Sentences with phrase «of effective schools research»

In recent years, we have seen a revival of effective schools research, most likely due to widespread national concerns about student reading achievement.

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The team researched what kind of technologies Howard's could incorporate that would be most cost effective for Howard's without sacrificing the «old school» feel to the store, Miramontes says.

According to the TD report, recent research indicates that boys demonstrate more confidence in math and more voluntary participation in high school and university math classes, implying that more effective methods of «developing numeracy skills and confidence» in young girls are needed.

Our schools send teams of educators, parents, and students to our annual fall conference at Stanford University where they hear the latest research on best practices in education and learn from each other how to create effective school reform.

But what the research I've described here makes clear is that intervening in the lives of disadvantaged children — by educating them better in school, helping their parents support them better at home, or, ideally, some combination of the two — is the most effective and promising anti-poverty strategy we have.

Utilizing the resources of a prominent advisory board of interdisciplinary experts, the co-founders created a research - based organization that develops practical curriculum, conferences, and programs for parents, schools, and kids looking for a healthier and more effective path to success in the 21st century.

The Issaquah School District PTSA, in partnership with the Issaquah Schools Foundation and Swedish Hospital, bring you ParentWiser, a lecture series focused on bringing parents of our schools the latest research and information to be the most effective parents they Schools Foundation and Swedish Hospital, bring you ParentWiser, a lecture series focused on bringing parents of our schools the latest research and information to be the most effective parents they schools the latest research and information to be the most effective parents they can be.

«Based on research and experience, more and more local districts are rejecting the use of ineffective strategies like corporal punishment as an acceptable form of school discipline in favor of effective techniques, like the Positive Behavioral Support system favored by most educators,» said Vitaglione.

While Tough references this research in his first book, he explained to me that he did not connect the research with an understanding of what kinds of school programs are effective.

Much of my research was done in a school setting, and some of the most effective programs that I've seen are the ones that develop community within a classroom or within a whole school.

Browne said previous research by the IFS showed the allowance was effective in keeping 16 - to 18 - year - olds in school, especially those of non-working parents, while child benefit for people higher up the income scale was unlikely to have the same effect.

Judith Gasson, senior associate dean for research at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and director of the Jonsson Cancer Center, said researchers have long hoped to develop an effective and lasting immunotherapy to fight cancer.

The study, published in The Journal of Social Studies Research, shows iCivics is an effective tool for teaching civics concepts to primary and middle school students.

As teaching assistants (TAs) during graduate school, many of us developed our own «teaching style,» but due to research and coursework responsibilities, developing an effective teaching strategy was not a high priority.

Dr Sian Clarke from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, also a principal investigator in the research, said: «This study shows that rapid diagnostic tests can improve the use of artemisinin - based combination therapies — the most effective treatment for malaria — in drug shops, but it's not without its challenges.

This will allow us to research obstructive sleep apnea in pregnant women more effectively, and to develop and implement more effective treatments,» said co-author Dr. Suzanne Karan, a visiting researcher at the Hebrew University - Hadassah Medical Center who is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Director of the Anesthesiology Respiratory Physiology Laboratory at the University of Rochester School of Medicine.

«Real - time magnetic resonance - guided stereotactic laser amygdalohippocampotomy (SLAH) is a technically novel, safe and effective alternative to open surgery,» according to the new research by Dr. Robert E. Gross of Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, and colleagues.

The research project — based on the WHO Health Promoting Schools concept — focused on increasing the awareness of the importance of oral health among children, families, and schoolteachers in order to develop a healthy school environment, a healthy diet, regular dental care habits in young children and the use of effective fluoridated toothpaste.

«Although acceleration is widely supported by research as an effective strategy for meeting the needs of advanced learners, it's still rarely used, and most schools do not systematically look for students who need it,» said study co-author Paula Olszewski - Kubilius, director of the Center for Talent Development at the Northwestern's School of Education and Social Policy.

«Prior research at Yale has demonstrated that buprenorphine treatment is highly effective in primary care, and this study was designed in part to expand the reach of this treatment to this critical ED patient population,» said Dr. Patrick O'Connor, professor of medicine and chief of general internal medicine at Yale School of Medicine.

The study, «Scaling and Sustaining Effective Early Childhood Programs Through School - Family - University Collaboration,» was conducted by Dr. Arthur Reynolds, a University of Minnesota professor of child development, and colleagues in the Human Capital Research Collaborative (HCRC).

But Marcia Angell, a senior lecturer in social medicine at Harvard Medical School and the former editor of The New England Journal of Medicine, says companies often structure research in a manner that is most likely to yield favorable conclusions — by comparing a medication against a placebo, for instance, instead of comparing it with its most effective competitors.

New research indicates that hormonal intrauterine devices (IUDs) and contraceptive implants remain highly effective one year beyond their approved duration of use, according to a study at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

The research group «Viral infections in cattle» at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, which carried out this study, is currently engaged in projects that seek to identify the most effective ways of preventing new infections in herds.

New research indicates that hormonal IUDs, pictured here, and contraceptive implants remain highly effective one year beyond their approved duration of use, according to a study at Washington University School of Medicine.

Scientific American spoke with Garen Wintemute, director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California, Davis, Medical Center, and Daniel Webster, director of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Gun Policy and Research, about four feasible legal and policy changes that would be most effective.

The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) and collaborators at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School have completed a promising preclinical study of two Zika vaccine candidates that suggests that an effective human vaccine will be achievable.

We found that performing MRI before biopsy and using that information to alter biopsy pathways would be a strategy that would add health benefits to the patient population in a cost effective manner,» said Vikas Gulani, MD, PhD, study advisor and associate professor of radiology, urology, and biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and member of both the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center and Case Center for Imaging Research.

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - led research also suggests that employing local community health educators instead of more formally educated nurses to counsel young at - risk mothers could be cost effective and provide badly needed jobs to high school graduates from the same impoverished communSchool of Public Health - led research also suggests that employing local community health educators instead of more formally educated nurses to counsel young at - risk mothers could be cost effective and provide badly needed jobs to high school graduates from the same impoverished communschool graduates from the same impoverished communities.

«From our past research, we know the ketogenic diet is effective in approximately one - third of adults with epilepsy who are resistant to traditional anti-seizure drugs,» says Mackenzie C. Cervenka, M.D., associate professor of neurology and director of the Adult Epilepsy Diet Center at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

«The high burden of early complications in youth with diabetes requires additional research to clarify the underlying causes and to identify effective intervention strategies,» said Dr. Dana Dabelea, lead author and co-chair of the national SEARCH Study and professor of epidemiology at the Colorado School of Public Health at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

The real value of the new research may be that these receptors can provide new and more effective therapies for current addicts, says Michael Nader, a physiologist and pharmacologist at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston - Salem, N.C. «This identifies a target,» he says.

«We need to confirm this synergistic activity of vemurafenib and cediranib across a broader range of melanoma models, investigate why the particular combination is effective, and find biomarkers that predict which patients with BRAF - mutant melanoma should receive this combination,» says Friedman, who is a research fellow in Dermatology at Harvard Medical School.

In a study appearing today in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS)(a research summary was presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeonsin March), researchers found that universal neuromuscular training for high school and college - age athletes — which focuses on the optimal way to bend, jump, land and pivot the knee — is an effective and inexpensive way to avoid ACL sprains and tears.

The lab - grown mini-brains, which researchers say are truer to life and more cost - effective than similar research models, came about thanks to the son of two Johns Hopkins scientists and two other high school students who were doing summer research internships.

PHILADELPHIA --(April 19, 2018)-- The Wistar Institute and partners at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Inovio Pharmaceuticals, and GeneOne Life Science were recognized among the Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Awards by the Clinical Research Forum for their ground - breaking phase 1 DNA - based Zika vaccine research — the first trial of a Zika vaccine in humans, which proved safe and efResearch Achievement Awards by the Clinical Research Forum for their ground - breaking phase 1 DNA - based Zika vaccine research — the first trial of a Zika vaccine in humans, which proved safe and efResearch Forum for their ground - breaking phase 1 DNA - based Zika vaccine research — the first trial of a Zika vaccine in humans, which proved safe and efresearch — the first trial of a Zika vaccine in humans, which proved safe and effective.

Modeling effective research ethics education in international collaborations: A learning - outcomes approach Presenters: Julia Kent, Council of Graduate Schools, USA; Daniel Denecke, Council of Graduate Schools, USA

Ho Lam Tang, Ph.D., who was recently appointed an assistant professor of neurosurgery at the School of Medicine (effective August), is one of 12 winners of the Hartwell Foundation's 2016 Individual Biomedical Research Award competition.

For those of us with kids in school where occasionally Lice rears it's ugly head: According to research published in the European Journal of Pediatrics, a combination of coconut oil and anise was found to be nearly twice as effective as the commonly prescribed permethrin lotion for the treatment of head lice.

Harvard and MIT Release Working Papers on Open Online Learning Harvard Gazette, 1/21/14 «Led by Andrew Ho of Harvard's Graduate School of Education and Isaac Chuang of MIT's electrical engineering and computer science and physics departments, the effort was in service of a mutual goal — «to research how students learn and how technologies can facilitate effective teaching both on - campus and online» — part of a mission statement established when MIT and Harvard joined to form edX, a nonprofit online learning platform, in May 2012.»

Education data expert FFT has teamed up with the University of Southampton to carry out the research as part of its work to provide better feedback to schools about the most effective use of data.

While the evidence for the effectiveness of charter schools nationwide is mixed, research has found that the charter schools in these cities are on average more effective than district schools in raising student test scores.

Delegates attending the BNF conference heard from a panel of eminent scientific experts including Professor Ashley Adamson from University of Newcastle, Dr Graham Moore from University of Cardiff, Professor John Reilly of University of Strathclyde, and Professor Jeanne Goldberg from Tufts University in Massachusetts, USA, about the role and impact of a whole school approach to nutrition; the association between breakfast consumption and education outcomes in primary schools, with particular reference to deprivation; the impact of obesity, and of physical activity, on academic attainment; and research which points to the most effective methods of communicating about nutrition with school children.

Books When Tim Oates, director of assessment research and development at exam board Cambridge Assessment, was asked to use his school curriculum expertise to lead the government's review of the national curriculum, his international research highlighted the importance of high quality textbooks in realising the aims of national curricula and supporting effective teaching.

Further research has also shown that the potential benefits of the programme go wider than pupil health, with FFL schools «consistently reporting that FFL had contributed to their school improvement agendas, helping improve attainment, behaviour and school environments» and that the experiential learning resulting from Food for Life activity «appears to have been particularly effective at helping engage or re-engage pupils with learning issues and challenges.»

Various strains of «effective schools» research going back decades find that leadership is essential for excellence.

In her synthesis of research on effective teacher professional development that has demonstrated a positive impact on student outcomes, Timperley (2008) identified 10 key principles, including: providing teachers with opportunities to drive their own professional development, allowing teachers to work collaboratively to learn and apply evidence based practices, establishing a professional learning culture that provides a safe and authentic environment for professional enquiry and ensuring school leaders take an active role in developing professional learning, and maintaining momentum within schools.

It provides knowledge and practical skills in: understanding business issues and how they influence HR decision ‑ making; employment law; researching data; resourcing and talent planning; reward management; and developing yourself and understanding the benefits of effective HR practice in schools.

Research suggests that middle school interdisciplinary teaching teams can achieve more effective problem solving when meeting with other faculty and / or parents to discuss interventions and progress, can create a greater sense of community, and can lower feelings of isolation (Mac Iver, 1990).

Research into highly effective schools has consistently highlighted the importance of effective teaching methods.