Sentences with phrase «current dramatic developments»

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In this role, he focuses on the leadership development of current and aspiring school system leaders with the goal of catalyzing equity, driving dramatic, enduring gains for students, and demonstrating what is possible when school systems educate and support all students at high levels.

Publicly, most automakers are ducking the issue and emphasizing potential pitfalls of building hybrid cars with plugs, but pressure is mounting behind the scenes to give the idea some life... «Such development should have the highest research and development priority because it promises to revolutionize transportation economics and to have a dramatic effect on the problems caused by oil dependence,» write George Shultz, former U.S. secretary of state, and James Woolsey, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, in a June position paper on oil and U.S. national security... They argue that battery development for plug - in hybrids «should for the time being replace the current research and development emphasis on automotive hydrogen fuel cells.»

More than a decade ago, Hart and Risley documented how children from different social classes achieve dramatically different trajectories of vocabulary development as a result of what has become known as the 30 million word gap.38 The current study demonstrates similarly dramatic gradients in cognitive function using a national sample of children.