Sentences with phrase «study schools in»

For example, case study schools in Maryland really target their extra time on students with the greatest need, while those in Michigan for the most part extend the school day for all students.

Responsibilities include the «Extra Mile Project» which began by studying the schools in deprived areas which for one or another reason have performed significantly better than expected over time.

Authors William Parrett and Kathleen Budge have synthesized the research, studied the schools in depth, and show you critical components that set these institutions apart from their struggling peers.

For eight years, Mathematica Policy Research has been studying schools in the charter school network Knowledge is Power Program.

Michelle's deep experience in school design began during her 22 years in the classroom when she developed a sequential theatre arts program and helped create an award - winning integrated studies school in Northern California.

Not exact matches

Earlier this year, for example, Judy Zaichkowsky of Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business published a study indicating that the presence of just one woman on a company's board resulted in significantly higher standards of corporate governance (which has an established correlation to better financial performance).

The 11 children who were killed were studying in a nearby madrassa, or religious school, said Matiullah Zhman, a spokesman for Kandahar police.

To help determine whether it will result in a real improvement in the lives of garment workers or in business results, Levi's has enlisted Harvard's School of Public Health to rigorously measure and study the initiative.

And when it comes to the «real world» after school, study after study has shown that gender diversity within boardrooms leads to better decisions, higher earnings, fewer ethical issues — in short, stronger businesses.

Hours after the attack in Kabul, a suicide bomber in a vehicle attacked a foreign military convoy in the southern province of Kandahar, killing 11 children studying in a nearby religious school, police said.

A recent study from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School found such «intertemporal markers» help motivate us in two ways: offering an opportunity to separate ourselves from past «misbehaviour» and disrupting our attention from day - to - day details to focus on the big picture.

Calling it the «privacy paradox,» University of Michigan School of Information professor Cliff Lamp says in studying social computing he has found that people make a lot of noise when it comes to privacy, but push concerns aside in favor of convenience.

The Yale Law School graduate worked for the World Bank in Southern Africa before her studies.

The Grammy - award winning musician began to learn classical piano when she was 7 and shortly after enrolled at the Professional Performing Arts School in Manhattan, where she began to study jazz.

Commentary by George A. Lopez, the Hesburgh Professor Emeritus of Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies in the Keough School of Global Affairs.

She is a graduate of the London School of Economics - Peking University double MSc in International Affairs, where she studied history and political economy with a focus on US - China trade disputes.

In 1995, Musk enrolled in graduate school at Stanford University to study physicIn 1995, Musk enrolled in graduate school at Stanford University to study physicin graduate school at Stanford University to study physics.

The shocking part is that we claim that women aren't studying STEM subjects at school and aren't entering tech careers in the U.S. because of discrimination and oppression, but in countries where women don't have a lot of rights (and granted, those rights vary drastically even within Middle Eastern countries), they manage to succeed in STEM in school.

After graduating at the top of his class in high school, Spacey went on to Julliard to study acting.

DeAngelis graduated Cum Laude from Cornell University with a B.A. in Asian studies and history and also holds a Juris Doctorate from Rutgers School of Law.

She later went back to school and graduated with a master's in Chicano studies from California State University at Northridge in 2013.

The study was presented recently at the 2014 Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference at Western University's Ivey Business School in London, Ont., which set out to uncover the factors that «influence variance in entrepreneurial orientation» — risk - taking, innovativeness, pro-activeness — among family firms.

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.

The study, headed by Professor Edward Guinan of the school's astronomy and astrophysics department, initially looked at which crops would thrive in soil that is similar to that found on Mars (based on readings taken by the Phoenix Mars lander and samples recreated on earth).

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.

It's intended to give graduates a solid background in both economics and finance, and like Schulich, has a vast network of partner schools you can opt to study abroad in.

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.

«Strategic alliances are definitely becoming crucial in building businesses of all kinds and at an earlier stage than ever before,» says Gene Slowinski, director of strategic - alliance studies at Rutgers University's Graduate School of Management.

She recalled how her father gave her coffee in elementary school to help her stay up and study.

In a last ditch effort, Wagstaff, who goes by Dr. Bob, brought the Orabrush to a marketing class at Brigham Young University's graduate school, which offers companies the chance to let students perform a case study for them for about $ 1,500.

«Our findings suggest that frequent e-cigarette use may play an important role in cessation or relapse prevention for some smokers,» Daniel Giovenco, an assistant professor of sociomedical sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the lead study author, said in a statement.

«Though we will continue to prosecute the campaign against terrorists that we're engaged in today, the great power competition, not terrorism, is now the primary focus of US national security,» Mattis said in his opening statements at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

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.

But a 2014 study from Daniel Austin, a bankruptcy attorney and, at the time, a professor at the Northeastern University School of Law, offers some of the most in - depth research to date.

Talisman's shares were priced at a 10 % to 20 % discount during the period Talisman was in Sudan, according to a case study by Wharton School management professor Stephen Kobrin.

Studies suggest that even one more year of school means a 10 percent to 20 percent boost in income.

«Think about being back in school, and studying not only one night for a midterm, but probably starting a couple of weeks ahead,» Twohill says.

Olick has a B.A. in comparative literature with a minor in soviet studies from Columbia College in New York and a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism.

Michael Buehler, a lecturer at University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) says Jokowi is not the only one at fault in his lackluster campaign.

Just in time for back to school: an online repository of study guides, flashcards and tutors from over 4,300 universities.

New Jersey — a wealthy, educated state with ready access to world - class health care in Philadelphia and New York City — has «better access to higher - quality information that lets us be more complete» in screening, Walter Zahorodny, a New Jersey Medical School professor and director of the New Jersey Autism Study, said in a conference call about the findings.

After traveling to Costa Rica during my Junior year of high school, I was inspired to study abroad in college.

After graduating from Vashon High School, I began college at Kalamazoo College where I studied abroad in Costa Rica for a whole trimester.

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

In a study commissioned by leadership consultant Green Peak Partners, and conducted by Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, researchers looked at 72 senior executives at public, venture - backed and private - equity sponsored companies and found that self - awareness was the biggest predictor of a CEO's overall success.

That scenario isn't science fiction in the slightest, the new study by Sandra Matz at Columbia Business School shows.

«People study in school to get the degrees that will help them build a career, but then they don't study for the jobs themselves.»

A new study by researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden and the London School of Economics finds the effects of roboticization in fact countervail much of the negative media sentiment.

I did a study abroad program in London when I was in high school.