Sentences with phrase «even widening»

The achievement and attainment gaps in Illinois between students of different races, native languages, and socioeconomic statuses are among the worst in the country, and they have been persistent, in some cases even widening.

The villagers, young and old, men and women, all came out to welcome the strangers and even widened the rough way for their van.

The straps can be crossed at the back, and even widened for extra support.

Cuomo's lead has even widened since Marist last pitted Cuomo against Lazio in late March.

The issue has even widened a rift between the country's conservative «law and justice» government and the European Union.

One person quoted in the story even wonders if it may have even widened the gaps between rich and poor students in the country.

The first book, Steady Gains and Stalled Progress, edited by Katherine Magnuson and Jane Waldfogel, includes chapters by social scientists who are intent on figuring out why the black - white test score gap narrowed sharply during the 1970s and 1980s, but then stayed constant, or even widened.

``... Achievement gaps can persist or even widen with no accountability for improving actual achievement rates among subgroups with the most struggling students.»

You may have to move furniture to provide clearance, perhaps even widen doorways so that the chair can get through.

the achievement gap persists and may even widen across the school years, 16,17 it is critical that high - risk children begin school with as successful of a start as possible.

Studies consistently suggest that exposure to trauma or chronic early life stress may impair the development of executive function skills.6, 7,9,10,11 These skills appear to provide the foundation for school readiness through cognition and behaviour.3, 12 Children with better executive function skills may be more teachable.3 Indeed, in a high - risk sample, children with better executive function skills at the beginning of kindergarten showed greater gains in literacy and numeracy than children with poorer initial skills.12 Considering there is evidence that the achievement gap persists and may even widen across the school years, 16,17 it is critical that high - risk children begin school with as successful of a start as possible.

However, recent research has shown that children exposed to high levels of adversity may be less prepared to succeed in school, in part due to deficits in executive function skills.6, 7,9,10,11 These deficits may undermine children's abilities to succeed in academics and develop positive peer and teacher relationships.12, 14,15 This may have long - term implications for school success given that the achievement gap tends to persist and even widen throughout the school years.16, 17

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Even parking spaces were widened to better accommodate trucks driven by contractors — Réno - Dépôt's primary customers.

New retail trading laws for WA will affect businesses as varied as Bunnings, Masters, stallholders at short - term markets and even shops on Rottnest Island as the state government moves to widen trading hours and remove anomalies in current regulations.

Truth be told, wealth inequality has traditionally been even more skewed than income inequality in the U.S., and hasn't quite widened quite as much in the last four decades.

More significantly, Catalyst found that unequal pay starts with the first job, and widens over time, even after accounting for job level, industry, child bearing and career aspirations, according to the results of the study by authors Nancy M. Carter and Christine Silva.

Those price differences have widened in recent months due to supply disruptions that pushed the price of steelmaking coal up over $ 300 per ton even as thermal coal prices where Alliance produces have remained around $ 50 per ton.

Financial Aid: In 2017, for the first time ever, America's public universities received more revenue from tuition than they did from tax dollars — a funding model that places a higher burden on students and their families and risks widening economic inequality, even as the population of would - be students becomes more diverse.

The Senate budget resolution calls for significant deficit reduction that would put debt as a share of GDP on a downward path, but the most likely part of the budget to be acted on would widen deficits even further.

Credit spreads have tightened globally, and U.S. credit spreads are at the narrow end of their 17 - year range against government bonds — even after a recent widening.

Critics say the central bank's actions made Wall Street and the super-rich even fatter, fueling a stock market surge while leaving many ordinary workers no better off and widening the nation's wealth inequality.

The Japanese Yen and gold are both trading lower after yesterday's safe haven rally, as the imminent threat of the widening of the Syrian conflict eased, but we wouldn't rule out another quick change in sentiment, even as early as today, and the precious metal remains one of our favorite bets in the current environment.

Given your belief that Berkshire's intrinsic value continues to exceed its book value with the difference continuing to widen over time, are we at a point where it makes sense to consider buying back stock at a higher break point that Berkshire currently has in place and would you ever consider stepping in buying back shares that did dip down below 1.2 times book value per share even if that prior years» figure had not yet been released?

Not only do two well - aligned brands make for a powerful presentation, but it'll widen the audience — even after the webinar is over.

Even if you assume some widening of spreads and a lower total return, there is still a case to be made for including high yield in portfolios.

The two rates widened in 2003 inflation and short - term interest rates remained depressed even while the economy recovered strongly.

Even as Vermont and UMBC distinguished themselves as the America East's two best men's basketball teams this season, set to play in Saturday's tournament final, the gulf between the programs themselves seemed to widen.

Structural reform and productivity: Our own in - depth research of Japanese total factor productivity demonstrates the widening gap between the manufacturing and services sector (alongside one even greater sectoral gap).

I will truly pray for your humility in not - knowing to return to you so that you may widen your view and hear others to learn even you, as I, DO NOT HAVE IT ALL RIGHT!

Whiteheadians seem able to imagine such ecstatically spanned unities - across - time on the so - called «microscopic» scale of the «specious present,» but give up on the idea as the scope of the temporal disclosure space is widened to the scale of human lifetime and of generations.7 But worse than this from the point of view of Heidegger's temporal problematic, by submitting the ecstatic unities of their «specious presents» to the before / after ordering and metric properties of linear time, at least in terms of their mutually external relations and arrangements, they give back ontologically every advantage they gained from the use of an cc - static - temporal disclosure horizon in the first place, even though it was only the single horizon of presence.

-- when vision clears, and horizons widen, and we become even for a little while more and better than our ordinary selves.

It is its own value and meaning, and no other, which is affirmed, contrasted, deepened, and intensified in this trans - individual and even transpersonal widening of experience, for throughout the transformation it contributes its particular subjective pattern to the way that whole is being experienced.

In large measure distinct from fractures in the sexual magisterium, the rise of lay people in positions of ministerial responsibility widens the gap between the apostolic apparatus of Catholicism — schools, retreat houses, even parishes — and its authority structure.

Progressive Christians keep doing the same book over and over, even though they say they have widened their perspectives.

The Kingdom of God is an image of social fulfillment that challenges us to widen our own social understanding so as to include all of these, even when it does not seem economically feasible.

Is the increase of Gross World Product the ethical end of policy even though it is accompanied by widening gaps between the rich and the poor?

This year's theme of Salad» tude widens that definition even further to include themes of wholesome pampering and togetherness.

Even when Woods shares that his desire to win a championship is his main deterrent, Dowkens simply widens his scope to include three of the other top - rated national recruits.

They've lost head to head to Teams Kowalczyk and Widen so they can't move up from 3rd even with a Win and Loss from either Team..

I say stuff»em, why trade two of our most potent, direct players (when fit) for Cech, who for all intents and purposes is a fringe player for Chelsea, surely this would widen the gap between them and us even further.

In the early stages, radiographs typically look normal, but widening of the growth plate and even an avulsion are not uncommon with higher - grade injuries.

Despite the widened socioeconomic inequalities by the intervention in rates of prolonged exclusive and any breastfeeding, breastfeeding rates were even higher among mothers with the lowest education (secondary school or less) in the intervention group than they were among mothers who completed university in the control group.

However by widening the list of costs included in expenditure limits, organisations would be even more restricted in what they can do.

This task is even more pressing in the context of the depoliticising affects of neoliberal governance — which repackages widening inequalities and social precariousness under the distorting myth of individual choice and self - responsibility.

Today's Q poll finds Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo has widened his lead against his GOP opponent, Carl Paladino, even though many New Yorkers identify with the Buffalo businessman's mad - as - hell sentiments.

Even as generic congressional ballot polling has indicated that Republicans are making up some ground ahead of 2018 midterm election, Democrats are widening their targets and a nonpartisan analysis shows that more GOP incumbents might be at risk.

Andrew Cuomo may be widening his lead in the polls, but he's leaving nothing to chance during the lead - up to the general election, even going so far as to deploy one of his GOP surrogates in an effort to dry up Carl Paladino's fundraising (such as it is).

The Gap Elimination Adjustment (GEA) has created a widening gap between Syracuse and the wealthier school districts in New York, even though was implemented in the 2010 - 11 school year during the recession in order to alleviate the hole in the New York state budget, according to New York State United Teachers, a teachers» union in the state.

We are looking at widening the campaign even further, with a number of new organisations lending their support and arranging events in towns and cities across the country.

A long way from the fantasies of libertarian technocrats, and even further from the visions of the internet evangelicals, social media has, instead of facilitating broad conversations and finding common ground, widened the divide.