Sentences with phrase «defined by the gap»

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I think the plain answer is that the middle class is defined by middle age — by those who are no longer young but not yet old, and therefore completely break the frame of Emersonian generation - gap analysis.

coquelin is a decent player but overrated by many fans because he did fill a gap a couple of seasons ago when he came back from charlton and did it well... but like ramsey running around non-stop is not in itself the defining feature of a quality footballer for a DM tackling, positioning, link up play and passing are equally important coquelin is excellent on two of these good on one and poor on last two... xhaka overall is a better DM and should be starting all the time to make him an integral part of a cohesive set up

He should explain why his moral purpose in politics is defined by extending opportunity to all and narrowing the gaps in life chances in Britain, because we are stronger as a society and an economy when all are included.

Deputy First Minister and education secretary John Swinney said: «The defining mission of this government is to raise school attainment and close the poverty - related gap, backed by # 750 million of investment over the lifetime of this Parliament.

The Preparing Front - Line Managers To Succeed In Today's Fast - Paced, Dynamic Workplace ebook by Kineo investigates why so many organizations are unhappy with their investments in developing front - line mangers, defines what the learning - doing gap is, and offers multiple ways to close it.

Secretary of state for education and minister for women and equalities, Justine Greening said: «I'm proud that the Department for Education has taken an important step in reporting its gender pay gap, setting an example to other employers as we build a stronger economy where success is defined by talent, not gender or circumstance.

The low group could be defined by sub-basement scores on achievement tests and wide gaps between groups on achievement - test results.

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Even small differences in access to the activities and experiences that are known to promote brain development can accumulate, resulting in a sizable gap between two groups of children defined by family circumstances.

By signing the contract, both the school and family define and accept our responsibilities as partners in closing the achievement gap.

But the fact that the administration has blessed moves by states such as Tennessee, Florida, and Virginia have enacted race - and class - based socioeconomic targets (including the so - called Cut the Gap in Half approach structured by the Education Trust) that define proficiency down as well as damn poor and minority kids to low expectations also proves lie to Duncan's statement.

Achievement gap — The difference between the performance of subgroups of students, especially those defined by gender, race / ethnicity, disability and socioeconomic status.

The National Council on Educational Statistics (NCES) defines achievement gaps as the imbalance that occurs when one group of students outperforms another group by a significant margin.

However, the true achieve - ment gap (as defined by RIDE and others) exists between minority and white, poor and wealthier, ELL and non - ELL, and special needs and non-special needs students.

Our nation's educational focus continues to zero in on «achievement» as defined by test scores in specific academic areas and the resulting gaps therein.

For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter school tuition payments exceed 9 per cent of the school district's net school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment of a commonwealth charter school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record of operating at least 1 school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve, from the following categories of students, those: (i) eligible for free lunch; (ii) eligible for reduced price lunch; (iii) that require special education; (iv) limited English - proficient of similar language proficiency level as measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2 of the past 3 years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk of dropping out of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have dropped out of school; or (viii) other at - risk students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups of students.

One of the primary policy goals of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), and the inspiration for its name, has been closing achievement gaps among groups of students defined by race, ethnicity, income, and other characteristics.

We use panel data in Washington State to study the extent to which teacher assignments between fourth and eighth grade explain gaps between advantaged and disadvantaged students — as defined by underrepresented minority status (URM) and eligibility for free or reduced price lunch (FRL)-- in their eighth grade math test scores and high school course taking.

The primary difference between the two models is not defined so much by the gap in horsepower but rather the difference in sound and feel when operating at low speeds.

Over the last three decades, Ms. Minter has operated in the gap defined by feminism, painting and popular culture, carving out a place as one of contemporary art's bad girls.

Vaguely reminiscent of improvised tools or handmade toys, the Elemental Sculptures emerged as the young artist was transitioning from a practice defined largely by painting and photography to a more experimental mode that would culminate in his Combines, an expansive body of works produced primarily in the mid - and late 1950s that bridged the gaps between painting, sculpture, and collage.

The Brodmann Areas, choreographed by our president Julia Gleich, thinks conceptually the gaps and synapses that define the 52 areas designating the regions of the cerebral cortex of the brain.

As in the sculpture of Isamu Noguchi, there is a respect in Sloan's assembled parts for the interplay of hsu (the void) and shi (the real or solid) as defined by the positive and negative of the precisely cut forms and the gaps they open.

The Fishers also own defining early works by Richard Serra, but his towering «Charlie Brown» (2000), which stands in the Gap headquarters atrium, belongs to the corporation and will not leave the building.

Cities will connect with the scientific community to identify key research gaps and help define global, regional and local monitoring systems and data architectures, informed by multilevel reporting systems like the carbonn Climate Registry.

I thought it might be helpful to clarify, in her case where we're talking about legal aid there's a very well defined number and gap and need, and it's not the same thing that we talk about when we're talking about all the opportunities to make money by changing the way we package services.

Over the last 12 - to - 24 months, the legal solutions market for ELM has experienced a dramatic shift: with the rise of legal operations, and the dynamic businesses that drive it, ELM today is a customer - driven market, defined by the broad - based needs and objectives of the businesses legal operations teams partner with, and characterized by significant functional gaps to address those needs in the solutions market.

In the court's view there can be no legal gap between health and social care provision provided by the local authority under NAA 1948 «as a last resort» since «the secretary of state has put in place a structure which requires the PCT to take account of the social services authority's statutory competence so that the resulting decision will define the services which the social services authority is obliged to provide».

By the time a fifteen year gap is reached, nearly everyone defines the relationship this way.

Broun also told the symposium she as «not a fan» of Closing the Gap as a policy lens, warning that it promoted a deficit model that defined Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people by deficiencies rather than strengths.