Sentences with phrase «early efforts»

Many states responded to earlier efforts by watering down their standards for learning and lowering expectations for students in an attempt to artificially boost the number of students that reached proficiency.

Earlier efforts at reform failed in each of the 2013 - 2017 legislative sessions.

In addition, the contract builds on earlier efforts to involve teachers in the design and management of their schools, including the selection and assessment of school principals.

And despite early efforts, training may slide a bit over time.

But early efforts failed, possibly because the measurement techniques of the time were not sufficiently detailed, he says.

While early efforts required local installation and management, modern hold software can be delivered securely from the cloud.

Unlike earlier efforts, the model accounts for the invisible halo of dark matter thought to surround the galaxy.

What the vast majority will tend to do is replicate earlier efforts for which they have been praised — those efforts they have perceived as successful.

Early efforts questioned whether it was necessary to teach programming in schools.

Most remembered earlier efforts to succeed academically as motivated primarily by a desire to please their parents and win general approval.

Early efforts showed that Chinese automakers had a long way to go before they were ready to compete here.

The second room, which also echoes earlier efforts, accommodates up to six people at a time.

She called her brief, early efforts Repair Work.

Settlement, in particular early efforts, can substantially shorten a proceeding.

Early efforts at agriculture were fraught and supplies from overseas were scarce.

As a result, its members found themselves pushing beyond the stylistic parameters it had established on earlier efforts.

Despite early efforts, the use of a mandatory arbitration provision in the collaborative process does not currently seem to be much pursued.

«When I showed the Coursera contract to Trace A. Urdan, an analyst at Wells Fargo Securities who focuses on education - related companies, he found it «ironic» that major universities are embracing online education when they have been dismissive of earlier efforts by for - profit companies like the University of Phoenix.

The move expands on earlier efforts from Amazon to cut Prime prices for low - income shoppers.

Many REDD and PES schemes, including early efforts in Chiapas and Acre, the states where California hopes to draw its REDD offset credits from, have either caused or exacerbated social conflicts.

Interstellar doesn't seem quite so consistently inventive as earlier efforts such as Inception.

Home Depot said it was too early to compare the scale of this year's operation with earlier efforts or to estimate how much Harvey would cost it.

Like earlier efforts, the scheme, designed by Paul Townsend of the British Telephone Laboratories in Ipswich, U.K., relies on Heisenberg's uncertainty principle — the German physicist's famous insistence that any measurement of a system changes its state.

Early efforts include helping to establish the marine mammal viewing guidelines and the Michael Bigg Ecological Reserve at Robson Bight.

What Anchorman holds that Ferrell's earlier efforts didn't, I can't say.

One earlier effort made by Purdue to get involved in the education of high school students was a dual enrollment program for academically advanced high school students in Indiana.

says Marclay, whose earliest efforts involved taping the sounds emitted by damaged records and playing them back in rhythmic loops.

Right - wing conservative media personality Ezra Levant's Rebel Media is looking for Canadian retirement savers to fund his film making efforts beyond earlier efforts such as Save the Christians.

That follows early efforts to harness the microbiome's benefits, which spawned probiotic foods and supplements as well as transplants of healthy bacteria.

The fund, which is now the iShares S&P / TSX 60 Index ETF (XIU), preceded the first U.S. - listed ETF by three years, according to an article in The Globe and Mail that also noted how earlier efforts at creating an exchange traded fund south of the border were thwarted by a successful lawsuit from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

It builds upon and freely quotes some of European abstraction's early efforts past Cubism (pre-1915 efforts of Kandinsky, Malevich, R. Delaunay, S. Delaunay, Kupka, Marc, Klee, others) and mid-century international developments that flourished under the names Art Informel, Tachisme, Abstract Expressionism, and others.

Physicians with the nonprofit group Doctors Without Borders, which led early efforts to combat the epidemic, agonized about whether to treat him with ZMapp.

The latter has similar graphics to Audi's «Virtual Cockpit» but, unlike Peugeot's earlier efforts here, regresses from total touch - screen control because having some direct - access buttons actually makes things easier - although it still makes changing the cabin temperature a frustratingly over complicated excercise.

The two - floor, two - gallery Richier exhibition attempts to revive an artist whose mawkish figurative works are trapped in their own post-wartime capsule, despite promising early efforts and hints of further development cut short by death.

And so early efforts centered on making sure the gas tank was filled — priming the immune system with cytokines (such as the interleukins) or with immune - signaling proteins like interferon to rev up the tumor - fighting response.

Early efforts centered on defining how HIV - specific CD4 + T cells contribute to control of viral infection.

The first in a series of evaluations of The Wallace Foundation's Principal Pipeline Initiative, the report details early efforts by six urban school districts to develop large numbers of strong principal candidates.

Top executives guide push to bridge tech divide in schools after industry's earlier efforts fall short Wall Street Journal

The transition is often credited to the hiring of engineer Richard Parry - Jones, whose early efforts can be seen in the way the Fiesta went from an also - ran as a Mk3 to class - leader as a Mk4 in handling terms, and the front - drive Mondeo coming out of nowhere to become one of the best - driving cars in its class in 1993.

Her latest show «Dicks of Death,» curated by Piper Marshall, pairs her 1970s «Screw Drawings» and other early efforts with recent work that's just as explicit in its politics.

Huawei improves upon earlier efforts with a glass - backed chassis, redesigned software and new camera tricks At an event in Paris, France today, Huawei officially unveiled its new high - end flagship phone, the Ascend P7.

Some elected officials openly stated early efforts looked a lot like NIMBY actions (Not in my Back Yard) and were reluctant to embrace conservation that would only affect a neighborhood.

The KXL campaign is a very early effort in that regard.

But early efforts around augmented reality, including Google Glass and Microsoft's own predecessor to HoloLens called Kinect, have sputtered.

Her distracted early efforts at prayer and years of backsliding on the road to virtue sparked pangs of recognition.

Chances were scarce within the opening half hour of the tie; Palace winger Andros Townsend's early effort barely threatened to beat Joel Coleman who held on with comfort, before Tom Ince tried a speculative effort at the other end which was courageously blocked by a red and blue shirt on the edge of the area.

The team's earlier efforts produced durable coatings that repelled ice and water, and a more fragile omniphobic coating.

Since it was first identified in Marin County in 1995, the disease has spread across hundreds of miles of California coast and skipped into southern Oregon, defying early efforts at containment.

A 17th - century drawing of Saturn, made by Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens, depicts early efforts to understand the planet's enigmatic rings.