Sentences with phrase «impact on the closing the gap»

Indigenous leaders and advocates welcomed the approaches but questioned their impact on Closing the Gap, without other major reforms, including those from a group of prominent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, including Oscar and the co-chair of the Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory Council Chris Sarra, who invited to meet last week in conjunction with the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting to provide advice on the Closing the Gap refresh.

However, the Campaign Steering Committee is concerned that despite continued Australian Government commitment to closing the gap, broader structural reform to the federal system of the type that is currently being discussed could potentially have an adverse impact on the Closing the Gap Strategy.

Not exact matches

«Despite Woolworths posting above - average sales in their latest quarter, this hasn't had any noticeable impact on their market share, as Coles continues to close the gap, and Aldi continues to grow,» Mr Reid said.

2002 Midwifery Today, Philadelphia, «The Anthropology of Hospital Birth»; «Closing the Evidence - Practice Gap» with Marsden Wagner; «Dealing with Consumer Demand»; «Medical Imperialism: The Impact of the Western Model of Birth on the World» with Marsden Wagner; «Birth Renaissance around the World: Models that Work,» with Jan Tritten.

The program consists of counties putting forth a proposal to close the gaps, and with Onondaga County's extensive research on the impact of the gap between Camillus and DeWitt and possible solutions to filling it, Glazier said he believes the county is «well - positioned to compete for some of that (funding).»

But even with the yield gaps closed, projected food demand will still require additional land — so the impact on GHG emissions and biodiversity remains.

This is a very practical recommendation; whilst the lag in NHS digitisation can not fail to have an impact on plans for genomic medicine, confirming budgets would at least lay the groundwork for closing this gap.

Closing the Graduation Gap also maps the intersection between education and the economy, as it relates to the impact of schooling on the key economic outcomes of employment, income, and poverty.

ELearning can be used as a means to close the gender gap in education and make a lasting impact on the struggle for gender equality across nations.

Quickly close skill gaps, develop new skills and track how skill enhancement impacts the on - the - job performance of your employees.

But Zoola ™ Analytics closes the gap between your training and its impact on individual performance and organizational performance.

Magnet schools work to close the achievement gap, improve racial harmony, and make a positive impact on the lives of children @ [Insert Senator / Representative Name] #schooldiversity

The purpose of this program is to provide competitive grants to applicants with a record of improving student achievement and attainment in order to expand the implementation of, and investment in, innovative practices that are demonstrated to have an impact on improving student achievement or student growth, closing achievement gaps, decreasing dropout rates, increasing high school graduation rates, or increasing college enrollment and completion rates.

National Assessment of Title I: Interim Report to Congress (2006) provides preliminary findings from the congressionally mandated National Assessment of Title I. Volume I contains findings on the implementation of the Title I program under the No Child Left Behind Act, and Volume II presents early findings from Closing the Reading Gap, an evaluation of the impact of supplemental remedial reading programs on achievement of 3rd and 5th grade students.

Volume I contains key findings on the implementation of the program under the No Child Left Behind Act, and Volume II presents a report on follow - up findings from Closing the Reading Gap, an evaluation of the impact of supplemental remedial reading programs on achievement of 3rd and 5th grade students.

The truth is that NCLB has failed to prevent millions from falling behind, and has had very little impact on closing the achievement gap; instead, its main effect has been to instigate ever - increasing emphasis on standardized test scores and superficial, formulaic essay writing.

The report also stated a strength in primary schools was the impact of better teaching on the learning of pupils eligible for free school meals, which Ofsted attributed to helping to close the attainment gap between these pupils and their peers.

What students want: great teachers every year What teachers want: career advancement while teaching, collaboration, on - the - job development and leadership, sustainably funded pay increases, and the chance to help more students succeed What both need: Policies to make a statewide Opportunity Culture possible Public Impact shows states the essential policies to reach far more students with gap - closing, Read more about Seizing Opportunity at the Top II -LSB-...]

EdSource: When you started out with No Child Left Behind, didn't you have some expectation that this would have had more of an impact on closing the achievement gap?

Jed Wallace, CCSA's president and CEO, discussed charter schools, the movement's growth over the past few years, charters» impact on closing the achievement gap, and AB 401 on KFMB - AM's Mike Slater Show.

Over-emphasis on closing gaps in test scores to the neglect of other issues has led to the development of accountability systems that can overlook the impacts of poverty on students» scores and often result in penalizing the very schools and teachers that are struggling the most and that need the most support.

Based on the success of Project Bright IDEA 1, a pilot intervention program for closing the achievement gap, Project Bright IDEA 2 was awarded the grant to «upscale» the program to more schools and to research the impact on gifted programs from underserved populations.

The School Library Learning Commons can have an impact on not only closing the summer achievement gap but actually opening up new learning potential.

Closing the achievement gap in math is a priority for our schools and I am excited to see the impact it will have on our students here.»

These include a standard automatic post-collision braking system, which automatically brakes the vehicle after a collision to reduce kinetic energy significantly and thus minimise the chance of a second impact, and a PreCrash system (Proactive Occupant Protection) which, on detecting the possibility of an accident, pre-tensions seatbelts and closes the windows and sunroof, leaving just a small gap, to ensure the best possible protection from the airbags.

Climate knowledge is growing rapidly now and while there still remain some interesting challenges to the status quo on certain points (for example, exactly how it is that CO ₂ and CH ₄ started rising some 5000 years ago, if not by human impacts, or how it is that humans overwhelmed expected gradual declines and added enough to achieve those rises that far back) that need further research... the very conservative consensus, which must be conservative by its nature since it takes time for consensus to develop as further research helps to close gaps and remove or improve assumptions, is always playing catch - up it seems.

These tools provide the means to sharpen assessment and management capacities required to: compare the result of several water allocations plans; improve soil - moisture control - practices under rainfed conditions; optimize irrigation scheduling; sustainably intensify crop production; close the yield and water - productivity gaps; quantify the impact of climate variability and change on cropping systems; enhance strategies for increased water productivity and water savings; minimize the negative impact on the environment caused by agriculture.

He's the new President and CEO of Big Thought, a longtime social impact partner of Fossil Group, and he's on a mission to close the opportunity gap in his community.

In recognition of the high prevalence rates and impacts on vulnerable groups and the specialist needs of specific sub-populations, funders including governments at all levels in policy and service funding would be well placed to set key targets and outcomes to «close these gaps».

6pm - 8 pm AEST: Directions for the future Kirstie Parker will be tweeting on the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, the national campaign Close the Gap, directions for the future including greater and better resourced community control and — in the context of current proposals to weaken protections under the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 — the impact of racism on Indigenous health.

Closing this gap requires a workforce that is knowledgeable about trauma and its impact on development, and who can employ skills and strategies that prevent, reduce and ameliorate its effect on young children.

Educating the public on the crucial impact that community, culture and family play in the life of every Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child is a shared national vision to close the gap.

It's a story about remoteness, about culture, about connection and disconnection and the impact that these have on health care and closing the gap.

The Campaign Steering Committee calls on the Australian Government to consider the impact of any such cuts on the national effort to close the gap.

As reported in the Campaign Steering Committee's 2013 Shadow Report, [104] Queensland [105] and New South Wales [106] have made deep cuts to their general population health expenditure with detrimental impacts on the national effort to close the gap in the past year.

And with an associated commitment to closing the gap in Indigenous health outcomes, it was clear from a symposium in Melbourne last week that his Government will also need to look at growing evidence about the impact of racism on child health and education.