And we have no direct information from families themselves on what may have influenced school attendance.
"We have seen evidence that many of the individuals identified to us in the course of the investigation as having influenced schools through improper manipulation of school governance were local authority governors," the report notes.
Dr. Allan Tasman, president of the American Psychiatric Association, said that managed care organizations had "emphasized medications as a quick fix for many problems," and he said that this view had influenced schools as well.
In her forthright way with melody and her blending of jazz conventions with singer-songwriter ideals, Ms. Martin has influenced a school of younger vocalists, like Becca Stevens, who played a preceding set on Thursday with her working band.
The "better world" idea has influenced the engineering school's research priorities.
This study empirically demonstrates how the cutoff date and legal minimum age of school entry specified by the Compulsory Education Law has influenced the timing of school entry as well as adult outcomes.
Though not always giving a detailed account of the correlation between myth and ritual, Eliade is indebted to the so-called myth and ritual school, which has influenced thinking in the history of religions and which was important in the 1930s, especially in the interpretation of Middle Eastern mythology.
"Well, I've tried to learn from my dad's negative decisions, and it has influenced me to strive in school, and to get good grades," Barien said.
Daoist mysticism lives on in that it has influenced the two Chinese Zen schools of Linji (Rinzai) and Zaodong (Sōtō), introduced in the 12th and 13th centuries and still active in Japan.
The chief said he understood how the recent attacks in San Bernardino could have influenced the school district's decision.
They've employed many innovative practices, including longer school days and focused curricula, but there is little evidence that charter schools have influenced changes in the rest of their school districts.
