Sentences with phrase «data about these efforts»

To do the work well, state, district, and other education leaders need accurate, unbiased data about their efforts,» Scott points out.

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One of the most important aspects of every brand's marketing efforts is gathering the right data to learn about consumers» desires.

And there's the rub: As easy as it may be to talk big about big data, the actual doing is a slog — plumbing and janitorial tasks that take a lot of effort and yield marginal benefits.

Sales - order apps make it easier and more efficient for salespeople to obtain data about the top 20 percent, so you can spend more effort on impressing them and less with the nitty - gritty details.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The Pentagon has ordered an independent federal auditor to stop providing the public with key information about US war efforts in Afghanistan, accelerating a clampdown on data, such as the size of the Afghan military and police forces, that indicate how the 16 - year - old stalemated war is going.

Digital Realty Trust said it would buy fellow data center operator DuPont Fabros Technology for an enterprise value of about $ 7.6 billion, doubling down on efforts to meet the growing needs of cloud - based service providers.

New details about the National Security Agency's ability and efforts to decrypt digital information could raise concerns not only about the security of data held by business, but also the software and services marketed to protect that data.

For consumers who are concerned about their data getting swept up as part of blanket surveillance, the best efforts are probably devices that encrypt your data or avoid putting them in the cloud in the first place.

The latest CBO report on average federal taxes by income group was released in June 2016 and includes data for 1979 - 2013 on before - and after - tax income and taxes paid for each quintile, as well as for the top 1, 5, and 10 percent of households., [20][21] Because of the effort involved in preparing these analyses, CBO's annual updates tend to lag about two years behind the publication of the necessary SOI data.

Efforts to require a nationwide registry have also faced resistance over concerns about potential threats to Second Amendment rights — a central repository of data could eventually lead to firearms being confiscated by the government, critics have said.

As frustrating as the ever - changing world of SEO can be, content marketers should rejoice about one aspect: There's a wealth of data produced by SEO efforts that we can use to improve content marketing efforts.

WE KNOW THIS: The NSA routinely talks about mitigation efforts to purge U.S. people data; however, they always talk about these measures being taken after they have control of the data.

While the service is still months away from being able to release its findings, Goldfein said his latest briefing on the effort has made clear that «it really is about the data» — especially the need for industry to be able to bring data together across multiple platforms built by multiple prime contractors.

With these new features, customers are able to immediately improve the health of their marketing database — so that they can spend time creating revenue - generating programs, not worrying about whether bad data will sabotage their efforts,» says Henry Schuck, CEO of DiscoverOrg.

Finally, separately from Nix's contacts with Assange, there have been questions for months about whether the Trump campaign's data operation collaborated with Russian digital efforts to boost Trump or hurt Clinton in some way.

If half your inbound leads from online efforts actually come via the phone, but you only acknowledge «completed web forms,» etc., you are kidding yourself about existing conversion rates, and probably using the wrong data to optimize your spending.

Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday finally broke his silence about the abuse of data on the platform by Cambridge Analytica, promising to redouble efforts to safeguard user privacy after the exposure of the massive data breach.

On Friday, Waymo filed a court document that said it had corroborated some of Jacobs» claims about Uber's data - gathering efforts against rivals, but the specifics were redacted.

CNN: Study: People tweet more about church than beer In an effort to look at cultural differences across the United States, a data analysis company selected two words that it felt exemplified an American cultural divide and analyzed their usage on Twitter.

Downtown Raleigh Alliance produces several reports on a regular basis that can help new retailers understand the market, learn about new developments, and find data useful for their business planning efforts.

Since 1996, students and teachers have assisted Mass Audubon in collecting exciting and important data about salt marshes to improve protection efforts.

But they are raising concerns about air pollution from Sarajevo to New Delhi and supplying data to research efforts.

In the long - term, this effort may expand to include collecting data from across these surveys to draw conclusions about public engagement with science more broadly.

Read about how attempts by postdocs to gather data at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), sparked survey efforts at several other universities, including the University of Cincinnati and UC Berkeley.

The findings also underscore how critical sharing data and knowledge about the effectiveness of various interventions will be to coordinated policy efforts among researchers, practitioners, and policymakers

... And this PMI cohort effort is really about developing a data sharing platform.

Outside of universities, sharing data is key because there are many efforts to include community - based monitoring groups to help inform decisions and policies about the environment.

«NIH expects to spend $ 240 million over the first 5 years of the initiative» to fund programs for minority students, and a program to evaluate the efforts and obtain rigorous data about what does and doesn't work.

«The grant will fund setting up infrastructure [for efforts to] connect groups and junior scientists around the country with our group and each other; helping local groups organize meetings and workshops by providing full - time logistical support; and beginning to look through the data that exists about the scientific enterprise [so that] we can... advocate for change,» McDowell tells Science Careers by email.

Muotri noted that the research represents one of the first efforts to use iPSCs and brain in - a-dish technology to generate novel insights about a disease process and not simply replicate data from other models.

Citizen scientists are encouraged to contribute data about where turtles are most endangered by roadways and learn more about proactive efforts to protect turtles and other wildlife in Massachusetts.

«When we get really excited about a field, one of the big, major investments and efforts that everybody has to get behind is getting the data that we need,» he says.

«Just one day after oil - friendly state governments complain about efforts to collect methane pollution data, out pops this cancellation,» she said.

My data mining efforts already have had four different impacts: First, Program Managers receive quantitative feedback about whether they have funded the best scientists, or if they may have overlooked some of the best scientists.

A collaborative group including the CRI Cancer Immunotherapy Consortium (CIC), the Association for Cancer Immunotherapy (CIMT) Immunoguiding Program (CIP), and scientists at Stanford University launch the Minimal Information About T cell Assays (MIATA) Project, the first systematic effort to establish a framework for reporting immune monitoring data from T cell assays used in clinical trials, with the goal of fostering reliability of data to facilitate meaningful interpretation, comparison, and meta - analysis across clinical trials.

With so many stories in the media about rising C - section rates and efforts to reduce them, it's hard to keep track of what all of the data mean.

Data systems, which are ways of collecting and tracking information about school, student, and teacher performance, are key elements in driving the Obama administration's reform effort.

Participants in this continent - wide effort submit data about the location of nests as well as information such as the type of species and number of eggs or fledglings.

It's a data - informed effort to spur discussion about how scholars add value and which ones are doing so.

Our guests talked about efforts to bridge those gaps and provide teachers with the data they need to raise student achievement.

Researchers followed the children until the end of Year 1 and are currently analysing that data in an effort to understand more about writing fluency and quality in the early years.

Written as a history of American debates over teaching, Goldstein's book insists that our efforts to make teaching more scientific or to control it through increasingly elaborate data systems tell us more about ourselves than they do about teaching.

Recent efforts include providing a data system to counselors to track students» progress in completing college applications and administering a senior exit survey asking about students» postsecondary plans.

The Higher Education Act (HEA) can support state efforts to prepare their educators to use data in support of student learning, to provide meaningful information about teacher outcomes back to the program that trained them, and to enable data systems that provide educators, families, and policymakers the information they deserve while reducing burden on states.

It's a data - informed effort to spur discussion about which scholars are doing something that's important but too often overlooked.

«In response to some questions the Turnaround Office has received about the data dashboard section (first worksheet) of the AD Implementation Tracker, I wanted to share some additional information with you to assist you in your efforts to complete this portion.

This descriptive, mixed methods study uses survey data from turnaround leaders in all 50 states and in - depth interviews with eight intentionally selected state leaders to launch a discussion about how states support district turnaround efforts.

School districts also are under increasing pressure to gather data about teacher performance as part of a related effort to address teacher tenure and in some cases are tied to decisions about pay increments.

It's about creating conditions where all staff, especially teachers, can rapidly increase their effectiveness through meaningful professional learning aligned with improvement efforts, receive actionable feedback based on data, and take advantage of increased time for collaboration and instructional coaching.

As the principal investigator for the evaluation of the federal Center on School Turnaround, Scott has collected data about school improvement efforts nationwide.