Sentences with phrase «study school organization»

Students are required to study school organization, adult development, special education or English Language Learning, as well as instructional leadership in a subject matter of their choosing.

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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.

Ronald Burt is a sociologist in the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business who for more than 30 years has studied the phenomenon of «structural holes,» i.e., gaps within organizations.

They know all the business school case studies about how incumbent organizations can't sit around and ignore innovators,» says Brian Johnson, a Barclays analyst who has argued that the economy will reach «peak car» ownership in the next year.

The Institute of International Education, a not - for - profit organization that researches the movement of international students, found that 304,467 American students studied abroad during the 2013 - 2014 school year — the most recent data available.

The Best Employers in Canada study measures the level of employee engagement at participating organizations and is based on results from a national survey conducted by Aon Hewitt, in association with the Queen's Centre for Business Venturing at the Queen's University School of Business.

Decisions about the organization and movement of a theological course of study are, I suggest, largely a matter of prudent judgment by the theological school itself.

These include history and geography, schools of thought, mysticism, religious belief, religious practice, Islamic law, theology, philosophy and ideology, politics (dynastic states, political and religious roles, political concepts and terms), economics, culture and society (personal life, community life, arts and literature, science and medicine, communications, popular religion), Islamic studies, institutions, organizations, movements, biographies.

The organization he co-founded and is currently the CEO of, the Concussion Legacy Foundation, helps ensure that the school's brain bank continues to have new evidence to study.

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.

«Typical studies of the household division of labor do not begin to capture all the unpaid caring work — for friends, extended family, schools, and religious and other community organizations — that women disproportionately do.

High school students are more responsible than ever for developing good study habits and organizations skills they will take with them to the college and the working world.

[37] The campaign has support from both religious and non-religious organizations at both the national and local level including the Accord Coalition, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, the British Humanist Association, British Muslims for Secular Democracy, ICoCo Foundation, the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, Ekklesia, the Hindu Academy, the Liberal Democrat Education Association, Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign, the Runnymede Trust, the Socialist Educational Association, the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches.

Opponents of New York's nuclear subsidies released a study estimating the financial impact that $ 462 million a year in nuclear subsidies will have on towns, counties, school districts and other organizations.

According to a 2006 study by the Local Government Education Committee, a municipal training organization, roughly 14 percent of voters statewide participated in school elections in May of 2006.

After three years of work, supported by the town and organizations such as Americorps, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Rockland, BOCES of Rockland and Antioch's New England School of Environmental Studies, Stead's finally realized his vision.

«Infectious disease disaster planning among Missouri schools does not appear to have progressed much over the last four years since a similar nationwide study was conducted, and most Missouri schools are not meeting many national and professional organization recommendations and guidelines,» state the study's authors.

They plow some of their profits into promotional industry groups that fund research studies, they make alliances with medical organizations to educate the public about milk, and they provide free materials to schools suggesting that milk is vital to good nutrition.

Last year, the Sports Legacy Institute, a nonprofit organization that promotes research on sports - related head injuries, announced the formation of a new research center in partnership with the Boston University School of Medicine to study neuropsychiatric symptoms in athletes and to examine donated brains for signs of pathology.

The research offers support for the recommendations of organizations such as the Centers for Disease Control, Institute of Medicine, and the American Academy of Pediatrics, all of which have advocated increasing the amount of time that elementary school children spend in gym class, says lead researcher and Cornell professor of policy analysis and management, John Cawley, who conducted the study with Chad Meyerhoefer of Lehigh University (Cornell Ph.D. 2002) and David Frisvold of Emory University.

As a Giovanni Armenise - Harvard Professor of Basic Medical Sciences at Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, Dr. Harrison studies protein interactions of viruses and antibodies to understand the organization and dynamics of these macromolecular assemblies.

The Johnson O'Connor Research Foundation is a nonprofit scientific research and educational organization with two primary commitments: to study human abilities and to provide people with a knowledge of their aptitudes that will help them in making decisions about school and work.

He has studied Mindful - Based Stress Reduction at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and offers such programs to organizations.

A 2005 study by the New Teacher Project, the national nonprofit organization that works with school districts to recruit high - quality teachers, examined five urban districts and concluded that seniority - based transfer privileges written into contracts often force principals «to hire large numbers of teachers they do not want and who may not be a good fit for the job and their school.»

Through a Nairobi - based organization, he got a chance to attend a national high school and pass well in his studies.

The study, conducted by Public / Private Ventures, a nonprofit youth - research and program - development organization, is based on interviews with 125 young people who had participated in two in - school remedial programs and two out - of - school youth - service...

In a set of case studies published in 2005, Massachusetts 2020, an independent organization dedicated to improving learning opportunities, found that extended schooling allowed for broader and deeper coverage of the curriculum, more opportunities for experiential learning, greater individualization of instruction, and stronger relationships between adults and students.

More research is needed to evaluate and overcome the unique challenges that pervasive digital media presents to elementary school students, says a report published by the New York City - based Joan Ganz Cooney Center, a research organization dedicated to studying technology in education.

One study by one pioneer school organization does not a best practice make.

The «High School and Beyond» study began with extensive interviews of superintendents, teacher organizations, and parent groups.

Regardless of the sponsoring organization or the research design, these studies all reach the same conclusion: Commonwealth charter schools in Boston are exceptionally high performing.

In this part of our study, we compared states based on the rating of their laws by CER, which is an advocacy organization for charter schools.

We can learn a great deal about school choice, entrepreneurship, social capital, and community from studying these organizations in greater depth.

The results also confirmed the positive relationship of key characteristics of professional - development design identified in previous studies over the past decade to student outcomes: sustained, active teacher learning that is coherently aligned with the school's organization.

In management consulting, the crucial assumptions are that 1) each organization possesses a unique culture and set of goals; therefore, the same intervention is likely to elicit different results depending on a school's history, organization, personnel, and politics; and 2) suggestions for change should creatively blend knowledge from many different sources — from general organizational theories, from deep insight into the district or schools under study, and from «craft» knowledge of what is likely to improve schools or districts with particular characteristics.

Published by EdSource, a nonprofit organization that monitors education in California, the study is based on a random sample of 257 elementary schools.

Jointly conducted by two prominent research organizations, the study charts the progress of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's effort to support the launch of hundreds of new, small high schools and convert hundreds of large high schools into smaller units.

Last week, the Clayton Christensen Institute published a case study that describes how Leadership Public Schools, a charter school management organization that operates three high schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, used technology to rethink how teachers delivered instruction in math intervention cSchools, a charter school management organization that operates three high schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, used technology to rethink how teachers delivered instruction in math intervention cschools in the San Francisco Bay Area, used technology to rethink how teachers delivered instruction in math intervention courses.

The case study illustrates how three groups of charter management organizations (CMOs)-- High Tech High in San Diego; Uncommon Schools, KIPP Foundation, and Achievement First in New York; and Match Education in Boston — saw big gaps in the traditional teacher education programs that left their aspiring teachers with no place to learn how to teach effectively in their specific schools or in a way that would allow them to succeed in working with the country's most vulnerable stSchools, KIPP Foundation, and Achievement First in New York; and Match Education in Boston — saw big gaps in the traditional teacher education programs that left their aspiring teachers with no place to learn how to teach effectively in their specific schools or in a way that would allow them to succeed in working with the country's most vulnerable stschools or in a way that would allow them to succeed in working with the country's most vulnerable students.

NCPI draws on the full breadth and depth of intellectual and institutional resources at five leading partner organizations: Fundação Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal (FMCSV), the Medical School at the University of São Paulo, INSPER, the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University (HCDC), and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University.

e. states that «schools should involve school children in local and regional studies on environmental health» and that along with various UN branches, non-governmental organizations should help implement and support this education («Chapter 36», 1992).

As a collaborative initiative, NCPI draws on the full breadth and depth of intellectual and institutional resources at five leading partner organizations: Fundação Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal (FMCSV), the Medical School at the University of São Paulo, INSPER, the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University (HCDC), and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University.

Case studies of single turnarounds comprise most of this research, including studies of both large, stand - alone entities and small units within larger organizations, closer in size to schools.

«That term comes from Amy Edmondson, a professor at Harvard Business School, who studies ways to encourage entrepreneurial thinking in business organizations,» she says.

In 2011, she asked a large consulting firm to study some school districts and charter management organizations that were known for giving robust support to their teachers.

Kahlenberg and Potter acknowledge the CRP's methodological problems, but dig the ditch deeper by citing one article that appeared in this journal and eviscerated the CRP's study (see «A Closer Look at Charter Schools and Segregation,» check the facts, Summer 2010) and a 2010 study looking at racial enrollment patterns among charter schools managed by for - profit management organizations, which represent just 12 percent of the charter sector natiSchools and Segregation,» check the facts, Summer 2010) and a 2010 study looking at racial enrollment patterns among charter schools managed by for - profit management organizations, which represent just 12 percent of the charter sector natischools managed by for - profit management organizations, which represent just 12 percent of the charter sector nationally.

This week, Stanford University's CREDO released its authoritative new study of charter school management organizations.

Prior to coming to the Ed School, Donaldson admits that she never thought about studying TFA, but, considering her experience as a former teacher and her sister's participation in TFA, she became more curious about retention rates among graduates of the organization

A study released May 14 by a leading business organization attempts to show that the nation's statistics on high school dropout rates have been vastly underestimated.

In the past, we used to study a course, focus on our course books provided by the school, college, or organization, and learn from teachers only by attending classes in particular places at fixed times.