Sentences with phrase «school experiment at»
Gorman was one of six superintendents who inherited the small - school experiment at Olympic before Clayton Wilcox decided to end it.
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Before Dan Price caused a media firestorm by establishing a $ 70,000 minimum wage at his Seattle company, Gravity Payments... before Hollywood agents, reality - show producers, and book publishers began throwing elbows for a piece of the hip, 31 - year - old entrepreneur with the shoulder - length hair and Brad Pitt looks... before Rush Limbaugh called him a socialist and Harvard Business School professors asked to study his radical experiment in paying workers... an entry - level Gravity employee named Jason Haley got really pissed off at him.
Amy Cuddy, a faculty member at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, has conducted an experiment with her graduate students demonstrating that holding an assertive body posture for as little as two minutes increases the amount of testosterone in the body, in men and women.
The release of the If iPad app comes at a time when schools are increasingly experimenting with giving tablets to students, a trend that could be a major opportunity for education technology startups.
Alternatively, if you want a deeper education, but don't plan to conduct your own experiments, take a look at the Copenhagen Business School's Coursera entry on neuroscience and neuromarketing.
The Executive Education program at MIT Sloan School of Management recently tried out a new, entirely free, and simple to implement employee benefit, sharing the encouraging results of their experiment on the HBR blog.
Today, Lee is dean of the University of Utah medical school as well as CEO of its hospital system, where she has undertaken an experiment that has the potential to revolutionize the nation's health care system at large.
At a school in Prince Rupert, the problem was only uncovered through a classroom science experiment gone wrong in a Kitimat school in 2012.
Of course I was never a teacher at a religious school, but its interesting though not surprising to me that his organizations could not support his experiment.
I would like to offer two reasons why the speech experiment failed to take root at Candler: 1) my inability to identify, claim and integrate my emerging performance perspective on preaching with the dominant image of communication in the theological school.
Eight years of experiment and study as a professor of religion and the church at Emory University's Candler School of Theology have convinced Hopewell that «the congregation is as central to theological education as the human body is to medical education.»
We never ordered take out (I actually didn't even try Chinese food until high school — and it was at friend's house), we never went to ethnic restaurants, and we never experimented with different cuisines in the kitchen.
In a landmark experiment in 2006, Cohen and a colleague, Julio Garcia, tested a wise intervention designed to counteract this anxiety with a group of underachieving seventh - graders at a suburban middle school in New England.
Roland Fryer, a celebrated young professor of economics at Harvard University, has spent the past decade testing out a variety of incentive schemes in experiments with public school students in Houston, New York, Chicago, and other American cities that have school systems with high poverty rates.
From Walter Mischel's Marshmallow Experiments at Stanford University beginning in the 1960's to a current study from the Graduate School of Education at UCSF, the conclusions have not changed: Impulse control, or the ability to plan ahead and defer gratification, enhances a child's ability to fulfill long - term goals.
Interestingly, just days before the NFL's decision to suspend the use of impact sensors was announced, my local paper, The Boston Globe, came out with a powerful editorial in which it urged college, high school, and recreational leagues in contact and collision sports to consider mandating use of impact sensors, or, at the very least, experimenting with the technology, to alert the sideline personnel to hits that might cause concussion, and to track data on repetitive head impacts, which, a growing body of peer - reviewed evidence suggests, may result, over time, in just as much, if not more, damage to an athlete's brain, as a single concussive blow, and may even predispose an athlete to concussion.
In 2014, Ruth Feldman, a researcher in Israel and at the Yale School of Medicine, conducted an experiment with her colleagues.
On the fifth day of my gentle parenting experiment, I took my daughter to the local children's museum with her friends while her brother was at school.
Before joining the faculty this past year, McKenna taught at Pomona College in California, where he collaborated with neurologist Sarah Mosko of the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine for 15 years on a series of experiments looking into what happens physiologically when babies sleep with their mothers instead of alone.
We have been experimenting what our little girl loves to eat for lunch at school and so far it has been tricky.
Providing better school food comes at a cost, of course, and in this case the experiment involved the assistance of a nonprofit, Turning Green, as well as a crowd - funding campaign and grants from Patagonia, the Clif Bar Family Foundation and Dr. Bronner's Family Foundation.
Sometimes parents have been suspicious that their child may be experimenting with drugs before they're caught at school with them.
At my secondary school we were part of the 1980s experiment to mould processed meats into different shapes and to see what happens if children eat chips every day (at least it meant that Chris Little perfected the technique of licking his chips to stop anyone else eating themAt my secondary school we were part of the 1980s experiment to mould processed meats into different shapes and to see what happens if children eat chips every day (at least it meant that Chris Little perfected the technique of licking his chips to stop anyone else eating themat least it meant that Chris Little perfected the technique of licking his chips to stop anyone else eating them).
I bought school - type text books that showed more experiments at home, and we tried to work through them.
At the end of her article, Janet says: «The Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act authorizes pilot programs in individual schools and districts to experiment with universal free - meal approaches.»
Jessica Lee, a pediatric dentist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Dentistry, suggests experimenting with different types of toothbrushes — maybe little Anna would prefer an electronic toothbrush to a manual one, or vice versa.
We at Sherwood Elementary school are experimenting and completed to pilots this year.
Flavor stations at high schools let students experiment with adding spices and citrus to food instead of sodium.
Tristram Hunt has used the ongoing row over standards at the Al - Madinah Muslim free school to launch his first major attack against Michael Gove, with a letter saying a «dangerous ideological experiment has been allowed to run completely out of control».
This ideologically - driven experiment is hard to justify at a time of school budget cuts in addition to the loss of vital local authority services for SEN pupils, the squeeze on libraries and Sure Start amongst others.
At a press conference Wednesday Mayor de Blasio was asked whether Governor Cuomo's characterization of mayoral control of schools as an «experiment» and his proposal that mayoral control be renewed for a shortened three year period «raises questions about whether or not he's a true reformer on education.»
KEENE VALLEY Students at Keene Central School put their minds to work March 8 at the seventh annual Super Scientific Science Slam, with numerous experiments and tests taking place by students and on display for the community.
Almost two Britons in three (64 per cent) think it would matter if «he had experimented with more serious drugs» while at school or university and 71 per cent said it would matter if he used drugs «as an adult, after he started work».
I worry about my children every day, whether it is sports injuries, being bullied at school, or experimenting with alcohol.
He described his strange observation to a physicist at the school, Ernesto Altshuler, and they ran some experiments.
Besides spending time with bivalves, I lead materials science experiments at local elementary schools with UCSB's Family Ultimate Science Experience, and help run a student group, Graduate Students for Diversity in Science, to promote inclusion within STEM fields.
«The implications for mouse experiments are profound, and could help us cut through some persistent sources of confusion,» in genetic research, said Dr. Thaddeus Stappenbeck, an immunologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and a co-author of the new study.
The experiment began in the late 1960s at Stanford University's Bing Nursery School, where more than 500 4 - year - olds were given the dreaded «marshmallow test.»
In a paper published in Nature Communications, researchers and students at the University's School of Environmental Sciences designed a new type of experiment to show how as magma cools, it contracts and accumulates stress, until it cracks.
Novozymes also holds a biotech contest for Franklin County Early College High School, with equipment and mentoring for experiments to perform at school, culminating with presentations and pSchool, with equipment and mentoring for experiments to perform at school, culminating with presentations and pschool, culminating with presentations and prizes.
The distinction between lying in a controlled experiment and the real world is an important one, says Owen Jones, a law professor at Vanderbilt University Law School in Nashville.
In experiments on transgenic mice, teams at Harvard Medical School and Columbia University found that tau jumps from cell to cell in a predictable way along neural highways known as axons.
During the 12 - day at - sea experiment called GLAD (Grand Lagrangian Deployment), the research team deployed 300 GPS - equipped custom drifter soff the UM Rosenstiel School research vessel F.G. Walton Smith in a region where wind - driven continental shelf currents mix with buoyancy - driven Mississippi River outflow currents and deep eddy - driven currents in the Gulf of Mexico.
In lab experiments using tissue samples cultured from cystic fibrosis patients, scientists at the UNC School of Medicine and the UNC Marsico Lung Institute have shown that a new CF drug counteracts the intended beneficial molecular effect of another CF drug.
Building on the newly - published pilot study, the team will conduct experiments using a windtunnel which measures the behaviour of mosquitoes towards odours and electrodes which track the response of individual odour - detecting cells from within the antenna of the mosquito in specially - designed secure laboratories at the School to measure the responses of malaria - infected Anopheles gambiae s.s. females to human odours.
Writing in the May 4 online issue of the journal Scientific Reports, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine used a powerful statistical tool called «design of experiments» or DOE to determine the optimal cell culture formula to grow and produce hPSCs.
Nearly two years to the day after the Deepwater Horizon incident, scientists from the Consortium for Advanced Research on Transport of Hydrocarbon in the Environment (CARTHE), based at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, conducted a drifter experiment in the northern Gulf of Mexico spill site to study small - scale ocean currents ranging from 100 meters to 100 kilometers.
In one experiment, carried out at the French School of Porto, the children experimented to see whether a rat was able to find a piece of cheese hidden in a labyrinth.
Then I remembered seeing a science experiment at my high school in Elsinore, in which our teacher showed us what is called a cloud chamber, and seeing tracks of radioactive particles, which look like small droplets.
«In our experiments, our nanoparticles successfully delivered a test gene to brain cancer cells in mice, where it was then turned on,» says Jordan Green, Ph.D., an assistant professor of biomedical engineering and neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.