Sentences with phrase «comparison to other country»

And from report this is have been proven that in the developed county divorce level is high in comparison to other country.

While the country's online purchases are lower in comparison to other countries, this is expected to grow in the next few years, which could leave an opening for businesses interested in reaching those new online shoppers.

When I think about the United States in comparison to other countries, it's clear that we need to seriously rethink our positioning and catch up.

Just 20 percent of payments in shops are made in cash, according to Riksbank, a figure that pales in comparison to other countries.

This ignorance is why our students are scoring lower and lower on test scores every year in comparison to other countries.

«Everyone wants to tout the critical importance of a more educated workforce; they bemoan the fact that our numbers of graduates in the 25 - 34 year old cohort is dismal in comparison to other countries and to older age brackets.»

This being said, despite our high level of performance in comparison to the other countries, only 4 per cent of Australian students were performing at the top level (which is Level 4) of the ICILS proficiency scale.

How do you think the US stands in comparison to other countries around the world in relation to legislative developments in this area?

In comparison to other countries, it is easy to obtain a firearm li - cence in South Africa.

When traveling to the U.S. specifically, it is important to keep in mind that while the healthcare system is very good, it is also very expensive in comparison to other countries.

Not exact matches

A few months ago, the blogosphere was filled with amazing comparisons of Apple's size to not just other companies — including the combined market caps of Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Amazon at one point — but entire countries and industries as the Things Apple Is Worth More Than tumblr details.

We do still have very high standards in comparison to a lot of other countries.

Creationist are doing great harm to our country, keeping our test scores low in comparison to other nations.

In comparison to other developed countries, the procedure is more available in the United States in terms of how late the abortion can legally be performed.

In the piece, I address why America's school meals so often pale in comparison to those in other countries, and the many obstacles faced by our school districts which make scratch - cooked, healthier meals a real challenge.

The point of this comparison is to show that any evidence from studies done in Canada, the Netherlands, Great Britain, or other countries can not be directly applied to the home birth system in the United States.

The comparison was to observe how school lunch worked in other countries, France in particular, which has a well - known and respected school lunch program.

Don't forget about the economy of Turkey, it's very weak in comparison with the rest of the largest countries of the UE, the other problem is that Turkey is Muslim and they don't respect most of the women rights, and they try to others to take their own rules.

People comparing US policy to that of individual countries in Europe have to explain not just the difference between that country and the US, but also why the same comparison does not work when you swap the US with other countries with the same policy.

You'll find a lot of information in this report (Romania its not that bad, and there are good reasons to believe the country is going to progress quickly by comparison with the other members).

Biden, whose comparison of LaGuardia to a Third World country is often evoked by Cuomo, repeatedly praised the governor during Tuesday's press conference and bemoaned the lack of funding dedicated to infrastructure in other areas of the country.

«Researchers will be able to make meaningful comparisons between large - scale and small - scale fisheries, nearshore and offshore fisheries, operations in industrialized countries compared to ones in developing countries, seafood aimed at export markets versus seafood primarily consumed locally, and a host of other possibilities,» said co-author Martin Smith, a professor of environmental economics at Duke University.

We will expand the study with children from the other participant countries and increase the follow - up period in comparison with our previous studies, from two to five years.

They have been delivered here from other countries to be reckoned in comparison with the IPK.

Fonseca says that the GEF has continued to attract significant funding from donor countries throughout the economic downturn because it is regarded as a «safe and secure investment» in comparison with other international - development investments.

In comparison to national parks in the United States or other high - income countries, these parks are difficult to access and very poorly staffed.

Tiger reserves receive tens to hundreds of thousands of visitors a year, which can cause crowds (though this pales in comparison with some wildlife parks in other countries, which get tens of millions of visitors).

I would be interested to see how calif wines do in comparison to other parts of the country with respect to arsenic.

According to Daily Nation, women tend to be more active on the site in comparison to men and DateMeKenya's speed dating events in Nairobi have seen more participation from women — men in Kenya tend to be less forward in comparison to men in other countries, the article says.

After a RVF thread surfaced showing how terrible even Google thinks American women are, I got curious as to what it had to say about other nationalities of For the study — titled Preferred Interpersonal Differences: A Global Comparison — researches interviewed 8,943 people from 42 different countries to

Comparisons to other mining movies are expected, and North Country (2005) and Matewan (1987) come to mind, however, those were centered on mistreatment in the workplace and labor issues, respectively.

Therefore, it is not possible to keep evidences and make comparisons with education systems in other countries in order to constantly improve all its segments.

Are comparisons between the United States and other countries truly equitable / comapable when the U.S. has a pluralistic approach to teaching all children versus other countries in which students are deliberately grouped, tracked, and segregated into different ability classifications and restricted in their access to higher levels of education?

They make an apples - to - apples comparison of the data to determine if students of similar family backgrounds do better in the United States than in other countries.

U.S. students perform significantly worse than students in many developed countries, according to the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), and other international comparisons, trailing the leaders by more than half of a standard deviation.

The OECD has a report, Education at a Glance 2010, that provides a shockingly flawed comparison of the amount of time U.S. teachers work relative to teachers in other countries.

In addition to compiling the actual coverage across the nation, the Koret Task Force identified five issues it thought deserved greater media attention — teacher pension costs, common core standards, U. S. achievement in comparison with other countries, online or digital learning, and the education reforms in Louisiana.

According to the report, TIMSS 2015: A first look at Australia's results, released by the Australian Council for Educational Research, average achievement levels in secondary schools continue to slide in comparison with performances in many other countries.

• In - depth view on what the industries really want from graduates • The support of each education tiers — Early, primary, seconday and higher learning in shaping holistic graduates • Asessing the quality and cost of Malaysia's education in comparison to other ASEAN countries • Gaining insights on new teaching methods — Outdoor learning and trust schools • Transforming education system to cater new generation

Q: You note that math students in the U.S. are not performing to the standards that they should be, especially in comparison with other countries.

He acknowledges that the Common Core standards have largely failed to usher in an era of timely, valid, and informative comparisons, but then he says, in effect, never mind, we still have NAEP, PISA, and other measures by which to know how one state is doing academically versus another and in comparison with the country as a whole.

Australian students did well, in comparison to students across other participating countries.

The comparison to teacher salaries in other countries seems quite misleading.

It has an economy big enough to match many OECD countries, but in education comparisons it would be a lightweight, its maths performance weaker than in almost any other industrialised country.

OECD analysis finds that about 15 percent of variability in the performance of American students is explained by socio - economic factors; the OECD average is 10 percent.13 Research suggests that if the PISA results of U.S. students are adjusted such that the distribution of low - income students is more similar to other countries with comparable post-industrial economies, both math and reading results would look significantly higher.14 This does not mean the United States should not be concerned about international comparisons of educational achievement, but it suggests that the conclusions drawn from rankings based on national averages are limited and that reality is more nuanced.

Comparing our education system to other countries» strategies is difficult, and the value of these comparisons is a common criticism of PISA itself.

There is evidence that economic inequality is a large contributor to the overall middling performance by U.S. students when it comes to international comparisons, with a 2013 study suggesting that if our students came from an overall similar economic divide as other first - world countries, our ranking would rise considerably.

On December 3, 2013, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced yet again that American students were doing terribly when tested, in comparison to students in sixty - one other countries and a few cities like Shanghai and Hong Kong

But what is not debatable is that American children's academic achievement is poor in comparison to children living in other wealthy countries.

Most international comparisons find that Canada's combined federal and provincial debt is low to middling compared to other developed countries, so we're not as badly off as some.