Sentences with phrase «effective choice program»

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A new study shows that workplace wellness programs can be effective in helping people lose weight by providing healthier food choices and increasing opportunities for physical activity, particularly if these efforts are designed with the input and active participation of employees.

«Nevertheless,» they state, «the model provides a useful perspective on how vaccine properties and strategic choices affect the relative size and severity of projected epidemics,» and conclude that, «a vaccine like the Sanofi - Pasteur candidate can be an effective tool for reducing the dengue burden, although a vaccine with waning efficacy would require a booster program.»

There is no such thing as a bad program if it gets kids to be more effective at making career choices and becoming responsible citizens.

The keys to keeping weight off during the holidays are to maintain an effective exercise program and make balanced meal choices.

So I've got that out of the way... let's find out WHY it's a great choice... what makes it such an effective program, who will get the best results from it and what some of the potential weaknesses of the book might be.

RUSHFIT is solely a workout program, though it does come with a nutrition guide that helps you make the food choices for the most effective workout.

Our digestive systems in our present day and age are way overtaxed and since our mainstream foods of choice are heavily processed and the vast majority of people are consuming them at alarming rates, Juice fasting is a very safe and effective way to get our bodies on track for being more efficient to work as it was programmed.

Remember, the most effective compliance programs don't just aim to tick off a box to prove to regulators and the legal department that people read the policy or could answer twenty multiple choice questions.

Rangel points to UNO's choice of Structured English Language Immersion for its students as being both more effective and financially viable than conventional Bilingual Transition Programs.

Dennis Epple, Professor of Economics at the Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss how states can expand their school choice programs, and whether those programs have been effective.

Commissioner of Education Ruth Randall of Minnesota, a key advocate of Gov. Rudy Perpich's school - choice programs, has resigned her office effective Jan. 5.

In the end, the teacher professionalism agenda has functioned like a black hole, sucking in much of the available energy, attention, and funds and leaving little for other reforms - not just other teacher - related reforms (such as those urged by the Excellence Commission), but also a very different list of changes (technology, choice programs, preschool, new curricula) that might prove more effective and economical as strategies for boosting pupil achievement.

Accountability systems have worked well with other reforms — such as effective choice policies, the expansion of early - childhood - education and other school - readiness programs, and efforts to improve the teaching force through evaluation and tenure reform — to improve education for children around the country.

Evidence indicates that school choice programs can improve the educational and life outcomes of low - income students, but not all programs are equally effective.

Research shows that private - school choice through vouchers or scholarships is one of our nation's most effective dropout - prevention programs for African Americans.

We are focused on making things better — via stronger standards (Common Core), greater parental choice (vouchers, charters, and more), more effective teachers (upgrading preparation programs, devising new evaluation regimens) and lots else.

Further, he notes, «the effects of private - school - choice programs on educational attainment — how far an individual goes in school — are both larger and more consistent than their achievement effects,» with programs narrowly targeted to low - income, urban students proving to be the most effective.

Let's take a step forward and build a system that prepares school leaders well, ensures that they are effective in their work and helps everybody involved make smart choices for their careers, schools, programs and most importantly — students.

The authors examine the current performance of America's K — 12 education system, identify the market share of different types of educational choice options and analyze how effective open enrollment, charters, and educational choice programs are at improving student outcomes.

The proposed expansion of school choice in Wisconsin comes at a time when President Barack Obama and Republicans are promoting charter schools and teacher accountability, while skeptics question whether choice programs have proven to be any more effective than traditional public schools.

The new question in Brooklyn and beyond is whether integrated charter schools can successfully combine the benefits of parent choice with effective, high quality programs that would appeal to families of all backgrounds?

STAND UP AND SPEAK OUT FOR HIGH QUALITY: * Pre - Kindergarten — College Graduation Systems * Real Parent Power through School Governance Councils * School Choice Options * Early Child Education & Afterschool Programs * English Language Learners (ELL) Supports * Children w. Special Needs & School Based Health Care Services * Effective Teacher / Principal Preparation & Evaluation Systems * High School Drop Out Prevention Supports * Children in Foster / Adoptive Care & Alternative Education Services

* Title I — $ 1 billion increase * New private school choice program — $ 250 million (increase since it's new) * Charter schools — $ 168 million increase * Title II A, Supporting Effective Instruction Program — $ 2.4 billion cut * 21st Century Community Learning Centers — $ 1.17 billion cut * Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Program — $ 190 million cut * Impact Aid Payments for Federal Property — $ 66.8 million cut * Teacher Quality Partnership — $ 43.1 millprogram — $ 250 million (increase since it's new) * Charter schools — $ 168 million increase * Title II A, Supporting Effective Instruction Program — $ 2.4 billion cut * 21st Century Community Learning Centers — $ 1.17 billion cut * Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Program — $ 190 million cut * Impact Aid Payments for Federal Property — $ 66.8 million cut * Teacher Quality Partnership — $ 43.1 millProgram — $ 2.4 billion cut * 21st Century Community Learning Centers — $ 1.17 billion cut * Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Program — $ 190 million cut * Impact Aid Payments for Federal Property — $ 66.8 million cut * Teacher Quality Partnership — $ 43.1 millProgram — $ 190 million cut * Impact Aid Payments for Federal Property — $ 66.8 million cut * Teacher Quality Partnership — $ 43.1 million cut

Channing Bete Company brings you the Guiding Good Choices program, a science - based, proven - effective ATOD - prevention program that gives parents the skills they need to ensure the future well - being of their children.

State leaders have created truly effective and organic programs and policies centered on school choice as opposed to setting national goals with little flexibility or sensitivity to specific state needs.

Indeed, at the same time the President's kids were heading off to private school, he was letting die an effective, popular, school - choice program in DC, a program that enabled poor families to make the same kinds of choices the President did.

The authors outline key components of Linked Learning (including core and technical curriculum and instruction, work - based learning, and supplemental support services); essential characteristics of effective Linked Learning programs (such as informed student choice and alignment both to middle grades and to postsecondary); and options for designing Linked Learning in a district (such as deciding on the amount and focus of the pathways).

Targeted school choice programs are inferior to broadbased ones because they do not build the most politically effective constituency for school choice but, because targeted tax credits are self - reinforcing, they are much more likely than targeted vouchers to survive and thrive.

There are many good programs and untold numbers of effective individual teachers and administrators in the traditional schools, as well as millions of parents, teachers, and children happy with that choice.

The CSRQ Center Reports provide scientifically based, consumer - friendly reports on program quality and effectiveness and the guidance needed to use this evidence to make effective, locally defined choices.

Despite being based in Ireland, the publisher hopes to work with authors from across the globe and says that its «editors work with authors on a one - on - one basis to ensure each book presented is of the highest quality... the publisher works side - by - side with authors to develop effective marketing plans and promotional programs, advising on career choices and forward career planning, and assist in setting up the author's overall image.»

The effective program, uFlysoft MP4 Recovery will be the best choice which fits your needs.

He says participants in the program also «emerge as effective educators of pet owners on issues pertaining to lifestyle choices that promote healthy longevity.»

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

A particularly powerful thread, the importance of the Pentagon as a driver of innovation and market for effective energy technology, emerged in an earlier discussion involving three of the top figures in the federal government focused on advancing energy choices that will work for the long haul — Cathy Zoi, assistant secretary of energy for energy efficiency and renewable energy, Arun Majumdar, director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy, and Jeffrey Marqusee, who runs environmental research and development programs for the Department of Defense.

Law firms of choice consistently have the most effective recruiting and retention programs.

• Innovatively developed effective franchisee relationships and kept franchisees informed of Choice programs, trends and market conditions.

Federal policies and programs have long promoted method choice in order to facilitate effective contraceptive use and to fight potential coercion — and they must continue to do so.

Such mindfulness - based programs have now become the method of choice for effective stress management and are having a major effect on how we approach psychotherapy and the management of anxiety and depression.

Effective Head Start programs develop a culture of data - driven decision making, the process of making choices based on appropriate analysis of programmatic information.

Effective family engagement is not a one - time program or the choice of a good school, but rather a set of day - to - day practices, attitudes, beliefs and interactions that support learning at home, at school, afterschool, and during the summer.

«Communities are making the smart choice, investing HUD funds in evidence - based, cost - effective programs.