Sentences with phrase «cities in our study provided»

The fact that eight of the 14 cities in our study provided essentially no local education revenue to their public charter schools is shameful.

Not exact matches

«In this masterful study of urban warfare, DiMarco explains what it takes to seize and hold a city literally block by block and provides lessons for today's tacticians that they neglect at their own peril.»

He explained that some time ago he was conducting an empirical study of street prostitutes in the city of Chicago, and, through a connection at a company he was consulting with, met a high - end call girl who had read «Freakonomics,» and who was willing to help him with his study by providing data.

In June 2008, Brent Kramer, a doctoral candidate at the City University of New York, now Ph.D., submitted a study, Employee Ownership and Participation Effects on Firm Outcomes, that «provides strong evidence that majority employee - owned businesses have a significant advantage over comparable traditionally - owned businesses in sales per employee.&raquIn June 2008, Brent Kramer, a doctoral candidate at the City University of New York, now Ph.D., submitted a study, Employee Ownership and Participation Effects on Firm Outcomes, that «provides strong evidence that majority employee - owned businesses have a significant advantage over comparable traditionally - owned businesses in sales per employee.&raquin sales per employee.»

Since each bank tends to keep its rates similar for the whole state, it's likely that Bank of America also provides the best mortgage rates for New Yorkers who live in areas other than the cities we studied.

A job search led me to a position as a ministry - based social worker for an organization that provided job skills, mentoring, childcare and Bible study for low income women in the inner city of Nashville.

As I've been studying photography and applying what I'm learning to my own work, I've been reflecting on the luxury that living in Seattle provides; as I mentioned the other day, the city has a multitude of farmers markets, some of which operate year - round, and it's no problem to find grocery stores stocking quality, whole, organic items.

Indeed, New York «s experience 15 years ago provides an useful study in how one big city juggled the conflicting demands of a private sports team, public financing and civic pride.

Also on Thursday, Daley said he believes that Park District programs are offered even - handedly throughout the city despite a Tribune study that concluded teenagers in poor neighborhoods are provided fewer offerings than teens in more affluent areas of Chicago.

Dr. Furr then completed her clinical psychology internship at the NYU Child Study Center - Bellevue Hospital Center in New York City, where she stayed on for her Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Institute for ADHD and Disruptive Disorders, and specialized in treating young children with selective mutism and oppositional problems and providing organizational skills training for children with ADHD.

New York City Council Speaker Cory Johnson and Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo announced the package of 10 bills on Sunday and said the measures would be introduced this week... The proposals include: Requiring businesses with more than 15 employees to provide lactation spaces and refrigerators to store breast milk, Requiring lactation rooms in all schools, police precincts, and jails that house women or allow women visitors, Assessing the need for free and low - cost doula services in the city, Creating a report on maternal mortality, Requiring that inmates be able to choose the gender of their doctor, Requiring the city to provide diapers at shelters, subsidized child care centers and other locations, Creating a study and pilot program for on - site childcare for city employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jTCity Council Speaker Cory Johnson and Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo announced the package of 10 bills on Sunday and said the measures would be introduced this week... The proposals include: Requiring businesses with more than 15 employees to provide lactation spaces and refrigerators to store breast milk, Requiring lactation rooms in all schools, police precincts, and jails that house women or allow women visitors, Assessing the need for free and low - cost doula services in the city, Creating a report on maternal mortality, Requiring that inmates be able to choose the gender of their doctor, Requiring the city to provide diapers at shelters, subsidized child care centers and other locations, Creating a study and pilot program for on - site childcare for city employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jTcity, Creating a report on maternal mortality, Requiring that inmates be able to choose the gender of their doctor, Requiring the city to provide diapers at shelters, subsidized child care centers and other locations, Creating a study and pilot program for on - site childcare for city employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jTcity to provide diapers at shelters, subsidized child care centers and other locations, Creating a study and pilot program for on - site childcare for city employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jTcity employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jTiAtZ

A study by Laura Carbognin at the Institute of Marine Sciences in Venice and colleagues provides the best estimate yet of how the city will cope with the effects of climate change.

The study recommends government agencies focus efforts on enacting policies and programs to better protect rural households during a drought, such as supporting sustainable agriculture projects in the region, increasing transportation options to access city centers and providing access to insurance and credit schemes.

«This study has provided strong evidence demonstrating that the molecular signature of metastasis exists prominently in the primary tumor,» says Mary Hendrix, a cancer researcher at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.

Whatever the answers turn out to be, the new study provides a lesson, says William Karesh of the EcoHealth Alliance in New York City.

But the researchers on the new study wanted to know what the minimum threshold was — the lowest amount of physical activity that could still provide health benefits, said Dr. Srinivasan Beddhu, a kidney specialist at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City and lead author of the new study.

«There is strong evidence that animals try to forage as effectively as possible to meet their nutritional needs, mixing dietary items to provide a full complement of nutrients,» writes primatologist Jessica Rothman of the City University Of New York's Hunter College, who was not involved in the study, in an e-mail.

This study provides evidence for what experts have previously hypothesized about coaching, says Jonathan Fader, a clinical and sport psychologist in New York City who was not involved in the study.

«New urban heat island study shows surprising variation in air temperatures across Twin Cities: Results provide valuable insights into efforts to reduce heat - related harm in metro areas globally.»

Because the Egyptians occupied Amarna for such a short time, the city provides archaeologists with an unprecedented insight into what people's lives looked like at a specific moment in history, said study co-author Anna Stevens, an archaeologist at the University of Cambridge.

«Of note, having a strong sense of life purpose has long been postulated to be an important dimension of life, providing people with a sense of vitality, motivation and resilience,» study co-author Alan Rozanski, from Mt. Sinai St. Luke's - Roosevelt Hospital in New York City, said in a journal news release.

The new study provides more evidence of BMI's shortcomings in assessing heart risk, says Jean - Pierre Després, PhD, the director of research at the Quebec Heart and Lung Institute at Laval University, in Quebec City.

The UM study also showed that even looking at nature secondhand from indoors provides more mental - health benefit than walking outside in a city!

Barry Forshaw has made a career out of studying the dames, pistols, machismo, and glistening city streets that define crime fiction; with previous books such as Death in a Cold Climate: A Guide to Scandinavian Crime Fiction and The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction seeking to provide a comprehensive survey of the genre, he's made himself, to quote the book jacket of British Crime Film: Subverting the Social Order, «the UK's principal expert on crime fiction.»

The New York City bonus - pay program provides us with a valuable opportunity to study the effect of merit pay for teachers in an experimental setting.

As an undergraduate at Brown University, she studied school reform with Ted Sizer, and not long after moving to Washington in 1993 to work for a congressman, she co-founded Hands on DC, a nonprofit that uses volunteers to make repairs in the city's notoriously dilapidated school buildings and provide college scholarships to low - income students.

Only a few thousand such students have been studied, so estimates are not from as large a sample as one would like, and the cities in these studies may differ from Milwaukee in some respects, but the data provide as direct an estimate as can be obtained.

CHICAGO — Desegregation plans that provide for the busing of students between central - city and suburban schools are more effective in producing lasting integration than more limited types of plans, a new study released here concludes.

But I wonder if these critics have considered how much worse this problem will be if (as is the case in at least thirteen of the featured cities in our study) we don't provide these students with choice - friendly transportation.

For example, the City University of New York's Accelerated Study in Associate Programs, which provides comprehensive support for at - risk community college students, doubled associate's degree completion rates.

The research was sponsored by Scholastic Inc., the New York City - based children's publishing company that provides an on - line educational service used in the study, and the Council of the Great City Schools.

The idea behind Future City is to provide an opportunity for seventh and eighth graders to explore the realities of engineering, planning, energy generation, and other related disciplines in a more hands - on way than traditional textbook study provides.

This study was undertaken to examine both the extent to which students in New York City (NYC) are being provided SES and the capacity of SES providers to serve the needs of English Language Learners (ELLs)....

A lake, a bridge, trails, trees, and gardens in a city park provided students in one Des Moines, Iowa, school with a wide - ranging, three - month study opportunity.

A study released in July showed that 39 percent of the city's high schools do not provide Algebra II, chemistry or physics classes, all considered part of a college - prep curriculum.

Educator Joe Nathan, for example, supports a pair of charter schools in the Twin Cities that educate mostly Somali and Oromo students, because the schools provide a space where children can retain their home language and knowledge of their home culture.59 Likewise, Letitia Basford's qualitative study of Somali youth concluded that «attending a culturally specific charter school promotes positive intercultural competence in which students are able to build a good self - concept and find comfort in who they are as East African immigrants, as Muslims, and as American citizens.»

Building More Effective Community Schools: A Guide to Key Ideas, Effective Approaches, and Technical Assistance Resources for Making Connections Cities and Site Teams The Annie E. Casey Foundation, Center for the Study of Public Policy, 2000 This report provides an overview of the necessary components of a community school, the needs that such programs can address, and the possible challenges faced in implementation of the community school model.

This chapter also provides four case studies of cities exemplifying different trends — both challenges and successes — in charter schooling.

The report also offers case studies of the America College Promise programs in state, city, urban, and rural institutions in order to provide communities with various design options and strategies.

In this study, we evaluate which cities around the country, including their surrounding areas, provide the most fertile ground for inventors and the development of their novel ideas.

Below, we provide an alphabetical list of all the cities included in our study.

Based on studies published in respected periodicals such as the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, as well as consultation with certified animal behaviorists, § 136A provides cities and towns with a working, objective and fair definition of «dangerous.»

Recent exhibitions presented by the school include Drawing from the Archive: Analysis as Design (with additional support from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts), Drawing Ambience: Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association (co ‑ organized by Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design, Providence and the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis, with additional support from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts), Paul Rudolph: Lower Manhattan Expressway (presented with The Drawing Center, New York), Lessons from Modernism (presented with the Institute for Sustainable Design, with generous support from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation), Massimo Scolari: The Representation of Architecture, 1967 - 2012 (organized by the Yale School of Architecture with additional support provided by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Turner Foundation, and by Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown), Bernhard Hoesli: Collages, Alternativas / Alternatives XIII Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (co-presented with the Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism and presented in association with Archtober, Architecture and Design Month New York City, October 2016) and John Hejduk Works / Jan Palach Memorial (installation presented in conjunction with the New York City Department of Transportation's Arterventions Program).

«Decades of scientific study show that engagement in the arts provides cognitive, emotional, and physical health benefits for people from youth to old age, but there are great disparities in access to services in New York City,» Laurie M. Tisch said.

Irma Weiss is a member of the Peter Cooper Heritage Society, having contributed more than $ 1 million to the college in her lifetime, and the funder of two important student gifts — The Irma Giustino Weiss Prize, which permits the top graduating artist or architect to enrich their studies as they embark on a career, and the Irma Giustino Weiss Cultural Enrichment Fellowship, which provides cultural opportunities in New York City to art and architecture students.

The Henry Moore Institute, a centre for the study and enjoyment of sculpture in the city of Leeds, has a varied programme of exhibitions and events and provides an invaluable sculpture resource for researchers, students and artists.

Robert F. Rockwell, a population biologist at the museum and City College of New York with whom Gormezano has collaborated in the Hudson Bay bear study, provided this reaction:

The NEX - GDDP dataset is provided to assist the science community in conducting studies of climate change impacts at local to regional scales, and to enhance public understanding of possible future global climate patterns at the spatial scale of individual towns, cities, and watersheds.»

In June, the utility said it would provide up to $ 1.5 million for a study, with the city of San Francisco and Golden Gate Energy Company, to assess the possibilities of harnessing the tides in San Francisco BaIn June, the utility said it would provide up to $ 1.5 million for a study, with the city of San Francisco and Golden Gate Energy Company, to assess the possibilities of harnessing the tides in San Francisco Bain San Francisco Bay.

A major clue was provided when the studies found that parks as online casino small as a city block showed warmer temperatures in the winter and cooler in the summer.