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«Sometimes the large retailers can actually postpone a price increase based on their large inventories purchased at a lower price,» says Larry Compeau, associate professor at the Clarkson University School of Businessin Potsdam, New York, who studies the impact pricing has on consumer behavior.

We used data from a large cluster - randomized trial to assess the impact of a breastfeeding promotion intervention on socioeconomic inequalities in breastfeeding (exclusivity and duration) and in child cognitive ability at early school age.

setting up 2 flagship boroughs in London to demonstrate the impact of improving school food on a large scale

The GLA is pleased to announce plans to set up two London flagship boroughs, intended to demonstrate the positive impact of improving food culture in schools and across the community on a large scale, as part of the School Food Plan.

«Do you support measures that increase accountability, transparency and that increase the input of school district parents in the decision to permit and maintain charter schools, as well as measures to reduce the negative fiscal impact on school districts with large numbers of charters?»

Losing the company at this location would have meant a staggering impact on the local economy, families, communities, and school districts as BAE Systems is one of the largest employers in the area.

Some board members cited the large number of students of color in the city school district and the impact the comments will have on them, as well as the poor example they set.

Commenting on the publication of the 26th Report of the School Teachers» Review Body for England and Wales, and the Government's acceptance of all its recommendations, Chris Keates General Secretary of the NASUWT the largest teachers» union in the UK, said «We welcome the Report of the independent pay Review Body in studying the evidence on the impact of pay on teacher recruitment and retention.

The large number of test refusals had an impact on teacher evaluations last school year, with student growth on state exams making up 20 percent of a teacher's rating.

Stephanie Anzman - Frasca, Ph.D., of ChildObesity180, Tufts University, Boston, and co-authors used data from 446 public elementary schools in a large, urban school district in the United States to look at the impact of BIC on participation in the School Breakfast Program (SBP), school attendance and academic achievschool district in the United States to look at the impact of BIC on participation in the School Breakfast Program (SBP), school attendance and academic achievSchool Breakfast Program (SBP), school attendance and academic achievschool attendance and academic achievement.

In a collaborative research effort between Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Qi and colleagues analyzed the impact of tooth loss in large studies of adults, aged 45 to 69 years, in which participants had reported on the numbers of natural teeth they had, then in a follow - up questionnaire, reported recent tooth loss.

The JAMA Pediatrics study is the first of a large - scale public program to assess impacts on mid-life educational attainment and the contributions of continuing services in elementary school.

Measles causes significant absence from school or work and has a much larger impact on people's daily lives than illnesses like flu or chicken pox, according to a new study by researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Public Health Enschool or work and has a much larger impact on people's daily lives than illnesses like flu or chicken pox, according to a new study by researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Public Health EnSchool of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Public Health England.

Rather, we found that the particular charter schools in the Boston area (especially those that were part of the lottery study) seem to be having large impacts on student achievement.

Consequently, the movement of a single student from one sector to another has a much larger impact on the proportion of students with IEPs enrolled in charter schools than on the proportion of students with IEPs enrolled in district schools.

Overall, I find that winning the lottery to attend a first - choice school has a large impact on crime for high - risk youth.

The $ 6 billion funding for the federal Reading First program has helped more students «crack the code» to identify letters and words, but it has not had an impact on reading comprehension among 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders in participating schools, according to one of the largest and most rigorous studies ever undertaken by the U.S. Department of Education.

Importantly, the schools attended by students in our sample include both open - enrollment public schools operated by the local school district and five over-subscribed charter schools that have been shown to have large, positive impacts on student achievement as measured by state math and English language arts tests.

Melnick examines the way in which an investigation based on a racially disparate impact analysis in a large school system would play out in practice.

Derek Neal's study of schooling nationwide also identified large positive impacts on Catholic graduation rates and college going.

If it can not be proved that those gains are due to improved school accountability, it is heartening to know that Margaret Raymond and Eric Hanushek found, in more precise estimates of accountability impacts, somewhat larger gains on the NAEP in those states that were the first to put accountability systems into place (see «High - Stakes Research,» features, Summer 2003).

Figure 2 also shows that schools with smaller percentages of their students on scholarships have larger positive impacts on college enrollment rates.

As noted above, Catholic and other (non-Christian) religious schools tend to have the largest estimated impacts on college enrollment, followed by non-Catholic Christian schools and non-religious schools (with the latter having impacts that are not distinguishable from zero).

The Urban study also finds evidence that schools that serve a smaller percentage of FTC students have larger positive impacts on college enrollment than schools where a majority of students are on scholarship.

«For large rural states like Montana, and for inner - city school systems struggling with limited resources, the impact on education could be dramatic,» according to Mr. Burns.

Several rigorous studies have confirmed that many KIPP middle schools have large, positive impacts on student performance on math and reading tests.

Even when attrition and replacement throughout the middle school years are taken into account, the limited range of potential peer effects at KIPP schools does not explain the large cumulative impacts on student achievement identified by prior studies.

Perhaps the largest long - term impact of the Coleman Report has been its effect on elite opinion about the contribution schools make to student achievement.

This was one of the key findings from the large - scale Deployment and Impact of Support Staff (DISS) study, which looked at typical ways in which TAs were being used in UK schools, and the impact they were having on pupil attaiImpact of Support Staff (DISS) study, which looked at typical ways in which TAs were being used in UK schools, and the impact they were having on pupil attaiimpact they were having on pupil attainment.

«With nearly three decades» experience supporting primary schools and academies of all sizes — from village primaries with 80 pupils right through to large inner city academies with 800 pupils - we see the impact that technology is having on education and the challenges this brings.

Tom Payzant, the veteran superintendent who heads up Boston Public Schools, says large school districts get funding from a variety of philanthropic organizations, but he has had to work hard to persuade these funders to align their efforts to support a system - wide vision of how to improve education and avoid contributing to what he calls «project-itis,» which is just a series of ad hoc donations that make givers feel good but have little impact on students.

There will be two flagship boroughs in London to demonstrate the impact of improving school food on a large scale providing # 11.8 million to help schools increase take up of good school food providing # 3.15 million to help schools set up breakfast clubs.

But since the report's publication, scholars have developed more precise data on teacher effectiveness, and, by probing at differences in teacher quality within schools, have found very large impacts of teacher quality on student achievement.

Combining anecdotal material with quantifiable data from a nationwide sample of large cities, they find positive impacts on both school management and elementary school achievement.

Moreover, the best available evidence shows that KIPP produces large impacts on students in their first year at a KIPP school — before late - entering students could possibly have any effect.

Instead of focusing the education conversation around a select number of hot topics ~ often related to school governance ~ we should focus our efforts on overcoming larger societal realities and their impact on student learning.

Tablets for Schools is a charity that commissions the largest independent research programme in the world on how tablets impact learning and attainment.

Yet, a recent study of the first two years of Louisiana's private school voucher program documented large negative impacts on test scores.

Not every school is fortunate to have such a large company headquartered in its backyard, but that does not mean that every school can not have partnerships that have a great impact on students.

Meanwhile, Picus and Odden ignore a large body of literature that shows little impact on advantaged students and smaller impacts on disadvantaged ones, to say nothing of the empirical reality that the 56 percent of students currently attending schools that have full - day kindergarten do not surpass the remaining 44 percent attending schools without full - day kindergarten by anything like a 0.77 margin.

Despite the numbers, the school choice programs are not large enough to have had more than a limited statewide impact on the millions of students attending Florida's public schools.

What's the theory that envisions how these schools will have an impact on the larger system?

[C] harter schools are pulling large numbers of students from the private education market and present a potentially devastating impact on the private education market, as well as a serious increase in the financial burden on taxpayers.

All of this is occurring with a focus on the leadership pipeline that grows larger and more effective, impacting not only franchise schools but also traditionally configured schools across the system.

Recent research by McKinsey on what makes successful school systems has shown that innovation makes a large impact on moving schools from «good» to «great» — so the question is, will schools remember the value of ICT in the classroom — we certainly hope so?

Usually, heating is the largest and most expensive energy user in schools, and savings in this area can have a positive impact on energy bills even through introducing simple low - cost measures.

In other words, even though the average charter has a zero or negative impact on test scores, there are more charters with very large positive or very large negative test - score impacts than there are traditional public schools with such extreme outcomes.

Now, implicit bias is a much larger societal issue, and there are many organizations working within school systems to help educators to recognize and mitigate the impact of decisions based on our unconscious attitudes and stereotypes.

Fundamentally the key issue that faces every new - build school is space, as they are now typically built by area to control cost; this method has an immediate impact on the catering facilities, particularly in those schools moving from much larger, traditional buildings.

This is the case in Boston, where researchers» careful tracking of six charter high schools over the last decade has shown that those charters have a large and positive impacts on MCAS scores as compared to the city's conventional public high schools.