Sentences with phrase «country in a high scoring»

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On the other hand, Rhode Island's health care scores are actually great, thanks to its seniors being among the healthiest in the country — seventh of all the states — and the third - highest average Medicare payments in the country.

UK terror threat level raised Following an attack outside an arena in Manchester that killed 22 and injured scores more Monday, British prime minister Theresa May put the country on its highest alert level, warning of the potential for an imminent follow - on attack.

The country also scored the highest in church attacks, abductions, and forced marriages, according to Open Doors.

The average scores from farms in participating countries and the three highest scoring farms in each country were:

Not all countries have competed each year, but of the countries that have had coffees in at least five events, the highest average score goes to Peru at 86.30 (five events).

Arizona State, the country's second - highest - scoring team, has used a blazing offense to become the best example of basketball's rise in the Southwest

is it our transfer tactics and poor scouting or just poor management of this players, I just checked squawka's and the goal scoring CHART, the young man has 50 goals in all competition for club and country at just twenty, not to talk of harry kane's chart which is outrageously way high, but the same cant be said of our players like walcot and chamberlain who has been in the club for donkey years without significant improvement, walcot just got 100goals just the other day, something he should have reached a long time ago....

The 26 - year - old scored 18 goals in his debut campaign in England's top flight, and having proved his ability at the highest level in the country, it would certainly be a disappointment if he returns to the Championship.

After two tough losses against Navy and Wisconsin to open the season, FAU has quietly had one of the highest scoring offenses in the entire country.

Another interesting factor of todays game, which kicks of at noon on SkySports 5, is that Benik Afobe will be leading the line for Wolves after Wenger sold him off cheaply in January, and then went on to become the highest - scoring player in the country last season.

Rebounding misses against the Bears is essential, as they grab their own misses at the 38th highest rate in the country, and score at 1.2 points per possession when they do, per Synergy.

However, despite owning the 4th best scoring defense in the nation, MSU will be put to the test against Russell Wilson and the high - flying Badgers attack who possess the # 1 offense in the country (50.2 PPG).

In a game befitting of one of the top 5 - ranked juniors in the country, the 6 - foot - 11 center scored a game - high 35 points and added 17 rebounds in the losing effort to Bishop MontgomerIn a game befitting of one of the top 5 - ranked juniors in the country, the 6 - foot - 11 center scored a game - high 35 points and added 17 rebounds in the losing effort to Bishop Montgomerin the country, the 6 - foot - 11 center scored a game - high 35 points and added 17 rebounds in the losing effort to Bishop Montgomerin the losing effort to Bishop Montgomery.

Meanwhile, BT Sport is the only place to be on a Saturday afternoon as Mark Pougatch, Jules Breach and a high - class panel of pundits bring you every goal as it goes in across the country from 2.30 pm onwards on BT Sport Score.

They are one of the highest scoring teams in the country, currently putting up 88 points per...

He scored 32 goals for club and country in a break - out season last term and, although Tottenham have shown no willingness to sell, the Old Trafford club would currently offer Kane a higher level of football to play at.

Q&A with Joe Girard III - Talks approaching New York State All - Time scoring record & the latest with his recruitment MADE Hoops Villanova continues to stay in contact with the country's leading high school scorer.

Ian Holloway now has a big job on his hands keeping his players grounded following their Wigan romp, as it's understandable that the player's confidence levels are rightly sky - high, while fans will now be expecting the Tangerines to push on following that emphatic win, although their very next fixture is one against the most technical sides in the country, arguably Europe in Arsenal so they'll have their work cut out keeping the scoring down to a minimum let alone obtaining a positive result.

In private sessions Saturday, 22 school teams from around the country will toss around ideas on how schools can help to broaden the rigid notion of «success» that has taken hold on so many hyper - competitive campuses — high grades, top test scores and acceptance into prestigious colleges.

Numerical scores in this analysis place the average performance of Waldorf students above that of students in OECD countries, and above 2 of the 3 high school systems in Austria.

The country remains on high alert after attacks by Islamic State militants killed scores of people in the last two years and a state of emergency is in place until at least the end of July.

Both studies relied heavily on the Gini Coefficient, a measurement of income distribution in which a score of 0 represents a society in which all wealth is shared completely equally and a score of 1 a society in which all the wealth belongs to a single person (currently, the United States has a high Gini Coefficient of.4, falling only behind Chile, Mexico, and Turkey in this measurement of inequality for OECD countries.)

Countries most comfortable with wearing their hearts on their sleeves are likely to also score high in «historical heterogeneity,» a measurement created by a group of Brown University economists to describe the breadth of a country's migration sources over the last 500 years.

Far from trailing the developed world in science education, as some claim, «on PISA, the U.S. has more high - scoring kids in science than any other country» and nearly as many in the top math category as top - scoring Japan and Korea, Salzman says.

Made up of scores from 550,000 fourth and eighth graders from more than 40 countries, the assessment shows a handful of East Asian countries scored among the highest, whereas U.S. students wound up in the middle of the pack.

The researchers note that countries scoring high in United Nations rankings of economic development tend to have smaller executive cabinets — Iceland, number one in development, has a cabinet of 12; the U.S., in 12th position, boasts a cabinet of 17 — although there are glaring exceptions: Australia, Canada and New Zealand score high on development and cabinet size, according to Science News.

Key report findings include: • Overall GAPPD scores in 2016 varied widely from a low of 20 percent (Somalia) to a high of 74 percent (Tanzania), with all 15 focus countries falling below the 86 percent target for the overall GAPPD score.

In the first experiment, people with higher happiness scores were more likely to favor the total - medal method for country rankings, while those who scored lower tended to think that gold medals should be the deciding factor.

The study was carried out by Education Datalab and found that schools in the North East had the highest scores in the country for 2015, on the grounds of «contextual value», which assesses pupils progress in addition to factors such as gender, ethnicity, depravation, special educational needs and whether English is a second or first language.

That average score was significantly higher than in 24 other countries, including France and French - speaking Belgium, as well as New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, and Malta, which tested in English.

The 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress shows that reading and math scores for the highest - achieving 10 percent of 8th and 12th graders have barely budged in the past five years, which is evidence, Kronholz notes, that many of the country's brightest youngsters are «stuck in an academic rut.»

Over the past several years Florida has attempted substantial reforms of its struggling public school system, the fourth - largest in the country and one that consistently ranks close to the bottom on academic indicators, including high - school graduation rates and scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

Ludger Woessman (see «Merit Pay International,» research) looked at 27 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries and found that students in countries with some form of performance pay for teachers score about 25 percent of a standard deviation higher on the international math test than do their peers in countries without teacher performance pay.

Moreover, if an income gap made America unique, you would expect the percentage of American students performing well below proficiency in math to be much higher than the percentage of low performers in countries with average test scores similar to the United States.

For example, while these five urban charter schools offer an existence proof that high standardized test scores are possible and within the grasp of every student in this country, it is equally true that the several practices of successful traditional schools in areas such as special education, the arts, or second language proficiency, offer insights for the charter world.

Statistically, however, the scores of children in just three countries — Sweden, the Netherlands, and England — were considered significantly higher...

Internationally, Ludger Woessmann has shown that students score higher in countries that require students to perform well on comprehensive examinations than in countries that, like the United States, have no such expectations (see «Crowd Control,» research, Summer 2003).

A 2010 study by Richard Freeman and colleagues shows that countries that perform best on TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) not only have a higher average score, but also have 1) less variation in performance and 2) smaller achievement gaps between different demographic groups.

The highest - performing countries in the world not only have the highest raw achievement scores, but also the smallest achievement gaps between subgroups within their population.

Massachusetts is widely seen as having the best school system in the country: Just 2 percent of its high - schoolers drop out, for example, and its students» math and reading scores rank No. 1 nationally.

As shown in Figure 1, Portugal exhibits the lowest average combined test scores in math and science among the 18 countries in our sample, Singapore the highest.

We found that immigrants who were schooled in countries that have higher scores on the international math and science examinations earn more in the United States.

As the summer drew to a close, Senior Lecturer James Honan, one of many HGSE faculty members who devote their time to guiding these administrators through the many challenges in their work, reflected on how the Ed School is making a difference in the professional practice of scores of higher education leaders from across the country and around the world.

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When this is equated to other countries via the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), we find (in math, for the high school graduating class of 2009) that sixteen other nations had at least twice as large a fraction of their fifteen - year - olds scoring at that level.

Specifically, students in countries that permit teacher salaries to be adjusted for outstanding performance score approximately one - quarter of a standard deviation higher on the international math and reading tests, and about 15 percent higher on the science test, than students in countries without performance pay.

Students in countries with larger shares of their enrollment in privately managed schools scored significantly higher in both math and science.

To no one's surprise, that graph shows that in every country students who come from higher - income families score higher on math and reading tests.

Students in countries that permit teacher salaries to be adjusted for outstanding performance score approximately one - quarter of a standard deviation higher on the international math and reading tests, and about 15 percent higher on the science test, than students in countries without performance pay.