Sentences with phrase «early impact of the program»

This study, conducted by researchers in the Harvard Medical School Department of Health Care Policy, is the first to measure the early impact of the program on the experiences of patients enrolled in ACOs.

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By expanding the focus of the SBIC program, the initiative encouraged investors to look at early stage companies and impact investing.

In early July, the country's tourism secretary, Enrique de la Madrid, announced the government would implement a trial security program in Los Cabos, Cancun, and Acapulco that month, because those areas «are the destinations that concern us most at the moment because of the impact they have on [Mexico's] image abroad.»

Though earlier torpedoes would be programmed to detonate upon impacting or nearing the hull of an enemy vessel, the Mark 48 takes a different path... literally.

The projects goals are to: 1) reduce the number of children expelled from early care and education settings due to behavioral issues, 2) increase understanding of social and emotional development and its impact on educational success, and 3) link and bridge systems and services on behalf of a child, family, and program.

The organization's website provides free downloadable research reports on such topics as the economic benefits of high - quality early childhood programs and the impact of the recession on employers.

A number of model programs were unable to document program impacts on parenting and home environment factors that are predictive of children's early learning and development through control group designs.

Meta - analyses of this expanded research base confirm the model's impacts on a range of risk and protective factors associated with child maltreatment.7, 8,9 In addition, all of the major home visitation models in the U.S. are currently engaged in a variety of research activities, many of which are resulting in better defined models and more rigorous attention to the key issue of participant enrolment and retention, staff training and quality assurance standards.10 For example, recent findings emerging from the initial two - year follow - up of the Early Head Start National Demonstration Project confirm the efficacy of home visitation programs with new parents.

Findings from the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, a rigorous Congressionally - mandated study, indicate that the program had modest but positive impacts on EHS children at age three in cognitive, language, and social - emotional development, compared to a control group.xxiii In addition, their parents scored higher than control group parents on such aspects of the home environment as parenting behavior and knowledge of infant - toddler development.

Most evaluations of early education programs show that such programs improve children's school readiness, specifically their pre-academic skills, although the distribution of impact estimates is extremely wide, and gains on achievement tests typically fade over time.

The Senate's budget, quietly released early on Saturday morning, keeps Cuomo's proposals to remove $ 485 million in funding for the City University of New York and to shift the growth of New York City's Medicaid program back to the city government, which will have a $ 180 million impact in the coming fiscal year and will increase in future years.

«Our study shows that the early stress of separation from a biological parent impacts long - term programming of genome function; this might explain why adopted children may be particularly vulnerable to harsh parenting in terms of their physical and mental health,» said Szyf's co-author, psychologist Elena Grigorenko of the Child Study Center at Yale.

The results come from the California Well - Being Survey, which assessed the impact of mental health prevention and early intervention programs on individuals who are experiencing psychological distress.

The program follows children from birth with the aim of preventing common problems in the early years and understanding their impact on health and disease later in life.

«Scientific evidence on the impacts of early childhood education has progressed well beyond exclusive reliance on the evaluations of the Perry Preschool and Abecedarian programs,» says Yoshikawa, the Courtney Sale Ross University Professor in NYU Steinhardt's Department of Applied Psychology and lead author of the brief.

• Large - scale public preschool programs that are of high quality can have a substantial impact on children's early learning.

The scientific goal of the Developmental Cancer Therapeutics Program is to discover and characterize unique agents and pathways that will impact the development of more effective cancer therapies and to translate these discoveries into clinical applications by using proof - of - principle, early phase clinical and correlative science studies.

Explore key learnings from the science of child development to improve the quality of early education, shape the ongoing work of program leaders, and recognize how relationships impact early learning.

The aging of the nation's teacher workforce underscores the importance of studying the impact of early retirement incentive programs on student learning.

The National Forum on Early Childhood Policy and Programs was established to complement the Council's work by attempting to answer questions about the impacts of investments in early childhood servEarly Childhood Policy and Programs was established to complement the Council's work by attempting to answer questions about the impacts of investments in early childhood servearly childhood services.

The need we are addressing is the absence of an active R&D platform in the early childhood field (particularly in the first three years after birth) to confront the longstanding over-reliance on «evidence - based» programs that produce statistically significant but small magnitude impacts rather than a balanced agenda that includes the design and testing of innovative strategies that are aiming for substantially larger impacts at scale.

Last week, I argued that Hitt, McShane, and Wolf erred in including programs in their review of «school choice» studies that were only incidentally related to school choice or that have idiosyncratic designs that would lead one to expect a mismatch between test score gains and long - term impacts (early college high schools, selective enrollment high schools, and career and technical education initiatives).

There are a panoply of «jobs» we might «hire» a pre-K program to perform for families: the job of providing dependable custodial services for working parents; the job of preparing students for elementary school by focusing on high impact areas like early vocabulary exposure; the job of keeping young children healthy during their early years of development.

DB: If we are to believe the repeatedly negative evaluations of Head Start, Early Head Start, and Even Start, these programs have unacceptably small impacts to justify their cost.

Cascio's study sheds light on the likely consequences of any new universal program by estimating the impact of earlier state interventions to introduce kindergarten into public schools.

The early childhood research community, to its credit, has begun to come to grips with the mixed signals about longer term benefits that are being sent by the totality of the modern research literature on the impact of pre-K programs.

Most research on the impact of early - childhood programs has focused on structural measures of quality, such as the teacher's educational level or staff ratios, or on the effects of classroom quality, broadly construed.

DB: However one interprets the evaluations of demonstration projects like the Perry Preschool and Abecedarian, the unavoidable conclusion is that the measured impacts of three national programs that seek to implement their approach — Head Start, Early Head Start, and Even Start — have been tragically «disappointing,» the word used by most objective observers.

Specifically, we propose to use data from the National Center for Research on Early Childhood Education Professional Development Study (NCRECE PDS), which is a randomized controlled trial funded by IES to assess the independent impacts of a 14 - week professional development course and a year - long coaching program in 9 U.S. cities from 2008 - 2011.

This report examines the program's implementation and the impacts in 2012 - 2013, the second year of operation, on early reading skills.

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.

A report released in November 2003, The Impact of PLATO Learning Technology, Inc., praised the school and staff members for their technology application and student gains early in the course of the program.

Priscilla Little, associate director of the Harvard Family Research Project (HFRP) at HGSE, was one of four witnesses invited to testify at the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education hearing, After School Programs: How the Bush Administration's Budget Impacts Children and Families, for the U. S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor on March 11.

Not one of the studies that has suggested long - term positive impacts of center - based early childhood programs has been based on a well - implemented and appropriately analyzed randomized trial, and nearly all have serious limitations in external validity.

For example, one study on the impact of program - family partnerships for Early Head Start showed program families were more likely to support their children's development and literacy skills than families not in the program.Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., and Center for Children and Families at Teachers College, Columbia University, Building Their Futures: How Early Head Start Programs Are Enhancing the Lives of Infants and Toddlers in Low - Income Families, 2001.

This report includes a review of current research on the impact and prevalence of suspension and expulsion in early childhood programs and a summary of key federal and national policy on suspension and expulsion in early childhood programs.

This policy brief from the Education Commission of the States defines early college high schools, clarifies how they differ from traditional dual enrollment programs, and provides recent research on the positive impact of early college high school participation on academic outcomes for traditionally underserved students.

In the last two years, Emerald Elementary School has continued to participate in a variety of innovations that have had a direct or indirect impact on its early reading program.

National Assessment of Title I: Interim Report to Congress (2006) provides preliminary findings from the congressionally mandated National Assessment of Title I. Volume I contains findings on the implementation of the Title I program under the No Child Left Behind Act, and Volume II presents early findings from Closing the Reading Gap, an evaluation of the impact of supplemental remedial reading programs on achievement of 3rd and 5th grade students.

Because EHS - CCP is in its early stages, the extent of the program's impact is not yet known.

Impact of North Carolina's Early Childhood Programs and Policies on Educational Outcomes in Elementary School.

Now that we know that the preschool programs that are part of DPP are doing well as a group, it's time to take a closer look at which ones are having the largest impact on student learning in early elementary grades.

In July, 2016, the Harvard Graduate School of Education launched the Saul Zaentz Early Education Initiative to pursue interlocking strategies for impact: conducting research to drive policy and practice, designing and spreading high - quality professional learning, and pioneering a fellows» program to build a pipeline of new early education leaEarly Education Initiative to pursue interlocking strategies for impact: conducting research to drive policy and practice, designing and spreading high - quality professional learning, and pioneering a fellows» program to build a pipeline of new early education leaearly education leaders.

Presenters: Marci Young, Vice President U.S. Network Impact, United Way Worldwide; William Carpluk, Manager, Alliance Engagement, America's Promise Alliance; Serah S. Fatani, Director of Program Evaluation & Assessment, Office of Early Childhood Education, Chicago Public Schools; Leslie McKinily, Director of Preschool Programs, Chicago Public Schools; Bobbi MacDonald, Executive Director, City Neighbors Foundation; Kate Seidl, Reading Specialist & Librarian, City Neighbors Charter School; and from Attendance Works, Hedy Chang, Director; and Cecelia Leong, Associate Director.

Even the best pre-K programs» positive impacts fade away in a couple of years, and some early - childhood programs actually leave children worse off than if they hadn't participated at all.

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.

CEI is particularly pleased that we have this «early opportunity» to implement Heart Centered Learning and use our visionary planning process with a school that is already so attuned to the impact of trauma and the need to provide holistic educational programs that support children's mental and emotional health.

Three well - known longitudinal studies were among the first to establish the long - term and far - reaching impacts of early childhood education: the HighScope Perry Preschool Project; the Chicago Child - Parent Centers, or CPC, program; and the Carolina Abecedarian Preschool program.

Impact of North Carolina's Early Childhood Programs and Policies on Educational Outcomes in Elementary School presents findings from an evaluation of North Carolina's Smart Start and More at Four early childhood progEarly Childhood Programs and Policies on Educational Outcomes in Elementary School presents findings from an evaluation of North Carolina's Smart Start and More at Four early childhood pPrograms and Policies on Educational Outcomes in Elementary School presents findings from an evaluation of North Carolina's Smart Start and More at Four early childhood progearly childhood programsprograms.

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