Sentences with phrase «evidenced by the percentages»

Wouldn't it be great if our school districts, schools, and charters in Santa Clara County proudly pronounced their own Strength in Numbers by posting their own comprehensive «Win / Loss» records as evidenced by the percentage of their students who meet or exceed Standards on the State Math and ELA tests?

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We are, for instance, constantly being reminded by those who have an interest in declaring the robustness of Christianity in America today that such - and - such a high percentage of Americans are to be found in church each Sunday and that an even higher percentage profess to believe in God; and while such numbers surely do not mean nothing, the very fact that the Christian party so often needs to invoke them is evidence that the religious enterprise, for all its vaunted majority status, is in a deeply defensive mode.

The Commodores have stayed relatively disciplined — they've committed only six turnovers — but haven't shot well, as evidenced by their 34.5 percent team field goal percentage.

While O'Kane said there was some evidence that concussion education could improve the percentage of athletes reporting concussions, pointing to a 2012 study [8] finding that high school athletes receiving concussion education were twice as likely to report symptoms to coaches compared with those with no education (72 % vs. 36 %), he acknowledged that a 2013 study [9](also by researchers at the University of Washington) found that many high school soccer players, despite understanding the symptoms of concussion and the potentially severe complications from playing with concussion, would continue to play despite symptoms.

«The evidence shows that notwithstanding the massive increase in the debt stock, capital expenditure as a percentage (%) of GDP has actually been on the decline from 9.1 % of GDP in 2008 to 4.1 % by 2015.

In her view, if an institution is starting with a really selective group of students (that is, those who come in with really good preparation as evidenced by high GPA and SAT scores) they should graduate a larger percentage of these students.

There has been a gradual increase over the past decade in the percentage of districts offering pay incentives for shortage areas (see Figure 4), but recent evidence (see work by Katharine Strunk with Jason Grissom, Tammy Kolbe, and Dara Zeehandelaar) shows that few districts are truly strategic in matching incentives to staffing needs, and as a consequence, school systems continue to struggle to fill teaching slots in math and science.

When presented with research evidence that claims «students learn no more in private schools than in public schools,» support for school vouchers dropped by 10 percentage points, an impact almost as large as the President's.

Indeed, when we calculate effects by the percentage of students at a high school who attend college, we find no evidence of effects on college choice in the schools with the lowest college - sending rates.

Big Labor is a key partisan constituent in the Democratic Party coalition, as evidenced by the fact that roughly 90 percent of union PAC contributions to candidates and an even greater percentage of union contributions to non-party ideological organizations go to Democrats and the Left.

One 2005 review by Russell Rumberger and Gregory Palardy of the educational effects of high - school demography found evidence that the factors that seem to matter for improvements for low - income students in integrated settings include high teacher expectations, more hours of homework completed, college - prep courses, and a lower percentage of students reporting feeling unsafe.

We find evidence that eligible students» high school grade point averages fell by 0.01 (from a pre-policy base of 2.38) and that the likelihood of being incarcerated fell by 0.1 percentage points (from a pre-policy base of 0.3 percentage points).

The 5 and 3 year returns of the fund are evidence enough that it has comfortably beaten its benchmark by seven to thirteen percentage points.

There is no evidence ever shown to shareholders that validate any broad support for this merger at any time by any large percentage of shares owned.

A 2003 paper by Edward J. Hall, of the University of Bristol in England, states that there is experimental evidence to show that the percentage fat absorption increases with the percentage of fat that is fed.

By 3 years of age the majority of dogs predisposed to syringomyelia will have MRI evidence of it and only a small percentage of predisposed dogs that are MRI clear of syringomyelia at 3 years of age develop MRI signs later.

History shows that is also inevitable when enough people gather increasing evidence over long periods of time, that established ideas that are false always succumb to the weight of increasing evidence, and that they are held by an increasingly smaller percentage of the active scientists in the discipline as the evidence grows.

The survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press finds a sharp decline over the past year in the percentage of Americans who see solid evidence that global temperatures are rising.

Ministry of Justice has defended their actions by presenting their reasons based on the percentage of evidence put forward on Terror, Fraud and Sex Abuse work, and have said that Solicitors should be paid for the vast amount of work that goes into these cases.

If the insurance company or its lawyer can establish sufficient evidence to prove you are partly at fault for your own injuries, the value of your claim may be reduced by a percentage, depending on the nature and extent of your contribution to your injuries.

For example, Douglas Richmond stated that the 20/20 Commission «has gathered absolutely no evidence that non-lawyer ownership in firms... is desired by any material percentage of United States lawyers... multiple anecdotes are not evidence.»

Hiring managers and recruiters love to see hard evidence of your success, such as how many views your blogs regularly receive or the percentage by which you exceeded a recent target.

PTSD is a severe psychiatric illness characterised by four core symptom clusters: re-experiencing, avoidance, negative cognition and mood and hyperarousal.1 With an estimated lifetime prevalence in community samples of up to 8 %, PTSD results in a great deal of personal suffering and escalating social and economic costs.2 Unfortunately, current evidence - based treatments for PTSD leave a high percentage with a significant symptom burden, highlighting the urgent need for novel treatments.

In general, I would suggest not taking the matching programs too seriously on any dating website, because these algorithms are not supported by scientific evidence.5 A practical take - home message is that the match percentage you see with potential partners probably doesn't mean all that much — simply the perception that people are similar is enough to make you feel attracted, regardless of actual similarity.

One recent paper, for instance, reviewed evidence from more than 200 get - out - the - vote (GOTV) projects to show that, on average, door - to - door canvassing increased turnout by 1 percentage point, direct mail increased turnout by 0.7 percentage points, and phone calls increased turnout by 0.4 percentage points.

«Rising interest rates did seem to have a chilling effect on homebuyers using financing, as evidenced not only by the drop in purchase loan originations but also a corresponding rise in the share of cash buyers, drop in FHA buyer share and a rise in the average down payment percentage in the fourth quarter compared to the previous quarter,» Blomquist says.