Sentences with phrase «dramatic progress for»

[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.

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.

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Progress for the individual and the community will not come from dramatic new discoveries or conclusive arguments.

Yet, when I review the dramatic changes that have taken place in the past 50 years, I do not despair, but hope and pray for comparable progress to come.

For all the joy of England's dramatic victory over Wales, they remain very much a work in progress.

Working for change and women's progress «doesn't have to be dramatic — you don't have to run for office,» Clinton said during a speech in Silicon Valley, pausing for a coy smile and thunderous applause, «although if you do more power to you.»

«From its inception to now, the proposed text amendment tells the story of Build it Back's dramatic progress under Mayor de Blasio's leadership: the idea for the amendment came out of a community - level meetings in Queens, it was produced with collaboration across agencies, and it is being passed to help homeowners who were stuck because of burdensome regulations so that they can begin rebuilding their homes and making their neighborhoods more resilient,» said AMY PETERSON, Director of the Mayor's Office of Housing Recovery.

«There is at present too little known about how marine ecosystems function in the Arctic, let alone how they will respond to the dramatic changes in progress, to prescribe safe harvest levels for living marine resources in the U.S. Arctic,» 43 marine scientists said in a letter to the Council chair.

With dramatic results from the lab and growing public acceptance, the stem cell field is poised for progress.

That's why we need an education agenda that strategically recruits, retains, and rewards the most effective teachers and principals; that builds incredibly high standards; that develops rigorous and useful assessments to measure progress against those standards; that builds data systems that allow teachers, principals, students, and parents to quickly and conveniently access those data for everyday use; and that focuses on dramatic intervention within our country's lowest - performing schools.

During the 1980s, when desegregation was in full effect — with forced busing in some cities and less dramatic strategies elsewhere — the black - white achievement gap on the National Assessment for Educational Progress shrunk faster than it ever has before or since.

«It is going to have a dramatic impact on progress reports and school report card rates,» said Edward Tom, the principal of the Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics, a small, high - performing school.

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.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan is right to call for dramatic action, and to recognize that significant progress is not possible without resources.

For the evening, the President of Iceland, Guðni Jóhannesson, invited some Icelandic government members (including Prime Minister Sigurður Jóhannsson and Foreign Minister Lilja Alfreðsdóttir) and a handful of scientists to his mansion for a dinner in honor of Ban Ki - moon, where we further discussed the dramatic climate changes in the Arctic and the progress of climate poliFor the evening, the President of Iceland, Guðni Jóhannesson, invited some Icelandic government members (including Prime Minister Sigurður Jóhannsson and Foreign Minister Lilja Alfreðsdóttir) and a handful of scientists to his mansion for a dinner in honor of Ban Ki - moon, where we further discussed the dramatic climate changes in the Arctic and the progress of climate polifor a dinner in honor of Ban Ki - moon, where we further discussed the dramatic climate changes in the Arctic and the progress of climate policy.

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.

The Paris Agreement provides an important new foundation for meaningful progress on climate change, and represents a dramatic departure from the past 20 years of international climate negotiations.

Those in the partner - focused group were more likely to have their relationship progress (for instance, advancing from casual to serious dating) than those in the dramatic group, while the conflict - ridden group was more likely to keep their relationship status stable compared to the dramatic group.

Rath advocates for a dramatic and immediate change in language from the current state of «Disease Management Programs» and «Health - risk Appraisals» to a focus on «Well - being Initiatives» with an emphasis on small daily wins that yield meaningful progress.