Sentences with phrase «intensive effort by»

Whether and how those policies become reality for young children and their families will require leadership and an intentional and intensive effort by state and district agencies and educators.

For example, the American girl «Genie», who was kept in isolation by her father until she was discovered aged 13, never learnt to speak properly despite intensive efforts by psychologists.

(ii) In collection means a debt that has been placed with a collection agency by a creditor or that is subject to more intensive efforts by a creditor to recover amounts owed from a borrower who has not responded satisfactorily to the demands routinely made as part of the creditor's billing procedures.

Here are three reactions to my post about Machiavelli's view of the impediments to making big changes in societies — as in the asymmetrical nature of the battle to take the carbon out of energy systems in the face of both societal inertia and intensive efforts by entrenched interests to maintain the status quo.

Not exact matches

Capital - intensive efforts to invent products that create whole markets, which are dominated by large corporations and VC funding, will slow during the recession, predicts Kind.

An intensive seven - month investigation by Donald L. Bartlett and James B. Steele reveals some of the negative aspects of past efforts.12 More than $ 172 billion has been spent since World War II in overseas assistance.

In spite of intensive effort and pressure the issue of new shares was never agreed by Kroenke and the Fanshare scheme is going through the long, sad and arduous process of being wound up.

Today that number is up to 96.5 percent, the result of an intensive and united effort by nurses and physicians to educate parents about the benefits of breastfeeding.

When a troubled teen fails to respond to outpatient treatment or efforts by the authority figures in his life, it may be time to consider a more intensive program such as a therapeutic boarding school.

These include limited access to quality mental health care, influences of a powerful health insurance industry and intensive marketing efforts by the pharmaceutical industry.

«Duct tape and baling wire» held a lot of the structure together, Ethan said on a CampaignTech conference panel in April, meaning that people were still sorting some data by hand, printing out spreadsheets and relying on other labor - intensive practices the campaign's data - integration effort hoped to avoid.

But the New York Democrat also looked to updated air safety regulations passed following an intensive lobbying effort by the families of victims of Flight 3407, which crashed in Clarence in 2009.

Bey was also endorsed by the Working Families Party, which hired paid canvassers and coordinated an intensive get - out - the - vote effort on his behalf during the past few weeks.

The efforts were supported by intensive computer simulations conducted at the University of Dusseldorf (Germany), and at CSU.

Collaborative efforts also provide AbbVie researchers with access to data commons technology developed by the Center for Data Intensive Science at the University of Chicago and the core technical team that is developing the technology.

Intensive local therapy was followed by up to a year of less intense systemic treatment with cis - retinoic acid (a derivative of vitamin A) and interferon in an effort to control any microscopic tumors that had spread to distant sites from the initial cancer.

The number of pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admissions for opioid overdoses doubled between 2004 and 2015, despite continuing efforts to curb misuse of the addictive painkillers among adults, according to a new study by researchers from the University of Chicago Medicine published in the journal Pediatrics.

Kasten's colleagues (led by Alfred Molina) vow not to let a murderer roam freely, but they are not nearly as convinced as Kasten is of the suspect's guilt and are hesitant to jeopardize their intensive, drawn - out counterterrorism efforts designed to prevent another 9/11 attack from befalling LA.

His leadership also led to the district achieving its best - ever dropout and graduation rates, driven largely by attention to all students, a focus on adult performance, the promotion of choice and school autonomy, and intensive efforts to engage parents and the community.

The report reveals an unusually high level of education progress and highlights the successes gained by the district after a two - year intensive effort to improve education in their public schools.

Suppose that educators, through intensive efforts, ensured that all children received effective reading instruction in the primary grades and were reading fluently by the time they finished 3rd grade.

This effort, supported by funding from the van Beuren Charitable Foundation, is allowing the community to use data to identify where problems are and use a three - tiered approach to provide universal chronic absence prevention for all students, more intensive supports for at - risk students, and personalized, targeted supports for the highest risk students.

In contrast, the approach under waivers, dubbed turnaround, was much more focused — applying only to the 5 percent of schools identified as «priority» schools and based on key principles outlined by the Department (see sidebar Turnaround Principles).62 Fewer schools were part of the effort, but in turn, the effort was much more intensive and required significant changes in school operations, culture, leadership, and practice.63 The hope was that a more disruptive and ambitious strategy will yield dramatic results: after three years, these schools would no longer be in the bottom 5 percent, and another group of schools could be identified to undergo turnaround.

Although the administration never supplied the support necessary to implement the intensive professional development effort envisioned by the teachers, it did eventually approve the teachers» plan.

GM is expected to make radical changes to its fullsize pickups in the form of aluminum - intensive construction to shed weight and improve efficiency, following similar efforts by Ford.

AVALON, CA — For the first time since intensive restoration efforts began nearly 30 years ago, two bald eagle chicks have hatched unaided by humans on Catalina over the weekend.

In addition to contributions by the directors of the Museum Ludwig and ARoS — Yilmaz Dziewior and Erlend G. Høyersten — the authors include Tom Holert, distinguished German art historian, taking an in - depth look at Rosenquist's unique spatiality; Stephan Diederich, curator and specialist at Museum Ludwig, giving a review of the themes in the exhibition; Sarah Bancroft, art historian, curator, and Rosenquist expert who co-curated the 2003 Guggenheim Museum Rosenquist retrospective (and current head of the Rosenquist Foundation and the studio) illuminates Rosenquist's seminal source collages; Tino Grass, German designer and researcher, revealing new perspectives on Rosenquist's historic work F - 111; Isabel Gebhardt, Museum Ludwig conservator, outlining the intensive research efforts and conservation work recently undertaken on Horse Blinders; and Tim Griffin, former editor - in - chief of the esteemed American art journal Artforum, discussing the political potential of Pop art as exemplified by a work James Rosenquist created for one of the magazine's issues.

Benson's tree planting and reclaiming deserts, but once again the best efforts are labor intensive (this Jordanian experiment shows how, though it was trashed by a polity addicted to industrial - scale thinking if I remember correctly): http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/006617.html

Policy uncertainty within government surrounding climate change complicates efforts by carbon - intensive companies to develop a long - term strategy.

«Completing 80 % of this strategic project, with a total of 1 million man hours logged, reflects the intensive efforts made by the team,» commented Chairman of ACWA Power Mohammad Abdullah Abunayyan.

An intensive research effort now underway, aided by NASA observations and analysis, points to an unavoidable rise of...

This major effort is continuing and represents the world's largest dataset of intensive site - specific data on butterfly populations collected by one person under a strict protocol.»

The selection supports the continuation of an intensive modernization effort by the company's legal department, which includes the recent successful completion of an extensive knowledge management initiative.

While we are encouraged by those efforts to minister to those in struggling relationships, we believe there are several things that set Hope Restored intensives apart:

The issue includes articles written by parents that explore their guilt, struggles, and efforts to address their children's feelings of abandonment, as well as articles on family therapy and intensive in - home services.

Within the education community, Parents as Teachers (PAT) has gained prominence as a program for promoting child development and school readiness after achieving promising results in Missouri.12 In New Zealand, Scotland, and other countries, recent development of home - visiting efforts have replicated American models, thus indicating that the promise seen in this country with home visiting is envisioned beyond our shores.13, 14 Lisbeth Schorr, in her 1988 book Within Our Reach: Breaking the Cycle of the Disadvantaged, stated: «[Home - visiting] programs that succeed in helping the children and families who live in the shadows are intensive and comprehensive, flexible, and staffed by professionals with the time and skills to establish solid relationships with their clients.