Sentences with phrase «in several national study»

She served on the Kentucky Board of Education for 8 years and participated in several national study groups related to school reform and college / career readiness.

She served on the Kentucky Board of Education for 8 years and participated in several national study groups related to school improvements, education policy, and college / career readiness.

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Several studies have found that decreased access to competitive foods leads to increased participation in the National School Lunch Program and subsequent increases in federal reimbursements and overall revenue.

«A lot of his big programs are pushed off in terms of their costs and their benefits for several years,» said Larry Levy, executive dean of the National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University.

National Institutes of Health scientists have published several preliminary studies showing that nicotine — yes, the same chemical found in cigarettes — has the ability to focus attention.

«Microplastic pollution has been in the news recently, with several governments planning a ban on microbeads used in cosmetics and detergents» says Alina Wieczorek from the National University of Ireland, Galway and lead author of the study.

In the study, the phage, called «CR5,» showed high antimicrobial activity against the bacterium, Cronobacter sakazakii, as well as against several other species of Cronobacter, which can also cause dangerous illness, said coauthor Sangryeol Ryu, professor in the Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, KoreIn the study, the phage, called «CR5,» showed high antimicrobial activity against the bacterium, Cronobacter sakazakii, as well as against several other species of Cronobacter, which can also cause dangerous illness, said coauthor Sangryeol Ryu, professor in the Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Korein the Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Korea.

Lyme disease has been spreading across the United States over the past several decades, and a new study has confirmed that ticks carrying the disease are present in eastern national parks.

Last year a study by the National Academy of Sciences reported that in the last three decades the Steller sea lion population dropped from several hundred thousand to about 30,000 — so few that they are now listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

The study, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, compared several social and demographic variables to the way people describe the rules for displaying emotion in dozens of countries.

Until 2001, she worked at the NationalAcademies» National Research Council over a 17 - year period, serving in several capacities — Executive Director of the Board on Sustainable Development, where she directed the Sustainability Transition Study and the Global Change Research Program; director of international organization programs for the Office of International Affairs; and Director of the Polar Research Board.

«The BDNF gene has previously been linked to obesity, and scientists have been working for several years to understand how changes in this particular gene may predispose people to obesity,» said Jack A. Yanovski, M.D., Ph.D., one of the study authors and an investigator at NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).

Hopkins, who worked as a biologist in Yosemite National Park for several years, conducted the study as a graduate student at Montana State University.

What began in 1964 with three programs has now grown to 41 MSTP programs across the U.S., funded through the National Research Service Act.2 Traditional MSTP programs are organized in a standard format: 2 years of medical school followed by several years of study and research toward the PhD degree, then the completion of the last 2 years of medical school.

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have established several key trends in wildlife trade following an in - depth study on international wildlife trade data.

Large - scale storage of low - pressure, gaseous hydrogen in salt caverns and other underground sites for transportation fuel and grid - scale energy applications offers several advantages over above - ground storage, says a recent Sandia National Laboratories study sponsored by the Department of Energy's Fuel Cell Technologies Office.

The inquiry notes that there were several futile efforts to set up a national registry in which U.K. nuclear facility workers could volunteer for postmortem studies.

A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has shown for the first time that several types of aquatic algae can detect orange, green and blue light.

Their study, reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that N. bombi was present in the U.S. as early as 1980, well before several species of wild bumble bees started to go missing across the country.

In the study, researchers from the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis and the University of Tennessee used a novel approach called simulation - based planning to make several new sampling recommendations, confirming that a uniform approach to seed sampling is ineffective.

In order to nail down some of the tricky details of tornado formation, Erik Rasmussen of the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Okla., banded together with several of his colleagues to undertake storm studies of unprecedented accuracIn order to nail down some of the tricky details of tornado formation, Erik Rasmussen of the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Okla., banded together with several of his colleagues to undertake storm studies of unprecedented accuracin Norman, Okla., banded together with several of his colleagues to undertake storm studies of unprecedented accuracy.

«Pristine» landscapes simply do not exist anywhere in the world today and, in most cases, have not existed for at least several thousand years, says a new study in the journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

In this study, researchers used blood samples collected several years before breast cancer development from two large UK cohorts of women — the MRC National Survey of Health and Development and the UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening.

«I believe this result will have several impacts,» said Giulia Galli, a professor at the University of Chicago's Institute for Molecular Engineering and senior scientist at the DOE's Argonne National Laboratory who was not involved in the study.

She is the principal investigator on several large research projects funded by the National Institutes of Health to study the end - stages of dementia and has been a lead author on many articles in top peer - reviewed journals related to this topic.

Children receiving care at Texas Children's Sickle Cell Program have the opportunity to participate in several National Institutes of Health (NIH)- funded research studies led by physician scientists, providing the latest treatments for this disease.

We also participate in several national and international clinical trials including First - in - Man applications as well as first - in - class studies.

One study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in January, hinted at such a mechanism when it linked sea ice decline to apparent changes in the Arctic Oscillation during several winters preceded by large sea ice losses.

The New Frontiers Program is designed to provide opportunities to conduct several of the medium - class missions identified as top priority objectives in the Decadal Solar System Exploration Survey, conducted by the Space Studies Board of the National Research Council.

Technical coordinator of a national convention in France involving industry and universities on the same subject Since 1992: Organizer of a cycle of international conferences on «Heavy scintillators for scientific and industrial applications» First one in Chamonix, France in 1992 (200 participants), 9th one in Winston Salem (NC, USA) in 2007 (300 participants) 1994 - 2007: As Technical coordinator of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter at the LHC Large Hadron Collider, responsible for the technical development and the mass production of 76» 000 Lead Tungstate crystals (100 tons) 1994 - 2000: Organizer of the development and mass production organization of Lutetium Aluminum perovskite crystals, in particular for PET scanner applications Since 2000: Strong involvement in the development of dedicated breast imaging camera combining several modalities for a multiparametric evaluation of breast tumors (anatomic, structural and functional) Since 2002: Feasibility study and setting - up of an international medical imaging research centre, presently being built in Marseille (Cerimed)

He has participated in several collaborative studies for making revisions in international reference standards for WHO, NIBSC, NVI etc. and has published more than 60 technical papers in the national & international journals.

Antibodies to a high - risk type of human papillomavirus (HPV16) could help detect oropharyngeal (1) cancer several years before the clinical onset of the disease, reveals a new study from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in cooperation with the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the United States National Cancer Institute (NCI) in an article published online today by the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

He led numerous studies related to the international climate change negotiations and national climate policies, for example several evaluations of countries» performances in climate change.

In January 2010, Michael F. Holick, MD PhD, a vitamin D researcher whose work I have cited in previous articles, Linda Linday, a medical doctor whose cod liver oil study formed the starting point for Cannell's 2008 commentary, and several other colleagues, even including one researcher from the National Institutes of Health, made a direct response to Dr. Cannell and his colleagues in the pages of the same journaIn January 2010, Michael F. Holick, MD PhD, a vitamin D researcher whose work I have cited in previous articles, Linda Linday, a medical doctor whose cod liver oil study formed the starting point for Cannell's 2008 commentary, and several other colleagues, even including one researcher from the National Institutes of Health, made a direct response to Dr. Cannell and his colleagues in the pages of the same journain previous articles, Linda Linday, a medical doctor whose cod liver oil study formed the starting point for Cannell's 2008 commentary, and several other colleagues, even including one researcher from the National Institutes of Health, made a direct response to Dr. Cannell and his colleagues in the pages of the same journain the pages of the same journal.

The report compares current data with national goals and explores best practices through several in - depth case studies of struggling school districts.

Several national studies, including analyses of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), show that just 38 — 40 percent of high school graduates leave our education system at the «college - prepared» level in reading anational studies, including analyses of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), show that just 38 — 40 percent of high school graduates leave our education system at the «college - prepared» level in reading aNational Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), show that just 38 — 40 percent of high school graduates leave our education system at the «college - prepared» level in reading and math.

She is involved in several research projects, including a study examining the relationship between national culture and student achievement, creativity, and productivity, and an ongoing international comparative study of effective teachers serving disadvantaged students in the United States and China.

CEC and the California Labor Management Initiative are among several organizations encouraging school districts to participate in the research study, including the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers.

Although vouchers and tax credits can be debated on several fronts, research (in part from a 2007 study of vouchers by RAND and a 2015 study by the National Bureau of Economic Research) has suggested key design safeguards for those states still wishing to proceed with one of those privatization options:

Field - Focused Study of the Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration Program (2003) presents findings from the Field - Focused Study (FFS), one of several components in the National Evaluation of the Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration (CSRD) Program.

For instance, schools participating in the Carnegie Foundation's Student Agency Improvement Community, a network of researchers and practitioners applying the science of learning mindsets to daily classroom practice, have seen stronger outcomes among low - income black and Latino students since implementing interventions focused on learning mindsets.34 Equal Opportunity Schools, a national nonprofit organization, has also partnered with school, county, and district leaders to increase the number of black and Latino students enrolled in advanced placement courses and has seen gains in both participation and passage rates as a result.35 In addition, several studies show that learning mindsets interventions can reduce the effects of stereotype threat among female, black, and Latino students in math and science classes.in the Carnegie Foundation's Student Agency Improvement Community, a network of researchers and practitioners applying the science of learning mindsets to daily classroom practice, have seen stronger outcomes among low - income black and Latino students since implementing interventions focused on learning mindsets.34 Equal Opportunity Schools, a national nonprofit organization, has also partnered with school, county, and district leaders to increase the number of black and Latino students enrolled in advanced placement courses and has seen gains in both participation and passage rates as a result.35 In addition, several studies show that learning mindsets interventions can reduce the effects of stereotype threat among female, black, and Latino students in math and science classes.in advanced placement courses and has seen gains in both participation and passage rates as a result.35 In addition, several studies show that learning mindsets interventions can reduce the effects of stereotype threat among female, black, and Latino students in math and science classes.in both participation and passage rates as a result.35 In addition, several studies show that learning mindsets interventions can reduce the effects of stereotype threat among female, black, and Latino students in math and science classes.In addition, several studies show that learning mindsets interventions can reduce the effects of stereotype threat among female, black, and Latino students in math and science classes.in math and science classes.36

Teacher evaluation had already become a national focal point due to the release of several studies asserting that the classroom teacher is the most important school - based factor in improving student achievement.

Briggs» study was partly funded by the Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice, which is run by the heads of several Midwestern teachers unions and supported by the National Education Assn., the largest teachers union in the country.

Inference - making is an important component of several major social studies processes specified in the national social studies standards, such as making generalizations, evaluating sides of an argument, predicting the outcomes of various actions, sorting fact from opinion, determining the outcomes of a decision, detecting bias, and interpreting points of view (Sunal & Haas, 2002; NCSS, 2008).

National studies indicate that around 20 — 30 percent of new teachers leave the profession within the first five years, and that attrition is even higher (often reaching 50 percent or more) in high - poverty schools and in high - need subject areas.20 Studies of teacher residency programs consistently point to the high retention rates of their graduates, even after several years in the profession, generally ranging from 80 — 90 percent in the same district after three years and 70 — 80 percent after five ystudies indicate that around 20 — 30 percent of new teachers leave the profession within the first five years, and that attrition is even higher (often reaching 50 percent or more) in high - poverty schools and in high - need subject areas.20 Studies of teacher residency programs consistently point to the high retention rates of their graduates, even after several years in the profession, generally ranging from 80 — 90 percent in the same district after three years and 70 — 80 percent after five yStudies of teacher residency programs consistently point to the high retention rates of their graduates, even after several years in the profession, generally ranging from 80 — 90 percent in the same district after three years and 70 — 80 percent after five years.21

Recently, several of our clients took part in a national benchmark study on school climate.

She has worked on a number of other studies, including a longitudinal study of the effectiveness of inclusive STEM high schools funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Evaluation of Writing Project Professional Development for the National Writing Project, the National Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund Program for the U.S. Department of Education, evaluations of several school reform initiatives in Chicago, and the Bridging the Divide study that examined the transition from high school to college for the U.S. Department of Education.

In addition she contributed to several studies of teacher development including the Evaluation of the California Subject Matter Projects and the National Evaluation of Writing Project School Partnerships.

She is currently working with research teams on several national impact and evaluation studies in the US involving early and adolescent reading, mathematics, literacy leadership, and Response to Intervention.