Sentences with phrase «global report card»

The district landed in the 70th percentile in reading scores on the latest Global Report Card.

The Global Report Card compares data from state achievement tests and the National Assessment of Educational Progress with the respected Program for International Student Assessment, which is given in many developed countries.

Data from the Global Report Card, which is contained in the State of Our Cities report, provides a way to make those comparisons.

This is especially true even in the suburbs surrounding D.C. And it shows in the analysis of the George W. Bush Institute's Global Report Card, which has revealed how mediocre suburban districts really can be.

One of the Global Report Card's authors, Josh McGee, says the small size of Waconda schools may have skewed the results slightly, since randomness has a greater impact on a smaller sample size.

For an updated list of media for the Global Report Card (with links), click here.

Meanwhile, coverage of the Global Report Card continues to stream in.

The rankings of 13,636 U.S. school districts can be found in the Global Report Card, available on the website of the George W. Bush Institute, where readers can see how students in each school district compare to students in 25 other nations.

The Global Report Card was calculated using state accountability tests, national standardized tests, and international tests taken in other countries.

For a full explanation of the Global Report Card methodology, please visit http://www.bushcenter.org/StateOfOurCities/compare/.

The Global Report Card, created by the George W. Bush Institute, compares the performance of the country's nearly 14,000 school districts with 25 industrialized countries.

The Global Report Card data provides information on the average level of student achievement in math and reading in virtually all U.S. school districts relative to the student achievement in a set of international peers.

But this report, called the Global Report Card, offers a glimpse into the performance of individual school districts.

Readers can check out the rankings of 13,636 U.S. school districts, and see how students in each district compare to students in 25 other nations, in a Global Report Card available on the website of the George W. Bush Institute.

Jay Greene discusses his Global Report Card, which reveals that even the most elite suburban U.S. school districts produce results that are mediocre when compared to those of international peers

Respondents did show a clear preference for round numbers, and for the 50th percentile in particular, but their responses in the aggregate were strongly correlated with actual performance as reported by the Global Report Card (see Figure 2).

Coverage of the new Global Report Card (GRC) that Josh McGee and I developed is gaining steam.

According to the Global Report Card, more than a third of the 30 school districts with the highest math achievement in the United States are actually charter schools.

We make no claims that this Global Report Card is a perfect reflection of school district student achievement relative to international norms.

Supporters don't need to rely on the Global Report Card to make the case for charter schools because they have four gold - standard RCTs on their side.

In essence, we want to know whether we have more information with the Global Report Card than we would have were it never developed and publicized.

Of course, the Global Report Card does not isolate the extent to which schools add or detract from student performance.

Student achievement in virtually every one of the nearly 14,000 public school districts in the United States compared to students overseas can be found at The Global Report Card's interactive web site.

We developed the Global Report Card (GRC) to facilitate such a comparison.

(Readers can find all of the results of the Global Report Card at http://globalreportcard.org.

The Global Report Card is not the first analysis to compare the performance of U.S. students to international peers.

Not exact matches

ManuelJesus Bautista, Governor, Central Bank of Honduras won an «A» grade in Global Finance's annual Central Banker Report Cards 2017.

RiceBran Technologies (NASDAQ: RIBT and RIBTW)(the «Company»), a global leader in the production and marketing of value added products derived from rice bran, today announced that Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. («ISS»), the nation's leading independent proxy advisory firm, has issued a report recommending that RiceBran Technologies shareholders vote on the WHITE proxy card «FOR» the election of ALL the Company's director nominees — W. John Short, Marco V. Galante, David Goldman, Baruch Halpern, Henk W. Hoogenkamp, Robert C. Schweitzer and Peter A. Woog — at RiceBran Technologies» Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the «Annual Meeting») on June 22, 2016.

RiceBran Technologies (NASDAQ: RIBT and RIBTW)(the «Company»), a global leader in the production and marketing of value added products derived from rice bran, today announced that, based on preliminary noncumulative voting results reported by the independent inspector of elections (the «Inspector») following the Company's 2016 Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the «Annual Meeting»), a large majority of shareholders have voted on the WHITE proxy card for the Company's incumbent Board of Directors (the «Board»).

Even the CDC, on a webpage explaining its 2010 Breastfeeding Report Card project, emphasizes that in our country, «too few hospitals participate in the global program to recognize best practices in supporting breastfeeding mothers and babies, known as the Baby - Friendly Hospital Initiative,» an initiative that puts heavy controls on the use of formula in institutional settings - even if the parents have expressed no intention to breastfeed.

For example, a large body of research has found switching to an entirely vegetarian diet would make a huge difference on the carbon footprint of our food system — the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security research program reports that if the global population were to reduce or cut its meat intake, it would halve the cost of mitigation actions needed to stabilize carbon dioxide levels to 450 parts per million by midcentury — but for many people that is not in the cards.

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The global tourism industry is over the worst and recovery in 2010 looks on the cards, according to the latest report from the UNWTO.

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The Global Solar Report Card, published by Mikhail Gorbachev's Green Cross International and Global Green USA, once

Anyone reading the Report Card can choose to focus upon the recent «trend» and call it global warming, or the 70 year cycle.

EARLIER today I reported on Sydney's Autumn 38 degree Sun - day, noting that «the usual climate ambulance chasers will be sharpening the lead and filling ink wells to inscribe «climate change» «global warming» on their «extreme weather» report cards, feeling morally - bound to fashionably link mankind's activities to the follies of nature.»

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The Arctic is warming at a rate twice the global average, according to the 2014 Arctic Report Card.

Rising global temperatures are already contributing to the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet, which experienced record melt this year and its warmest summer in 170 years, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Arctic Report Card.

The company reported it is developing a decentralized banking platform to provide anyone in the world with a bank account, payment card, and access to its global peer - to - peer network, designed for people who are excluded from or dissatisfied with existing banks.