Sentences with phrase «city focused study»

(Note: This blog does not examine the results of CREDO's New York City focused study, but rather the statewide results published September 26, 2017)

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As a young undergraduate, he focuses on his studies, but also educates himself on the complex politics brewing in colonial New York City on the eve of the American Revolution.

However, two separate studies focused on Seattle, a city that raised its wages to $ 11 per hour in 2015 and $ 13 per hour in 2016, showed «diverging results,» according the New York Times.

Both in practice and in his research, the Mexico City native is focused on improving the world, whether through studies on social enterprise and microfinance or a TED talk on brand management and Mexican drug cartels that accumulated more than 1 million views.

Choosing to photograph on the street as her way of studying the fashion world, Jeng focuses her time in NYC — and the city is as much a character as the stylish subjects on her blog «The NYC Streets.»

In 1984 the study committee held three public hearings, one focused on the research findings (in New York City), a second on the views of the communications industry (in Los Angeles), and a third on policy proposals and alternatives (in Washington, D.C.).

The study, titled Impossible Choices, spoke to almost 200 teenagers between the ages of 13 and 18 in 20 focus groups across 10 different communities — including big cities like Chicago and Los Angeles, as well as rural areas like rural North Carolina and eastern Oregon — who were members of families facing poverty and food insecurity.

Expectant fathers» and mothers» perceptions of breastfeeding and formula feeding: a focus group study in three US cities.

Together we interviewed 25 obstetricians in 6 cities and plan to publish the results in an article, and later to expand this research to a full - scale study of the social movement for the humanization of birth in Latin America, focusing on Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico.

Expectant Fathers» and Mothers» Perceptions of Breastfeeding and Formula Feeding: A Focus Group Study in Three US Cities.

In a focus group study conducted in three major U.S. cities, both women and men expressed their disapproval of breastfeeding in public (15).

Their study, published in the April 18th issue of The Lancet, focused on the incidence of rotavirus infection (both with and without symptoms) in a group of 200 infants born in a low - income neighborhood of Mexico City.

The speech, to be delivered at City Hall, will focus on a new City Council study that shows the city's middle class has been shrinking as a percentage of the city's workfoCity Hall, will focus on a new City Council study that shows the city's middle class has been shrinking as a percentage of the city's workfoCity Council study that shows the city's middle class has been shrinking as a percentage of the city's workfocity's middle class has been shrinking as a percentage of the city's workfocity's workforce.

The city added that its study would not be limited to Uber, but that it would also study the taxi and car - hail industries more broadly, «with a particular focus on revenue for public transit, consumer protections, driver and employee protections, and accessibility for people with disabilities.»

The city is studying statistics on television and web viewership of the Wallenda walk to determine where to focus marketing efforts to attract tourists and investors to Niagara Falls.

The attorney general said he is giving federal officials a month to agree to the study that would focus on the impact of hydrofracking in the Delaware River basin, which includes the New York City watershed and portions of Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Schoharie, Green, Ulster, Orange and Sullivan counties.

The city of Syracuse partnered with the School of Information Studies and AT&T to host the hackathon, which focused on city snow plow operations.

In this Focus on Education report WBFO's Eileen Buckley says the program works to encourages city school students to pursue studies in math, science and technology.

His sustained focus on the city's finances has cast the race as a battle of fiscal forecasts, with Sheehan pointing to the recent obtainment of $ 12.5 million in state aid as a sign her approach is working and Commisso wielding a state - backed consultant's study to paint a darker picture.

The study recommends government agencies focus efforts on enacting policies and programs to better protect rural households during a drought, such as supporting sustainable agriculture projects in the region, increasing transportation options to access city centers and providing access to insurance and credit schemes.

Key strategies included harnessing the full authority of the City health department and mobilizing the existing workforce to focus on targeted reforms, according to a study in the March / April issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.

Many previous studies have focussed on the urban nesting grounds and the gulls» behaviour around landfill refuse sites, but this is one of the first large - scale studies to investigate the use of cities by gulls in traditional breeding colonies and their contribution to these «nuisance events».

The study focused specifically on lessons for other cities interested in enacting similar public health strategies.

Earlier studies focused mainly on adults, while some looked at young people in more limited geographical areas, such as individual hospitals or cities, or used more limited surveillance data.

«Many cities have outlined goals to reduce carbon - dioxide emissions, and obviously tree - planting is one way to achieve that goal,» said Chang Zhao, a graduate student in the Geographical and Sustainability Sciences department at the UI and corresponding author on the paper, published in the journal PLOS One, «but our study shows it plays a minor role and that we need to focus on reducing carbon emissions over removing them.»

Scholars have studied the city's Bronze Age remains for more than a century, but more recent research has focused on the urban development of the city after it entered the Iron Age — in the 11th century BC — following the Bronze Age collapse of the Aegean palaces.

$ 500 million per megacity, study says: Researchers focus on 10 cities on 5 continents.»

The Senseable City researchers also teamed with Strogatz, who is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell, on the earlier study focused on New York.

Frank said the study focused on urban areas because the infrastructure in cities causes them to be a few degrees hotter than surrounding rural areas.

New Studies Focus on Latino Education, Language, Health, and Politics Mexican - American women in New York City fare better in school than their male counterparts, according to a new study presented at a national conference at the Harvard Graduate School of Education on May 2, 2002.

Hess's second case study focuses on the five - year - old voucher plan in Cleveland, where he finds that the potential benefits of choice and competition were neutralized by multiple factors, including frequent changes in leadership, the state's move to take over the city's schools, the modest size of the vouchers (only $ 2,250), and the existence of strong unions.

He explains today there are many types of lesson study activities in terms of the context, focus and size — intra-school (in elementary schools and some secondary schools), within whole school districts or cities, at a prefecture level and national events where thousands of teachers visit a school to observe and discuss.

In an excerpt from his new memoir This African - American Life, former president of the National Urban League Hugh B. Price describes his elementary and secondary education in Washington, D.C. Price focused on his studies and dreamed of playing major - league baseball — all while he and his schoolmates made history in some of the city's first integrated classrooms after the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision.

Then serving as counselor for urban affairs to President Nixon, Moynihan pulled together a panel to study the needs of private K - 12 education, with a focus on the decline of inner - city Catholic schools.

A third report, Small High Schools at Work: A Case Study of Six Gates - Funded Schools in New York City, from the Academy for Educational Development, takes a close look a handful of these new small schools, focusing on particular practices associated with student success: intermediary support, personal and academic support, effective instructional practices, and college preparation.

Empty Promises: A Case Study of Restructuring and the Exclusion of English Language Learners in Two Brooklyn High Schools Since 2002, the New York City Department of Education (DOE) has attempted to reverse the city's severe drop - out crisis through a large scale restructuring of high schools, focused mainly on closing large, comprehensive high schools and replacing them with small high schools that offer a more personalized learning environmCity Department of Education (DOE) has attempted to reverse the city's severe drop - out crisis through a large scale restructuring of high schools, focused mainly on closing large, comprehensive high schools and replacing them with small high schools that offer a more personalized learning environmcity's severe drop - out crisis through a large scale restructuring of high schools, focused mainly on closing large, comprehensive high schools and replacing them with small high schools that offer a more personalized learning environment.

Professional Development School Partnerships: An Instrument for Teacher Leadership: Qualitative study of professional development school partnership between a state university and a K — 5 inner - city school in the southeastern U.S., focusing on professional development opportunities, co-teaching, and collective teacher efficacy, and school culture elements that supported teacher leadership http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ974371.pdf

An alumna of New York City public schools, Cheyenne graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a BA in Communication Studies, and later graduated from Harvard Graduate School of Education with an EdM in education policy and management with a focus on urban education.

Currently, Dr. Gross is the principal investigator of a study focused on implementing the Chicago Parent Program in pre-kindergarten programs in Baltimore City Schools and examining the impact of parent participation in the Chicago Parent Program on children's school readiness and attendance in kindergarten, and use of special education and remedial services through third grade.

Ideas for NYC Principals: A Step - by - Step Approach to Distributed Leadership at Creston Academy for Responsibility and Excellence is one out of five case studies written for the New York City Department of Education's Office of Instructional Policy focusing on the impact of the Citywide Instructional Expectations (CIE) on school leaders, teaching and learning, and student achievement at a group of schools.

She has also been engaged with a five year study of pathways into teaching in New York City schools, focusing on the features of preparation that affect student achievement.

Additional steps will include grounding the city's teacher leadership and new principal mentoring programs in a racial equity lens, developing a new Social Studies Scope and Sequence and Passport to Social Studies curriculum, and using the keynote address at the citywide principal's conference this spring to focus on the subject of culturally responsive teaching.

One study followed the academic progress of 2,300 students in New York City who were enrolled in a dual credit program focusing on occupational training, and the other, much larger, study focused on 33,000 students in Florida, a state that collects extensive data on students from kindergarten through college, giving researchers an unusually rich set of material for analysis.

This study focuses on models and tools available for use by cities and counties in California for assessing the potential effects of smart - growth strategies.

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When deciding which cities to include in our study, we focused on the number of restaurants per capita to pinpoint those with the most eclectic tastes.

Those years — Alisha calls them «adult - ing» — were all about work (for her, at a nonprofit focused on free speech) and study (for him), threaded with raising two Boston terriers, Murphy and Millie, making friends, and exploring the city's alleyways and pocket parks.

15th February 2013 - Today Irrational Games and 2K present the second part of the «Columbia: A Modern Day Icarus» series focusing on the songbird and other studies about the city in the sky... Read More

Thanks to the G.I. Bill, Rauschenberg went on to study fashion design at the Kansas City Art Institute and art at the now - defunct Académie Julian, a private school in Paris that focused on painting and sculpture.

Earlier this year, Holten participated in a six - week research residency at A Studio in the Woods (ASITW) in New Orleans, during which time she studied the city's infrastructure, focusing specifically on the intersection of architecture and ecology.