Sentences with phrase «of school field»

Students, on the other hand, may remember the experience of the school field trip as a highlight of the school year, and the time they learned more than anything taught in class.

Greene, Jay P., Erickson, Heidi H., Watson, Angela R., Beck, Molly I. (2017) «The Play's the Thing: Experimentally Examining the Social and Cognitive Effects of School Field Trips to Live Theater Performances» EDRE Working Paper 2017 - 13.

Because the randomized controlled trial approach has the important feature of generating comparable treatment and control groups, we can use a straightforward set of analytic techniques, designed for use in social experiments, to estimate the impact of a school field trip to see live theater on student outcomes.

To address these questions, we evaluated a second experiment focused on the long - term impact of school field trips to see theater, dance, and musical performances at the Walton Arts Center (WAC) in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

I chose five specific places to stop along the way: at a tree, at a flat and dry piece of our school field, at the top of a hill in the park near the school, at an area where a number of rocks are gathered, and, finally, by a stream.

Not exact matches

When the school year ends, we may take a week or two to ourselves much like someone in any other field; however, at the end of that time, we need to get ourselves back into gear.

Instead, the brothers bought an old school bus chassis that had a seat and an engine, so they could drive instead of pull it around the fields.

Since the field is highly competitive, getting a job straight out of high school can be difficult.

Schooling is great so you understand the underlying fundamentals of your field, but even then, book smart can only get you so far.

Dick's removed assault - style weapons from those stores in 2012 after the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre and shifted that part of its business to Field & Stream.)

Once an optional stop on the career path, internships are increasingly becoming de rigeur for young people — often high school, undergraduate, and graduate students — looking for hands on experience in a wide range of fields.

Recent figures on who took the high - school AP exam in computer science paint a picture of a professional field that appears to be moving backward, not forward.

According to GirlsWhoCode, 74 percent of middle - school girls express interest in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields, yet only 0.4 percent of high - school girls plan to study computer science as a major in college.

«This is a topic that's been researched to death by the field of industrial and organizational psychology,» says Peter Cappelli, management professor and director of the center for human resources at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Young women are simply losing interest in these fields as an area of study and a profession as they progress from middle school to high school to college.

Last June, the internet giant debuted its Made with Code campaign in an effort to get young women excited about computer science — a field that less than one percent of high school girls think of as part of their future.

For the last contest, which took place on December 3, 2009, 10 finalists emerged from a field of 150 concepts and challengers from 40 schools.

As Kenneth Freeman, dean of Boston University's School of Management, explains, «Rankings include starting salary among the metrics and many MBAs from higher ranked schools go into the higher paying finance and technology fields, with fewer taking lower paying roles in non-profits for example.

At the University of Texas» McCombs School of Business, the percentage of students who took jobs in the technology and finance fields was «neck - to - neck» this year for the first time, said Velma Arney, McComb's director of BBA career services, with 12 % of students heading into technology and 13 % going into banking.

The finance sector's allure has held strong at the University of Virginia's McIntire School, where 47.8 % of students accepted jobs in the field in 2014, nearly the same number as last year, said Tom Fitch, McIntire's associate dean for career services and employer relations.

Business schools can expose you to a curriculum you might not seek out on your own, and force you to learn the basics of fields like accounting that can be hard to learn by yourself.

The dean of UT Dallas» business school explains why he joined a crowded field of business school ranking competitors and what separates his approach from the others.

This includes a $ 37 million pledge to the University of Washington School of Social work, $ 11 million for scholarships to Washington residents in STEM fields, a $ 50 million pledge to the University of Oregon for scholarships and obesity prevention, and about $ 60 million to Harvard's computer science facility.

If you've thought of working in the healthcare field but aren't particularly interested in seven years of medical school, a career in audiology or speech - language pathology might be of interest to you.

Tony Rader, the vice president of Schwob Building Company, a general contractor in the Dallas area, said his company has started handing out flyers at sporting events, churches and schools in hopes of luring more people into the field.

TOKYO (Reuters)- A window fell from a U.S. helicopter onto a school sports field near a U.S. Marines air base on Okinawa on Wednesday, the Marines said, the latest in a series of accidents that have fanned safety concerns on Japan's southern island.

Justin Wolfers, an associate professor of business and public policy at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, argued those working in the field of happiness economics mistakenly imagine that the world is run by legions of politicians and economists whose love of GDP approaches religious fervor.

But her effort to better understand the lack of female representation in tech fields — especially given what she observed in schools while on the campaign trail — ended up changing the course of her career.

Becoming a star on the football pitch (as Europeans call a soccer field) and in business requires «practice, practice, and practice,» and the successful manager must always be prepared to «retune things,» Ferguson told a group of Stanford Graduate School of Business students.

With over 30 faculty members, the Finance Area is the largest at the Rotman School and has some of the world's leading thinkers in this field.

However at a less competitive school, Hartwick College, many in the top third of their class earned math and science degrees and went on to successfully pursue careers in those fields.

Mr. Obradovich is a graduate of the Haileybury School of Mines in mining technology and advanced field geophysics.

Roy D. Simon, a professor emeritus of legal ethics at Hofstra University School of Law, suggested that the practice has helped «level the playing field» by providing resources for people to mount cases against big institutions that would be impossible otherwise.

When I was teaching at the New School already 50 years ago, graduate students were dropping out of the field because they couldn't fit reality into the curriculum.

In the AACSB's report on the school, the review panel highlighted several successes in the field of engagement, innovation, impact and school strengths.

The Area of OB / HRM at the Rotman School of Management aims to create a collegial environment in which faculty can pursue high - quality research in the fields of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management.

When a couple of Canadian economists published research (pdf) last December showing that using an alternative methodology yields much better productivity growth rates, StatsCan was quick to reject it, even though one of the authors, Erwin Diewert, a professor at the University of British Columbia's Vancouver School of Economics, is widely regarded as one of the world's finest brains in the field.

For graduates right out of school who are underemployed or are in low - salary fields, their monthly paycheck is often not enough to cover their living expenses and their debt.

First taught as electives and now part of core business school curriculums, the field is still struggling to escape from the bounds of the business plan - centric view that startups are «smaller versions of a large company.»

I am planning on going to grad school and do something similar like a residency that will take 2 years to complete; a total of 3 years when I will be done and be able to work in my professional field.

She also led the development of HBS's innovative FIELD curriculum, which focuses on learning experiences that are experiential and immersive, with the goal of advancing the School's mission to develop leaders who make a difference in the world.

Follows Kevin Simpson, a second - year Harvard Business School 1990 student, through his job search to his final decision between two very attractive but different job offers: a job as an international marketing manager at Eli Lilly and Co., a leading multinational health product corporation; and a position as the assistant to the president of Haemonetics, an entrepreneurial company in the biomedical equipment field.

Trained as an architect at the University of Virginia's School of Architecture, Susi previously worked for 10 years in that field, most recently as a Project Architect for Robert A.M. Stern.

However, schooling in a related field can replace some or all of that experience requirement.

The BLM Winnemucca District, Black Rock Field Office, Friends of Black Rock - High Rock, Friends of Nevada Wilderness and Nevada Outdoor School are hosting the annual Black Rock Rendezvous event May 25 - 28 at the Black Rock Desert.

Though it is ostensibly about my own contribution to the field of American religion, the review nevertheless begins and ends with a paean to Timothy George, «a Baptist who is dean of Beeson Divinity School and who will also deliver our annual Erasmus Lecture in October.»

He was then tied up with a pillowcase over his head, stripped naked, assaulted and left in the middle of a field at an elementary school.

Before we started planning this great adventure, I sought the advice of an old hand in the field of Catholic boys» schools, Eric Hester, well known to readers of this journal.

Since many Candler students serve local churches in pastoral roles while they attend seminary, the kind of field education program common in theological schools, a program that provided elementary exposure to the tasks of ministry, was not appropriate.

Returning to school, which was admirable for birding, being small and in the country, with nothing but fields, woods, and streams for miles around, I began to learn the small land birds of eastern Pennsylvania and in a few years knew them fairly completely without any assistance from others except the Reed's guide.