Not exact matches
While Trump could initiate some
changes to the visa program with executive action,
significant shifts would likely need to go through a lengthy formal rulemaking process, said Stephen Yale - Loehr, an immigration expert
at Cornell Law
School.
The moratorium episode — the closest that Florida's Democratic gun - control proponents have come to success after a Feb. 14 shooting rampage,
at a high
school in Parkland, left 17 people dead — illustrates why it is so difficult to pass firearm restrictions in the State Legislature: When it comes to backing a
significant change, even a popular one, the votes just aren't there.
Using DTI imaging technique, researchers
at Indiana University
School of Medicine and the Geisel
School of Medicine
at Dartmouth College, found in a 2013 study [16]
significant differences in brain white matter of varsity football and hockey players compared with a group of non-contact-sport athletes, with the number of times they were hit correlated with
changes in the white matter.
In one of her most
significant actions as state education commissioner, MaryEllen Elia has granted Buffalo Superintendent Kriner Cash unprecedented power to make
changes at the district's most struggling
schools, bypassing the teachers union contract and sparking a likely court battle.
But recently, scientists
at the University of Maryland
School of Medicine (UMSOM) have identified
significant mitochondrial
changes that take place in cocaine addiction, and they have been able to block them.
«It's a tremendous leap to draw these conclusions — that climate
change is linked to violence — and factors such as economics, technology, poverty, group dynamics, cultural nationalism and personalities play
significant roles in outbreaks of war,» says William Martel, an international securities expert
at the Fletcher
School of Law and Diplomacy
at Tufts University.
«We saw
significant and sustained positive
changes in terms of attitudes about sexual health and sexual health knowledge,» said Lynn Fiellin, M.D., associate professor of medicine
at Yale
School of Medicine and in the Child Study Center.
«Although we expected the rates of cognitive
change to differ significantly between those with a history of TBI compared to those with no history of TBI, we found no
significant difference between the groups, regardless of their APOE genotype,» explained corresponding author Robert Stern, PhD, Director of the Clinical Core of the Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center (BU ADC) and professor of neurology, neurosurgery and anatomy and neurobiology
at Boston University
School of Medicine.
During three years
at The Southport
School in Queensland, Australia, my colleagues and I managed to produce
significant changes in classroom practice via the use of Moodle and the staged introduction of mobile devices to the classroom.
Portability would make
significant changes to how federal dollars allocated
at the state level flow across and within
school districts, private
schooling aside.
When I was
at HGSE, it was hard to find people who were interested in these problems, and so getting this award suggests to me that the
school has
changed in
significant ways toward an appreciation of practice and its complexities.»
The EBacc initially sought to improve literacy and numeracy skills and the report states that «it may be achieving these aims,
at least in
schools which have made
significant changes to their curriculum offer in response to the measure».
Whether a student's motivation and engagement
changes through the course of a day, week, or month
at school has
significant implications for teachers.
The results of the pilot showed that SMART Squad made a
significant difference to primary
school pupils» knowledge of energy efficiency, bringing them closer to the level of understanding that secondary
school pupils already have and leading to a direct
change in their energy efficient behaviours both in
school and
at home.
Justine Greening's 18 months
at the Department for Education mean that she had had one of the shortest tenures in the role, despite leaving a legacy of
significant changes to
school funding and primary assessment.
The expansion of the learning material is down to the success of the previous trial, which made a
significant difference to primary
school pupils» knowledge of energy efficiency, bringing them closer to the level of understanding that secondary
school pupils already have and leading to a direct
change in their energy efficient behaviours both in
school and
at home.
Specifically, the proposed regulations provide that the additional K — 12 indicator (s) that a state uses can not «
change the identity of
schools that would otherwise be identified» unless a
school is making «
significant progress» on
at least one of the academic indicators — test scores, graduation rate, additional K — 8 academic indicator, and EL progress.
In co-located
schools, charter
school entry leads to a
significant decrease of 11.5 special education students; however, there is no
change in the overall percentage of special education students
at co-located district
schools.
My analysis finds no
significant changes in
school demographics
at district
schools after charter entry that might explain improved student performance (see Figure 3a).
Allana Gay, deputy headteacher
at Lea Valley primary
school, said the
changes to scaled scores were «
significant» for any examination paper, and welcomed the NAHT's call for calm.
This type of data is needed to accurately describe
changes in diversity as students move between sectors because there is
significant variation in student demographics
at the
school level that is often obscured when examining the issue
at higher levels of aggregation (e.g. comparing charters as a group to surrounding
school district or metropolitan area) and can complicate the drawing of valid inferences about the relationship between public
school choice and racial sorting.
Surviving a
significant change of leadership
at the
school and being available to succeeding classes of students throughout the
school.
Compared to 2007, there have been no
significant changes in the racial / ethnic gaps, gender gaps, or gaps by type of
school at either grade.
While some
schools and teachers, like the ones
at Liberty, have fully bought into the
changes and have access to resources to help them make those
changes happen, in other places Common Core is seen as more of a top - down content shift rather than something that will produce
significant changes in teaching.
The structure, terminology, and emphases of the Common Core mathematics standards
at the high
school level, including the areas that represent the most
significant changes to business as usual.
The event, held
at the Rubin Museum in Manhattan, honored five people who have demonstrated exceptional commitment to enacting positive
change in education: Tanell Pendleton, an English teacher who has worked
at Bronx Haven High
School for eight years, and Michael Wolach, founding teacher and instructional coach at Jill Chaifetz Transfer School, both of whom have worked with Eskolta on multi-year projects on topics ranging from developing students» academic mindsets to implementing outcomes - based grading; Cristal Cruz, a graduate of Brooklyn Frontiers High School, who, after facing significant challenges during school, graduated as salutatorian, enrolled in college, and is now working at Good Shepherd Service to support students in the same way she was supported; and Jeff and Tricia Raikes, co-founders of the Raikes Foundation and part of the founding team of Microsoft, who have become champions of school improvement by establishing national initiatives such as the Mindset Scholars Network and the Student Agency Improvement Comm
School for eight years, and Michael Wolach, founding teacher and instructional coach
at Jill Chaifetz Transfer
School, both of whom have worked with Eskolta on multi-year projects on topics ranging from developing students» academic mindsets to implementing outcomes - based grading; Cristal Cruz, a graduate of Brooklyn Frontiers High School, who, after facing significant challenges during school, graduated as salutatorian, enrolled in college, and is now working at Good Shepherd Service to support students in the same way she was supported; and Jeff and Tricia Raikes, co-founders of the Raikes Foundation and part of the founding team of Microsoft, who have become champions of school improvement by establishing national initiatives such as the Mindset Scholars Network and the Student Agency Improvement Comm
School, both of whom have worked with Eskolta on multi-year projects on topics ranging from developing students» academic mindsets to implementing outcomes - based grading; Cristal Cruz, a graduate of Brooklyn Frontiers High
School, who, after facing significant challenges during school, graduated as salutatorian, enrolled in college, and is now working at Good Shepherd Service to support students in the same way she was supported; and Jeff and Tricia Raikes, co-founders of the Raikes Foundation and part of the founding team of Microsoft, who have become champions of school improvement by establishing national initiatives such as the Mindset Scholars Network and the Student Agency Improvement Comm
School, who, after facing
significant challenges during
school, graduated as salutatorian, enrolled in college, and is now working at Good Shepherd Service to support students in the same way she was supported; and Jeff and Tricia Raikes, co-founders of the Raikes Foundation and part of the founding team of Microsoft, who have become champions of school improvement by establishing national initiatives such as the Mindset Scholars Network and the Student Agency Improvement Comm
school, graduated as salutatorian, enrolled in college, and is now working
at Good Shepherd Service to support students in the same way she was supported; and Jeff and Tricia Raikes, co-founders of the Raikes Foundation and part of the founding team of Microsoft, who have become champions of
school improvement by establishing national initiatives such as the Mindset Scholars Network and the Student Agency Improvement Comm
school improvement by establishing national initiatives such as the Mindset Scholars Network and the Student Agency Improvement Community.
These same spheres of influence have also had a
significant role in legislative initiatives directed
at the «reform» of public education, resulting in a number of innovative structural
changes, the charter and contract
school movements being prominent examples.
While the field of teacher preparation has made
significant advances in recent decades — creating stronger clinical partnerships, developing better performance assessments, making better use of newly available data sources, meeting more demanding state approval and national accreditation standards, and developing new models and patterns of preparation — not all of these advances have been universally adopted
at the program level.3 To consolidate the gains and to overcome challenges to implementing universal high standards for admission and academic rigor in teacher preparation, states,
school districts, and teacher preparation programs must work together to enact key policy
changes.
While these
changes can't match the pensions, union protections, and tenure provisions teachers have
at many traditional
schools, they mark a
significant shift for charters.
Among the most
significant changes is that
schools must now have an English language teacher — like the woman drawing pictures
at P.S. 160 — in the classroom for part of each week if even one student is learning English.
In some cases, Parent Revolution helps families to use California's Parent Empowerment law, which gives families
at failing
schools significant new power to bring about
changes.
But when we look
at the numbers, the
changing makeup of America's public
schools is more
significant than many probably realize.
McQueen, formerly the senior vice president and dean of the college of education
at Lipscomb University, took over the
school system last year upon the departure of Kevin Huffman, the divisive education reformer who oversaw
significant changes to the state's K - 12 system.
Certainly, for a
school or district to
change and accommodate a more inclusive approach to providing services to students with disabilities as well as a host of other «
at - risk» students, and do it in a way that ensures the success of all, will require
significant restructuring.
David Blow, headteacher
at the Ashcombe
School in Surrey, who has worked on language grading for the Association of
School and College Leaders, said he was pleased Ofqual had made the «
significant and vitally necessary
change» but said it was «disappointing they were not touching the GCSE».
Ronan gave her
significant political cover when the city teachers» union pushed back on pieces of the turnaround effort, including staffing
changes at four of the targeted
schools that replaced nearly everyone — even, in some cases, secretarial workers and custodians.
In the U.S., most
significant education policy
changes come
at the state level, as states have direct control over the
school districts within their borders.
«Firms influence the legislative and regulatory process and they engage in a wide range of activity to profit from regulatory
changes, with
significant success,» writes James Bessen, the study's author and an economist
at the Boston University
School of Law.
«This will have
significant consequences on conservation planning in eastern Africa and we need to be better prepared for these
changes,» said study co-author Dr. Stuart L. Pimm, a Professor
at Duke University's Nicholas
School of the Environment.
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significant predictor of obesity in univariate regression models, or if including it in the full multivariate model led to a 5 % or greater
change in the OR.48 Model 1 includes maternal IPV exposure, race / ethnicity (black, white, Hispanic, other / unknown), child sex (male, female), maternal age (20 - 25, 26 - 28, 29 - 33, 34 - 50 years), maternal education (less than high
school, high
school graduation, beyond high
school), maternal nativity (US born, yes or no), child age in months, relationship with father (yes or no), maternal smoking during pregnancy (yes or no), maternal depression (as measured by a CIDI - SF cutoff score ≥ 0.5), maternal BMI (normal / underweight, overweight, obese), low birth weight (< 2500 g, ≥ 2500 g), whether the child takes a bottle to bed
at age 3 years (yes or no), and average hours of child television viewing per day
at age 3 years (< 2 h / d, ≥ 2 h / d).
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While these
changes may not appear to be
significant when looking
at the actual numbers, we see that 81,000 Nebraska kids were living in poverty in 2013, 100,000 children were living in families where their parents lacked secure employment, 119,000 were living in a home with a high cost burden, and 4,000 Nebraska teens were not in
school and not working.
ESSA replaces NCLB, and makes some
significant changes impacting specific policies and practices
at the state, local, and
school building level.
Analyses of findings from an earlier intensive child development program for low birth weight children and their parents (the Infant Health and Development Program) suggest that the cognitive effects for the children were mediated through the effects on parents, and the effects on parents accounted for between 20 and 50 % of the child effects.10 A recent analysis of the Chicago Child Parent Centers, an early education program with a parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's
significant long - term effects on increasing rates of
school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term
significant effects on children's educational achievement
at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained
changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of
school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour.
Some common behavioral manifestations are feeling sad / depressed, fear / anxiety, attachment issues, difficulty
at bedtime and / or falling / staying asleep, anger / impulse control, defiance, a
significant change in
school performance, expressed illness without a known medical cause, loss of interest in previously enjoyed activities and isolation.»
Downey, Ainsworth - Darnell, and Dufur (1998) found mixed evidence of gender differences among single - parent families on a comprehensive list of child outcomes; all of the
significant differences, however, occurred in educational measures and consistently showed a disadvantage for children living with single fathers... I find support for the hypothesis that,
at least in early childhood, mother
changes have more lasting influences on college expectations and
school disciplin ethan father
changes...»
«It is far more likely that we will see a version 3.0 than we are to see this pass without
significant changes or amendments,» says Sam Chandan, Ph.D., an associate dean
at the NYU
School of Professional Studies Schack Institute of Real Estate.