Sentences with phrase «schools during the study period»

As a result, almost all magnet schools during the study period began at the earliest start time.

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Talisman's shares were priced at a 10 % to 20 % discount during the period Talisman was in Sudan, according to a case study by Wharton School management professor Stephen Kobrin.

During study periods, he works in the school's athletic department, filing papers, answering phones and running for coffee.

Sadly, the fact is that, while they are one of the most - if not, the most - preventable of all catastrophic sports injuries, heat - related deaths among high school and college football players in the United States nearly tripled between 1994 and 2009, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Georgia, with an average of nearly three players dying each year during that time period versus about one death per year during the previous 15 years.

In the study, biologist Matthias Nahrendorf of Harvard Medical School in Boston noticed that in medical residents, certain leukocytes were elevated during periods of high stress.

Online charter school enrollment grew around 60 percent during the period studied, from approximately 22,000 students in 2010 to over 35,000 students in 2013, with high schools making up the majority of online charter enrollment.

Researchers from Harvard Chan School and Brigham and Women's Hospital examined the relationship between types of fats in the participants» diets and overall deaths among the group during the study period, as well as deaths due to cardiovascular disease (CVD), cancer, neurodegenerative disease, and respiratory disease.

Principal investigator for the study and a professor at UNICAMP's Medical School (FCM - UNICAMP), José Dirceu Ribeiro recalls that bronchiolitis is the most common disease during the first year of life, and also the leading cause of hospitalization during this period of infancy worldwide.

Ian Clark, the COU president and CEO, admits that the original estimates could not account for the number of students wishing to accept the option to «fast - track» their studies during the transition period of secondary school reforms.

«Our study indicates that increases in gun violence in our schools can result from disappointment and despair during periods of increased unemployment, when getting an education does not necessarily lead to finding work.»

«Although the definition of underrepresented minority is evolving to reflect local and regional perspectives, findings from this study demonstrate that faculty who are underrepresented in medicine, relative to the general population, have seen little increase in absolute or percentage representation across all schools during this time period, while the prevalence of individuals of underrepresented minority status in the general population had increased to greater than 30 percent by 2010,» the authors write.

According to the study, another challenge kids face is the minutes they must use during their school lunchtime period for activities besides eating or sitting.

To deal with this potential problem, my second approach focuses on schools that changed their start times during the study period.

We exclude from the analysis schools, mostly in rural areas, with addresses we were unable to map and schools with missing test performance measures for any year during our study period, which spans 1996 — 97 to 1999 — 2000.

Seventh graders in the second period social studies class at Bennet Middle School got to flex their debating muscles during a debate on the war in Iraq.

Jonathan Guryan in 2002 used the desegregation plan data assembled by Welch and Light to study the change in high - school dropout rates between 1970 and 1980, and found that the implementation of desegregation during the 1970s reduced the high - school dropout rate during that period.

James J. Kemple, the executive director of the Research Alliance for New York City Schools, who conducted a study comparing the city's school reform efforts to a «virtual» control group modeled from other urban districts in the state, including Buffalo, Yonkers, Syracuse, and Rochester, «found New York City students improved significantly faster than the control group on both the New York state assessments and the National Assessment of Educational Progress during the reform period, from 2002 to 2010.»

Over the time period covered by this study, schools were generally inspected once during each three - to six - year inspection cycle.

The two studies assessed an array of cognitive, linguistic, and pre-reading skills in children during the preschool period and followed those children into elementary school.

A new study by Mathematica examines how the KIPP charter network fared during a period of rapid growth, when enrollment in KIPP schools roughly doubled to 68,000 students after the network received a $ 50 million expansion grant from the U.S. Department of Education in 2010.

«Whilst we need a strategy to reduce the consumption of sugar - filled drinks by young people, simply removing access to soft drinks within schools is clearly not enough, as a number of the young people we studied were able to leave the school premises during their lunch period to visit nearby shops.

Both the prevalence of school choice and the overall number of searches were generally increasing during the roughly four - year period we study, but the increase in traffic could simply reflect increasing familiarity with the GreatSchools website as a resource.

On average during our study period, about 21 percent of schools in the 39 states with this information had NCLB - induced choice, with considerable variation across areas and over time.

This information is available for 39 states; the remaining states did not publish information about school - improvement outcomes under NCLB during our study period.

One day, when he was working to help one of his students figure out a mixed - up schedule, Bustabad discovered that the special education students at his high school were clustered together during the same period — even though they were studying different subjects — and they were struggling to fully learn the material.

Just to explain that a little bit further, what we found is that the students in the control group, their level of emotional problems stayed at round about stable or went up slightly during the 14 week study period, whereas those that we doing the Burn2Learn program in the intervention school, they saw a drop in their emotional problems.

For students who switched school sectors during the study period, we can determine whether those who were identified as needing special education in the public sector were similarly identified when they attended private schools, and vice versa.

All were required to attend school during the suspension periods, but were permitted only to study, not to attend classes, said Nicholas Olsen, the school's principal.

At charter schools, however, race matching appears unrelated to student discipline across all groups, suggesting that discipline dynamics may have been different in charters than in traditional public schools during the period we studied.

Sixteen percent of black male elementary school students in the classrooms of white female teachers received exclusionary discipline in North Carolina during our study period.

The graduation rate for California's traditional public schools during the same time period was 78 percent, according to the study that cited public data.

The students visit their Partnership School every Friday afternoon during term time, excluding study leave during examination periods.

The researchers said there are limitations to the findings: The data is based on schools» self - reporting, which leaves room for error, and many schools have opened and closed during the five - year study period, yielding some data inconsistencies.

This paper studies the pension preferences of Washington State public school teachers by examining two periods of time during which teachers were able to choose between enrolling in a traditional defined benefit plan and a hybrid plan with defined benefit and defined contribution components.

The apprenticeship model was sensitive to the lack of release time since the study took place during school time with little intrusion on Jacob's planning period.

This study draws upon previously unavailable archival sources to explore life inside desegregating and resegregating high schools during a period when the future of the Civil Rights Movement and American liberalism hung in the balance.

During that time period, she had several teaching experiences in various public schools in Manhattan and enjoyed studying a semester abroad in Florence, Italy.

That said, researchers found that in - school suspension rates have nearly doubled among African American high school students during the study period.

If you modify or change your course of study during your time at school, your eligibility period could change, as well, depending on the published length of your program.

In two separated studies in 1996 and 2003, David Ikenberry (a former finance professor at University of Illinois and current Dean of Leeds School of Business at University of Colorado) analyzed 1,275 stocks that split two - for - one during the 1975 - 1990 time period.

Following this he studied under the artist David Bomberg, during which period he developed a friendship with fellow student Leon Kossoff, before going to St Martin's School of Art from 1948 - 52, and the Royal College of Art from 1952 - 55, where he was awarded a Silver Medal and First Class Honours.

All but Kasten (who attended the University of California at Berkeley) studied and taught at the School of Fine Arts during its most important period.

McNeil speaks of why he became interested in art; his early influences; becoming interested in modern art after attending lectures by Vaclav Vytlacil; meeting Arshile Gorky; the leading figures in modern art during the 1930s; his interest in Cézanne; studying with Jan Matulka and Hans Hofmann; his experiences with the WPA; the modern artists within the WPA; the American Abstract Artists (A.A.A.); a group of painters oriented to Paris called The Ten; how there was an anti-surrealism attitude, and a surrealist would not have been permitted in A.A.A; what the A.A.A. constituted as abstract art; a grouping within the A.A.A. called the Concretionists; his memories of Léger; how he assesses the period of the 1930s; the importance of Cubism; what he thinks caused the decline of A.A.A.; how he assesses the period of the 1940s; his stance on form and the plastic values in art; his thoughts on various artists; the importance of The Club; the antipathy to the School of Paris after the war; how Impressionism was considered in the 40s and 50s; slides of his paintings from 1937 to 1962, and shows how he developed as an artist; the problems of abstract expressionism; organic and geometric form; the schisms in different art groups due to politics; his teaching techniques; why he feels modern painting declined after 1912; the quality of A.A.A. works; stretching his canvases, and the sizes he uses; his recent works, and his approaches to painting.

[5] Studying for periods at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art in London during 1936 and 1937 she retained a base in Birmingham and exhibited as a member of the Birmingham Group throughout the late 1930s, also exhibiting at the London Gallery after being introduced to owner E. L. T. Mesens by Robert Melville.

Only a few studies, including two of our own, assess families during the preschool period and again after the child has entered elementary school.

The study found that bullying by students with disabilities decreased by one - fifth during the three - year period of middle school among the intervention group participating in the Second Step program.

The study found that bullying by students with disabilities decreased by one - fifth during this three - year period of middle school among the intervention group participating in the Second Step Program.

PMT may have significant preventive effects, especially if it is applied during the preschool period, 42 or is a component of broader preventive interventions for school - age children at risk for conduct problems.43, 44 An integrative review of 26 reviews and meta - analyses (1,075 studies) published between 1990 and 2008 found that PMT interventions had a larger effect size than either child focused or school / community based interventions (ds =.56,.41, and.28, respectively).45 If PMT can play a role in the prevention of conduct problems, that will have important implications for reducing the need for ongoing interventions throughout the developmental period and adulthood.

Only a few studies, including two of our own, assess families during the preschool period and again after the child has entered elementary school.8, 12,13 The basic finding is of considerable consistency across the transition in terms of mothers», fathers», and children's characteristics; both mothers» and fathers» authoritative parenting style during the preschool period explains significant variance in children's academic achievement and externalizing or internalizing behaviour with peers two and three years later.

The current study extends previous work by examining the risk of family conflict experienced during early school years and difficult child temperament in a sample of LBW / PT children, with specific attention to the moderating role that child temperament plays in the relation between family conflict during this period and problem behavior at age 8 years.