Sentences with phrase «improving current efforts»

AMP seeks to harness collective capabilities, scale, and resources toward improving current efforts to develop new therapies for complex, heterogeneous diseases.

Whether you are preparing to get started on an exercise program for the first time in years or you are looking for a way to improve your current efforts and results, attending group fitness classes is a great option to consider.

Lagging states need to capture all cost - effective efficiency and leading states need to sustain and even improve their current efforts.

Not exact matches

In each area, we highlight our efforts and actions, both large and small — and summarize our current programs and challenges while outlining plans to keep improving in the future....

Legislators have announced efforts to improve the visa process and retain more highly skilled, foreign - born workers, but perhaps unsurprisingly considering the general lack of productivity in the current congress, these efforts have been largely ignored by lawmakers.

Their informative chapters on social insurance, tax policy, education, efforts to improve jobs and wages for less - skilled workers, and in - kind and cash assistance make clear why current policies are often regressive.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - As part of its ongoing effort to improve the safety and security of the nation's food supply, the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) today gathered over 200 of the industry's top scientists and quality assurance experts to assess its current food safety practices, share successful practices and develop a comprehensive plan for preventing food - related health outbreaks.

The Crawford Scholar days and conference provided every one with a fantastic opportunity to learn about some current efforts by Australian scientists to improve the sustainability of agriculture systems.

While I shouldn't have been surprised at his admission, given the lawsuits that have been filed against the league by former players, and the efforts by N.F.L. to protect the safety of current players, what impressed me the most was what the league and USA Football have done and were doing to improve health and safety of all who play football, from the pros down to the youth level, which fall into 6 general categories:

Although professional lactation support can improve the duration of overall breast feeding, its effect in improving exclusive breast feeding is unclear.11 18 22 Thus far, studies that report improvement of rates of exclusive breastfeeding have involved mainly community based peer counselling strategies.23 24 25 Even then, a randomised trial in the UK recently cast doubt on the efficacy of this approach.26 There are current recommendations from NICE for the UK - wide implementation of the baby friendly initiative.4 5 6 The 2006 NICE costing report on routine postnatal care of women and their babies estimates that efforts to improve rates of breast feeding will result in substantial cost savings for the NHS.6

Queens Rep. Grace Meng, recently reelected as a Democratic National Committee vice chairwoman, argued that new DNC Chairman Tom Perez forcing out the party organization's current employees is part of a healthy effort to improve «the culture and the ecosystem of the party nationally.»

He also expressed optimism that when the 2016 edition takes place, it will consolidate on the gains of the current efforts of government at all levels in improved infrastructure, more efficient business support services, improved public transport system and a more secured and business friendly environment, would have materialized.

Queens Congresswoman Grace Meng, recently reelected as a Democratic National Committee vice chairwoman, argued to the Observer that new DNC Chairman Tom Perez forcing out the party organization's current employees is part of a healthy effort to improve «the culture and the ecosystem of the party nationally.»

He announced a wave of measures to improve the way the directorate deals with immigration, and Home Office minister Liam Byrne said today that the first step in this effort was ensuring current laws were properly enforced.

The Institute supports efforts to improve the current system, especially through the expansion of QUALITYstarsNYC, as a tool to help parents understand what good quality early childhood education should look like, from best practices and teacher education standards to enriching classrooms and play spaces.

Roseman's presentation, «Achieving Science Literacy for All: Contributions from AAAS Project 2061,» described the origins of Project 2061, its standards - based approach to improving science teaching and learning, and its current efforts to help educators achieve science literacy for all.

«If successful,» Zhou said, «all these efforts would remarkably improve the current cancer immunotherapies by personalizing the treatment to exactly where and when it is needed, while reducing side effects.»

With the goal of providing basic information to help improve preparedness and mitigation efforts, new University of Iowa - led research published online in September in the Journal of Hydrology examined how accurate current forecasting systems are in predicting rainfall from North Atlantic tropical cyclones that reach land in the United States.

The physics Nobelist who recently stepped down as point person for the Obama Administration's efforts to improve U.S. science education told Congress yesterday that many federally funded programs don't draw upon current research about how people learn and, therefore, haven't managed to boost student achievement.

Current collaborative efforts using germ line DNA to identify risk alleles are ongoing.112 An improved understanding of the interaction between inherited risk alleles and the environment (lifestyle choices) could provide a potential means of prevention.

In my talk I will discuss my group's efforts to address these analysis challenges through modeling the electric current signal, leading to software for improved consensus calling, SNP calling and detecting base modifications like 5 - methylcytosine.

Thus, current efforts have focused on finding novel targets to improve cytotoxic T cell activity that will augment existing therapies.

Learn about the current and future NHLBI efforts to improve health through research and scientific discovery.

In short, it's an all - out effort to significantly improve one of the weakest — and most despised — aspects of our nation's current educational system.

Schools, districts, and other organizations can now administer the survey tools in both English and Spanish to easily assess the current state of their parent — school relationships or test whether their efforts to improve these relationships are working.

Current efforts to improve quality, enhance access, and build stronger systems of services for vulnerable children are important; but they alone are unlikely to fully close the gaps in learning and health that are caused by significant adversity in early childhood.

Paul Tritter Current City: Boston Current job: Director of professional learning, Boston Teachers Union Career highlight: Leading a unique labor - management collaboration that brings the voices of teachers to an effort to improve professional learning.

The comments come from current Teachers, Teaching Assistants, SEND co-ordinators, heads of house, inclusion managers and Form Group Tutors...: We used this in small groups in our new class every morning for a week, what a great start, everyone is still buzzing... Builds a strong sense of belonging to something special... your class... Encourages differences and similarities to recognised and valued... Hugely improves our efforts at inclusion... The students quickly came out of their shells and are blossoming... Reveals much of the nature of the students... Gets us buzzing as a group... Encourages participants to take part in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had in getting students to gel... Switches the students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important life skills... This gives a great insight and a fantastic array of examples, clues and hints as to the characters of each individual in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzing...

To have a deeper understanding of these questions, we need to dissect the current status of the Chinese educational system in such a way that any solutions we come up with our sound and geared towards change and an improved effort by all, for all.

Looming fiscal trouble in a number of states could inhibit current and future efforts to improve their public schools, a report from the National Education Association concludes.

There is recognition that high quality instruction is the key to improved student learning, and teachers and school leaders are engaged in ongoing efforts to understand and meet the needs of individual learners and to improve on current teaching practices.

The plan sets a target of 66 % of working - age New Mexicans earning a college degree or post-secondary credential by the year 2030 — a rigorous goal given the current attainment rate of 45 %.1 The plan also sets a vision for New Mexico to be the fastest growing state in the nation when it comes to student outcomes, with a goal to increase the percentage of students who demonstrate readiness to more than 60 % on the state English language arts (ELA) and math assessments.2 These efforts are significant considering New Mexico's historically lower student academic proficiency rates compared to other states and to national averages3, and demonstrate how leaders are driving a sense of urgency to improve.

Similarly, Ted Kolderie just argued in Education Week for a «split - screen» approach to accountability: Allow the current system to continue its efforts to improve while freeing up some schools to do things differently, even dramatically so.

We ca n`t say a priori whether shifting the weight of emphasis from informal to formal evidence for decision making will improve schools; it is an empirical question.226 The current emphasis on using student performance data to guide improvement efforts also calls for greater attention by those in schools to measurable patterns of student performance at the school level, or by student sub-groups, in addition to the conventional interest in individual student needs and progress.

Teacher leaders — current or former classroom teachers who work with other teachers and educators in their schools or districts to help improve instruction — are a key feature of many school reform efforts.

The foundation maintains an online library of lessons at www.wallacefoundation.org about what it has learned, including knowledge from its current efforts aimed at: strengthening educational leadership to improve student achievement; helping disadvantaged students gain more time for learning through summer learning and an extended school day and year; enhancing out - of - school time opportunities; and building appreciation and demand for the arts.

A + Colorado is concerned that the Colorado Department of Education will not use the flexibility of ESSA to strengthen current efforts to improve our lowest performing schools and instead will move towards a more hands - off approach to these schools and districts.

Regardless of the current political context, effective teacher performance appraisal systems are a core element in the effort to improve student learning and necessary to inform compensation systems based on teacher performance.

While much of the current focus on teacher evaluation systems is centered on accountability, many have argued that it is equally, if not more, important to design and use evaluation systems to inform professional development efforts and improve student learning.

In an effort to improve performance and growth of students, we assessed and reviewed current instructional models for teaching reading / language arts aligned to the Utah Core.

All current school reform efforts aim to improve teaching and learning.

At www.wallacefoundation.org, the foundation maintains an online library about what it has learned, including knowledge from its current efforts aimed at: strengthening education leadership to improve student achievement, helping selected cities make good afterschool programs available to more children, expanding arts learning opportunities for children and teens, providing high - quality summer learning programs to disadvantaged children and enriching and expanding the school day in ways that benefit students, and helping arts organizations build their audiences.

If one were to assign a grade to our current leaders for their most recent efforts to improve Texas education, one would be hard - pressed to offer anything more than a C -.

These findings are important as they document large improvements in the joint productivity of teachers in low - performing schools, a finding which is out of step with current federal efforts to improve schools that implicitly assume teacher productivity is essentially fixed over time.

The Foundation maintains an online library of lessons at www.wallacefoundation.org about what it has learned, including knowledge from its current efforts aimed at: strengthening educational leadership to improve student achievement; helping disadvantaged students gain more time for learning through summer learning and through the effective use of additional learning time during the school day and year; enhancing out - of - school time opportunities; and building appreciation and demand for the arts.

The Foundation maintains an online library of lessons about what it has learned, including knowledge from its current efforts aimed at: strengthening educational leadership to improve student achievement; enhancing out - of - school - time learning opportunities; and building appreciation and demand for the arts.

Beijing's Electric Buses to Number 10,000 By 2020 Aug 2, 2017 Xinhua News Agency (Beijing, China) The number of electric buses in Beijing will increase from the current 1,000 to 10,000 by 2020 in an effort to improve the environment, said Beijing Public Transport Group on Wednesday.

Heins confirmed that RIM would consider licensing its platform and services to partners, and it would also consider an outright sale if its current efforts to not improve the company's sliding position.

As more fully set forth above, Debtor has made a good faith effort to repay the Student Loans, his current income and resources are such that he is unable to maintain a minimal standard of living even without making payments on the Student Loans and it is unlikely that Debtor's financial situation will improve significantly during the repayment period of the Student Loans.

As all of these efforts to improve the appearance of individual dogs that were slightly faulty by those who understood what this accomplished became more widespread, people who didn't understand copied the pros even when their dogs did not have such faults, leading to the current situation.