Sentences with phrase «smaller scale program»

In 2013, a smaller scale program, Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A., explored the built heritage of our region.

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, a program created in 2004 by Mexico's Secretary of Economy and the US - Mexico Foundation for Science (FUMEC), launched with the aim of «strengthening the entrepreneurial, technological and innovative capacities of small and medium sized technology - based companies» and to help startups scale their products and great ideas into foreign markets.

The Federal Reserve — unfazed by recent selloffs in emerging markets or disappointing U.S. job gains in December — said it would scale back its bond - buying program for the second time in six weeks, pressing ahead with a strategy to wind down the purchases in small and steady steps.

Evangelicals of a social - justice bent have mounted like - minded projects on a smaller scale, such as the Crossroads Program sponsored by Evangelicals for Social Action (seeded by Pew Trust money in 1992) and its ongoing series of publications on faith and public policy.

In association with local partners, we launched a new program «Small - Scale Postharvest Horticultural Technologies Short Course / Study Tour» to be offered for up to 45 participants in Arusha, Northern Tanzania.

In association with Udayana University, we launched a new program «Small - Scale Postharvest Horticultural Technologies Short Course / Study Tour» to be offered for up to 45 participants in Bali, Indonesia.

Reducing Food Losses from Farm to Market, October 2014: An introduction to small - scale appropriate postharvest handling practices, with illustrations and resources for you to use in your own training programs.

Conduct a variety of postharvest e-learning programs for young professionals who work with small - scale farmers in developing countries.

In many cases, heirloom plants do meet the guidelines of the USDA's National Organic Program because they are typically grown by small - scale gardeners who have adopted organic farming practices.

This is a great answer, but one thing possibly missing is that there iirc were pilot programs at small scale for BIG, so their results may be worth examining.

Cuomo said he supports the concept and that he earlier this year issued an executive order to create a small - scale program to distribute medical marijuana at a handful of facilities.

They have steadfastly resisted Gov. Andrew Cuomo's common - sense proposal for making a modest investment in prison education programs that have already proved highly successful on a small scale in New York's prisons.

He had crafted a Medicaid redesign program in Wisconsin that was far smaller in scale than what was needed in New York but it earned him national recognition nonetheless.

He noted that «This is in preparation for our deforestation program in terms of degradation which is as a result of illegal small scale mining.

The program also works on a smaller scale with the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science, providing advice on grant management and ways to create public - private partnerships for Kuwaiti researchers.

For example, Pike says, NASA could have got by with a much smaller vehicle than the CEV, which is three times the size of the Apollo capsule, requiring a scaling up of the launch vehicle and everything else in the program.

Now, one of the first randomized, controlled tests of a large - scale economic aid program has shown small but encouraging effects for people living on less than $ 1.25 per day.

Other groups representing physicians have made a pitch for clinical science, and the NIH has responded with small - scale assistance programs.

Many universities also administer industry - funded grant programs on a smaller scale.

After nearly a decade at URI, Evans became a program manager at the Office of Naval Research, which had supported much of his research on the interaction of small and large - scale ocean phenomena.

To make up for those shortcomings, the report called for a research program, including smaller scale field trials, whose goal «should be to improve understanding of the range of climate and other environmental effects of albedo modification, as well as understanding of unintended impacts.»

ALCF and OLCF offer year - round Director's Discretionary programs for researchers to request small (around 1 million hours) allocations of computer time for porting, tuning, and scaling in preparation for an INCITE proposal.

Their recommended balance of large, medium, and small - scale efforts highlights the need to maintain sufficient funds to support individual investigators, to continue a program of technical innovation, and to train the next generation of scientists, while also funding those facilities essential for addressing the decadal surveys» scientific priorities.

The Mid-Scale Innovations Program that focused on small - to medium - scale experiments and facilities received second priority for the large ground projects.

In business and in everyday life, we expect decision - makers to perform due diligence: to launch small demonstration programs before any large - scale rollout, to track the impact of new policies and to make course corrections when the results are disappointing.

In 2017 we will be expanding the program to N. America and China, starting with small pilots now, larger pilots and then full - scale deployments.

Although I immersed myself in as much of the arts - related research as possible while planning this program (and explored the many large - and small - scale art initiatives), I knew I'd eventually have to tackle — and really understand — my deeply rooted assumptions about teaching and learning if I wanted to form a truly well - rounded program.

They tend to focus on small, individual research projects rather than supporting large - scale development and evaluations of alternative techniques and programs for helping all children to succeed in school.

With foundations and governments willing to invest in the scaling up of promising schools, it is all the more disappointing when the books in this series fail to help answer the question of how to get beyond the boutique school and «mass produce» many smaller, personalized programs without losing the essential elements that make these schools a success?

Sure, the President will call for a few small - scale programs that Republicans will oppose, like extending Race to the Top (for districts this time, not states) and recruiting 100,000 new math and science teachers.

The need we are addressing is the absence of an active R&D platform in the early childhood field (particularly in the first three years after birth) to confront the longstanding over-reliance on «evidence - based» programs that produce statistically significant but small magnitude impacts rather than a balanced agenda that includes the design and testing of innovative strategies that are aiming for substantially larger impacts at scale.

We are just finishing our research and evaluation for the programs from our 2013/14 school year and in two of our major initiatives, we are seeing statistically significant gains in Mathematics - it's in Math that these two schools have focused their blended methods on (often we pick a specific subject area to do a small scale pilot).

Before this year I was always really intimidated by research, policy, and evaluation — I had never heard of a «theory of change» before — and thought of myself as a small scale, community level «programming» person, believing that those other things just weren't for me.

Instead of trying to use public policy to develop training programs for the workforce of the future, let's instead rest our hopes on a vast array of small - scale, nimble, local solutions crafted by civil - society actors.

Whether the gains from these small, private scholarship programs will translate to large - scale, publicly funded school - choice programs in urban areas is unknown.

Since its founding in 1992, NatureMapping has grown from its origin as a small - scale Washington State nature program that enlisted retired resources professionals, zoo docents, and Audubon Society members as citizen - scientist volunteer wildlife reporters.

Little says starting small and showing what works, and then scaling things up, is an important aspect of the program.

In addition, several small - scale independent studies have already found that the Schools Attuned program has a positive impact on student and teacher outcomes.

However, because such a policy is likely to be controversial in a country dedicated to open access, and might have unintended effects, it would be best to test it out in a small - scale program, under a state waiver as allowed by the president's proposed Race to the Top Fund for higher education.

And there is the existential question of whether such small - scale individualized programs should aim to become something other than alternatives on the educational fringe.

To date, their numbers are small and their scale modest, but the best known among them are prominent indeed, including Teach For America (TFA), the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP), High Tech High, National Heritage Academies (NHA), the New Teacher Project (TNTP), New Leaders for New Schools (NLNS), K12, and Edison Schools.

Studies of modern, scaled - up programs that intend to impact long - term child development find, unlike the studies of small hothouse programs from the last century, that improvements in children's measurable skills and dispositions found at the end of participation in such programs usually fade away entirely by the time children are in the first few grades of elementary school.

Charters should be pushed to offer a wider array of special education programs when they have the resources and scale to do so (while acknowledging that this may not be an option for smaller charters or specialized charters).

Given that the LSP is the first statewide voucher program systematically studied (other rigorously studied programs serve smaller samples of students in urban school districts), the program's scale may have played a role;

Learning from small - scale experimental evaluations of after school programs.

While a small fraction of the teaching force has had training in some elements through pilot programs in place for several years, the final system demands execution on a far larger scale.

The competitive grant award allows Georgia's charter schools, traditional schools and school districts to move forward with small - scale programs that directly engage students.

We conducted a small - scale experiment with students in a teacher education program that compared these two interactive video methods to each other and to a no - video control group.

Our small - scale but rigorously designed study showed a clear advantage for students who got to play with the program in addition to studying traditional word lists.

Previously a teacher and school leader, William has substantial experience in education evaluation ranging from small program analysis focused on improving instructional practices to large - scale data management and analysis related to state - level turnaround efforts.