Sentences with phrase «especially by national standards»

Back then, this fellow earned $ 54,000 a year working as a fence company construction worker, which by all accounts and especially by national standards, was a pretty decent living.

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Effective food policy actions are part of a comprehensive approach to improving nutrition environments, defined as those factors that influence food access.1 Improvements in the nutritional quality of all foods and beverages served and sold in schools have been recommended to protect the nutritional health of children, especially children who live in low - resource communities.2 As legislated by the US Congress, the 2010 Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) updated the meal patterns and nutrition standards for the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetables.

Overcoming the deficit of «efficacy literacy» will not happen overnight, especially given the shocking lack of attention paid to national evidence standards (as shown by Kane's exhaustive study of school minutes).

Despite the many challenges that remain (especially the question of funding the new initiatives in a time of fiscal restraint), Rothman is optimistic that the opportunities for cross-state partnerships created by national standards hold promise for generating real changes in classroom instruction.

Last year, when the National Association of Realtors surveyed homebuyers throughout America, it found that single buyers had been especially hard - hit by the restrictive mortgage standards that began during the economic downturn.