Sentences with phrase «national studies released»

Despite facing higher academic standards and budget cuts, urban schools are continuing to see gains on assessments in reading and mathematics, a national study released last week has found.

Teenagers in 1995 were less likely than those in 1993 to consider drug use harmful and were more likely to believe that such use is tolerated, according to a national study released last week.

A national study released today casts doubt on whether the academic performance of students in charter schools is any better than that of their peers in regular public schools.

«When Money Matters,» a report of a national study released in 1997 by the Educational Testing Service (ETS), determined that spending money on smaller classes has a greater impact on math achievement than spending on administration, school buildings, or hiring teachers with advanced degrees.

More than a third of teachers in North Carolina's traditional public schools are chronically absent — double the rate of their peers in the state's charter schools, according to a new national study released Wednesday.

Student standardized test scores can accurately identify effective teachers, especially when combined with classroom observations and pupil surveys, according to a major national study released Tuesday.

California charter schools outperform traditional public schools in reading but significantly lag in math, according to a national study released Monday by researchers at Stanford University.

A independent national study released this year by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes shows charter school students have greater learning gains in reading than their peers in traditional public schools.

The study echoed findings from a national study released in October 2015 by Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), Mathematica Policy Research and the Center on Reinventing Public Education.

A national study released earlier this year (the most rigorous to date) finds that, while Head Start modestly boosts reading and math skills during the time children are in the program, those gains disappear by first grade.

Not exact matches

Right before the ecommerce event was about to kick - off, the National Retail Federation released a study predicting that fewer shoppers would take advantage of all the digital deals.

Similarly, the National Federation of Independent Business, in a study released in December, claims a proposed wage increase in New York to $ 8.50 from $ 7.25 with an index to inflation would cost the state 22,000 jobs and $ 2.5 billion in revenue.

The National Chicken Council has started to push back against criticisms, releasing a study this week that called out the increased environmental impact of slower - growth chickens.

A study released last summer by the National Academy of Sciences showed that 100,000 elephants had been killed from 2011 to 2014 alone.

Those are the mixed - bag conclusions of a study released recently by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

SIFMA released the same day a study titled «Review of the White House Report: «The Effects of Conflicted Investment Advice on Retirement Savings»» that it commissioned the National Economic Research Associates (NERA) to perform.

The National Resources Defense Council recently released a study that says Americans throw away 40 percent of their food every single day.

The research continued, and in May 1982 the National Institute of Mental Health released the findings of a ten - year follow - up to the surgeon general's 1972 study: «After ten more years of research, the consensus among most of the research community is that violence on television does lead to aggressive behavior by children and teenagers who watch the programs.

But research continued, and in May of 1982, the National Institute for Mental Health released the findings of a 10 - year follow up on the Surgeon General «s 1972 Study entitled Television and Behavior: «After ten more years of research, the consensus among most of the research community is that violence on television does lead to aggressive behavior by children and teenagers who watch the programs.

Millennials Weigh In on What Makes Food Brands Authentic: Today Watershed Communications released findings from two national ethnographic studies examining the media habits of millennial food and beverage consumers...

On the other side of the debate, the National Irrigators» Council chairman, Tom Chesson, demanded the government release the overdue CSIRO multiple benefits study, which is supposed to improve the understanding of how environmental benefits can be weighed against the economic impact to irrigation - dependent communities such as the Goulburn Valley in Victoria and the Murrumbidgee region in NSW.

A study released by the National Institutes of Health in 2004 indicated that children who were breastfed had a 20 % lower risk of dying between 28 days and our year old when compared to children who weren't breastfed during this time.

A study released Tuesday by the Illinois Hunger Coalition found that only 16 percent of the students who get free lunch through the National School Lunch Program during the regular school year take advantage of the same program in the summer.

High school players suffer concussions at a rate of 11.2 concussions per 10,000 athletic exposures — a practice or a game — as opposed to 6.3 for college football players, according to a study released by the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council.

Paradoxically, what appears to be the most damning fact is not that homebirth has been shown, in every scientific study and existing state and national statistics, to triple the rate of neonatal death, but that MANA refuses to release their own statistics on the neonatal death rate of homebirth midwives.

Nearly two - thirds of high schools lack a full - time athletic trainer, and nearly 30 percent have no athletic trainer at all, according to the AT Benchmark Study released by the National Athletic Trainers» Association (NATA) and the Korey Stringer Institute (KSI).

This study examines the newspaper articles published in «The Age» newspaper subsequent to the release of the Government discussion paper «improving maternity services in Australia» in 2008 [1] that heralded the national review of maternity services consultation process.

In a press release (below), FPI compares the results of a new national study by Economic Policy Institute, Hardships in America: The Real Story of Working Families, to The Self Sufficiency Standard for New York released last fall.

According a study released this year entitled «Out of Reach,» from The National Low Income Housing Coalition, which was cited in the report, the fair market rental rate for a two - bedroom apartment in Rockland County is $ 1,424.

Not only has the trial of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver begun, but the trial of former Majority Leader Dean Skelos is set to begin next week; and, there was the recent release of a report by a state ethics review commission calling for changes as well as a national study assessing state government accountability and transparency giving New York a «D -» grade.

Dr. Daniel Ellsberg is an American activist and former United States military analyst who, while employed by the RAND Corporation, precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top - secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision - making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other newspapers.

Gibbs, whose advocacy drew national attention to Love Canal, said government responses in the future should involve long - term monitoring of residents» health conditions rather than releasing inconclusive studies.

Anticipating this next round of solar monsoons, the National Academy of Sciences recently released a study based on a workshop in summer 2008 that broadly addressed many of the socioeconomic ramifications of space storms.

A recent study released by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory predicts annual spending on energy efficiency and conservation to quadruple to as much as $ 12 billion a year by 2020.

Scope of the problem A National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) study released this spring shows that 14 percent of patients with drug - resistant major depressive disorder experience a remission of symptoms after rTMS treatment compared with a control group, which reported a 5 percent rate of remission.

The US National Toxicology Program last week released some results from a two - year study in which more than 1000 rats were exposed to differing levels of cellphone radiation for 9 hours a day, for the whole of their lives.

A study was released today by United for Medical Research, a coalition of research organizations, on the benefits that funding for the National Institutes of Health has provided to the economy and medical research, for example.

Imaging studies by Nora Volkow, head of the medical department at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, revealed that the brains of cocaine addicts release half as much dopamine as substance - free subjects.

A new letter, published yesterday in The New England Journal of Medicine, brings together data from the five - year Conflict of Interest Notification Study backed by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, along with broader reports on conflict of interest in medicine released by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) to examine the practical goals and challenges of presenting this information to possible trial participants.

«In studying one of the most dramatic episodes of global change since the end of the age of the dinosaurs, these scientists show that we are currently in uncharted territory in the rate carbon is being released into the atmosphere and oceans,» says Candace Major, program director in the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s Division of Ocean Sciences, which funded the research.

After 3 years spent sifting through thousands of studies, 21 researchers appointed by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) released a report today cataloging how much fat, protein, and carbohydrates healthy North Americans should eat.

A study released in February says early farmers and cooks were spiking their food with chilies about 6,000 years ago: «Probably the earliest spice plant found thus far in the Americas,» says Linda Perry, an archaeobiologist working with the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. «It would have made a diet of roots, tubers, and corn taste a little better.»

Young children in deep poverty, whose family income is below 50 percent of the federal poverty line, fare even worse on health and development indicators than children in poverty, according to a study released by the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.

Based on studies by TRB and the National Academy of Sciences, the paper released last week is designed to be a succinct resource for professionals in the field on how transportation contributes to and is affected by climate change.

Following release of a report by the National Academies of Science Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP) entitled «Enhancing the Postdoctoral Experience for Scientists and Engineers», Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Research Linda Dykstra created a Postdoctoral Committee chaired by Sharon Milgram, an associate professor in the department of cell and molecular physiology.

A new study released in the journal Energy and Environmental Science by MIT and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory looks at factors driving cheap (er) Chinese made solar panels.

The findings, released 19 December, mirror those reached by a similar study conducted in 2011 by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).

A National Academies study released today says the U.S Army downplayed or overlooked a number of environmental risks while planning the expansion of biocontainment facilities at the United States Army Medical Research Institute (USAMRIID) of Infectious Diseases in Frederick, Maryland.

As debate roils over EPA regulations proposed this month limiting the release of the potent greenhouse gas methane during fracking operations, a new University of Vermont study funded by the National Science Foundation shows that abandoned oil and gas wells near fracking sites can be conduits for methane escape not currently being measured.

There's both good news and bad news for researchers who had worried about a new design released this week for the troubled National Children's Study, a $ 3 billion plan to follow 100,000 children from before birth to age 21.