Sentences with phrase «studies education today»

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NBK Capital Partners announced today it has completed the realization of its mezzanine investment in Study World Higher Education Services («Study World»).

Boston, MA — June 11, 2013 — Millennial Branding, a Gen Y research and consulting firm and Internships.com, the world's largest internship marketplace, today announced a new study called «The Future of Education.»

The scholars who study Islamic culture today point out that the chief factors which have influenced contemporary Arab Muslim society are: the Western ideas which penetrated Arab society through education and increased contact with the West, socialist concepts which have spread throughout the world, communist doctrines which challenge religion in general, the expansion of university education, the admission of Muslim women to higher education, the study of ancient and modern philosophy in the universities, and the modern Muslim movements which have been so influential.

When the Higher Education Research Institute at U.C.L.A. recently released a study of religious and spiritual attitudes among today's college students, their findings confirmed what astute campus observers had been witnessing for years.

Edward Farley's path - breaking Theologia: The Fragmentation and Unity of Theological Education, [2] which may fairly be said to have launched the conversation, urged that the major issue for theological education today is the fragmentation of the theological course of study and proposed a way to recover iEducation, [2] which may fairly be said to have launched the conversation, urged that the major issue for theological education today is the fragmentation of the theological course of study and proposed a way to recover ieducation today is the fragmentation of the theological course of study and proposed a way to recover its unity.

It is questions like these that have provoked the simple answer in much of the university today, not only in the United States but in Europe and Asia as well: Drop the idea of a core education altogether, especially when we know that what we really need to be studying is science, technology, and economics.

$ 26 When the Higher Education Research Institute at U.C.L.A. recently released a study of religious and spiritual attitudes among today's college students, their findings confirmed what astute campus....

If Bible study has become a specialty or series of specialties today the reason is not to be sought simply in the development of specialization among teachers of theology but in the loss of a controlling idea in theological education — an idea able to give unity to many partial inquiries.

This is the key finding from a new report published today by the Institute of Alcohol Studies (UK) and the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education — FARE (Australia).

The State Education Department proposed to the Board of Regents today adding career development and occupational studies pathway.

Recent studies have found that US schools are more segregated today than before the US Supreme Court decision on Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education.

(New York, NY) Jan. 10, 2013 — Those students in New York City who most depend on highly effective teachers are instead the students most likely to be taught by teachers rated «Unsatisfactory,» according to an eye - opening study of the City's teacher rating data, published today by StudentsFirstNY, an education advocacy organization with more than 150,000 members across New York State.

The study, published in today's edition of CBE - Life Sciences Education, is the largest and most carefully controlled analysis to date of how participating in course - based undergraduate research experiences affects students» outcomes.

A new study published today in Sport, Education and Society sheds light upon teens» online habits, finding that young people are not simply passive recipients of all the content available online, as commonly thought.

Being a short man or an overweight woman is associated with lower chances in life in areas such as education, occupation, and income, concludes a study published by The BMJ today.

«The takeaway from this paper is that Harvey was more intense because of today's climate, and storms like Harvey are more likely in today's climate,» said Antonia Sebastian, a study co-author and a researcher with Rice University's Severe Storm Prediction, Education and Evacuation from Disasters Center.

The study, published today in open access journal Frontiers in Psychology, shows that this xenophobia, or a fear of other groups, was a strong predictor of a Brexit vote regardless of people's age, gender or education.

«The formidable challenges to improve the way we educate culturally and linguistically diverse students mean teachers and schools can no longer work in isolation,» said Lynch School of Education Associate Professor Martin Scanlan, co-author of a study presented today at the American Educational Research Association annual meeting.

With as many as eight out of every 10 LGBT students enduring bullying at school, the findings can help shape new programs to make schools safer, said Lynch School of Education Associate Professor Paul Poteat, who presents the study today at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association.

Web - based learning tools can help deepen science knowledge among all middle school students, and ease the science literacy gap for underachieving students, according to a three - year study published today in the International Journal of Science Education.

Acknowledging the importance of energy education for today's students, the department's Institute of Education Sciences gave high marks to the new study, which is one of only 26 funded this year through the competitive education research grantseducation for today's students, the department's Institute of Education Sciences gave high marks to the new study, which is one of only 26 funded this year through the competitive education research grantsEducation Sciences gave high marks to the new study, which is one of only 26 funded this year through the competitive education research grantseducation research grants program.

In a 7 - year study at a Boston elementary school where half the students are English Language Learners (ELL), setting a school - wide goal of improved writing skills and using a genres - based instructional method improved the performance of ELL students on state and internal assessments, according to Boston College Lynch School of Education Professor Maria E. Brisk, who presents her findings today at the American Educational Research Association annual meeting.

According to the study, postsecondary institutions, STEM departments, accrediting entities, and state and federal education policies — grounded on the STEM pipeline metaphor that there is only one linear route to a bachelor's STEM degree — have largely ignored the various pathways taken by students today to earn a STEM degree.

In a study published today, scientists at deCODE genetics use genomic and genealogical data from across the population of Iceland over many decades to show that people who carry sequence variations linked to higher levels of education have fewer children than average...

To keep up with changes in education, studying, collaborating, and learning, schools are looking to re-imagine the role and structure of libraries to best support today's learner.

Study: Today's Teens Pushing Limits in Art, but Not in Writing NPR (KPLU 88.5), November 22, 2013 «Today's teens are pushing the boundaries in their artwork, but playing it safe in the stories they write, according to new research by the University of Washington Information School and the Harvard Graduate School of Education.»

The move has led to the creation of a college that today caters for more than 20,000 pupils studying for a wide range of vocational courses that lead to BTEC, NVQ, City & Guilds and other specialist qualifications, as well as higher education courses validated by the University of Greenwich and Canterbury Christ Church University.

Despite spending more per capita on preschool programs than any other state, Massachusetts has 40 percent fewer preschools for children in poor neighborhoods compared to wealthier communities, according to a study released today by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Unparalleled Reports from the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University Examine Landmark Public Education Act Today, the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (CRP) releases the findings of a four - part study examining the landmark No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act through its first year of implementation (2002 - 2003).

In a 2009 study, the Center for Public Education released Teaching the Teachers: Effective Professional Development in an Era of High Stakes Accountability, a national research report indicating that «most professional development today is ineffective.»

A case study by Meredith Liu titled «Cisco Networking Academy: Next - generation assessments and their implications for K — 12 education» released yesterday by the Clayton Christensen Institute profiles how the Academy, a comprehensive online training curriculum offered to third - party education institutions to help high school and college students acquire the fundamental skills needed to design, build, and troubleshoot computer networks, uses technology today to deliver assessments in ways starkly different from our current education system.

In a bid to illuminate solutions, a group of scholars, advocates, and policymakers released case studies today detailing promising new approaches to recruiting, hiring, and training education personnel.

In a speech that triggered advance controversy — and logistical headaches for school officials — President Barack Obama today urged America's K - 12 students to study hard and stay in school, saying, «What you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country.»

Today, our faculty, students, and alumni are studying and solving the most critical challenges facing education: student assessment, the achievement gap, and teacher effectiveness, to name just a few.

In one of his early writings, excerpted in the following pages, James S. Coleman, the brilliant sociologist who later wrote the famous report on the equality of opportunity for education (the «Coleman Report») and the first study of public and private schools, identified the essential high - school problem: «our adolescents today are cut off, probably more than ever before, from the adult society.»

In our new study, published today in Education Next, my colleagues and I found that only 22 percent of teachers were evaluated based on test score gains in the four urban school districts we studied.

The full study, «A Randomized Controlled Trial of Professional Development for Interdisciplinary Civic Education,» will be available and free to all on the Teacher's College Record website for one week only beginning today, April 15.

Released today by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes, at Stanford University, the study comes as a growing number of school districts and charter schools around the country are experimenting with such reward programs in the hope of improving...

I recently had the opportunity to contribute an article on sociologist James Coleman's research on Catholic schools to a special issue of Education Next commemorating the 50th anniversary of his 1966 «Equality of Opportunity» study — better known today as the Coleman Report.

The study for which James S. Coleman is best known today makes no mention of private education.

In this study, we solve this conundrum by taking advantage of the historical fact that the amount of competition in education today varies from one country to another for reasons that have little to do with contemporary school quality, or national income, or commitments to education.

More low - income students would make it to college if changes were made to streamline the complicated financial aid process, according to a groundbreaking study released today by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Stanford University School of Education, the University of Toronto, and the National Bureau of Economic Research.

The study will address key questions facing today's policymakers and practitioners, particularly those about scale, the long - term impacts of early education, and the essential ingredients for successful models.

His shift to studying higher education is born from the significant challenges facing today's era.

• A new intergenerational study shows that for 76 % of 15 - 17 year olds, studying hard for good exam results is their biggest priority for the coming year; and they are preparing to sacrifice friendships, family time, hobbies and even sleep to achieve this, • In fact 57 % of 15 - 17 year olds feel school work must come before anything else if they want to do well in the future • And only 39 % of this age group think being happy is more important than good grades • Yet half (51 %) of UK business leaders calls on teens to develop broader life / work skills before leaving education A new report launched today by National Citizen Service (NCS) reveals that the UK ¹ s 15 - 17 year olds feel under significant pressure to excel in exams at the expense of other life skills, experiences, healthy relationships and even their own happiness, suggesting that they are struggling to juggle the demands of young adulthood.

Instead, today's studies are comparing different types of early education programs to one another — apples to apples.

Commenting on today's PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) results, Sir Kevan Collins, Chief Executive of the Education Endowment...

-- The Seventy Four «Washington Post reporter Russakoff's fascinating study of the struggle to reform the Newark school system reveals the inner workings of a wide range of systemic and grassroots problems (charter schools, testing, accountability, private donors) plaguing education reform today... Russakoff's eagle - eyed view of the current state of the public education system in Newark and the United States is one of the finest education surveys in recent memory.»

In comparison, today's Education Longitudinal Study comprises only about 15,000 students in 750 schools.

Today, researchers from the School Choice Demonstration Project at the University of Arkansas and the Education Research Alliance for New Orleans at Tulane University will release findings from their study of the third year of results from the Louisiana Scholarship Program at the Urban Institute in Washington.