Sentences with phrase «early evaluation by»

«The current analyses reported here were performed to update the earlier evaluation by expanding the diagnosis years from 2004 to 2011, and including data on 100 percent of the Appalachian and non-Appalachian populations,» Wilson said.

These findings echo those of earlier evaluations by the Royal National Children's Foundation (RNCF), 2007, and Claire Maxwell et al. in which improvements were seen in the academic attainment, social skills, self - esteem and resilience of disadvantaged children placed in boarding schools.

Not exact matches

The early mapping work by the joint venture enabled us to identify this opportunity ahead of industry trends and our most recent and more detailed evaluation has confirmed our view that the acreage is highly prospective.

Once the evaluation of a VC is done, the next step would be to engage early to understand which VCs can add value by way of customer introductions.

But more than a year earlier, documents in the criminal case against Nikolas Cruz and obtained by The Associated Press show school officials and a sheriff's deputy recommended in September 2016 that Cruz be involuntarily committed for a mental evaluation.

Their early school experiences were saturated with joy and curiosity, but by the time they reach high school, schoolwork had become a hated activity, «forced» on them by adults, serving no purpose beyond assessment and evaluation.

Seek the advice of your pediatrician and / or an early intervention evaluation by an occupational therapist or speech therapist trained in infant feeding if your baby has difficulty with coordinating the suck / swallow / breathe pattern, chokes or gags during feedings, loses a lot of liquid during feedings and can't form a seal on the nipple or has a tongue tie.

An audiology screen and evaluation by a speech - language pathologist can determine if there's something wrong (such as hearing loss) and design an early - intervention plan to help.

Newborns should be nursed whenever they show signs of hunger, such as increased alertness or activity, mouthing, or rooting.85 Crying is a late indicator of hunger.86 Newborns should be nursed approximately 8 to 12 times every 24 hours until satiety, usually 10 to 15 minutes on each breast.87, 88 In the early weeks after birth, nondemanding babies should be aroused to feed if 4 hours have elapsed since the last nursing.89, 90 Appropriate initiation of breastfeeding is facilitated by continuous rooming - in.91 Formal evaluation of breastfeeding performance should be undertaken by trained observers and fully documented in the record during the first 24 to 48 hours after delivery and again at the early follow - up visit, which should occur 48 to 72 hours after discharge.

Although children with DS often need extensive health evaluations and other professional interventions from an early age, it's important to keep in mind that every child deserves to be surrounded by people who love, respect, and admire him.

Referrals to craniofacial centers for evaluation of deformational plagiocephaly and brachycephaly are increasing.8 This increase in deformations has been temporally linked to the Back to Sleep program advanced by the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1992 that advises the avoidance of the prone sleeping position as a method of reducing the rates of sudden infant death syndrome.10,, 12,13 There is a delay in early gross motor milestones in children forced to sleep supine but these delays seem transient and have not been linked as yet to any longer term problems.14 Children who are encouraged to sleep on their backs and develop abnormal head shapes as a result are a different population than children who spontaneously restricted their movement in bed for one reason or another.

Applicants for the first grade will be invited to visit one of the mixed - age kindergarten classes for a morning, followed by an hour long first grade readiness evaluation conducted by one of our trained early childhood faculty members.

Early evaluation of the special needs baby by a multidisciplinary team is required to assess the baby's feeding challenges and decide on an appropriate management strategy

These children should be exposed to peanuts earliest, between 4 and 6 months, but they should first be referred to a specialist to perform an evaluation by blood test, skin prick or oral food challenge.

The BCDL study took notes from another research by the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project funded by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

Early Intervention (EI) is a voluntary developmental evaluation and services program offered by New York State and administered locally by the Erie County Department of Health.

This reflects recommendations in the Better Budgets report published earlier this year by CIOT, the Institute for Government and the Institute for Fiscal Studies.3 Evidence based evaluation would also allow concerns, justified or not, that these reliefs are used as vehicles for tax abuse, to be properly addressed.

Mulgrew also sought to correct misconceptions about the new evaluation system for teachers passed earlier that week by the state Board of Regents.

Cuomo and lawmakers also passed legislation that provides a «safety net» for teachers whose evaluations were negatively affected by the drop in student performance on the early administrations of Common Core exams.

There was something for everyone on the menu: using Apple technology, developing research - based practices to teach students in the early grades, engaging students through digital instruction, understanding the new teacher evaluation system as set by state law, preventing high - risk student behaviors and how Community Learning Schools meet the needs of students and their families.

Earlier this week Cuomo told the Daily News editorial board that, if he's re-elected, he intends to «to break what is in essence one of the only remaining public monopolies,» vowing to challenge public school teachers by supporting stricter teacher evaluations and competition from charter schools.

The state Public Employment Relations Board on May 15 rejected an appeal by the city's Department of Education of PERB's earlier decision to appoint a mediator to help resolve the issue of teacher evaluations in 33 schools.

«We already know from a 2014 evaluation by FPG that the school readiness skills of children who attend Georgia's Pre-K significantly improve across a wide range of language, literacy, math, and other measures,» Early said.

The new findings were based on detailed, in - person ASD evaluations performed during an earlier Autism Speaks study by the same investigators.

Yet both can be influenced by early referral and by a patient's understanding of their situation and the transplant evaluation process.

«By embedding mental health screening in the emergency department, we are making it part of our health care culture — reducing the stigma associated with mental health problems and providing the opportunity for early identification and treatment for all children,» said Jeffrey I. Gold, PhD, director of the Children's Outcomes, Research and Evaluation program at CHLA and an author on the study.

Evaluation of these processes in AOGCMs is mainly restricted by lack of observations, but some early progress has been made in individual studies (e.g., Schmittner et al., 2000; Pardaens et al., 2003; Wu et al., 2005; Chapter 9).

By year end or early summer, we'll complete our evaluation and identify the necessary changes.

Along those lines, it is interesting to note that our evidence of differential effects by grade and subject is broadly similar to the results from evaluations of earlier state - level school - accountability policies.

These findings differ from an earlier evaluation conducted by a team led by John F. Witte.

Early evaluations of the program by Paul Tuss of Sacramento County Office of Education's Center for Student Assessment and Program Accountability found that students who received a home visit were considerably more likely to be successful in their exit exam intervention and academic - support classes and pass the English portion of the exit exam.

I was contacted early on by a large urban district in New Jersey that... had a horrible evaluation system.

While Duncan's arrival in Washington in early 2009 was followed by a national emphasis on refining teacher evaluation systems, his departure from Chicago marked a move away from the rigorous year one implementation of the EITP pilot.

So you will see that by early next year [2012] we have to deliver on the first model, which is [teacher evaluations in] the tested subjects.

DB: However one interprets the evaluations of demonstration projects like the Perry Preschool and Abecedarian, the unavoidable conclusion is that the measured impacts of three national programs that seek to implement their approach — Head Start, Early Head Start, and Even Start — have been tragically «disappointing,» the word used by most objective observers.

The specific school year of each teacher's evaluation was determined years earlier by a district planning process.

A survey commissioned by the Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) and conducted by Grunwald Associates earlier this year looked at the views of parents, teachers and district administrators on assessment in education — and found that in many ways, the views of all three stakeholders are aligned.

By that early date, Florida had already made more than a dozen changes in promised deadlines, including a multiyear delay in teacher evaluation and a one - year delay in training principals for turnaround schools.

Earlier this year, Governor Cuomo and the Legislature put in place a strong teacher evaluation system to improve teaching and learning by holding teachers accountable for student achievement.

Madison Parish Early Reading First Grant Evaluation: Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, this 3 - year project evaluated the implementation and impact of the Bright Futures Early Reading First project on outcomes for children, teachers, classrooms, and families in Madison Parish, Louisiana.

Experts from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) played a significant role in studying and reporting the findings of The Impact of Two Professional Development Interventions on Early Reading Instruction and Achievement, a report that was released on September 22, 2008 by the National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES).

An earlier study published by Education Next looked at whether an evaluation system based on classroom observations performed by trained professionals could identify the teachers whose students demonstrate the largest learning gains.

Her judgments resemble those offered by buggy whip makers — «Get a Horse» — when cars first arrived or RCA Victor's evaluation of early pocket transistor radios.

What's next for the much - discussed teacher evaluation deal that was ratified by classroom teachers earlier this month?

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant had ordered L.A. Unified to show that it was using test scores in evaluations by Tuesday after ruling earlier this year that state law required such data as evidence of whether teachers have helped their students progress academically.

Schools could choose between versions of the test provided by Early Excellence, Durham University's Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring (CEM) and the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER).

Aldeman wrote that the early reviews of the draft plans by California and New York were a «quick - turnaround, rapid - response analysis» that did not include the full review process used in the first round of evaluations.

Earlier this week, FiveThirtyEight, founded by data whiz Nate Silver, posted a feature on the application of value - added models to the evaluation of K - 12 teachers.

After the evaluation deal collapsed, other dominoes fell: earlier this year, the Board of Regents, led by opt - out ally Betty Rosa, did away with a rule requiring potential New York teachers pass a literacy test.

Los Angeles parents planned to press for a court order Tuesday forcing the nation's second - largest school district to begin using student test scores in teacher evaluations by early September.