Sentences with phrase «largest voluntary program»

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We should remember that it was the limited effectiveness of church workers in the settlement house movement and other voluntary, local efforts in the 1880s that led to the large - scale government social programs of the 20th century.

«Our future field studies will focus on voluntary commitment devices in other health behaviors, such as gym exercise and smoking cessation, which can work in large - scale incentive programs and help people maintain self - control on an ongoing basis.»

In 2002, a successful grassroots initiative led to 60 percent of Florida voters approving the country's largest UPK (known as voluntary Pre-K, or VPK) program.

Though the program was voluntary for veteran teachers, the combination of large bonuses and relatively undemanding evaluations — at least at the lower levels — led the vast majority of teachers to enter.

Elementary school students with high levels of attendance in voluntary summer learning programs — defined as at least 20 days of a five - to six - week program — experienced benefits in math and reading, according to new RAND Corporation findings from the largest research study ever conducted on summer learning.

The National Summer Learning Project, supported by the Wallace Foundation, is the largest study ever to look at whether and how large - scale, voluntary summer learning programs offered by public school districts can help improve educational outcomes.

The resource, «Summer Learning Recruitment Guide,» is available online and in print and is based on the experiences of five large urban districts and their community partners that recruited thousands of children for voluntary summer learning programs.

This guide is based on lessons from the National Summer Learning Project (NSLP), the largest study ever to look at whether and how large - scale, voluntary summer learning programs offered by public school districts can help improve educational outcomes for children.

So while there is a lot of consensus that targeted, voluntary, low cost spay / neuter programs are effective in gaining spay / neuter compliance — and a large trackrecord of success, However, taking the next step to mandating the law is only a recipe to increase impounds, and thus, shelter killing.

Projects adhering to the ACR standard contracted the largest volume of forest carbon credits from any North American program... owing to their popularity among purely voluntary buyers based primarily in the U.S.» Corporate Social Responsibility buyers of the two million ACR forest offsets transacted in 2011 included Norfolk Southern, General Motors / Chevrolet and The Walt Disney Company.

The EU position coupled with the MIT LCA analysis, brought together Energizer, Kodak, Panasonic, and Rayovac, the largest battery manufactures in the US, to examine opportunities for a voluntary nationwide program to recycle batteries.

The company has been the nation's No. 1 one wind energy provider for the past six years, is ranked fifth among U.S. utilities for solar capacity, and boasts the largest U.S. voluntary green energy program by customer participation.

In India, WRI has worked since 2013 with The Energy and Resources Institute and the Confederation of Indian Industry to convene and support the India GHG Program (IGHGP), a voluntary industry - led partnership of over 50 large companies committed to measuring and managing their GHG emissions.

The program is strictly voluntary from a company standpoint, but most of the medium - to - large carriers will participate.

DMV's Driver Alert program is a voluntary program to monitor the driving records of individuals employed by participating public and private transportation companies and other organizations employing large numbers of drivers.

Probably the most extensive evaluation of program effects on very young children was undertaken in Canada's Self - Sufficiency Project (SSP), the voluntary earnings supplement program that had large initial effects on full - time employment and income.5 Despite concerns that increases in full - time work would reduce parents» time with their young children, no effects on children were found either at the 36 - month follow - up point, when a test of language comprehension was administered to the children who would then have been three to five years of age, or at the 54 - month follow - up point, when parents were asked about their children's school performance.

This working paper introduces the Supporting Healthy Marriage evaluation, the first large - scale, multisite experiment that is testing voluntary marriage education programs for low - income married couples with children in eight sites across the country.