Sentences with phrase «number of their peers who»

It's gratifying to see that some doctors have the courage to break ranks with the vast number of their peers who simply parrot unproven hypotheses.

Not only were you guys incredibly supportive, which made me feel so much less alone, I was shocked by the number of my peers who said that they experience the same thing.

Considering the vast number of students who are participating in the walkouts — as well as the numbers of their peers who support them — school leaders can not honestly argue that these actions are somehow damaging children.

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Tepid responses from many of Blankfein's peers made his comments all the more potent, especially because Goldman has gotten attention for the number of its alumni who have joined Trump's administration.

Stephen Ost, founder of Ufree University of Arizona - student Ost created the mobile app Ufree, to help his peers answer what he sees their number one social dilemma: «Who is free to hang out right now?»

We've seen a jump in applicants to our college by 17 % each year for the last two, and within those increases, there's been a rise in the number of women who are interested in studying STEM every year,» she says, adding: «I've heard anecdotally that's also happening at many of our peer women's colleges.»

As an agnostic who's read the bible a number of times and knows it neither scare me nor convinces me, I can tell you he's absorbed the point of christianity in a way that many of his peers have not.

Morris has become the whipping boy for those who lean more on numbers, who refuse to acknowledge that as vital as stats are in examining a Hall of Famer, there also is a value to the so - called «wow factor» the player created among his peers during his playing days.

A number of peers are letting properties to MPs, as are former MPs who are letting their second homes in London to party colleagues.

A number of peers belonging to the All Party Parliamentary Humanist Group (APPHG) gave a robust defence of the rights of those who do not hold to any religious beliefs during a debate in the House of Lords last night.

The number of MPs voting for him last year have risen from six to 10 (16 if you add non-voting members, peers and Harrriet Harman who abstained as acting Leader), those who voted for his brother are down from eleven to ten (plus non-voting Kendall).

Several peers clearly viewed this as disingenuous, since the Act merely limits the number of Cabinet members who can be paid a salary — to 21 plus the Lord Chancellor.

Then there's mathematician Yitang «Tom» Zhang, who was completely unknown — as in zero peer - reviewed publications and an adjunct teaching job — when, in 2013, at the age of 57 and 12 years out from receiving his Ph.D., he submitted a paper that astounded the mathematical world by solving a long - standing problem in number theory.

For Perez - Melgosa, who spent more than 15 years at UW, during which she co-authored a number of peer - reviewed publications, «the mere fact that this allegation has been raised against me carries with it the most serious effects upon my professional career,» she stated in her testimony for the lawsuit, which alleged discrimination based on national origin.

Popularity was defined as the number of peers in the teens» grade who ranked them as someone they would like to spend time with, and was measured using nominations from all the teens.

This point is usually a bit of a make or break point for some of my peers - I have known a number of bloggers who got to a point where the love of it changed and they found something else, retiring their blogs.

In the second year, «we have a handful (and growing number) of teachers who are truly innovating at each site and are pushing their peers to both play and learn alongside their students,» they wrote in an earlier update.

Many of the nation's schools are tasked with educating large numbers of disadvantaged students who, at the start of kindergarten, already lag far behind their peers.

The Mathematica researchers draw on other studies to try to estimate the potential peer effects, but clearly the best way to resolve the issues of self selection, attrition and replacement would be for KIPP to run a substantial number of «conversion» charter schools — schools in which KIPP educates students who happen to live in a particular neighborhood, rather than a self - selected group of students.

It is a regression in which student achievement is explained by a combination of school inputs (resources such as funding per student, class size, teacher qualifications, etc.) and the characteristics of peers (percentage of schoolmates who are white and who are black, etc.), families (race, ethnicity, parents» education, number of siblings, etc.), and neighborhoods (the share of households who rent versus own, etc.).

They also believe that children in care, who statistically have considerably lower attainment scores than their peers, could be lowering the published outcomes of primary schools in the areas where numbers have dramatically increased.

The goal of AdviseMI is to increase the number of high school students who enter and complete postsecondary education by embedding well - trained, dedicated, near - peer college advisers into high schools across Michigan, particularly those with low college - going rates and low adult educational attainment rates.

Federal officials say overly strict disciplinary polices have created a school - to - prison pipeline and a growing disparity in the number of African - American students who are expelled or kicked out of school compared with their white peers.

While the number of students who are expelled or sent home for misbehaving in D.C. public schools and public charter schools has decreased overall, recent findings show that black students are nearly seven times more likely to be suspended than their white peers.

The practice of forcing students to stay in the testing room, despite having been opted out of the SBAC program by their parents, is an ugly strategy to embarrass, humiliate and ostracize children who are inappropriately being required to sit in the testing room for hours while their peers are taking the defective and high - stakes SBAC tests that are designed to unfairly fail a significant number of the state's children.

Now, however, the district's own data provides evidence that a significant number of students who transferred to charter schools were not on track to graduate with their peers.

In this article on Onarbor by Avi Wolfman - Arent for The Chronicle of Higher Education, Peterson is quoted as saying this model stands to rise above the current method of peer review due to the sheer numbers of people who will review a submission.

«We believe that all students — especially those who struggle — can greatly benefit from the type of personalization that adaptive technologies provide, and we're confident that our SRA Number Worlds program will give them an opportunity to stay engaged and catch up to their peers.»

Remondi also used the interview to defend Navient's successes with student loan borrowers, saying it leads the industry in number and percentage of borrowers who are enrolled in income - driven repayment plans, has the lowest level of severely delinquent borrowers, and the lowest level of defaults in the industry at a rate that he says is 31 percent lower than peers.

Hughes collaborated with a number of visual artists including Mexican painter Miguel Covarrubias, who illustrated «The Weary Blues,» Hughes's first books, a collection of poems published in 1926; photographer Roy DeCarava on «The Sweet Flypaper of Life»; German - American artist Winold Reiss; and artist Aaron Douglas, his friend and Harlem Renaissance peer.

While Klee himself never joined his peers across the Atlantic, his works traveled there in great numbers, stimulating an enthusiastic reception by a young generation of American artists who, after the horrors of World War II, were searching for an art form removed from the external world.

· Subject all such information to proper peer review by independent scientists, including the significant numbers of experts who are skeptical of alarmist pollution and climate change claims;

Like any number of «believers» who have blown through in the past, all you can do is drone on about «consensus» and «peer - reviewed» (as if by God).

There are lots of people with an opinion about any particular subject, but people with the in depth knowledge needed to qualify as peers seem few and far between relative to the number of people who contribute to blogs.

Rather than hear from one speaker for an hour, the participants got to hear and learn from a number of people, all their peers and all lawyers who had faced and addressed these issues in their own practices.

We've had partners and counsel coming from top - tier peer firms like Weil Gotshal, Fried Frank and Wachtell, and a policy committee member — who is also one of the top white - collar lawyers — moved to New York, so we've seen strengthening across a number of different areas.

Best Lawyers is based on submissions by almost 5 million attorneys in the United States who confidentially evaluate the legal abilities of their professional peers; lawyers are selected as a «Lawyer of the Year» only if the number of votes received «indicates a clear leader» in the field.

According to the publication only the lawyers who obtained the highest number of nominations from peers, corporate counsel and other market sources were considered; and the practitioners listed «are among the very best in the world in the competition field, without exception».

These professionals received the highest number of nominations from peers, corporate counsel and other market sources during the 2017 Who's Who Legal research period.

Do it wrong, and the penalty is severe: no chance of re-employment, no reference letter, and no respect from your peers - who could be tomorrow's stars.I'm constantly amazed at the number of people who take leaving a job so lightly.

Recent theoretical work suggests that bullying might arise out of early cognitive deficits — including language problems, imperfect causal understanding, and poor inhibitory control — that lead to decreased competence with peers, which over time develops into bullying.14, 15 A small number of studies provide circumstantial evidence that such a hypothesis might have merit7: 1 study found a link between poor early cognitive stimulation and (broadly defined) inappropriate school behavior, 16 and another found cognitive stimulation at age 3 years to be protective against symptoms of attention - deficit disorder at age 7 years.17 A study of Greek children found that academic self - efficacy and deficits in social cognition were related to bullying behavior.18 A large US national survey found that those who perceive themselves as having average or below - average academic achievement (as opposed to very good achievement) are 50 % to 80 % more likely to be bullies.8 Yet these studies are based on cross-sectional surveys, with the variables all measured at a single point in time.

Second, because of resulting problems with affect, socialization, and self - esteem they may be more likely to fall prey to both peer pressure and the seductive marketing practices of the tobacco industry, which spent $ 5.1 billion in tobacco promotion and advertising in 1996.10 Third, many states have passed legislation that fines or criminalizes children for the purchase, possession, or use of tobacco.54 The number of states with such legislation increased from 32 in 1995 to 41 in 1998; the current maximum state penalty for minors is a fine of up to $ 1000, and it is possible for fines to minors to exceed the fines to retailers who sell tobacco to them (unpublished data, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office on Smoking and Health, State Tobacco Activities Tracking and Evaluation System [STATE], 1998).

First, to address aim 1, descriptive statistics were used to examine the number, duration, forms, and frequency of interactions, and positive and negative friendship qualities with friends with and without CF. Mean differences in number of friendships with peers with versus without CF for the full sample were examined with paired - samples t - tests; paired - samples t - tests examining the remaining friendship indices (duration, interactions, and quality) were conducted among those participants who endorsed the presence of both types of friendships.

Developmental group psychotherapy was a manual based treatment specifically designed for self harming adolescents.25 The programme integrated techniques from a number of other therapies that have previously been applied to depressed or suicidal adolescents and their families, including cognitive behavioural therapy, dialectical behavioural therapy, and group psychotherapy.15 27 28 Group goals were oriented around themes that previous research suggested were important in adolescents who harm themselves, such as poor peer relationships, bullying, and family problems.