Sentences with phrase «of schools database»

The Families of Schools database currently contains only secondary schools.

The TES featured the «Families of Schools database,» a new tool to be released by the EEF in early 2015.

In the new year, we will be publishing a Families of Schools database, to allow schools to compare their own performance with other similar schools across...

Our Families of Schools database has revealed, for example, that in the top performing school of one «family» of similar schools, 90 % of their disadvantaged pupils achieved a Level 4B — the level most likely to lead to getting five good GCSEs later on - or higher in their Key Stage 2 Maths exam.

The Families of Schools database is a free tool that groups similar schools together on factors including prior attainment, percentage of pupils eligible for free school meals and the number of children who speak English as an additional language.

The EEF will be investing more in resources, like our Families of Schools database, which allow schools to share their successes, learn from their colleagues and build capacity in the system.»

Not exact matches

Niche, an education review site that's kind of like Yelp for schools, based its ranking on a combination of user reviews and education statistics sourced from government and public databases.

With 600 seats and hundreds of thousands of databases, books and periodicals, the school also has the largest bilingual business library in the country.

Every year the funding database sifts through its vast trove of data to product a report detailing which schools produce the most VC - backed founders, but this year's iteration draws on more data than ever before.

Pure Storage can make a dramatic impact on the wide range of databases and applications that a typical school supports.

There's a computer program buried deep in the bowels of the massive MaxPreps» database of girls high school basketball teams, and it churns through the wins and losses — and margin of victory — of every team in the country.

«The NASBE Healthy Schools Policy Database is a comprehensive set of state - level laws and policies from 50 states on more than 40 school health topics that includes hyperlinks to the actual policies wherever possible.»

has introduced legislation designed to increase the safety of school meals by creating a national database on the inspection records of school food suppliers.

Schakowsky's proposed database is modeled in part on a system used by the Agriculture Department, which purchases about 17 percent of the food served in schools.

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This webinar will also contain tips for using FRAC's interactive database of eligible and participating schools.

I also heard about this and decided to do some research of my own using our school's research database.

He also referenced the fact that New York is now one of three states placed on a watch list for losing hundreds of millions of Race to the Top dollars by US Education Secretary Arne Duncan because it has «hit a roadblock» on significant policy provisions of qualifying for the aid, including establishment of the peformance evaluation system and creation of a database to track student records across school districts.

The New America Foundation actually has several of these in the works — quickie animations that help explain a complex issue or statistic; maps comparing all 50 states» climate change policies; even an interactive database that compares all 14,000 U.S. school districts.

The database includes every public employer on the Island - from the Village of Baxter Estates in Nassau, which has one active employee in the pension system, to the Brentwood Union Free School District in Suffolk, the largest on Long Island, with 2,987 employees in the system.

Even then, he collected $ 378,631, or 77 percent of his $ 490,000 salary at the school, before leaving the payroll as he faced corruption charges, according to a database released Monday.

«In order to put in place effective strategies at national, local and school level to combat bullying in all its forms, a comprehensive database of incidents is needed to show the full nature and extent of the problems.

NEW ROCHELLE, NY — The Empire Center has published a database of 352 New School Contracts, including New Rochelle, on their SeeThroughNY.net web site.

The ammo database was written into the 2013 SAFE Act, which bans assault - style weapons, and which Cuomo pushed through in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Connecticut where 20 children were killed.

He has been a lifelong volunteer for causes he believes in, including conducting climate change science field research with the Harvard Department of Forestry in Southern Africa, working on get - out - the - vote efforts for John Kerry, Barack Obama and Zephyr Teachout, building agricultural databases for USAID funded international projects all over the world, and providing technical assistance to schools in Senegal (for which he was awarded the President's Volunteer Service Award by the Obama administration).

The database already includes public payroll information, school contracts and other public records accessible by freedom of information requests.

ProPublica, working with Investigative Post and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, has built a searchable database of nearly 16,000 economic development deals statewide.

Anonymised data from the National Pupil Database to help parents and pupils to monitor the performance of their schools in depth will be available from next June.

That job went to Elnashai, who began by creating a detailed database pinpointing the location of 603,756 structures, including all the hospitals, bridges, schools, and fire stations in the region.

To re-examine cervical cancer mortality rates from 2002 to 2012 in the United States, Anne Rositch, PhD, MSPH, of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and her colleagues obtained estimates from the National Center for Health Statistics and the NCI Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Mortality Database.

«This study demonstrates the value of using the SEER database to analyze factors associated with surgery as a treatment for localized pancreatic cancer in a large number of patients over a prolonged period of time,» says Dr. Kim, who is also Chief Medical Officer of UH Seidman Cancer Center and the Charles Hubay Professor at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine.

Combining data from four different databases to look at injury occurrence and reporting in the Philadelphia Fire Department, researchers from the Firefighter Injury Research & Safety Trends (FIRST) program of Drexel's Dornsife School of Public Health discovered that, once injuries were more accurately coded, the difference in workers» compensation costs was as much as $ 1 million for some injuries.

Researchers led by Olexandr Isayev, Ph.D., and Alexander Tropsha, Ph.D., at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy used data on approximately 60,000 unique materials from the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Inorganic Crystal Structure Database to create a new methodology they call Properties Labeled Materials Fragments.

The kids then checked the sequences against the database at barcodinglife.org The high schoolers found everything from pigeons and Pomeranians to an invasive latrine fly and what looks to be at least a new subspecies of cockroach.

In the current study, Shaun C. Desai, M.D., of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, and coauthors used data from several large payer databases.

Using a database they compiled of all fast food TV ads that aired nationally in 2009, Jennifer A. Emond, PhD, and colleagues from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth found that only two nationally - recognized fast food chains engaged in child - directed TV advertising at that time.

Following a systematic review of case reports and an FDA safety database, researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania are calling for formal controlled investigations into the safety and efficacy of off - label use of the Lariat device, which has never been approved for treatment of this condition.

To gauge the impact of steroid therapy introduced roughly a decade ago, Rodrigo Hasbun, M.D., senior author and associate professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the UTHealth Medical School, analyzed a database of more than 50,000 people treated for bacterial meningitis between 1997 - 2010 in the United States.

The researchers relied on a large Virginia claims database because it is one of the few datasets that reflect payments from nearly all types of sources, said lead author Dr. John Mafi, assistant professor of medicine in the division of general internal medicine and health services research at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

«We decided to investigate cardiovascular risks of this therapy in a large health care database since these previous studies were modest in size and only focused on men 65 and older,» said the study's senior author, Sander Greenland, a professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and a professor of statistics in the UCLA College of Letters and Science.

The approach allows researchers to «actually come up with a valid estimate of the rate of false convictions — knowing something that people say [in criminal justice] is not knowable,» says study author Samuel Gross, a law professor at the University of Michigan Law School and editor of the National Registry of Exonerations, a U.S. - focused exoneration database.

A research group consisting of Andrew M. Stern of Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Arturo Casadevall of Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University, R. Grant Steen of MediCC Medical Communications Consultants, and Fang analyzed several open databases to answer these questions:

The study consisted of an analysis of the Association of American Medical Colleges Faculty Roster, a database of U.S. medical school faculty, and included full - time faculty at schools located in the 50 U.S. states or District of Columbia and reporting data from 2000 - 2010.

Pia Glatz, M.D., of the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, and coauthors conducted a nationwide study of more than 2 million children born in Sweden from 1973 through 1993 by using a variety of national health care databases, school achievement registries, and the military conscription register.

The research methods included the use of large administrative databases and econometric analysis exploiting micro-level data on students, schools, house transactions and businesses.

Harvard Medical School in Boston, which received a $ 9 million award in January to act as «coordinating center,» will facilitate collaboration between researchers and will make patient data widely available through public repositories such as NIH's database of Genotypes and Phenotypes, explained Anastasia Wise, director of NHGRI's Division of Genomic Medicine, at a press conference today.

In the study published online in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, researchers from Yale School of Medicine analyzed 230,684 hospitalizations for heart attack in patients age 30 to 54 from a total of 1.1 million hospitalizations reported in a national database from 2001 to 2010.

At the University of Washington School of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences, Associate Professor Trevor Branch created a database of the most cited papers in his field.

«The database has allowed us to assess the national burden of HIV infection through vertical transmission throughout the HIV / AIDS epidemic and to identify the populations at greatest risk,» said Joel Singer, professor in the School of Population and Public Health at UBC, who is presenting at IAS 2015.

Using biochemical clues as a guide to scout massive databases of genetic sequences, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers at Harvard Medical School have identified a family of candidate...