Sentences with phrase «include school effects»

When using value - added models to estimate teacher effectiveness, one key consideration is whether or not to include school effects such as available resources into the model.

Not exact matches

It does not imply any particular recommendations to the effect that theological schooling ought (or ought mostly) to take place within particular congregations, or that classes ought to include selected parishioners along with theological school students, or that only persons who also lead congregations (or have recently done so) ought to do the teaching, and the like.

The growing evidence of the negative health effects of sugar sweetened drinks has led to calls for action to limit consumption.1 2 Several options exist, including controls on the marketing of sugar sweetened drinks, limits on portion sizes, and taxation.3 In the United Kingdom, the sale of sugar sweetened drinks in schools and their advertisement during children's television is banned.

This has had the effect of making those teams really good (2 of the top 3 teams according to MaxPreps were private Catholic high schools in LA, including clear # 1 Mater Dei), while hurting the public schools around them.

As I understand it, because the Trump proposal is only looking (right now) at discretionary spending, it has no effect on the mandatory funding of federal school meal programs, including the lunch and breakfast program.

While energy drinks have become extremely popular among adolescents and young adults in recent years, with many young athletes seeing them as a quick and easy way to maximize athletic performance, many groups, including the National Federation of High School Associations (NFHS), recommend against their use for re-hydration and warn that consumption may hurt not help athletic performance by causing side effects as bloating, abdominal cramping, diarrhea, light headedness, and impaired sleep.

The vast majority of Kentucky voters, including parents with children in public schools, support the healthy school meal standards in effect nationwide, according to a poll released today by the Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project.

What we know is that material deprivation goes hand in hand with all kinds of chaos and instability and stress that have a huge effect on kids» development, including the kinds of skills they need to succeed in school.

Examples of actions which have had these effects include school nutrition standards in Queensland, Australia; a vending machine ban in France; a front - of - package symbol that led to product reformulation in the Netherlands; soda taxes in France and Mexico; a programme targeting retail environments in New York City, USA; a programme promoting increased water consumption in schools in Hungary; school fruit and vegetable programmes in Netherlands and Norway; a healthy marketing campaign in Los Angeles County, USA and a comprehensive nutrition and health programme in France.

WASHINGTON — The vast majority of Kentucky voters, including parents with children in public schools, support the healthy school meal standards in effect nationwide, according to a poll released today by the Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project.

While father absence has been associated with a host of negative children's outcomes, including increased risk of dropping out of school and lower educational attainment, poorer physical and mental health, and behavioural problems,36 - 40 higher levels of involvement by nonresident fathers may assuage the negative effects of father absence on children's outcomes.41, 42 Quality of the parents» relationship before divorce, or of the pre-divorce father / child relationship, can also be an important factor: children fare worse following divorce when pre-divorce relationships were good and fare better when pre-divorce relationships were poor, 43,44 suggesting children are sometimes better off without a father if the father's relationship to the child or the mother was not good.

1) The announcement that LFTB would be included in the product available for purchase under the school lunch program; 2) The CEO of BPI, when asked about the fact that LFTB was already in 70 % of the ground beef on store shelves (a surprise in itself), made a statement to the effect that his goal was to get it in 100 % of the ground beef sold.

These effects are 1) pervasive, being reflected in a range of measures including standardized tests, teacher ratings, and academic outcomes in high school; and 2) relatively long - lived, extending throughout childhood into young adulthood.»

They took effect in 2012 with the goal of including more whole grains, vegetables and fruits in school meals while reducing fat and sodium.

New York lawmakers say it's likely the state budget will include a moratorium on the effects of school exams administered in connection with the controversial Common Core learning standards.

Geto said JHL had taken «extraordinary measures to insulate the school,» from the effects of construction, including installing noise - mitigating windows and air conditioners all along the eastern side of the school, which faces the construction site.

Organizers including Queens Neighborhoods United, New Queens Democrats, Queens Community Action Group, NY Indivisible and Jackson Heights People for Public Schools plan to discuss the Independent Democratic Caucus, which the senator joined in January, along with the recent budget and the effect of President Donald Trump's plans for the district.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

Poloncarz noted the impact poverty in the county has on the greater community along with several actions his administration has undertaken to address poverty and its myriad effects, including the imminent opening of the new Erie County Health Mall; a new partnership with Catholic Health, the Buffalo Public Schools and the Say Yes program to expand social work, mental health services, and clinics into Buffalo Public schools; and increased collaborations with partners to bolster workforce develSchools and the Say Yes program to expand social work, mental health services, and clinics into Buffalo Public schools; and increased collaborations with partners to bolster workforce develschools; and increased collaborations with partners to bolster workforce development.

Questions during the Q&A portion of the press conference included his plans during his scheduled visit to Albany on March 4th, why he expects to convince legislators who he has not convinced, whether he's concerned that the middle school program will be pushed aside if there is a pre-K funding mechanism other than his proposed tax, where the money to fund the middle school program will come from, how he counters the argument that his tax proposal is unfair to cities that do not have a high earner tax base, how he will measure the success of the program absent additional standardized testing, whether he expects to meet with Governor Cuomo or Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos during his March 4th trip, what he would say to a parent whose child planned on attending one of the charter schools that his administration refused to allow, whether he doubts Governor Cuomo's commitment or ability to deliver on the funding the governor has promised, what are the major hurdles in trying to convince the state senate to approve his tax proposal, whether there's an absolute deadline for getting his tax proposal approved, whether he can promise parents pre-K spots should Governor Cuomo's proposal gointo effect, and why he has not met with Congressman Michael Grimm since taking office.

Dr. Tisch described visiting a school on Long Island that was successfully putting the Common Core math standards into effect, including for special education students.

E-cigarette vapors also «produced mild effects on the lungs, including inflammation and protein damage,» notes Thomas Sussan of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, lead author of the study, published February 4 in PLOS ONE.

Future research should not only compare how embryonic stem cells, iPS cells and adult stem cells differentiate, but focus on what effects the niche in which these cells will reside, when transplanted, will have on their characteristics, including tendencies to mutate into cancer cells, notes cell and stem cell biologist Olga Genbacev at the University of California, San Francisco, (U.C.S.F.) School of Medicine.

«Shedding light on trends in the burden of stroke among Medicare beneficiaries may provide important information for policy purposes, including describing the past and current scope of the condition, assessing the potential effect of stroke prevention interventions on a national level, and identifying areas where resources can be targeted more specifically and effectively,» says lead investigator Margaret C. Fang, MD, MPH, an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, who also serves as the Medical Director of the UCSF Anticoagulation Clinic.

«Although some types of school moves can have positive effects, most are associated with a range of negative outcomes, including lower test scores, grade retention, low self - esteem, trouble fitting into schools, dropping out and event adult substance abuse.»

They then conducted a series of logistic regression models that included fixed effects for year and state, and adjusted for demographic characteristics, school characteristics, and other state alcohol policies.

«While Lisfranc injuries have a reputation for resulting in poor player performance in the NFL, our study is the first to fully assess their career impact, including effect on athletic performance following return to competition,» said lead author Kevin J. McHale, MD, a fifth - year orthopedic resident at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

It is uncertain whether other school districts can replicate these effects, because they depend on factors that many have little control over (including the local supply of high - performing teachers), as well as those they do control (for instance, the introduction of meaningful teacher evaluation).

Levels of neonicotinoids that we found in this study fall into ranges that could lead to detrimental health effects in bees, including CCD,» said Chensheng (Alex) Lu, associate professor of environmental exposure biology in the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard Chan School and lead author of the study.

Some negative effects that scientists have discovered when fish consume plastic include reduced activity rates and weakened schooling behavior, as well as compromised liver function.

«This effect is famous for puzzling some of the deepest thinkers in the field, including Albert Einstein, who called it «spooky action at a distance»,» said Professor Andrea Morello, of the School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications at UNSW and Program Manager in the Centre for Quantum Computation & Communication Technology, who led the research.

The proportion of adults 65 years or older with a high school diploma increased from 55 % in 1990 to 80 % in 2010, while the proportion with a college degree increased from 12 % to 23 %.12 More years of formal education is associated with a reduced risk of dementia, likely through multiple causal pathways, including a direct effect on brain development and function (ie, the building of «cognitive reserve»), health behaviors, as well as the general health advantages of having more wealth and opportunities.13 - 15

The main part of the school will be a series of lectures on the structure and evolution of stars with various masses including gas giant planets and on the effects of mass loss and stellar rotation upon them.

The research team included Deborah Levine, M.D., MPH, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan Medical School who studies effects of aging, lifestyle and disease on different aspects of thinking ability, also called cognitive function.

In addition to Project BioEYES, the program has expanded to include a new project called Your Watershed, Your Backyard, in which middle - school students grow zebrafish embryos in water samples from their own local watershed to test the effects of pollution.

Several groups of scientists, including David Rubinsztein's and that of Junying Yuan at Harvard Medical School, have been working to develop autophagy drugs that have fewer side effects than rapamycin.

Dr. Scriver also helped develop pediatric genetic screening programs, including one for thalassemia and another for Tay - Sachs disease, both targeted at high school students, which were shown to have lasting effects on personal and public health in Quebec.

Children who buy lunch in public schools are now being served up healthier options, including more fruits and vegetables, as new U.S. Department of Agriculture's National School Lunch Program standards go into effect this year.

Roy Arbogast who has worked on special effects milestones such as «Jaws,» «The Return of The Jedi,» and «The Fugitive» leads a crew that did a lot with a little, using a combination of complicated puppets and mechanical creatures and old school camera tricks including reverse photography.

Most Finns, including students and teachers, are happy with one examination given at the end of high school rather than more frequent tests and the side - effects that often come with them during the course of schooling.

The fact that this correlation disappears when we include such policies in our analysis suggests that the reason older schools have more positive achievement effects is that they adopt more effective policies.

We can't afford to ignore the far - reaching effects of implicit bias in schools, including:

That includes any effect of student poverty on teacher quality; in a 2004 study, Eric Hanushek, John Kain, and I found that poverty contributes to teacher turnover and to schools having a higher share of teachers with little or no prior teaching experience.

To identify more precisely the independent effects of the multiple factors affecting teachers» choices, we use regression analysis to estimate the separate effects of salary differences and school characteristics on the probability that a teacher will leave a school district in a given year, holding constant a variety of other factors, including class size and the type of community (urban, suburban, or rural) in which the district is located.

Managing the threat of extremism Since the new Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 has come into effect, schools (and other authorities) are obliged to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism including online recruitment; something that is an extremely concerning issue at present.

(Harrington, 2013) notes that NAPLAN testing and the My School website, which include results, have led to concerns that the tests could have a negative effect on students and schools.

There are many occasions where music has had a transformational effect on children and helped turn their lives around and research by the QCA in 2002 — «Investigation Arts - Rich Schools» has shown that success in the arts, including music, changed pupils» behaviour, increasing concentration levels, developing team work and creating respect for the school environment.

The 2017 EdNext Poll — including the Trump Effect on public opinion about education Charter schools lose favor but opposition to vouchers declines; Opposition to Common Core plateaus and support for using the same standards across states gains ground

Knee also misses an opportunity to address the elephant in the room that any education business must face: the impact of such companies on their customers or end users, including effects on student learning, teacher quality, school productivity, or district cost savings.

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