Sentences with phrase «questions of the academic field»

This course introduces students to the origins, epistemologies, key concepts, and central questions of the academic field of Ethnic Studies, while applying these concepts and questions to our own educational experiences, and the various realms of education in which we currently work.

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In the realm of research, academic hydrogeologists are broadening their time horizons to help forecast and mitigate the effects of climate change, and they're stretching the traditional boundaries of their field to explore questions such as how groundwater interacts with the surface water of lakes and rivers.

The UChicago team's NBER study concludes, «The impact of the pilot intervention reported in this paper are large enough to raise the question of whether the field has given up prematurely on the possibility of improving academic outcomes for disadvantaged youth.»

Using data from National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) restricted - use datasets, the NRCCTE also performs secondary data analyses on questions of vital import to the field of CTE, including exploring the impact of CTE credit - taking on academic outcomes and dropout risk.

As someone who works in the field of philanthropy, completed a doctoral program more than two years ago, and recently became a new mom, you might question why I worked on an academic publication and am writing about it here as a guest blogger?

What I believe makes our evaluation work different than a consulting firm or a typical academic is that we strive to both advance the field of knowledge as well as work with key decision makers to answer the pressing social policy questions of our day.