Sentences with phrase «as a clearinghouse of»

Step two is for the governor to appoint a state local finance review board to serve as a clearinghouse of information on what's really going on in municipalities, to screen local pleas for help and to recommend a comprehensive statutory framework for dealing with them.

Ref: The Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB) Program developed this website as a clearinghouse of ocean fertilization news and informational resources to: 1) increase public knowledge and awareness on this topic, and 2) advance scientific research to improve our understanding of the implications of ocean fertilization for marine ecosystems.

The site will serve as a clearinghouse of litigation anywhere in the United States that implicates any of four issues:

The Center would do its work through providing resources and materials, serving as a clearinghouse of innovation efforts, and operating a program of innovation fellowships to work with a range of other professionals, including technologists, entrepreneurs, and design professionals to create new delivery models.

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In addition to big banks such as Bank of America Corp and Goldman Sachs Group Inc, there were 50 participants, including major exchanges, clearinghouses, the U.S. Treasury Department, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

In the near future, look for rapid increases in the speed of banking services as well as the disruption of intermediaries like brokers and clearinghouses.

PIE will be offered first to a few private investment funds and then serve as a clearinghouse where homeowners can submit their house for bid to various types of investors.

To meet the strict requirements of giants like Bank of America - Merrill Lynch and UBS, GBI had developed a powerful bullion platform that acted as a clearinghouse between the world's largest mints and wholesalers.

The Cryptocurrency Litigation Tracker serves as a clearinghouse for the industry to keep track of trends, in order to know what the regulators and plaintiffs» lawyers are thinking, both to prevent against future litigation and to develop defenses to current actions.

The movement doesn't act as a clearinghouse for charities, though it does have an informal relationship with Living Water International, an organization that seeks to provide access to clean water for some of the 884 million people worldwide without it.

API serves as a clearinghouse and community of practice for AP education, research, and information dissemination.

CAAD will provide regular updates of the clearinghouse database to Athletic Directors as they become available.

The Clearinghouse Services will provide the common platform for monitoring volumes of all telecom traffic as per Act 864, reduce cost of interconnect for Service Providers and Value Added Service Providers, enable the interconnectivity with other switches, host Over-The-Top (OTT) services, provide subscriber and equipment identity services as well as transit all national and international calls.

The first phase of that plan kicked off around the beginning of 2013, as observers around the world began monitoring Comet ISON and sending reports to the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., the main clearinghouse for information about comets and asteroids.

They act as a clearinghouse, monitoring funding pipelines around the globe and identifying potential projects that might be of interest.

The charge goes back to NSF's founding in 1950 as a research agency that would also be a «central clearinghouse for the collection, interpretation, and analysis of data on scientific and engineering resources.»

In 1990, as part of a reorganization of AAAS programs, the Office of Scientific Freedom and Responsibility, of which the Clearinghouse was a component, was merged into the newly - formed Directorate for Science and Policy Programs, headed by Albert Teich.

John Easton, current director of IES and a former educational researcher at the University of Chicago, believes the clearinghouse is particularly useful as a way for the government to vet products that school districts might feel pressured to buy.

As part of the solution, the clearinghouse has published 18 «practice guides» that lay out what is known about subjects such as teaching students who are learning English or teaching math to young childreAs part of the solution, the clearinghouse has published 18 «practice guides» that lay out what is known about subjects such as teaching students who are learning English or teaching math to young childreas teaching students who are learning English or teaching math to young children.

Those organizations, along with the U.S. departments of War, Navy, and Commerce, joined to establish a national body to coordinate standards development and to serve as a clearinghouse for the work of standards - developing agencies.

Still, Sheehan said neuroscience already is one of the leaders in data sharing and management, with such resources as the NIH - funded National Database for Autism Research; an NIH - Defense Department sponsored data base on traumatic brain injury; the NIH - funded Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC), which helps researchers to develop, share and collaborate on software tools for doing functional and structural imaging studies of the brain; and the Neuroscience Information Framework, an NIH initiative that makes neuroscience resources - data, materials, and tools - accessible via any computer connected to the Internet.

The SMA Foundation serves as the hub and clearinghouse of information for the diverse universes involved in drug development, including pharmaceutical and biotech companies, academia, non-profits, clinicians, patients, government / regulators, and the media.

The SMA Foundation serves as the hub and clearinghouse of information for the diverse universes that are involved in drug development.

But this year, people weren't as enamored with the companies, in part due to their growing reputations as digital clearinghouses of content.

At the same time, a group of civic and education organizations formed the Character Education Partnership, which now functions as the movement's clearinghouse and professional organization (and promotes its own «Eleven Principles» of character).

Responding to an Eisenhower National Clearinghouse Poll, 26 percent of teachers said they spent money on such supplemental materials as videos, software, learning kits, and activity books; 25 percent bought basic needs such as pencils, paper, bandages, facial tissue, and food for hungry children; 22 percent purchased art supplies or science materials; 21 percent bought trade books to enrich their lessons and classroom activities.

Of the more than 1,300 studies identified as potentially addressing the effect of teacher professional development on student achievement in three key content areas, nine meet What Works Clearinghouse evidence standards, attesting to the paucity of rigorous studies that directly examine this linOf the more than 1,300 studies identified as potentially addressing the effect of teacher professional development on student achievement in three key content areas, nine meet What Works Clearinghouse evidence standards, attesting to the paucity of rigorous studies that directly examine this linof teacher professional development on student achievement in three key content areas, nine meet What Works Clearinghouse evidence standards, attesting to the paucity of rigorous studies that directly examine this linof rigorous studies that directly examine this link.

However, there is consensus among three key federally funded agencies (What Works Clearinghouse, National Center on Student Progress Monitoring, and Florida Center for Reading Research), as well as several peer - reviewed journal articles that review research on education products, that Accelerated Reader has met high standards of scientific rigor with positive effects and no contrary evidence.

As an example of this thin research, Murnane reported that as of 2010, the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) had reviewed 231 studies in its dropout prevention topic area, of which 27 studies had met standardAs an example of this thin research, Murnane reported that as of 2010, the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) had reviewed 231 studies in its dropout prevention topic area, of which 27 studies had met standardas of 2010, the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) had reviewed 231 studies in its dropout prevention topic area, of which 27 studies had met standards.

Farm - Based Education Association: The organization's Web site serves as a clearinghouse for numerous food - and agriculture - related educational resources, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agriculture in the Classroom site.

Yes, the Student Research Foundation looks to conduct its own research with a range of partners — noting current partnership with the National Society for Black Engineers, National Girls Collaborative Project, Partnership for 21st Century Learning, the Connectory, America's Promise Alliance, and Hope Street Group — it is also setting out to serve as a national clearinghouse for the impressive range of both quantitative and qualitative data on student careers and future ambitions.

What Works Clearinghouse considers well - done studies of this type to provide evidence nearly as compelling as an RCT.

The suspect in the crime, 21 - year - old Dylann Storm Roof, is a white man who was known to be heavily influenced by online white supremacist hate speech, most notably from the Council of Conservative Citizens, a group that now functions primarily as an Internet clearinghouse for racial fear - mongering «news» stories.

The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement (formerly known as the CSR Clearinghouse) was funded by the U.S. Department of Education and administered by Learning Point Associates.

He was listed as one of eight educators to provide leadership into the future by the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse.

He told me that he wanted me to take the controls at CEP and steer it in a bold direction that would greatly broaden its impact and firmly establish it as a clearinghouse for best practices in promoting good character and cultivating a school culture of excellence and a social climate of respect.

As a signatory, the Clearinghouse has pledged to safeguard student privacy by agreeing to a set of commitments related to the collection, maintenance, and use of student personal information.

This is also regardless of the fact that the federal government's «What Works Clearinghouse» - also positioned in this NPR interview by Kane as the closest entity we have so far to an educational FDA — noted grave concerns about this study at the same time (as have others since; see, for example, here, here, here, and here).

Because the database is comprised of student - level data, researchers can use it to link concurrent as well as consecutive enrollments of individual students at multiple institutions — a capability that distinguishes the Clearinghouse data from national databases built with institution - level data.

All guarantors and most major student loan lenders and servicers (including servicers for Perkins, private / alternative, and institutional loans), as well as the Department of Education, participate in the Clearinghouse.

As a signer of SIIA's Student Privacy Pledge, the Clearinghouse is helping to safeguard K - 12 student personal information.

A recent report from the U.S. Department of Education's What Works Clearinghouse identifies practices that can improve the performance of chronically low - performing schools — a process commonly referred to as «turnaround.»

The Florida Green School Network acts as a central clearinghouse for the green school movement in the state of Florida and supports Florida Statute 1000.08.

Talent Development also is identified as an effective research - based plan for keeping students on track toward graduation by the U.S. Department of Education's What Works Clearinghouse.

It has accelerated in the last decade, thanks to efforts such as the U.S. Department of Education's What Works Clearinghouse, which has revealed the shoddiness of the curricula states and districts select for use in classrooms.

It serves as a clearinghouse for the dissemination of reading research through conferences, journals, and other publications; and actively encourages the lifetime reading habit.

On the website of the federal What Works Clearinghouse (http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc) only one of the 150 - plus commercial reading programs listed received a «strong evidence» rating.1 Four other programs were rated as having «possible evidence» of their effectiveness.

Researchers from the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teachers College, Columbia University and the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center crunched the numbers for this first - of - its - kind report, examining the 17 - year - olds who took a dual enrollment class in 2010 and tracking them for six years as they made their way through college.

State education agencies — often dismissed as poorly organized and thinly staffed clearinghouses — are about to get a big infusion of responsibility and authority with the recent passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act.