Sentences with phrase «first federal study»

New Jersey eighth - graders fared well in math and science in the first federal study to rank the state against competitors abroad — but its performance still trailed behind the top - scoring Asian education systems.

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Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty first commissioned his own study, authored by University of Calgary tax - policy expert Jack Mintz, then in March initiated a public consultation process, by which time talk of a government - run supplemental pension plan, whether regional or national, began to fade.

Now those of you who have studied the process of federal budget making might interject that Uncle Sam doesn't do much in the first place to fund kittens.

First, in 2009 there was an increase in federal tobacco tax.35 The national cigarette tax increased by 158 %, resulting in an immediate reduction in cigarette uptake among US adolescents.35 In our study we found a small but statistically significant increase in quit attempts among US adults, from 39.9 % in 2006 - 07 to 41.4 % in 2010 - 11 (fig 2, top panel).

He says it will be the first comprehensive, independent federal study on fracking.

The Obama administration urged colleges to administer the surveys as its first recommendation for colleges in an April report; the White House intends to pursue federal legislation requiring the studies in 2016.

But the study, by a trio of complex systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, is the first to go beyond ideology to empirically identify such a network of power.

In 1990 Rick Strassman, a psychiatrist at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, got federal clearance to do the first psychedelic studies on humans in nearly two decades.

Lithospheric weak zones with tiny grains have long been suspected to be important to facilitating plate tectonics — but this study explains for the first time how they form, and how «the lithosphere can «remember» these zones of weakness for a geologically long time,» says geophysicist Paul Tackley of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

Their study, the first of its kind to document the relationship between the Internet and hate crimes, sourced data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Federal Communications Commission, the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The study is one of the first to examine whether a child's participation in the federal program benefits mothers and fathers — in particular parents» educational attainment and employment.

A new study, from Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah, shows for the first time that childhood cancer survivors, diagnosed between 1970 and 1986, are more than five times as likely to have been enrolled on a federal social security disability assistance program as compared to individuals without a cancer history.

It is the first study to be published from a five - year federal grant to study the impacts of the expansion of Medicaid in Oregon on the health of women of reproductive age and their children up to age 2.

The study, which analyzed 210 lawsuits involving First Amendment claims by professors and college instructors against public colleges and universities from 1964 - 2014, found that educational institutions won more than 73 percent of cases in federal and state courts.

UC announced yesterday that it is the first research institution to seek to «intervene,» or become a party in the case, in which the government is appealing a lower court's ruling that National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding to study human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) violates federal law.

The study comes at a time when the U.S. EPA has submitted a proposal to the Office of Management and Budget to restrict coal ash disposal into the environment and, for the first time, establish federal regulations to govern how the ash is stored and disposed.

Students who are the first generation of their families to attend college lag behind children of college - educated parents in earning bachelor's degrees, according to a federal study.

The $ 6 billion funding for the federal Reading First program has helped more students «crack the code» to identify letters and words, but it has not had an impact on reading comprehension among 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders in participating schools, according to one of the largest and most rigorous studies ever undertaken by the U.S. Department of Education.

Although the federal government, states, school districts, and private foundations already have invested nearly $ 200 million in producing and rewarding National Board - certified teachers, this is the first study assessing whether the National Board has actually succeeded in identifying «expert» or «master» teachers who perform better than their uncertified peers.

Arkansas will be the first state awarded federal money to promote a program that encourages high school students to pursue a more a rigorous course of study.

Two well - known commercial reading programs, which have been adopted by some of the nation's largest school districts and have met the strict requirements for research - based programs under the federal Reading First initiative, failed to earn ratings from the What Works Clearinghouse because they do not have any studies that satisfy the agency's rigorous evidence standards.

When Mr. Obama first moved to phase out the D.C. voucher program in 2009, his Education Department was in possession of a federal study showing that voucher recipients, who number more than 3,300, made gains in reading scores and didn't decline in math.

The third special report, Changing the School Climate is the First Step to Reform in Many Schools with Federal Improvement Grants, examines the positive changes in school climate experienced by six case study schools that received the federal grants in Idaho, Maryland, and MiFederal Improvement Grants, examines the positive changes in school climate experienced by six case study schools that received the federal grants in Idaho, Maryland, and Mifederal grants in Idaho, Maryland, and Michigan.

In 1906 the governor of Massachusetts appointed a commission to study technical education and assigned the chairmanship to Carroll Wright, one of the greatest U.S. labor statisticians of all time, the first Massachusetts commissioner of labor, and the first commissioner of the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.

For the study, we first interviewed three Oregon Department of Education (ODE) officials about expanded learning time through statewide federal grant programs.

After analyzing federal income tax records for millions of Americans, and studying, for the first time, the direct relationship between a child's earnings and that of their parents, they determined that the chances of a child growing up at the bottom of the national income distribution to ever one day reach the top actually varies greatly by geography.

Always file the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) first, and accept any grants, scholarships, work - study and federal loans offered by your school before taking out a privatFederal Student Aid (FAFSA) first, and accept any grants, scholarships, work - study and federal loans offered by your school before taking out a privatfederal loans offered by your school before taking out a private loan.

The rule is: free money first (scholarships and grants), then earned money (work - study), then borrowed money (federal student loans).

Make sure to pursue scholarships, grants, and work study opportunities first, and once those have been exhausted, look towards federal student loans.

«Mapping Inequalities updates the study of New Deal America, the federal government, housing, and inequality for the twenty - first century.

updates the study of New Deal America, the federal government, housing, and inequality for the twenty - first century.

Fed report: Time to examine purposely cooling planet idea — A.P. Seth Borenstein writes «It's time to study and maybe even test the idea of cooling the Earth by injecting sulfur pollution high in the air to reflect the sun's heat, a first - of - its - kind federal science report said Tuesday.»

«It's time to study and maybe even test the idea of cooling Earth by injecting sulfur pollution high in the air to reflect the sun's heat, a first - of - its - kind federal science report said Tuesday.»

I was and still am gravely concerned about this defunding of NASA's very important climate work (the budget is still being hammered out between the House and Senate), but even when I first wrote about the NASA budget, I wondered to myself if this attack on climate research would be limited to just NASA, given that those other federal agencies study climate as well.

Love Canal remains a seminal study in environmental chemistry, the first declared Federal Disaster Area due to man - made causes, and as the event that started the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Superfund program for identifying and cleaning up industrial waste sites.

List all financial support you have received related to your research, including, but not limited to, all private, state, and federal assistance, grants, contracts (including subgrants or subcontracts), or other financial awards or honoraria... [and](1) the location of all data archives relating to each published study for which you were an author or co-author, (2) such supporting documentation as computer source code, validation information, and other ancillary information, (3) when this information was available to researchers, (4) where and when you first identified the location of this information, (5) what modifications, if any, you have made to this information since publication of the respective study, and (6) narrative description of the steps... to replicate your study results...

First off, as I tell every US attorney when I'm dealing with them in a federal case where I have no defenses, that if slavery was legal I would still advise people how to help escaped slaves remain free because I think it's our moral imperative that we do things that are moral, and I think that prohibiting people from using medication which we know works — which we would have more peer view journal studies showing that it worked — if the federal government didn't make doing the studies so difficult.

First, for an impressive descriptive study of judicial disqualification appeals from 1980 to 2007, see Sande L. Buhai, Federal Judicial Disqualification: A Behavioral and Quantitative Analysis, 90 Or.

Such local requirements are widespread in litigation practice, 86 and their overlap with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure makes them approachable to first - year law students studying civil procedure.

First, a larger observational study using a similar model may help further clarify whether readability plays a different role in federal and state courts.

A new report urges the federal government to implement the recommendations in the 58 studies that have been done into ending violence against First Nations women and girls.

They elaborate that thesis in a number of studies and their briefs to the committees by saying that it is necessary to create the conditions under which a First Nations community can become genuinely autonomous, at least vis - à - vis the federal or provincial governments as a pre-condition of economic development programs.