Sentences with phrase «dropped out of the track»

Schaft was acquired by Google at the end of 2013 and has subsequently dropped out of the track funded by the Pentagon, but still intends to compete in the final segment of the DARPA contest in late 2014.

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Journalist Robert Zimmer with The Atlantic says, «An increasingly familiar and seductive story has been circulating about young people who, drawing inspiration from billionaire entrepreneurs and computer giants, consider dropping out of college a fast track to business success.»

Since it hit its high on November 13, it's about 40 % off, giving it the dubious honor of dropping the most out of any stock tracked in this recent market move to the downside.

An increasingly familiar and seductive story has been circulating about young people who, drawing inspiration from billionaire entrepreneurs and computer giants, consider dropping out of college a fast track to business success.

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Much of the race was wet and as the track began to dry out, Schumacher ran wide at Stavelot, dropping him behind teammate Martin Brundle.

The track was the home of the Dutch Grand Prix between 1952 and 1985 (with the odd year out here and there), after which it was dropped from the calendar for financial reasons.

Getting out into the front of the pack enabled me to avoid bottlenecking as we dropped onto the single track climbs and descents.

Two plays in the 14th and 15th exhibited this perfectly, first failing to track back appropriately to give Evans a good angle for an outlet pass which forced a dangerous drop to Frei and then simply quitting on a ball rolling out of bounds.

The Champions League would have been a priority for the Italian at the beginning of the season as his track record in the competition is patchy, but to drop out at this stage will be regarded as a failure.

While I adore getting off the beaten track and always seek out local markets and delicacies on our travels, it was kinda refreshing not to have to do any of that, just stop, drop, and play.

Through the work of four playwrights, Matt Charman, Moira Buffini, Penelope Skinner and Jack Thorne, the play follows several intertwining stories: a couple in a therapy session discuss the impact that the strong environmental beliefs of one, and the indifference of the other, is having on their relationship, a young woman, against her parents» advice, drops out of university to become a climate change activist, two birdwatchers who, for 40 years, have noted the recession of the ice through tracking the numbers of guillemots, and Ed Miliband's special adviser (SpAd) in the lead up to the Copenhagen Climate Conference.

To find out, email communications managers can monitor statistics, since modern CRMs will track when people sign up, when they drop off, which messages they open and what kind of actions they take.

Bratton, 68, had served in the role since 2013, and it his second time leading the department — he rose to national fame when he presided over a drop in crime in the 1990s, popularizing the «broken windows» theory of policing and rolling out CompStat, a system for tracking crime patterns.

«The study, which tracked the students for 6 years, found an attrition rate of 48 % for STEM majors (20 % dropped out and 28 % switched to a non-STEM major).

Perry dropped out of the pre-vet track in college in the face of organic chemistry.

Coyne tracked patients for an average of nine years, until they either dropped out of the study or died.

He sets out to track down the animal that has made an impressively big pile of droppings.

This version contains extra features that had to be left out of the Nintendo 64 version, and also utilizes the GameCube's built - in clock to keep track of the date and time while dropping the Nintendo 64's original system that utilized an internal clock built into the game cartridge.

He heads an ensemble of crack actors, each with a gift for finding pathos in comedy, and the absurd in the tragic, starting with Shirley Knight as Ned's equally compassionate, equally «idiot» mother, and working through Elizabeth Banks as the sister desperately trying to sell out to make good at the magazine where she toils while missing the cues from the neighbor (Adam Scott) who is willing to literally drop anything to do her household chores; Zooey Deschanel as the pan-sexual sister with truth issues that involve both her girlfriend (Rashida Jones) and the artist (Hugh Dancy) for whom she both poses and poses a problem; and Emily Mortimer, as the earth mother who lost track of what makes her happy and why she wanted to be married to a smug and profoundly disinterested husband (Steve Coogan).

The Baltimore Education Resource Consortium tracked a Sixth Grade Cohort in Baltimore City Public Schools from 1990 - 2000 and showed that severely chronically absent students (more than forty days) had a 56.3 % rate of withdrawal from school or likely dropped out.

Systematised tracking mechanisms ensured that those who were loss to follow up or had dropped out were counselled to come back to the folds of treatment.

The researchers recently released two independent studies: One expands the common characteristics of a dropout, and the other offers an alternate method of measuring dropouts and tracking those at high risk of dropping out by computer throughout their school careers.

But analyses of the dropout problem in a number of cities also show that while some students who drop out are years off track, others are only a credit or two behind.

The Virginia Early Warning System (VEWS) relies on readily available data — housed at the school — to predict which students are at risk for dropping out of high school; target resources at the school - and division - level to support students not on track to graduate while they are still in school and before they drop out; examine patterns and identify school climate issues that may contribute to disproportionate dropout rates.

3: Help State Education Agencies (SEAs) and Local Education Agencies (LEAs) develop and improve data systems to track students at risk of dropping out.

State and local graduation rates are often misleading because education agencies have a difficult time tracking students and determining if they have transferred or dropped out of school.

Furthermore, the Ninth Grade Academy students were significantly less likely to drop out of school and more likely to be on track to graduate (Denver Public School, 2009).

Only charter school operators with successful track records will be allowed to open or expand charter schools in these districts, and they must make meaningful efforts to attract, enroll, and retain low - income students, students scoring sub-proficient on the MCAS, English Language Learners, special - education students, students who have dropped out or are at risk of dropping out, and other students who are on the short end of our achievement gaps.

The student markering on the bathroom stall, that crowd outside the class complaining about how bad that teacher is, the girl who drops out because she hated school, and the boys throwing bottles at the track because they are mad at athletes are all examples of inconvenient student voice.

David had a choice; he could have easily dropped out of school, but instead made the choice to attend a public charter school and get his life back on track.

Of those students who were off track at the end of grade 11, roughly one - third graduated on time, roughly one - third left district - managed schools, either enrolling in charter schools in the district or leaving altogether, and roughly one - third dropped out or stayed enrolled but failed to graduate by summer of 201Of those students who were off track at the end of grade 11, roughly one - third graduated on time, roughly one - third left district - managed schools, either enrolling in charter schools in the district or leaving altogether, and roughly one - third dropped out or stayed enrolled but failed to graduate by summer of 201of grade 11, roughly one - third graduated on time, roughly one - third left district - managed schools, either enrolling in charter schools in the district or leaving altogether, and roughly one - third dropped out or stayed enrolled but failed to graduate by summer of 201of 2016.

Legislation that would make it easier for the state and school districts to track chronic absenteeism, an early indicator of students at risk of dropping out, will soon reach Gov. Jerry Brown, where it faces an uncertain fate.

Grade retention that results from narrow measures of academic preparedness can increase student risk for problems in school, including increased drop - out rates, and even when the student is promoted, the use of such assessments to sort students creates tracks within grade levels that reflect racial, ethnic, and social - class differences and that function to direct entire categories of students toward low - wage jobs or incarceration.

AIR and school and district staff work together to develop an early warning system to identify and track students at risk of falling behind in middle school and high school and dropping out.

A credit recovery lab staffed by a drop out prevention specialists eight periods of the day provides off - track students opportunities to recover missing credits as well as counseling from a trained specialist.

Though I enrolled in college, I was quickly tracked into remedial classes, where I watched many of my classmates run into academic and financial barriers and drop out of... Read More

The state sets out as its goal to identify students starting in 3rd grade as at risk of dropping out by using a strategy of the Graduation Tracking System (pg.

Consisting of different terrains, the track was carefully carved which churned out the best of the all - wheel drive system particularly the 10 - foot steep drop.

Tenn called out the coupe - like rake at the rear of the cab, dropping the roof towards the trunk lid, but I have seen more gradual slopes on a single track mountain bike trail.

Rock out to up to 20 of the hottest jaw - dropping tracks from iconic rock bands and drive the crowd into a frenzy on lead guitar, bass guitar and drums.

To some one like me who tracks these things on a daily basis I almost feel the need to drop the topic entirely out of sheer exhaustion.

If you are willing to live with the tracking error introduced when dropping some of the smaller names, unbundling the ETF could work out even cheaper.

An amazing adventure track this Ayung River is going to be started out of your pick up time at your hotel and drop to begin point to have the brief instruction through well trained and knowledge tutorial.

The love of 16 - bit gaming also came through in the various musical tracks throughout the game, but almost every other attempt at any level would see the audio track drop out completely.

Dropping a mainstay of racing games, practicing on a track until you learn its turns inside and out, Grid 2 adds a new feature which changes the...

Having to drop the blocks on the beat of the track is what makes «Magical Beat» stand out from other block matching puzzle games.

After dropping the gate in Anaheim, the 250SX East class take to the track at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis: Adam Cianciarulo comes out of the group, leading the wild bunch against Joey Savargy.

A clean energy company dropped out of The Wind Coalition this year after a legislator made accusations about a tracking device found on his pickup, The Oklahoman has learned.