Sentences with phrase «report by the century»

Potter and Quick are the authors of a recent report by the Century Foundation that makes the case for increasing racial and socioeconomic diversity in schools and that highlights school districts and charter schools that are pursuing this goal.

A recent report by The Century Foundation found that 91 districts and charters use socioeconomic status as a factor to pursue integration, serving over four million students.

A new report by The Century Foundation's Yan Cao examines how on three measures of higher education quality — graduate employment outcomes, student financial distress, and institutional investment in education — for - profit colleges in New York are under - performing when compared to the state's public and nonprofit schools.

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Smith started Vice as a print magazine with Suroosh Alvi and Gavin McInnes in Montreal more than two decades ago; with Smith at the helm as CEO, it's now a multi-platform content mill with a reported audience of between 250 million and 300 million people a month, many of them members of Generation Y. Smith made his money by convincing an older generation that Vice knows millennials better than they could ever hope to, and that pitch has worked: Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox paid US$ 70 million for a 5 % stake of Vice in 2013, and Rogers Communications (which owns Canadian Business) inked a $ 100 million partnership.

The Journal, citing sources familiar with the matter, said that a deal by Disney to purchase some of 21st Century Fox's assets was «gaining momentum» — in line with a CNBC report from last month that said the two sides haven't completely given up on striking an agreement.

The Kansas City Star reported last month that American Century was being sued by employees for excessive fees and only offering its own funds and shares in the company in the investment menu.

Another recent lease, as TRD reported, was inked by Gindi Capital, the real estate portfolio manager for the Gindi family, which owns discount clothing retailer Century 21.

Between 2000 and 2014, the number of Americans who were a century or older increased by about 44 percent, according to a 2016 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

2 The report states that in the 20th century, «atheistic totalitarian states (Stalin's Russia and Mao's China) have perpetrated more mass murder than any state dominated by a religious faith».

Though the legend, reported by Eusebius, that Christ himself has sent missionaries to King Abgar of Edessa is based in reality on the conversion of a different Abgar at the end of the second century, it is nonetheless true that the region of Edessa had been evangelised by the Apostle Thomas has some foundation of historical fact.

By the end of the second century, missionary expansion had carried the church as far east as Bactria, what is now northern Afghanistan, and mass conversions of Huns and Turks in Central Asia were reported from the fifth century onward.

And though, as I have said, this is a worldwide story, it centres on Ireland, for reasons we will go on to discuss, the most immediate of which was the publication last year of the report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse set up by the Irish government at the turn of the century.

The report of this conference is given in The Christian Century (June 26, 1974), in an article by Cornish Rogers.

A.E. Medlycott points out that the value of the report of Theophilus is its evidence that by the middle of the fourth century India or its adjacent territories had indigenous, worshipping congregations ministered to by local clergy, with customs such as sitting for the Gospel, that were well adapted to the Indian culture though divergent from accepted western practice.

The report found, among other things, that 43 of the lower 48 U.S. states have set at least one monthly heat record since 2010, sea levels are expected to rise between one and four feet by the end of this century, winter storms have increased in intensity and frequency, and the past decade was warmer than every previous decade in every part of the country.

by Melissa T. Stock and Kellye Hunter «And the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine» (Ezekiel 47:12) An entry from the journal of Priddy Meeks, a doctor in mid-nineteenth century Utah, sets the scene for our special report on the medicinal uses of chile peppers: «He reached Parowan with both feet frozen above...

India is projected to become the world's biggest milk producer over the next decade, having tripled its output during the first quarter of this century, a report by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation (OECD) has revealed.

If United could pull off a move to bring Neymar to Old Trafford it would undoubtedly go down as one of the deals of the century, but Balague does not mention their interest as reported by Don Balon.

The film, produced by actress and talk show host Ricky Lake, suggests childbirth was transformed into a highly medicalized procedure in the twentieth century, citing reports that 95 percent of U.S. births took place at home in 1900.

New York's for - profit colleges leave students with huge debt and have little impact on earning potential, according to a new report published by The Century Foundation.

And I am not suggesting that tweets from the chamber should be protected by parliamentary privilege... But in this age of immediate crowd - sourced mass communication, the idea that the Commons chamber can cut itself off from modern technology and social media is as doomed as when written reports of Commons debates were banned in the 18th century, or when discussion of current Commons business on the radio was not allowed until the 1950s, or, indeed, as obsolete as the ban on television itself before 1989.

A climate - change report being released on Wednesday by the mainline Democratic conference in the Senate calls for a 100 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels by the middle part of this century.

The New York City Board of Elections lists his vote total as 726,361 with 98.4 percent of districts reporting, which could wind up resulting in the second - smallest total garnered by a victorious Democrat in the past century.

Syracuse has the most concentrated minority poverty among blacks and Hispanics in the United States, according to a 2015 report compiled by the Century Foundation think tank.

A report published Thursday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) finds that sea level increases over the next century will have significant impacts on coastal communities.

By the end of the 20th century, «many countries, especially in the more developed regions, had already achieved population structures older than any ever seen in human history,» says a report, World Population Ageing: 1950 - 2050, from the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) of the United Nations.

Diplomacy for the 21st Century: Embedding a Culture of Science and Technology Throughout the Department of State National Research Council, 2015 This report produced by the U.S. National Academies makes recommendations that the U.S. Department of State can use to take advantage of the United States» science and technology (S&T) capabilities.

«By the end of the century, people in developed countries could live on average around 89 years, compared to about 81 years in developing regions,» the report said.

That's according to a new report on the top global health achievements in the first decade of this century, put out by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

But these severe winters may be a temporary phase within longer term warming: By the end of the century, the researchers report, the Arctic Oscillation could overpower the cooling effect from WACE — and winter temperatures over Eurasia will gradually increase.

Reported 100 years ago in Scientific American The invasion of Belgium by the German army, in a bid to outflank French forces, led to Britain declaring war on Germany this week a century ago.

And the prognosis is grim: Without dramatic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, all these reefs «will cease to host functioning coral reef ecosystems by the end of the century,» predicts the report from UNESCO's World Heritage Center in Paris.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto / LeventKonuk Four years ago the Obama administration offered up $ 19 billion in stimulus funds to help get health care IT (including electronic health records, or EHRs) in the pink — or at least in the black.Better information technology throughout the health care system would save money, improve care and bring the health care industry into the 21st century, proponents argued.But, as is obvious by the continuance of paper records, isolated institutional networks and clunky interfaces, health care IT is still in critical condition.A new report, assembled by the RAND Corporation, a non-profit, non-partisan research group, suggests that health care IT is not a hopeless case, however.

The report found that the tighter goal would require cities to zero out their emissions on a net basis by midcentury and make them negative in the second half of the century.

Early 20th - century studies claimed that hermit thrush song follows the same principles found in human musical systems, but these were anecdotal reports which were not supported by a rigorous analysis.

Thus Sheldrake quotes the early 20th - century naturalist W. J. Long who reported that vixens were able to control their gambolling cubs at a distance without making any sound but simply by staring at them.

The draft report says that a doubling of the preindustrial concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is likely to reduce global GDP by between 1 and 3 per cent by the middle of the next century.

According to the latest IPCC report, Finland could lose 41 percent of its area accessible by winter roads by the middle of the century, while Iceland could lose as much as 82 percent.

While the earlier report from Eltahir and his colleagues showed that this survivability limit would start to be exceeded occasionally in the Persian Gulf region by the end of this century, actual readings there in the summer of 2015 showed that the 35 - degree wet - bulb limit had almost been reached already, suggesting that such extremes could begin happening earlier than projected.

► Friday evening at ScienceInsider, Kelly Servick reported that the 21st Century Cures Act, «a bill to speed the discovery and development of new medical treatments -LSB-,] was approved by a strong majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.»

Did the meteoroid that crashed into the backside of the moon, leaving behind a 22 - kilometer - wide crater named Giordano Bruno, cause the peculiar fountain of moonlight reported by a 12th century monk, as some researchers claim?

Previous attempts to get DNA from parchment did not work well, but by using modern sequencing techniques, researchers can now get abundant livestock DNA from parchment, such as the 16th century deed from Lancashire, U.K., shown above, the team reports online today in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Not only is parchment plentiful, but as a legal document, it also has been carefully stored and often dated, making it a more readily available source of ancient DNA than bones.

Schneider's suggestion is one part of a broader report by the Defense Science Board on 21st - century «strategic technology vectors.»

The initial IPCC report in this series, released last September, noted that the atmosphere could bear only 800 to 1,000 billion metric tons of greenhouse gases, in order to restrain global warming to 2 degrees Celsius by century's end.

A separate report indicated that the rate of global sea - level rise had accelerated during the 20th century; if it continues as predicted, by 2100 seas will lap shores 12 inches higher than they did in 1990.

Written by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Climate Analytics, the report concludes that the world is on a path to a 4 °C warmer world by end of this century and that current pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will not reduce warming by very much.

Two British researchers challenged the conventional history of mathematics in June when they reported having evidence that the infinite series, one of the core concepts of calculus, was first developed by Indian mathematicians in the 14th century.

The NBAS report, Improving the Nation's Ability to Detect and Respond to 21st Century Urgent Health Threats, is the second by the group originally assembled by former President George W. Bush over fears about bioterrorism.

More than a century ago, researchers reported observing male fleas mating with unembedded females; others have argued that it's more likely that females first embed, then are fertilized by males who find an infected mammal and mate with embedded females through her abdominal opening.

Strategies which rely only on self - reporting of illness and screening of low - risk individuals are unlikely to lead to elimination of sleeping sickness transmission by 2030, and delay elimination until the next century.