Sentences with phrase «of education experiment»

Students in the CFA group can use Pell money under yet another U.S. Department of Education experiment that's providing some $ 20 million this year to as many as 10,000 low - income students nationwide to pay for college - level work while they are still in high school.

According to the Coalition for Evidence - Based Policy, the vast majority of the education experiments that have been conducted over the past decade have yielded null effects on student outcomes.

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The market for education software is crowded today, but D2L has kept ahead of its competition by listening closely to educators, experimenting constantly and having faith that the market will catch up to its ideas.

Dissatisfied with the results of most organizations helping the urban poor in the mid-1990s, Canada launched an experiment, an effort to reach all the kids in a 24 - block zone of New York City — he called it the Harlem Children's Zone — and give them education, social, and medical help starting at birth.

The release of the If iPad app comes at a time when schools are increasingly experimenting with giving tablets to students, a trend that could be a major opportunity for education technology startups.

The Impact of Arts Education, released this summer, carefully examines hundreds of experiments and studies on the alleged ancillary benefits of the arts.

The Executive Education program at MIT Sloan School of Management recently tried out a new, entirely free, and simple to implement employee benefit, sharing the encouraging results of their experiment on the HBR blog.

Novice traders might experiment with each of these techniques, but they should ultimately settle on a single niche, matching their investing knowledge and experience with a style to which they feel they can devote further research, education and practice.

These gifts combined with a free university education to so many people for whom there were then no appropriate jobs, as well as a civil war, led to the failure of the experiment failed, but in a time when it is clear, at least to me, that global pursuit of more and more wealth is suicidal for the human race, I think it would be worthwhile to study such efforts.

The experience of the last five years and a decade of experimenting with small groups before that have convinced me that growth groups are on the cutting edge in counseling, education, and community - building.

Eight years of experiment and study as a professor of religion and the church at Emory University's Candler School of Theology have convinced Hopewell that «the congregation is as central to theological education as the human body is to medical education.»

A decade ago many mainline churches were engaged in articulating the virtues of the sexual revolution, formulating significant and far - reaching theological pronouncements on the central issues of sexuality, and experimenting with some new and imaginative programs of sex education.

We felt that students should have a broader experiential base, and we have tried all kinds of changes in curriculum — experiments in contextual education, teaching parishes, internships, supervised ministry programs, etc..

Undergirding the experiment was the conviction that the right to freedom of education (like the right of the accused to legal counsel in our own country) did not really exist unless its exercise was supported and guaranteed by concrete government action.

Wine brands are using humor as a vehicle for education, but Gallo has discovered that any effort that encourages wine drinkers to explore, experiment and embark on a journey of discovery will bring the industry closer to reducing fear among budding oenophiles.

Jonathan Guryan, James S. Kim, and Kyung Park, «Motivation and Incentives in Education: Evidence from a Summer Reading Experiment,» NBER Working Paper 20918 (Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, January 2015)

From Walter Mischel's Marshmallow Experiments at Stanford University beginning in the 1960's to a current study from the Graduate School of Education at UCSF, the conclusions have not changed: Impulse control, or the ability to plan ahead and defer gratification, enhances a child's ability to fulfill long - term goals.

We've been showing a video of the classic «marshmallow experiment» for years at parent education seminars across the country.

During the first three years or our home education, we experimented with various styles of learning.

We started our home education experiment at the beginning of November 1997, having moved out to Cyprus a week previously.

The former shadow education secretary has previously spoken out against Mr Corbyn's leadership of the party, saying the «experiment with Corbynism has to end».

At a press conference Wednesday Mayor de Blasio was asked whether Governor Cuomo's characterization of mayoral control of schools as an «experiment» and his proposal that mayoral control be renewed for a shortened three year period «raises questions about whether or not he's a true reformer on education.»

«This kind of social experiment has no place in the education of our children,» said State Senator Ruben Diaz, Sr. «NYC parents agree that the DOE is out of bounds on this issue.»

Education activists wanted no part of the apparent admissions experiment in their neighborhood.

Others began to call for similar policies, with both Laws and Cable using their contributions to a collection of essays for the IPPR to call for experiments with the extension of consumer choice and quasi-market mechanisms into health and education.

«It's the experiment of all experiments in education,» Astorino said in a recent visit to the Capitol.

He added, «Freedom of education, by means of vouchers for parents so they can choose how and where education dollars should be spent, is a prime example of a powerful conservative solution to both fiscal and social ills directly related to outdated liberal social experiments that are more socialist than American.»

This project,» Tele - Education in Aerospace control and Mechatronics,» allows students from both universities to use equipment for interesting laboratory experiments in the areas of mechatronics and aerospace control across the Atlantic via the Internet.

For the experiment, students in an MSU introductory - level educational psychology course, which is required of all teacher education students, were randomly assigned to receive either the peer rationale, the instructor rationale or no rationale for why the course was important and beneficial to their potential careers as teachers.

So far, more than 30,000 students have had the experience of designing experiments for microgravity through the SSEP program, which is part of the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) in the U.S. and the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education internationally.

Zamora, now a doctoral student, conducted the experiment in the winters of 2011 - 12 and 2012 - 13 at the UF / IFAS Plant Science Research and Education Unit near Citra.

Amy Lark, an assistant professor of science education at Michigan Technological University, says Avida - ED is a more user - friendly program than Avida, a research platform for conducting and analyzing experiments with self - replicating and evolving computer programs.

But this satellite is just one of 50 being crafted by universities around the world, participating in the QB50 («cube 50») mission, a project managed by the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics in Belgium as a way to provide hands - on education while conducting scientific experiments in space.

But in their experiment, the researchers were able to prove, mathematically, that such answers wouldn't get someone any closer to inferring information about any single person or business that might violate privacy regulations — such as whether an employee held a job at a particular workplace, or precisely what fraction of a company's workforce belonged to a certain race or had a certain level of education.

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

Each will make solid contributions to ornithology, while educating members of the public in the scientific method, says Barbara Butler of the National Science Foundation's informal science education programme, which is funding the experiments.

«These results come from a randomized experiment of the sort that generates gold - standard evidence in medicine, but remains far too rare in the area of social policy,» noted Roseanna Ander, Executive Director of the UChicago Urban Education Lab.

Also expressing satisfaction with the cross-fertilization of the various communities represented at the Noyce Summit, Shirley Malcom, director for AAAS Education and Human Resources Programs, said it is possible to experiment with new classroom methods and then to «backfill» according to what the research bears out in order to bolster and improve preservice education of STEM teachers, and STEM education itself, as quickly as Education and Human Resources Programs, said it is possible to experiment with new classroom methods and then to «backfill» according to what the research bears out in order to bolster and improve preservice education of STEM teachers, and STEM education itself, as quickly as education of STEM teachers, and STEM education itself, as quickly as education itself, as quickly as possible.

«All the kids [in primary school] had learned, but they had learned [those concepts] equally,» says Duflo, who is a co-founder of MIT's Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J - PAL), which conducts field experiments, often in education, around the globe.

These experiments shocked researchers in the fields of social psychology and education.

In addition to Newman, Mathews and myself, our panel finally included Kirtley Mather, professor of geology at Harvard; Jacob G. Lipman, director of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station at Rutgers University; W. C. Curtis, professor of zoology at the University of Missouri; Wilbur Nelson, state geologist of Tennessee; Maynard Metcalf, professor of zoology at Johns Hopkins University; Charles Judd, head of the University of Chicago School of Education; and Rabbi Herman Rosenwasser of San Francisco, a noted Hebrew scholar.

Address the issue of continuing professional education consistent with the new European directive requirements about regulatory training and lab animal experiments.

Through a program called IISME, or Industry Initiatives for Science and Mathematics Education, 12 high school science teachers from throughout the Bay Area spent part of their summer working with Berkeley Lab scientists on ongoing research projects, conducting and designing experiments and helping to collect and analyze data.

The National Science Education Standards and education research literature emphasize that students need to be engaged in the «process» of science — asking questions, forming hypotheses, designing experiments, collecting data, analyzing results, and drawing conEducation Standards and education research literature emphasize that students need to be engaged in the «process» of science — asking questions, forming hypotheses, designing experiments, collecting data, analyzing results, and drawing coneducation research literature emphasize that students need to be engaged in the «process» of science — asking questions, forming hypotheses, designing experiments, collecting data, analyzing results, and drawing conclusions.

This unique international event will provide the attendees with an innovative program focused on the best practices in the use of the mouse model for biomedical and basic research; this program also addresses the item of continuing professional education consistent with the new European directive requirement for lab animal protection in experiments.

According to new research out of the University of Edinburgh, two big contributing factors to longevity include education (each year of school added a year of life in this particular experiment) and maintaining a healthy weight.

It was after years of education, self research, experimenting with an array of different nutrition plans, supplements and topical solutions that I finally understood what the root cause of my acne was.

About Blog I believe education is for life and not just in the classroom, but in stacks of books, messy projects, adventures, cooking experiments, random questions leading to library excursions and Internet searches, the daily grind, and even lazy days when boredom makes way for creativity.

Here is Fader's stance on the «Education» aspect of the 30 Dating Experiments...

Their new enthusiasm encouraged me to begin experimenting with a «flipped» education model — a form of blended learning that calls for students to learn material outside of the classroom via video presentations and then apply their understanding in class.