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EWA was organized in 1947 by a group of newspaper reporters with the intent of improving education reporting to the public.

Data Quality Campaign Turning Data into Information: The Vital Role of Research in Improving Education This report outlines the value of research students, parents, educators, and other community partners.

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These «young ambassadors,» the report claims, will help improve relations by strengthening education and cultural links between host and home nations.

The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) could improve its development aid impact by focusing on basic education, according to a report released today by the C.D. Howe Institute.

Atlanta Driven in large part by a surge in financial tech, education tech and health tech startups, Atlanta clinched the «most improved» city designation on this year's ITM report, rocketing up more than 15 places since last year's analysis.

Participants assess their operations using a comprehensive California Code of Sustainable Winegrowing Workbook, interpret their results using customized reports that benchmark their practices relative to statewide and regional averages, attend targeted education workshops to learn about best practices, develop Action Plans on areas they want to improve, implement change, and reassess, beginning the cycle again.

This year's report illustrates the company's initiatives to improve the livelihoods of cocoa farmers through sustainable cocoa farming practices and to address the basic health and education needs of cocoa communities.

While O'Kane said there was some evidence that concussion education could improve the percentage of athletes reporting concussions, pointing to a 2012 study [8] finding that high school athletes receiving concussion education were twice as likely to report symptoms to coaches compared with those with no education (72 % vs. 36 %), he acknowledged that a 2013 study [9](also by researchers at the University of Washington) found that many high school soccer players, despite understanding the symptoms of concussion and the potentially severe complications from playing with concussion, would continue to play despite symptoms.

Besides the 2013 University of Washington study, a number of other recent studies have found education ineffective in improving self - reporting by athletes, adding to a growing body of evidence challenging the conventional wisdom that inadequate athlete concussion knowledge is the principal barrier to increased reporting, and suggesting that one of the best ways to combat underreporting by athletes of concussion symptoms may be to shift the focus of educational efforts towards helping coaches facilitate concussion reporting, the theory being that athletes will be more likely to report concussion symptoms if they no longer think that they will be punished by the coach for reporting, such as by losing playing time or their starting position, perceived by their teammates as letting them down, or viewed by their coach as «weak,» all of which have been documented in numerous studies over the past decade as reasons athletes are reluctant to report concussion symptoms.

Recent qualitative and quantitative studies have confirmed MomsTEAM's longstanding belief that, more than education about concussion signs and symptoms, it is changing the negative attitude of too many coaches towards reporting and creating a safe concussion - reporting environment that may be the best ways to improve the low rates of self - reporting found in study after study.

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

Chris Keates: «As with every other Chief Inspector's Annual Report published during Ofsted's two decades of existence, this year's edition claims that the education system in England is improving but is falling significantly short of the mark».

Also at 10 a.m., The Educational Conference Board, a coalition of major statewide education organizations, will hold a news conference in the LCA Press Room to release a report, «Turning the Corner: With an improved fiscal condition, New York can lead the way for sustainable educational progress.»

Test results for third - through eighth - graders across New York state improved this year even amid concerns about the length of the standardized exams and reports of erroneous questions, according to data released by the state Education Department.

Higher education We await Lord Browne's final report into higher education funding, and will judge its proposals against the need to: - increase social mobility; - take into account the impact on student debt; - ensure a properly funded university sector; - improve the quality of teaching; - advance scholarship; and, - attract a higher proportion of students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

As our report suggests, we need more education funding in high needs districts and a serious investment of state funds in combatting child poverty if we are to improve graduation rates.

The report proposes a series of policy recommendations to close the wage gap, including launching statewide public education campaigns on the breadth of career opportunities, salary negotiation and financial literacy, expanding access to child care and family leave, increasing career mentoring for young women and improving data and transparency on job titles, pay and benefits.

The report comes after a year - long inquiry by the education committee into how to improve exam boards.

On Monday, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer released her own report which found arts education lacking in many Manhattan schools, and pushed the Department of Education to improve its annual survey showing which schools are up to state compliance in their arts inseducation lacking in many Manhattan schools, and pushed the Department of Education to improve its annual survey showing which schools are up to state compliance in their arts insEducation to improve its annual survey showing which schools are up to state compliance in their arts instruction.

A new report by the Foundation for Education Reform and Accountability (FERA) argues that Governor Andrew Cuomo can use public school choice to significantly improve New York's public educatioEducation Reform and Accountability (FERA) argues that Governor Andrew Cuomo can use public school choice to significantly improve New York's public educationeducation system.

The plan calls for independent oversight of the city's Housing Preservation Department; establishing a public education campaign to inform tenants about HPD's role; empowering a new body or building inspectors to collect fines against landlords; having HPD make repairs not completed by the landlord in the specified amount of time and then billing the landlord; making inspectors carry citations in multiple languages and send out reports in multiple languages; forcing landlords to make repairs within 24 hours of emergency violations; establishing an East Harlem HPD oversight team as a pilot for other areas with at - risk low - income housing; providing inspections 24 - hours - a-day, 7 - days - a-week; and improving HPD's follow - up on violations.

► On Thursday at ScienceInsider, Jeffrey Mervis described a report from the U.K. Royal Society on improving science and mathematics education.

A new report from the Royal Society on improving U.K. science and mathematics education contains a lengthy wish list: Upper - level students should take a lot more science and math; more college graduates with science degrees should go into teaching; current teachers should continually upgrade their skills and have a larger voice in the educational process; and the government should de-emphasize the high - stakes tests used to measure student achievement.

Researchers at Detroit Medical Center reported the results of the implementation of an initiative called the Surviving Sepsis Campaign, www.survivingsepsis.org, an international effort to formulate guidelines to improve sepsis treatment and reduce mortality through sustainable change and physician education.

SBML «is a powerful educational model that improves clinical skills and has important downstream effects on health and society,» McGaghie and colleagues report in the journal Medical Education.

Asked to comment on the idea of a STEM master teacher corps, his spokesperson cited Kline's reaction to a report earlier this year that tallied the hundreds of existing federal programs aimed at improving STEM education.

But Gates warned against complacency, and noted a 2012 report by PCAST that identified opportunities for the United States to keep its edge in innovation, including boosting of R&D expenditures moderately to 3.0 % of GDP, making the R&D tax credit permanent, streamlining federal regulations that decrease productivity at research universities, and adopting «best practices» to improve undergraduate education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

«The high degree of involvement in the lives of an opioid user among attendees is consistent with reported motivations to have a kit in the house for a greater sense of security and improved confidence to handle an overdose,» explained lead author Sarah Bagley, MD, from the Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE) Unit at BUSM and BMC and a physician in General Internal Medicine at BMC.

A new report released by the Mental Health Commission of Canada identifies ways to improve the mental health training and education that police personnel receive.

According to the researchers, who report their findings in a recent issue of Management Science, business support organizations offer recommendations and programs, including energy audits and pollution prevention education, on how to improve efficiency and increase environmental compliance.

A new article published online by JAMA Psychiatry reports that adults assigned to receive the fully automated and interactive web - based Sleep Healthy Using the Internet (SHUTi) intervention had improved sleep compared with those adults just given access to a patient education website with information about insomnia.

The report suggests that DOD focus on meeting its own special workforce needs rather than trying to improve the overall quality of STEM education in the United States.

The report says that without proper investment to ensure quality in higher - education programs, financing tuition assistance and other supports may do little to improve quality in ECE professional practice.

Ten Years of Improvement Innovation in Cystic Fibrosis Care includes reports on a range of improvement initiatives, ranging from the impact of patient education on improving adherence to critical daily treatments, and strategies for boosting nutritional status.

The need to improve medical education, the role of the press in reporting science news, and the danger of medical tourism — they were all discussed in this century - old article that today's editors could have run as - is after modernizing the font.

In the past 25 years, some two dozen major reports have focused in part or in full on improving biology and related science education.

National Quality Forum (NQF) is a nonprofit organization that operates to improve the quality of American healthcare by building consensus on national priorities and goals for performance improvement and working in partnership to achieve them; endorsing national consensus standards for measuring and publicly reporting on performance; and promoting the attainment of national goals through education and outreach programs.

The report finds that yoga may improve pain and functioning relative to usual care and education, and be favored over general forms of exercise.

At least 22 governors proposed significant policies last year aimed at improving high schools, or have made such proposals so far in 2006, Education Week found in preparing this special report.

One such report was your article on the nea's «Mastery in Learning Project,» («nea Launches Mastery in Learning Project in Effort to Improve Schooling,» Education Week, April 3, 1985).

It's little wonder that a new Department for Education (DfE) report finds that a staggering 95 per cent of schools said that the Premium has had a positive impact on the physical fitness of students, as well as improving the skills and behaviour of pupils.

One of the consequences of the extraordinary decline (nearly 90 percent) in federal support for education research over the past 25 years, as reported by Richard C. Atkinson and Gregg B. Jackson in their 1992 report for the National Academy of Sciences, has been the profound loss of rigorous inquiry into how schooling can be improved academically for all and how youth culture can become more attuned to the deferred gratification of academic achievement and less oriented to the immediate imperatives of money, clothes, and other amusements.

Participants reported many positive benefits including changing the way they think about education, having an opportunity to engage with HGSE professors, and learning that teaching does not have to be stagnant because there is always room to improve their practice.

The forum's report, «American Potential: The Human Dimension,» outlines recommendations for improving elementary and secondary education, giving workers more...

Wand Education provides teachers with visual reports on student progress and actionable data that need to be addressed for students to improve their work.

Thus the NRC mantra, repeated with slightly different wording throughout the report: «Despite using them for several decades, policymakers and educators do not yet know how to use test - based incentives to consistently generate positive effects on achievement and to improve education.»

Earlier this year, the Department of Energy and Climate Change released a report outlining the benefits to schools of going solar, including reduced electricity bills, revenue generation, reducing CO2 emissions, as well as improved education and engagement.

According to a report from the National Audit Office (NAO), there is not enough proof that the # 2.7 billion which is being invested in early years education is improving school standards.

Reform's Academy chains unlocked report brings together results from the first survey of academy chain chief executives and recommends reforms to the funding and oversight of academy chains to raise standards and achieve the original goal of improving education for all children.

Glenn Finger, Professor of Education and Dean (Learning and Teaching) of the Arts, Education and Law Group at Queensland's Griffith University said the report highlights the need for an evidence - informed approach which focuses on teacher education students learning and demonstrating approaches which improve student Education and Dean (Learning and Teaching) of the Arts, Education and Law Group at Queensland's Griffith University said the report highlights the need for an evidence - informed approach which focuses on teacher education students learning and demonstrating approaches which improve student Education and Law Group at Queensland's Griffith University said the report highlights the need for an evidence - informed approach which focuses on teacher education students learning and demonstrating approaches which improve student education students learning and demonstrating approaches which improve student learning.