They looked at a bunch
of school choices studies and tried to see if a school's impact on student test scores was connected to its impact on student life outcomes.
Not exact matches
This
study, a joint project
of PricewaterhouseCoopers and the London Business
School, looked at the
choices that managers in insurance, wealth management, and banking make with respect to bonuses, pay raises, and promotions.
For instance, a new
study led by a professor
of marketing at Stanford University's Graduate
School of Business finds that when hiring managers are given a
choice between proven ability and apparent potential, they often opt for the excitement
of the untested but promising candidate.
Keep in mind that some
choices, like changing
schools and majors, taking longer than prescribed to complete your program, or
studying abroad, could increase your costs
of school.
Study after study over the last twenty years has demonstrated the dramatic disparity between government - run education and schools of ch
Study after
study over the last twenty years has demonstrated the dramatic disparity between government - run education and schools of ch
study over the last twenty years has demonstrated the dramatic disparity between government - run education and
schools of choice.
Among the many factors that influence my
choice of milk to use in this recipe are several long - term
studies (including the Harvard's Health Professionals
Study and the one by Catherine S. Berkey
of Harvard Medical
School and Brigham and Women's Hospital) that have shown that even low - fat dairy products can contribute to weight gain.
Mayim Bialik, best know for her roles as «Blossom» and «Amy» in the Big Bang Theory, who holds a PH.D if Neuroscience and is the recent author
of «Beyond the Sling», mentioned that while in graduate
school studying the hormones
of human attachment as part
of her thesis, she started seeing the results
of these kinds
of parenting
choices.
One big reason
schools have few healthy
choices such as whole - grain bread and fresh fruit and vegetables is that they cost more, said Benjamin Senauer, a professor
of applied economics at the University
of Minnesota who
studies nutrition issues.
Many women don't want to deliver in a hospital because they fear their
choices — to avoid drugs, to avoid surgery, to be surrounded by their families, to be with the baby immediately after delivery — will be taken away, said Carolyn L. Gegor, program director
of the Nurse Midwifery / Women's Health Nurse Practitioner Program in the
School of Nursing and Health
Studies at Georgetown University Medical Center.
This damning statistic from last week's New
School study on school choice exposes the absurdity of new Chancellor Richard Carranza's vow that «all students will be supported» as he aims to desegregate the s
School study on
school choice exposes the absurdity of new Chancellor Richard Carranza's vow that «all students will be supported» as he aims to desegregate the s
school choice exposes the absurdity
of new Chancellor Richard Carranza's vow that «all students will be supported» as he aims to desegregate the system.
Not convinced that these preferences are universal, Rebecca Sear
of the London
School of Economics and Frank Marlowe
of Florida State University in Tallahassee
studied partner
choice in the Hazda forager tribe in Tanzania.
Faced with a
choice between the allure
of Silicon Valley and long years
of school followed by a series
of low - paying postdocs, many would - be physicists, engineers, and mathematicians chose to postpone or forego graduate
studies.
The
study, published in the September issue
of Annals
of Surgery online, shows that providing pricing information upfront can influence patient
choice of surgical procedures and potentially lead to cost savings in health care, a sector
of the economy that accounts for more than 17 percent
of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product, says Eric R. Scaife, M.D., senior author, associate professor
of surgery and chief
of pediatric surgery at the University
of Utah (U
of U)
School of Medicine.
The researchers note that additional
study of CBT answer -
choice selection and test navigation features and how they influence elementary and middle
school students» test performance is warranted.
That's the finding
of a new
study published in the Journal
of Marketing Research: «Healthy
Choice: The Effect
of Simplified Point -
of - Sale Nutritional Information on Consumer Food
Choice Behavior,» co-authored by Hristina Nikolova, the Coughlin Assistant Professor
of Marketing at the Carroll
School of Management at Boston College and J. Jeffrey Inman, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty and the Albert Wesley Frey Professor
of Marketing at the University
of Pittsburgh Joseph M. Katz Graduate
School of Business.
«More time for
school lunches equals healthier
choices for kids: Children are more likely to eat fruits and vegetables when given at least 25 minutes for lunch, according to a new
study the Journal
of the Academy
of Nutrition and Dietetics.»
► Gender imbalance persists, the authors say, because
of choices girls and women make well before they attain professorships — especially the
choice that many make during
school: not to
study math.
UF / IFAS assistant professor
of food and resource economics Jaclyn Kropp — along with economists at Georgia State University, Clemson University and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration — worked with a county
school food services director to develop a novel research model to
study school lunch
choices children make, combining lunch sales data collected at the cafeteria register with data on student absences.
Mulembakani enrolled in medical
school, and near the end
of his
studies he was faced with a tough
choice.
«Scholarships give our students the gift
of freedom: to make career
choices based on purpose and passion, rather than the price
of education; to use time to
study, explore science, and volunteer to help others, rather than working to make ends meet; and to succeed because someone who never met them saw enough potential to invest in their dreams,» said Catherine Lucey, MD, vice dean for education at UCSF's
School of Medicine.
The popular belief that healthy eating starts at home and that parents» dietary
choices help children establish their nutritional beliefs and behaviors may need rethinking, according to a
study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health.
Institute for Research in
Schools London Transport Museum — Inspiring Engineering Young Engineers — Making Knexions Design & Technology Association V&A — Engineering Season (Mind over Matter exhibition) Surrey Wildlife Trust — Nower Wood Education Centre Progressive Palaeontology Conference 2017 Arkwright Scholarships Trust — Liaison officers CaSE — Shaping the Future
of Science British Science Association CREST Awards Smallpeice Trust — Electronics programme EDT First Edition EDT EES Applied — Further Development Tomorrow's Engineers — Impact Research
Study Kids Invent Stuff — Big Inventor Little Inventor Royal West
of England Academy — My Future My
Choice Surrey SATRO — Mega Structures Challenge BBC World Service — The Engineers — Robots Natural History Museum Armourers & Brasiers Cambridge Forum
More than 30 percent
of Americans live with at least one cat, and they re probably getting the same stress relief and happy - hormone release from their pet
of choice that dog - owners get; there are simply fewer
studies to prove it, says judge Alan Beck, ScD, director
of the Center for Human - Animal Bond at the Purdue University
School of Veterinary Medicine.
A
study reported in the Archives
of Family Medicine found that kids who regularly sit down with their families for an evening meal make wiser food
choices, eat more vegetables, and get more nutrients than those who do not.2 For older children, the American Psychological Association found that family mealtime plays an important role in helping teens deal with the pressures
of adolescence, such as motivation for
school, peer relationships, depression, and making better
choices with drugs and alcohol.
Precise, too, are Davis» career
choices since
studying under acclaimed Montreal, Quebec — based acting teacher Jacqueline McClintock and then moving to New York City eight years ago to train at the Neighborhood Playhouse
School of the Theatre.
Increasing numbers
of U.S. students, over time, are attending public
schools of choice rather than their neighborhood
schools, a federal
study concludes.
These
studies show, consistently, that parental
schools of choice not controlled by public
school districts 1) are usually prohibited by law from screening out students based on admission exams, 2) use ability tracking less frequently than traditional public
schools even when, legally, they can, and 3) may use ability tracking, but when they do, it is less likely to have a negative effect on the achievement
of low - track students.
I've identified 10 rigorously designed
studies of charter and private
school choice programs with later life outcomes.
High
school students using PBL in American
studies performed as well on multiple -
choice tests as students who received a traditional model
of instruction, and they showed a deeper understanding
of content (Gallagher & Stepien, 1996).
Two conclusions from recent PISA
studies are that increased national performance is associated with greater equity in the distribution
of educational resources and that equity can be undermined when
school choice segregates students into
schools based on socioeconomic background.
I've written about this at greater length elsewhere (see here and here), but we have eight rigorous
studies of school choice programs in which the long - term outcomes
of those policies do not align with their short - term achievement test results.
[5] This central finding, together with our
study, only reinforces our ultimate conclusion: it is critical to consider what kinds
of choices we are offering families in urban, suburban and rural areas across the country, and in charter or traditional public
schools alike.
When I meet parents with children in Years 5 and 6 who are starting to plan their child's senior
school, I try and paint a picture
of the
choices a learner will need to make for Year 12
study; six years into the future.»
School choice programs which allow parents to select the
schools their children attend deepen educational inequality and fail to yield consistent learning gains, according to nine
studies of choice initiatives coordinated by researchers at the Harvard Graduate
School of Education.
My colleagues and I have shown that such differences exist in a
study that followed a group
of students into and out
of public and private
schools in Milwaukee (see «Special
Choices,» features, Summer 2012).
In this
study, I find that winning a lottery for admission to the
school of choice greatly reduces criminal activity, and that the greatest reduction occurs among youth at the highest risk for committing crimes.
In addition, 86 %
of day students at the
school were accepted into their first -
choice university,
of which over a third
of students (38 %) will be going on to
study at a top 10 ranked university in the country.
Within K - 12 education, it seems to me that any
study of school choice environments should include an analysis
of civil society and the role it plays in enabling the delivery
of high - quality public education.
Hess's second case
study focuses on the five - year - old voucher plan in Cleveland, where he finds that the potential benefits
of choice and competition were neutralized by multiple factors, including frequent changes in leadership, the state's move to take over the city's
schools, the modest size
of the vouchers (only $ 2,250), and the existence
of strong unions.
The Milwaukee
school choice program and the response
of Milwaukee Public
Schools are especially significant in light
of Frederick M. Hess's
study of the effects
of competition on large urban
school districts.
Among male high
school students at high risk
of criminal activity, winning admission to a first -
choice school reduced felony arrests from 77 to 43 per 100 students over the
study period (2002 - 2009).
The
study examines the impact
of winning a
school choice lottery on dropout rates and crime for groups
of students with different propensities to commit crimes, using an index
of crime risk that includes test scores, demographics, behavior, and neighborhood characteristics to identify the highest - risk group.
Hess uses these case
studies to speculate on how
choice might be introduced in ways that both respect the built - in political and organizational constraints
of urban
school districts and lead to
school improvement.
The three
studies find neutral to positive impacts
of private
school choice on college enrollment and graduation, but with some variation:
The book emerged from the authors»
study of choice programs in the
schools of San Antonio, but it became an attempt at a sweeping synthesis
of scholarly work on education policy, drawing on literature in philosophy, economics, political science, education, and law.
«Principal Stratification Approach to Broken Randomized Experiments: A Case
Study of School Choice Vouchers in New York City,» «Comment,» and «Rejoinder» By John Barnard, Constantine E. Frangakis, Jennifer L. Hill, and Donald B. Rubin; «Comment» by Alan Krueger and Pei Zhu Journal
of the American Statistical Association, June 2003.
To many in the media, both
studies sound like they are estimating the effectiveness
of charter
schools or maybe even the impact
of school choice — so shouldn't the answer be the same?
CAMBRIDGE, MA — A new
study of the Charlotte - Mecklenburg, North Carolina (CMS)
school choice program finds that high - risk male youth who are admitted by lottery to their preferred
schools commit fewer crimes and remain in
school longer than their peers who seek admittance but do not gain seats in the lottery process.
DC and Milwaukee are both citywide programs, but DC is unique in its robust system
of public
school choice — roughly 35 percent
of the control group in our
study attended charter
schools, for example.
The statement includes a list
of these developments: the US Supreme Court ruled scholarships constitutional; numerous
studies showed these programs benefit needy kids; families empowered with this
choice express great satisfaction; urban districts continue to struggle despite great effort; chartering hasn't created enough high - quality seats; and smart accountability systems can ensure only high - quality private
schools participate in these programs.