... of the multinational technology company, gave away $500,000 in college scholarships to 18 top high school researchers for projects declared "superb" by physics Nobel laureate and lead judge Joseph ...
... foster the kinds of work habits, behaviors and attitudes that we know employers value," she said.
If high-stakes testing is the only remedy for low-performing schools, Lleras said, "then we may fail ...
It isn't often that you see heavyweights in the tech world duking it out in a high-stakes match, with Congress as the referee. It's happening today over proposed reforms in patent law, which pits the ...
... since California implemented a law requiring high school students to pass exit exams ... prevents minorities and girls from doing as well as they could on the high-stakes test.
While white students ...
... and Ohio University's Edison Biotechnology Institute.
Because identification of rhGH misuse or abuse has high stakes – it can make or break an athletic career – the current method has too many ...
... pathogens," MacCoss said. The rapid evolution of the proteins that chaperone sperm may be due to the high-stakes competition between the many males that mate with each female fly. Each male fruit fly ...
... to serve the interests of the children.
The report urges extreme caution in basing high-stakes decisions -- such as determining whether a program will receive continued funding or whether a child ...
... began issuing mandates to public schools, high stakes testing has taken on an increasingly larger ... single indicators of future academic success. High stakes tests being administered at the state level ...
... test, resulting in educators who feel straitjacketed by a high-stakes test, according to a U. of I. education ... law on teachers' writing instruction in both high- and low-income schools. She discovered ...
(AP) -- A new startup company wants to have a say in the high-stakes patent disputes that loom over many industries.
... Without the plasmid, APEC becomes docile, losing its disease-causing strength.
Plasmids, in an evolutionary game of high-stakes poker, are swapped freely among bacteria in order ...
... else, most innocents who confess do so under stress, as an act of surrender, during a high stakes, high-pressure police interrogation. According to one estimate, fully a quarter of convictions later ...
... , strenuous cognitive performance as well.
"Warm-up exercises are a 'common sense' practice in many high-stakes professions, such as professional sports or dance," said Kanav Kahol, Ph.D., ...
... as intellectual inquiry, before they get taken over by the tyranny of high-stakes testing.
"I'm certainly not opposed to literacy in the early grades," Dyson said, "but the idea that we can ...
... than 660,000 angioplasty procedures annually, totaling more than $100 billion in medical costs. With such high stakes, making informed decisions is a higher priority than ever, researchers say.
The ...
