Sentences with phrase «dramatic intervention in»

New research on work done by the Bloomberg administration to improve New York City schools indicates that abandoning calls for dramatic intervention in persistently struggling schools would be a stain on the education legacy of any President and would do unjustifiable harm to millions of American youth growing up in poverty.

In a dramatic intervention in the middle of the week that raised the pulse of the conference, the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Vivian Wineman, wrote to Cameron raising questions about whether the Tories had checked out Kaminski's CV before appointing him to head the ECR — around which the Tories» entire European policy now revolves.

News Corp's planned takeover of the broadcaster BSkyB hit a major stumbling block today, as Vince Cable made a dramatic intervention in the case.

Tony Blair is set to make a dramatic intervention in the campaign for Britain to remain in the European Union — alongside Bill Clinton.

Not exact matches

«If not for the dramatic intervention of the FBI director in the final days,» she said of Comey's October surprise letter reintroducing the email investigation, «we would have won the White House.»

But he also thought of himself as the Suffering Servant of God, a Messiah who would conquer not by political power, as many of his contemporaries hoped, or by dramatic and spectacular intervention, as the apocalyptists expected, but by the long, slow process of winning men to faith in God and to the love of God and one another.

I've listened as a whole group of twenty - somethings exchanged stories of awkward interventions and emotional meltdowns and dramatic lines - in - the - sand, all over differences of opinion regarding theology or politics or ecclesiology.

They discovered that 30 percent of the members think of God's intervention in their lives as only occasional but dramatic.

But apart from the window slamming shut we get all the final day drama with all the usual jargon, last minute dramatic swoops, pictures of helicopters that may or may not contain David Luiz, phones buzzing, alleged sightings at motorway service stations or petrol stations anywhere, Ronaldo or Messi shopping at the Westfield shopping centre, Valencia in the back of a cab in Swansea or Liverpool (or putting his feet up in Ecuador), everyone with their sources, players spotted at training grounds, Jack Wilshere driving his car to Bournemouth, last minute intervention by Daniel Levy who suddenly decides he wants Sissoko, and descriptions of transfers or done deals or rumours using words like amazing, dramatic, sensational, shocking, exciting, impressive or incredible.

The rise in fortification interventions since the establishment of the Scaling Up Nutrition and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) has been dramatic — and has given the ultra-processed food corporations a big boost.

In a dramatic intervention, the former deputy prime minister advocates mass political «infiltration» for change

Deputy leader Mr Watson will meet with Mr Corbyn tomorrow, but his dramatic intervention - in which he warned that Labour «must be ready to form a government» - suggests he is ready to throw his lot in with the rebels.

«Clearly there is little consensus about the appropriate policy for treating infants born at low gestational ages, and yet hospital practices regarding the initiation of active intervention have a dramatic influence on rates of survival and survival without impairment,» wrote Neil Marlow, D.M., University College London, in an NEJM editorial that accompanied the research paper.

That is also why you see dramatic results in yeast, fly, rodent models but there is rarely a much longer lived specie (albeit the reason being it takes many years to follow the results, scientists can't wait an entire life to know if their intervention lengthens the lifespan of a long - lived specie or not.

But for a pain condition that in most cases resolves itself in less than two months without dramatic intervention, that kind of information isn't particularly helpful.

«However it is possible to speculate that consumption of a low glycaemic index diet late in life still has beneficial health effects and it may extend lifespan, although the effect may not be as dramatic as an intervention earlier in life.

By supporting lifestyle interventions and incentivizing peer - to - peer medicine, they've not only seen a dramatic reduction in medical visits and pharmaceutical use, but also

By supporting lifestyle interventions and incentivizing peer - to - peer medicine, they've not only seen a dramatic reduction in medical visits and pharmaceutical use, but also remissions of so - called chronic conditions throughout their pilot program.

Imagine that all of our reform efforts prove successful, from initiatives to bolster the prenatal health of disadvantaged babies, to high - quality early - childhood experiences, to dramatic improvements in K - 12 education, to serious interventions and supports at the college level.

It refers to schools identified as one of the lowest performers in the state and subject to dramatic interventions, including potential leadership changes.

«Schools have told me consistently that they see a dramatic decrease in peer - to - peer aggressive behavior within three to five weeks of implementing a school - wide behavior rubric, as young people get the message that discipline interventions for aggression will be inevitable, fair, and escalating for all students and in all areas of the school,» says Stan Davis, author of Schools Where Everyone Belongs: Practical Strategies for Reducing Bullying.

Superintendent John White makes the case in The Daily Beast (with Joel Klein) for dramatic intervention — replacing persistently failing schools.

Today in the Daily Beast former NYC Schools Chancellor Joel Klein and Louisiana Superintendent John White make the «urgent moral» case that «the most appropriate response to dramatic failure» for persistently failing schools» is «dramatic intervention.»

In doing so, they posit an entirely different approach than the tweaks exercised by current NYC Mayor Bill de... Continue reading Politics vs. Policy: The «Urgent Moral» Case for Dramatic School Intervention

In these cases, ESE partners with districts to support dramatic school interventions and innovations.

February 2012 — The University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research found that four years after undergoing dramatic reform efforts, including turnarounds, low - performing elementary schools in Chicago closed the achievement gap in test scores by almost half in reading and two - thirds in math compared to similar schools that did not receive intervention.

Are dramatic interventions not needed in these schools?

The energy, the materiality and processes of burning — the manner in which material is changed and destroyed by flames into the residue of dramatic interventions or remnants of celebrations — have long informed artistic practice.

Buren has continued to use stripes of fixed width, alternating between white and colour, in a huge variety of different contexts and media including paper, fabric and flowers to create dramatic and challenging interventions and installations in public spaces and museums around the world, including Les Deux Plateaux in 1986, a huge and controversial installation in the classical courtyard of the Palais - Royal in Paris.

Leading Korean contemporary artist Lee Bul has just unveiled a dramatic intervention on the building of the Palais de Tokyo to coincide with this year's FIAC art fair in Paris.

There is no substitute for dramatic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate the negative consequences of climate change, a National Research Council committee concluded in a two - volume evaluation of proposed climate - intervention techniques.

This is a world where the clock is permanently set at two minutes to midnight, and where only a radical transformation of modern society (usually combining dramatic changes in personal behavior along with a heavy dose of state intervention) can save us.

Mr Weatherill yesterday was still unable to give details of his month - old promise of «dramatic intervention» in the national electricity market.

Lack of responsive, contingent, and sensitive care is one of the most prominent deviations from the expected environment for institutionalized children, and foster care placement in BEIP is associated with dramatic improvements in caregiving quality and attachment security (41, 42), both of which might contribute to the intervention effects on stress response system functioning.

Durie recently outlined the explanations for these disparities and proposed a broad spectrum of interventions to improve the health of indigenous people.1 Within that spectrum, health professionals can have a major role in contributing to dramatic reductions in mortality and morbidity through high quality primary healthcare services for prevention and early treatment.

One powerfully replicated finding across the available literature is that many children who receive early intensive intervention, across methodologies, will not demonstrate dramatic gains in social, cognitive, adaptive, and educational functioning.

It concludes that these programs have short and long term positive consequences for students; in one particularly dramatic finding, «in follow - up assessments an average of 3.5 years after the last intervention, the academic performance of students exposed to SEL programs was an average 13 percentile points higher than their non-SEL peers, based on the eight studies that measured academics.»

Findings in this 48 - month evaluation show that Preparing for Life, a prevention and early intervention program which aims to improve the life outcomes of children and families living in North Dublin, Ireland, has had dramatic impacts on children's IQ, obesity levels and social behavior, as well as parenting skills and the home learning environment.