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	Secretary Paige Issues New Policy for Calculating Participation Rates Under No Child Left Behind
		The 95 percent participation rate was included in the law to ensure that all children are assessed.
		Under the new policy, a state may use data from the previous one or two years to average the participation rate data for a school and/or subgroup, as needed.
		It is important to note that states already have significant authority in calculating participation rates: 1) states determine how large a subgroup must be to be considered separately for participation rate calculations and 2) make-up assessments count toward the school’s participation rate if a student is unable to take the scheduled assessment.
	www.ed.gov /news/pressreleases/2004/03/03292004.html (934 words)

	Participation dance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Participation dance, also known as group-participation dance or audience participation dance, is a major category or classification of dance forms or dance styles based on purpose.
		Participation dance is also the common name for social games based on dancing.
		Other participation dances have an easily learned song that is sung to the music and which may act as a reminder of the steps.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Participation_dance (678 words)

	Doctrinal Note on some questions regarding the participation of Catholics in political life
		The consequence of this fundamental teaching of the Second Vatican Council is that «the lay faithful are never to relinquish their participation in ‘public life’, that is, in the many different economic, social, legislative, administrative and cultural areas, which are intended to promote organically and institutionally the common good».
		It is in the light of this teaching that lay Catholics must assess their participation in political life so as to be sure that it is marked by a coherent responsibility for temporal reality.
		Catholic involvement in political life cannot compromise on this principle, for otherwise the witness of the Christian faith in the world, as well as the unity and interior coherence of the faithful, would be non-existent.
	www.vatican.va /roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20021124_politica_en.html (4043 words)

	National Report - Widening participation in higher education
		This must be accompanied by the objective of reducing the disparities in participation in higher education between groups and ensuring that higher education is responsive to the aspirations and distinctive abilities of individuals.
		Participation rates amongst students from the Registrar General’s socio-economic groups IV and V rose steeply during the late 1980s and early 1990s across the UK.
		There is a shortage of reliable information on which to base a secure judgement on whether participation by students with disabilities matches their presence in the population as a whole.
	www.leeds.ac.uk /educol/ncihe/nr_101.htm (1243 words)

	Public Participation
		The UNECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters was adopted on 25th June 1998 in the Danish city of Aarhus at the Fourth Ministerial Conference in the 'Environment for Europe' process.
		It focuses on interactions between the public and public authorities in a democratic context and it is forging a new process for public participation in the negotiation and implementation of international agreements.
		After the adoption of the Convention, two meetings of Signatories were held in 1999 and in 2000 and a Working Group to prepare for the first meeting of the Parties met three times in 2001 and 2002.
	www.unece.org /env/pp (593 words)

	participation in learning @ the informal education homepage
		In northern countries discussions of participation in adult and continuing education are far more likely to be found in the literature than, say, explorations of involvement in primary and secondary schooling.
		Current and recent participation in learning is greatest among young people, and decreases with each successive age cohort - with 86% of 17-19 year olds; 43% of 35-44 year olds, 19% of 65-74 year olds, and 15% of the 75-plus population reporting current or recent participation.
		Participation in a learning activity, whether in organized classes or self-directed, is not a single act but the result of a chain of responses, each based on an evaluation of the position of the individual in his or her environment (Cross 1981: 125).
	www.infed.org /biblio/b-partln.htm (4582 words)

	PARTICIPATION
		It is a response to the wish of a growing number of men and women who desire to play an active part in the institutions to which they belong rather than have their destiny decided by outside circumstances.
		Likewise the question of participation by the laity in the doctrinal function of the Church is extremely important.
		Because participation makes a greater appeal to the responsibility of all, it is thus in every way conformable to the dignity of man and to the nature of the Church.
	www.ewtn.com /library/Liturgy/JDPARTIC.HTM (1581 words)

	McLaughlin - The Virtues of Deliberation: A Response to "Public Participation in ICANN"
		In short, concluding that the ICANN experiment in public participation has been a failure because online public forums have been a failure is like saying that television has been a failure because Cop Rock was a failure.
		The objective is for the diverse participating stakeholders to get informed, explore the facts, hear multiple points of view, think critically about the options, and, through a structured process of dialogues among sub-groups and individuals, to move toward a consensus that maximizes accommodation of all interests.
		The Supporting Organizations and "public participation" are not two different channels to the ICANN Board; the latter is an inherent part of the former.
	cyber.law.harvard.edu /mclaughlin/mclaughlin-response-publicparticipation.html (3442 words)

	Public Participation in ICANN: A Preliminary Study
		Public participants are not, for instance, inhibited from wandering in and out of most committee meetings, but ICANN has not opted to broadcast each of these small-group sessions over the Internet.
		Participation in a Supporting Organization is likely the most effective means of becoming involved in the ICANN decision-making process.
		Participation in these forums is characterized by a large number of postings by a few persons and a small number of postings by a large number of persons.
	cyber.law.harvard.edu /icann/publicparticipation (7426 words)

	Trends in Food Stamp Program Participation Rates: 1999 to 2001 - Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The September participation rates provide a point-in-time estimate whereas the FY rates provide an average rate over the course of a year.
		Second, the FY average rates also use a consistent measure for participants and eligibles (a 12-month average), while the September rates use a specific month for participants and an average month for eligibles.
		Participation rates fell for disabled non-elderly adults, citizen children living with non-citizen adults, the elderly, and Social Security Income participants.
	www.fns.usda.gov /oane/MENU/Published/FSP/FILES/Participation/trends1999-2001sum.htm (325 words)

	FRAC - Food Stamp Program Participation Data
		Participation in the Food Stamp Program in December 2004 (the latest data available) was 25,487,768 persons, an increase of 2,207,685 persons from December 2003.
		Increases in participation since 2001 likely have been driven by improved access to the program in states, including most recently for legal immigrants, and by the weakened economy.
		Participation in December 2004 rose in the District of Columbia and in 47 of the 50 states compared to a year earlier.
	www.frac.org /html/news/fsp/12.04_FSP.html (472 words)

	International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity \| Full text \| Parental exercise is associated with ...
		Sports participation in childhood and adolescence is important because it is thought to be associated with lower levels of antisocial behaviour [1,2], higher levels of positive emotional wellbeing [3] and greater participation in sport in adulthood [4].
		In 1985, 91% of boys and 90% of girls participated in at least one extracurricular sport [5], whereas in 2000 this had decreased to 71% of boys and 58% of girls participating in at least one extracurricular sport [5,6].
		In a recent review, Beunen and Thomis reported that the heritability coefficients for sports participation ranged from 0.35–0.83, and that children who had a parent active in sport had 1.2–5.8 times the odds of participating in sport than children whose parents were not active in sport [33].
	www.ijbnpa.org /content/2/1/3 (5462 words)

	FAQ: Participation of LEP Students / English Language Learners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Other students will participate in regular assessments using accommodations to enable them to better demonstrate their skills by reducing the language load of the test.
		Some students with limited English proficiency may need to participate in an alternate state or district assessment that measures the same standards as the regular assessments, but in a different format from traditional assessments (e.g., performance assessments).
		Students who participate in these alternate assessments should still be part of the overall accountability system.
	education.umn.edu /NCEO/LEP/Participation/participation_lep_FAQ.htm (1109 words)

	Participation - Glossary - Encyclopedia - Library - VC Experts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Describes a right of a holder of Preferred Stock to enjoy both the rights associated with the Preferred Stock and also participate in any benefit available to Common Stock, without converting to Common Stock.
		This may occur with Liquidation Preferences, for example, a series of Preferred Stock may have the right to receive its Liquidation Preference and then also share in whatever money is left to be distributed to the holders of Common Stock.
		Dividends may also be "Participating" where after a holder of Preferred Stock receives its Cumulative Dividend it also receives any dividend paid on the Common Stock.
	vcexperts.com /vce/library/encyclopedia/glossary_view.asp?glossary_id=273 (245 words)

	Participation Level
		Important Note: The Participation Level is designed to reward those who are practicing good peer-to-peer behavior, not punish those who are not or cannot.
		Participation Levels are a representation of your recent sharing pattern and are not accumulated over long periods of time.
		When you upgrade to a new version of Kazaa your Participation Level is reset to ‘medium’.
	www.kazaa.com /us/help/glossary/participation_ratio.htm (628 words)

	Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health: Sports participation in children (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sports participation in children involves the issue of children playing or competing in sports and the related concerns regarding nutrition, growth, injury and psychosocial factors.
		It is estimated that 25% of girls and 50% of boys aged eight to 16 participate in sports in the United States.
		Opponents of early sports participation may point out that children who engage in activities requiring slim figures, such as ballet or gymnastics, may place their growth at risk through inadequate nutrition and even pathologic eating behaviors.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_gGENH/is_/ai_2699003740 (927 words)

	Participatory Poverty Assessments - Participation - Institute of Development Studies
		The Participation Group's work began to look towards the policy arena in the 1990s, the era of 'scaling up participation'.
		Participation Group was involved, through training and research interactions, with several African PPAs during the 1990s, and this involvement has continued to date, with inputs to the Tanzania and Uganda PPAs (2002)
		It raised many interesting questions about the effects of the inclusion of participation in the PRS framework, some of which were impossible to answer without conducting field research.
	www.ids.ac.uk /ids/particip/research/ppa.html (568 words)

	Public Participation Declaration - NGO Strategy Meeting, Lake Bled 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		We welcome both the commitment to develop a Convention and the level of ECO participation which we consider to be a model for the drafting of international environmental law in general.
		In particular, it is unacceptable for citizens or organisations who have exercised their rights to participate in environmental decision-making to be denied access to administrative or judicial appeal mechanisms.
		We strongly believe that the Convention should protect persons exercising their rights to information, participation and justice from penalisation, harassment or persecution, and are deeply concerned that a provision to similar effect was recently removed from the draft text.
	www.ljudmila.org /retina/eco-forum/public-participation-declaration.htm (1842 words)

	Technorati Tag: participation
		The reasons ranged from that I didn’t want to be a follower (as in participate instead of mastermind), to that it...
		Participation is a culture, not a tick box
		After I wrote a piece on Participation often isn't working recently, my friend Alexandra Rook dug out an article she produced a couple of years ago...
	www.technorati.com /tags/participation (670 words)

	HEFCE : Widening participation
		Widening access and improving participation in higher education are a crucial part of our mission and form one of our strategic aims.
		Participation in higher education will equip people to operate productively within the global knowledge economy.
		Enquiries for or about the Widening Participation Team should initially be addressed to Carmen Brown, tel 0117 931 7215, e-mail c.brown@hefce.ac.uk.
	www.hefce.ac.uk /widen (240 words)

	COMPASS - National data - Italy
		Sports participation data were first collected in Italy by the Italian Statistical Institute (ISTAT) in 1959, just prior to the 1960 Olympic Games held in Rome.
		In addition to the question of participation in sport the questionnaire goes on to ask questions about frequency of participation, membership of National Sports Federation or other Sports Promotion Associations and Committees, level of competitive activity, reasons of participation, reasons for non-participation and place of participation.
		The next major sports participation survey is scheduled for the year 2006 but some simple questions on sports participation are included on ISTAT’s annual multipurpose “Quality of Life” survey.
	w3.uniroma1.it /compass/italy.htm (439 words)

	Amazon.com Help: Participation Agreement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Employees of Amazon and its affiliates, when participating in any transaction in their personal capacity, are subject to this Participation Agreement and the same procedures and guidelines contained in the Help section as any Buyer or Seller on this Site.
		This Participation Agreement and all of the representations, warranties, covenants, conditions, and provisions hereof are intended to be and are for the sole and exclusive benefit of Amazon, you, and relying Buyers or Sellers.
		If any provision of this Participation Agreement shall be deemed unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from these terms and conditions and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/537790 (3868 words)

	Participation Inequality: Lurkers vs. Contributors in Internet Communities (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
		When you plot the amount of activity for each user, the result is a Zipf curve, which shows as a straight line in a log-log diagram.
		Participation inequality is not necessarily unfair because "some users are more equal than others" to misquote
		The first step to dealing with participation inequality is to recognize that it will always be with us.
	www.useit.com /alertbox/participation_inequality.html (1478 words)

	IDS Participation - Home
		Through the work of the Participation Group, the Institute of Development Studies serves as a global centre for research, innovation and learning in citizen participation and participatory approaches to development.
		The Participation Group is one of a number of teams working on key development issues at IDS, so this is a site within a site.
		We believe that the challenge for the new decade is not necessarily to promote the acceptance of participation, nor to emphasise its spread.
	www.ids.ac.uk /ids/particip (435 words)

	Civic Networks: Social Benefits of On-Line Communities
		Many participants we interviewed agreed that membership in an electronic civic network can improve the quality of life in many ways for members of disadvantaged or marginalized groups (see, for example, Abramsohn, 1995).
		Participants from the civic networks described another way in which electronic networks can be particularly beneficial to disadvantaged groups--they make access to relevant information and resources easier.
		Condensing their various concerns to a core theme, they argue that unless citizens have access to "information management" tools, their participation in the democratic process will be constrained as a result of new information and communication technologies.
	www.rand.org /publications/MR/MR650/mr650.ch5/ch5.html (8520 words)

	Amaroo 2005: Participation
		Your voluntary participation is a valuable contribution towards a successful event at Amaroo.
		For information about voluntary participation, please refer to the Volunteers page.
		To be added, to change your details or to be removed please email mailings@ircc.com.au including your name, country of residence and Smart Card number, and the word subscribe, change or unsubscribe in the subject line.
	www.amaroo.org /participation.html (313 words)

	Toolkit Citizen Participation
		Processus de résolution participative des problèmes pour créer un centre de santé pour enfants
		Participation communautaire à la fourniture d’une alimentation en eau potable
		Entreprise écologique communautaire de gouvernance participative des eaux municipales
	www.toolkitparticipation.com (1749 words)

	www.opinionworld.co.uk
		However, in order to participate, you do need to be a member of OpinionWorld.
		Participation is always optional and in the registration questionnaire you can indicate how often you wish to be invited.
		You can win cash prizes and sometimes extra prizes are raffled among the participants such as a travel cheque or a digital camera.
	www.opinionworld.co.uk /sp/TDUK/index.asp?page=part (304 words)

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