Sentences with phrase «studying school improvement»

In studying School Improvement Grant school performance the Center on School Turnaround at West Ed identified Human Capital as one of the main drivers for school turnaround and continuous improvement.

Turnbull has studied school improvement since the 1970s.

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To help determine whether it will result in a real improvement in the lives of garment workers or in business results, Levi's has enlisted Harvard's School of Public Health to rigorously measure and study the initiative.

The few studies on meditation in school children are also hopeful — showing some improvement in social skills — but again contain too few children or too many design and measurement problems to be conclusive.

Sheryl holds a B.I.S. in Women's Studies in Communication from George Mason University, and she has worked in Communications as a human resource specialist and quality improvement trainer, community health trainer and supervisor, technical editor and writer, publisher, and as a writing and public speaking teacher in home school cooperatives.

Studies of schools in three states showed considerable improvements in children's eating habits under the USDA's updated meal standards.

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It collated results from a five - year study and a two - year study of 159 middle schools in Texas and found no statistically significant improvement in scores for English, maths, science or social studies, despite a # 3,000 bonus being offered to successful teachers.

Patients with temporal - type migraine derive similar and significant improvement from techniques that relieve pressure on (decompression) or remove a portion of (neurectomy) the nerve responsible for triggering their headaches, reports the study by ASPS Member Surgeon Bahman Guyuron, MD, Emeritus professor of plastic surgery at Case School of Medicine, Cleveland, and colleagues.

«U.S. schools show steady improvement in math and science, the U.S. is not at any particular disadvantage compared to most nations, and the supply of S&E [science and engineering] graduates is large and ranks among the best internationally,» continues Eye, which was co-authored by two labor force experts, B. Lindsay Lowell, director of Policy Studies for the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and Harold Salzman of UI's Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population.

Results of a study conducted by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine showed significant improvement in strength and range of motion, as well as evidence for skeletal muscle regeneration, in 13 patients who were surgically implanted with bioscaffolds derived from pig tissue to treat muscle injuries.

«The results surprised us, because, based on other studies elsewhere, we hypothesized that MUFA would be superior to PUFA for weight loss and improvement in heart - related parameters,» says lead author Michael Miller, MD, professor of cardiovascular medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and preventive cardiologist at the University of Maryland Medical Center.

A study coming out in Science Translational Medicine and led by University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine researchers has shown that cats with NPC — which mirrors the human version of the disease — show vast improvements when treated with a compound called cyclodextrin.

The study also showed that schools that implemented the programming for four years tended to have greater fitness improvements compared to schools that participated for just two or three years.

While an HPV vaccine became available over 10 years ago, a study led by the Yale School of Public Health finds that there is «substantial» room for improvement in the way it is recommended and discussed.

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«We didn't see an improvement in overall survival or a statistically significant increase in progression - free survival, as defined in the context of this trial,» says the study's senior author, Minesh P. Mehta, M.B., Ch.B., Professor of Radiation Oncology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and a radiation oncologist at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center.

«Training the «good» limb after stroke may ultimately lower the level of improvement that the «bad» limb can achieve,» said Thomas Carmichael, a neuroscientist at the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA who was not involved in the study.

Chad Boult, MD, MPH, MBA, principal investigator of the Guided Care study and director of the Roger C. Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, accepted the award at the STFM's annual Conference on Practice Improvement, held last week in Kansas City, Missouri.

Men who take statins or other medications to lower their cholesterol are also likely to see an improvement in their sexual function, according to a 2014 study by researchers at Rutgers University's Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

But an additional 10 to 15 percent weight loss continues to cause even more improvements in measures like blood lipids and blood pressure,» says study co-author Samuel Klein, MD, director at the Center for Human Nutrition at Washington University School of Medicine.

Its new Schools Get Active online hub is packed with helpful tips and information about planning improvements to play and outdoor facilities, fundraising, design and risk, plus inspiring school case studies designed and installed by our members.

In four studies, charter school programs that produce impressive test score gains appear to yield no or little improvement in educational attainment.

Back in 2004, a study by Tisa Lach and Lynae Sakshaug had already shown that middle school students made significant improvements in algebraic reasoning, spatial sense, and problem - solving abilities after playing biweekly sessions of popular tabletop games such as Connect Four, Mastermind, Rush Hour, and Guess Who.

A recent study distills the lessons learned from three successful high school improvement models.

Markus discusses the «Rocketship Hybrid School Model» at Rocketship Education and the results and implications of an independent study that showed improvements in math scores for students who had access to online math instruction.

A 2005 study by the Public Policy Institute of California found the improvement in reading «so definitive that San Diego's efforts are well worth a look by other school districts in California and the nation.»

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Published in the journal School Effectiveness and School Improvement, the study, by Dr Margriet van Hek, focused solely on boys» reading performance.

Studies have shown that schools offering intense physical activity programs have seen positive effects on academic performance such as improvements in math, reading, and classroom behavior — even when the added time takes away from academic instruction time.

This e-book product is a companion book study that may be utilized in several different ways including: (1) individual professional development to renew your own professional growth and learning; (2) a faculty and staff book study as a summer or really anytime of the year book study for professional growth; (3) a guide or workbook for an assigned reading in a graduate course; and (4) maybe an entire faculty and staff summer read to help better understand the world of dyslexia as part of a school improvement process!

Hess uses these case studies to speculate on how choice might be introduced in ways that both respect the built - in political and organizational constraints of urban school districts and lead to school improvement.

Our study overcomes the limits of short - term analysis by asking: when schools face accountability pressure, do their efforts to raise test scores generate improvements in higher education attainment, earnings, and other long - term outcomes?

The lottery study corroborates these results, as students admitted to the G&T magnet schools show little improvement in test scores by 7th grade, despite having higher - achieving peers and being taught by more effective teachers.

During the decade we studied, Fort Worth made steady improvements toward equity in noncategorical funding across its schools, while Austin's allocations became less evenly distributed over the last five years in our study.

Many students who study education in the United States wouldn't guess that innovative classroom technologies or financial incentives for school improvements are part of Mexico's education system.

The later studies also acknowledge that NCLB is producing academic improvements, yet the schools still need more money and relaxed requirements.

A task force studying educational improvement in Nebraska has called for a long list of reforms, including a new school - finance formula, far more state aid for schools, higher pay and longer contracts for teachers, a master - teacher program, and the establishment of statewide high - school graduation requirements.

Instead of an impressionistic study of the sort offered by Mirel, the kinds of reports that would be helpful to education professionals, and ultimately to students, include evaluations of designs that track individual student performance year to year; the percentage of students reaching local and state standards; a more widely disseminated study of design implementation so others can benefit from lessons learned; and the establishment of a district - wide roadmap for bringing comprehensive school improvement to fruition.

Despite all of the emphasis on education reform during the past decade, the retirement of an aging teacher corps has been substantially overlooked — a failure that could inhibit school improvement, a study by the Educational Resources Information Center clearinghouse on management suggests.

The consequence of education's failure to recognize turnarounds as a means of school improvement is twofold: in education, turnarounds have been tried rarely and studied even less.

Case studies, including those shown in this article, show that regardless of the type of school, there is important information available whether you are looking to make improvements to your current community offer or you are after advice to start up.

Ofsted study reveals that 11 % of English schools were deemed «inadequate» or «requiring improvement»

Over the next few months, 11 faculty members will study four key national policy initiatives — including programs that provide universal coverage of preschool, early literacy instruction, and school initiated improvement — and facilitate interdisciplinary integration of different curriculum subjects using technology.

Case Study: Boston West Academy Boston West Academy has recently become the 6th school nationwide to be awarded the new LOtC Mark accreditation at Gold level, and its journey is a compelling story of the impact of Learning Outside the Classroom on the improvement of a school.

More importantly, she ignores the large and statistically significant improvement in high - school graduation rates resulting from vouchers in that same study.

After all, we spend some $ 500 billion nationally on K — 12 education, and even small improvements applied to the nation's schools could quickly cover the study costs.

The evidence that does exist often shows that pre-k-induced improvements in learning are detectable during elementary school, but studies also reveal null or negative longer - term impacts for some programs.

New York City was in the midst of many school - improvement efforts during the years studied, including new accountability rules and interventions at low - performing schools citywide.

The Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform — a Chicago - based group that works with schools and communities in nine cities — studied how Chicago, Milwaukee, and Seattle implemented instructional improvement plans between 2000 and 2003.