Sentences with phrase «research happening at the school»

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Farrington's research background, plus her history as a teacher in high - poverty neighborhoods, helped her think differently about what happens to students when they're at school.

«Down the road, we hope to be able to treat pregnant women whose babies are at risk for this type of neurologic damage and prevent it from happening,» says study leader Irina Burd, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of gynecology and obstetrics and neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of the Integrated Research Center for Fetal Medicine.

«The interaction with the antibodies might be happening, but it never fully explained all cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever,» said study lead author P. Robert Beatty, an assistant research scientist at UC Berkeley's School of Public Health.

«This research increases our basic understanding of the effects of head trauma, particularly for those severe single injuries that can and do happen in military service and contact sports,» said Naomi Rosenberg, Ph.D., dean of the Sacker School and vice dean for research at Tufts University School of Medicine.

«What happens to 19 people on a metabolic ward may not apply to the general population out in the real world who are trying to lose weight,» says Lydia Bazzano, MD, PhD, professor in nutrition research at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

New research published by Education Next last week looks at what has happened with public schools in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina.

While there is more emphasis on academics at all grade levels today and evidence that the middle school burden can be overcome (Williams and colleagues showed in a major 2010 study, called «Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades: Why Some Schools Do Better,» that an intense focus on academics can work), it is odd that Walcott would favor reforming middle schools instead of doing what the research suggests is better and easier — creating smaller, «elemiddle» (K — 8) schools — and what the trends are showing is happening all over the country — as David Hough, managing editor of the Middle Grades Research Journal, told me, «the trend is definitely away from stand - alone middle schools.Schools Do Better,» that an intense focus on academics can work), it is odd that Walcott would favor reforming middle schools instead of doing what the research suggests is better and easier — creating smaller, «elemiddle» (K — 8) schools — and what the trends are showing is happening all over the country — as David Hough, managing editor of the Middle Grades Research Journal, told me, «the trend is definitely away from stand - alone middle schools.schools instead of doing what the research suggests is better and easier — creating smaller, «elemiddle» (K — 8) schools — and what the trends are showing is happening all over the country — as David Hough, managing editor of the Middle Grades Research Journal, told me, «the trend is definitely away from stand - alone middle schoolsresearch suggests is better and easier — creating smaller, «elemiddle» (K — 8) schools — and what the trends are showing is happening all over the country — as David Hough, managing editor of the Middle Grades Research Journal, told me, «the trend is definitely away from stand - alone middle schools.schools — and what the trends are showing is happening all over the country — as David Hough, managing editor of the Middle Grades Research Journal, told me, «the trend is definitely away from stand - alone middle schoolsResearch Journal, told me, «the trend is definitely away from stand - alone middle schools.schools.»

Representatives from Project Zero will work with Innovation Leaders, and select educators and administrators at each school to develop and carry out action research projects pertinent to each school's approach to innovation, and then synthesize the learning that happens across the participating schools through their separate, though networked lines of inquiry.

We intend to build our own Outdoor Centre, run Bushcraft Clubs in all of our schools, equip our Sixth Formers with the skills to run their own private fieldwork expeditions when they are at university, expand the teaching of subjects that happens in specialist outdoor areas on ‑ site, and continue our university ‑ level research to understand how we can best improve learning through the outdoors and on major expeditions.

Developing a growth mindset can happen at any grade level, as Dweck's research has shown that student ideas about intelligence can be manipulated in schools by educators in order to have a positive impact on academic achievement.

Scott is also currently leading research and evaluation of school - turnaround projects in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho and believes that her knowledge of what's happening at the national level informs these regional projects.

Accordingly, and also per the research, this is not getting much better in that, as per the authors of this article as well as many other scholars, (1) «the variance in value - added scores that can be attributed to teacher performance rarely exceeds 10 percent; (2) in many ways «gross» measurement errors that in many ways come, first, from the tests being used to calculate value - added; (3) the restricted ranges in teacher effectiveness scores also given these test scores and their limited stretch, and depth, and instructional insensitivity — this was also at the heart of a recent post whereas in what demonstrated that «the entire range from the 15th percentile of effectiveness to the 85th percentile of [teacher] effectiveness [using the EVAAS] cover [ed] approximately 3.5 raw score points [given the tests used to measure value - added];» (4) context or student, family, school, and community background effects that simply can not be controlled for, or factored out; (5) especially at the classroom / teacher level when students are not randomly assigned to classrooms (and teachers assigned to teach those classrooms)... although this will likely never happen for the sake of improving the sophistication and rigor of the value - added model over students» «best interests.»

I'm just not sure that's going to happen,» said Sue Sporte, research operations director at the University of Chicago's Consortium on Chicago School Research, which is studying the implementation of the evaluations in the Winresearch operations director at the University of Chicago's Consortium on Chicago School Research, which is studying the implementation of the evaluations in the WinResearch, which is studying the implementation of the evaluations in the Windy City.

Substantial Decrease in College Drop - Out Rate When Count Those Who Finish Elsewhere HERNDON, VA, FEB. 24, 2015 — The just - released Signature Report 8 State Supplement from the National Student Clearinghouse ® Research Center ™ continues demonstrating the value of counting student completions that happen at schools different from those where students started.

As it currently stands, clear insight into what is happening with this funding can only be obtained through extraordinary efforts such as reports produced by Bruce Fuller, professor of education and public policy at UC Berkeley, on the Los Angeles Unified School District and Marguerite Roza, director of the Edunomics Lab and a research professor at Georgetown University, on eight California school distSchool District and Marguerite Roza, director of the Edunomics Lab and a research professor at Georgetown University, on eight California school distschool districts.

Cage's work was also a notable influence on artists affiliated with Fluxus and Happenings, who were similarly interested in chance and the everyday; among the students in Cage's «Experimental Composition» class at the New School for Social Research in the 1950s were artists such as Allan Kaprow, George Brecht, and Dick Higgins.

Kaprow, Dick Higgins, and Al Hansen — all students at John Cage's composition class at the New School for Social Research in New York City — performed Happenings and were associated with Fluxus, as were other artists, such as Wolf Vostell and Carolee Schneemann.

Linda Greenhouse has been covering the Supreme Court for The New York Times since 1978, first as a reporter and now as an op - ed columnist who also happens to be a Senior Research Scholar in Law, the Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence, and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School.

I've done as much research as possible and those three schools are going to be the lowest price while making sure you're not going to get stranded should there be any technical issues — which seems to happen often at a lot of these schools.