Sentences with phrase «for recent literature»

For a recent literature review, see Mark Dynarski, «On negative effects of vouchers,» Evidence Speaks Reports 1 (18), Brookings, May 26, 2016.

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The no - holds - barred piece draws on recent research published in Teaching and Teacher Education, as well as older reviews of the scientific literature on so - called digital natives, to review whether the recent mania for tech in education has solid scientific foundations.

«One important policy question on which most economists appear to agree, however, is that there is very little to be said in favour of taxing corporations.1 Many would agree, for example, that the title of a recent paper — «The Corporate Income Tax and How to Get Rid of It» (Vickrey, 1991)-- adequately conveys the main message of the extensive economic literature on this subject.

A rapidly expanding recent literature has explored the statistical support for this orthodox view.

The importance of encounter of person with immediate existence, the accommodation to this place and this time, which is so heavy a theme in recent literature of the American South, is exactly the issue, though reduced in its implications whenever frozen in our accounting for it by a reduction to mere history or geography.

For the analysis of capitalism in Latin America, among the abundant recent literature, I am especially indebted to two books by Theotonio dos Santos, Dependencia económica y camblo revolucionario en América Latina (Caracas: Editorial Nueva Izquierda, 1970), and La crisis norteamericana y América Latina (Buenos Aires: Ediciones Periferia, 1972), and the study by Anibal Quijano, Redefinición de la dependencia y proceso de marginalización en América Latina (mimeographed monograph of the Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, n.d.).

The opening up of the whole subject of feminine spirituality in recent feminist literature, for example, has led to a marked increase in attention to the character and social role of founder Mary Baker Eddy.

Consider, as an example, the controversies surrounding the recent work of Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin on the ethical and jurisprudential implications of pornography: their conclusion is that pornography, by its very existence, makes the exercise of full citizenship an impossibility for women, and that therefore making such literature illegal is not only consistent with, but is properly implied by, the Constitution of the United States.

It has been painful for me to read this recent apocalyptic literature.

In these recent years when Christians have again had to go through «dungeon, fire, and sword» for their faith, the meaning of this apocalyptic (or vision) literature has come alive to many.

Nor is this the first misstep by the Swedish Academy in its recent Nobel selections for literature.

Though promising, the literature on public rhetoric is not what I wish to consider here.4 I wish to focus instead on the possibility of mining recent works in the field of literary criticism for some insights into the structure of religious discourse.

A flow of recent sociological literature on the relative failure of the CEBs as compared to Pentecostal success is instructive reading for all historic Protestants (see Burdick, Hewitt, Teixeira et al...).

A recent review of the literature examined the evidence for and against nipple confusion and concluded: «The relationship between exposure to artificial nipples and pacifiers and the development of the aversive feeding behaviors associated with nipple confusion is neither refuted nor supported in the research literature.»

If you read the scientific and medical literature, the controversy about bed sharing safety primarily concerns babies less than 20 weeks old, and the most recent meta - analysis of published studies found no evidence of increased risk for babies over 3 months of age (Carpenter et al 2013).

Although Ezzo's PDF is not recognized (or even mentioned) in any recent peer - reviewed medical literature, «Babywise» boldly informs new parents that «PDF is a new and major paradigm shift for the [lactation science] industry and not all [lactation] consultants have a working understanding of routine breast - feeding dynamics.»

Indeed, in the most recent systematic review of the literature to date, exclusive breastfeeding is now recommended for ∼ 6 months (WHO, 2001).

It also reviews recent scientific literature on «worst - case» global average sea - level projections and on the potential for rapid ice melt in Greenland and Antarctica.

In their recent review published in Frontiers in Nutrition, Italian researchers examined the available literature for the effects of acute and chronic administration of cocoa flavanols on different cognitive domains.

These articles offer a balanced account of newly emerging or rapidly progressing fields and provide a guide to the most relevant recent literature and prospects for future research.

Several recent reports in the scientific literature and mass media, however, have challenged this concept for reasons of biological function and business feasibility, presenting an important opportunity to re-examine the prospects for human induced pluripotent stem cells in medicine.

Unfortunately I do not have any statistics for Canada and Australia, however recent literature has shown that within the USA alone, the incidence of pelvic floor dysfunction is going to rise from 28.1 million WOMEN in 2010, to 43.8 million in 2050 (1).

The optimal intake level is called a «set point,» and recent literature has shown that set points can be different for everyone.

This includes a recent synthesis of the literature on Implementation in Education (Albers & Pattuwage, 2017), the Implementation Framework Getting to Outcomes (GTO)(Wandersman, Imm, Chinman, & Kaftarian, 2000), Deliverology (Barber, Kihn, & Moffit, 2011) and the Impact Evaluation Cycle (Evidence for Learning, 2017).

I know that the world of recent childrens literature is a bright and shiny place, filled with anthropomorphically correct villages full of nearly endangered species, politically correct messages, psychologically correct relationships, aesthetically correct illustrations and, for all I know, anatomically correct depictions of the three little pigs, the gingerbread man and an unedited but airbrushed centerfold of the old woman who lived in the shoe.

At the recent launch event for the CUNY Institute for Education Policy, David Coleman, now known as the «architect» of the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards, was asked by a member of the audience why a teacher, who cited the Common Core standards emphasis on «informational texts,» would claim that she was told to «put away her literature books and photocopy microwave instructions» for her eighth - grade students.

For their most recent work synthesizing the literature, see Morgan, Farkas et al. (2018).

Following an existing literature on teacher and school value - added, this recent charter school research controls for student demographics and baseline academic achievement in order to estimate the effectiveness of individual schools.

All week I've been digging into a recent AEI paper that reviews the research literature on short - term test - score impacts and long - term student outcomes for school choice programs.

Although the 2012 research - based document titled UCEA Institutional and Program Quality Criteria provides an accounting of features, content, and experiences associated with effective leadership preparation — all of which are criteria for this award — more recent empirical and scholarly literature on effective and exemplary leadership preparation provides additional insights about important dimensions of these criteria and are considered as programs are reviewed for this award.

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The solutions would start with economically diverse housing options in all towns in CT, quality pre-natal care, quality pediatric care, high school courses on parenting, in - home parenting classes for teens, a robust curriculum rich in the arts, social sciences, science, math, and character education, lots of playtime in a safe literature rich environment for pre-schoolers, summer school and before and after school care provided by TFA or some other organization of young recent college graduates, small class size, teacher leaders instead of building administrators, and collaboration time built into the school day.

Recent literature on teaching likewise supports a similar focus on teacher agency in decision making on curricula and strategies, teacher - directed professional learning, and, related to both of these, extensive opportunities for teacher collaboration:

That is, bias (a highly controversial issue covered in the research literature and also on this blog; see recent posts about bias here, here, and here), does also appear to exist in this state and particularly at the school - level for (1) subject areas less traditionally tested and, hence, not often consecutively tested (e.g., from one consecutive grade level to the next), and given (2) the state is combining growth measures with proficiency (i.e., «snapshot») measures to evaluate schools, the latter being significantly negatively correlated with the populations of the students in the schools being evaluated.

Nevada's marginal cost of public schooling was not previously available in the literature and so it has been calculated for the present study by analyzing public school data for the nine most recent years available.

The recent case study literature provides illuminating accounts of change at the level of district ethos, goals for improvement and restructured organizational infrastructures to support reforms.

«As president of the Nobel Committee for Literature, I have seen how recent laureates — Elfriede Jelinek, Imre Kertesz, JMG Le Clézio, Herta Müller — were virtually unknown and unprinted in England and U.S. and only after the Nobel Prize were they able to find readers in English, yet they are in my view equal to anyone writing in English,» said Per Wästberg, President of the Nobel Committee for Literature.

Appearances: Willow Books Authors on Tour (nationwide); Furious Flower Conference, James Madison University; George Mason University; Associated Writing Programs (AWP); Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA); Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML) / Michigan State University; Split This Rock; Poets House; Pratt Women of Color collection; University of New Haven Reading Series; Winter Wheat Festival, Grand Valley State U. (w / Aquarius Press); Carr Center, Detroit; Annual LitFest (nationwide) Recent Special Appearances: Cave Canem / Willow Books New York Reading; Thurgood Marshall Ctr.

«Literature exists not just on the page,» said Suzanne Meeuwissen of the Dutch Foundation for Literature, a co-initiator of the projects, pointing to recent Nobel Literature Prize winner Bob Dylan as an example.

His most recent horrible decision to be met with public outcry involved removing American literature from the curriculum, deciding that Jane Austen was far more important for young people to read than Of Mice and Men due to the fact that she was British.

The announcement came shortly after the most recent Annual Arts Basic Survey (AABS) by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) released data that found adults in the United States read less literature for pleasure.

In 2012 Seattle - based online retailer's AmazonCrossing imprint published more works of fiction and poetry in translation than any other press except for Dalkey Archive, and is the largest publisher of literature in translation so far this year, according to the most recent update of the «Translation Database» compiled by Open Letter Books Three Percent at the University of Rochester.

Notable recent posts include reaction to Bob Dylan's nomination for (and subsequent radio silence towards) the Nobel Prize for Literature and Kanye West penning a poem on McDonald's french fries for Frank Ocean's new art mag.

We're back for a mid-month news check in, going over the recent new releases and publishing news in Asian American literatute, as well as some analysis on recent happenings in Asian American literature twitter.Read more»

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The strategy to which Litterman refers is «HML» or «High Book - to - Price Minus Low Book - to - Price,» which is particularly interesting given our recent consideration of the merits of price - to - book value as an investment strategy and the various methods discussed in the academic literature for improving returns from a low P / B strategy.

A femoral head ostectomy (FHO) for the hip is an option that was described in the scientific literature about 50 years ago, but no conclusive studies with objective evidence, such as recent reliable force plate gait analysis data, are available that document a return to «normal» function as is available following total hip replacement (THR) surgery.

A recent study adds to a growing body of literature that should put to rest, once and for all, the false notion that dogs in shelters are in shelters because there is something wrong with them: «Nothing in the prevalence estimates we reviewed suggest that overall, dogs who come to spend time in a shelter (and are not screened out based on history or behavior at intake or shortly thereafter) are dramatically more or less inclined toward problematic warning or biting behavior than are pet dogs in general.»

His recent book, The Lost River: A Memoir of Life, Death and the Transformation of Wild Water, won the National Outdoor Book Award in the literature category, and the Lowell Thomas Award for best book.

«Sacrifice for the Fleet,» now at L.A. Louver, hosts a series of new and recent works born from the artist's fascination with Greek literature, Biblical texts, and Armenian manuscripts (he is the son of Armenian refugees).