Sentences with phrase «when upward shifts»

When upward shifts are observed in student achievement, build on those successes.

Not exact matches

«When springtime shifts in wind direction brought deeper, nutrient - rich water upward near the coast, a small population of P. australis became a big population, which was then washed ashore along the West Coast by late spring storms,» said co-author Barbara Hickey, a UW professor of oceanography.

When the photon momentum and the atomic velocity are at an angle larger than 90 degrees, the atom and the light are counterpropagating and the Doppler shift is an upward shift in frequency.

Earnings information, when provided to the less - educated, shifts the percentage upward by 6 percentage points, but cost information drives it downward by 11 percentage points.

-- the percentage of those giving the schools an «A» or a «B» on the traditional A to F grading scale drops 11 percentage points, from 49 % to 38 %; — support for a proposal to make vouchers available to all families regardless of income jumps 13 percentage points, increasing from 43 % to 56 %, while opposition to the proposal declines from 37 % to 25 %; — support for charter schools shifts upward from 51 % to 58 % when respondents learn the national rank of the local district, while opposition to charters declines from 26 % to 23 %; — opposition to teacher tenure climbs 8 percentage points, from 47 % to 55 %, while support for tenure drops 8 points to 25 %.

Support shifts upward when the public is asked about vouchers in a less pejorative manner.

When respondents are given the state and national ranking of local district schools, charter support shifts upward to 56 percent and 58 percent, respectively (see Figure 3).

The four - speed automatic shifts upward smoothly enough... when you're not lead - footing it.

Despite a top - drawer reputation, its sales have been poor to flat in recent years by virtue mostly of having the wrong size of cars to sell - compacts - at a time when buyers» tastes have shifted upward.

When you try to match a line's slope, but then shift that line upward, choosing the intercept deliberately to make the prediction look as bad as possible, that's dishonest.

The 1976 divide is the date of a widely acknowledged «climate shift» (e.g. Trenberth, 1990) and seems to mark a time (see Chapter 9) when global mean temperature began a discernable upward trend that has been at least partly attributed to increases in greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere (see the TAR; IPCC 2001).

The 1976 divide is the date of a widely acknowledged «climate shift» (e.g. Trenberth, 1990) and seems to mark a time (see Chapter 9) when the global mean temperatures began a discernable upward trend that has been at least partly attributed to increases in greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere... The picture prior to 1976 has essentially not changed and is therefore not repeated in detail here.

Gorgeous visuals and a luscious soundtrack keep you going when the infinite road upward gets long, and entice you to earn everything from regular achievements that you can post to friends to entirely new skins which dramatically shift the entire aesthetic of the game itself with a single click.

The market had tilted upward and my buyer client instructions had been when the market shifts, you got us such a good deal here, we would then sell it and move on.