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As corporate leaders pledge to embrace purpose beyond profit, are business schools keeping up?

Corporate Knights

As schools revamp curricula, calls mount to rethink traditional research and academic promotion practices. “We Amid some progress, he cites a peer-reviewed academic journal’s decision to accept scholarly papers on how marketing can contribute to a better world. Some academics successfully pivoted years ago.

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“Empowering Girls Through Sport”: How the Turkish Olympic Committee Inspires Girls To Thrive

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per cent of participants having improved their academic performance after taking part in the project, and 96.7 Badminton player Aliye Demirba, who represented Trkiye at the Youth Olympic Games Nanjing 2014, is another athlete who has joined the project to inspire children.

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UMich study finds correlation between Flint water crisis and poor academic performance

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A recent University of Michigan study found a correlation between the Flint water crisis and a decrease in academic performance for school-age children. In April 2014, the city of Flint switched its drinking water supply from Detroit’s system to the Flint River to save money.

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St. Philip's College Community Garden Grows With Retool Your School Grant

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Philip’s College academic program coordinator, has been involved in the community garden from the very beginning. Philip’s College is known as “a point of pride on San Antonio’s Eastside” and the community garden began as an off-campus collaboration in 2014. “I Paula Englebert, St. I transferred to St.

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Rotterdam uses smart tech to 'save city from drowning'

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Beginning in the mid-2010s, citizens groups, entrepreneurs and academic institutions pushed Dutch policy-makers and companies to swap out the top-down approach in favour of a more grass-roots philosophy that features extensive public engagement, citizen-science projects and applied research. . “The

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New Virtual Field Trip Supported by the CVS Health Foundation, Discovery Education, and CATCH Global Foundation Empowers Anti-Vaping Heroes

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CATCH Global Foundation CATCH Global Foundation is a 501(c)3 public charity founded in 2014. For more information about Discovery Education’s digital resources and professional learning services, visit www.discoveryeducation.com and stay connected with Discovery Education on social media through Twitter and LinkedIn. ###. .

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Creating a ‘Healthy, Happy Student Population’ Through Outdoor Learning

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East Foundation began offering education programs, dubbed Behind the Gates , in 2014, motivated by research that shows kids who learn outdoors are “healthier, smarter, happier,” says Tina Buford, director of education at the Foundation. Getting kids outdoors contributes to academic success and a healthy, happy student population.

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