Sentences with phrase «who study education»

However, many educators and social scientists who study education believe that standardized tests are not necessarily an accurate measure of how much students learn in a given school year.

Somehow, I got included in an email conversation between Ed Johnson, well - known education activist from Atlanta, Georgia, and a group of professors who study education issues.

As university faculty who study education, we know this approach lacks foundation in research and endangers our strong public school system.

In other words, a group of consultants who study education funding for a living can not even tell how many different formulas and pots of money are involved.

Even academics who study education reform are unsure what it truly stands for.

KM: This new degree will make the Ed School a magnet for researchers across the university who study education.

People who study education for a living understand what's going on — this is straight out of the standards promulgated by the National Council for the Social Studies, a professional organization that has long prized such «conceptual understanding» over «rote facts and figures.»

Many students who study education in the United States wouldn't guess that innovative classroom technologies or financial incentives for school improvements are part of Mexico's education system.

«That's a very high number, higher than I would have anticipated,» said John Witte, a UW - Madison political science professor who studies education issues in Wisconsin.

Amanda Ripley, who studied education systems in other countries for her 2013 book, «The Smartest Kids in the World,» said there's an irony that parents are protesting just as the Common Core tests are being introduced, given the hope among many educators that the new tests will spur richer instruction.

Not exact matches

Norrie, who studied geography and physical education at the University of Alberta, first landed at Mica's sister company, Island Lake Lodge, as a mountain guide in 1998.

Saddington, who studied computer science at Florida State before earning three master's degrees in counseling, education and theology from Luther Rice College & Seminary in Georgia, stumbled across bitcoin in 2011.

Reshef says that in Syria alone, there are between 100,000 and 300,000 college aid students who have left off their studies as a result of displacement and the conflict, and this represents a terrible crisis for education, and the risk of creating an entire lost generation.

«That is the $ 1 million question,» says Pfeffer, who has spent his career studying the links among education, wealth and social mobility.

Nearly 17 percent of those who borrow for education costs will graduate owing more than $ 50,000, according to the recent study by the Brookings Institution.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

New Education Minister Thomas Lukaszuk is a cabinet lightweight who will have to be a quick study if he wants to survive in his new job.

Finra's study also found that personal finance education lowers the probability of falling 90 or more days behind on future credit accounts, especially for students who took required classes in economics or personal finance after the first - year mandates were adopted.

«A study in the United States, published in the Social Forces journal and conducted by Sociology researcher Lisa A. Keister while she was at the Ohio State University, found that adherents of Judaism attained the most wealth, believers of Catholicism and mainline Protestants were in the middle, while conservative Protestants accu - mulated the least wealth, while in general people who attend religious services achieved more wealth than those who do not (taking into account variations of education and other factors).

What «Effective Christian Education» shows most effectively, however, is the fraudulence of what is presented as the «scientific» study of religion — and the credulity of church leaders who can not distinguish between Christian faith and liberal sentimentalities.

These supports include congregational and denominational expectations for continuing education, which seem to be slightly stronger in the case of those who study for the D.Min.

Because there are others who believe the same way I do, and we have the best Bible scholars, and the best seminaries, and the biggest churches, and the most authors, and our missionaries are very active overseas, and we agree with most of the teachings of the church throughout history... at least since the Reformation anyway... and I believe that with time, and a little education of how to really study the Bible, people will eventually see that what I believe is the right way to believe.

The readers he has in mind include: perhaps a student starting her second year of study, or an academic who has just joined a theological school faculty and has never herself been previously involved in theological education, or a person newly appointed to the board of trustees of a theological school.

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.

This is the point of view of an elitist from the first world with total disregard to the circu.mstances of lots and lots of people in much more difficult circ.umstances in the rest of the world who have neither the leisure time, education, literacy, or resources to «study» any religion, let alone choose yours to study.

That a congregation is constituted by enacting a more broadly and ecumenically practiced worship that generates a distinctive social space implies study of what that space is and how it is formed: What are the varieties of the shape and content of the common lives of Christian congregations now, cross-culturally and globally (synchronic inquiry); how do congregations characteristically define who they are and what their larger social and natural contexts are; how do they characteristically define what they ought to be doing as congregations; how have they defined who they are and what they ought to do historically (diachronic study); how is the social form of their common life nurtured and corrected in liturgy, pastoral caring, preaching, education, maintenance of property, service to neighbors; what is the role of scripture in all this, the role of traditions of theology, and the role of traditions of worship?

Wheeler cites the research done by Auburn Seminary's Center for the Study of Theological Education in intensively examining theological faculties in several seminaries, with particular emphasis on whether such schools will be able to recruit enough qualified faculty to replace the many who are currently retiring.

Those who merely read about College, without studying the careful manner in which that judgment is supported, may indeed fear that it provides a foundation for the blustery attacks on higher education by the secretary of education.

Right now the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada is conducting a major study of the public character of theological education, with a special focus on how seminaries can educate leaders who take their public role seriously.

A study of congregations with effective Christian education programs suggests there is strong evidence that congregations consisting of adults who do not rely on one another can not adequately minister to one another.

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For example, in a recent analysis published in an edition of International Studies in Catholic Education dedicated to the question of whether there can be such a thing as a Catholic curriculum, Therese D'Orsa argues from the Australian experience that «attempts to give meaning to the concept of a Catholic curriculum... have ranged across a spectrum familiar to those who lead in Catholic schools» and that such initiatives have had a «limited impact».

During his two - month, 5,000 - mile survey trip, Townsend met a number of key figures, of which the most important was Mexico's director of rural education, Rafael Ramírez, who opened the way for him to study the nation's educational system.

Theologists who actually study the Bible disagree with your interpretation, and considering the level of your intelligence and education, I'll go with them, instead of your fundy preacher.

However, direct mail, using computer technology, has great potential for allowing local churches to reach parishioners who have special interests in missions, or religious education, or evangelism, or a Bible - study course.

Because it is education that must proceed indirectly by way of the examination of texts and practices whose study is believed to lead to understanding God and all else in relation to God, and because those texts and practices employ ordinary languages belonging to widely shared cultures and do themselves have cultural locations, such education is inescapably a public undertaking, understandable to anyone who understands the relevant languages and cultures.

Fortunately Mary, there are people out there who actually understand evolution, who have studied evolution and who have doc.umented and taught evolution, so that those of us with even a rudimentary education on the topic can dismiss your comment as nothing more than the desperate and childish attempt to cling to religion even as the rest of the world grows up and embraces reality.

And, as someone who switched from a very lucrative 6 - figure IS / IT career and invested a half - million dollars in my education (tuition and lost wages), you'd better bet I've investigated and studied this all quite seriously.

Faculty in those fields who are members of departments of religious studies receive their doctoral education in the same graduate schools as do faculty in theological schools, and faculty move back and forth between the two contexts.

In residence, I lived with friends who hailed from across the globe, and while I thought I was in school to study history, it turns out I was actually getting a real food education for the first time in my life.

I have two amazing friends who both study the same education as I, and who also have a weakness for new food trends, experimenting and going all the way.

«It is my desire and my purpose to further the education of the people of Texas and elsewhere in wildlife conservation, in the knowledge of the breeding and living habits of our wild creatures and in the relationship of wildlife to domesticated livestock on our ranches and farms; to afford students and others interested in wildlife betterment and propagation and in the raising of wildlife along with domesticated animals a place for research and an opportunity for the study thereof; and to develop scientifically methods of increasing the wildlife population of the state and nation for the benefit of future generations... who may not have the opportunity to know and appreciate our wildlife, as I have, unless methods of increasing and conserving our wildlife are scientifically developed.

«If this doesn't work out, then I'll quit and go on with my education,» said Peters, who is majoring in kinesiology, the study of the principles of mechanics and anatomy in human movement.

The stark fact that complicates incentive studies like Fryer's is that for children who grow up in difficult circumstances, there already exists a powerful set of material incentives to get a good education.

This focus on father - inclusive antental education stems mainly from a Sure Start study carried out in 2005 (as part of a project involving the Fatherhood Institute and a team from Bristol University), which focused on the experiences of 23 young black fathers who attended antenatal services.

Participating in this study may benefit you by allowing you to share your story and help medical and education professionals understand and work better with parents who are a part of attachment parenting culture.

Sunbridge early childhood program students or graduates who hold a bachelor's degree from a regionally - accredited institution may seek to apply their Sunbridge program studies toward earning a fully - accredited Master of Education with self - designed concentration in Waldorf Education through our partnership with Empire State College of The State University of New York.

Drawing material from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS - 88) and tracking a representative sample of students who were in 10th grade in 1990 and 12th grade in 1992, to see what was happening in their lives in 2000, the following was discovered in comparing high school athletes to non-athletes.

It is up to parents, whether it be individually or as members of a booster club, «Friends of Football,» or PTA, to raise money to (a) fund the hiring of a certified athletic trainer (who, as we always say, should be the first hire after the head football coach); (b) consider equipping players with impact sensors (whether in or on helmets, in mouth guards, skullcaps, earbuds, or chinstraps); (c) purchase concussion education videos (which a new study shows players want and which they remember better); (d) to bring in speakers, including former athletes, to speak about concussion (another effective way to impress on young athletes the dangers of concussion); and (e) to pay for instructors to teach about proper tackling and neck strengthening;

Larry Nucci at UC Berkeley, who has studied moral development and character education for 40 years, has stronger words for grit.