of a wedge between Success and the city's other charters, since the network will serve by far the most students and require the most public dollars, a sentiment echoed by some independent charter leaders.

Emily Toth, the Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge English professor who writes the Ms. Mentor column for the Chronicle of Higher Education online, said questions about the two - body problem are among the questions Ms. Mentor receives most often.

The development may come as a surprise to most professors, says Mr. Chait, a professor of higher education at Harvard University's Graduate School of Eeducation at Harvard University's Graduate School of EducationEducation.

Jonathan Osborne, a professor at Stanford University in California and a former head of the education department at King's College London, gives the report high marks for arguing that most students need more math and science to function in today's world.

There are many rules and procedures in the world of academia, and most of them date from a time when professors wore robes and rode horses, monks played the role of publishers, and graduate education was eerily similar to a page's apprenticeship to a knight.

Professor Sir Graeme Davies, principal of the University of Glasgow, says, «the Cubie committee has successfully addressed the dual needs of ensuring that those students most in need of support receive it at the time they require it, while ensuring that the universities benefit from those who can make a contribution to their education in a way which doesn't present an obstacle to their participation.»

In a 2012 survey of the sites of eight national autism associations, special education professor Jennifer Stephenson and her co-authors at Macquarie University in Australia found that most of them provided misleading information about the effectiveness of interventions.

SCIENCE DAILY - Jan 13 - Online daters are most likely to contact people with the same level of education as them, but are less fussy about an intellectual match as they get older, according to new study titled: «Things change with age: Educational Assortment in online dating», conducted by QUT behavioural economists Stephen Whyte and Professor Benno Torgler.

Specifically, Education Week ranks states on a composite equity index that has three components, the most important of which is the McLoone Index (named after Eugene McLoone, now a retired professor of education finance at the University of MEducation Week ranks states on a composite equity index that has three components, the most important of which is the McLoone Index (named after Eugene McLoone, now a retired professor of education finance at the University of Meducation finance at the University of Maryland).

Jamal Abedi, an education professor at the University of California, Davis, and the most - published researcher on testing accommodations for English - language...

Delegates attending the BNF conference heard from a panel of eminent scientific experts including Professor Ashley Adamson from University of Newcastle, Dr Graham Moore from University of Cardiff, Professor John Reilly of University of Strathclyde, and Professor Jeanne Goldberg from Tufts University in Massachusetts, USA, about the role and impact of a whole school approach to nutrition; the association between breakfast consumption and education outcomes in primary schools, with particular reference to deprivation; the impact of obesity, and of physical activity, on academic attainment; and research which points to the most effective methods of communicating about nutrition with school children.

Like many experts and practitioners in the field, Professor Jack Shonkoff was intrigued by President Obama's emphasis on early childhood education in his most recent State of the Union Address.

Consequences are most effective «when they are motivated by an understanding of children's behavior and supportive of children's learning and growth,» says Jones, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Professor Andy Noyes, Head of School of Education, University of Nottingham and Jane Jones, Former National Lead for Mathematics, Ofsted, deliberated on this point considering mathematical connections in high stakes assessment as well as making the most of low stakes assessments.

«Accountability for student performance is one of the two or three - if not the most - prominent issues in policy at the state and local levels right now,» says Richard F. Elmore, a professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education (Quality Counts, 1999)

The National Association for Research in Science Teaching last month recognized Dr. Philip Sadler, Assistant Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, for making «the most significant contribution» to research in science education during the pEducation, for making «the most significant contribution» to research in science education during the peducation during the past year.

Beyond that, University of Virginia education professor Patricia Jennings, who is soon releasing a study on the topic, says stress from teachers trying to do too much is creating worrisome levels of teacher burnout with the most generous.

The title of his latest book telegraphs where Harvard education professor Daniel Koretz stands on one of today's most contentious schooling issues: high - stakes testing.

As Associate Professor Hunter Gehlbach wrote recently in Education Week, «Do we really need any more comprehensive, costly initiatives to fix our most challenging problems?

«When we find that there are solutions to some of the most pressing problems in education that actually seem like they have larger appeal and potential,» says Professor Monica Higgins, faculty chair of Scaling for Impact, «we like to figure out how to help those organizations, those initiatives, those programs really scale.»

Professor Richard Murnane, the student - selected faculty speaker, reflected on five decades of education and the five challenges currently facing all educators around the world: make equality a reality for all children; use money so it affects students» daily experience; create schools that prepare children for the future; make school choice work for the most disadvantaged; and create school accountability systems that improve education for all our children.

Although it's impossible to tell precisely how much simulation is used, I began my research by asking people I thought would be the most likely to know — professors in forward - thinking education schools, and experts in corporate simulations.

I owe a tremendous debt to Professor [Fernando] Reimers, my advisor, the person who has most shaped my understanding of education in Latin America and has been a constant support for me throughout my years as a doctoral student,» da Silva says.

Reviewing data from Project STAR — a longitudinal research study on class - size reduction in Tennessee and the most famous experiment on the topic — Spyros Konstantopoulos, an assistant professor of education and social policy at Northwestern...

I decided I wanted to learn more about higher education, and was fortunate to work with Professor Alexander Astin, arguably one of the most noted scholars who has ever studied higher education.

Richard J. Light, Walter H. Gale Professor of Education at Harvard University, buttressed these findings in his book Making the Most out of College: Students Speak Their Minds:

Universities Run Into Problems When They Hire Presidents From The Business World Think Progress, 3/7/16 «Richard P. Chait, a research professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, adds that this mentality may be driven by the fact that more families tend to look at themselves as customers — especially the families of students with the most impressive applications who find themselves courted by Ivy League universities.»

«Matt made the most of his year at Harvard, engaging actively with course material and with the Higher Education cohort, participating in the Student Research Conference and the PELP case competition, and taking on internships to enhance his learning,» says Professor Judy McLaughlin, director of HE.

L. A. Williams, an education professor from the University of California — Berkeley, wrote in a 1944 book that most American high - school students of the era were simply «incapable of learning so - called liberal subjects.»

One of the most outspoken critics of old PE's do - or - die mentality is Neil Wilson, a professor of physical education at Eastern Connecticut State University.

It's ironic, then, that the federal government funds most of the research and evaluation work in education,» writes Professor Thomas Kane.

«Alyssa Chan exemplifies well the qualities that distinguish students and graduates of the International Education Policy Program: a strong commitment to expanding educational opportunity for the most disadvantaged children around the world, an extraordinary ethic of hard work and rigorous pursuit of academic excellence, and an understanding of leadership as service to others,» says Professor Fernando Reimers, director of IEP.

Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis: Modeling Change and Event Occurrence, an award - winning new book coauthored by Willett and Judith Singer, the School's Conant Professor of Education and academic dean, offers the first accessible, in - depth presentation of the field's most recent advances.

Professor Howard Gardner of the Harvard Graduate School of Education has received numerous honors throughout his lifetime including a MacArthur prize fellowship; he has honorary degrees from many universities around the world, and has been named one of the 100 most influential intellectuals by Foreign Policy and Prospects magazine for his work in the study and exploration of the theory of multiple intelligences.

Claremont Graduate University professor Charles Kerchner described Hoxby's study in a literature review prepared for the National Education Association as «the most sophisticated of the econometric attempts to isolate a union impact on the student results and school operations...» Hoxby finds that unionization is associated with higher student dropout rates as well as higher spending.

«When we find that there are solutions to some of the most pressing problems in education that actually seem like they have larger appeal and potential,» says Professor Monica Higgins, faculty chair of Scaling for Impact,»...

Tracking, as it became known, quickly took on the appearance of racial segregation, said Oakes, a professor of education at the UCLA and one of the most vocal advocates for mixed - ability classrooms.

Cassandra Hart, assistant professor of education, and David Figlio (Northwestern University) wrote «Competitive Effects of Means - Tested School Vouchers» in the most recent edition of the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.

The paper, by Harvard education professor David Deming and University of California - Berkeley economist Christopher Walters, seeks to determine what is the most effective use of public subsidies to help more students graduate college.

«At some point, the slow leak of the most motivated students and families can put traditional schools in a downward spiral they can't recover from,» said Jeffrey Henig, an education professor at Teachers College at Columbia University in New York.

More recent research backs up this view, argued University of Washington professor Dan Goldhaber in a retrospective about the report for Education Next: «New empirical work, using better data... and more sophisticated statistical techniques has, in broad terms, reinforced the Coleman Report conclusion that teacher quality is the most important schooling variable.»

In the Fall 2010 issue of UCEA Review (available at the University Council for Educational Administration web site), former UCEA president and UNC - Chapel Hill professor Fenwick W. English has an essay titled «The 10 Most Wanted Enemies of American Public Education's School Leadership.»