Sentences with phrase «several national impact»

She is currently working with research teams on several national impact and evaluation studies in the US involving early and adolescent reading, mathematics, literacy leadership, and Response to Intervention.

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For Kinder Morgan, the decision made by Canada's National Energy Board has a deep — and disturbing — financial impact in several ways

There have been several developments this week impacting oil trains, the subject of national and local debate.

«Several lead molecules for prospective clinical use have been identified through our collaboration with Dr. Kenneth Jacobson at the National Institutes of Health and we are very excited about the potential for translational therapeutic impact,» Salvemini said.

Such a transition has been made possible by the convergence of several factors: a stream of new science showing an accelerating pace of climate change and its impacts; the everyday experience of people witnessing the change around them (and seeing it on the evening news); the compelling portrayals of what is happening and why, such as Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth and the 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national security).

A successful early warning system is key to reducing the economic impact of such storms, which has been estimated by the National Academy of Sciences to be several trillion dollars in the most severe cases.

«I believe this result will have several impacts,» said Giulia Galli, a professor at the University of Chicago's Institute for Molecular Engineering and senior scientist at the DOE's Argonne National Laboratory who was not involved in the study.

Some like it, some don't; together they do not have the impact of a well - coordinated national campaign that lands a popular star simultaneously on the covers of a People - type magazine, a newsweekly, several glossy monthlies, and the talkshows.

Recently, several prominent national education organizations (including the NEA, AERA, AFT, and NCTE) have called for addressing equity in schools and society, specifically recommending that we need to highlight the «systemic patterns of inequity — racism and educational injustice — that impacts our students,» and that educators and school leaders «receive the tools, training, and support they need to build curricula with substantive exploration of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination.»

UCLA's Civil Rights Project calculated that 77 % of the decline in state suspensions from 2012 - 2014 were in the disruption / defiance category.13 Reducing suspensions — and the disparate impact of suspensions on black students — has been the subject of national attention and discussion for several years.

Department of Education researchers have been publishing studies for several years that use data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)-- often called «The Nation's Report Card» — to compare state standards and to analyze the impact of NCLB on student achievement.

Officials with the National Center for Education Statistics, which administers the NAEP exams, maintain that they took several measures to ensure that the switch to computer - based testing would not have an impact on the results and have promised to release further information on those steps to White and other state education leaders who request it.

To further the case for STEAM, Allina points to several national studies on the positive impacts of art education on student learning.

Sanée has presented at local, state, national and international conferences, and has written publications and several guest blog posts focused on leadership and its impact on students and teachers.

A new report from the National Education Policy Center examines how zero - tolerance discipline policies in schools negatively impact students of color — and offers several recommendations for protecting youth from state sanctioned violence.

Since 2013, the subcommittee has orchestrated several successes and positive outcomes, some of which include: • Collaborating with the PIJAC Zoonosis committee to update the Healthy Herp Handling poster promoting healthy reptile and amphibian handling practices; develop the Zoonotic Disease Prevention Series for Retailers; draft informative store signage on how to prevent zoonotic diseases; participate in meetings on rodent and reptile disease transmission with the Centers for Disease Control; and produce and revise best management practices (BMP) documents; • Collaborating with the United States Association of Reptile Keepers on past and current attempts to pass legislation, ordinances, and regulatory activity that may impact herp ownership and related businesses; • Attending Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) meetings with reports and summary of actions affecting import and export of reptiles; • Addressing the 2013 Center for Biological Diversity petition to list 53 herp species under the Endangered Species Act; • Reviewing and commenting on the recent US Fish and Wildlife status review on the proposal to list wood turtles under the Endangered Species Act; • Submitting comments on proposed listing of flat - tailed tortoise and spider tortoise under the Endangered Species Act; • Introducing federal legislation in 2013 to allow for the export of certain constrictors listed as injurious in air shipments with aircraft that land in a state for refueling; • Providing volunteer support for auctions at 2013 National Reptile Breeders Expo and several North American Reptile Breeders Conferences; • Providing extensive consultation on constrictor caging standards in Ohio.

The study's authors, along with several other national security experts, confirmed last week that the military has begun studying possible future impacts of global warming with new intensity.

wouldn't tell the public that the problem is not the Law Society's problem, as in effect it does; (15) LSUC's website wouldn't state that lay benchers «represent the public interest,» which is impossible now that we are well beyond the 19th century; (16) CanLII's services would be upgraded in kind and volume to be a true support service, able to have a substantial impact upon the problem, and several other developed support services, all provided at cost, would together, provide a complete solution; (17) LSUC's management would not be part - time management by amateurs - amateurs because benchers don't have the expertise to solve the problem, nor are they trying to get it, nor are they joining with Canada's other law societies to solve this national problem; (18) the Federation of Law Societies of Canada would not describe the problem as being one of mere «gaps in access to legal services» (see its Sept. 2012 text, «Inventory of Access to Legal Services Initiatives of the Law Societies of Canada» (1st paragraph), (19) LSUC would not be encouraging the use alternatives to lawyers, such as law students, self - help, and «unbundled, targeted» legal services, as a «cutting costs by cutting competence» strategy; and, (20) it would not be necessary to impose an Ontario version of the Clementi Report (UK, 2004) that would separate LSUC's regulatory functions from its representative functions, to be exercised by separate authorities.

There is the matter of several thousand foreign nationals entering the country and it's impact on the Immigration Act, addressed by: Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations, SOR / 2002 -227, s. 193.1

It appears that the European Commission, OLAF and the national authorities should be able to detect shifts in the flows of goods from China to other countries, but in reality these issues are raised by Customs & Excise several months or even years after the events took place, sometimes with hefty financial impact for customs agents and other logistic service providers who did not adequately protect their business against the risks connected to imports of solar modules.

To give you a better idea of the impact on housing price on homeowners insurance rates, we studied coverage amounts of $ 250,000, $ 500,000, and $ 750,000 for a home in several zip codes and tracked how changing home values affected the quoted rate from a national insurer.

Although Australia's National Oral Health Plan and several Closing - the - Gap initiatives identified Indigenous peoples as a priority, the prevalence of oral health conditions continue to have an impact, with Indigenous peoples reporting that health services are not culturally safe.

We use the 2003 National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) to assess the simultaneous impact of family, school, and community risk and promotive factors on several commonly studied positive (social competence, 25,26 self - esteem, 27,28 health - promoting behavior29) and negative (externalizing and internalizing behavior, 30 academic problems31) developmental outcomes.