Sentences with phrase «about wide gaps»

Some in Montgomery see promise in a newly appointed superintendent and more county funding this year, but there are also concerns about wide gaps in achievement, lagging graduation rates and language barriers.

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While the researchers didn't dig to find out why some states have wider pay gaps than others, they noted that in recent years, California and New York have banned employers from asking job applicants about their previous salaries.

Unfortunately, we know that the gender gap in the tech industry is far too wide, and that's why we feel so strongly about our programs that help to elevate underrepresented populations.

By two recent estimates, a yawning gap exists between the housing stock the county had before the fires — about 208,000 homes, apartments and other units — and what is needed to keep the economy growing and to comfortably house a wide range of workers and families.

The real issue here is the reliability of the bible as a historical record, the gaps in time should leave the door wide open for additional information about Jesus» personal life, not included in the original scriptures.

This would destroy the few positives about his game and you'd see him being drawn wide and leaving HUGE gaps for the opposition to exploit.

There seems to be a very wide gap between what the Arsenal fans and the football media think about Arsene Wenger's chances of leading the Gunners to a first Premier League title since 2004, so who is right?

We've all read stories about the summer learning gap — a gap made even wider by lack of nutrition.

She said about education funding, «That gap now between our richest schools and our poorest schools is wider under Governor Cuomo than it has ever been before, and that's got to stop.»

Before the prime minister's announcements about restricting migrants» access to benefits the five - point gap between the two parties was as wide as 13 %.

Its wide, airy space allows extra steps to be bolted to the top of the infinite staircase as necessary to fill in gaps below, making good on Gödel's hunch about rooting out the unsolvability that riddles mathematics.

To observe nucleation in a collagen gap — about 2 nanometers high and 40 nanometers wide — the team studied calcium phosphate nucleation with in situ small - angle X-ray scattering at the Advanced Photon Source in Argonne National Lab.

The little moonlet, which according to The Verge is about 20 miles wide and resembles «a little space rock with what looks like two googly eyes,» resides in what is known as the Encke Gap, a 200 - mile - wide space between Saturn's rings that is caused by the diminutive object itself.

I'm speaking in a special session about women in science — highlighting the great work by members of our scientific community, but also speaking to promote gender equity in a field where, sadly, there are still wide gender gaps.

BoF: What about some of the new brands that have recently been brought into the wider Gap Inc. portfolio.

Many couples are worried about how their friends and family will perceive their relationship if the age gap between them is too wide.

One of the most unique aspects about this way of dating is that it brings people from all «classes» and backgrounds together in mutually beneficial relationships; and as social stratification grows wider in these economic times, could this be a way of bridging the gap?

At the film's recent press day, Costner talked about the appeal of playing Coach White, Niki Caro's directing style, the bond that developed between all the actors during filming, the pivotal role a coach can play in a young person's life, the Jim White - type coaches who influenced Costner's life in a positive way, what he learned about Latino culture growing up in Visalia, why he waits for projects to come along that he can really respond to irrespective of genre, the biggest cultural gap he experienced on this film, and how sports movies allow us to address other issues within the wider society.

About the Achievement Gap Initiative (AGI) at Harvard University The Achievement Gap Initiative (AGI) is a university - wide effort initiated by the Harvard Graduate School of Education to focus academic research, public education, and innovative outreach activities toward eliminating achievement gaps.

Given the context of a wide cultural gap between the East and West (or for that matter North vs South), we need to be actively and cohesively involved in bringing about a change in our own neighbourhood / community and simultaneously connecting to global challenges and sensitive to diverse needs.

About participatory structures and efforts to develop them, there is often a wide gap between rhetoric and practice.

Given that accountability is being limited to the worst five - percent of schools within a state and at least 10 percent of schools with wide achievement gaps, reformers (especially centrist Democrats) should be skeptical about what the administration means when it says «ambitious» and «achievable».

In 2002, researchers Read more about Grad Gap Wider than Enrollment Gap Among Poor -LSB-...]

«We have the second - widest achievement gap in the country and the fact that we are talking about putting more on our schools and disproportionately on charters — it's just amazing to me.

Oakland Tech High School teacher, Steve Wright shared his experience of studying school - wide grades by demographic and feeling deeply concerned about the achievement gaps between white, African American, and Latino students at his school.

Early post-war racing — A fascinating collection of photos of the people and the cars that «bridged the gap» in motor racing following the last war / Car model names — Bryan Goodman writes about the origins of car model names following his article on makers» names / Guide to specialists — A newly - compiled list of various specialists area by area able to help with your pre-1950 vehicle / Oliver North — outstanding designer — This remarkable man was responsible for a wide range of vehicles from light cars to the heaviest commercials.

The generalized statements about the gaps being too small causing insufficient burn and too wide having a weak spark are spot on.

Sitting pretty under the wide rear end is a new sport inspired stainless steel muffler and the Sky Rocket sits about an inch and a half lower to the ground thanks to a new set of springs that work with the factory shocks in order to eliminate the wheel gap between the Scirocco's wide fenders and 19 by 8 inch multi spoke rims and tires.

Unfortunately, that just highlights the interior rattles — which, together with wide and uneven body - panel gaps, reinforces our recent concerns about Chrysler's fit and finish.

The wide gap between the government - sanctioned CPI and the Shadow Government CPI presents a competing set of assumptions about how to measure the effect of rising prices on the average consumer and the market as a whole.

228,300 cubic metres per second thru a 660 km wide gap = about 350 litres per second per metre of gap.

There have been a lot of crazy things written about the shutdown, but what makes this exceptional is that it serves as a good example of how wide a gap exists between the two parties when it comes to certain environmental regulations.

Again a wide gap has developed between what is understood about global warming by the relevant scientific community and what is known by policymakers and the public.

1) There is still pretty wide agreement that the big melt of 2007 betrays as much about gaps in understanding and modeling skill as it does about the Arctic's fate in a warming world.

The moves will save an estimated 120 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per year by 2025, closing the gap by about a third between his economy - wide pledge and the sum total of all of Obama's myriad executive actions and regulations on climate thus far.

There continues to be a wide partisan gap in views about drilling in U.S. waters, and the gap has grown larger since February of this year.

More importantly, please spread the word about this new study far and wide so that the public gap in understanding can shrink to the point where we can actually move forward with solutions to stem the tide.

Slaw has been a great source of information about a wide variety of creative initiatives to address the need to improve access to justice and bridge the implementation gap.

New teacher polling shows nearly half academy leaders are sceptical about academy freedoms and schools are increasingly using pupil premium to plug wider gaps.

Furthermore, a wide gap appears to exist between what people perceive to be the level of privacy afforded health information about them and what actually occurs with the use of such information today.

In fact, to appreciate how important business intelligence and analytics really is, we recently wrote about a survey of chief legal officers that suggests there is still a wide gap between the reporting they need for strategic decision - making and the reporting they actually get.

The researchers found that while married parents contributed about 8 % of their income to their children's» annual college expenses and divorced parents contributed about 6 % of theirs, the difference in total incomes creates a wider gap in contributions since the median income of married parents was almost double that of divorced or separated parents.

«With the lowest broker rates, you're sometimes talking about different products — a low - frills mortgage versus a bank mortgage — but nevertheless the interest cost gap is extremely wide.»

For example, the Fidelity study found a wide gap in expectations about who will care for a parent if they become ill.