Sentences with phrase «widespread efforts»

It's difficult to gauge how widespread these efforts are, or whether they will inspire real change, but stories about them are bubbling up.

The group's widespread efforts yield anywhere from five to eight calls a day from homeless across the nation.

Despite widespread efforts by NGOs to promote shifts towards organic agriculture practices, adoption often remains limited to farmers who receive direct technical or financial support (although spontaneous adoption occurs widely).

In light of widespread efforts to hold schools accountable for student learning, a push highlighted by the passage of No Child Left Behind in 2001, we were interested in seeing how much emphasis programs placed on assessment and accountability within the core curriculum.

RH: Right now, we're see widespread efforts to use observational frameworks as high - stakes tools.

We believe there is potential for more widespread efforts for journalism to adapt decolonising practices from the health sector, including a greater inclusion of decolonising practices in journalism education and practice.

Thanks to widespread efforts in our state — by expanding TNR, providing more low cost spay / neuter clinics and facilitating networking among trappers, rescue groups and shelters, we have started to gain the upper paw.

DO - IT, the federal Americans with Disabilities Act, and other widespread efforts and laws seem to have created a greater determination among students and parents to make sure disabled people are included in all activities.

And a 2013 survey by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority found that financial literacy actually declined slightly between 2009 and 2012, despite widespread efforts to boost financial smarts.

In the 1930s there emerged an initiative to teach black history and culture to white students, which pre-dates more widespread efforts of the post-Second World War era.

David S. Cohen, a Treasury official focused on terrorism and financial intelligence, said in 2014 that the American authorities were not seeing any widespread efforts to get around sanctions with virtual currencies.

The widespread efforts to effect government change have also caused oil prices to increase.

This is the logical conclusion of a widespread effort to win through youth.

Widespread efforts to help more mothers achieve greater breastfeeding self - efficacy could help many more reach their breastfeeding goals.

Astorino's campaign told Fred Dicker of The New York Post today that it wants a review of the petitioning process and whether there was a widespread effort to submit fraudulent signatures to the Board of Elections for the ballot line.

The research has led to widespread efforts to educate children about stereotype threat and research has shown that teaching undergraduate students about this effect appears to improve their performance in a maths test.

The fact that it even got near the nominations suggests that those widespread efforts to change the Academy's makeup are ever so slowly working.

A determined, widespread effort to weaken or destroy the institution teachers are counting on to protect them economically will force them into retirement or to hunker down and wait in brooding resentment for a change in the political weather.

It is curious that Mr. McShane presents the OER movement as an effort to disrupt the textbook market rather than as a widespread effort to create, share, remix, and reuse learning content.

What are the implications of these results for the widespread efforts to diversify the teacher workforce?

The question in the title of this article, then, can be reworked as such: Why isn't there a widespread effort to maintain videogames worthy of preservation and artistic consideration given these mounting problems that this medium inevitably faces with each passing generation?

«There's a widespread effort all across the country on the part of museums to look for artists that have been left out of the story,» she says, noting that extends to artists of color, queer artists, Latinx artists, and others.

Despite widespread efforts to play down the Climategate e-mails, they were very damaging.

Despite widespread efforts to boost diversity, there are still relatively few women running global practices at the UK's top law firms.

From making its first blockchain investment this year to exploring the creation of an investment fund backed by cryptocurrency, the UN agency has embarked on a widespread effort to utilize the nascent technology.

The Securities and Exchange Commission papered cryptocurrency and blockchain based technology companies with subpoenas and demands for information yesterday in a widespread effort to control fundraising according to The Wall Street Journal.