Sentences with phrase «studies schools as»

He also studies schools as central cultural contexts for child and adolescent academic and social - emotional development, and globalization and adolescent development in India.

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Encouragement and appreciation can also prompt employees to give you their best work, as evidenced by a study conducted at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

The study sampled both parents of high school students intending to go to college, as well as the students themselves, to determine overall outlook on college expenses, money - saving habits, and life after college in today's workforce.

As the school year winds down, aspiring entrepreneurs may wonder whether they should study entrepreneurship in college or just startup.

One reason may be because Cambodian companies have been able to position themselves as low - cost, reliable alternatives to Chinese factories, where wages are rising, according to Afshin Molavi, senior fellow at Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.

One recent (if small study) that followed a diverse group 183 teens who attended public high school for a decade, starting in middle school, found that «by the age of 22, these «cool kids» are rated as less socially competent than their peers.

According to GirlsWhoCode, 74 percent of middle - school girls express interest in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields, yet only 0.4 percent of high - school girls plan to study computer science as a major in college.

Young women are simply losing interest in these fields as an area of study and a profession as they progress from middle school to high school to college.

In fact, one study released by the Yale School of Management in 2008 went so far as to call retail investing the «dumb money.»

A good way to leverage anxiety, according to a research study conducted at Harvard Business School (HBS), is to reframe it by seeing its existence as a source of strength rather than of weakness.

At the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, Stewart Thornhill, who also serves as the executive director of the Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, says that while an MBA is by no means necessary to startup success, it can be helpful.

«According to a study from researchers at Harvard Business School, the University of Mannheim, and Yale University, wealthy individuals report that having three to four times as much money would give them a perfect» 10» score on happiness — regardless of how much wealth they already have,» reports the release.

A much discussed 2010 study by professors from INSEAD, the Kellogg School, and Tel Aviv University found that «travel and living abroad have long been seen as good for the soul.

A follow - up study looking at six schools found similar results, as apple consumption grew by 70 %.

Professor Peter Tuthill, at the School of Physics, Sydney University, had his own close own encounter with Stephen Hawking as a Australian graduate student studying in Cambridge.

This behavior, otherwise known as «humblebragging,» could be a turn - off, according to a recent study from Harvard Business School.

In an interview in his heavily book - filled office at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, in Washington, where he worked after his stint as treasury secretary, Paulson discussed the reasons he chose Blankfein to succeed him.

He had studied their work as a young adult, and after being rejected from Harvard, noticed the names of the two professors in a catalog for Columbia Business School.

Nordgren conducted the research with Brian Lucas, who worked on the study as a Ph.D. student at Kellogg and is now a faculty member at the University of Chicago Booth School.

Mark Cohen, director of retail studies at Columbia Business School and former Sears Canada CEO, discusses Macy's decision on buying Story, a retail entertainment concept, to implement in their stores as well as Amazon and Walmart in the race to acquire India's Flipkart.

At every school we studied, the overall results deteriorated as the result of one semester of instruction

As another school year begins, artistic - minded students (and their parents) are once again wrestling with the age - old question of whether one should indulge an enthusiasm for music, literature or other fine - arts subjects at school, or instead study something more... shall we say... employable?

«In two studies, both from Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In and from a Harvard Business School study, when it came to judging women's work less favorably, the women involved in the study were just as biased as the men,» O'Rourke writes, summarizing Nelson's comments.

A month later, he was walking — and exploring a new fascination with the power of thought that prompted him to go back to school to study positive psychology and to launch a happiness - boosting social media platform called Smile Epidemic (think of it as Facebook for the Up With People crowd).

Williams has a Ph.D in economics from Stanford, where he studied under famed economist John Taylor, as well as an MS from the London School of Economics, and an BA from Cal - Berkeley.

Ankumah says he first studied the «underpinnings of technology» as a high school student at an all - boys boarding school in Ghana — all without access to computers.

Despite fears of a teen exodus to rival services such as Snapchat, the social networking giant remains popular with school kids, according to a new study.

Along with the possibility of raising the age for purchasing a gun, the commission will study the effects of factors such as violent video games that contribute to what DeVos called a «culture of violence» in U.S. schools.

The study, which followed 10,000 Wisconsin residents who had graduated from high school in 1957, sought to explore how job demands, deadlines, job control, and decision making affected workers as a way of predicting early death.

A 2009 study from MIT's Sloan School of Management found that virtual teams working for software companies were regularly outperforming on - location teams, as long as they had the proper systems in place.

It is home to the Haskayne School of Business» Executive Education and Westman Centre for Real Estate Studies, as well as is the location of many events and MBA courses.

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.

A recent study by professors from the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) confirms that entrepreneurs can greatly benefit from coworking spaces as these spaces help entrepreneurs develop new business skills as well as tap into new customer networks.

As a second year student, Merage MBAs can also experience a week - long international study trip or quarter - long International Exchange Program at partnering schools in Asia, Europe, and Latin America.

As business school professors, many of whom lack venture experience, studied how VCs made decisions, they observed the apparently central role of the business plan and proceeded to make the plan [not the planning], the central framework for teaching entrepreneurship.

The last part about then spending on friends and family as well as likely supporting scholarships for study have brought me back into my original right - out - of - school enthusiasm, but with a bit more perspective.

David M. Lampton, director of China Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, said it was not surprising for China to balk at the idea of an American company using Hong Kong, and China's own «one country, two systems» policy, as a way around censorship.

In fact, a recent study from the UCLA Anderson School of Management ranked L.A. as the most unaffordable city in the nation for both home buyers and renters.

Back during my schooling years, I studied the same problem again and again so as not to make the same mistake come exam time.

During the 1997 provincial election, as part of my Grade 8 Social Studies course at École Georges H. Primeau School in Morinville, we were given an assignment that required us to collect news paper clippings of media coverage of the election.

Using the home mortgage interest deduction as a case study, Hemel and Kyle Rozema, a postdoctoral fellow at the Northwestern - Pritzker School of Law, argue that labeling a tax provision as «progressive» or «regressive» should not be done in isolation.

If you were creating a middle - of - the - funnel webinar discussing the teaching methodology your horseback riding school follows, and you were targeting an intermediate - level rider, you could include a case study of an intermediate rider who came to your school and, as a result of your methodology and training, became one of the top riders in their division and moved on to compete with more advanced - level horseback riders.

«This exhibit was one we intentionally made very broad, because it covered the 230 - year history of music and politics in the US,» says the exhibition's guest curator Daniel Cavicchi, who also serves as an associate professor of American Studies at the Rhode Island School of Design.

As part of the ministry, I help teach Sunday school and lead Bible study.

What is so different about religious studies in high school as compared to college?

I live in a blue state and we had kids that came in to high school before classes started every day to meet up as a group for bible study.

The Christian Post: Paganism and Witchcraft Placed Alongside Christian Studies in UK Schools A U.K. school system has included the study of witchcraft and druidry on its official religious education syllabus for the first time, meaning pagan practices will be taught alongside contemporary religions, such as Christianity, Islam and Judaism.

Dr. Castuera currently serves as the Director of the Latin America Project of the Center for Process Studies at the Claremont School of Theology.

The study of family relations and of the growth of persons within the family is the special concern of interpersonal psychology, particularly as represented in the various psychoanalytic schools.