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First Focus on Children, 2023
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently released an update to the nutrition standards schools must meet in the breakfasts and lunches served to more than 30 million children. The last time USDA fully updated school meal standards was in 2012. Research on the impact of those changes found that the nutritional quality of school meals…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, Breakfast Programs, Nutrition, Federal Programs
Keil, Andrew – Center for Creative Leadership, 2020
Even in good times, when business is booming and employee engagement is high, executive leaders and senior-level managers face a high level of pressure. Not only are they charged with setting the direction for their organizations, but they must also foster alignment and commitment with their teams so the organization moves forward successfully.…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Administrator Characteristics, Behavior, Skill Development
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Sosabowski, Michael Hal; Gard, Paul R. – School Science Review, 2017
The Scientific Method is the series of processes by which hypotheses, ideas and theories are shown to be true beyond a reasonable scientific doubt. Most science "fact" is expressed in terms of probabilities rather than certainties. Thus, by means of statistical calculations, researchers aim to determine whether an observed association…
Descriptors: Scientific Methodology, Science Process Skills, Scientists, Change
Utterback, Annie; Iguina-Colón, Gloriela; Wharton-Fields, Donna – MDRC, 2020
The COVID-19 health pandemic created an extremely stressful context for staff in workforce development programs and the participants with whom they work. "MyGoals for Employment Success" is an employment coaching program based in Baltimore, Maryland, and Houston, Texas, that combines a highly structured coaching model that emphasizes…
Descriptors: Disease Control, Crisis Management, Coaching (Performance), Career Counseling
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McClain, Liz – Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, 2021
Students at Aaniiih Nakoda College (ANC) are determined to utilize their education to help combat the looming climate change crisis and the effects it will have on their Fort Belknap community. Children at ANC's White Clay Immersion School have built their own weather station and created an Aaniiin language book on climate change for elementary…
Descriptors: Tribally Controlled Education, American Indian Reservations, Minority Serving Institutions, Climate
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Stein, Richard A.; Davis, Devra Lee – American Biology Teacher, 2012
Epigenetics is emerging as one of the most dynamic and vibrant biomedical areas. Multiple lines of evidence confirm that inherited genetic changes alone cannot fully explain all phenotypic characteristics of live organisms, and additional factors, which are not encoded in the DNA sequence, are involved. The contribution of non-genetic factors is…
Descriptors: Genetics, Change, Biomedicine, Twins