Sentences with phrase «enough low stakes»

We did some whole school sample work and some pilot studies and, in a nutshell, our kids weren't writing enough — which meant that our teachers weren't planning enough low stakes writing for opportunities for them to actually develop their skills.

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Washington (CNN)- Despite his low poll numbers, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said he is committed to competing in the Iowa caucuses in February and will have enough money to execute his plan for the high stakes Ames straw poll.
Back in director Tim Miller's first film, the stakes were low and refreshingly simple — it was enough just to watch Reynolds do his wink - wink - nudge - nudge thing and chop some up some bad guys while talking smack about Hugh Jackman.
Slow Focus has the sheen and seemingly high stakes of a blockbuster movie — and enough easy thrills to compensate for the stakes being, in reality, pretty low.
The stakes are a bit lower than your standard Studio Ghibli fare, but the moral presented in the end is enough to make up for the lack of world - ending consequences in the conflict.
Still, as low - stakes comedies go, it's an easy enough 90 minutes.
Because the other standardized tests are «low - stakes tests,» without any reward or punishment attached to student or school performance, the authors reason that there are few incentives to manipulate the results or cheat, making the low - stakes test results a reliable measure of student performance (although it is also possible that schools and students won't prepare enough for a low - stakes test to demonstrate their true abilities).
Not enough districts offer mentoring or formal induction programs, and most districts throw teachers into the fire on the first day of school and expect them to sink or swim, rather than giving them lower - stakes practice time first.
So really it's the gain of the temperature - convection feedback that's at stake, and if it were high enough to fully offset all radiative effects on temperature, there'd be some obvious symptoms — low natural variability and glacial cycles perfectly correlated with insolation perhaps.
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