Sentences with phrase «draw national comparisons»
«Our goal is to provide researchers, advocates, and policymakers tools to draw national comparisons — and shine a spotlight on schools worthy of additional study.»
http://www.educationequalityindex.org/ Not exact matches
Janssen has hit 27 in 34 league games in his debut season for Alkmaar, was prolific for the Dutch U21s & has now made two appearances for the full national team - drawing comparisons with all - time great, fox - in - the - box Ruud Van Nistelrooy.
Lukaku has scored 17 goals at international level and Koeman has drawn comparisons with former Netherlands striker Patrick Kluivert, who he worked with during spells coaching with the national side, at Barcelona and later as manager at PSV.
OECD analysis finds that about 15 percent of variability in the performance of American students is explained by socio - economic factors; the OECD average is 10 percent.13 Research suggests that if the PISA results of U.S. students are adjusted such that the distribution of low - income students is more similar to other countries with comparable post-industrial economies, both math and reading results would look significantly higher.14 This does not mean the United States should not be concerned about international comparisons of educational achievement, but it suggests that the conclusions drawn from rankings based on national averages are limited and that reality is more nuanced.
A contributing writer for the Nation magazine, Smith is already drawing comparisons to Ta - Nehisi Coates, whose memoir, Between the World and Me, hit bestseller lists last summer and won a National Book Award.
At the 2016 IWCA National Specialty show at Purina Farms in Eureka, MO, both William Tyrrell, DVM, DACVIM and Mariellen Dentino, MD, gave talks on the conclusions drawn from several IWF - funded studies, including the Echo / EKG comparison study, the Atrial Fibrillation study, and the Lifetime Cardiac Study.
At the 2016 IWCA National Specialty show at Purina Farms in Eureka, MO, the IWF presented talks on the conclusions drawn from several IWF - funded studies, including the Echo / EKG comparison study, the Atrial Fibrillation study, and the Lifetime Cardiac Study.
The almost perfectly circular Pilanesberg national park, due to its lying literally in the void of a 1200 million year old volcano crater, lies 150 kilometres north west of Gauteng, virtually on the border of Sun City - one of the biggest draw cards to the area - and, by comparison, receives little of the acclaim it deserves... The 55 000 hectare Pilanesberg park opened in 1979 in one of the largest game resettlement projects in the history of South Africa, and possibly the most expensive as commercial farmers gave over land to be restocked with wildlife.
Likewise, if science shows like PBS NOVA started relying heavily on Exxon and Koch Industries funding — if the American Petroleum Institute started dictating policy to the National Science Teachers Association — if BP got to play a role in drawing up science curricula at California schools — well — the tobacco / fossil fuel comparison is fairly valid, isn't it?