Sentences with phrase «national studies of»

His most recent work focuses on the field of home visiting, as he is co-leading two national studies of home visiting programs for disadvantaged mothers.

Recall how study participants whose parents have psychiatric disabilities compare in self - esteem with young adults to those participants whose parents have other types of disabilities and to national studies of those young adults whose parents have no disabilities

Martin Kushler directs numerous widely acclaimed national studies of utility sector energy efficiency policies and programs, and provides technical assistance to help advance energy efficiency policies in many states.

As the lead researchers on some of the most comprehensive (and controversial) national studies of charter schools, she and her colleagues have found that while charter schools seem to be doing slightly better than traditional public schools in reading and about the same in math, great variation exists within these results (CREDO, 2013).

However, national studies of the program report early successes with regard to the number of providers receiving support such as coaching and the number of infants and toddlers receiving comprehensive services.Office of Early Childhood Development, Administration for Children and Families.

One of the few large - scale national studies of magnet schools found that magnet schools were more effective than traditional public schools, Catholic schools, and secular private schools at raising student achievement in reading and social studies.

Four national studies of education have focused public attention on the decline in achievement in those subjects and the urgent need for major reforms.

It's no surprise that as many as 50 percent of new teachers in high - needs schools leave the profession within five years, according to national studies of teacher retention.

Today Erin's boys participate in individualized programs at school and are being monitored in two national studies of families with more than one autistic child — one at the Duke Center for Human Genetics, another at the University of Washington.

There have been only two broad, national studies of gambling.

In fact, 21 percent of those surveyed in the 2014 National Study of Employers said they were required to comply with the Family and Medical Leave Act but did not actually offer 12 weeks of unpaid or paid leave for at least one type of covered leave.

To better understand how entrepreneurs feel about pursuing and using business credit, we at Wells Fargo conducted a national study of business owners.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 21, 2015 — To gain more insight into the experiences of diverse business owners in the areas of lending and operating their businesses, Wells Fargo commissioned Gallup to conduct a national study of small business owners.

These are some of the major findings of a Global Atlantic Financial Group national study of U.S....

In consultation with the U.S. Department of the Treasury and President Bush's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy, the FINRA Investor Education Foundation commissioned the first national study of the financial capability of American adults in 2009.

The first national study of its kind, the study was an online survey of 480 respondents nationwide (with a minimum of $ 25K annual income), and found that 58 % of all respondents indicated a high interest in early stage equity investment.

The document is called «Effective Christian Education: A National Study of Protestant Congregations.»

I want to explore some of those reasons that are suggested by a recent national study of the D.Min.

Therefore a troubled teen like Tracy has few resources outside the immediate family According to research from the National Study of Youth and Religion, religiously active teens are much less likely to engage in risky behaviors than nonreligious teens.

A national study of commune members, for example, showed that many individuals in these settings held assumptions different from the official ideologies of their communes.11

The 2005 National Study of Youth and Religion published by UNC - Chapel Hill found that Church of Jesus Christ (LDS) youth (ages 13 to 17) were more likely to exhibit these Christian characteristics than Evangelicals (the next most observant group):

That's the alarming conclusion of a major new study of mainline congregations titled Effective Christian Education: A National Study of Protestant Congregations.

Current research includes: co-leading organisational case studies in Birthplace in England, a national study of birth outcomes in home, midwife led, and obstetric led units; investigating the relationship between measures of safety climate and health care quality in A and E and intrapartum care; and conducting nested process evaluations of two trials of obesity in pregnancy behavioural interventions.

A national study of 400 American paediatricians and obstetricians indicated that two - thirds of physicians took a neutral position on circumcision when advising parents [70].

Only a third of large companies provide a private, secure area where women can express breast milk during the workday and only 7 percent offer on - site or near - site child care, according to a 2005 national study of employers by the nonprofit Families and Work Institute.

Pediatrician involvement in breast - feeding promotion: a national study of residents and practitioners.

National study of chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticide residues in human milk, USA.

A national study of concussions reported by high school athletes shows a dramatic increase over the last few years.

To address this issue, we conducted a national study of scientific secrecy in academic genetics and the other life sciences.

A national study of such investments in the 1980s and 1990s suggests it does — including in places where prospects for high - tech seems less than ideal.

These are the findings of a national study of Taiwanese youth led by Wei J. Chen of the National Taiwan University, with Chia - Hua Chan as first author.

In the first national study of a large, diverse population, researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and colleagues, found that 1.2 percent of the study population engaged with devices, and that most of the individuals who started using an activity tracker were younger and had higher - incomes than people who opted not to use the devices.

HRS, sponsored by the National Institute on Aging, is the largest ongoing national study of adults age 51 and older.

A national study of American adults conducted by the University of Michigan under a cooperative agreement with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration found that 154 million American adults watched the eclipse directly, using a combination of solar glasses designed to allow the direct viewing of the sun and various other devices — pin - hole viewers, for example.

Researchers analyzed the records of 1,470 African - American and white women participating in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, a national study of the causes and health effects of hardening of the arteries.

See James T. Bond, Ellen Galinksy, and Jennifer E. Swanberg, 1997 National Study of the Changing Workforce (New York: Families and Work Institute, 1997).

«A National Study of Live Discharges from Hospice,» by Joan M. Teno et al., Journal of Palliative Medicine, August 7, 2014.

Eighty percent of doctors erroneously believe that heart disease kills more men than women, according to a 2005 national study of physician awareness published in the AHA journal Circulation.

Together they developed the first National Study of Marriages.

The number of men and women identifying as bisexual also rose in the national study of sexuality.

As the largest and most comprehensive national study of Americans» romantic lives, Match.com's annual «Singles in America» report gives unprecedented access to the minds, hearts, and bedrooms of American daters.

The follow - up survey for the national study of 58,000 students involved about 12,000 seniors out of the original 28,000.

In 1964, as part of the Civil Rights Act, Congress authorized a national study of equality of educational opportunity.

The National Study of the Changing Workforce, conducted by the Families and Work Institute with financing by 15 corporations and foundations, queried nearly 3,400 workers on issues related to employment, family, and job satisfaction.

A National Study of School Effectiveness for Language Minority Students» Long - Term Academic Achievement.

«The National Study of Charter Management Organization (CMO) Effectiveness: Report on Interim Findings» is available on the CRPE website.

[13] For example, a national study of kindergartners found that 21 percent of poor children were chronically absent compared to only 8 percent of their non-poor peers.

As part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Congress authorized a national study of equality of educational opportunity in the United States.

Today CREDO, Mathematica Policy Research, and CRPE released three papers as part of the first comprehensive rigorous national study of online charter schools.

In 2015, we undertook the first national study of state policies related to pre-K and charter schools.