Sentences with phrase «years researching school»

Still, Strauss does an absolutely superb job of introducing the co-chair of the Broader Bolder coalition as «Helen Ladd, the Edgar T. Thompson Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Duke University who has spent years researching school accountability, education finance, teacher labor markets, and school choice.»

But if Strauss is inclined to introduce professors fulsomely, she might let her readers know that I am the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University, who has spent years researching school governance, school choice, school accountability, and teacher effectiveness rather than referring to me as «Harvard's Paul E. Petersen.»

Not exact matches

When Alexandre Pestov, a strategic consultant and research associate at York University's Schulich School of Business, compared buying a two - bedroom Toronto condominium to renting it over the past 25 years, he found that the renter ended up $ 600,000 richer than the owner if he invested the spare cash in low - risk bonds.

So, I spent a lot of my time during junior and senior years of high school researching the process and trying to find «secret» ways to get the most financial aid possible — all the strategies I assumed my peers were already taking advantage of.

«When we researched it, we discovered that 67 pounds of lunchtime trash is created by each school - age child each school year,» Claxton says.

Market research confirmed the company's belief that students were less inclined to opt for a full four - year program online, but it also revealed that they were interested in supplementing their education with online courses from other schools.

Revenues in the fine - arts schools category, which as unlikely as it may sound includes such training, are projected to increase by nearly 3 percent this year to $ 4.73 billion, says industry research firm IBISWorld.

Murdoch University's recent public profile announcements have included a WA Citizen of the Year award for chancellor Geoffrey Bolton, a high national ranking in the latest round of Australian Research Council grants, and new accreditation for the veterinary school.

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 Rotman One - Year Executive MBA curriculum integrates the strengths and research coming out of the school with exposure to the Creative Destruction Lab, Behavioural Economics in Action at Rotman (BEAR) centre, and the Leadership Development Lab.

Passionate about the University of Calgary, Schmidt and Laricina Energy Ltd. both played pivotal roles in the Engineering Leaders Campaign at the Schulich School of Engineering, funding a five - year scholarship program, a chemical and petroleum engineering graduate student space, a boardroom in the new engineering building expansion, and a portion of the Canada Research Chair in Energy and Imaging.

Citing the school's strong community engagement, growing research success and excellent reputation, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) has re-accredited the Haskayne School of Business for another five school's strong community engagement, growing research success and excellent reputation, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) has re-accredited the Haskayne School of Business for another five School of Business for another five years.

when Facebook market research in Australia engaged in sentiment analysis of more than 6.4 million Australian youth, including 1.9 million high schoolers as young as 14 years old, to estimate when those children were at their most vulnerable, experiencing feelings of being «worthless» or a «failure» as part of research conducted for marketers.

There have been lapses in this program, most notably last year when Facebook market research in Australia engaged in sentiment analysis of more than 6.4 million Australian youth, including 1.9 million high schoolers as young as 14 years old, to estimate when those children were at their most vulnerable, experiencing feelings of being «worthless» or a «failure» as part of research conducted for marketers.

Jonah Berger, professor of marketing at the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, spent years researching why things go viral.

Though the university never admitted discrimination by the school's then - dean and faculty, research by the Anti-Defamation League showed that 65 % of the Jewish students at that time either flunked out or were forced to repeat coursework - up to a year of it - in order to stay.

everything is made up of atoms (don't believe me do some research) its the different variables of heat and light and things like that that cause different reactions to make different things and these things when they interact can create something completely different and you and slowly the process of mitosis or miosis starts to work and form stuff hell i learnt that in high school and it was a catholic one at that a millions of years ago i bet the universe was completely different and had things in it that our minds cant even imagine that have since changed over time from action and reaction to what we have today and in another million years who knows with all the different gases we pump into the air and the weather getting more intense on both ends of the scale life as we know it will be different the human race will have to evolve to survive and will probibly form into a slightly different species hell maybe well evolve into 2 different species like in the movie time machine

(i) a woman's right to an abortion; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls (and boys) against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (vi) gay marriage; (vii) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» Catholics; (viii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (ix) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (x) population control; (xi) buying alcohol on a Sunday in many places; (xii) use of condoms and other contraceptives; (xiii) embryonic stem cell research; (xiv) little 10 year - old boys joining organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America, regardless of the religious views of their parents; and (xv) gays being allowed to serve openly in the military.

I had a librarian at Talbot School of Theology research this for several months, and it appears to be a mistaken quotation that dates back several hundred years to a Latin commentary on the Talmud.

Pacilio leaned liberal, and making me research things like Kent State did have something to do with my becoming fascinated with 1960s radicalism during my high - school years, but he was scrupulously fair and like the great debate coach he was, typically made us aware of the best arguments either side had.

In less than a week over 600,000 four - year - olds will start school for the first time with the research also showing over half of parents want more help in preparing their child for the start of school.

This book represents the culmination of six years of doctoral work and research in theology and mass communication at Boston University Graduate School.

Though the university never admitted discrimination by the school's then - dean and faculty, research by the Anti-Defamation League showed that 65 % of the Jewish students at that time either flunked out or were forced to repeat coursework — up to a year of it — in order to stay.

A basic four - year college would have no graduate school and no research department with highly paid professors to inflate tuition.

A study by LifeWay Research reveals that «more than two - thirds of young adults who attend a Protestant church for at least a year in high school will stop attending church...

Overall, Americans give hundreds of billions of dollars of their own money every year to universities, research institutions, clinics, private schools, churches, and thousands of private charities (both local and international).

Dr. George Comstock, Professor of Communication at the Newhouse School of Communication, Syracuse University, had spent several years reviewing and analyzing all of the research having to do with violence and television from l962 to 1984.

For over a decade The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) has collaborated with the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH)-- Department of Nutrition to research, plan and stage the highly acclaimed Worlds of Healthy Flavors leadership conference held each year at the CIA at Greystone in Napa Valley, California.

That is the startling conclusion of a team of experts after exhaustive research into heatstroke cases that took the lives of nine high school and college football players in the past five years

Guided, in part, by some earlier work by Dr. Lauren R. Donaldson, of the University of Washington School of Fisheries, and Thor Gudjonsson (a former graduate student, now Director of Fisheries Research for Iceland), Pautzke force - feeds his small fish and brings them to the sea - going stage in one year instead of two.

A 2013 study by Mathematica Policy Research revealed that students at five urban EL middle schools advanced ahead of matched peers at comparison schools by an average of ten months in math and seven months in reading over the course of three years.

Jens Ludwig, an economist at the University of Chicago who oversees a research group there called the Crime Lab, has for the past few years been studying, along with some colleagues, a counseling program called Becoming A Man, or BAM, which operates inside 49 Chicago schools, mostly high schools in low - income neighborhoods.

Each year, our 60 faculty and staff members work with more than 6 intern teachers, 25 student teachers, researchers, and visitors to perform the major functions associated to Laboratory Schools: the development of innovative practices in education, research, the preparation of new teachers, professional development for practicing teachers, and the education of children using best established principles of education.

Evaluations and counselors and school meetings and behavior charts and researching sensory disorders and diet modifications and screen time limits and extra school work and, and, and... I sit and think constantly am I doing enough for him now so that this won't continue to be his life in 3 years.

Research indicates that regular, early - childhood pre-literacy activities in the first three years of life are critical to a child's success in school and a literate future.

At the end of the school year last year I researched and bought several different stainless steel and glass -LSB-...]

Liz Beaven has over 30 years experience in Waldorf education, spanning class teaching, school administration, adult education, research, consulting, and public speaking.

Examining data from 100 nationally representative high schools on injuiries during the 2005 to 2007 school years, researchers at the Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital's Center for Injury Research and Policy in Columbus, Ohio also found:

a review of 20 years of research on fatherhood, by Charlie Lewis, Professor of Psychology at Lancaster University and published in June 2001 by Fathers Direct, NFPI and other parenting charities: · Involvement of dads with children aged 7 - 11 predicts success in exams at 16 · Where dads are involved before the age of 11, children are less likely to have a criminal record by the age of 21 · Pre-schoolers who spend more time playing with their dads are often more sociable when they enter nursery school · Nine out of ten dads attend the birth

New research confirms what doctors working with young athletes already suspected: the number of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears among youths, particularly high school students, has risen during the past 20 years.

School Nutrition Foundation and Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) are teaming up for an end - of - the - year webinar entitled, «Making Universal Meals a Reality through the Community Eligibility Option.»

The findings of the research summarized in The Wellness Impact echo what child nutrition advocates have been preaching about school breakfast (and comprehensive school wellness approaches) for years.

«Embodied learning» is a hot topic in educational research, but Waldorf schools have been using this approach for 100 years.

After setting aside a year for research and planning, the school plans to add a program in the 2001 - 02 school year.

The Food Research and Action Center's report, «Hunger Doesn't Take a Vacation,» said that nationally about 3.2 million children are enrolled in summer nutrition programs, compared with 15.3 million who receive free and reduced - price lunches during the school year.

Denise Pope, the founder of Challenge Success, in August released a book, «Overloaded and Underprepared,» that provides practical recommendations for schools based on years of academic research on workload and achievement.

Most raise their prices for kids who can pay, according to research by the nonprofit School Nutrition Association, which found that nearly 60 percent of public school districts raised lunch prices in 2009, the last full year for which national figures were avaiSchool Nutrition Association, which found that nearly 60 percent of public school districts raised lunch prices in 2009, the last full year for which national figures were avaischool districts raised lunch prices in 2009, the last full year for which national figures were available.

Last year, research involving thousands of elementary school students, and published in the February 2009 issue of Pediatrics, demonstrated an association between daily recess and better classroom behavior as reported by teachers.

That study, from researchers at the University of California, Riverside, the Oregon Research Institute and the University of Oregon, used personality ratings from elementary school teachers in an ethnically diverse group of children in Hawaii back in the 1960s, comparing those personality ratings to videotaped interviews of 144 of those people 40 years later.

In September 2013, Context Research was contracted to lead, with oversight from the Provincial Health Services Authority, a three year evaluation of Healthy Schools BC.