Sentences with phrase «dramatic progress»

In the past decade, researchers have made dramatic progress in understanding how eyes form.

With your support, we can continue making dramatic progress toward our goal.

Although I struggled to get my finances in order (and to get out of debt) for years, sadly it wasn't until I got divorced that I started making dramatic progress.

To which Green added, «I think the speed is profound, and that [China] is capable of dramatic progress.

[1] Generally, a median growth percentile below 50 indicates that a district is not make dramatic progress for its students which is especially important in a district like APS where only about 1 in 5 reported students met grade - level expectations on PARCC tests.

In fact, during their toddler stage (from about the age of 12 months to 2 years) most children will experience dramatic progress in variety of areas, such as language development, physical development, and cognitive development.

The project was inspired, Graham says, by dramatic progress over the past 15 years in predicting El Niño, the periodic warming of surface waters in the Pacific Ocean that affects everything from Indian monsoons to flooding in the midwestern United States.

Despite dramatic progress over the past five decades in understanding and reducing risk from established transfusion - transmitted viral and parasitic infections, emerging infectious threats to blood safety continue to be identified.

Hannah has made the most dramatic progress,...

«But people are making dramatic progress working with the hardest cases.

The human body is comprised of molecules, hence the availability of molecular nanotechnology will permit dramatic progress in human medical services.

Dr. Atkins recommended that those with metabolic resistance, defined as those who have «a lot of weight to lose or have difficulty losing weight,» extend the induction phase indefinitely in order to «see dramatic progress before moving on to the more moderate phases of the program» (Atkins, 1992, p. 159).

U.S. animal shelters are now killing fewer cats and dogs than at any time in the past 60 years ---- nearly 300,000 fewer in the most recent fiscal year than just one year earlier, and just 8.6 per 1,000 Americans, the lowest ratio on record ---- but is the recent dramatic progress really saving animal lives?

They have proved very popular with students as a way of developing their confidence of the maths content within physics unit 1 resulting in dramatic progress in this area.

An example would be people who start weight training and make dramatic progress for a few months and then reach a sticking point, again it's just because their body has got used to the demands placed upon it.

Some of the most dramatic progress has been made in the area of graduation requirements, where 13 states, up from just two in 2004, now require high school students to complete a college - and work - ready curriculum in order to earn a diploma.

A more nuanced perspective would decry cheating in any form while acknowledging the fact that Atlanta's students made dramatic progress in reading and math.

That dramatic progress has sparked a burst of activity.

Such a response is no longer valid in the light of the dramatic progress that has been made during the last decade in treating mental illness (see Chap.

In Europe itself, the forces of secularization, allied with economic affluence, have made dramatic progress in alienating the popular mind from the Christian origins of Western culture.

President Obama has called on China to release Liu, noting that political reform in the country «has not kept pace» with «dramatic progress in economic reform».

So we are making dramatic progress.

Dramatic progress in this field became evident in the DARPA Grand Challenge contests held in California.

This is not to deny that at a time when there has been dramatic progress in nuclear science and technology, some questions require periodic re-examination; the criteria by which judgments on energy policy should be made are constantly changing.

Since Forward's design, there's been dramatic progress in artificial intelligence.

This dramatic progress has been accomplished through investments made by the U.S., Europe, and Japan during the 1970s on a new, more powerful class of tokamak experiment.

Dramatic progress has been made in recent years in understanding the fundamental reaction of photosynthesis.

One recent advance in cell - based therapies is the dramatic progress of chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR - T) cell therapies in the treatment of certain blood cancers.

Some of the world's most impoverished countries have made dramatic progress in their quest to ensure that all children get a basic education, but political indifference, failed domestic policies, and broken financial promises have pushed the international goal of universal schooling off target, according to UNESCO.

The nation has made dramatic progress in developing computerized data systems that can reliably guide education decisionmaking, but it still has plenty of work to do before those systems can fulfill their potential to accelerate student achievement, Technology Counts 2006 has found.

But dramatic progress will take more time.

She attributed the dramatic progress to three pieces of legislation passed in the run - up to round two: laws that created new teacher and principal evaluations based in part on student progress, alternative teacher and principal certification, and improvements to the state's data system.

Andy Smarick said sometimes a state doesn't have the staff or capacity to make dramatic progress in a district, but takes control because of a «sense of moral obligation» after a district hits «rock bottom.»

When we looked at the change from September 2009 to June 2010, some students made dramatic progress, growing several grade levels, others made almost none, still others went backward.

The «skinny» budget also strips states and districts of flexibilities available under ESSA before they can ever be used, limiting the ability of Chiefs to affect meaningful change that will improve teaching and learning and lead to dramatic progress in academic outcomes for all kids.

But it is important to look at the dramatic progress Louisiana students have made over the past five years.

According to the Cato Institute, income inequality still exists in Chile but dramatic progress is being made among low income students on the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)-- so much that the achievement gap between rich and poor is narrowing faster than in the United States where there is much less school choice.

Here are details of how this dramatic progress was achieved — over an engine that was already outstanding in all these respects:

«The alliance is very proud of the dramatic progress that has been made in the fight against pet homelessness.

Simultaneously exploiting global observations and local high - resolution simulations with the data assimilation and machine learning tools that have recently become available presents the key opportunity for dramatic progress in Earth system modeling.

In a night that was otherwise a celebration of the dramatic progress and technological innovation within BigLaw, Riverview Law last night (5 October) won the FT Innovative Lawyers award for innovation in technology and data analytics.