Sentences with phrase «efforts over recent decades»

So while «efforts over recent decades to recruit more minority teachers and place them in schools serving disadvantaged and minority students have been very successful,» the report states, «there continues to be a persistent racial - ethnic parity gap between the percentage of minority students and the percentage of minority teachers in the U.S. school system.»

The researchers found that, «despite large environmental change and management efforts over recent decades, water quality of lakes in the Midwest and Northeast U.S. has not overwhelmingly degraded or improved.»

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Besides the 2013 University of Washington study, a number of other recent studies have found education ineffective in improving self - reporting by athletes, adding to a growing body of evidence challenging the conventional wisdom that inadequate athlete concussion knowledge is the principal barrier to increased reporting, and suggesting that one of the best ways to combat underreporting by athletes of concussion symptoms may be to shift the focus of educational efforts towards helping coaches facilitate concussion reporting, the theory being that athletes will be more likely to report concussion symptoms if they no longer think that they will be punished by the coach for reporting, such as by losing playing time or their starting position, perceived by their teammates as letting them down, or viewed by their coach as «weak,» all of which have been documented in numerous studies over the past decade as reasons athletes are reluctant to report concussion symptoms.

However, despite the considerable effort and resources allocated to this priority over recent decades, there is little evidence that gaps have been reduced.