Sentences with phrase «major evaluation»

Unfortunately, the first major evaluation of Head Start, published in 1969, failed to find permanent IQ gains, thereby raising the question of whether Head Start was incapable of influencing intellectual development or was just implemented poorly.

The dollars ultimately yielded disappointing results, however, with the only major evaluation (a joint American Institutes for Research and RAND study1) finding no effect on student achievement.

Cost and Tracking Error are two major evaluation factors when it comes to choosing any passive fund i.e. either index fund and / or Exchange Traded Fund (ETFs).

This is going to take a major evaluation of where we are as a community with economic development projects.»

«This is going to take a major evaluation of where we are as a community with economic development projects, and that's separate and apart from, appropriately so, the criminal proceeding that will move forward.»

Of course this is a major evaluation in your life and you have to get to know your potential partner thoroughly.

To avoid this ambiguity, MDRC conducted a major evaluation in which students were randomly assigned either to a career academy or to the regular high school program.

A major evaluation commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education and conducted by two highly respected research institutions delivered a crushing verdict: The program failed and failed badly.

In August 2008, he concluded a major evaluation of the Chicago Public School's Community Schools Initiative, an ambitious project that established community schooling practices in more than 100 inner - city Chicago public schools.

This report reviews the major evaluations of preschool programs, including both traditional programs such as Head Start and those designated as «high quality.»

She is a nationally recognized expert on accountability for early childhood programs, assessment, and large - scale studies of children with disabilities, serving on national advisory boards and consulting to major evaluations to help create designs that adequately address such issues as oversampling and measurement of disability.

Almost a year ago, I covered the Book Industry Study Group's release of a major evaluation of ebook subscription services here at The FutureBook.

Apple Maps failed a major evaluation during testing.

A major evaluation component of the project was undertaken to determine the effectiveness of the training program.

Dr. Jones Harden is currently working on a major evaluation of an Early Head Start - child care partnership initiative and the implementation and evaluation of a group - based intervention to promote language development in infants and toddlers from low - income backgrounds.

She is a nationally recognized expert on accountability for early childhood programs, assessment, and large - scale studies of children with disabilities, serving on national advisory boards and consulting to major evaluations to help create designs that adequately address such issues as oversampling and measurement of disability.