Sentences with phrase «gold standard reports»

These findings, as noted above, are unusual when compared to more than a dozen gold standard reports showing positive academic achievement for voucher students.

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A report released by the Labor Department in 2016, called the «Workforce Investment Act Gold Standard Evaluation,» concluded that the federal government's primary job - training programs don't really work.

Bob Moriarty of 321Gold.com recently put out a blockbuster commentary on Gold Standard Ventures Corp. (GSV: TSX.V; GSV: NYSE), which recently reported an impressive intercept in Nevada.

Here is what you wrote — «Despite the fact that a Fall 2012 Cochrane Library Review (considered the gold standard of independent inquiry and scientific objectivity) reports that home birth is as safe or in many cases actually safer than hospital birth, the American obstetrical community continues to publicly oppose homebirth, citing safety concerns as their main argument.»

Despite the fact that a Fall 2012 Cochrane Library Review (considered the gold standard of independent inquiry and scientific objectivity) reports that home birth is as safe or in many cases actually safer than hospital birth, the American obstetrical community continues to publicly oppose homebirth, citing safety concerns as their main argument.

For heart and lung surgery, The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) continues to set the gold standard through its world - renowned STS National Database and public reporting initiatives.

That report recommended a 5 - year renewable term rather than a 6 - year term for the NASA Administrator based on how the Navy's nuclear reactor program is run, the «gold standard» for technical government programs, he said.

The gold standard, however, remains the comprehensive literature reviews periodically carried out by the IPCC — the Assessment Reports essentially summarize and synthesize the professional literature (which is where the true «scientific debate» takes place).

These studies were actually surveys of individuals self reported diet habits and weight loss, so are interesting but not the gold standard of proof researchers prefer to see (14).

Chris Pirrotta, Cliff Broadway, and Larry D. Curtis, staff members from TORn (the gold standard of fansites and a consistent breaking news source) talk about the latest on the two coming Hobbit films, including mainstream news, spy reports, and rumors.

NAEP, called «the nation's report card,» is managed by the Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics and is currently the «gold standard» of assessments.

Supporters don't need to rely on the Global Report Card to make the case for charter schools because they have four gold - standard RCTs on their side.

The CTBA report ignores entirely previous research from the Brookings Institution, a random - assignment study — the gold standard of social science research — that found voucher students in Milwaukee scored six Normal Curve Equivalent points higher than the control group in reading and 11 points higher in math.

To reach its conclusion, the CTBA report completely ignores numerous other gold standard studies from respected researchers at Harvard, Princeton, the University of Chicago, the Brookings Institution, and elsewhere.

While NAEP, the Nation's Report Card, scores are the gold standard for measuring student achievement and serve as a yardstick for state comparisons, NAEP results are generally not known by students and their families, who rely on their state test results to know how they are performing.

The report, released Wednesday, relies on standards used by the National Assessment of Education Progress, the only national - level standardized test, considered the gold standard for measuring actual student achievement.

Prior to the IES report, there have been 15 empirical studies examining academic outcomes for students participating in private school choice using random assignment, the «gold standard» of defensible social science:

More than half of all states have a 30 - point or more differential between their own reported proficiency rates and the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP), which is commonly considered the gold standard of assessments by groups ranging from the liberal American Federation of Teachers to the conservative Heritage Foundation.

In a recent report, Friedman Foundation senior fellow Greg Forster looked at not one or two, but 12 empirical studies that «examine academic outcomes for school choice participants using random assignment, the «gold standard» of social science.

In May 2016, EdChoice released a report in which it examines 100 empirical studies of private school choice programs, 18 of which used the «gold standard» random assignment to measure outcomes.

To see how states compare, ECF has published charts showing the percentage of students deemed proficient in various subjects and grade levels and compared them to percentages reported for each state by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP, or «The Nation's Report Card»), considered to be the gold standard.

Consumer Reports is the gold standard for quality measurement (chart above).

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Many individuals consider the credit reports to be gold standards.

When she came back on the line, she reported that Park Hyatt Paris Vendome had told her that the hotel was sold out of standard rooms, and that what we were seeing was special guaranteed availability for Hyatt Gold Passport Platinum and Diamond members, which was for cash only, not points.

One strategem of the attorney for the oil companies, Mr. Boutrous, that of accepting the IPCC reports as the gold standard for climate research, seems rather brilliant.

The gold standard, however, remains the comprehensive literature reviews periodically carried out by the IPCC — the Assessment Reports essentially summarize and synthesize the professional literature (which is where the true «scientific debate» takes place).

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«We've been told this report is the gold standard,» said Canadian global - warming skeptic Donna Laframboise, who runs the NoConsensus.org site and who organized the online effort to examine the U.N.'s references in the report, commonly known as the AR4.

Gold Standard for the Global Goals will enable businesses that support life - changing climate and development projects to measure and report verified impacts toward climate security and the Sustainable Development Goals.

The onslaught intensified as errors in the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change's most recent report surfaced in January and policy makers and reporters began to question what has become the gold standard of climate science.

Using the IPCC's gold - standard global surface dataset (the UK's HadCRUT4), this chart plots the cumulative growth in temperature along with NOAA's reported cumulative growth in atmospheric CO2 levels (ppm).

EPDs, or Environmental Product Declarations, are currently the gold standard in determining and reporting carbon footprints.

Mainstream climate scientists like me regard these reports as the gold standard in our field.

The inclusion of the hockey stick on the front cover was an indication that the graph would also be highlighted in the gold standard of global warming reports — the IPCC's 2001 Third Assessment Report (IPCC TAR).

Are you referring to the highly touted, taxpayer funded IPCC AR4 report, which was supposed to be the «gold standard» but was filled with exaggerations, distortions, understated uncertainties and inaccuracies — all leading in the direction of AGW fear mongering?

I still believe in the spirit of what William Wordsworth wrote, and I remember reading on the front cover of Nature when that magazine really was the gold standard of scientific reporting.

But you keep quiet about the publication of IPCC's supposedly «gold standard» AR4 (WGI, WGII and WGIII) climate report, which is loaded with «totally wrong» assumptions, estimates and projections.

The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issues serial reports, often called the «gold standard» of climate research; the most recent one projects us to hit four degrees of warming by the beginning of the next century, should we stay the present course.

Yet the very same article quoted climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe calling the IPCC report «the gold standard of climate science assessment.»

Of course there's the scandal that just broke regarding the «gold standard of peer reviewed science» that climate alarmists always reference, who's data is used as the basis for many other climate studies, as well as IPCC reports, and even US EPA guidelines - The Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, UK.

BOTH COMPARISONS ARE BOGUS, M carey, but one of the two is in the supposed «gold standard» AR4 climate report by IPCC while mine was just a joke to point out how silly the IPCC comparison really was.

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An analysis of the American Time Use Survey examined the disparity between estimated and hours spent working and actual hours (as measured by real - time time diaries, considered by many the gold standard in self - reported time).

«[The report's] recommendations to eliminate Library of Congress Subject Headings and use «fast turnaround» time as the «gold standard» in cataloging, are particularly unjustified,» he wrote.

The Institute of Chartered Accountant of India (ICAI) lately awarded HDFC EGRO General Insurance the Gold Shield award in recognition of the highest standards adhered by the company with reference to the financial reporting for the FY» 2014 - 15.

Our systems, procedures, and reporting all meet or exceed FINTRAC's requirements, known as the «gold standard» in global regulation.

The Pharmacy Intern will collect and accurately report product data through the Elsevier / Gold Standard editorial systems, as well as other special projects as...

At present it is clear that there is no cheap and easily available gold standard measurement of unsupervised exercise - based rehabilitation adherence and so, even with its inherent problems, self - report remains an important option.