Sentences with phrase «of academic help on»

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Economists and academics are divided on whether the Fed's policies have truly helped the rich at the expense of the rest of America.

Cited thousands of times in the news media and academic literature, Dr. Morgan's work on the topic has helped to spark national policy debate regarding universal pharmacare in Canada.

«Professor Siddiqui, supported by a panel with a strong balance of academic, religious and legal expertise, will help us better understand whether and the extent to which Sharia law is being misused or exploited and make recommendations to the government on how to address this.»

I grew up with a missing parent, i was always on the poor side of life and never had a lot of «Gifts» that help me in school academics.

Looking at the Bible from a Academic perspective you can not dismiss its effect on helping an individual control selfishness to the benefit of society.

It has helped me to calm my mind and unwind the inner tangles that were hanging out in my body from years of personal athletic abuse, and from being on the strict and demanding schedule of academics.

After school program helping children with academic, behavioral and social struggles by focusing on the root of the issues, the brain.

Author of the teen survival guide, How to Deal, and noted media expert on teen issues, Dr. Jerry is focused on helping teens cope with parents, teachers, friends and academic pressure, communicating with them in a way they understand to help successfully navigate the dramas and pressures of adolescence.

The Felder - Silverman model of learning styles is based on Myers - Briggs terminology; the site is quite academic and detailed, but has a useful questionnaire to help determine likely styles in this system.

Eligible activities will include an activity that: contributes to the development of creative skills or expertise in artistic or cultural activities; provides a substantial focus on wilderness and the natural environment; helps children develop and use particular intellectual skills; includes structured interaction among children where supervisors teach or help children develop interpersonal skills; or provides enrichment or tutoring in academic subjects.

Challenge number two is — this is something that I became more aware of working on Helping Children Succeed — that even going beyond the challenges that low - income kids face and the gaps in our academic outcomes, there are significant problems with some of the basic approaches to teaching and education that we have in our schools: The basic principles of American pedagogy, how we teach math, how we teach anything.

He focuses on wider audiences using video material to help communicate the emotional significance of «Attachment Theory,» a potentially dry academic subject with very personally challenging significance.

The process, which took roughly XX hours over the course of four months, helped overcome terminology barriers between the medical professionals and educational personnel, as well as helped teachers understand the impact of concussions on academics and vice-versa, including cognitive function, classroom environment, and symptom resolution.

The fair provides expert counseling on a one - on - one basis with representatives from various organizations to help participants identify a pathway to immeasurable opportunities for personal, academic, and professional advancement to improve their quality of life,» said Cumbo, who is the council's majority leader.

Encouraging the social - emotional development of students while teaching traditional academic subjects builds a positive school climate focused on fairness and caring about others — and helps to foster healthy, confident adults.

Hill leads an NSF - supported program for future K - 12 science teachers to help infuse their classrooms with climate change science, and an industry - academic partnership to understand the consequences of ocean acidification on shellfish farmers.

Brooklyn to Big Bioscience: Fuhgeddaboudit As the president of Genspace, a community laboratory in downtown Brooklyn, New York, Ellen Jorgensen is helping to democratize biology — making it less the purview of academics and Big Pharma and more an enterprise accessible to anyone who wants a hands - on scientific experience.

Peisner - Feinberg said the report's conclusions are consistent with FPG's comprehensive review of research on young Latino or Spanish - speaking children, which confirmed last year that widely available public programs help dual - language learners make important academic gains.

The report calls for a battery of government and institutional measures to better support scientists on short - term contracts, including gathering comprehensive data on their working conditions, helping them devise career plans, creating more academic jobs, and encouraging them to apply for permanent positions.

Last year, the importance of his work, especially on SARS, helped Chowell - Puente win Mexico's prestigious National Youth Prize (academic category).

Her analysis goes on to show how the structure of the admissions process helps perpetuate the privileges of students already in the academic stratosphere.

... Our analysis thus documents a key benefit of high - skilled immigration in the US, which relies on innovation for growth and helps to explain the vociferous complaints by US academic departments about visa restrictions on foreign graduate students.

I can't help wondering why, if only 15 % to 20 % of grad students and postdocs go on to academic careers, do we describe the career choices of the other 80 % as «alternative»?

Stellar grades in college could hurt — rather than help — women new to the job market, according to a new study that suggests employers place more value on the perceived «likability» of female applicants than on their academic success.

On 27 July, the regents of the University of California (UC) took a step unprecedented in U.S. history, one that laboratory safety experts believe is likely to help raise the customarily lax safety standards that have prevailed until now in many academic labs across the country.

Though hardly the final word on such a hot - button issue, the new study helps clarify the academic effects of ability grouping and acceleration.

But despite these two tracks being completely separate, two recent rounds of interviews for clients on either side of this divide helped me recognize what a successful Indian plant breeder has in common with an equally first - rate American cell biologist: The passion they have for what they do still drives their career success a decade after leaving the academic lab.

The UW On - Ramps workshops aimed to broaden the universe of women from which universities can hire — and ultimately to change the culture of STEM departments and make them more welcoming to underrepresented groups — by helping highly qualified women with nonacademic career trajectories navigate the transition to academic employment.

«For academic postdocs, the transition needs to be on the job, aided with the help of mentoring programs,» says Johnson & Johnson's Andrade - Gordon.

The opposing perspectives on data sharing can clash most fiercely in collaborations between professors and companies, but academics can help avoid disputes by determining up front the details of their ability to write up their results.

For those embarking on a chemistry career in Canada, the new resource at Careerchem.com helps students to identify leading scientists in emerging areas of chemistry, to locate alumni from a department or a particular advisor's group who were successful in obtaining academic positions in Canada and the United States, and to discover particular patterns of recruitment for faculty positions at chemistry departments in Canada.

The impact of student debt on career choice has been a concern of academic leaders since the early 1990s, when a series of commentaries published in medical journals warned of a serious drought in the physician - scientist pipeline unless something was done to help recruit and retain people on that career path.

The academics believe spotting «procrastinators» who hand in work at the last minute early on and warning them of the dangers of the habit could help students achieve higher grades.

Since then, I'm helping to start a science advocacy group on campus in hopes of improving public trust in scientists and opening conversations between academic researchers and the local community.

To help you with what is likely to be the toughest transition in your academic career, Science Careers has put together a roundup of our best articles on the topic.

By partnering with Science Buddies to create Project Ideas based on your research, you can help inspire thousands of students, annually, while meeting your own academic outreach and research grant funding needs.

July 7, 2016 UChicago to support NIH million - person precision medicine study The University of Chicago is one of three Illinois academic institutions that will work together to help launch President Obama's Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) Cohort Program to enroll 1 million or more participants in a national research effort designed to find better ways to prevent and treat disease based on lifestyle, environment and genetics.

In these roles, she has helped advocate for the implementation of NPA's recommended policies and practices for research fellows across various academic institutions, participated in fundraising, built strategic partnerships, and served on committee leader search panels.

The University of Chicago is one of three Illinois academic institutions that will work together to help launch President Obama's Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) Cohort Program to enroll 1 million or more participants in a national research effort designed to find better ways to prevent and treat disease based on lifestyle, environment and genetics.

Help and Hope for ADHD The Brain Balance Program is designed to offer a drug - free, integrated approach that focuses on the whole child and brings parents and kids together to achieve a common goal of improving a child's processing and learning ability, leading to a more successful academic and personal life.

Think: the floundering security agent turned away from working in the highest office, only to be trapped there in a time of crisis; the plucky child barely talking to her father, soon needing his help to survive; the weary government agent approaching his last week of service, certain to have a memorable swansong; the overworked employee forced to deal with distress on her day off; the leader lambasted for being an academic, then swiftly becoming an action hero.

The playbook, written by our adjunct fellow, Heather Staker, draws on findings from a pilot project focused on helping teachers motivate their students to high levels of academic performance.

To those who blanch at Coleman's vision of making academics a spectator sport, Kelley says the focus of Arete, as with the rowers» fitness test, is on helping students achieve «personal best» milestones, a strategy that most schools rarely use.

My teachers noticed immediately that I was withdrawing from academic life, and through a series of roundtable discussions and weekly one - on - one conversations, they gave me a safe space to talk about what I was going through, helped me create a plan to get back on track, and reminded me how far I had come and how far I could still go.

The ASD - ENA data has helped to highlight a number of identified learning needs and offers some useful insights on how to best support students on the spectrum in the following areas: academic and learning; behaviour; sensory issues; communication; transition; school connectedness; student wellbeing; and, technology.

Clifford Adelman, a researcher whose work for the U.S. Department of Education in the late 1990s helped shape the field's thinking about what constitutes sound academic preparation for college, says that although occupational certificates are becoming «the new currency» in the push for more postsecondary education, the value of many certificates is questionable because of a lack of consensus on the competencies required to earn them.

«Connected Beginnings helps children enjoy good health, to set them on the way to academic success and a lifetime of better opportunities,» Mr Wyatt said.

Although there is some indication that the implementation of MCAS testing has improved curriculum and helped push students and teachers to focus more aggressively on academic achievement, the potential consequences of depriving thousands of students a high - school diploma is simply unacceptable to most teachers.

In the two schools that had reopened, the Ed School students provided administrative and academic support in a number of areas, including in - classroom support through reading groups, one - on - one tutoring, and substitute teaching; organization and distribution of school uniforms; help to renew the libraries; and organization of after school electives such as Latin dancing, basketball tournaments, soccer games, and chess clubs.

Dr. Ken Shore offers eight tips to help minimize the effects of the asthma on students» academic and social success.