Not exact matches
Topics included: early
reporting on inaccuracies
in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence
in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption
in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power
in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public
schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a
study of ecosystem destruction
in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.
One
study reported in The Conversation found that among Forbes billionaires, 44.8 percent went to and completed a program from an elite
school.
In 2014, the University of North Carolina's Kenan - Flager Business School, in partnership with Human Capital Institute (HCI), conducted a study where they found that 85 percent of global companies report an urgent need to develop employees with leadership potentia
In 2014, the University of North Carolina's Kenan - Flager Business
School,
in partnership with Human Capital Institute (HCI), conducted a study where they found that 85 percent of global companies report an urgent need to develop employees with leadership potentia
in partnership with Human Capital Institute (HCI), conducted a
study where they found that 85 percent of global companies
report an urgent need to develop employees with leadership potential.
All this despite the fact that private
schooling doesn't actually yield better outcomes for students, according to a recent Statistics Canada
report (instead, the apparent academic success of private
school student is due to their socioeconomic backgrounds).9 A UBC
study also found that students from public
schools scored higher
in first - year university classes than their private
school counterparts.10
A psychiatrist who
studied the effects of the
school desegregation conflict on children
in the Deep South
reports: «I have been struck by how clearly young Negro children foresee the bleak future of their lives.
The following chapters on the nature and purpose of the Church, the ministry and the theological
school constitute the first part of the
report of The
Study of Theological Education
in the United States and Canada.
Perhaps a retrospective look from a greater historical perspective will show that the Niebuhr
report reflects the end of a phenomenon of which William Rainey Harper's
study marked the beginning: the influence on Protestant theological
schooling of major themes
in the «progressivist era»
in American cultural history.
Similar evidence that abortion is helpful rather than hurtful is presented by the Alan Guttmacher Institute
in a
study that reveals that fully three - quarters of 19,000 women surveyed who had had an abortion «
reported that having a baby would have seriously interfered with work,
school, or other major responsibilities.»
This diagram is similar to the one which Jellinek used to illustrate the lecture
in which he
reported on this
study at the Yale Summer
School of Alcohol
Studies, 1961.
Boys
in the
study were somewhat more likely to
report this behavior than girls; those who identified as lesbian, gay, or bisexual were three times more likely to
report this behavior; those who were bullied at
school were four to five times more likely, and those bullied online (by others) were seven to twelve times more likely.
A Utah
School of Medicine
study cited
in an ESPN TrueHoop
report by Tom Haberstroh found that back - to - back games on the road yield 3.5 times more
in - game injuries than those played at home.
North Carolina Tar Heels athletes were directed by their academic advisers into questionable classes
in the
school's African and Afro - American
Studies department, according to a special subcommittee
report.
The
study noted that the request by the National Federation of State High
School Associations (NFHS) to request inclusion of spirit / cheerleading in the High School Reporting Information Online (RIO), an Internet - based high school sports injury surveillance system, the NFHS Spirit Rules Book, a valuable resource for high school coaches updated annually, and the Cheerleading Safety Manual and Spirit Safety Certifications for coaches offered by the Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Administrators in collaboration with the NFHS were all «positive steps... to improve cheerleading safety.&
School Associations (NFHS) to request inclusion of spirit / cheerleading
in the High
School Reporting Information Online (RIO), an Internet - based high school sports injury surveillance system, the NFHS Spirit Rules Book, a valuable resource for high school coaches updated annually, and the Cheerleading Safety Manual and Spirit Safety Certifications for coaches offered by the Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Administrators in collaboration with the NFHS were all «positive steps... to improve cheerleading safety.&
School Reporting Information Online (RIO), an Internet - based high
school sports injury surveillance system, the NFHS Spirit Rules Book, a valuable resource for high school coaches updated annually, and the Cheerleading Safety Manual and Spirit Safety Certifications for coaches offered by the Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Administrators in collaboration with the NFHS were all «positive steps... to improve cheerleading safety.&
school sports injury surveillance system, the NFHS Spirit Rules Book, a valuable resource for high
school coaches updated annually, and the Cheerleading Safety Manual and Spirit Safety Certifications for coaches offered by the Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Administrators in collaboration with the NFHS were all «positive steps... to improve cheerleading safety.&
school coaches updated annually, and the Cheerleading Safety Manual and Spirit Safety Certifications for coaches offered by the Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Administrators
in collaboration with the NFHS were all «positive steps... to improve cheerleading safety.»
Because
studies show that one - off concussion education isn't enough to change concussion symptom
reporting behavior, Step Three
in the SmartTeams Play SafeTM #TeamUp4 ConcussionSafetyTM game plan calls for coaches, athletes, athletic trainers, team doctors (and, at the youth and high
school level, parents) to attend a mandatoryconcussion safety meeting before every sports season to learn
in detail about the importance of immediate concussion symptom
reporting, not just
in minimizing the risks concussions pose to an athlete's short - and long - term health, but
in increasing the chances for individual and team success.
*** Note: This figure is considerably higher than that
reported in the most recent
study of concussions
in high
school sports, which found that concussions accounted for 13.2 % of all injuries.
Pressure to play needs to be taken off kids
in order for them to feel comfortable
reporting their signs and symptoms of a possible concussion,» says Tamara Valovich McLeod,, PhD, ATC, FNATA, Professor
in the Athletic Training Program and Directors of the Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory and Athletic Training Practice - Based Research Network
in the Department of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences at A.T. Still University
in Mesa, Arizona, co-author of the attitude
study, and lead author of an earlier
study [3] on attitudes on concussions among high
school students.
Qualitative
study of barriers to concussive symptom
reporting in high
school athletics.
One 2013
study, for instance, found that high
school athletes only
reported 1
in 7 impacts they classified as «dings» or «bell - ringers,» many of which are likely concussions.
Echlin's comments are echoed
in the findings of a 2013 quantitative
study focusing on what drives the attitudes of high
school athletes [1] towards
reporting concussions («attitude
study»), which found that coaches and teammates are the strongest influences on an athlete's intention to
report concussion.
Volume XI, Number 1 Puberty as the Gateway to Freedom — Richard Landl Soul Hygiene and Longevity for Teachers — David Mitchell The Emergence of the Idea of Evolution
in the Time of Goethe — Frank Teichmann The Seer and the Scientist: Jean Piaget and Rudolf Steiner on Children's Development — Stephen Keith Sagarin The Four Phases of Research — adapted from Dennis Klocek
Reports from the Research Fellows Beyond Cognition: Children and Television Viewing — Eugene Schwartz PISA
Study — Jon McAlice State Funds for Waldorf
Schools in England — Douglas Gerwin On Looping — David Mitchell The Children's Food Bill — Christopher Clouder All Together Now!
Just 12.2 percent of women ages 50 and older are satisfied with their body size, according to a
study reported by researchers from UNC's Gillings
School of Public Health that appeared
in the Oct. 11, 2013 Journal of Women & Aging.
The two most recent
studies of concussion rates among high
school athletes (1,2)
report concussion rates
in girl's lacrosse essentially tied with girl's soccer for the highest among girl's sports, nearly as high as the concussion rate
in boy's lacrosse (not statistically different
in terms of rates), and almost double the rate of the girl's sport with the next highest concussion rate (basketball).
When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high
school football team
in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released
in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors
in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under -
reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment,
in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion,
studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and
in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and
in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)
While acknowledging that the [Canadian]
study «highlighted a general misinterpretation that an injury described as a concussion is less severe than one described as mTBI,» and that it may result
in a premature return to
school and activity,» the American Academy of Pediatrics» 2010 clinical
report on sports - related concussion
in children and teens3 continues to refer to the injury as concussion.
A
study of
school - aged kids
in China
reported similar results (Li et al 2007).
As this FRAC
report indicates, http://tinyurl.com/lhg52av
studies have shown that NSLP participation drops 1 % for every 5 cent increase
in the paid price of a
school lunch.
In this
study, we found only one worrisome weight - related behavior to be associated with
school - based nutrition interventions: where there were
school - based interventions for physical activity, more parents
reported their kids to be «too physically active»...
In keeping with the rather serious tone infecting The Lunch Tray this week (except for the comic relief provided by the
school lunch lady action figure - thank goodness for her), the Wall Street Journal recently
reported on two new
studies showing... [Continue reading]
Among them were the Purdue and Rochester
studies of athletes
in high
school and college football [1,8,9,12,13, 31 - 38] and ice hockey, [8] which, as noted above, found subtle changes
in cerebral function
in the absence of concussion symptoms or clinically measurable cognitive impairment which researchers linked to the volume of head impacts, and a much publicized case -
study autopsy of a collegiate football player, Owen Thomas, with no
reported history of concussions, which revealed early signs of CTE.
As with magnitude, the impact frequency
reported in the current
study fell between those of 6 - to 9 - year - olds and high
school athletes, with the average player experiencing 240 impacts over the course of a season compared to 107 impacts per season for 6 - to 9 - year - old players, and 565 for high
school players.
In keeping with the rather serious tone infecting The Lunch Tray this week (except for the comic relief provided by the school lunch lady action figure — thank goodness for her), the Wall Street Journal recently reported on two new studies showing that good heart health starts in childhood — and that poor habits can potentially cause cardiac problems later in lif
In keeping with the rather serious tone infecting The Lunch Tray this week (except for the comic relief provided by the
school lunch lady action figure — thank goodness for her), the Wall Street Journal recently
reported on two new
studies showing that good heart health starts
in childhood — and that poor habits can potentially cause cardiac problems later in lif
in childhood — and that poor habits can potentially cause cardiac problems later
in lif
in life.
NHERI executes, evaluates, and disseminates
studies and information (e.g., statistics, facts, data) on homeschooling (i.e., home
schooling, home - based education, home education, home
school, home - schooling, unschooling, deschooling, a form of alternative education), publishes reports and the peer - reviewed scholarly journal Home School Researcher, and serves in consulting, academic achievement tests, and expert witness (in courts and legislat
school, home -
schooling, unschooling, deschooling, a form of alternative education), publishes
reports and the peer - reviewed scholarly journal Home
School Researcher, and serves in consulting, academic achievement tests, and expert witness (in courts and legislat
School Researcher, and serves
in consulting, academic achievement tests, and expert witness (
in courts and legislatures).
The two most recent comprehensive
studies of concussions
in high
school athletics [12, 13] found that dizziness (74.6 % and 75.6 %) was the second-most
reported concussion symptom behind only headaches (93.4 % and 94.2 %).
Qualitative
Study of Barriers to Concussive Symptom
Reporting in High
School Athletics.
One 7 - year followup
study showed that children enrolled
in a high - quality home visiting program were more likely to participate
in a gifted program and less likely to receive special education services or
report skipping
school than were children
in the control group.
A 1999 U.S.
school of nursing
study confirmed all these findings and
reported that kangaroo care would be beneficial for newborns, beginning
in the delivery room.
Despite an increase
in media attention, as well as national and local efforts to educate athletes on the potential dangers of traumatic brain injuries, a new
study found that many high
school football players are not concerned about the long - term effects of concussions and don't
report their own concussion symptoms because they fear exclusion from play.
A 2015 KSHF - commissioned series of case
studies of 19
schools in seven states explored the effects of these federal kitchen equipment grants on students and meal programs and found that equipment bought with these funds helped many
schools overcome challenges
reported in the 2013
study.
A new
study to appear
in the Journal of Econometrics and
reported by Science Daily has found that participation
in the National
School Lunch Program («NSLP») reduces food insecurity among impoverished children by 3.8 percent and reduces poor general health by 29 percent.
If the» prom draft» story wasn't enough to turn your stomach, consider this statistic: One
in five high
school seniors
reports binge drinking at prom, according to a 2013 Journal of the American Medical Association
study.
In recent weeks we have written about The Wellness Impact
Report, SNF's Webinar Wednesdays ® series, and the SNF / National Dairy Council
School Breakfast Case
Study collaboration.
By San Francisco Chronicle The Burlington Free Press
reports (http://bfpne.ws/17nXp8w)
in the meantime, a task force will
study concussion data from Vermont
school sporting... read more
In a 2002 study, Seattle pediatrician Jenny W. Pang, MD, MPH, and colleagues from the Washington School of Public Health reported that babies delivered at home have nearly twice the risk of dying shortly after birth as those born in the hospita
In a 2002
study, Seattle pediatrician Jenny W. Pang, MD, MPH, and colleagues from the Washington
School of Public Health
reported that babies delivered at home have nearly twice the risk of dying shortly after birth as those born
in the hospita
in the hospital.
The depths and extent of that shameful relationship has been revealed
in a new
report, A Shameful Relationship: UK Complicity
in Saudi State Violence by David Wearing, a researcher at the
School of Oriental & African
Studies.
The Post's interviews with parents and staffers at JHS / MS 80, as well as public documents, painted a picture of a
school where students are allowed to shirk their
studies, hurt each other and play on computers
in rat - infested buildings, while administrators turned a blind eye and even discouraged staffers from
reporting violence.
New York City Council Speaker Cory Johnson and Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo announced the package of 10 bills on Sunday and said the measures would be introduced this week... The proposals include: Requiring businesses with more than 15 employees to provide lactation spaces and refrigerators to store breast milk, Requiring lactation rooms
in all
schools, police precincts, and jails that house women or allow women visitors, Assessing the need for free and low - cost doula services
in the city, Creating a
report on maternal mortality, Requiring that inmates be able to choose the gender of their doctor, Requiring the city to provide diapers at shelters, subsidized child care centers and other locations, Creating a
study and pilot program for on - site childcare for city employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jTiAtZ
Shortly after F.E.S. released its «forgotten fourth»
report, StudentsFirstNY released its own
study showing zero percent pass rates on math and English exams
in 75 of the city's district
schools, along with a call to de Blasio to «fix» the failing
schools.
The
report released Monday as part of a collaborative
study between the Geiger Gibson Program
in Community Health Policy, part of the
School of Public Health and Health Services at George Washington University, and the RCHN Community Health Foundation, reveals that due to federal budget cuts through sequestration, the nation's 1,200 community health programs will lose $ 120 million
in funding.
Commenting on the publication of the 26th
Report of the
School Teachers» Review Body for England and Wales, and the Government's acceptance of all its recommendations, Chris Keates General Secretary of the NASUWT the largest teachers» union
in the UK, said «We welcome the
Report of the independent pay Review Body
in studying the evidence on the impact of pay on teacher recruitment and retention.
Ahead of the release of the new London
School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
report «How alcohol industry organisations mislead the public about alcohol and cancer», please find the following statement issued by the Institute of Alcohol
Studies, below (
in bold).