Sentences with phrase «dollars spent on»

You can get 5000 bonus points for every 10,000 dollars you spent on the card up to 15000 bonus points a year.

When it comes to consumer spending, at least a fifth of all consumer dollars spent on ebooks on Amazon.com are being spent on indie self - published ebooks.

The shift in the book business has been driven by readers moving away from trad publishers» ebooks toward indie - published and Amazon - imprint - published ebooks which now account for almost 60 % of all Kindle ebooks bought in the US, and 40 % of all consumer dollars spent on ebooks.

Projecting to the remaining non-Amazon third of the ebook market, we can conclude that at least a fifth of all consumer dollars spent on ebooks in the U.S. are being spent on Indie self - published ebooks.

To compete with the dollars spent on advertising by the big boys, and to stand out from the thousands of new titles published every day, an author needs to get to grips with marketing.

Adding up total dollars spent on such works would give a single indie author a few lattes and meals at Hogs Breath, including the lobster and steak special.

With indie books included in the statistics, Amazon accounts for 74 % of all US ebook purchases and 71 % of total dollars spent on ebooks in the US.

Today, a quarter of all consumer dollars spent on e-books in the US is spent purchasing indie - published e-books.

Amazon currently enjoys 74 % of all US eBook purchases and 71 % of all US consumer dollars spent on e-Books.

If the game was being published by Milton Bradley, it could have been titled Carter's America or Beyond the Great Society and then tens of thousands of dollars spent on advertising, trying to tell people what the game was all about.

It's very hard to equate dollars spent on book promotion with book sales.

Communications is important: Whether you are talking debates, commercials, editorials, news reports, interviews, speeches or a myriad of other mediums, thousands of hours and millions of dollars spent on communicating a message can not be better seen than during election season.

Amazon currently enjoys 74 % of all US eBook purchases and 71 % of all US consumer dollars spent on eBooks.

I love my 2017 AWD dynamic drive LaCrosse, but would love it even more with another 75 - 100 hp, little sportier seats, Brembo brakes, and a few more dollars spent on the interior materials.

At the same time, Zimmer decries the millions of dollars spent on the campaign, arguing that the money could have been better used for programs benefitting students.

... so the 1 %, who are pulling ALL of the CCSS and RTTT strings, and their lackeys in Washington and state capitals across the land can grab all of those billions and billions of public dollars spent on public education AND PRIVATIZE AMERICA»S SCHOOLS.

Although dollars spent on professional development can be hard to calculate, school districts have had to find hours over the summer or during the school year to train teachers, and in some cases pay them for the extra time or pay substitutes to replace them in class.

Senator Moynihan asked Laura D'Andrea Tyson of the Clinton Administration for two supportive studies justifying the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on a favored program.

Just 34 percent of dollars spent on education in Illinois comes from the state.

It is so important in the minds of many students that the pressure to do well leads to untold millions of dollars spent on private tutoring and test prep courses; medications taken to relieve anxiety and stress and / or improve alertness and attention; and therapy.

Considering the billions of dollars spent on these reforms, one would expect at least some payoff by now.

For the education professionals themselves, higher salaries would be an economic boon for the entire community in which the educators live because it would mean additional dollars spent on goods and services, thereby helping businesses in the local area.

Despite billions of dollars spent on digital content and an influx of technology into their classrooms, evidence shows that teachers have been slow to integrate technology to transform instruction.

are costly in terms of both dollars spent on the replacement process and decreases in student achievement.

But supporters of the proposals say public dollars spent on schools need to be scrutinized further, especially as Gov. Scott Walker is proposing a record increase in school funding and referendums are being passed at historic rates.

Dear teachers, please enlighten the readers how American education has «improved» since teachers have been allowed to unionize, the creation of the Department of Education, and the BILLIONS of dollars spent on public eduation since that time.

It's difficult to know how this ratio of dollars spent on teacher salaries to overall operating budget compares to other school districts as current financial transparency requirements do not report salary expenditures at this «granular» a level.

And school choice also encompasses educational savings accounts, which give parents the dollars spent on their child's education, and allow them to pay for the option or options that will help their child best.

This is a worthy goal but from then until now the achievement gap has only widened, even after all the testing, school closures and billions of tax dollars spent on educational reform schemes.

After all the political shouting, after all the school reform initiatives, after all the billions of dollars spent on school reform, NAEP longitudinal data shows no / zero / zip / nada significant progress for 17 - year - old American students since the early 1970s.

Why have billions of dollars spent on technology, small - school initiatives, and school - choice options failed to improve our schools?

Next, the voucher amount may or may not equal the actual per pupil dollars spent on the child — creating a financial burden for the receiving district as well as for the district that loses the student.

The LA Times Editorial criticizes the Gates Foundation for their poor philanthropic use of billions of dollars spent on -LSB-...]

Students headed back to school this fall will have historically high levels of dollars spent on them in the public school system.

Get the most out of taxpayer dollars spent on education by eliminating redundant bureaucracies.

We think this merits a much closer look given the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on teacher evaluation and the political blood spilled to get us here.

In addition to the non-fiscal benefits attached to educational choice, the program can relieve pressure for district budgets from rising pension costs (for each one million dollars spent on the program, I estimated that the state would save almost half of that amount, while school districts would save almost $ 700,000).

Time for Americans to understand that value added analysis is not a reform of public education but a revolution that will allow us to significantly lessen the costs of public education while obtaining the greatest cost benefits from the dollars spent on education.

Rather than just look at the percentage of teachers who belong to a union — the proxy most analysts have used for union strength for pretty much forever — we also examined measures like the dollars spent on campaign advertising, the degree to which unions have won major policy battles in recent years, and the lock the unions have on a given state capital.

For example, if teachers are hired without having been fully prepared, the much higher turnover rates that result are costly in terms of both dollars spent on the replacement process and decreases in student achievement in high - turnover schools.

More than a decade has passed since Ohio bolstered its involvement in Head Start by adding $ 4 million in state money to the federal dollars spent on the comprehensive preschool program for poor children.

They should avoid prescription and both reward and produce rigorous evidence, thus increasing the share of education dollars spent on evidence - based programs while at the same time fulfilling the federal government's unique responsibility for producing and disseminating high - quality evidence on the best ways to improve American schools.

For example, in describing the results of Title I, Jennings concludes, «In a nutshell, the billions of dollars spent on Title I had at best a modest effect on the academic achievement of the disadvantaged students who participated in the program...» On No Child Left Behind (NCLB), he writes, «So it truly was a mixed bag.

Additionally, Nevada's education savings account (ESA) program would generate $ 700,000 in savings for school districts for every one million dollars spent on the program.

, a new book by HGSE lecturer Katherine Boles (co-authored by Vivian Trn), contends that teaching in America has deteriorated for decades to reach a low point unmatched since the era of the one - room schoolhouse»» despite billions of dollars spent on school reform efforts and millions more spent to recruit bodies to teach in U.S. classsrooms.

Even when we estimated the probability that an incumbent won a majority of the votes in each precinct, or accounted for test - score changes and levels as a function of dollars spent on students, or measured the relationship between an incumbent's vote share in one election and the previous election, the overwhelming weight of the evidence indicated that school board members were not being judged on improvement or weakening in school test scores.

No questions were asked about why the Department of Education didn't rely on mathematicians in the review of proposals for these programs, nor was anyone in the department ever questioned about the NCTM's education philosophy and the millions of tax dollars spent on texts that were the subject of fierce objections from 200 prominent mathematicians and scholars.

And that means giving them more control over the education dollars spent on their children — a threat to unions, bureaucracies and others vested in controlling options and funding.

The conclusion of Heller et al. is quite startling: it would seem that, for all the billions of dollars spent on complicated anti-crime programs, something as simple and cheap as CBT seems more effective in reducing crime (and, not unrelatedly, keeping teenagers in school).

Instead, it's a modern, Hollywood version of the Japanese sequels to Gojira and like - minded, derivative works, pumped up by millions of dollars spent on visual effects to make the incalculable destruction of property and the deaths of thousands of people look as inoffensive — and lovely — as possible.