Sentences with phrase «achievements over group»

We are told that, «in short, lawyers are skeptical people who value individual achievements over group consensus, and dislike change for the uncertainty that it brings, rather than valuing it for the opportunities that it provides».

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A coalition of 6 organizations led the March on Washington, a notable achievement given disagreements over tactics; another, more radical group made fun of the March.

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Progressing to the Champions League knockout stages as Group C winners should be considered an achievement for a club that were playing in Ligue 2 less than 2 years ago, but the days of big money signings appear to be over.

Credit where it's due firstly, as Spurs have arguably proven a lot of people wrong by not only qualifying ahead of Dortmund, but to finish ahead of Madrid is a real achievement and a thoroughly deserved one given the results over the course of the group stage.

Sorin said she's upset Velazquez is boasting of the group as an achievement when it has amounted to little beyond conversations over coffee.

Bilingual children from low - income homes are at greater risk of falling behind their peers in developing the appropriate language skills for their age group, leading to poorer academic achievement over time.

The bulk of evidence over the last century «suggests that academic acceleration and most forms of ability grouping like cross-grade subject grouping and special grouping for gifted students can greatly improve K - 12 students» academic achievement.»

When it comes to academic achievement, Asian - Americans outclass every other ethnic group, with more than half over age 25 holding a bachelor's degree — well above the national average of 28 %.

Students who practiced the Transcendental Meditation program showed significant increases in math and English scale scores and performance level scores over a one - year period.A significant portion of the meditating students — 41 percent — showed a gain of at least one performance level in math, compared to 15 percent of the non-meditating students in the control group.Among the students with the lowest levels of academic performance, «below basic» and «far below basic,» the meditating students showed a significant improvement in overall academic achievement compared to students in the control group, which showed only a slight gain.

In fact, a study of Ikarian men (who are known to live to be well over a hundred), found that among men aged 65 — 100, 80 % of them claimed to have sex regularly, and a quarter of that self - reported group said they were doing so with «good duration» and «achievement.»

A 2010 study by Mark Berends and Roberto Penaloza of longitudinal data over 30 years demonstrates a relationship between increasing segregation of black and Latino students and growth in math achievement gaps between these groups and white students.

Treatment - group schools need to at least outpace their counterparts in the control group over these two years for us to say that merit pay made a real difference for student achievement.

Children in the experimental classrooms gained about two months in reading achievement over those in the control group.

The authors note that the schools given the opportunity to participate needed to «out - pace their counterparts in the control group» over the program's first two years in order to demonstrate that merit pay made a real difference for student achievement.

For instance, in the case of the Marzano Teacher Evaluation Model, the group's website boasts that the tool was the result of 5,000 studies over five decades and other research, including correlation analysis between teaching strategies and student achievement.

Alarmed by the widening gap in achievement between black and white students over the past 10 years, a group of leading scholars offers in a new book their suggestions for how to close it.

Independent evaluations determined that neither North Carolina - based Achievement for All Children nor Michigan - based Romine Group appeared ready to take over and turn around Southside Ashpole Elementary in Robeson County.

According to long - term trend data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the most credible national measure of changes in achievement over the past four decades, progress varies by age group for students overall.

A new study of international and U.S. state trends in student achievement growth shows that the United States is squarely in the middle of a group of 49 nations in 4th and 8th grade test score gains in math, reading, and science over the period 1995 - 2009.

For example, schools will have to show that there's «clear and rigorous process for providing interventions and supports for low - achieving students in those schools» when one or more at - risk group is missing achievement goals or graduation rate targets over a number of years.

The document indicated Holtz would receive a guaranteed three - year, $ 150,000 job with a personal driver at the Department of Public Instruction should Humphries win and would have authority to take over large districts with persistent gaps in academic achievement among groups of students.

Some schools thought of as high or low performers in the past based on test scores could have ratings that show the opposite because of other factors being used in the ratings, including test score growth over time, readiness for graduation and progress on closing achievement gaps between student groups.

None of the three schools achieved consistent gains over their respective comparison group on measures of academic achievement.

Despite some significant academic gains over the years, serious achievement gaps persist among many of our students, particularly those from several racial and ethnic groups.

Representatives for The Romine Group and Achievement for All Children could not be reached for comment by Policy Watch Thursday, but Hall said he hopes to delve deeper into the groups» curriculum plans, funding allocation and plans for exceptional children over the next two months.

These people also are deeply connected to Achievement First, the charter school group that the new educational commissioner brought in immediately to take over some Hartford schools.

Not to be outdone, the charter school lobby group ConnCAN continued to lament the changes made to the Commissioner's Network which was Malloy's proposal to allow Stefan Pryor, his Commissioner of Education (and the lawyer who helped form and direct Achievement First for eight years) to take over up to 25 urban schools.

According to Blueprint Louisiana, a nonprofit group based in Baton Rouge that prioritizes «student success over traditional practices,» Louisiana was ranked 48th of 50 states for K - 12 student achievement in 2011, with one - third of the state's students performing below grade level and 44 % of schools classified as failing.

Attending a high - poverty school lowers math and reading achievement for students in all racial / ethnic groups and this negative effect has not diminished over time.

In one study, Alexander, Entwisle, and Olson (2007) found that low - income students made similar achievement gains to other students during the school year; the widening of the achievement gap between the two groups occurred over the summer.

Although the percentage of white students in the country has declined dramatically over the past 50 years, while the percentage of black students has changed very little, the achievement levels of black students compared to white students (and other racial / ethnic groups) has barely narrowed, according to a study by University of Illinois economist Steven Rivkin.

For instance, if there is a set of classrooms that are using some new piece of educational software, we should be able to go out and find other classrooms that have very similar students, that have students with similar prior achievement, similar demographics and so forth, and then just track them over time and just automatically report the differences in outcomes for the students receiving the software and then the comparison group of students that aren't.

At the same time, ConnCAN, the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, Inc., appears to have spent another $ 230,000 lobbying Malloy's bill, bringing the total expenditures by the two Connecticut based groups to over $ 1,000,000.

Over the objections of teachers and administrators groups, the Los Angeles Unified School District was ordered Tuesday to use students» academic achievement in their teachers» evaluations.

New Profit, Inc., a financial group that invests in Achievement First Inc. and other private companies associated with the education reform industry, told investors in their annual report last year that, «Over the next five years, Achievement First plans to grow to a network of 38 schools serving more than 12,000 students.»

New Profit, Inc. also «invests» in a variety of other corporate education reform industry companies and front groups including Educators 4 Excellence, a New York based anti-union advocacy group that recently opened offices in Connecticut; the Kipp Charter School Chain, a company that runs well over 100 charter schools around the nation; the «Achievement Network» and «Turnaround for Children,» two other corporate education reform organizations.

• The Kirkland Group has been assisting school districts in increasing student achievement for over 20 years by providing professional development, coaching, tutoring and mentoring.

CAEP's standards for admission require that the average GPA of a program's accepted cohort of candidates meets or exceeds 3.0, and the group average performance on nationally normed ability / achievement assessments such as ACT, SAT or GRE is: in the top 50th percentile, increasing to the top third over time..

(May 2011) The Institute of Consumer Financial Education (ICFE), a San Diego based group is proud to celebrate the achievement of over 100,000 consumers and professionals nationwide who have successfully completed the financial and credit education program, Credit When Credit is Due.

The Group invested over $ 14.5 m including fees and up to $ 2.6 m deferred consideration payable on achievement of profit targets in a number of new and existing joint ventures & associates.

Our latest achievements include ranking 74th in The Sunday Times Virgin Fast Track 100 (Britain's 100 private companies with the fastest - growing sales over their latest three years) as well as being listed as a Sunday Times Top 100 Best Small Company to work for in 2016 and 2017 and the fastest growing recruitment group in the UK for 2017 for our sectors (as per the Recruiter Fast 50 awards).

Key Achievements • Apprehended a particularly difficult to catch criminal who was on the run for over 12 years • Safely transported a group of offenders to a specialized prison 450 miles away from the city, without incident

When possible, use numbers to quantify your achievements: Managed group of 26 workers Worked with over 425 clients Increased sales from $ 1 Million to $ 3.6 million over a 3 - year period

Developed all local store marketing and advertising for the franchise group in addition to creative and design projects Created print advertisements Recruitment flyers and posters Monthly newsletters Communication and display boards Designed numerous coupons for distribution In store training materials and posters Developed business card layout Developed a highly motivated and team - work oriented staff Trained numerous hourly team members to management Handled all service recovery and customer service issues Assisted with all phases of the initial startup for new location Broke five sales records for 2003 Broke over 40 sales records in 2001 (Columbus) exceeding our sales Received the award for highest sales increase for 2001, 63.8 % over last year (Columbus) Store received a Pinnacle Sales award - 1.8 million to 2.5 Million in sales 2001 (Columbus) Achievements 2007 Fairmount Center Fine Arts Show participant 2006 Fairmount Center Fine Arts Show Honorable Mention 1998, 1997 Russell Women's Civic Club Art Show, Honorable Mention 1996, 1993 Fairmount Center Fine Arts Show First Place.

At the population level, however, with more than 9 million men in the United States in their early fifties, a 3 percentage point reduction in heart attacks would be seen as a major public health achievement, because it would mean a quarter of a million fewer heart attacks in this group over a decade.