Sentences with phrase «retention effect they saw»

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Participating children had higher rates of high - school completion, lower rates of grade retention and special education placement, and a lower rate of juvenile arrests.32 Another example showing more intensive programming has larger impacts is the Healthy Steps evaluation showing significantly better child language outcomes when the program was initiated prenatally through 24 months.33 These studies suggest that a more intensive intervention involving the child directly may be required for larger effects to be seen.

«Instead, we see a very specific effect on memory retention.»

For those suffering from lead or other heavy metal poisoning, a protective diet that avoids processed foods and emphasizes the central components of a nutrient - dense and antioxidant - rich WAPF - style diet is essential (see sidebar).21 Nutritional status shapes susceptibility to lead toxicity in important ways, affecting lead's intestinal absorption; its mobilization, distribution and retention in the body; and excretion.22 Because oxidative stress is a likely mechanism explaining some of lead's toxic actions, some investigators have begun to explore whether natural antioxidants and trace minerals may help mitigate lead - induced cell damage.17 Specifically, researchers in Spain found that administration of vitamins A, B6, C and E along with zinc modulated some of the negative effects of lead exposure in rat pups, confirming the influence of nutritional factors on health outcomes following lead exposure.17 Vitamin D also should be a major component of a protective diet.

When researchers have tried to estimate the cumulative effects of these two incentives, they've found that shifting to an alternative retirement plan would actually boost late - career teacher retention (see «Peaks, Cliffs, and Valleys,» features, Winter 2008).

A recent study of the Texas program, which enrolls more than 224,000 children, looked at the effects of the program by third grade and concluded that it had a «substantially meaningful» impact, and that children who attended saw increased scores in math and reading and decreases in grade retention and special education services.

To this effect, courts in Canada, such as the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta, have reiterated the Convention's emphasis on expediency for determining applications on wrongful removal or retention pursuant to the Hague Convention mechanism (see, for example, Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta, Family Practice Note «6», Art. 6, effective March 1, 2011).

A recent study of the Texas program, which enrolls more than 224,000 children, looked at the effects of the program by third grade and concluded that it had a «substantially meaningful» impact, and that children who attended saw increased scores in math and reading and decreases in grade retention and special education services.

Further, the group sees no legislative action on the horizon to change retention rules set to go into effect this summer.