Sentences with phrase «evaluation efforts of»

For the past 16 years, Julie has designed and supported the evaluation efforts of community, state, and tribal intervention programs.

Having been involved in many evaluation efforts of federally funded programs, including Early Head Start, Head Start, and the National Evaluation of Home Visiting, Brooks - Gunn knows that any new program put in place, whether it is universal prekindergarten or something else, needs evaluation.

A new evaluation effort of school voucher participants» academic outcomes is underway by independent researchers.

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An awareness of this requirement resulted in a program for the «Decade of Spiritual Renewal of the Nation,» open letters by Cardinal Tomasek, and the effort at a new and more positive evaluation of Jan Hus.

It is important for a group to concentrate its efforts on one project at a time, to have frequent evaluation sessions on the progress of the project, and to draw in such resource people as may contribute to achieving the goal of the project.

These orientations require spirituality of the leaders and of the groups to be self - critical, respectful of others efforts, and mutually supportive in campaigns, along with common evaluation of efforts.

Although many have given up the effort to understand him, and others have rejected his whole enterprise, most of those who have worked through his philosophy with care recognize its excellence by all the standards normal for the evaluation of a philosophy.

We are waiting with baited breath for your knock off of KIND granola; haven't tried it yet, but based on your evaluation, I'll buy it and hope you develop your recipe soon: — RRB - Thanks for all your great efforts.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) Nov. 22, 2016 — The Alliance for a Healthier Generation and America's beverage companies today issued the first annual independent evaluation of the Balance Calories Initiative, a landmark effort to decrease beverage calories in the American diet.

«Outcomes will include a collaborative culture in the program, effective reporting, evaluation, support and rigorous monitoring of scientific effort to promote high quality targeted research to meet the objectives of the program,» the tender document says.

The Alliance for a Healthier Generation and America's beverage companies today issued the first annual independent evaluation of the Balance Calories Initiative, a landmark effort to decrease beverage calories in the American diet.

Trevena H, Petersen K, Thow AM, Dunford EK, Wu JHY, Neal B. Effects of an Advocacy Trial on Food Industry Salt Reduction Efforts — An Interim Process Evaluation.

«Effects of an Advocacy Trial on Food Industry Salt Reduction Efforts — An Interim Process Evaluation.»

Trevena, H.; Petersen, K.; Thow, A.M.; Dunford, E.K.; Wu, J.H.Y.; Neal, B. Effects of an Advocacy Trial on Food Industry Salt Reduction Efforts — An Interim Process Evaluation.

A 2014 study (1), however, found that, despite the 2010 endorsement of 6 national medical societies of a single PPE form as part of an effort to standardize the screening process, and nearly unanimous public support for PPE screening by a qualified health care professional before participation in a consistent manner across the country, the medical community is still largely unaware of national sports preparticipation physical evaluation guidelines and only 11 % of athletes at US high schools are guaranteed to receive a PPE fully consistent with the national standard.

Hence the effort to resist coroner's investigations by claiming that the a baby who dies during homebirth is not a person and therefore its death is not worthy of evaluation

If these efforts still don't improve the amount and quality of sleep your child gets (if he wakes up constantly and doesn't get continuous sleep for the recommended hours for his age), call your doctor and make an appointment for a check and possible evaluation with a pediatric sleep specialist.

The American College of Nurse - Midwives and the North American Registry of Midwives recommend that midwives should at minimum meet the standards of midwifery established by the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM), which include completion of a formal midwifery education program, national certification, and licensure in the local jurisdiction of practice.32, 33 Certified professional midwives (CPMs) may achieve certification through apprenticeship and portfolio evaluation without obtaining a formal midwifery degree; within CPM professional organizations efforts are under way to uniformly adopt ICM standards.33, 34 Oregon has followed this trend; in 2015 licensure became mandatory for attendants at out - of - hospital births.

MIECHV has launched an array of efforts to strengthen and facilitate states» efforts in tracking benchmark data, strengthening evaluation efforts, developing data systems, and implementing quality assurance systems.

In FY11 the contractor has been funded to provide individualized, grantee - specific guidance around research and evaluation topics; begin analyzing and synthesizing challenges faced by grantees around research and evaluation; develop comprehensive, user - friendly synthesis of guidance for tribal grantees; and work with grantees on efforts to disseminate and share the knowledge they are building regarding effective home visiting in tribal communities.

The Concussion Center offers concussion evaluations and management through a collaborative team effort made up of Primary Care Sports Medicine physicians, neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuropsychologists, certified athletic trainers, vestibular therapists, radiologists, neuro - ophthalmologists, and researchers, all dedicated to patient recovery.

A recent study in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology found, «extreme efforts to control weight coupled with the undue influence of weight or shape on self - evaluation,» was a strong indicator of those with purging disorder.

He also praised state leaders for rejecting efforts to block public disclosure of teacher evaluations.

The opt - out effort this year has united different political strains: Republicans and conservatives are skeptical of Common Core as it pertains to a loss of local control for school districts, while the state's teachers union is encouraging the movement as well over concerns of how the results will impact performance evaluations.

The AG's report further suggests the Troy police department should overhaul its investigative approach to officer - involved shootings; abstain from prejudging (and publicly announcing) the results of an investigation before it has been completed; make broad efforts to identify and promptly speak with all civilian witnesses; and properly train investiagtors in the evaluation of evidence, as well as reaching out to outside experts when questions arise.

Today marks the third day of StudentsFirstNY's effort to stress the urgency of a deal on a new evaluation system for New York City public school teachers.

Today marks the fourth day of StudentsFirstNY's effort to stress the urgency of a deal on a new evaluation system for New York City public school teachers.

Today marks the fifth day of StudentsFirstNY's effort to stress the urgency of a deal on a new evaluation system for New York City public school teachers.

In an effort to jumpstart all - but - stalled negotiations on a new evaluation system for New York City public school teachers, StudentsFirstNY today launched a «10 Days of $ 300 Million» campaign to highlight the negative impact of losing these funds.

Today marks the second day of StudentsFirstNY's effort to jumpstart all - but - stalled negotiations on a new evaluation system for New York City.

GR: What do you think about this effort on the part of some activist parents to get parents to hold their kids out of school during the standardized tests that are part of the school evaluations and the teacher evaluations that are a part of the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act.

Some, however, voiced skepticism that the state's recent efforts to soften the effects of the teacher - evaluation law and related legislation would be sufficient to stem the opt - out movement.

Cuomo noted the effort to create an objective evaluation system that could be used to improve faculty and schools statewide as well as for layoffs is being watched closely by unions representing other types of workers.

Mayor Bloomberg in his State of the City address on Jan. 12 proposed merit pay for teachers, vowed to step up efforts to remove ineffective teachers, blamed the union for the breakdown of negotiations over a teacher evaluation system in 33 restart and transformation schools and announced that he would open 50 new charter schools in the next two years.

In recent decades, policymakers, research organizations, and funders of science have made efforts to increase the participation of women in science teams, leadership roles, and evaluation panels.

Meanwhile, an independent evaluation of the red wolf program released in November 2014 by the Wildlife Management Institute (WMI) questioned whether the conservation effort can succeed.

Longer follow - up will reveal the durability of these results, the authors said, and may support the evaluation of a first - line approach with ibrutinib and CAR therapy in an effort to remove the need for chronic therapy.

Among other things, the proposal — which will have to be approved by Parliament — calls for increased consultation with Canada's indigenous groups, expanding reviews to include social, economic and climate impacts, and making greater efforts to explain the kinds of information regulators are using in evaluations.

The study, «Informing Lake Erie Agriculture Nutrient Management Via Scenario Evaluation,» was a collaborative effort between the University of Michigan as the lead, The Nature Conservancy, Heidelberg University, LimnoTech, Texas A&M and Ohio State.

«If your future success depends on some evaluation, you're jolly well going to put some effort into presenting the best side of yourself,» he says.

Increasing the percentage of children with ASD who undergo comprehensive evaluation before 36 months is a major part of efforts to improve recognition and management of these disorders.

This paper explores three case studies of monitoring and evaluation efforts by three human rights non-governmental organizations (NGOs): Amnesty International, The International Commission of Jurists, and Crisis Action.

But the U.K. Met Office (national weather service), the U.S.'s National Center for Atmospheric Research and other partners around the globe aim to change that in the future by developing regular assessments — much like present evaluations of global average temperatures along with building from the U.K. flooding risk modeling efforts — to determine how much a given season's extreme weather could be attributed to human influence.

Last year, an evaluation of a decadelong $ 250 million program funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to improve the skills of some 70,000 science and math teachers in 31 states concluded that such efforts could make a difference — if they were done well, with high - quality materials, supported by policies, and sustained over many years.

'' [R] emoval of the current barriers to firearm - related research, policy formation, evaluation and enforcement efforts.»

A new evaluation of a statewide shaken baby prevention effort found that the number of calls to a nurse advice line from North Carolina parents who called because of a crying baby were reduced in the first 2 years after the intervention was implemented in 2007.

In what the researchers believe is the first effort of its kind to do that evaluation for ambulance versus private vehicle transportation, they elected to analyze the relationship between transport mode and in - hospital mortality (death in the emergency department and prior to discharge) on a city - by - city, trauma system level.

William Ruckelshaus, the first EPA administrator, criticizes today's GOP attacks on the agency as well as industry efforts to thwart scientific evaluations of toxic chemicals

«Currently, there is a large effort underway to create systems that enable evaluation of organ - to - organ interaction in the context of drug efficacy and toxicity.