Sentences with phrase «academic report suggests»

At least one academic report suggests chief executives tend to make significant stock gifts following a run - up in share prices.

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As I have trawled through the extensive recent press reports and academic and policy papers about trade, I've come up with a list of statements in favor and against the protectionist policies suggested by Peter Navarro, and by the Trump administration more generally.

By suggesting a correlation between how well a college actually succeeds in forming and shaping students» lives during their academic journey and well - being after graduation, the report offers an opportunity for further debate over how best to cultivate the life of the mind.

As her report put it: «The research suggests that, while there may be little return to trying to make students more gritty as a way of being (i.e., in ways that would carry over to all aspects of their lives at all times and across contexts), students can be influenced to demonstrate perseverant behaviors — such as persisting at academic tasks, seeing big projects through to completion, and buckling down when schoolwork gets hard — in response to certain classroom contexts and under particular psychological conditions.»

The report draws on government and trade statistics, academic evidence and economic theory to challenge arguments that the health and social benefits of reducing alcohol consumption are likely to come at a cost to the economy, finding: · Any reduction in employment and income resulting from lower spending on alcohol would be offset by spending on other goods · Econometric analysis of US states suggests that a 10 % decrease in alcohol consumption is associated with a 0.4 % increase in per capita income growth · Lower alcohol consumption could also reduce the economic costs of impaired workplace productivity, alcohol - related sickness, unemployment and premature death, which are estimated to cost the UK # 8 - 11 billion a year The analysis comes at a timely moment, with health groups urging the Chancellor to raise alcohol duty in next month's Budget.

ENDS Notes to Editors UK Alcohol duty context For a short video summary of the issues around alcohol pricing, please visit: https://vimeo.com/191959217 Following heavy lobbying from the alcohol industry, the last four Budgets have seen real terms cuts in alcohol duty Alcohol is 60 % more affordable than it was in 1980 — the alcohol duty escalator, introduced in 2008, which ensured that duty rose above inflation, helped mitigate this trend, but this progress has reversed since the duty escalator was scrapped in 2013 In real terms, spirits duty has halved, and wine duty fallen by a quarter since 1978 - 9 The Government estimates suggest that the duty cuts since 2013 will cost the Exchequer # 2.9 billion over four years The University of Sheffield estimated that an additional 6,500 people would be hospitalised each year as a result of the alcohol duty cuts in 2015 The report The report was peer reviewed by academic experts the fields of economics, public health and public policy prior to publication.

They point to a report by the federal Department of Health and Human Services last fall suggesting that academic gains made in the early education Head Start program fade by the time the children reach third grade.

To build the database, Wilson and his colleagues analyzed peer - reviewed literature, academic presentations, media articles, and industry and government reports for projects where scientific evidence suggests that the human activity was the cause of an earthquake sequence.

However, women reported greater commitment than men to their academic studies, suggesting a sex difference in priorities.

One 2005 study examining more than 100 academic medical centers found that half would allow the corporate sponsor to write manuscripts reporting on study results and only allow faculty to «suggest revisions» — a policy basically authorizing commercial ghostwriting of academic research.

The Coleman Report identified the peer group at school as an important factor affecting learning, but several papers in this volume suggest that the socioeconomic status or academic ability of peers has little effect on academic performance.

«Learning by Doing», a 2015 report by DEMOS, comments that evidence suggests that character attributes not only reinforce academic learning but also have a significantly positive influence on later life outcomes, including those relating to health, well - being and careers.

The Capita SIMS survey found that knowing whether their child is happy and confident in class tops the list of information parents want to know from teachers, suggesting that mums and dads do not just want academic results on their reports.

A Pew Foundation report on school closures found that «academic studies suggest that student achievement often falls during the final months of a closing school's existence.»

They show that 1) Different academic indicators measure very different aspects of school performance, suggesting that states should be allowed and encouraged to make full use of multiple measures to identify schools in the way they see fit instead of reporting a summative rating; 2) The ESSA regulations effectively restrict the weighting of the non-academic «School Quality and Student Success» indicators to zero, which is not in the spirit of the expanded measurement; and 3) The majority of schools will be identified for targeted support under the current regulations, suggesting the need for a clarification in federal policy.

The board, a nonprofit consulting organization funded by individual state membership fees and corporate gifts, aired those views in a 30 - page report citing «widespread erosion» of student achievement and academic standards throughout the region's 260 colleges and universities and suggesting that such problems at both the school and college levels threaten the stability of the New England...

Promoting a respectful school environment, encouraging participation, and establishing disciplinary structure may help children from military families improve academic performance, a report suggests.

«While these are essential steps toward improving K - 3 quality, they are also just that: first steps in a long line of work that can be done to ensure that the foundational years of public schooling set students on a path to becoming lifelong learners who experience academic and social success,» the report suggested.

It suggests that at this point, academic research was having only a small to moderate influence on decision making relative to other sources, despite teachers generally reporting a positive disposition towards research.

In 2015, a Facebook internal report suggested that Cambridge Analytica received data from an app called «thisisyourdigitallife» developed by Aleksandr Kogan, a Cambridge academic.