Sentences with phrase «who studies school»

The outcomes we can measure show it's leading to increased segregation and increased burdens for districts,» said Gary Miron, a researcher and education professor at Western Michigan University who studies school choice data.

As a researcher who studies school choice, I know that many of these arguments are reflected in evidence.

«To me it's a wonderful development,» said Richard Kahlenberg, who studies school integration at the Century Foundation.

«If kids are coming to school without the basic health and nutritional supports, you need to do that,» says Linda Darling - Hammond, who studies school policy at Stanford University.

Marguerite Roza, who studies school finance at the University of Washington, calculates that districts spend about the same to suit up a youngster to play a sport as to enroll her in a semester of, say, history.

In the early years of IES, Whitehurst and others frequently compared education science with drug studies, indicating that people who study schools should test curricula or learning practices the way a pharmaceutical researcher might test a new drug.

This finding does not come as a surprise to those of us who study school choice.

A group of academics who study school violence recently released a list of suggestions that includes restricting gun access and increasing mental health services.

Not exact matches

Most call centers motivate employees through fear, punishing them for not hitting targets or spending too long on the phone, says Daniel Cable, a professor at London Business School who has studied the industry.

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

So, people who studied business - production systems or kind of old - school business philosophy maybe are familiar with it.

I quit my job, spent time with my dad, who'd had a stroke, and went back to school for business and environmental studies.»

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.

A recent study of 21,000 business school alumni found that 45 % of entrepreneurs who have graduated since 2010 started their businesses straight out of school, compared to just 7 % among those who graduated prior to 1990.

A similar strategy for tackling the urge to slack is to practice «productive procrastination,» a term used by Piers Steel, a professor at the University of Calgary's Haskayne School of Business who studies procrastination.

According to a study by Michael Norton of Harvard Business School and two colleagues from the University of British Columbia, the amount of money people earn has less influence on their happiness than how they spend it, and those who spend at least some of their money on others are happier than those who do not.

She points to a 2011 study by the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, which found that students who started school at 8:30 a.m. got almost an hour more sleep and performed better on tests measuring attention levels than peers who started at 7:30 a.m.

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.

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.

«People who wear that kind of clothing feel more powerful,» Michael L. Slepian, co-author of the study and an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia Business School, told the WSJ.

A 2010 study by professors from Insead, the Kellogg School of Management, and Tel Aviv University found that people who have spent extended time abroad tend to be better, more creative problem solvers.

says David Bell, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, who studies e-commerce.

Or, the group focuses on doing deep dives into each other's businesses similar to the case study approach anyone who attended business school would be familiar with.

He wants to compete to be the lead drummer in the competitive ensemble and study under Terence, an obsessive instructor who is hell - bent on winning competitions for the school.

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.

Studies show that kids who eat breakfast tend to perform better in school.

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.

The study, conducted by Sameer B. Srivastava, Ph.D. and doctoral student Eliot Sherman at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business, found that low - performing women who switched from a male supervisor to a high - performing female supervisor earned substantially less than men who made a similar shift.

And consider this: If you polled successful adults on whether they studied hard in high school, what percentage of those who did would say they did?

The University of Regina School of Business is designed for busy professionals who wish to study part — time, and there's no shortage of busy professionals in the currently booming province of Saskatchewan.

Laura Rodrigues, a professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine who worked on this study, said its results were «the missing pieces in the jigsaw» proving the link.

«He's an extraordinary judge who is scrupulous about getting the law right, and has the courage to do that even when it angers powerful people,» says Minor Myers, a Brooklyn Law School professor who has studied appraisal suits.

Krim also references a 2016 study from US and Pakistani business school professors, where those who prioritized sleep were considered more engaging and likable.

The study, by Yusuke Tsugawa and colleagues at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, and other institutions, examined the record of a large random sample of Medicare patients, 65 years or older, who were hospitalized from January 2011 to December 2014.

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.

«One study compared the families of children who were rated among the most creative 5 percent in their school system with those who were not unusually creative.

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.

Graham, who became a Southern Baptist, went on to study at Wheaton College, a prominent Christian liberal arts school in Illinois, where he met fellow student Ruth Bell, who had been raised in China where her father had been a Presbyterian medical missionary.

«I'm doubtful that the imbalance in power will ever disappear completely,» says Noam Wasserman, a Harvard Business School professor who studies the interactions between founders and investors.

Students who would otherwise take time off from school to pursue work, research, or travel can continue their studies through online courses.

Pippen, on the other hand, was a late bloomer who played college ball at a small NAIA school via a work - study grant, not a full ride at a big time 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.

«This is because people, other than very close friends and relatives, don't seem to relate well to those who constantly share photos of themselves,» lead study author David Houghton, of Birmingham Business School, said in a release.

«Sometimes the large retailers can actually postpone a price increase based on their large inventories purchased at a lower price,» says Larry Compeau, associate professor at the Clarkson University School of Businessin Potsdam, New York, who studies the impact pricing has on consumer behavior.

Those who did work less were mostly parents with very young children and teenagers who otherwise would have spent more time in school or studying.

«People often make decisions that are influenced by emotions that have nothing to do with the decisions they are making,» says Stéphane Côté, a professor at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, who co-wrote the study with lead researcher Jeremy Yip of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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.

According to the Fast Company article, «Study Finds Work - Life Balance Could Be a Matter of Life and Death,» researchers from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business found that people who work in highly stressful jobs with little to no control over their work life were 15.4 % more likely to die sooner.

Chen, who came to the United States at age 17 to study at a boarding school, says he is not daunted by the skepticism about BlackBerry's ability to bounce back from its myriad problems.

Megan Randall, a researcher at the Urban Institute who studies economic development policy, said companies cared most about a talented work force, which requires good schools and colleges, and amenities like affordable housing, parks and public transit that make a place desirable.