Sentences with phrase «caught up to their peers on»

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There are some reasons investors are downbeat on Exxon's shares, like falling production and peers catching up to its typically industry - leading return on capital employed metrics, but management has plans to improve results.

Continued research is essential for gaining a better understanding of how preemies learn and catch up to their peers so that both parents and professionals can best help them on that journey.

For the first time, New York City students caught up to their peers around the state in English, officials said on Friday in announcing the results for the standardized tests given to third through eighth graders this year.

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He felt much of his son's school day was wasted on menial tasks or waiting for his peers to catch up when Zachary could have been working on assignments.

An article by Chester Finn and Brandon Wright based on the book, «America's Smart Kids Left Behind: Catching up to our global peers will require changing education policy and culture» was published by Education Next earlier this week.

On the other hand, the United States has a higher percentage of children in poverty than other top performing countries, and many experts say that poor children need more resources to catch up to their wealthier peers.

The same reviews also provide compelling evidence that children who do not learn to read fluently and independently in the early grades have few opportunities to catch up to, and virtually no chance to surpass, their peers who are reading on grade level by the end of third grade.

She created «Innovation America,» an effort that ultimately led to a task force set on catching U.S. students up to their international peers.

This student - centered team approach is fortified with what we call «acceleration» curricula that is both challenging while simultaneously building basic skills which serves to catch students up to their on - grade - level peers as quickly as possible.

But Cohort B, consisting of students who were significantly behind their peers in January on measures of alphabet recognition, letter sounds, spelling, and word recognition, essentially caught up to Cohort A after receiving 40 Book Buddies sessions.

Some researchers argue that struggling students should be introduced early on to interesting, sophisticated words, partly to engage their interest and partly to help them catch up to their more advantaged peers (Beck & McKeown, 2007).

In 2012, Alec returned to Charlotte to help found Project L.I.F.T. Academy to help off - track seniors catch up and graduate on time with their peers.

But when it comes to designing tablets, Apple is without peer and the new iPad mini that debuted Tuesday makes it clear that every other company is still playing catch - up to the company that first put tablets on the map.

Of course also well - meaning people can be caught in a system, be instrumentalised and follow the system's logic, but the same can be suspected of the opponents of GMOs, who may be caught in their respective ideological echo chambers, who are subject to peer pressure (see the reaction to Mark Lynas» change of heart), and also they have financial incentives to the extent that GMOs represent a rallying point to drum up support (funds, new members, etc.) Therefore perhaps one way forward could be to assume good intentions on both «sides» and look at the data in a neutral, unbiased way.

It might even lead to less Easter - Island - statue - like behaviour by Sprog 1 around her peers, while Sprog 2 may learn to be less bossy on playdates so kids feel less intimidated about returning... as for me, I'm hoping to develop friendships — and not just with the school mums — that aren't just squeezed into a 2 - 3 hour catch - up every six months or so, or don't rely on telling crazy stories to win people's hearts.