Sentences with phrase «major academic efforts»

One of the major academic efforts to understand how voters behave in September's referendum is being conducted as part of an enterprise known as the British Election Study (BES).

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The labs of large, multinational companies and academic research efforts at major universities or governments are great at churning out innovations that become the basis for startups.

«But basic field studies on ticks has never been a priority at the National Institutes of Health and the CDC has too little funding to support the major research effort that is needed for our academic institutions to solve the tick problem.»

Maximizing support for the efforts of those such as Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research and academic medical research centers is key, especially now because other major pharmaceutical companies could follow Pfizer's decision.

As it stands, the Roundtable is a collaborative effort of wealthy East Coast Catholics, academics, editors, and Church activists who are determined to devise a strategy for establishing a major role for the laity in the governance of the Catholic Church in this country.

Wilmers lauded the effort of «major people working together in partnership to transform a community through strategies centered on academic achievement and neighborhood revitalization.»

The effort employs the same accusations and distortions that climate scientists and various investigative panels have battled for years: Academics are doctoring the science, the major science bodies are corrupt, the science is anything but settled.

The improvement effort began more than 20 years ago when state legislators passed a major reform law that put rigorous academic goals and well - designed assessments front and center.

Steiner — an academic with Oxford and Harvard degrees who also had pioneered new teacher training programs as head of Hunter College's School of Education — had «charged out of the gate galloping,» observes Meyer, instituting greatly tougher benchmarks for the state's 3 - 8 tests and initiating a major effort to write a statewide curriculum.

I am told that a major effort is now being launched in Denver to use these technologies to lift the quality of academic instruction — while reducing costs — at Catholic high schools.

«It really is an effort to look at the major drivers around raising student academic achievement,» Mr. Steiner said in an interview.

After the loss, Salon Magazine wrote, «Joshua Thompson, Finch's director of education and youth, defended the unsuccessful effort, saying the mayor was following the recommendations of «a report handed back to him» by a charter commission that was based on testimony by academics and «major reformers» like former New York City schools chief Joel Klein.

Bosetti's prior research also includes The Evaluation of the California Linked Learning District Initiative, a multiyear study of a major systemic effort to transform high schools through programs of study that integrate rigorous academic instruction with a demanding technical curriculum and work - based learning.

Here, we make an effort to meet your needs comprehensively by dealing with your concerns at an individual level since we know your major problem in academic writings.

He has extensive experience representing health plans, academic medical centers and multi-hospital health systems, ambulatory and specialty care providers and physician groups, as well as private equity funds and other institutional healthcare investors, in major healthcare transactions and reorganization efforts.

On Thursday, a group of law enforcement agencies, major bitcoin exchanges, and academics launched a group called the «Blockchain Alliance» in an effort to help combat blockchain - related crime and provide more legitimacy for the technology.»