Sentences with phrase «by a panel of experts convened»

Schools should be permitted to use multiple, locally created assessments instead of «one shot» tests to measure student progress for accountability purposes, according to a report released last week by a panel of experts convened by the Forum on Educational Accountability, a group that includes some of the most vocal critics of the 5 - year - old No Child Left Behind Act.

The report, by a panel of experts convened by the society, says more research is needed on geoengineering techniques, and that it should involve international collaborations and discussions with the public.

Not exact matches

The announcement is the result of months of consultation and study by an expert panel convened to help the government write the policy.

Although most states require only a handful of tests, a panel of experts convened by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the March of Dimes recommends newborns be screened for 30 genetic disorders, including hypothyroidism, cystic fibrosis, and sickle cell anemia.

A panel of experts convened by the National Institutes of Health in 1986 recommended that home monitors not be used for babies who do not have an increased risk of sudden unexpected death.

Defining the sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS): deliberations of an expert panel convened by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

An expert panel convened by the Institute of Medicine clarified the cognitive aging process by making a distinction from Alzheimer disease and related dementias, and provided recommendations to enhance cognitive health in older adults.

The National Academy of Sciences, for its part, has convened an expert panel to deliver a verdict on the appropriate «stabilization targets» for the nation, a report expected to be delivered by summer 2010.

A panel of experts convened in 2007 by the prestigious Institute of Medicine estimated that «well below half» of the procedures doctors perform and the decisions they make about surgeries, drugs, and tests have been adequately investigated and shown to be effective.

That month, an expert panel convened by the University of Minnesota deemed the data «significantly flawed» and «potentially incorrect» for further inconsistencies in the data, but did not accuse Verfaillie or anyone in her lab of deliberately manipulating it.

A panel of outside experts convened by the FDA voted 10 - 0 Wednesday to recommend the approval of Novartis» CAR - T therapy, called CTL019, for the treatment of children and young adults with advanced leukemia.

After an expert panel convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) disagreed with the decision, NSABB reviewed revised versions of the manuscripts and changed its position.

The US Food and Drug Administration should consider approving the French «abortion pill» mifepristone (RU486) on the basis of European data, rather than waiting for clinical trials in the US, according to a panel of experts convened by the US National Academy of Sciences.

They are based on recommendations set forth by an expert panel convened as part of the work of the National Cancer Survivorship Resource Center, a collaboration between the American Cancer Society and The George Washington University Cancer Institute, funded by a 5 - year cooperative agreement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

But while the lunar timeline and the Ares program are under scrutiny by a blue - ribbon panel of independent experts convened by the White House, the robotic precursor to human exploration continues apace.

The guideline was the work of an expert panel convened at Marcus Autism Center, an affiliate of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, and was published online by the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (JAND).

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. — A team of university and government scientists, selected by an expert review panel convened by the Mississippi - Alabama Sea Grant Consortium, will conduct an independent study to estimate the number of red snapper in the U.S. waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

A panel of experts convened by the American Institutes of Research (AIR) has just analyzed that very question and found «reasonable agreement.»

The lack of a generally accepted method of diagnosis, treatment, and follow - up for those children is «a major public health problem,» a panel of medical experts convened by the NIH said in a statement released last week.

At a symposium convened by the Institute for Education Sciences in Washington in 2005, a panel of experts continued to show that the evidence of voucher effectiveness at improving achievement was inconclusive.

Fifteen years ago, the National Reading Panel, a group of reading experts convened by Congress, flagged fluency as a pillar of reading instruction, along with phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, and comprehension.

Applications were reviewed by panels of outside experts convened by NEA staff and each project was judged on its artistic excellence and artistic merit.

On balance if you look at all the things the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the body of experts convened by the United Nations to advise governments in responding to global warming] has been doing over the last number of years, they were trying very hard to put in all the peer - reviewed serious stuff.

But in a report that I wrote about last year, an expert panel convened by the National Research Council sharply criticized the federal government's efforts to identify possible health or environmental risks of nanotechnology.

She is Co-Chair of the New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC), a body of experts convened by the mayor to advise the city on adaptation for its critical infrastructure.

The Rorvik record exhibits maximum GEM concentrations in the late 1980s but is likely only representative of a local pattern as pointed out by a panel of international experts convened in Madison, Wisconsin as part of the 8th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant (August 2006)(1).

In New York City, the New York Panel on Climate Change (NPCC), a body of experts first convened by Mayor Bloomberg in 2008, developed a concept of Flexible Adaptation Pathways that the city adopted in its long - term planning.