Sentences with phrase «schools experiment in»

Also trailing was Referendum 55, which would have launched a charter schools experiment in Washington.

Washington voters Tuesday appeared to reject Referendum 55, which would have launched a charter schools experiment in Washington.

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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.

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.

Researchers Christine Exley of Harvard Business School, Muriel Niederle of Stanford University and Lise Vesterlund of the University of Pittsburgh recently did a set of experiments related to female aggression in on - the - job negotiations in which, as they write, «we saw that women hurt themselves financially when they followed a blanket recommendation to always ask for more.»

While some schools are already beginning to experiment with Google Cardboard virtual reality in the classroom, Sweeney sees a much different future.

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.

In high school, he smoked pot, dropped LSD and experimented with how his brain would feel when deprived of sleep.

The experiment was designed to test whether donor premiums — in this case, a luggage tag branded with the school's logo — would influence giving patterns.

In another experiment, participants punished a hypothetical high school student after relatively few instances of bad behavior, but required markedly more instances of good behavior to grant the student an equivalent reward.

But right now, the only people testing the water in our schools are kids performing classroom science experiments.

At a school in Prince Rupert, the problem was only uncovered through a classroom science experiment gone wrong in a Kitimat school in 2012.

From Uganda, the site of the ICC's prosecutorial experiments, comes the story of Charlotte, abducted from her Catholic boarding school by the LRA in 1996 when she was thirteen years old.

Looking over my oldest daughter's shoulder one day, I saw that there was a paragraph in her high - school biology textbook about the experiments of Lazzaro Spallanzani, one of the greatest biologists of the eighteenth century.

Recent analysis of the widely followed voucher experiment in Milwaukee shows that low - income minority students who attended private schools scored substantially better in reading and math after four years than those who remained in public schools.

We've conducted a thought experiment in response to those questions and in this chapter it has yielded some elements of a utopian proposal about a theological school.

In this chapter the author invites the reader to join in a thought experiment about what some theological school known to them is and ought to bIn this chapter the author invites the reader to join in a thought experiment about what some theological school known to them is and ought to bin a thought experiment about what some theological school known to them is and ought to be.

You have been invited to share in a thought experiment about the questions, «What makes a good theological school?»

As the conversation continued, the opinion was offered and gained general assent that about one third of the young men in the school were experimenting with homogenital sex or publicly identified themselves as gay.

Now the issue is more likely to be drinking, and the avant - garde in Holiness and Pentecostal schools are experimenting with restrained social drinking.

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.

Experiments involving the measurement of blood sugar levels of elementary students in a public school revealed that the levels were characteristically high or low in certain classrooms.

Naturally, I hope to persuade you of the wisdom of my own thought experiment; far more importantly, the experiment will have served its purpose if it stimulates and focuses fresh and continuing discussion of theological schooling by all of those who are involved in it, students and trustees, administrators and faculty.

Now a thought experiment and an invitation: The experiment is one more utopian exercise in sketching what makes a theological school theological and what makes a theological school a school.

It is very possible that the people killed in the last few years as the result of «school shootings» may in fact be the first victims / results of this experiment.

Augustine's experiments in school - founding were as much attempts to re-educate himself as to educate others.

The school must not be undertaken, that is, as a brief experiment only; it must be a genuine part of a long - range parish program over several years, with the definite intention of continuing the school so that it will be accepted in time as a normal and expected part of the total life of the congregation.

Kenneth R. Jones, «An Inner - City Experiment in Family Ministry» (S.T.D. thesis, Candler School of Theology, Emory University, 1975), 117.

Clearly, the average theological school is not awash in funds available for discretionary spending, for covering the start - up costs of major new academic «experiments,» for providing new student services, or even for providing adequate support services for administration and faculty.

I have been experimenting much more with vegetarian recipes because I have to send in vegetarian lunches to my daughter's new school.

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.

So I left law school and I headed out west and reconnected with my passion for cooking that I had as a child and started working in the kitchen of a natural food store in San Diego and just started experimenting in the kitchen and just getting really creative.

And you made them so unbelievably simple < 3 I'm just starting to experiment more with rice flour so this is definitely going on my list of must makes and OMG I used to LOVE Magic School Bus granted, I watched it in Czech but I'm a fellow nerdy 90s kid all the same

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 EnglanIn 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 Englanin 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 Englanin 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 colleagueIn 2014, Ruth Feldman, a researcher in Israel and at the Yale School of Medicine, conducted an experiment with her colleaguein Israel and at the Yale School of Medicine, conducted an experiment with her colleagues.

In an experiment in the Minneapolis area, when schools started later, students felt less sleepy, got higher grades, had fewer depressive feelings, fewer conflicts, and less bullying — and SAT scores went uIn an experiment in the Minneapolis area, when schools started later, students felt less sleepy, got higher grades, had fewer depressive feelings, fewer conflicts, and less bullying — and SAT scores went uin the Minneapolis area, when schools started later, students felt less sleepy, got higher grades, had fewer depressive feelings, fewer conflicts, and less bullying — and SAT scores went up.

Indeed, that same year I shared here a mathematical experiment in which I proved that a child could easily gain weight from eating HISD's school meals.

Ever since an experiment in the high school physics lab went awry, Riverdale has become a magnet for the stuff of which «B - Movies» are made.

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.

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.

The experiment took place in an inner city elementary school with 297 children in grades Kindergarten through 6.

In the auditorium of a posh high school in the north suburbs of Chicago, a packed house of well - heeled moms and dads recently braved blizzard conditions to hear the lanky, affable Tough describe some of the scientific experiments leading to his belief that it is not innate ability, IQ or affluence that determines a child's ability to succeed in school and beyonIn the auditorium of a posh high school in the north suburbs of Chicago, a packed house of well - heeled moms and dads recently braved blizzard conditions to hear the lanky, affable Tough describe some of the scientific experiments leading to his belief that it is not innate ability, IQ or affluence that determines a child's ability to succeed in school and beyonin the north suburbs of Chicago, a packed house of well - heeled moms and dads recently braved blizzard conditions to hear the lanky, affable Tough describe some of the scientific experiments leading to his belief that it is not innate ability, IQ or affluence that determines a child's ability to succeed in school and beyonin school and beyond.

In Montgomery County, not all schools that have experimented with the weekend break have continued it.

In one of the many experiments cited in Paul Tough's new book, Helping Children Succeed, a group of middle school students received this message on a Post-it note, attached to a paper their teachers were handing bacIn one of the many experiments cited in Paul Tough's new book, Helping Children Succeed, a group of middle school students received this message on a Post-it note, attached to a paper their teachers were handing bacin Paul Tough's new book, Helping Children Succeed, a group of middle school students received this message on a Post-it note, attached to a paper their teachers were handing back.

The film documents an experiment by John Cisna, a high school science teacher, who ate nothing but McDonald's for six months and lost 60 pounds in the process.

Summer Science Splash Camp is a week - long residential camp — an immersion in scientific observations and experiments for middle - school students — on the campus of Westminster College in New Wilmington, PA..

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.»