Sentences with phrase «rigorous research education»

«Beyond the rigorous research education essential for all scientists, those translational scientists who will work at the boundaries of discovery and clinical science must possess an assortment of practical and logistical skills,» the editorialists write.

Beyond the rigorous research education essential for all scientists, translational scientists who will work at the boundaries of discovery and clinical science must possess an assortment of practical and logistical skills.

Not exact matches

The model of excellent theological schooling symbolized by the inclusion of a faculty of theology in the University of Berlin tied «practical» education for a socially necessary profession (the clergy) to the «theoretical» education of a research university on the grounds that future clergy would be best equipped for their ministerial functions if they acquired capacities for rigorous critical research.

Located on Tufts» Medford / Somerville campus, the School of Engineering offers a rigorous engineering education in a unique environment that blends the intellectual and technological resources of a world - class research university with the strengths of a top - ranked liberal arts college.

Designation as an Advanced Comprehensive Stroke Center follows a rigorous application process that includes volume of cases, advanced imaging and care capabilities, around - the - clock availability of specialized treatments, dedicated neuro - intensive care beds for complex stroke patients, post-hospital coordination, participation in research, and staff with all necessary education and skills to care for the most complex stroke patients.

She founded Pink Image Thermography in Solana Beach, California, is president and cofounder of the Women's Academy of Breast Thermography, president of the non-profit Pink Bow Breast Thermography research and education, and is actively pushing for rigorous nationwide certification standards for thermography.

One of the consequences of the extraordinary decline (nearly 90 percent) in federal support for education research over the past 25 years, as reported by Richard C. Atkinson and Gregg B. Jackson in their 1992 report for the National Academy of Sciences, has been the profound loss of rigorous inquiry into how schooling can be improved academically for all and how youth culture can become more attuned to the deferred gratification of academic achievement and less oriented to the immediate imperatives of money, clothes, and other amusements.

Dynarski has served on the board of contributors of Evidence Speaks, a weekly series of reports by a standing panel of researchers under the editorship of Russ Whitehurst, with a commitment to elevating the role of methodologically rigorous research in the formation of education and social policy.

Receiving these actionable strategies based on rigorous research has distinguished the HGSE experience from other professional education programs and conferences the UA team has attended.

Since its inception, the Foundation has grounded its storytelling about innovations in education research and has even commissioned research from leading researchers in the field of learning; now, George Lucas decides that it's time to deepen the organization's commitment to research and creates a division dedicated to conducting and funding rigorous research in collaboration with university partners, leading educators, and research firms.

Only anecdotal evidence has been offered in support of the claim that charter schools systematically remove students with disabilities, and little rigorous research has considered the underlying causes of the difference between the percentage of charter - school students and district - school students enrolled in special education, the so - called «special education gap.»

In the coming years, Muralidharan expects his research to focus on systematically evaluating the effectiveness of various policy options to improve education in developing countries through rigorous randomized evaluations.

Many academics and policymakers consider the education research sponsored by the National Science Foundation or the National Institutes of Health to be more rigorous and scientifically sound than the research emanating from the Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvemeneducation research sponsored by the National Science Foundation or the National Institutes of Health to be more rigorous and scientifically sound than the research emanating from the Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvementresearch sponsored by the National Science Foundation or the National Institutes of Health to be more rigorous and scientifically sound than the research emanating from the Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvementresearch emanating from the Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and ImprovemenEducation's Office of Educational Research and ImprovementResearch and Improvement (OERI).

She is a graduate of a nationally accredited preparation program, where she received a rigorous liberal - arts education, studied research - based pedagogy, and worked with real students in real schools.

Nor have all members of the education research community been sufficiently committed to making OERI a distinguished agency - especially when it meant subjecting their own federally sponsored work to rigorous evaluations or facing more frequent competitions for their funding.

Two blockbuster research findings reported recently in the national press — one from the field of education, the other from medicine — have something important in common: They are the latest cases in which widely used, widely accepted practices have been challenged by scientifically rigorous evaluations.

So we actually have a base of rigorous research that we can draw upon and really this ought to form the bulk of what we're imparting in our initial teacher education.

IES is also sponsoring a national effort (the What Works Clearinghouse) to survey the research literature and summarize the evidence on multiple education - related topics, giving the greatest weight to rigorous studies based on randomized trials.

The creation of the Institute of Education Sciences illustrates another legacy of the Coleman Report: a commitment to rigorous quantitative research.

Quantitative Policy Analysis in Education integrates three strands of coursework — rigorous training in quantitative research methods, focused disciplinary study, and substantive study of educational institutions and policies — with a minimum of one intensive research apprenticeship.

As in the past, this year's edition is built on twin foundations: the detailed data collection and analysis of the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center, which mines its annual policy survey to provide comprehensive, state - by - state grading in key areas of state policy and performance; and the rigorous investigation of a timely issue in education policy by the Education Week reportiEducation Research Center, which mines its annual policy survey to provide comprehensive, state - by - state grading in key areas of state policy and performance; and the rigorous investigation of a timely issue in education policy by the Education Week reportieducation policy by the Education Week reportiEducation Week reporting staff.

West has served on the board of contributors of Evidence Speaks, a weekly series of reports by a standing panel of researchers under the editorship of Russ Whitehurst, with a commitment to elevating the role of methodologically rigorous research in the formation of education and social policy.

His work is inspirational in its reach and effectiveness and in its bedrock commitment to the rigorous practice and research of education.»

Since spending a year with Jobs For the Future traveling the country and researching workplace learning, career pathways, and apprenticeships, I've found that even folks who strive to find the glass half empty tend to be on board with programs that promote rigorous academic education coupled with career - ready skills that can open doors to a bright future.

We have rigorous statistical evidence from Stanford's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) that urban charter schools outperform traditional schools (the table below comes from their 2015 study of charters in 41 urban regions), and I believe this should be our nation's preferred school improvement strategy.

Not only does the law require that districts use curricula that rely on «scientifically - based reading research,» a phrase, defined at length that appears 25 times in the statute; it further instructs the Department of Education to assist and hold states accountable in meeting this rigorous requirement.

The No Child Left Behind Act famously endorses the use of «scientifically based research,» the federal Institute of Education Sciences has elevated the profile of rigorous scholarship, and presidential candidates tout studies on teacher quality, testing, and school choice.

Creating Environments for Early Learner Success New America EdCentral, 7/2/14 Education professor Nonie Lesaux and her team at Harvard University's Language Diversity and Literacy Development Research Group recently released a series of 10 one - pagers entitled Lead Early Educators for Success that explain how educators can cultivate a Rigorous and Regulated — what they've coined R2 — learning environment.

Using rigorous non-experimental methods, a 2013 study of charters in 16 states by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes found that average charter school effectiveness increased overall, due in large part to closures of poorly performing schools.

Finally, they said accountability would be ensured by the U.S. secretary of education and Mayor Williams and by rigorous research studies supported by the department.

I came to HGSE with the goal of learning to utilize rigorous research to inform practice in education.

But the reality is that it is very hard to produce rigorous research on the effects of teachers unions on education.

The Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) is working with the College Board to measure students» access to «rigorous work worth doing.»

Whether you choose to learn on campus or online, our rigorous professional learning programs are led by HGSE faculty, grounded in research, and designed to improve the skills and competencies of education professionals — and, ultimately, positively impact the lives and learning of the students they serve.

Based at UCL's Institute of Education, and match - funded by the European Regional Development Fund and UCL's partners — UCL Engineering, the British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA), Nesta and F6S — EDUCATE offers a rigorous and comprehensive training programme focusing on pedagogical research to help EdTech start - ups, SMEs, entrepreneurs and educators develop, evaluate and improve their products and services with the use of research evidence.

SEDL conducts rigorous research studies to advance education knowledge, enable educators and policymakers to make informed decisions, and solve significant problems in education.

We believe our report lays the groundwork for a rigorous and credible program of evaluation and research, one that would bring to the problems of education in DC the very best available expertise and reasoned judgment.

We need a new generation of relevant, rigorous, large - scale research to inform a scalable improvement strategy for early education.

The program of reading research that the RRSG proposes fits into the overall context of research on reading in the United States and is part of a larger RAND effort to suggest ways that education R&D can be made more rigorous, cumulative, and usable.

A rarity in education research, this design provides a uniquely rigorous way of comparing the performance of students who had access to an Academy with the performance of a truly comparable group of students who did not have access to the programs.

Peter Dolton, professor of economics at the University of Sussex, who has recently carried out research on the cost - effectiveness of education systems, said the OECD was «right to suggest that there needs to be more rigorous evaluation of new education policy initiatives».

The transformation of education from a field based on intuition, historical practice, and fad and fancy to a field based on evidence has been thwarted until recently by an inadequate supply of rigorous and relevant research.

TNTP also reviewed the broader research literature and commented on findings from the most rigorous studies that had been done by the Institute of Education Sciences: «teachers who received the best of the best [professional development] were no more likely to see large, lasting improvements in their practice, knowledge, or student learning.

The Harvard Graduate School of Education seeks to improve education through the preparation of leading professionals, the design of model education programs, the identification of policies that have local, national, and global impact, and the advancement and dissemination of scientifically rigorous and relevant Education seeks to improve education through the preparation of leading professionals, the design of model education programs, the identification of policies that have local, national, and global impact, and the advancement and dissemination of scientifically rigorous and relevant education through the preparation of leading professionals, the design of model education programs, the identification of policies that have local, national, and global impact, and the advancement and dissemination of scientifically rigorous and relevant education programs, the identification of policies that have local, national, and global impact, and the advancement and dissemination of scientifically rigorous and relevant research.

On the other hand, rigorous research supports the hypothesis that increasing access to education reduces subsequent criminal behavior.

The most popular WWC products are practice guides, which are developed by panels of researchers and education practitioners and use a rigorous rating system to characterize the research evidence for each recommendation.

To illustrate: pause for a moment, and think of something that rigorous research has identified as producing positive student outcomes in education.

This contrasts with the voluminous research on class size, which shows that class size reduction is one of the very few ways to narrow the achievement gap and one of only four reforms cited by the Institute of Education Sciences as proven to work through rigorous evidence.

Analyses of the literature have acknowledged the lack of rigorous, experimental research on culturally based education, which points more to the difficulty in conducting such studies in public schools than to the validity of culturally responsive practices.

The IES is said to reflect the government's intent to advance the field of education research, making it more rigorous in support of evidence - based education.