Sentences with phrase «cut points tend»

Not surprisingly, schools and districts that have performance near the state's cut points tend to bounce up and down in rating over time, dependent not only on their performance but how others are performing relative to the school or district in question.

Not exact matches

According to Herold, companies tend to wait four to six months on average from the point that management knows they should cut the cord to the time that they actually let that individual go.

My point, is that as «church», we invest a huge amount of trust and power in the hands of our (ex) leaders, who tend to justify their «annointed» position by invoking God with a cut and paste scriptural legal treatise underpinning their position!

For one thing, as a panel of data practitioners pointed out at a 2012 CampaignTech panel I attended, you quickly tend to run into practical limitations: to take advantage of the ability to cut your list into 20 demographic segments, you'll need a staff big enough to produce unique persuasive content for each of those segments (otherwise, what's the point?).

This is broadly consistent with our recent figures aside from a brief bounce for the Government straight after the Budget, when the Labour lead was temporarily cut to 3 points, our polling over the last few weeks has tended to show a Labour lead of between 5 and 7 points.

However, the score required to pass varies considerably: on a 100 - point scale, the most demanding states tend to set a cut score 20 to 30 points above those of the least - demanding states, whose cut scores are below what is recommended by ETS.

However, decades of school reform research «has shown that school improvements tend not to deepen at single schools or spread across schools without substantial support from district central offices,» as Mike Copland and Meredith Honig, University of Washington researchers, point out in their recent Education Week commentary, «Don't Cut Out the Center.»

For years, critics of test - based school accountability have pointed out that when schools face pressure to raise students» scores in math and reading, they tend to respond by doubling down on those two subject areas and cutting back on the teaching of history, art, music, civics, and more.

While I don't think the double sensors completely removes problems with mouse lifting, it did cut the effects down significantly which is a massive selling point for people who tend to lift a lot.

Facehuggers do tend to jump — regarding the XBox price cut: this kinda shows the profit margins... As for PS3's UI, well, at one point Joel Spolski did mention that giving users control increases the satisfaction got while using the product.

He also makes the valid point that just 15 percent of the population take 70 percent of the flights, and that they tend to be significantly richer than average, so that if governments are committed to reducing their carbon footprints, not cutting the amount of flying around that's done is fundamentally unjust to everyone else who has to cut back more.

But the broad conceptual points — that it costs more if we delay cutting emissions, and that higher temperatures typically mean higher costs — tend to hold regardless of exact numbers.)