Sentences with phrase «by flat scores»

The 2006 Child Well - Being Index, released in March by the Foundation for Child Development in cooperation with Duke University and the Brookings Institution, suggests a general lack of progress for K - 12 students, evidenced by flat scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, persistent achievement gaps, and falling high school graduation rates.

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For the last time he played against Barcelona, he scored an own goal and was left flat on his backside by the Brazilian.

Last night he, and his players, were truly cheated by the Greek officials and the score of 1 - 5 flattered Bayern.

On Wednesday night, as Manchester City disappointed an entire nation by failing to fall flat on their faces against Roma, it was Zabaleta who scored the second, performance - capping goal.

After a dominating performance in Week 15, Team Jones came out flat in Week 16 against Team Reisner and lost by a final score of 89 - 69.

Many pundits said that Arsenal were «flattered» by the scoreline, considering it was still 0 - 0 with 15 minutes to go, but the fact is that we always had the upper hand, and if i hadn't been for Jack Butland and a few lucky blocks we could easily have won by a cricket score.

While Totti's pursuit of Silvio Piola's scoring record will ultimately fall flat, Totti already has more appearances than any attacking outfield player in the history of the league and is, by any objective measure (bias alert, but not really), the best Italian to ever play the game.

Chelsea are world beaters then, as they struggled against Championship opposition recently in the FA Cup, edging past Portsmouth despite a flattering 4 - 1 score, while last week saw them torn to shreds at home by Sunderland.

In fact, after last year's Open House at which scores of parents signed up for the G&T test on site, the number of Bronx children taking the G&T test for entry to Kindergarten increased by over 13 percent whereas in other boroughs the testing rate stayed flat or even decreased.

Cuomo's Five - Year Financial Plan keeps revenue sharing with local governments flat at a time when scores of local governments and school districts are headed for insolvency and a takeover by state Control Boards.

I knew that fall styles had just been brought in, so I went a * wee * bit ham on the shoe front... I ended up scoring four pairs: Circus by Sam Edelman block heels, studded flats (as seen here), and two pairs of booties.

An exercise in tasteful pointlessness, shot in flat black and white and scored (by Gruff Rhys, of all people) with tinkling piano and sawing strings that evoke nothing so much as an aura of cut - rate class.

When the dance is finally beat, Robert Baker... or Alabama, there's something endearing enough about the pretty points in cinematography and score work, touching occasions in entertainingly well - paced direction, interesting spots in a colorful story, and across - the - board decent performances - especially the one by Evan Rachel Wood - for the final product to border on decent, ultimately falling under the overwhelming weight of the glaring tonal and narrative incoherencies, flat humor, dramatic contrivances, problematic themes, even more problematic leads, ridiculous story and onslaught of clichés which render Andrew Fleming's «Barefoot» an occasionally charming, but mostly mediocrely misguided romantic dramedy.

So as a showcase for Carano's natural abilities, sultry good looks and relaxed screen presence, the film is enjoyable but outside of the action, the film feels rather lethargic, which is only exacerbated by the rather flat dialogue and understated David Holmes score.

Even the score by the always exotic Mychael Danna (The Sweet Hereafter) falls flat, particularly in conventional action scenes.

But revisiting the film, I was irked less by any perceived preening desire to be «authentic» than I was absorbed by the power of its story — though the movie's one go - for - broke stab at regional poetry, a black - and - white squirrel - centric dream sequence scored to a chorus of chainsaws, still falls completely flat.

Despite widening gaps between highest - and lowest - scoring students, average scores in reading and mathematics were essentially flat from 2015 to 2017, with the exception of eighth - grade reading scores, where the percentage of proficient students increased by two percentage points.

Detractors will point to flat or slightly declining scores in the past two NAEP tests, preceded by big pre-Common Core increases in 2009 and 2011, as evidence Common Core was a mistake.

The federal government has increased spending on education by 300 % since ESEA was passed with nothing to show for it; student test scores have remained flat.

Scores in math, reading and science posted by 15 - year - olds in the United States were flat while their counterparts elsewhere — particularly in Shanghai, Singapore and other Asian provinces or countries — soared, according to the results of a well - regarded international exam released Tuesday.

In this instance, the white and black student scores were basically flat with Hispanic scores up 6 points, which raised the overall score by 2 points.

Standardized test scores released by the Louisiana Department of Education show scholarship students» scores have improved by 13 percentage points between 2010 and 2014, while public school students» scores remained flat.

In this instance, the white and black student scores were basically flat with Hispanic scores up 6 points, which raising the overall score by 2 points.

The fact the green chart is flatter and much broader on the left - hand side suggests more schools this year have seen their scores drop and many more have seen them drop by 25 percentage points or more.

It is usually backed by citing data showing that scores on the gold - standard National Assessment of Educational Progress have remained essentially flat since the 1970s, even though state education spending grew.

Statewide standardized test scores released by the Louisiana Department of Education show scholarship students» scores have improved by 13 percentage points between 2010 and 2014, while public school students» scores remained flat.

In spite of what seems like a fairly good state policy environment, the overall state achievement scores as measured by NAEP illustrate that Colorado scores are flat and in some cases falling.

LANSING, Mich. — Flat test scores by Michigan students on a national test highlight the pressing need for a new, comprehensive look at how we fund Michigan's public schools so all students can achieve and succeed, regardless of their circumstances, said a broad - based group of Michigan business and education experts.

The latest national comparison of school test scores could reveal challenges with the way we fund schools in Michigan LANSING, Mich. — Flat test scores by Michigan students on a national test highlight the pressing need for a new, comprehensive look at how we fund Michigan's public schools so all students can achieve and succeed, regardless of their circumstances, said a broad - based group of Michigan business and education experts.

Most of the movement in scores was buoyed by score increases at the lowest levels — but top performers have been mostly flat, something that worries Schneider.

At this point I would typically tell you that Destiny has some good parts and some bad parts followed by summarizing paragraph of my final thoughts and a score but I will do something different this time given that since the game has been out for a while now and you probably read that some critics flat out thought that the game was «bad» — I disagree with that statement.

Apart from the game disc, the lavishly designed flat - box includes the original games score produced by sound magician Chris Huelsbeck and written by Flroian Delpriore and SID metal band Machinae Supremacy.