There are also dozens of summer camps—many attached to universities—that aim to prepare elite math students.
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The Los Angeles Math Circle, held at the University of California, Los Angeles, began in 2007 with 20 students and now has more than 250.
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Students in university towns may also have access to another lever for involvement in accelerated math: math circles.
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Students attend after-school clubs, summer camps, online forums and classes and university-based math circles, to prepare for the competitions.
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Morgan said those findings—which included data from the system's 13 community colleges, 27 technical colleges and six universities—were part of the decision not to move forward with Governor Bill Haslam's proposal to privatize management of state buildings in an effort to save money.
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Morgan said last week that he would retire at the end of January because of the governor's proposal to split off six universities of the Board of Regents system and create separate governing boards for each of them.
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Math circles provide students with access to advanced-math training by university professors.
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Early childhood experiences can be very consequential for children's long-term social, emotional and cognitive development, said Sean Reardon, professor of poverty and inequality in education at Stanford University.
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This is the reason you are here in a university.
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I think about some of the students who took advantages of their opportunities in a university.
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The gold standard study by Harvard and Columbia University scholars found that even in high-poverty schools, teachers consistently had a huge positive or negative impact.
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Researchers at Duke University scrutinized more than 160 published studies and found an absence of strong evidence that any of these approaches can make a big difference.
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Now Fred, you went to university in Canada?( ' , 9 ) A recent International Labour Organization report says the deterioration of real wages around the world calls into question the true extent of an economic recovery, especially if government rescue packages are phased out too early.
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Yet it still pays to go to university.
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Whatever your talents, it is extraordinarily difficult to get a leading job in most fields without having been to university.
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University education is becoming attractive to students who can afford it.
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This might not be right, but school-leavers who fail to acknowledge as much risk making the wrong decision about going to university.
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The prestige of the university influences employers' recruitment decisions.
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The old days of the Antarctic being dominated by the interests and wishes of white men from European, Australasian and North American states are over, said Klaus Dodds, a politics scholar at the University of London who specialises in Antarctica.
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Studying at university will only become less attractive if employers shift their focus away from where someone went to university--and there is no sign of that happening anytime soon.
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Students do not merely benefit while at university; studies show- they go on to be healthier and happier than non-graduates, and also far more likely to vote.
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Students at university also meet those likely to be in leading jobs in the future, forming contacts for life.
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Schoololeavers may moan, but they have little choice but to embrace university and the student debt that comes with it.
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Recruiters circle elite universities like vultures ( ' , 兀鹰).
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Perhaps the reason why so many universities offer their students so little is they know studying at a top university remains a brilliant investment even if you don't learn anything.
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No wonder it has become fashionable to denounce many universities as little more than elaborate con-tricks ( ' , 骗术).
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Michael Yudell, a professor of public health at Drexel University in Philadelphia, said that modern genetics research is operating in a paradox: on the one hand, race is understood to be a useful tool to illuminate human genetic diversity, but on the other hand, race is also understood to be a poorly defined marker of that diversity.
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It is natural for students to make complaints about university education.
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If going to university doesn't work out, students pay very little--if any--of their tuition fees back: you only start repaying when you are earning £21,000 a year.
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Graduates from elite universities usually can get decent jobs.
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Few students are willing to bear the burden of debt incurred at university.
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Annual fees have risen from £1,000 to £9,000 in the last decade, but contact time at university has barely risen at all.
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An upper-second class degree, from an elite university.
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In a report published by the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale university, researchers studied 100 professional athletes and their endorsement contracts.
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And I’m going to pick a definition from a former colleague, Robert Sternberg, who is now the dean at Tufts University, but was here on our faculty at Yale for nearly 30 years.
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What Nijay didn't realize about his school—Tennessee State University — was its frighteningly low graduation rate: a mere 29 percent for its first-generation students.
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We worry most about now because if we don't survive for the next minute, we're not going to be around in ten years' time, says Professor Elke Weber of the Centre for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University in New York.
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They underestimate themselves when selecting a university, said Dave Jarrat, a marketing executive for Inside Track, a for-profit organization that specializes in coaching low-income students and supporting colleges in order to help students thrive.
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The reality of it is that a lot of low-income kids could be going to elite universities on a full ride scholarship and don't even realize it.
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The graduation rate of first-generation students at Nijay's university was incredibly low.
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The University of Tennessee in Knoxville offers one example of this dilemma.
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for instance, admits only that the graduation rate for its first-generation pupils is much lower than the percentage of all students who graduate within four years ( ' , 81 percent).
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Still, the University of Tennessee deserves credit for being transparent.
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Still, Jones represents a small percentage of first-generation students who are able to gain entry into more elite universities, which are often known for robust financial aid packages and remarkably high graduation rates for first-generation students.
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Some elite universities attach great importance to building up the first-generation student's self-confidence.
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More than a decade ago, cognitive scientists John Bransford and Daniel Schwartz, both then at Vanderbilt University, found that what distinguished young adults from children was not the ability to retain facts or apply prior knowledge to a new situation but a quality they called preparation for future learning.
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Matthew Rushworth, of the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, sees this in his lab every day.
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Many universities simply refuse to release their exact graduation rates for first-generation students.
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Located only a few hours apart, The University of Tennessee and Tennessee State are worth comparing.
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Like many first-generation students, he enrolled in a medium-sized state university many of his high school peers were also attending, received a Pell Grant, and took out some small federal loans to cover other costs.
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Jones became involved with a college-access program through Princeton University in high school.
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In some cases, colleges and universities might have to change their training programs, adding another layer of difficulty.
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For students who have been coasting through college, and for American universities that have been demanding less work, offering more attractions and charging higher tuition, the party may soon be over.
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Elite universities tend to graduate first-generation students at a higher rate.
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By sanctioning this watered-down version of college, universities are catering to the social and educational needs of wealthy students at the expense of others who won't enjoy the financial backing or social connections of richer students once they graduate.
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But a university degree unaccompanied by a gain in knowledge or skills is an empty achievement indeed.
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Across the board, American colleges and universities are not doing a very good job of preparing their students for the workplace or their post-graduation lives.
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According to a marketing executive, many students from low-income families don't know they could have a chance of going to an elite university.
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A recent study, conducted by Emory University's Erika Hall, found that Black people are viewed more negatively than African Americans because of a perceived difference in socioeconomic status.
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A flagship university in the South, the school graduates just 16 percent of its first-generation students, despite its overall graduation rate of 71 percent.
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What do you actually do and how do you prepare for your job?If sheer numbers provide any proof, Americans’ universities are the envy of the world.
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The conception that everyone has a right to an education appropriate to his potential is a highly democratic and compassionate standard, says Marven Breselor, a professor at Princeton University.
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Britains who pass their A levels may still not qualify for a top university at home, but find American universities far more welcoming.
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Asia led the way, with the biggest number from China followed by Japan and India, most European and Asian universities provide an elite service to a small numberof people.
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American educates so manymore people at university that one can’t expect all those who go to be as intelligent as the much narrower band in British universities, says the professor Christopher Rakes at Boston university, I’m not against elitism, but I happen to like having people who are more eager to learn.
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\We worry most about now because if we don't survive for the next minute, we're not going to be around in ten years' time,\ says Professor Elke Weber of the Centre for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University in New York.
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\As advocates of children's rights, we believe that children should have a voice about what information is shared about them if possible,\ says Stacey Steinberg, a legal skills professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law in Gainesville.
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\Everybody has a scary story about someone getting scooped.\ says New York University astronomer David Hogg.
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\The dangerous thing about lying is people don't understand how the act changes us,\ says Dan Ariely, behavioural psychologist at Duke University.
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\The project has two sides,\ says Xavier Serrat, Neurice project manager and researcher at the University of Barcelona,\the short-term fight against the snail, and a mid- to long-term fight against climate change.
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\The thing you are searching for is reputation,\ says titus Brown, a genomics (基因组学) researcher at the University of California,Davis.
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\They underestimate themselves when selecting a university,\ said Dave Jarrat, a marketing executive for Inside Track, a for-profit organization that specializes in coaching low-income students and supporting colleges in order to help students thrive.
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\with my institution and teaching load,I don't have postdocs and grad students,\ says Terry McGlynn, a tropical biologist at California State University, Dominguez hills.
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\You hear that you shouldn't take all these photos and interrupt the experience, and it's bad for you, and we're not living in the present moment,\ says Kristin Dehl, associate professor of marketing at the University of Southern California Marshall Schoo
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\You're what you eat and drink, and that's recorded in your hair,\said Thure Cerling, a geologist at the University of Utah.
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\You've also got color, texture and shape sensors looking down at the ground to check pasture quality,\ says Salah Sukkarieh of the University of Sydney, who will carry out trials on several farms in central New South Wales.
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A new study from michigan State University, though, argues that all students—including high achievers—see a decline in performance when they browse the Internet during class for non-academic purposes.
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After becoming president of Purdue University in 2013, mitch Daniels asked the faculty to prove that their students have actually achieved one of higher education's most important goals: critical thinking skills.
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ai pioneer Margaret Boden, professor of cognitive science at the University of Sussex, praised the progress of such discussions.
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And a 2015 study from the University of California, Berkeley, found that teens who go to bed late are more likely to gain weight over a five-year period.
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And I'm going to pick a definition from a former colleague, Robert Sternberg, who is now the dean at Tufts University, but was here on our faculty at Yale for nearly 30 years.
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Annual fees have risen from £1,000 to £9,000 in the last decade, but contact time at university has barely risen at all.
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Another team at Nagoya University in Japan has tested calcium compound as an energy storage material.
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At the University of California (UC), we pride ourselves not only on the quality of our research, but also on its contribution to improving our world.
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Biologist Jill Farrant of the University of Cape Town in South Africa says that nature has plenty of answers for people who want to grow crops in places with unpredictable rainfall.
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But here's the thing: I loved my \lower-tier\ university.
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Caroline Wagner, a research scientist at George Washington University, notes that international collaborations offer additional flexibility.
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Children with attention problems in early childhood were 40% less likely to graduate from high school, says a new study from Duke University.
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City University of New York CUNY, Rutgers University, and Indiana University were out of reach as were mississippi State and the University of Alabama, where I would have to pay out-of-state fees.
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Co-author Céline Le Bohec, from the University of Strasbourg in France, warned: \If there're no actions aimed at haling or controlling global warming, and the pace of the current human- induced changes such as climate change and overfishing stays the same
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Flamingos have evolved very leathery skin on their legs so they can tolerate the salt water, says David Harper, a professor at the University of Leicester.
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For example, a team at Tohoku University in Japan has studied materials that can store large amounts of heat.
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For example, in one chapter she exposes a myth that I've heard taught by university physics professors.
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For instance, a research group here at Arizona State University recently claimed their developmental small CubeSats could cost as little as $3, 000 to put in orbit.
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Hawking was speaking at the opening of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (LCF) at Cambridge University, a multi-disciplinary institute that will attempt to tackle some of the open-ended questions raised by the rapid pace of development
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He points to a classic 2004 study in which psychologists at Dartmouth College and Harvard University used functional MRI to track brain activity in 17 young men as they listened to descriptions of people while concentrating on either socially relevant cue
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I do think there are advantages to schools with more recognition, notes Marybeth Gasman, a professor of higher education at the University of Pennsylvania.
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I know it's the end of high school, but many of my classmates are going on to the same university and we are still required to study hard, so what's the difference?
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If going to university doesn't work out, students pay very little—if any—of their tuition fees back: you only start repaying when you are earning £21,000 a year.
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I'm a psychology professor at the University of British Columbia.
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