Sentences with phrase «important early acquisitions»

They didn't house their collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, but they gave it some of its most important early acquisitions and landed it an ambitious director, James Johnson Sweeney, who had previously run New York's Guggenheim Museum.

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It is true for many subjects but most documented in mathematics as acquisition of early math knowledge and skills is the most important predictor not only for later math achievement but also for achievement in other content areas (Amy Claessens, The University of Chicago and Mimi Engel, Vanderbilt University, 2013).

Following major acquisitions by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2014 and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco earlier this year, these acquisitions draw from the Foundation's extensive collection of works across media in this genre to promote increased scholarship and understanding of an important and often - overlooked perspective in the narrative of American art history.

By the early 1960s, Power had - through his acquisition of work by Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Dubuffet and others - one of the most important new art collections anywhere.

Within a socioecological framework, the home environment exerts the most significant influence on children's acquisition of weight - related behaviours; however, as children grow the early child care setting also has an important role in the development of young children's weight - related behaviours.

As research across neuroscience, developmental psychology, and economics demonstrates, early social - emotional, physical, and cognitive skills beget later skill acquisition, setting the groundwork for success in school and the workplace.15 However, an analysis of nationally representative data shows that 65 percent of child care centers do not serve children age 1 or younger and that 44 percent do not serve children under age 3 at all.16 Consequently, child care centers only have the capacity to serve 10 percent of all children under age 1 and 25 percent of all children under age 3.17 High - quality child care during this critical period can support children's physical, cognitive, and social - emotional development.18 Attending a high - quality early childhood program such as preschool or Head Start is particularly important for children in poverty or from other disadvantaged backgrounds and can help reduce the large income - based disparities in achievement and development.19