Sentences with phrase «most education university»

[«Investigations of the Otis - Lennon School Ability Test to Predict WISC - R Full Scale IQ for Referred Children» by Anna H. Avant and Marcia R. O'Neal, University of Alabama, Nov. 1986, ED286883] Though this study is no longer available from AskERIC, it can be obtained on microfiche from most education university libraries.

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NYU President Sexton heads up the third most expensive university in the country (and, yes, my alma mater), but even he admits that this model is far from perfect and that there are too many universities charging students too much for too weak an education.

The most famous is probably York University's Schulich School of Business (renamed in his honour in 1995 after an over - $ 15 million donation), but his educational namesakes include Dalhousie University's School of Law (2009, $ 20 million), the University of Calgary's School of Engineering (2005; $ 20 million) and Nipissing University's School of Education ($ 15 million).

What I found most interesting was his conclusion, based on the research of University of Chicago economist James Heckman, that it is more essential to invest in early childhood education where children will develop the social skills that are truly what are necessary to live a successful and wealthy life.

After stints teaching law at Marquette and the University of Wisconsin - Madison's Law School, Strang also began teaching continuing education classes at U of W. (The most recent course,

But it allowed workers to enroll in any accredited college or university based on what made the most sense for them, including in - person classes that experts say are especially critical for low - income workers to succeed in their education.

One of France's most prestigious universities was forced to shut yesterday after student protesters staged a campus occupation against government plans to make higher education more competitive.

«As a university, we are one of Canada's most entrepreneurial institutions and it's because of people like you — students, faculty, staff, alumni and other supporters who have contributed to 50 years of excellence in business education.

His new university will, he claims, be America's most elite institution of higher education,....

All the talk of networking, webs, computers, and globalization causes Taylor to overlook one of the most important aspects of college and university education: its local character.

«A study in the United States, published in the Social Forces journal and conducted by Sociology researcher Lisa A. Keister while she was at the Ohio State University, found that adherents of Judaism attained the most wealth, believers of Catholicism and mainline Protestants were in the middle, while conservative Protestants accu - mulated the least wealth, while in general people who attend religious services achieved more wealth than those who do not (taking into account variations of education and other factors).

The organization has 550 priests and 2,500 seminarians, and is now moving in a major way into Catholic higher education, most recently with a new university in Sacramento, California.

Chinese pupils had the highest attainment throughout school, made the most progress and were the most likely to stay in education and go to university.

The distinguished sociologist of the University of Virginia and author of the acclaimed Culture Wars here undertakes a close examination of what, in theory and practice, «moral education» means in most American schools.

And the General Education Board, funded by John D. Rockefeller, Sr., was becoming a most promising source of funds for promising universities.

In recent years, most of the more than two hundred colleges and universities in America have turned their attention to strengthening their «Catholic identity,» but relatively few come near to approximating the vision of Catholic higher education proposed by John Paul and Benedict.

I feel incredibly grateful for my high school education and also for my university education — I know that is a privilege that most women in the world do NOT yet experience (but give us time....).

I identify five voices in this debate that I take to be the most completely developed and importantly contrasting «positions» in the conversation: Edward Farley's Theologia: The Fragmentation and Unity of Theological Education and his The Fragility of Knowledge: Theological Education in the Church and the University; 2 the Mud Flower Collective's God s Fierce Whimsy; 3 Joseph C. Hough, Jr., and John B. Cobb, Jr.'s Christian Identity and Theological Education; 4 Max L. Stackhouse's Apologia: Contextualization, Globalization, and Mission in Theological Education; 5 and Charles M. Wood's Vision and Discernment.6 Although each of these voices makes important claims in its own right, which I hope to summarize as briefly as clarity and fairness permit, what is most important, I think, is the largely implicit interplay among them of contrasting insights and themes.

I was struck also by the fact that the humanistic gymnasia through which students prepared for entry into the university taught them Greek and Latin and even Hebrew, just those languages most needed for a classical theological education.

And I could not agree more that Newman is a vessel, whereas most university education is just long years of treading water.

Most of us will never be genuinely cultured in the Old World / Old University sort of way; our formation and education (and abilities) don't allow for it.

American Catholic history may not be so booming a discipline as biblical studies or medical ethics, but even the most cursory survey of the American Catholic Studies Newsletter (published by the Cushwa Center for the study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, itself an institutional expression of the growth of the field) reveals an extraordinary breadth of research, ranging from classic institutional histories and biographies of key figures to the new social history, with its emphases on patterns of community, spirituality, family life, and education.

Many unschoolers / self - directed learners often get asked the second most common question in home education, (after the one about socialization) which is «What about university?

Thacker is a driving force behind «Turning the Tide,» a new report he co-authored, published by the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Making Caring Common Project and endorsed by over 85 major college stakeholders, including deans of admissions from the most elite American universities.

Established in 2009, the Stanford University / San Francisco Unified School District Partnership brings the most advanced education research to bear on major challenges identified by the school leaders in one of California's largest and most diverse districts.

«Breast milk still is the most important part of your baby's diet at this age, so breastfeed right before you offer cereal or other foods,» says Debi Page Ferrarello, R.N., M.S., I.B.C.L.C., director of family education and lactation at Penn Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Health System.

Keep in mind that most reports that CPM / lay midwives / direct entry midwives use to try and legitimize their practices here are compiled from data that uses numbers from midwives in places like Canada, Australia, the UK and New Zealand, where the standard education and training is university level and the midwives are independent practitioners and able to attend women in hospitals as well as at home.

Unlike most medical students, Amr Matoq, MD, Chief Resident in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Florida College of Medicine - Jacksonville, says that breastfeeding has been a big part of his education.

New York state accounted for most of the increase in state funding for preschool nationwide last year, according to a new report by the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University.

«This programme is designed to raise their aspirations and help them secure admission to the most demanding higher education courses and the most competitive universities.

On Friday May 4, ZET Cinema and the Zylofon Arts Club would show one of the most talked - about movies currently, «That Night», at the South Campus (Amo Hall) of the University of Education, Winneba.

Sally Hunt, the general secretary of the University and College Union, said raising tuition fees would be «the most regressive piece of education policy since the war» and put university «out of reach for the majoriUniversity and College Union, said raising tuition fees would be «the most regressive piece of education policy since the war» and put university «out of reach for the majoriuniversity «out of reach for the majority».

«The State University of New York is the greatest, most impactful system of higher education in the country, and being chancellor of SUNY is a highlight of my career,» Zimpher said.

Fueling businesses with talent from the region's acclaimed colleges and universities, and green, clean energy from Niagara Falls, Buffalo Niagara is enjoying success today and positioned for long - term growth tomorrow in advanced manufacturing, life sciences and biotechnologies, finance, education, and advanced agriculture — all within one of the most affordable and enjoyable regions of the country — come grow your business with us.

«The most common time there is conflict of interest is not with inventorship,» says Harry Greenberg, senior associate dean for research at the Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, California, and director of the Stanford Center for Clinical and Translational Education and Research.

But,» [w] hile in developing countries those friendships helped in securing the most attractive jobs, such as professorships, within their national higher education system, researchers in developed countries benefited from the global network of their senior friends giving them access to the most respected research groups, labs and universities, allowing them to present their work at the most prestigious conferences and publish in the most important books and journals.»

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.

Most people learn «by doing,» says Dario Sambunjak, a senior editor at the Croatian Medical Journal (CMJ) and research fellow in education and scientific method at Zagreb University School of Medicine in Croatia.

Most of the discussion about graduate education and the postdoc has been focused on research, when it has always been the case that a majority of students do not go on to research universities.

Ann Childs, a lecturer in science education at the University of Oxford, says that the main reason most researchers want to retrain as teachers is that they «want to impart their enthusiasm for science on young people.»

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.

When Weinberg and his collaborators Eric D. Gould of Hebrew University and David Mustard of the University of Georgia examined young males with no more than a high school education the demographic group that commits the most crime they found that average wages and unemployment rates were directly linked to the incidence of property crimes.

The change happened only last year in Britain, but most of the Australian colleges of advanced education (teachers» colleges) and institutes (polytechnics) became universities three years ago, after a series of renamings and amalgamations.

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.

An important reason for this is the current setup of most university programs: Although German students experience great latitude during their university educations, they study much longer than do their competitors in other countries.

The reform was necessary and was welcomed by the country's major science organisations (the German Research Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [DFG], the Max Planck Society and the German Science Council) and the organisation that represents university heads (Association of Universities and Other Higher Education Institutions, or Hochschulrektorenkonferenz), although the HRG has been one of the most hotly debated topics in the country's academic circles.

That the Parliament recognises that contract research staff in Scotland's universities and research institutes are one of the most significant assets in Scotland's knowledge economy; notes that more than 90 % of such staff are employed on insecure fixed term contracts, resulting in a systematic failure to properly exploit our science and social science base to the benefit of the Scottish economy and society; further notes that this highly educated human resource, comprising graduate, postgraduate and postdoctoral level workers, is subject to constant wastage, to the detriment of Scotland's universities and economic potential; and believes that the Scottish Executive should act with clarity, urgency and determination to secure a complete overhaul of the management of the contract research workforce with a view to eliminating the current insecurity and wastage and establishing a radical new approach in partnership with higher education employers and representatives of the research staff.

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is now perhaps the most - watched experiment in higher education taking place anywhere in the world.

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.»

«I think the thing that's most important here is the need for education,» says Chris Lowe, an unaffiliated shark expert at California State University, Long Beach.