Sentences with phrase «than those in control schools»

By the end of two years of the program, students in incentive schools performed significantly better than those in control schools.

Comparisons of school means on post-FAST surveys indicate that parents in FAST schools experience more extensive social networks than those in control schools, but the differences are much more apparent in Phoenix than in San Antonio.

Not exact matches

Last week: The tectonic shift in the conversation about gun regulations, school safety and mental health since the murder of 17 faculty and students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is nothing less than amazing when, in defiance of the NRA, it produced the first successful gun control measure in Florida in over two deschool safety and mental health since the murder of 17 faculty and students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is nothing less than amazing when, in defiance of the NRA, it produced the first successful gun control measure in Florida in over two deSchool is nothing less than amazing when, in defiance of the NRA, it produced the first successful gun control measure in Florida in over two decades!

The average amount of time spent discussing gun control on the three major cable networks two weeks after the shooting is higher post-Parkland than it was after any other major recent shooting, including the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in 2012.

I am reading your newest posts to your oldest.I have never been to bible school but I consider myself in the journey of education concerning the bible.more than any opinions that you have what concerns me most is how «brothers and sisters» through their comments responds to someone who thinks differently from what is perceived as absolutes (not sure if that's the right term) in scripture.I wonder did the apostle believe half the things that are seen as church doctirine today?how did the disciples who did not have the new testament or the ability to read follow Jesus?I appreciate your questioning.In my experience we are too quick to try and fix someone or use the scriptures as a control mechanism and to slow to practise empathy and love..

He spoke from a culture in which caring meant controlling, directing, making decisions for children of far older than nursery - school age.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

So I'll make you a deal... stop trying to take over my goverment, control the bodies of women who don't share your extreme beliefs, force children to pray to your gods in schools, destroy scientific and medical advances that I depend upon, and I'll be more than happy to go back to ignoring you.

Yet another sign of the flourishing of AATS - member graduate professional schools in the United States was the astonishing — from the vantage of the 1990s — statistic that despite the intervening economic depression they averaged three times as much endowment per student ($ 6,103) as all privately controlled academic institutions ($ 2,040), and more than ten times as much as publicly controlled institutions ($ 455).13

Rather than trying to «teach» skills like grit and self - control, he argues, we should focus instead on creating the kinds of environments, both at home and at school, in which those qualities are most likely to flourish.

The results of a recent randomized trial of CSRP showed that children who spent their prekindergarten year in a CSRP Head Start classroom had, at the end of the school year, substantially higher attention skills, greater impulse control, and better performance on executive - function tasks than did children in a control group.

A majority of the more than 1,385 high school students, 3,600 parents and 520 teachers of all grade levels who returned a questionnaire after this change was piloted in Palo Alto said, «If I controlled the school calendar, I would want first - semester finals to occur before winter break»; this included more than 85 percent of the high school students, according to Challenge Success.

In recent years, parents of twins or multiples have begun to seek greater control in deciding what's best for their kids rather than allowing the school to do this for theIn recent years, parents of twins or multiples have begun to seek greater control in deciding what's best for their kids rather than allowing the school to do this for thein deciding what's best for their kids rather than allowing the school to do this for them.

While it can be scary to test your baby for peanut allergies, it's best to find out in a controlled environment rather than by accident later in life at a friend's house, birthday party, or school event.

When researchers randomly assigned some primary school students to perform three acts of kindness each week, those kids became more popular than did children in a control group (Layous et al 2012).

Harry clearly has far more choices with you involving him in his education and giving him some say in the matter than those who school who have no control at all!

Despite the widened socioeconomic inequalities by the intervention in rates of prolonged exclusive and any breastfeeding, breastfeeding rates were even higher among mothers with the lowest education (secondary school or less) in the intervention group than they were among mothers who completed university in the control group.

So often adopted children are assaulted with the family tree exercise at school, and it becomes an activity that causes stress and feelings of isolation, rather than something they feel in control of.

One 7 - year followup study showed that children enrolled in a high - quality home visiting program were more likely to participate in a gifted program and less likely to receive special education services or report skipping school than were children in the control group.

More importantly, a home educated child is more in control of his social life than he would be in school.

There * is * a growing problem of overweight kids and adults in HK, but I think it tends to be on the salty - fatty spectrum of foods & portion control, rather than kids bringing in cup - cakes to school (which is not a tradition here).

Eileen Staples, director of school nutrition for Greenville County Schools in South Carolina, spoke about the challenges of implementing hazard analysis and critical control points in more than 90 sSchools in South Carolina, spoke about the challenges of implementing hazard analysis and critical control points in more than 90 schoolsschools.

School: The KMC group spent about 23 percent more time in preschool and had less than half the rate of school absenteeism compared to the control School: The KMC group spent about 23 percent more time in preschool and had less than half the rate of school absenteeism compared to the control school absenteeism compared to the control group.

Dr. Rachel Klein, PhD, professor of psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine, and a group of colleagues did a 2 - year controlled study of more than 100 school - aged kids back in the late 1970s, and then followed up with them repeatedly over 33 School of Medicine, and a group of colleagues did a 2 - year controlled study of more than 100 school - aged kids back in the late 1970s, and then followed up with them repeatedly over 33 school - aged kids back in the late 1970s, and then followed up with them repeatedly over 33 years.

Demographics: 57 % male children; 60 % of intervention and 52 % of control mothers had less than 8 years schooling; 73 % of intervention and 67 % of controls had low annual incomes (< USD 3000); 34 % of mothers were not in paid work; 70 % of children were living with mother and father; almost half of the mothers were overweight

The free schools budget is out of control and the Secretary of State would rather sink another # 800 million into the black hole, rather than rein in spending.»

No group in NYC has amassed more political clout than the teachers union, which has scored a new contract for its members, helped block charter schools from expanding, pushed for the renewal of mayoral control of city schools, and ensured the city education budget continues to soar.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan was staunch in his support for no longer than a one - year extension of mayoral control of New York City schools, calling it a «wise course» that lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo approved 12 - month deadline last year.

Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan in a statement on Monday said he had «deep reservations» of backing an extension of mayoral control of New York City schools for longer than 12 months.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, between 2011 and 2016, the number of high school students who reported smoking tobacco in the last 30 days declined by more than 15 percent to about 8 percent.

Students at more than a dozen school in central and northern New York are expected to take part in a national high school walkout today to demand action on gun control.

If you put schools under state control, well, I'm sorry, with all due respect to Albany, I believe we know a lot more about what we need to do for our children than bureaucrats in Albany do.

Testifying on the fiscal 2016 budget in the state capital Wednesday, de Blasio pushed for making mayoral control of city schools permanent, rather than just extending it for three years, as sought by Cuomo — a move he argued would make state takeover of failing schools unnecessary.

That is an aim we're fulfilling through public service reform — as in schools, where parents are getting more control than ever before over their children's education.

Rather than needle the mayor by demanding reports or his attendance at hearings, as Republicans did in previous years, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican from Long Island, attached a different condition to mayoral control: actions favoring charter schools.

She has worked in school systems for more than 40 years, but her proposal for mayoral control of the school district

For shooting themselves in the collective foot, Albany's leaders could not have chosen a more effective method than their failure Wednesday night to extend Mayor Bill de Blasio's control over New York City schools for at least another year.

The Democratic Assembly Majority is pushing its favorite items in a different form than the governor has included - a minimum wage increase larger than Cuomo's, a DREAM act resolution that isn't tied to an education tax credit, and a seven - rather than three - year extension of mayoral control of schools.

Missouri schools are no more prepared to respond to pandemics, natural disasters, and bioterrorism attacks than they were in 2011, according to a study published in the October issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC).

E-cigarette use among U.S. high school students more than doubled from 4.7 percent in 2011 to 10 percent in 2012, according to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Youth Tobacco Survey.

«Cigarette smokers are at far greater risk than the general public for developing lung cancer, and helping smokers quit should be our top cancer prevention priority in these people,» said Jian - Min Yuan, M.D., Ph.D., associate director of the UPCI's Division of Cancer Control and Population Science and an epidemiologist with Pitt's Graduate School of Public Health.

The odds that a given student experienced bullying were 1.5 to nearly 2 times higher in control schools than in KiVa schools nine months after KiVa's implementation.

In this study from researchers at the Behaviour and Health Research Unit, University of Cambridge, and the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, and published today in the journal Tobacco Control, more than 400 English children aged 11 - 16 who had never smoked or «vaped» previously were recruited and randomly allocated to one of three groupIn this study from researchers at the Behaviour and Health Research Unit, University of Cambridge, and the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, and published today in the journal Tobacco Control, more than 400 English children aged 11 - 16 who had never smoked or «vaped» previously were recruited and randomly allocated to one of three groupin the journal Tobacco Control, more than 400 English children aged 11 - 16 who had never smoked or «vaped» previously were recruited and randomly allocated to one of three groups.

«However, a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that fewer than 20 percent of public middle and high schools in the U.S. start at the recommended time,» Owens says.

Data collected from 2,135 children aged 3 - 9 years from schools across China reveal that good self - control behaviours improve with age, and girls performed better than boys in tests of self - control.

In a study at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, people who received high doses of the stress hormone cortisol daily for four days performed worse on recall tests than those in the control grouIn a study at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, people who received high doses of the stress hormone cortisol daily for four days performed worse on recall tests than those in the control grouin St. Louis, people who received high doses of the stress hormone cortisol daily for four days performed worse on recall tests than those in the control grouin the control group.

The pilot study, conducted by Dr. Keiko Abe of the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, showed that healthy laboratory rats fed a diet in which some of the carbohydrate was replaced with pure maple syrup from Canada, yielded significantly better results in liver function tests than the control groups fed a diet with a syrup mix containing a similar sugar content as maple syrup.

After controlling for average class size, per - pupil spending in 1998 - 99, the percentage of students with disabilities, the percentage of students receiving a free or reduced - price school lunch, the percentage of students with limited English proficiency, and student mobility rates, high - scoring F schools achieved gains that were 2.5 points greater than their below - average D counterparts in reading (see Figure 2).

Gladwell's call to innovation and experimentation in our schools got me thinking about the idea of educational entrepreneurship and how supporting a spirit of adventure and risk within the boundaries of our public school system may allow us to realize more of the gains that we were hoping for rather than more of the same like the past two decades of tight control and, as Gladwell suggests, regimentation.

When the teachers are of mind to lower the school walls, to genuinely collaborate with homes, to distribute the control of the learning and teaching, to understand that formal schooling occupies less than 20 per cent of the children's learning time each year and to recognise the learning and teaching occurring in the remaining 80 per cent, the school can then seriously contemplate a Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT) program.