Sentences with phrase «public schools in the study»

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To help determine whether it will result in a real improvement in the lives of garment workers or in business results, Levi's has enlisted Harvard's School of Public Health to rigorously measure and study the initiative.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

«Our findings suggest that frequent e-cigarette use may play an important role in cessation or relapse prevention for some smokers,» Daniel Giovenco, an assistant professor of sociomedical sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the lead study author, said in a statement.

In a study commissioned by leadership consultant Green Peak Partners, and conducted by Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, researchers looked at 72 senior executives at public, venture - backed and private - equity sponsored companies and found that self - awareness was the biggest predictor of a CEO's overall success.

One recent (if small study) that followed a diverse group 183 teens who attended public high school for a decade, starting in middle school, found that «by the age of 22, these «cool kids» are rated as less socially competent than their peers.

For a recent study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health analyzed the eating habits of more than 200,000 health care workers over the course of more than 20 years.

After graduating from Syracuse University with a degree in English and a concentration in film studies, she returned to her Alma Mater for her Masters in Digital Communications from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

Mayor Tubbs graduated in 2012 from Stanford University with a Master's degree in Policy, Leadership and Organization Studies, plus a Bachelor's degree with honors; he is a Truman Scholar and a recipient of the highest university award, the Dinkelspiel.Tubbs has been a college course instructor for Aspire Public Schools and a Fellow at the Stanford Institute of Design and the Emerson Collective.

Harvard Business School did a study: If you invested a dollar 20 years ago in a select portfolio of public companies focused just on growing their businesses, that dollar would've grown to $ 14.46.

Kesselman, who holds the Canada Research Chair in Public Finance with the School of Public Policy at Simon Fraser University, co-authored the 2001 study that laid the foundation for the TFSA introduced in 2009 with a $ 5,000 annual contribution limit.

Phil earned his MBA from the University of Oklahoma, his Masters in International Economics from SDA Bocconi (Milan), and his Masters in Public Policy from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University; and he completed his undergraduate studies in finance at Michigan State University.

At the event, which was hosted by the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law in New Haven, Powell highlighted three specific areas where blockchain technology is affecting change in regard to the Federal Reserve's «broad public policy objectives»: the creation of real - time payment systems, use of blockchain technology for clearing and settlement services, and the issuance of digital currencies by central banks.

All this despite the fact that private schooling doesn't actually yield better outcomes for students, according to a recent Statistics Canada report (instead, the apparent academic success of private school student is due to their socioeconomic backgrounds).9 A UBC study also found that students from public schools scored higher in first - year university classes than their private school counterparts.10

A more recent study is even more striking: «The achievement of students in Catholic high schools was less dependent on family background and personal circumstances than was true in the public schools.»

In one study of a fundamentalist Protestant academy (Bethany Bible Academy), a Jewish intellectual found the Bethany students more tolerant on issues of race, religion and freedom of speech and less concerned with making a lot of money than their public school peers.

This study found that «the achievement advantage of white over minority students... increases in public schools during the last two years of schooling, whereas the minority gap actually decreases in Catholic schools.»

David Johnston, author of Earth, Empire and Sacred Text, Christine Schirrmacher, a scholar with the Institute of Islamic Studies of the Evangelical Alliance in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and Joseph Cumming, director of the reconciliation program at Yale Divinity School, discuss whether Christians should support laws that ban Muslim women from wearing the face veil in public.

It might be supposed that we could turn to the schools, since the task of the schools is constantly being enlarged, but the very nature of the modern school precludes this, as we have already noted in Chapter I. (For a careful and scholarly study of this problem see Alvin W. Johnson, The Legal Status of Church - State Relationships in the United States with Special Reference to the Public Schools, University of Minnesota Press,schools, since the task of the schools is constantly being enlarged, but the very nature of the modern school precludes this, as we have already noted in Chapter I. (For a careful and scholarly study of this problem see Alvin W. Johnson, The Legal Status of Church - State Relationships in the United States with Special Reference to the Public Schools, University of Minnesota Press,schools is constantly being enlarged, but the very nature of the modern school precludes this, as we have already noted in Chapter I. (For a careful and scholarly study of this problem see Alvin W. Johnson, The Legal Status of Church - State Relationships in the United States with Special Reference to the Public Schools, University of Minnesota Press,Schools, University of Minnesota Press, 1934.)

The study of what used to be called «public administration» thus commands little prestige in the public policy graduate schools, which employ many of the authors represented in these and similar volumes.

Statistical studies of the frequency of sexual abuse of minors in the general population as well as statistics about abuse among other groups such as public school teachers lend support to MacRae's point.

Third, there are liberal constitutional arguments for requiring, not just permitting, the study of religion in public schools.

Some continue to believe, mistakenly, that our constitutional «wall of separation» between church and state prohibits serious study of religion in public schools.

With a consistency rare in educational research, studies have found that pupils in and graduates of religious schools are, if anything, more tolerant of racial and religious differences than are those educated in public schools.

No teacher should be or need be at a loss to deal intelligently and fairly with most religious issues that might arise in public schools in a pluralistic society, and every teacher can be and ought to be prepared to grasp the religious dimensions in any subject of study and to use sectarian differences to clarify issues and enrich the learning of all.

Right now the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada is conducting a major study of the public character of theological education, with a special focus on how seminaries can educate leaders who take their public role seriously.

Look up studies on whether girls in private schools are more chaste than public school girls.

After reviewing the apparent collapse of the freethinking movement after 1900, Schmidt turns to the post-war shift in Supreme Court jurisprudence: the rejection of blasphemy laws, limits on the school - supported study of religion, and the overturning of theistic requirements for public office or jury service.

Scientific naturalists who take this line sometimes add that they do not necessarily object to the study of creationism in the public schools, provided it occurs in literature and social science classes rather than in science class.

One may certainly refrain from insisting, as some Jewish leaders have, upon mandated Holocaust studies in the public school curriculum: for many people, such «mandates» might appear as an effort to establish the passion of the Jews as the larger culture's defining story, thus, ironically, giving plausibility to anti-Semitic claims about Jewish power.

One public school recently took kids on a field trip to a Christian festival and left all the other kids on campus in a day long study hall.

@chad You will say something to get last word in so take it up with the courts It is illegal to teach creationism / ID or bible studies in public schools in US STEM science standards for 2013 They are making ears.

Ryan Valentine of the Texas Freedom Network takes a different view: «Academic study of the Bible in a history or literature course is perfectly acceptable,» he says, «but this curriculum represents a blatant attempt to turn a public school class into a Sunday school class.

If you care to believe the Hofstra University study on the matter there is more abuse percentage wise in our own public schools than there ever has been in the Catholic Church.Not justifying it but you must remember that our public schools have laws and unions that are protected by the laws of our very own government.

I mean that a lot of Christians (primarily Christians) feel that they don't need to study something and the fundamental types will probably refuse to go to a public school because of this too, because they strongly believe in miracles, and in God that provides all answer's.

In a recent article on FoxNews.com, Parents Television Council president Tim Winter comments on a 2004 study from the Harvard School of Public Health showing evidence that today's movies contain significantly more violence, sex and profanity than movies of the same rating a decade ago.

Romero also did his schooling in the local public schools, later his parents sent him to study under a teacher named Anita Iglesias.

But public schools in this country have rarely engaged in the study of religion as such.

This effort, like that of the NCBCPS, relies heavily on the distinction made by Justice Thomas Clark in the 1963 Supreme Court decision forbidding devotional reading of the Bible in public schools: «Nothing we have said here indicates that such study of the Bible or of religion, when presented objectively as part of a secular program of education, may not be effected consistently with the First Amendment.»

In China, the public was outraged when grade school children were subjected to Golden Rice feed studies.

We are making these again this year for our family and also providing the GF dough for our synagogue's Purim Carnival (where many hamantaschen will be made) as well as the recipe for our older daughter's 3rd grade (public Waldorf) class, which is studying Judaism this year, and learning about Purim, in part by making hamantaschen as a school activity.

A study conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health, highlighted that women who ate 16 or more strawberries per week, were 14 % less likely to have elevated levels of C - reactive protein, a blood biomarker that signals the presence of inflammation in the body.

A 2014 study (1), however, found that, despite the 2010 endorsement of 6 national medical societies of a single PPE form as part of an effort to standardize the screening process, and nearly unanimous public support for PPE screening by a qualified health care professional before participation in a consistent manner across the country, the medical community is still largely unaware of national sports preparticipation physical evaluation guidelines and only 11 % of athletes at US high schools are guaranteed to receive a PPE fully consistent with the national standard.

Just 12.2 percent of women ages 50 and older are satisfied with their body size, according to a study reported by researchers from UNC's Gillings School of Public Health that appeared in the Oct. 11, 2013 Journal of Women & Aging.

So far at least, the data, says Dawn Comstock, PhD, an associate professor of Epidemiology for the Pediatric Injury Prevention, Education, and Research (PIPER) program at the Colorado School of Public Health, MomsTeam Institute Board of Advisor and a co-author of a 2014 study on injuries in high school lacrosse [5], «is quite clear - boys most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 75 %) from athlete - athlete contact, the kind of mechanism we all know helmets don't always do a great job preventing - while girls most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 64 %) from being struck by the ball or the stick, the kind of mechanism that helmets are actually quite good at preveSchool of Public Health, MomsTeam Institute Board of Advisor and a co-author of a 2014 study on injuries in high school lacrosse [5], «is quite clear - boys most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 75 %) from athlete - athlete contact, the kind of mechanism we all know helmets don't always do a great job preventing - while girls most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 64 %) from being struck by the ball or the stick, the kind of mechanism that helmets are actually quite good at preveschool lacrosse [5], «is quite clear - boys most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 75 %) from athlete - athlete contact, the kind of mechanism we all know helmets don't always do a great job preventing - while girls most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 64 %) from being struck by the ball or the stick, the kind of mechanism that helmets are actually quite good at preventing.

Sheryl holds a B.I.S. in Women's Studies in Communication from George Mason University, and she has worked in Communications as a human resource specialist and quality improvement trainer, community health trainer and supervisor, technical editor and writer, publisher, and as a writing and public speaking teacher in home school cooperatives.

As summarized by Reuters, the study's researchers peered into the lunch boxes of 626 third and fourth graders from 12 public elementary schools in Eastern Massachusetts, and found that only 34 % of lunches contained fruit, only 11 % contained vegetables, 42 % contained snacks and 28 % included dessert.

We thank the North American Registry of Midwives Board for helping facilitate the study; Tim Putt for help with layout of the data forms; Jennesse Oakhurst, Shannon Salisbury, and a team of five others for data entry; Adam Slade for computer programming support; Amelia Johnson, Phaedra Muirhead, Shannon Salisbury, Tanya Stotsky, Carrie Whelan, and Kim Yates for office support; Kelly Klick and Sheena Jardin for the satisfaction survey; members of our advisory council (Eugene Declerq (Boston University School of Public Health), Susan Hodges (Citizens for Midwifery and consumer panel of the Cochrane Collaboration's Pregnancy and Childbirth Group), Jonathan Kotch (University of North Carolina Department of Maternal and Child Health), Patricia Aikins Murphy (University of Utah College of Nursing), and Lawrence Oppenheimer (University of Ottawa Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine); and the midwives and mothers who agreed to participate in the study.

Harvard School of Public Health published a press release in September 2006 that documented a Harvard study that outlined the relationship between retained weight and pregnancy complications.

Researchers recruited 338 kindergarten students for the study, chosen from public schools in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Each study details the implementation of universal breakfast - in - the - classroom pilot programs, one in Memphis City Schools and the other in Dallas Public Schools.