It is therefore our collective duty to ensure the actual and potential
positive impacts of these programs are sustained, improved and expanded,» he said.
Or consider private school choice mechanisms like voucher and tax credit scholarship programs: Despite
the positive impacts of these programs, only eleven of our thirty cities are located in states where they are legal.
The positive impact of these programs on the number of animals entering municipal shelters is dramatic and very welcome.
Effects from FF were not moderated by income, but greater
positive impact of the program was found for lower educated parents and for families with a father who reported higher levels of insecure attachment in close relationships.
Not exact matches
Of those polled, the majority — 57 % — said the
programs have a
positive impact.
What's especially telling is that studies indicate that prior entrepreneurial experience doesn't change the
positive impacts of an accelerator
program.
The good news, according to Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall, is that a range
of measures put in place over the last half - decade have made a
positive impact on the Pentagon's buying power while trimming costs across a range
of major defense
programs.
This decision has broad support from international institutional investors with whom MSCI consulted, primarily as a result
of the
positive impact on the accessibility
of the China A market
of both the Stock Connect
program and the loosening by the local Chinese stock exchanges
of pre-approval requirements that can restrict the creation
of index - linked investment vehicles globally.
Although the loan guarantee
program is only one
of many things the SBA does to help small businesses, because they recognize that access to capital is a big challenge for many
of the businesses they serve, they've made some recent changes that portend a
positive impact for small businesses.
As a continuation
of its ethical sourcing commitment, Starbucks will launch a pilot
program with select coffee farmers in Costa Rica, Colombia and Rwanda to develop next - level data technology to log and share real - time information along the journey
of coffee beans with the aim
of driving
positive impact to smallholder farmers within its supply chain.
«The fact that companies continue to dedicate an increasing amount
of resources to their corporate well - being
programs indicates they are having a
positive impact on overall workforce performance,» said Robert Kennedy, senior vice president, Fidelity Benefits Consulting.
Regardless
of which loyalty
program you choose, it should have a
positive impact on your bottom line.
Some 5,000 U.K. companies have so far benefited from the ECR
program in terms
of improving their international marketing communications, with a majority (80 %) noting that it has had a
positive impact on their overall profitability.
Dampening the
positive impact of these developments were lower excise taxes and duties, down5.6 %, corporate income tax revenues, down 1.3 %, higher elderly benefits, up 4.6 %, higher major transfers to provinces, up 8.1 % and higher other direct
program expenses, up 2.0 %.
At its recent earnings call for the first quarter
of 2017, Grainger displayed the following slide illustrating the
positive impact of its price - reduction
program.
Almost 86 %
of employees participating in an employee advocacy
program credited their involvement on social media as having a
positive impact on their career.
«The only kind
of framework I had for thinking about how to make a
positive impact was like, «Oh, some sort
of charity or humanitarian aid organization or sponsorship
program,»» she explains.
This
impact may at various times be
positive or negative, but currently the negative
impact of the entertainment media, advertising, and even the way news
programs are constructed appear to outweigh the more
positive benefits.
An estimated 80,000 farmers will be in the sustainable quality
program by the end
of the 2012 — 2013 harvest season, and I hope you can agree that an significant
positive impact like that should not be considered greenwashing.
The
ImPACT - NYSIR partnership is a giant leap forward in our endeavors to continually provide
programs and services that protect our subscribers» student athletes, and a
positive step in the education
of school officials and staff about the risks
of sports related head injuries.»
Polk County Public Schools have lot
of great
programming, including breakfast - in - the - classroom (Polk County received Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom grant back in SY 2012 - 13) and a «What's That Wednesday»
program where students learn about new foods; additionally, Polk has implemented CEP at 109 sites which has had a
positive impact on participation.
The evaluation revealed that the nutrition integrity project had a
positive impact beyond the schools that participated in the pilot; once the benefits
of combi ovens were explained and publicized, other schools wanted to follow suit, either through the
program or by finding other creative ways to finance their purchases.
Findings from the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, a rigorous Congressionally - mandated study, indicate that the
program had modest but
positive impacts on EHS children at age three in cognitive, language, and social - emotional development, compared to a control group.xxiii In addition, their parents scored higher than control group parents on such aspects
of the home environment as parenting behavior and knowledge
of infant - toddler development.
«The cost
of universal free school lunch
programs are modest and their
positive impacts on kids and families are well documented.
The
impact of family camps on
positive family parenting is particularly promising and suggests that family camp experiences can play a role in family enhancement
programs.
Studies on a number
of residential treatment centers have shown that these
programs have a
positive impact on rehabilitation.
Your response should address the
positive impact all
of the equipment will have in your child nutrition
program.
A world in which moms have the support
of policies and
programs that prioritize the health and nutrition
of moms and babies would create
positive societal
impacts.
But, one fundamental obstacle that will prevent this from coming to fruition is the subjective view
of the electoral process / positions by the youths as a right which must be given, even in the face
of obvious inabilities, and gross absence
of planned
programs and pragmatic strategies to making a
positive impact by the power - seeking youths.
A few
of the education items the governor did propose — such as funding for prekindergarten, mental health services, and after school
programs — have the potential to make a
positive impact on students»
I have worked together with Marc Molinaro on
programs and policies that have had a
positive impact on our community: providing affordable senior housing, preserving important farmland and open space, promoting sound healthcare initiatives, and investing in innovative economic policies,» said Supervisor Sue Crane, Town
of Red Hook.
«The study results indicate that the hospital's Bone Health Initiative has a
positive impact on the musculoskeletal health
of the Asian senior population,» said Huijuan Huang, MPA,
program coordinator.
«We know from many studies that good physical fitness reduces cardiovascular mortality, and that physical activity has a
positive impact on cardiovascular risk factors following a rehab
program,» said Maxime Caru, a doctoral student in human kinetics at UdeM and lead author
of the study.
This does not necessarily measure a
program's
impact in any particular case, but rather whether it's capable
of having a
positive impact.
The importance
of a strong K - 12 mathematics and science education in fostering scientific and technical careers represents an opportunity for well - designed
programs in astronomy to have a
positive impact in attracting minorities to science.
Yoga Nidra:
Positive Effects Calming Nervous System and Heart Rate Study Wellness
Program including Yoga Nidra for Veterans Study
Impact of Yoga Nidra on Psychological Wellbeing
In their analysis, they found that Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound (ELOB) had highly promising and significant evidence
of effectiveness (six studies across multiple states) to support the
positive impact the
program has on student achievement.
• «All
of which» means «some
of which,» as the multi-year Louisiana study cited (
of which I am co-author) reports no significant achievement
impacts of the
program after three years and the Indiana study cited reports that the initial negative results
of that
program turn
positive in reading by year four.
There is some evidence, however, that the
program had a
positive impact in schools where teachers were few in number, an environment in which it may be easier for teachers to cooperate in pursuit
of a common reward.
At the very least it will cause a moratorium in continuation
of state accountability
programs even though these
programs have had a consistently
positive impact on student performance.
Even if a tidy randomized trial shows
positive impacts for a digital tool, it is still important to consider how any given tool fits into the entire instructional
program of classrooms and schools.
In The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools (Brookings, 2002), we and our colleagues reported that attending a private school had no discernible
impact,
positive or negative, on the test scores
of non-African-American students participating in school voucher
programs in Washington, D.C., New York City, and Dayton, Ohio.
«Little is known about whether (professional development) can have a
positive impact on achievement when a
program is delivered across a range
of typical settings and when its delivery depends on multiple trainers,» conclude Wayne and co. «Despite a consensus in the literature on the features
of effective (professional development), there is limited evidence on the specific features that make a difference for achievement.»
«Joe exhibits a passion for the work
of education that is infectious - he has a
positive impact on everyone he meets,» says Professor Karen Mapp, director
of the Education Policy and Management
Program (EPM).
Available data show that low - income families are the primary beneficiaries
of STC
programs and that STC
programs have a
positive fiscal
impact on state treasuries.
When asked in the spring
of 2003, just as the pilot
program was ending, to rate whether setting measurable objectives for bonuses
of up to $ 1,500 had an
impact on «cooperation among teachers,» 53.2 percent
of the participating teachers said the
impact was
positive; only 2 percent said the
impact was negative.
Patrick Wolf's IES - funded evaluation
of the Washington, D. C. school voucher
program had a strongly
positive impact on student learning in reading, though not in math.
In the experimental evaluation
of the initial DC Opportunity Scholarship
Program that I led from 2004 to 2011, the number of students in testing grades dropped substantially from year 3 to year 4, leading to a much noisier estimate of the reading impacts of the program, which were positive but just missed being statistically significant with 95 % conf
Program that I led from 2004 to 2011, the number
of students in testing grades dropped substantially from year 3 to year 4, leading to a much noisier estimate
of the reading
impacts of the
program, which were positive but just missed being statistically significant with 95 % conf
program, which were
positive but just missed being statistically significant with 95 % confidence.
Given the
impact of educational attainment on a variety
of economic and social outcomes, a
positive result could have significant implications for the value
of school - choice
programs that include charter high schools.
For example, the failure to find
positive student - achievement
impacts in a series
of IES - funded studies
of professional development
programs has produced a broader appreciation
of the difficulty
of adult behavior change and more healthy skepticism about the traditional approach to teacher training.