Sentences with phrase «of larger effort»

This collection, which will be periodically updated, is part of our larger effort to provide policymakers, practitioners, and stakeholders with useful information as they seek to advance equitable and empowering learning for all students.

In 2002, New York adopted the Uniform Child - Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act as part of a larger effort across the United States to provide uniform standards for the litigation and mediation of child custody disputes.

The legislature in Washington directed the state to raise eligibility under the program from 200 % to 250 % of the federal poverty level, reversing an earlier attempt by the state agency, as part of a larger effort to cut state expenditures, to discontinue its existing Medicaid family planning expansion.

Achieved daily goals set as part of larger effort to drive measurable sales for the company's success.

The new features are small ones, but they're part of a larger effort by Amazon to make voice commands through Alexa feel more natural and, frankly, more interesting.

These flashing green lights aren't new to anyone who has worn a Fitbit Charge HR or Apple Watch or Moto 360 watch before, but they're new to Pebble, and they're part of a larger effort around health tracking.

It said Trust Indicators are part of a larger effort to combat false news and misinformation on Facebook.

The premium API's launch is part of a larger effort on Twitter's part to overhaul its API platform and vision for its developer community, announced last year.

This is all part of a larger effort in the wearables space to provide more value through software and data processing, since the hardware can only be and do so much.

I'm doing a very small part, but hopefully, it's part of a larger effort to rehabilitate an allow people to have a second act.

The organization OpenTheGovernment.org has launched a blog, Evaluating Open Gov, as part of its larger effort to track and evaluate the federal government's progress towards fulfilling President Obama's commitment to «creating an unprecedented level of openness in government.»

This study is part of a larger effort to better predict heat waves.

The data - gathering project is part of a larger effort to understand public life at the microscopic level.

Offsets generated by the project will be retired on behalf of Chevrolet as part of a larger effort by the company to offset 8 million tons of CO2 emissions over the next few years.

Meanwhile, a Chinese - Australian joint venture has announced plans to build a solar farm in rural town of Taralga as part of a larger effort to build $ 8 billion of solar and wind projects in Australia.

That, in turn is part of a larger effort to build out capacity of as much as 11,950 MW farm in the region.

It is part of a larger effort to boost the moral case for action by drawing attention to what McKibben calls global warming's «terrifying new math.»

The study, published in the journal Conservation Letters, is part of a larger effort by conservation organizations to protect tropical forests from the industries that threaten them by using charismatic species to harness public support and generate money for conservation.

Backing off on the humpback hunt today is a small part of a larger effort to push to the limit on using ocean resources.

This project is also part of a larger effort to support bird - related conservation efforts.

In Nusa Lembongan, a small island southeast of Bali, local communities have been quietly nurturing their mangroves, not only as part of a larger effort to preserve coastal resources, but also as a way to develop ecotourism on the island.

The parking and shuttle reservation system — operated by Ace Parking Management, Inc. — is just one component of a larger effort at Muir Woods.

The recent restoration of El Polín, in the Presidio of San Francisco, is part of a larger effort to revitalize the Tennessee Hollow Watershed.

The MPAs total 318 square miles, the largest such network off the continental United States and part of a larger effort throughout the world to conserve natural, historic, and cultural marine resources.

The Orchard Fire Road trail improvement project is part of a larger effort to increase awareness of and access to parks and trails in Marin City.

If it comes to fruition, feral cat colonies would be regulated as part of a larger effort to control the free - roaming feline population — and euthanize much less of it.

The popular annual campaign is part of a larger effort by American Humane to help these beautiful animals and focus on and help solve the unique challenges and issues they face.

Evangelist Franklin Graham, the son and successor of influential Christian minister Billy Graham, claims Marvel's outing of Iceman is part of a larger effort to «indoctrinate» young people.

«This work is part of a larger effort to develop artificial intelligence software to teach students computer science,» said Dr. Kristy Boyer, an assistant professor of computer science at NC State and co-author of a paper on the work, in a press release.

It flows out of a larger effort to assess the reading habits of all Americans ages 16 and older as e-books change the reading landscape and the borrowing services of libraries.1

Or maybe you have a set schedule for your eBook promotion — as part of a larger effort.

The 2005 PT Cruiser convertible, part of a larger effort to boost PT Cruiser sales, will reach dealer lots in March.

At the federal level, the Department of Education could promote the use of ESSA funding for expanded school schedules, encouraging high - poverty schools to use funds from Title I, Part A to pay for longer school days as part of a larger effort to boost student achievement.

To that end, reforming for - profits should be part of a larger effort to make American higher - education less wasteful and more rewarding for college students, whose diverse needs will lead them to attend very different institutions.

Efforts to improve school attendance and reduce dropout rates are part of the larger effort to increase achievement and close performance gaps between student subgroups.

The budget cut is part of a larger effort by the U.S. Justice Department to transfer nearly $ 13 million in unspent funds from its office of juvenile justice and delinquency prevention — funds which would otherwise be in the office's fiscal 19853budget — to the U.S. Marshals Service, said a department spokesman.

Teacher evaluation policy has undergone a lot of upheaval, but the ESSA transition can provide an opportunity to consider teacher evaluation as part of a larger effort to attract, retain, and leverage teacher talent in a way that may have been overlooked in recent reforms.

The e-mail exercise is just part of a larger effort by Uplift Education of Dallas, Texas to use predictive research to help them identify teachers who are most likely to be effective with students and remain with the organization.

This collection, which will be periodically updated, is part of our larger effort to provide policymakers, practitioners, and stakeholders with useful information as they seek to advance equitable and empowering learning for all students.

In 2013, the school transformed the room as part of a larger effort to improve Meriden's special education services after Benigni realized that too many special needs students were being sent outside the district to get the care they needed.

The new framework and emphasis on global competencies is part of a larger effort to incorporate the assessment of social skills and abilities into PISA tests.

Human judgment is very much part of its evaluation system, which itself is part of a larger effort focused on sound hiring practices and significant feedback and supports for educators.

This work is part of a larger effort to elucidate the electronic and atomic structure of catalysts and energy storage materials.

She told reporters it was part of a larger effort to «promote deregulation» at EPA by muting the impact of scientists on its regulatory decisions.

The survey itself is part of a larger effort by SERNANP and its partners to monitor Andean bears across the Machupicchu - Choquequirao Landscape, a large mountainous region containing both archeological sites and natural areas.

The new study is part of a larger effort that Pollyea and his collaborators are pursuing to study fluid - triggered earthquakes and wastewater injection volume and their relation to population centers in Oklahoma, building codes, policy decisions, and industry regulations.

The commission's proposal is part of a larger effort to improve the management and health of European fisheries.

There, she has her own project investigating kidney and bladder regeneration, part of a larger effort to use a patient's own cells to regenerate failing organs.

As part of a larger effort to address compensation at the Whitehead Institute, an ad hoc committee of postdocs, administrators, and faculty members was formed to identify and make suggestions that would improve the postdoc experience at the institute.

The research that led to these findings is part of a larger effort to better understand gene regulation and expression, carried out by the GTEx Consortium, a National Institutes of Health - funded group that includes researchers from around 80 institutions founded in 2010.