They may also study topics such as home use, children's out-of-school reading or parents ' use of children's books.

In 1993, the Labor Department released a study that showed that in a study of low-income male out-of-school youth, males in the JTPA program actually had 10 percent lower earnings than males from a similar demographic who never participated in the program.

A contrast of the scripture reading of, let us say, St. Augustine, John Bunyan, and Thomas Jefferson, all three of whom found in such study a real source of enlightenment, can tell us a great deal about these three men and the age that each represented and helped bring to conscious expression.

Although the Taylor Scale was designed as a group testing device, in this study it was individually administered by psychologically trained workers who established rapport and assisted the children in reading the items.

One study, which involved 1,524 pupils in grades one to six, found that 12 percent of the pupils were seriously maladjusted and that 23 percent were reading a year below capacity.

When not on the House floor, Johnson, in Washington without wife Eliza, shunned social functions in favor of increased self study and reading in the Congressional library.

After reading popular conspiracy theories about the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, participants in this study correctly estimated how much their peers ' attitudes had changed, but significantly underestimated how much their own attitudes had changed to become more in favor of the conspiracy theories.

There is a strong emphasis on personal Bible reading and study and many Christadelphians use the Bible Companion to help them systematically read the Bible each year

The study notes that maximum benefit may be seen when the information worker is spending large proportions of their time reading text ( which is not necessarily the case for the majority of computer users today ).

Researcher Richard Gray, commenting on the study, also mentions the computer culture diminishing reading books as well as a tendency towards teaching to the test.

George realised the value of education and paid to study at night school to learn reading, writing and arithmetic — he was illiterate till the age of 18.

Shavuot customs include all-night study marathons known as Tikkun Leil Shavuot, eating dairy foods ( cheesecake and blintzes are special favorites ), reading the Book of Ruth, decorating homes and synagogues with greenery, and wearing white clothing, symbolizing purity.

However, at 13 he began focusing his energy on reading and study, winning his first academic prize in midsummer 1809.

Like Petrarch, who had been the first famous philologist to study the works of the ancient Roman poets, Alberti loved classics, but he compared continual reading and rereading in libraries.

Midrashic literature is worthwhile reading not only for its insights into Judaism and the history of Jewish thought, but also for the more incidental data it provides to historians, philologists, philosophers, and scholars of either historical-critical Bible study or comparative religion.

Lowell became determined to study Mars and astronomy as a full-time career after reading Camille Flammarion's La planète Mars.

The study of liberal arts, he believed, contributed to rhetorical study: " In the case of a keen and ardent nature, fine words will come more readily through reading and hearing the eloquent than by pursuing the rules of rhetoric.

Products include the Kurzweil 1000 text-to-speech converter software program, which enables a computer to read electronic and scanned text aloud to blind or visually impaired users, and the Kurzweil 3000 program, which is a multifaceted electronic learning system that helps with reading, writing, and study skills.

The main library in the SU library system is Green Library, which also contains various meeting and conference rooms, study spaces, and reading rooms.

Besides its public function in the synagogue, the Babylonian Talmud also mentions targum in the context of a personal study requirement: " A person should always review his portions of scripture along with the community, reading the scripture twice and the targum once " ( Berakhot 8a-b ).

This scribal practice has its roots both in the public reading of the Targum and in the private study requirement.

Although it was not a great success at the time – selling fewer than 3, 000 copies in the United States during 1955 before going out of print – it soon went on to become a best-seller, and by the early 1960s was required reading in many schools and colleges ; the novel is currently renowned for being a popular choice of study for GCSE English Literature courses in the United Kingdom.

He pursued independent study there, reading Dushman's Elements of Quantum Mechanics, the University of Pittsburgh Physics Staff's An Outline of Atomic Physics, and Pauling's The Nature of the Chemical Bond and the Structure of Molecules and Crystals.

Although he later worked less on Aristotle, Heidegger recommended postponing reading Nietzsche, and to " first study Aristotle for ten to fifteen years.

They are required reading for anyone making a serious study of New Zealand history.

Beginning in the 1950s, however, inspired by a landmark study by Dr. Harry E. Houtz, and spurred by Rudolf Flesch's criticism of the absence of phonics instruction ( particularly in his popular book, Why Johnny Can't Read ) phonics resurfaced as a method of teaching reading.

In 2012, " ASU students ranked fifth among all public universities in National Science Foundation grants for graduate study and 11th among all universities, including the Ivy institutions.

Michael Freeden in his study Ideologies and Political Theory ( 1996 ) states that all socialists share five themes: the first is that socialism posits that society is more than a mere collection of individuals ; second, that it considers human welfare a desirable objective ; third, that it considers humans by nature to be active and productive ; fourth, it holds the belief of human equality ; and fifth, that history is progressive and will create positive change on the condition that humans work to achieve such change.

Results of a mitochondrial DNA study carried out later suggest that the leopard is closely related to the snow leopard, which is placed as a fifth Panthera species, Panthera uncia.

Godse attended the local school at Baramati through the fifth standard, after which he was sent to live with an aunt in Pune so that he could study at an English-language school.

Since the 1970s Fort Bend County has been attracting people from all types of racial and ethnic backgrounds and according to a 2001 Claritas study, it was the fifth most diverse county in the United States among counties of 100, 000 + population.

In the same study, discontinuation of paroxetine caused exacerbation of panic in about a fifth of the previously responding patients.

It was also found that any two Ashkenazi Jewish participants in the study shared about as much DNA as fourth or fifth cousins.

Approximately one fifth of the student body goes on to study at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, putting the school at 19th in the country in terms of Oxbridge admissions.

A fifth peer-reviewed study, also by Janet Rosenbaum published in the journal Pediatrics in 2009, found no difference in sexual behavior of pledgers and similar non-pledgers five years after pledging, but found pledgers were 10 percentage points less likely to use condoms and 6 percentage points less likely to use birth control than similar non-pledgers.

A controlled study on the usefulness of shape notes was carried out in the 1950s by George H. Kyme with an experimental population consisting of fourth and fifth graders living in California.

Oddly enough, an Italian high school student who enrolls in Liceo Classico follows this study path: Quarta Ginnasio ( gymnasium fourth year, age 14 ), Quinta Ginnasio ( gymnasium fifth year, age 15 ), Prima Liceo ( Liceo first year, age 16 ), Seconda Liceo ( Liceo second year, age 17 ) and Terza Liceo ( Liceo third year, age 18 ).

degree in 1902 but stayed for a fifth year to study for the civil service examination.

A study done by Purdue University found that in California most users already reach the third pricing tier for electricity each month, and adding an electric vehicle could push them into the fourth or fifth ( highest, most expensive ) tier, meaning that they will be paying in excess of $. 45 cents per KWH for electricity to recharge their vehicle.

While close to half of male participants in their study opted to spend a fifth year in secondary schools, only one in five females choose to do so.

Between 1996 and 2002, the fifth lane in both directions was constructed between I-5 and SR 91, funded with a sales tax of half a cent approved by Measure M. In April 2007, the Orange County Transportation Authority approved funds to study the feasibility of extending the Costa Mesa Freeway south to 17th Street via tunnels or flyover ramps.

And since many of his results were not applicable to the science or engineering of his day, Apollonius further argued in the preface of the fifth book of Conics that the subject is one of those that "... seem worthy of study for their own sake.

The four story addition to Reed Library was constructed in 1992, and consists of several study areas, a scholarship center, atrium, elevators, tower study lounge which leads to a fifth story, and the Tutoring Center.

::" Twenty-five volunteers, all in their fifth decade or beyond, all with mild to moderate, nonpsychotic depression of at least several months ' duration participated in a double-blind study of Gerovital vs placebo.

In 1987 Joshi became the fifth Official Editor of the EOD amateur press association ( see Esoteric Order of Dagon ), an organisation devoted to the study of H. P.

In a 2007 study released by Academic Analytics, UTSA was ranked fifth for faculty scholarly productivity among other large research universities in the state of Texas.

He studied descriptive geometry under Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, and graduated fifth in his class in 1809, going on to study military engineering at the École d ' Application.

In 1905, he and his older sisters moved to Prague to study there ; Vladislav entered the fifth class of Elementary School in Josefská Street.

* Grace Period and Invention Law in Europe and Selected States, a comparative study of grace periods applicable for assessing novelty ( by IPR-Helpdesk, a project of the European Commission DG Enterprise, co-financed within the fifth framework programme of the European Community )