The Sun has a magnetic field that, at first glance, might remind us of the middle -
school experiment where you sprinkle iron filings over a bar magnet to get a butterfly shape.
Not exact matches
According to a study in the Journal of Behavioural and Experimental Economics, researchers from Columbia Business
School designed an
experiment where they gave cheques to MBA students and tracked how long they took to cash them.
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.
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.
Regarding charter
schools — Charter
schools are supposed to act as laboratories,
where small numbers of schoolchildren are subjects of
experiments to find better ways to educate them.
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.»
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 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.
DC Metro
where she works to encourage middle
school girls to explore STEM fields though hands - on
experiments.
For their study, appearing in the current issue of the Journal of Marketing Research, the Marriott
School authors set up
experiments where balance was introduced to the consumer experience, including:
Dallas and D.C. were «input»
experiments where students were paid for taking certain specific steps that they controlled: In Dallas, second - graders were paid $ 2 each time they read a book and passed a quiz on it; in D.C., middle -
schoolers received money rewards for such things as good behavior, attendance, turning in homework, and wearing a
school uniform.
Melissa Zaikos began
experimenting with online learning in the Chicago Public
Schools, where she spent nine years as a Broad Fellow, most notably, running a group of high - performing schools on the southwest side of th
Schools,
where she spent nine years as a Broad Fellow, most notably, running a group of high - performing
schools on the southwest side of th
schools on the southwest side of the city.
He has since accepted the job heading the turbulent Philadelphia
school system,
where tensions between the city and state have been escalating for years and Edison
Schools, Inc., has taken responsibility for running 20 schools (see Jay Mathews's article, «The Philadelphia Experiment «
Schools, Inc., has taken responsibility for running 20
schools (see Jay Mathews's article, «The Philadelphia Experiment «
schools (see Jay Mathews's article, «The Philadelphia
Experiment «-RRB-.
Photons for sensing and measurement is more of a high
school concept, but my 11 - year - old came home last year and told me that their class had done an
experiment where they had to bring in five shiny things from home and they were given a practical challenge
where, in pairs, they had to figure out how to route light from one part of the classroom to another part of the classroom.
And Cruz, like others, talks about the various
experiments (like the Jesuits» Cristo Rey network and the conversion of parish
schools to charters — see Andy Smarick's comprehensive report for Seton Education Partners about Washington, DC's experience), but doesn't he wonder
where the Church's bishops are?
It is not altogether clear that
schools are more complex than other settings
where experiments are routinely done — say, hospitals — but most
school researchers seem to believe this, and it seems a reasonable working assumption.
In addition, library research, independent projects, science
experiments, oral histories, long - term writing assignments different from those being tested in a particular year are all being eliminated or reduced in those
schools where TAAS scores have been low.
The June 27 decision by Philadelphia's
School Reform Commission reverberated in the city,
where critics said it was driven by politics and money, as well as elsewhere in the nation,
where experts who have been closely monitoring Philadelphia's
experiment with outside management were divided on exactly...
Jacobsen first began developing the physics program as a volunteer at a public
school where teachers lacked the resources to involve their students in interactive physics
experiments.
I recently visited a
school district
where teachers are
experimenting with Genius Hour.
Examples include Algodoo, a platform
where students can design, make, and test Rube Goldberg — style contraptions, and Kerbal Space Program — available to
schools as KerbalEdu — a virtual rocket launcher game
where students can mess around and
experiment with space flight missions.
Where equipment is needed for
experiments, equipment lists are provided on the lesson plans, although you will also need any bug hunting equipment that your
school has.
School leaders need to focus their attention on creating the conditions
where teachers have the resources, courage, and support to
experiment with improving their practice, and then the space to share what they are learning with other educators.
Some communities (most high functioning or disaster recovery)
experimented with full decentralized system
where decision - making authority regarding curriculum and operations was granted to individual
schools.
There are
schools where administrators are
experimenting with models of teacher - led professional development like EdCamps.
The Re-Inventing
Schools Coalition (RISC) has
experimented with this on a large scale, employing CBL principles to the point
where students are grouped by ability rather than age.
As my colleague Halley Potter and I note in our book, Albert Shanker, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, proposed charter
schools in 1988 as places
where teachers could
experiment with new ideas and
where students of different backgrounds could learn from one another.
On the instructional side of science, it has become evident that elementary teachers were not teaching science because they did not know the content nor feel secure with it as a subject area (Rutherford & Ahlgren, 1989); little instructional time in elementary
schools was devoted to science (NAEP, 1988); and
where science was taught, basal texts that emphasized reading and canned
experiments were preferred and used over active learning (Lockwood, 1992a; 1992b).
And with no overarching plan for that coming from the district, UCLA has stepped in with its own
experiment: «a laboratory
where we are learning and sharing solutions to 21st - century educational challenges,» UCLA's Graduate
School of Education and Information Studies Dean Marcelo Suárez - Orozco said.
«Mark feels like people in Wisconsin,
where the K - 12 voucher
experiment was tested, need to be talking about the impact it has had on public
schools, teachers, teacher retirements / shortage and education in general,» said spokeswoman Melanie Conklin in an email.
Take risks and
experiment, however I am mindful that in
schools where a judgemental culture arising from a short - sighted approach to the leadership of teaching and learning using lesson gradings, it may be slightly more difficult to achieve.
Using teachers as guinea pigs in a risky
experiment,
where non-educators imposed their untested opinions on public
schools, was always bad policy.
Places
where teachers and administrators can
experiment and take risks, create new programs that, if successful, could then be replicated at other public
schools to improve the entire system.
Charter
schools got their start in Minnesota more than 20 years ago as alternatives to public
schools,
where teachers could
experiment with methods that could reach wider use if proven successful.
In addition to a shared vision, administrations need to provide sufficient technology resources and supportive infrastructure, as well as help establish a
school culture and environment
where innovations and
experiments with technology use are encouraged (Ertmer & Ottenbreit - Leftwich, 2010; Somekh, 2008).
Sweden,
where the free
schools experiment originated in the early 1990s, has slipped dramatically down the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) rankings and there is clear evidence that free
schools have increased educational and social segregation.
As for remedial classes, some
schools are
experimenting with a «corequisite» option,
where students complete remedial work at the same time they are taking credit - bearing classes.
For nearly a decade, he served as director of the Secondary
School Redesign Program at Brown University, where he gathered a diverse assembly of educators willing to experiment with high school personalization and student engag
School Redesign Program at Brown University,
where he gathered a diverse assembly of educators willing to
experiment with high
school personalization and student engag
school personalization and student engagement.
After she and Josef relocated to North Carolina,
where they took on teaching roles at the recently established free
school, Black Mountain College, following the Nazi closure of the Bauhaus in 1933, Albers went on to
experiment with many more unorthodox and vegetal materials such as hemp, corn, jute and grass, as well as industrial materials such as metal thread.
Attends annual Summer
School at Scarborough
where Victor Pasmore, Harry Thubron and Tom Hudson teach colour, structure and form; here he
experiments with colour.
Young artists participating in TAM's Art After
School program have spent the year exploring the artistic process through weekly art - making sessions
where they collaborated on murals,
experimented with printmaking, crafted larger than life sculptures, and more!
I try to approach my work from the most basic level I can, recalling grade
school art classes and backyard
experiments,
where we used glue, string, paper, rocks and whittled twigs to make interesting things.
«Given the current state of public and private higher education,» organizers of the new
experiment, called the Black Mountain
School, wrote on their website, «we are presenting an alternative — a collaborative learning environment
where educators create the content of study, students determine their level of engagement, and tuition is affordable for all.»
Bruce High Quality Foundation (BHQFU) is a self - described free art
school and «learning
experiment where artists work together to manifest creative, productive, resistant, useless, and demanding interactions between art and the world.
The exhibition starts at the beginning, with his enrolment in the «vocational» course at St Martin's
school of Art between 1964 - 66 (contemporary with Gilbert & George and Bruce McLean),
where he began questioning the nature of sculpture, prioritising process and material over structure, and
experimenting with non-conventional, often found stuffs such as sand, felt, or canvas sacks.
She returned to California in 1969 to start graduate
school at the University of California at Irvine,
where she
experimented with film, photography and sound installation, and studied with fellow Pomona College alumni Chris Burden ’69 and Barbara T. Smith» 53.
While best known for large - scale abstract paintings, Mehretu has
experimented with prints since graduate
school at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she was enrolled in the painting and printmaking program in the mid-
school at the Rhode Island
School of Design, where she was enrolled in the painting and printmaking program in the mid-
School of Design,
where she was enrolled in the painting and printmaking program in the mid-1990s.
What first got her really interested in climate change in high
school was a program at NC State University,
where she worked with a mentor on an
experiment about climate change.
Several law
schools have
experimented with introducing foreign and international issues into basic LRW instruction.68 Some have responded to these arguments by creating either upper - class elective seminars with a global LRW focus, 69 or by creating a specialized foreign / international section of the basic LRW course.70 Typically, this has been accomplished in a largely ad hoc fashion through the creative efforts of individual instructors, who sometimes offer a special «international» section of the basic LRW course.71 Additionally, LRW professors whose primary responsibility is to educate foreign students have naturally gravitated toward incorporating global dimensions in their problems and assignments.72 Faculty specializing in teaching legal English have observed that English is increasingly the language of choice for transnational negotiations and legal instruments, even in circumstances
where the underlying transactions do not involve Anglo - American law.73 Consequently, they also emphasize a transnational approach that responds to the needs of their students.
I often remind users of high
school science
experiments where you have constants and variables.