Sentences with phrase «much education research»
Too much education research is methodologically weak, unconnected to the realities of practice, irrelevant to real problems, or inaccessible to policymakers and practitioners.
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«When you have workers that already possess much of what you need, it makes a lot more sense to retrain them than to go out and hire new workers — who may be more educated — and then wait a year or more for them to get up to speed with how the company operates,» explains Anthony Carnevale, director and research professor of Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce.
Hartford Seminary is different, but it is very much alive: our programs of research and continuing education make an impact on our hometown and around the world.
«Research on both inequality across schools and tracking within schools has suggested that students in more affluent schools and top tracks are given the kind of problem - solving education that befits the future managerial class, whereas students in lower tracks and higher - poverty schools are given the kind of rule - following tasks that mirror much of factory and other working - class work.»
When you read through Deci and Ryan's research on education, it quickly becomes evident that their discussion of motivational forces is very much connected to the conversations that educators have begun having about noncognitive capacities like self - control and grit.
The district partners with a local non-profit, Research, Education, Action, and Policy (REAP) Food Group, for much of their nutrition education proEducation, Action, and Policy (REAP) Food Group, for much of their nutrition education proeducation programming.
Rachel's writing is approachable, well researched, and humorous, and she is very much understanding of the many paths to education that families take.
«Potential interest [among Ph.D. s] in careers in secondary school science and mathematics education is much higher than the 0.8 % of Ph.D. s who currently work in K - 12 education,» says a 2000 report by the National Research Council called Attracting Science and Mathematics Ph.D. s to Secondary School Eeducation is much higher than the 0.8 % of Ph.D. s who currently work in K - 12 education,» says a 2000 report by the National Research Council called Attracting Science and Mathematics Ph.D. s to Secondary School Eeducation,» says a 2000 report by the National Research Council called Attracting Science and Mathematics Ph.D. s to Secondary School EducationEducation.
Wickens, who says there has not been as much research into solutions as there has been into the problem, would like to see more work done on public education.
But she and other education reformers wonder how the program would be implemented, how much money it would get, and whether it would duplicate work supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, the department's reseeducation reformers wonder how the program would be implemented, how much money it would get, and whether it would duplicate work supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, the department's reseEducation Sciences, the department's research arm.
The IUCN's Hyena Specialist Group focuses on developing hyena conservation strategies worldwide through integrated research and public education to change attitudes toward these much maligned animals.
Recently, France's research and higher - education minister Francois Goulard proposed to bring the Grandes Ecoles and universities closer together, but there is much catching up to do.
«Never before has a German administration invested as much into education and research as we have,» said research minister Edelgard Bulmahn upon the presentation of these figures.
«But there hasn't been much research in education.
Schlessinger taught me how to ask meaningful questions in my research, and I have gained much from his insightful directions and strong commitment to the education of his students.
Rodriguez signed up on a seven - month contract, but enjoyed his time at HopeLab so much that he rejoined after he completed his master's in education, helping research and develop HopeLab's Re-Mission 2 games collection, in which players fight cancer.
A. Stephen Dahms, director of the California State University Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology, says that much of this is due to the gulf between industry expectations and what university faculty feel is important.
While the European Research and Higher Education Area is emerging, evaluation practices and policies are still very much linked to national traditions and institutional frameworks.
I am very much delighted and happy to know that the Department of Crop Botany of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University is implementing a sub-project entitled «Establishment of Digital Herbarium and Herbal Museum for Improving Academic and Research Capability in Crop Botany» with the financial assistance from Academic Innovation Fund (AIF) of Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project (HEQEP) under the University Grants Commission of Bangladesh (UGCB) supported by the World Bank.
Historically much of the scientific community has rallied vigorously against any attempt by the humane community to regulate in any way what may be done to animals in the name of research and education, even by grade school children working with little or no training and qualified adult supervision.
This unrivalled network contributes much to the vibrancy of our work both in terms of education, research and professional skills development.
While leading companies in several other industries, Mr. Hoggard continues to devote much time to research, education, and treatment of Lyme disease.
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 swept away much of the legislative clutter that had littered the education landscape for more than a decade, in favor of programs based in good science and research.
The Journal of Experimental Education and the Journal of Educational Research published much of this research, which used psychological or personality indexes to «scientifically» determine the relationship between personality and «good teachingResearch published much of this research, which used psychological or personality indexes to «scientifically» determine the relationship between personality and «good teachingresearch, which used psychological or personality indexes to «scientifically» determine the relationship between personality and «good teaching.»
Ask the next hundred teachers you see, for instance, how many of them plan to go to the next American Education Research Association event or what they thought of some papers presented at the last AERA, and, well, I'd be surprised if even ten of those hundred would have much to say.
But putting that alarming number in the spotlight obscures a more critical component of the research, says Harvard Graduate School of Education literacy expert Meredith Rowe: it's not so much the quantity of words but the quality of the talk that matters most to a child's development.
The Grattan Institute research paper highlights schools and education systems that are starting to do targeted teaching in a much more systematic way.
Teachers are getting steadily more training in the common core, but they're not feeling much more prepared to teach it, according to survey results released last week by the Education Week Research Center.
Over much of 1998 and 1999, HGSE Research Associate Shari Tishman and fellow researchers at Harvard Project Zero (PZ) worked with the MoMA Department of Education to plan and complete a full - scale, formal evaluation of the Visual Thinking Curriculum (VTC), and lay the groundwork for the development of a revised version of the VTC.
As policymakers look to redesign or replace many of the basic federal education programs established during the 1960s, they face mounds of Department - produced research to guide them, but much of it is of limited value.
While these research findings leave much to be explained, they do highlight an important implication for K - 12 education today: mobile media technology can be a powerful learning motivator.
This says much about the standards for research in education today.
Much of the research on the economic impact of education has properly concentrated on the role of school attainment - that is, the quantity of schooling.
Feeling just a bit sheepish about being one of the few people in the throng who hadn't already seen this film, I went last evening (with Fordham research director Amber Winkler) to the big Paramount / Viacom - sponsored Washington premiere of Waiting for «Superman» — the much - discussed new education movie.
«Reflecting on much of my past research and policy advisory work to support the expansion of educational opportunity,» said Reimers, «I realize that I had tried to support the improvement of educational quality without really asking what the purpose of education should be.
Other highly visible education schools such as Harvard, Stanford, and University of Washington have forfeited much of their research agenda to other parts of their universities, e.g., econ departments, public policy schools, or university - based think tanks.
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.
As for research, schools of education have been loath to explore, much less acknowledge, any potential benefit from a policy opposed by public schools and teacher unions.
As I read, I kept feeling grateful to Paul Tough for having done this work — gathering the stories of kids like Keitha Jones, the traumatized Southside Chicago teen who reminded me so much of a handful of kids I've taught; connecting Keitha's experience to research on neurochemistry and infant psychology, and situating these elements in both a socio - economic context and in the landscape of an education world focused on developing children's cognitive (and testable) skills.
And that rigid, standardized approach to teaching contradicts so much of what we know from whole - child education research.
But without research to show the impact, experiences like landing on the moon or the sinking of the Titanic could be closer to entertainment than education, argue critics, who say much of what's being marketed as virtual reality is not groundbreaking — or even new.
Four leading education investment companies are poised to pour as much as $ 2 billion into education ventures over the next 12 to 24 months, according to a report by Eduventures.com, a Boston research firm.
Invest in Research The policy system thirsts for more precise information regarding 1) the manner by which education resources can be deployed to gain greater student performance returns and 2) how much money is actually needed to ensure students an opportunity to learn what is expected.
The Education Next - PEPG findings also show that research evidence can exert a strong influence on public opinion — in some cases as much as that of a popular president.
Much of the reason for the strengthening charter performance between 2009 and 2013, concluded the Center for Research on Education Outcomes, was the closures of poorly performing charters.
I understand this system much better, but I think where my goals have changed is in my increasing appreciation for the importance of education research.
At the time, founder Nelson Goodman used the word «zero» in the research center's title because that's how much firm knowledge about arts education he thought existed.
In their research paper «Higher Education in the Age of Austerity», they claimed that universities could collectively save as much as # 3bn a year if they privatised many of their services.
Like much of the research on graduation rates conducted during the past decade, Education Week's work has drawn its raw data from the Common Core of Data,...
«Research shows if the students are in the right mindset and they get their sensory needs met, they are going to be much better learners,» said special education teacher Cheryl Cunningham.