Sentences with phrase «studied school change»

While school boards seldom initiate innovations, researchers who have studied school change have found, they are crucial to ensuring that they are carried out.

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But Andrei Sulzenko, a fellow at University of Calgary's School of Public Policy, who has worked on and studied expert - advice panels like the Jenkins committee, says any proposal that demands a «machinery of government» change is bound to meet stiff resistance.

Keep in mind that some choices, like changing schools and majors, taking longer than prescribed to complete your program, or studying abroad, could increase your costs of school.

She'll have to quit her well - paid job at a respectable company and tell her parents that although she studied hard throughout school and got into a great college and graduated in 3 years that she is now leaving it to change the way that manufacturers sell products electronically through their distribution systems.

Studies have shown half to two - thirds of the rise in non-participation is due to demographic changes as baby boomers reach retirement age and teenagers choose to focus on school rather than working part time.

«I'm not very positive about large concessions or changes that are going to come from China,» said Heiwai Tang, an assistant professor of international economics at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

At the event, which was hosted by the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law in New Haven, Powell highlighted three specific areas where blockchain technology is affecting change in regard to the Federal Reserve's «broad public policy objectives»: the creation of real - time payment systems, use of blockchain technology for clearing and settlement services, and the issuance of digital currencies by central banks.

That is, by deciding to embrace several different answers to these three questions a theological school changes some of the major contingencies shaping the content of its course of study.

This change is reflected in the curricula of many seminaries and divinity schools today: ethics has achieved an independent existence as a department or area of study.

However, the proposal does not imply any major changes in the traditional array of subject matters studied in theological schools.

You can take a test at school to get in and if you fail you may just decide to study more or give up either way you have changed.

Presumably because such changes help to meet this need, the study seems to approve the tendency it sees in theological schools to move toward closer affiliations with universities.

It is the character of these studies» recommendations — and, just as revealing, the sorts of arguments made in support of the recommendations — that exhibit the changing shape of the «Berlin» model of excellence for theological schooling.

Implicitly the study moves to counter the three sorts of change in Schleiermacher's model of a wissenschaftlich «professional» school that we found in the Kelly and May - Brown studies: the abandonment of a specifically theological account of the subject matter of the Wissenschaft; the individualistic and functionalist understanding of «professional»»; and a separation of Wissenschaft from professional training that leaves both incapable of internal critique of ideological differences.

It may well be that, in addition to requiring a coherent picture of ministry, recovery of unity in a course of study requires profound changes in the way in which critical inquiry is conducted in disciplined ways within theological schools.

The picture of good teaching developed here to counter the fragmentation of theological schooling also tends to counter the previous two studies» tendency to change the «Berlin» model of theological schooling by adopting a functionalist picture of «professional» schooling and an individualistic picture of the teaching proper to Wissenchaft.

They may be able to choose the school or university where they want to pursue their studies, and may even be in a position to change career if the one they take up is not to their liking.

Of black players who played QB in high school, 62 percent changed positions in college, per the study.

Study's authors recommend that school - based programs try to change children's behaviors year round.

Based on over 10 years of work in the field and over 20 case studies from Challenge Success schools, Overloaded and Underprepared serves as a guide for change, offering practical solutions that can be implemented in a single classroom or on a school - wide scale.

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.

Because studies show that one - off concussion education isn't enough to change concussion symptom reporting behavior, Step Three in the SmartTeams Play SafeTM #TeamUp4 ConcussionSafetyTM game plan calls for coaches, athletes, athletic trainers, team doctors (and, at the youth and high school level, parents) to attend a mandatoryconcussion safety meeting before every sports season to learn in detail about the importance of immediate concussion symptom reporting, not just in minimizing the risks concussions pose to an athlete's short - and long - term health, but in increasing the chances for individual and team success.

Maybe, or at least that's what Deborah A. Widiss, an associate law professor at Indiana University's Maurer School of Law, told me when we spoke a few years ago about her own study, «Changing the Marriage Equation.»

In fact the authors point out that there are no studies of meditationamong children in a general school population that are designed well enough to meet the standards of the gatekeeping organizations — like CASEL (Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning), the Department of Education, or the Society for Prevention Research — that would endorse program changes in schools.

Later start - times: «The case study for this topic is Menlo - Atherton High School, which several years ago changed its school - start time from 7:55 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. (and 9:25 a.m. on Thursdays to allow for staff meetSchool, which several years ago changed its school - start time from 7:55 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. (and 9:25 a.m. on Thursdays to allow for staff meetschool - start time from 7:55 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. (and 9:25 a.m. on Thursdays to allow for staff meetings).

First, I could not solely focus my research on mathematics instruction; because the education I witnessed was so integrated and was indicative of best practices, I changed the study to be part of a growing body of knowledge on school restructuring and reform.

As for plate waste and changes in participation, please check out this piece I wrote on The Lunch Tray, cross-posted in Civil Eats, which summarizes an in - depth Pew research study on how schools are adapting.

She is also featured in Free for All: Fixing School Food in America by Janet Poppendieck (California Studies in Food & Culture, 2010) and Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed Our Children, by Ann Cooper and Lisa Holmes (HarperCollins, 2006), has been a guest on PBS's To The Contrary, and appears in the documentary film Two Angry Moms.

The SNA has maintained that this change increases plate waste, while other studies, such as this one from the Harvard School of Public Health, found no such increase.

Some board members called the study unfair, contending that recommendations to change school maintenance, such as an improved management information system, would require upfront costs that were not identified.

A 2016 study by Broglio [46] found that a rule change limiting full - contact high school football practices appears to have been effective in reducing head - impact exposure for all players, with the largest reduction occurring among lineman.

Among them were the Purdue and Rochester studies of athletes in high school and college football [1,8,9,12,13, 31 - 38] and ice hockey, [8] which, as noted above, found subtle changes in cerebral function in the absence of concussion symptoms or clinically measurable cognitive impairment which researchers linked to the volume of head impacts, and a much publicized case - study autopsy of a collegiate football player, Owen Thomas, with no reported history of concussions, which revealed early signs of CTE.

Board member Akshay Desai told state officials he wants to see any studies that show whether nutritional changes made in schools can indeed improve children's health.

Using DTI imaging technique, researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, found in a 2013 study [16] significant differences in brain white matter of varsity football and hockey players compared with a group of non-contact-sport athletes, with the number of times they were hit correlated with changes in the white matter.

About nine years ago, the school nurse suggested the change, and the school conducted a pilot study, tracking food waste and visits to the nurse along with anecdotal reports on student behavior.

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Using DTI, researchers at Wake Forest found in a 2014 study [26] that a single season of high school football can produce changes in the white matter of the brain of the type previously associated with mTBI in the absence of a clinical diagnosis of concussion, and that these impact - related changes in the brain are strongly associated with a postseason change in the verbal memory composite score from baseline on the ImPACT neurocognitive test.

Improving the behavior of the parent or caregiver of children in high - risk situations actually changes their physical chemistry, according to the studies Tough cites, leading to fewer behavior problems and greater success in school, as well as measurably better health outcomes as years pass.

The headmaster of her school wanted to shift the school's start time from 8 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. — as a pediatrician and scientist, I suggested studying the effects of that change.

To provide information on challenges that school districts have faced, this testimony draws on work GAO conducted as part of its ongoing study of implementation of the changes.

Design, Setting, and Participants This descriptive, longitudinal study examined changes in the nutritional quality of 1741630 school meals at 3 middle schools and 3 high schools in an urban school district in Washington state.

This descriptive, longitudinal study examined changes in the nutritional quality of 1741630 school meals at 3 middle schools and 3 high schools in an urban school district in Washington state.

This study aimed to assess changes in nutrient quality of school meals chosen by students before and after implementation of new meal standards authorized through the Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010.

We are supposed to believe that obstetricians (with 8 years of higher education, extensive study of science and statistics, and four additional years of hands on experience caring for pregnant women), the people who actually DO the research that represents the corpus of scientific evidence, are ignoring their own findings while NCB advocates (generally high school graduates with no background in college science or statistics, let alone advanced study of these subjects, and limited experience of caring for pregnant women), the people who NEVER do scientific research, are assiduously scouring the scientific literature, reading the main obstetric journals each month, and changing their practice based on the latest scientific evidence.

But a three - year study of students in 12 middle schools determined that kids did accept the changes to their cafeteria trays.

«Studies have shown that simply changing the admissions process would do nothing to address the lack of diversity at our city's most prestigious schools.»

This changes the purpose from «Keep studying after high school» (something Democrats like) to «Avoid public schools» (something Democrats dislike and Republicans like).

The Institute for Fiscal Studies says around one in six schools would see cuts in their funding of ten per cent or more as a result of the changes.

The BHA has described the changes, which will also mean the study of evolution in primary schools will stay off the curriculum, as catastrophic.

Children's lives are being impacted in a very damaging way, the study argues, with one in ten families having to change their child's school due to moving from one rented home to another.