Sentences with phrase «changes to its program earlier»

Hilton made some major changes to the program early this year, including eliminating the award chart!

Remember that the program did just announce some positive changes to its program earlier in the month, including the ability to book Cash + Points awards (in early 2016) and share points with friends and family.

Not exact matches

In early January, Walden Asset Management, a corporate client who uses Vanguard for their 401 (k) program, wrote Vanguard about its proxy voting practices with respect to social and environmental issues like political spending and climate change.

Structural changes to the employment insurance programs in the late 19980s and early 1990s reduced benefits and eliminated direct government financing of the program.

Because of that week, not only was my own life changed profoundly through friendships and awakenings, but I'm proud to say that we — and I mean all of us because you have all walked this road with our family — we have partnered with incredible leaders to build a school for kids in earthquake ground zero Port - au - Prince (staffed and run by Haitians), supported a home - based village for trafficked children near the border, built a preschool for early support for these children, supported schooling and food programs in neglected villages decimated by the cholera outbreak, supported pregnant and nursing women with a fantastic maternity centre, and so much more.

First Things concludes that changing times call for «the bishops to reevaluate a program based upon the ideological certitudes of an earlier era.»

Attorneys representing all current and former NCAA student - athletes announced date changes made by the court, affecting the concussions settlement that will provide a 50 - year medical - monitoring program for student - athletes to screen for post-concussion syndrome and early - onset neurodegenerative disease that may have resulted from concussions or the accumulation of subconcussive hits while playing NCAA sports.

In other words, even when home visitation programs succeed in their goal of changing parent behaviour, these changes do not appear to produce significantly better child outcomes.21, 22 One recent exception, however, was a study of the Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) model with low - income Latino families showing changes in home parenting and better third - grade math achievement.23 Earlier evaluations of HIPPY found mixed results regarding program effectiProgram for Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) model with low - income Latino families showing changes in home parenting and better third - grade math achievement.23 Earlier evaluations of HIPPY found mixed results regarding program effectiprogram effectiveness.

Parenting programs can improve parent - child interactions by helping parents to better anticipate their children's developmental changes, carry out child - rearing responsibilities and provide early learning experiences.

Home visiting programs can be an avenue to engage fathers in children's lives early on, but doing so requires both changes in program culture, as well as great sensitivity to family situations.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos has said he doesn't want to negotiate any changes to the 2 percent cap Cuomo proposed, saying anything less than the gubernatorial program bill passed by the Senate early on in the session would be too watered down to be effective.

The governor also called the commission a «phenomenal success» for drawing interest to unseemly behavior and prompting legal changes earlier this year, including tougher enforcement at the State Board of Elections and a pilot program for public campaign finance.

Lawmakers in the next few weeks will consider a proposal to reverse a change to the STAR, or School Tax Reduction, program that was earlier rejected by the Legislature but ended up in the budget anyway.

The Democratic - led Assembly backed Cuomo's proposal earlier this year for an extension of mayoral control of three years, without any changes to the program.

Members of the state Assembly could as early as this week vote on a bill that would undo the changes to the STAR School Tax Relief program that were included in last year's budget negotiations but which have sparked statewide complaints.

Stamper was one of the prime movers behind changes made to the city's resident - hiring program earlier this year.

«People exposed to adversity early in life experience changes in the volume of the inferior frontal gyrus that probably can make children more vulnerable to behavioral issues and bad decision - making,» theorized Luby, director of Washington University's Early Emotional Development Proearly in life experience changes in the volume of the inferior frontal gyrus that probably can make children more vulnerable to behavioral issues and bad decision - making,» theorized Luby, director of Washington University's Early Emotional Development ProEarly Emotional Development Program.

Although various programs to address the problems plaguing early - career biomedical researchers are already underway, including some through NIH, the legislation tells junior scientists that lawmakers have heard their concerns and want to take part in the effort to bring about change.

Another facet of the University of Arkansas program is «early evaluation» of graduate student teaching, about a third of the way through a selected semester, combined with a discussion of possible improvements and an end - of - semester evaluation to determine if suggested changes were achieved.

After unsuccessfully lobbying to change those rules, Illingworth instead helped create a new «Early Release Science» (ERS) program to circumvent them — up to 500 hours of diverse observations front - loaded to Cycle 1 for immediate release to the public, giving all astronomers a chance to absorb the results and apply lessons learned to Webb proposals of their own.

Early in April, Europe will launch the first satellite in its Copernicus program: a fleet of a dozen environmental monitoring spacecraft designed to study Earth's oceans, changes in land use, and atmosphere.

Their development of the new 3 - D printed objects follows earlier work the team had done using smart shape memory polymers (SMPs), which have the ability to remember one shape and change to another programmed shape when uniform heat is applied, to make objects that could fold themselves along hinges.

«Climate change is predicted to occur earliest and most dramatically at the polar regions, and that's what the observations seem to be showing,» says Karl A. Erb, director of the National Science Foundation's office of polar programs.

I knew her when we overlapped at the California Space Institute and she oversaw Earth - sensing programs, crucial to early discoveries about climate change.

Paul Anastas, EPA's science adviser, described changes to the IRIS program, announced earlier this week, to address the NAS panel's recommendations.

«It seems that developing stable, repeatable behaviors related to food intake and weight loss early on in a weight - control program is really important for maintaining changes over the long term,» said study lead author Emily Feig.

The 2nd change was going to a mixed rep program of both heavy weight / low reps and light weight / high reps.. When I added the light weight / high reps to my program my strength increased beyond what I had been able to lift in my early 30s.

During the early days of your weight loss program this ongoing guidance will likely make all the difference, giving you the insight and support needed to make the healthiest dietary choices and lifestyle changes needed for weight loss success.

~ And wouldn't it be wonderful if when they found these problems early they advised their patients to get on an individual nutritional and lifestyle change program — instead of just prescribing a drug?

Unlike series co-star Biel, Mitchell remained with the program throughout its run, and through many character changes that found Lucy marrying Kevin Kinkirk, working as an associate pastor, giving birth, and surviving both a miscarriage to twins and clinical depression.Although Mitchell branched out from television into cinematic work as early as 1996, with a turn in the fantasy - action thriller The Crow: City of Angels, and continued intermittent film appearances (such as a supporting role in 2005's slasher movie Saw II), she made no secret of her real passion: performing country music as a guitarist and vocalist.

The band EXO was listed to perform earlier in the program; not sure if it's a printing error or a schedule change, but they're here now and doing their thing.

Arne Duncan, the Obama administration's secretary of education, having previously served as schools superintendent in Chicago, one of the nation's most troubled school districts, gave back - to - back speeches early in his tenure decrying the state of the field: «By almost any standard, many if not most of the nation's 1,450 schools, colleges, and departments of education are doing a mediocre job of preparing teachers for the realities of the 21st - century classroom,» and «America's university - based teacher preparation programs need revolutionary change, not evolutionary thinking.»

The ambitious early - childhood program launched in 1965 as part of the War on Poverty is going through dramatic — and sometimes painful — changes, while continuing to pursue its mission.

And while the Advanced Placement Incentive Program is not a «pure cash incentive program» (it also involves teacher training and curricular changes in earlier grades intended to insure students are prepared for AP courses), the results suggest that thoughtfully designed programs that include cash incentives for students can promote college reaProgram is not a «pure cash incentive program» (it also involves teacher training and curricular changes in earlier grades intended to insure students are prepared for AP courses), the results suggest that thoughtfully designed programs that include cash incentives for students can promote college reaprogram» (it also involves teacher training and curricular changes in earlier grades intended to insure students are prepared for AP courses), the results suggest that thoughtfully designed programs that include cash incentives for students can promote college readiness.

Those efforts must be supplemented by strategies linked to knowledge - based theories of change and a new generation of programs, communities, and states that are willing to co-design and test new approaches that will play a critical role in creating the future of early childhood policy and practice.

While it's too early to tell the ultimate outcome of the students» futures, Quang and Muscia say that, by midweek, the program already appeared to be working for many of the students in changing their attitudes about the possibility of college.

The program's aim is to teach awareness of the skills needed to form respectful relationships and more specifically to challenge gender stereotypes that can lead to gender - based violence and disrespectful attitudes to women.The Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) states that, «Early interventions with children and young people can have a lasting effect on their relationships in the future... On the basis of current evidence, violence prevention and respectful relationships initiatives among young people can make a real difference, producing lasting change in attitudes and behaviours.»

Decades of best practice, cutting edge research in early education including the Head Start Impact Study, expert advice, and The Secretary's Advisory Committee's recommendations all culminate in a call to action for policy changes that ensure all Head Start programs provide a consistently high quality early learning experience that prepares children for Kindergarten and has long - term effects on their academic success and overall health.

Revisions to the General Educational Development certificate that took effect earlier this year have caused headaches for testing officials from several states as they struggle to implement the changes to the high school equivalency program.

We appreciate greatly how the CSFA has disbursed program funding to charter schools far earlier than has happened previously and we look forward to working with the CSFA and others to make the additional changes that we need to expand eligibility for the program and make adjustments allowing SB740 funds to be used for debt service.

And while states and cites have been adding to their preschool budgets and creating or expanding preschool programs in recent years, the comparatively slow pace of change is leaving us increasingly far behind early education in other developed nations.

While it is still too early to measure the full impact of RTT, what is clear is that the program inspired major policy changes at the state level.

The legislation makes changes to the reporting of Title I funding, and encourages states to use these funds for early childhood programming.

This subtle change in orientation has been used to introduce algebraic thinking to students as early as the second grade, and it has shown great promise with middle school teachers participating in the Tennessee program.»

A commission chaired by the City of Chicago's Comptroller issued a report earlier this week which said that Chicago can no longer afford its subsidies for government worker retiree health care, which currently cost the city $ 109 million annually but would grow to nearly $ 500 million in a decade thanks to projected increases in the number of retirees and in health care costs.The commission offered Mayor Rahm Emanuel a series of suggestions on how to change the program to save money, including having workers pay a greater percentage of their own health care premiums in retirement, but it also concluded that the city might want to simply end the subsidy program, a move which almost certainly would be challenged in court.

In our district, we knew that we needed to change our Core 5 programming to make sure that it was more aligned to scientific research, and to make sure that we were getting children that systematic, explicit instruction they need, at the word level in early years.

Large - group activities were to include discussion and action on the schoolwide reading program, early reading interventions, and parent partnerships, as well as on issues related to school change and professional development.

This study from the Century Foundation is a two - part study, including «background on how universal pre-K programs fit into the national landscape of early childhood policy, outlines the main features of New York City's current UPK expansion efforts, and draws lessons for other cities and states interested in expanding their programs,» and «an in - depth look at the issue of preschool classroom diversity in UPK, highlighting the opportunities and obstacles for integration embedded in current policies and recommending policy changes to address this issue in New York City and beyond.»

- Clutch was programmed to release the train early and clutch pedal had fantastic calibration (instant response) albeit at a slight loss of FE and lesser longevity to the clutch components although there are people who've driven the Santro for 1L kms without a clutch change.

The powertrain's programming has been changed so that the engine shuts down earlier when coasting to a stop, and drops to idle when coasting on the road (except the GTS model) to boost fuel economy.