Sentences with phrase «scale programs often»

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The churches which have been active in family counseling have produced family education programs on a large scale; often these are based on clinical experience obtained in the counseling centers, thus relating to real problems in the lives of people.

Maybe there's something nearby that isn't too expensive — our city has a community schools program that offers preschool with fees on a sliding scale & often church programs (if you have a religious affiliation or don't care one way or the other) are less expensive.

Since lead dust and paint chips inhaled and eaten by children often come from raising and closing old windows, the county is also earmarking $ 436,838 in leftover funds from earlier years of the lead prevention and remediation program to give out low - interest loans or grants for window replacements, based on a sliding income scale, over the next five years.

In most educational programs, traditional time - based assessments provide a single quantitative grade, more often than not on some kind of «pass - fail» scale.

Working with governments, private organizations and civil society, and often times creating pioneering programs and organizations, IEP graduates bring an acute understanding of how to support systemic school improvement at scale.

We are just finishing our research and evaluation for the programs from our 2013/14 school year and in two of our major initiatives, we are seeing statistically significant gains in Mathematics - it's in Math that these two schools have focused their blended methods on (often we pick a specific subject area to do a small scale pilot).

One reason policymakers often consider a pilot program rather than full - scale adoption is to give the existing system time to adjust.

«Going program by program and — often at great expense — conducting large - scale evaluations involving multiple measures of teaching and learning has not, to date, resulted in an accretion of credible, usable knowledge within the professional development and practitioner community,» the researchers assert in a new Educational Researcher article.

While policymakers often focus on dramatic, large - scale efforts, small programs can pay big dividends.

At its opening in 1999, Mass MoCA, which has no permanent collection, was a showcase for large - scale art exhibitions, often commissioned or created on site, and a contemporary performing arts program.

Creating full - scale, but often comically inaccurate, models of space ships, satellites, and mission control units, he emphasizes the way in which the space program was ingrained within the cultural memory of its time.