Sentences with phrase «even measures of growth»

Even measures of growth in test scores or VAM are not rigorously identified indicators of school or program quality as they do not reveal what the growth would have been in the absence of that school or program.

Not exact matches

«U.S. growth of 0.6 million barrels a day in 2017 beat all expectations, even with a moderate price response to the output deal as the shale industry bounced back — profiting from cost cuts, stepped up drilling activity and efficiency measures enforced during the downturn,» the group said.

Since the growth is not measured on a per share basis, Rosenstein claims management can drive up its payout by acquiring new production volume, even if it means diluting the value of its shares to purchase Rice's wells with stock, which Rosenstein believes is undervalued.

Even as the politicos argued over job growth and a stagnate economy, entrepreneurs kept plugging along, cashing checks and finding themselves with a measure of security heretofore unheard of.

Brazil went even further, announcing a range of monetary and fiscal measures to reinvigorate economic growth that, in the latest quarter, sagged to just 0.3 %.

While growth can certainly be faster when measured from trough - to - peak, even the past decade or two of growth has been contained by a 6 % channel.

That's why we hold over 200 individual investment positions in Strategic Growth, why we diversify across industries, why I left complete put option coverage underneath the Fund's portfolio even in response to a favorable shift in our measures of market action two weeks ago (now neutral), why the dollar value of our shorts never materially exceeds our long holdings, and why even in the most favorable conditions, the Fund can establish leverage only by investing a small percentage of assets in call options (never on margin).

Even if the growth rates of nominal GDP and U.S. corporate revenues (including foreign revenues) over the coming 20 years match their 4 % growth rate of the past 20 years, and even if the most reliable valuation measures merely touch their historical norms 20 years from today, the S&P 500 Index two decades from now will trade more than 20 % lower than where it trades toEven if the growth rates of nominal GDP and U.S. corporate revenues (including foreign revenues) over the coming 20 years match their 4 % growth rate of the past 20 years, and even if the most reliable valuation measures merely touch their historical norms 20 years from today, the S&P 500 Index two decades from now will trade more than 20 % lower than where it trades toeven if the most reliable valuation measures merely touch their historical norms 20 years from today, the S&P 500 Index two decades from now will trade more than 20 % lower than where it trades today.

Since trade is tied so closely to the U.S. economy, measures that make exporting and importing more difficult could have a negative effect, leading to a lack of economic growth and even an eventual recession.

The measures announced were even more aggressive than most had expected, fueling hopes of stronger economic growth and increased demand for various commodities.

My second argument is that even if by some measures vast growth does reduce the percentage of the world's population that is desperately poor, present policies will destroy the natural basis for our life together long before they resolve the problem of poverty.

I am constantly reprimanded for our church being self - sabotaging in that we continually seem to undermine strategies that might guarantee some measure of stability and even growth.

As we anticipate continued growth in population and see that even now there are hundreds of millions of people whose needs are not met, we are morally obligated to support any measure that will lead to increased production.

Even though attendance didn't increase (not a measure of church growth in my opinion), there was a lot of growth in the people.

Among the large number of available studies measuring developmental achievements in relation to diet, no suggestions are ever made of any intellectual or other neurological detriments associated with absence of formula supplements or human milk fortifiers, even when there is slower premature infant growth.

McMahon, the director of the business - backed think - tank, said the proposed cap by the Assembly contains few exclusions, even if the growth in pension costs above 2 percent is carved out of the measure.

While the lifelong Democrat voted for Hillary Clinton, Trump's vocal endorsement of charter school growth compelled some measure of collaboration and Moskowitz was even considered for education secretary at one point.

Once Mulroy realized there would be no stopping Las Vegas» growth, even temporarily, she attacked the challenge of meeting the city's growing need for water with equal measures of pragmatism and creativity.

But even more damning is that the formulation Lomborg offers now, following criticism that he muddled the point, is still not unambiguous: sometimes projected resource lifetimes are measured based on extrapolating a constant rate of growth of consumption into the future starting «from the year discussed», rather than assuming a constant consumption rate, and sometimes they are measured «from the year discussed» by assuming that the consumption rate is following a bell - shaped curve (the famous «Hubbert's pimple»).4

And even in the imaginary world in which VAM is used, learning growth on math and reading tests only captures a narrow portion of school quality, which is why those measures are not consistent predictors of later life outcomes, like graduation, college attendance, and earnings.

That schools can score well on growth measures even if their low - income students and / or students of color don't close gaps in achievement and college - and - career readiness.

Among other issues, researchers have considered which scaling properties are necessary for measuring growth (see, for example, here), whether the tests» scale properties met the assumptions of the statistical models being used (see, for example, here), if growth in student achievement is scale dependent (see, for example, here), and even if tests that were vertically scaled could meet the assumptions required by regression - based models (see, for example, here).

Many other measures evaluate the performance, or growth, of all students in a school, and thus a school can still be highly rated if affluent students perform well, even if low - income students do not perform well at that same school.

Even without glitches, the move to new exams means that in this, the first year of the new tests, there is no benchmark to measure gains and growth in learning against the previous year.

We achieved this sign - on rate even though all participating LEAs will have to implement a bold set of policy and practice changes, including using student growth as one of multiple measures in evaluating and compensating teachers and leaders; denying tenure to teachers who are deemed ineffective as gauged partly by student growth; relinquishing control over their persistently lowest - achieving schools; increasing the number of students who are taught by effective teachers; and, in many cases, opening their doors to more charter schools.

Yet, this year, I find that I am not as focused on analyzing best practices employed, the innovations undertaken in implementing more technology in my classroom, or even my end - of - course student growth data measures.

«Simply measuring growth will not provide an understanding as to whether students are achieving grade - level proficiency, because even if 100 percent of students are making growth, there could be zero percent of students that are proficient,» the reviewers wrote.

Studies published in the best economics and education journals have shown unequivocal evidence of excessive teaching to the test and drilling that produces inflated measures of students» growth in learning; cheating on tests that includes erasing incorrect answers or filling in missing responses; shifting of students out of classrooms or other efforts to exclude anticipated poor performers from testing, or alternatively, concentrating classroom teaching efforts on those students most likely to increase their test scores above a particular target, and other even more subtle strategies for increasing testing averages.

The act's emphasis on test scores as the primary measure of school performance has narrowed the curriculum, and the one - size - fits - all accountability system has mislabeled schools as failures even if their students are demonstrating real academic growth.

The typical academic literature is even backed up by the «sustainable growth model» measure of valuing stock prices, which suggests that future growth is largely supported by the percentage of retained earnings that is reinvested in the corporation (and not paid out as dividends).

Even before this initiative moves forward, Delaware scores quite well on all our measures, with a median income for college graduates of nearly $ 50,000, job growth of 1.8 percent between 2013 and 2014, and workplaces that rank 16th in the nation.

Sadly, apart from looking at the general growth curve, there's no reliable method to confirm a puppy's final growth or size ahead of time, not even by measuring paw sizes.

there's no reliable method to confirm a puppy's final growth or size ahead of time, not even by measuring paw sizes.

But, as DOE points out, even with all the regulatory measures that were in place as of 2013, due to economic growth, their Reference Case emissions will increase by 236 MMT between 2012 and 2025 (EIA Annual Energy Outlook 2014, p. A-5).

To point out just a couple of things: — oceans warming slower (or cooling slower) than lands on long - time trends is absolutely normal, because water is more difficult both to warm or to cool (I mean, we require both a bigger heat flow and more time); at the contrary, I see as a non-sense theory (made by some serrist, but don't know who) that oceans are storing up heat, and that suddenly they will release such heat as a positive feedback: or the water warms than no heat can be considered ad «stored» (we have no phase change inside oceans, so no latent heat) or oceans begin to release heat but in the same time they have to cool (because they are losing heat); so, I don't feel strange that in last years land temperatures for some series (NCDC and GISS) can be heating up while oceans are slightly cooling, but I feel strange that they are heating up so much to reverse global trend from slightly negative / stable to slightly positive; but, in the end, all this is not an evidence that lands» warming is led by UHI (but, this effect, I would not exclude it from having a small part in temperature trends for some regional area, but just small); both because, as writtend, it is normal to have waters warming slower than lands, and because lands» temperatures are often measured in a not so precise way (despite they continue to give us a global uncertainity in TT values which is barely the instrumental's one)-- but, to point out, HadCRU and MSU of last years (I mean always 2002 - 2006) follow much better waters» temperatures trend; — metropolis and larger cities temperature trends actually show an increase in UHI effect, but I think the sites are few, and the covered area is very small worldwide, so the global effect is very poor (but it still can be sensible for regional effects); but I would not run out a small warming trend for airport measurements due mainly to three things: increasing jet planes traffic, enlarging airports (then more buildings and more asphalt — if you follow motor sports, or simply live in a town / city, you will know how easy they get very warmer than air during day, and how much it can slow night - time cooling) and overall having airports nearer to cities (if not becoming an area inside the city after some decade of hurban growth, e.g. Milan - Linate); — I found no point about UHI in towns and villages; you will tell me they are not large cities; but, in comparison with 20-40-60 years ago when they were «countryside», many small towns and villages have become part of larger hurban areas (at least in Europe and Asia) so examining just larger cities would not be enough in my opinion to get a full view of UHI effect (still remembering that it has a small global effect: we can say many matters are due to UHI instead of GW, maybe even that a small part of measured GW is due to UHI, and that GW measurements are not so precise to make us able to make good analisyses and predictions, but not that GW is due to UHI).

But it is an inescapable fact that even with extraordinary measures to adopt low - carbon energy supply technologies on a large scale it will be mathematically impossible for the country to enjoy even moderate economic growth in the absence of much stronger energy efficiency gains than in the past.

It is clear that even with these latest measures, the Indian government must do more to restrict the growth of Delhi's traffic.

It's only useful for doing what it was original designed to do: Measure the aggregate production and consumption of a nation — which also happens to be a useful measurement of ecological throughput, the relative amount of resources used, given that despite hopeful claims that economic growth can be decoupled from growth in resource consumption and energy usage, this has historically and currently not been the case, and is unlikely to ever fully or even largely be the case.

Even so, the alcohol boom has brought a measure of growth back to Brazil's Northeast, and the massive underemployed workforce is glad for the work.

Known now as the biggest journalistic investigation to date, the Panama scandal will surely push for better and more accurate measures on tax minimization in the long term, but for now, Bloomberg states that «in the short - term, this will be accompanied by even stronger resistance to the kind of political unity that is needed in several countries to deliver high growth and genuine financial stability.»