Sentences with phrase «several academic reports»

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Two members of the panel argued that the group's final report, released Tuesday, neglected several controversial issues facing public education, such as the state's implementation of new, rigorous academic standards known as Common Core.

Stefan Halper is a Cambridge Academic and has been named in several reports as an FBI informant on the Trump campaign.

POST advisers have several key duties: issuing briefing papers and longer reports (available to both MPs and the public), giving oral briefings and informal advice to parliamentarians, and organising seminars that bring MPs together with the academic community, the media, non-governmental organisations, other interest groups, and members of the public.

The Federal Register notice, which has been expected for months, follows a Senate investigation that since last summer has identified several prominent academic psychiatrists who apparently failed to report to their institutions hundreds of thousands of dollars that they earned from drug companies.

Goldin reports that he now hears academic search committees complaining about receiving only 30 or 40 applications for jobs that several years ago would have drawn a few hundred.

Reykjavik, ICELAND, October 4, 2009 — Scientists from deCODE genetics (Nasdaq: DCGN) and academic colleagues from seven countries today report the discovery of several novel, common single - letter variations in the sequence of the human genome (SNPs) contributing to...

The report includes several randomised controlled trials and documents how dosage (participation in certain activity), fidelity (ongoing support), quality of implementation (support from principals) and acceptability (teachers» participation and attitudes to that activity) influence students» academic and behavioural outcomes, and teachers» attitudes and practices.

In «New Kids on the Block,» (research), Sanbonmatsu, Kling, Duncan, and Brooks - Gunn report the findings of their MTO study and offer several possible explanations for the program's lack of overall positive effects on academic achievement.

It also reintroduced several key ideas from the report of the Committee of Ten, which assumed that academic courses had greater education value than other courses.

The Coleman Report identified the peer group at school as an important factor affecting learning, but several papers in this volume suggest that the socioeconomic status or academic ability of peers has little effect on academic performance.

This included: attendance levels (studies show a positive relationship between participation in sports and school attendance); behaviour (research concludes that even a little organised physical activity, either inside or outside the classroom, has a positive effect on classroom behaviour, especially amongst the most disruptive pupils); cognitive function (several studies report a positive relationship between physical activity and cognition, concentration, attention span and perceptual skills); mental health (studies indicate positive impacts of physical activity on mood, well - being, anxiety and depression, as well as on children's self - esteem and confidence); and attainment (a number of well - controlled studies conclude that academic achievement is maintained or enhanced by increased physical activity).

Cohen's story is misguided on several levels, but the basic problem is that she claims to be writing about «the culture of poverty,» but instead writes about the revival of academic interest in the dysfunctional African - American family, the subject of a controversial 1965 report by Daniel Patrick Moynihan («The Negro Family: The Case for National Action,» which can be viewed here.).

The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) has compiled a helpful report of quality SEL programs, and several of these include a community component.

Yesterday a state auditor's report found that a Kinston charter school's CEO mismanaged hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars over several years, ultimately leaving that school's students without an academic home just a few days into the 2013 - 14 school year.

2006 report, «Tough Choices or Tough Times,» New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, recommended that U.S. schools allow students to choose from several different academic paths

College students who are exposed to information about brain development that shows the plasticity of intelligence, Aronson and several colleagues have demonstrated, «reported greater enjoyment of the academic process, greater academic engagement, and obtained higher grade point averages than students in the control group.»

This update to their seminal 2008 report uses the latest scientific evidence to rebut several common myths regarding how best to support the linguistic and academic achievement of young children who are learning more than one language — from the Foundation for Child Development

Over the past several weeks, I've received a lot of positive feedback from parents across our state regarding the new State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) Report Card.

As the goal is to determine growth and trends, kindly advise us of the best format to report our current and past data for reading and math, especially when assessments have changed in Connecticut from the Connecticut Academic Performance Test for several years, to the Smarter Balanced Assessment for one year to our current School - Day SAT.

Several college - goers who are enrolled in various universities of the UK have reported that the numerical and conceptual topics included in this subject are extremely difficult to comprehend and prepare academic documents.

An independent panel of academic scientists for the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences — reviewing the conflicting work of Searchinger, Wang and several others — concluded in a 2011 report that «corn - grain ethanol might not have lower [greenhouse gas emission] values than petroleum - based gasoline.»

The report is the first independent, academic analysis to examine several longstanding questions that remain at the center of discussion over the cap and trade debate.

Exxon has said there were such gaps in the latest report of the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published in 2001, which had used the peer - reviewed academic papers of several hundred scientists.

The scandal led to a highly critical report into the IPCC by several of the world's top science academics, which recommended among other things that the IPCC chair stand down after one term.

One of our academics was concerned recently when she went to the Department of Justice website to locate a report she had written several years ago for the previous government.

Kosinski, Stillwell, and Graepel reported comparable or slightly better results, as have several other academic studies using digital footprints to predict personality (though some of those studies had more data than just Facebook «likes»).

A previous study in Hong Kong reported that poor academic performance was related to adolescent non-suicidal self - harm and SA.35 Several explanations for the relationship between academic performance and DSH / SA have been proposed.

Research shows that when young students are suspended or expelled from school, they are several times more likely to experience disciplinary action later in their academic career; drop out or fail out of high school; report feeling disconnected from school; and be incarcerated later in life.