Sentences with phrase «educational spending on»

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The Advisory Board Co., a consulting firm that advises medical and educational institutions on a variety of issues — including their health care spending — had completed a survey of 80 hospital members.

And if you have kids and find yourself spending a lot on kids» books, movies, TV shows, or educational apps and games put - together, Prime members can pay $ 2.99 per month for a single child or $ 6.99 for a family of four kids for FreeTime Unlimited, which gives members unlimited access to 13,000 options.

Still, Heinze says she was a bit anxious about putting in an offer and closing on the property because other than her educational costs, this was the most she's ever spent.

A cultural barrier that Mattel and Alibaba will need to overcome is that when parents do have extra money to spend on their kids, they prefer to put it toward educational pursuits.

The report also says that would lift labor participation, and more government spending on early childhood and college education «would raise the educational attainment of workers.»

When the state cut back educational and health spending in order to minimize taxes, ostensibly to attract business, global companies pulled out on...

After leaving the workforce to focus on her family, Gail spent many years working with s local, not - for - profit organizations in the medical and educational fields.

David Swensen in pioneering portfolio management writes with practical experience (at Yale) on managing withdrawals for a charitable educational endowment, a typical target spending rate is 4.5 % pa.

It is virtually axiomatic in higher education circles that the more money spent on the educational enterprise the better the results.

Spend some time on the Pew Center for Religion in Public Life website (religions (dot) pewforum (dot) org for a very detailed look at the relationships between religion and many factors in American life, including educational attainment and degree of religiosity.

There I spent a number of years working in Exhibit Design developing interactive educational activities for permanent and traveling exhibitions before I moved on to Imagine Childhood.

Therefore most parents spend a lot of money on educational books of their children.

While counselors might have to spend a lot of time focusing on individual education plans, testing, and other educational issues, school personnel should also be available to talk with children about emotional issues that affect their performance and demeanor at school.

We should be shouting and screaming for some of the money that goes into advertising formula (in the UK, formula companies spend about # 20 per baby on «educational material», while the NHS spends roughly 14p per baby on «marketing» breastfeeding) to go into supporting breastfeeding for those who want to, and so that those who wish they could have, or could have for longer can be supported next time too.

In the UK, formula companies spend about # 20 per baby on «educational material», while the NHS spends roughly 14p per baby on «marketing» breastfeeding.

As for the cap on property taxes, she said it prevented school districts from increasing spending on needed educational initiatives.

Originally from the US, Hamilton spent years in Britain as a Shakespearian academic, completing his PhD and setting up various conferences, as well as giving lectures and working on educational podcasts.

It is a much deserved recognition of its immense contribution to the fight for free and fair trade unions and to securing quality education for children and young people in Bahrain «This award will help to maintain the pressure on the Bahraini authorities to end their completely unjustified detention of Mahdi, who has spent the last four years in prison on false charges for simply exercising his right to freedom of assembly and demanding reforms to Bahrain's educational system.»

«Cynthia Nixon is a lifelong progressive who has spent years working on educational equity.

A «Smart Schools Commission» will advise school districts on best funding targets for various educational technology needs, and districts will spend their money with competitive bidding.

I worry that we Americans are spending too much time watching sports and entertainment - and too little time on educational achievement.

«Fishing in a local lake is also an educational opportunity to passing on the fishing skills to their children or grandchildren while spending precious time together.

Because children spend much of their time in school, educational institutions can have a significant impact on diet through the foods and drinks they make available to students.

More than 40 per cent of workers in the US use a computer in their work, but they have to learn their computing skills outside formal education — only 0.2 per cent of public educational resources is spent on computers.

Participants spend days on full - time digs, and at night there are educational programs, including lectures by paleontologists and geologists at a local ranch.

Research conducted in Nantucket, Massachusetts suggests that educational interventions can lower the incidence of Lyme disease between 20 % and 60 % depending on the length of time people spend outdoors in areas where ticks are active.

Research shows the younger a child begins spending time in front of the screen, the lower they score on language tests, despite being taught language on educational videos or television.

Having practiced adult medicine for over 30 years with the last 5 focusing on adding nutrition and exercise prescriptions to my practice and spending the last 4 years giving educational talks to physicians and lay persons I have come to the belief that a properly done whole foods plant based diet with supplemental B12 is the best diet to avoid many of the chronic diseases afflicting us.»

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I totally agree with your teacher statement My husband is a preschool teacher and spends more time on creating fun and educational activities for the kids than most.

In addition, New Hampshire's scholarship tax - credit law includes an ESA - style provision that allows homeschoolers to spend scholarship funds on a variety of educational products and services similar to those permitted by the Arizona and Florida ESA laws.

The educational experience at Ben Shemen was grounded in the soil; students had to spend two hours each day working on the collective farm.

With schools spending an estimated # 900m on education technology every year, [1] and computer programming featured in the National Curriculum, technology is now a fully fledged part of a child's educational experience.

Taking into account the relationship between predicted and actual spending increases, we find that increasing per - pupil spending by 10 percent in all 12 school - age years increases educational attainment by 0.3 years on average among all children.

We address this limitation by focusing on the effect of school spending on such long - run outcomes as educational attainment and earnings rather than on test scores.

Education savings account (ESAs) provide parents with most or all of funds the state would have spent on a child's education, allowing parents to pay for public school alternatives, such as tutoring, online courses, private school tuition, or a combination of other educational services.

April 25, 2016 — Education savings account (ESAs) provide parents with most or all of funds the state would have spent on a child's education, allowing parents to pay for public school alternatives, such as tutoring, online courses, private school tuition, or a combination of other educational services.

The research, «Research on funding for young people with special educational needs», found that» spend does not appear to match very closely with current levels of need» or that «the current distribution of the high needs block funding was not sufficiently transparent, objective or fair».

In Spanish we spent weeks watching the «educational» and horrendously acted soap opera La Catrina and more weeks slogging through call - and - response lessons recorded 20 years earlier, on cassette.

We also adjusted the data to account for changes in state spending on education and for parents» educational levels, which provides controls for simultaneous changes in state policies or differences in demographics that might confound the analysis of how accountability systems influenced student achievement.

Thanks to a Guggenheim Fellowship, Associate Professor Meira Levinson (and her family) left in August for Oxford, England, where she'll spend the next year working on a book about educational justice.

Researchers from RAND studying the first year of Vermont's implementation of portfolio assessments for fourth and eighth graders found that the development of portfolios (work was selected by students with input from classroom teachers) had several positive educational outcomes: Students and teachers were more enthusiastic and had a more positive attitude about learning, teachers devoted «substantially more attention» to problem solving and communication (two areas represented by portfolios), students spent more time working in small groups or in pairs, and teachers felt the portfolios afforded them a new perspective on student work.

Lortie - Forgues, Tian and Siegler (2015) repeated the question with students of the same age in 2014 — 27 per cent got it right, leading the researchers to comment: «Thus, after more than three decades, numerous rounds of education reforms, hundreds if not thousands of research studies on mathematics teaching and learning, and billions of dollars spent to effect educational change, little improvement was evident in students» understanding of fraction arithmetic.»

Additionally, the declining rates of births have also led to increased spending on children and on their educational cost.

Schools face pressures to spend their resources on things that are not directly related to tackling educational inequality.

Children younger than 8 are spending triple the time on mobile devices that they did in 2011, with playing games, using educational apps and watching videos among their most popular activities, the study reports.

Unless there are unlimited funds to spend on educational programs, it would not make sense to put the money into all the programs without regard to cost.

ESSA wisely eliminates cost - by - cost testing for SNS, a practice which discouraged schools from spending Title I funds on comprehensive services and perversely encouraged spending on add - ons (like pulling students out of academic classes to work with paraprofessionals) that met compliance standards but were not necessarily helpful in improving educational outcomes for low - income students.

For example, online programs could spend relatively little on content, relying primarily on their teachers to adapt free and open educational resources.

As Luton Sixth Form College demonstrates, with the right tools, educational institutions can ensure the time spent by the IT staff is on continual improvement and innovation, rather than crisis management.