Sentences with phrase «fifty percent»

Also along those lines, I'd expect the contract to be more along the lines of NRP's or even the medium size publisher I just signed with «fifty percent of receipts» period.

So, when you're established — which I was told when I broke in was when you were selling fifty percent of all you wrote — it gets easier, right?

On ebook sales, our authors receive fifty percent (50 %) of the net price.

We help you save money on textbooks; don't sell your books to the campus bookstore for sometimes fifty percent less than what you can get online.

(Even fifty percent — you may want to save time to write your next book — is twenty five times more time than your publisher will be able to spend on you.)

The study concluded that writers in particular were common among sufferers of schizophrenia, depression, anxiety and substance abuse, and were almost fifty percent more likely to commit suicide than the general population.

A study conducted by Hanover Research on behalf of the creators of LearnSmart found that nearly fifty percent of the college students surveyed reported using their devices for texting or checking social media while they were supposed to be studying, with forty percent answering that online distractions are the biggest draw.

Now the intake into medicine is around fifty percent female.

I've seen estimates that fifty percent of the titles in Amazon's Erotica section are plagiarized.

I am not stupid, and fifty percent less for the second one on, if not marketed that way, feels dishonest.

On the sale of the Work via foreign rights translation, the Publisher will pay the Author fifty percent (50 %) of the Net Receipts.

We did countless CFD [computational flow dynamics] tests on the computer, and actually it's the computer that helped us model and finesse this beautiful shape and get fifty percent more air into those inlets.

Buyers will have a choice of front - wheel drive or a four - wheel - drive system that can send up to fifty percent of the torque to the rear wheels.

Fifty percent of the crossings FRA released today have interconnected systems.

The chassis has been stiffened by fifty percent thanks largely to the massive X-brace under the hood, and while the steering ratio is unchanged, the hydraulic assistance has been reworked to speed up the response.

«Fifty percent of cars sold around the world are now SUVs,» Schwarzenbauer told Autocar.

Fifty percent more L.A. Unified students in grades nine through 12 signed up for Advanced Placement courses in the last academic year than the number who did six years before, Superintendent John Deasy said in a press release Wednesday.

Fifty percent of teacher evaluations will be based on what matters most — students» knowledge and skills.

Over fifty percent of teachers who leave their schools say that school environment was a top - three reason.

Fifty percent of D.C.'s fourth graders read Below Basic, a six percentage point decline over 2011 and a 19 percentage point decline from levels in 2002; 60 percent of fourth - graders on free - and reduced - priced lunch plans read Below Basic, a six percentage point decline from 2011 and a 15 percentage point decline from 2002.

According to a recent Education Next poll, fifty percent of all teachers think that forced dues payment is wrong, while 38 percent support it.

Fifty percent of the preservice teachers also shared functionality as an advantage of e-readers and e-text to address the needs of their students.

which asserted that, in some American classrooms, as many as fifty percent of students are performing above grade level, and, in the majority of schools, at least ten percent are.

Malloy originally proposed that the local teacher evaluation process utilize the Connecticut Mastery Test results to determine fifty percent of a teacher's evaluation but that number was eventually reduced to twenty - two and a half percent.

In fact, not only did Pryor and Malloy demand that teacher evaluation programs be based on how well students did on the Connecticut Mastery Test but they wanted the test results to count for fifty percent of a teacher's entire evaluation.

Fifty percent of the participants in the BPS Teaching Fellowship are people of color, compared with 37 percent of BPS teachers overall.55 BPS also runs the BPS High School to Teacher Program, which identifies students in high school who would make excellent teachers.

Fifty percent of chronically absent students are enrolled in 12 percent of the nation's schools, according to the 2013 - 2014 survey.

Fifty percent of Audubon Gentilly's seats are available for scholarship students, and fifty percent of all student seats will be allocated to catchment zone five, which includes residents in zip codes 70122, 70124, 70148 and 70126.

Fifty percent (50 %) of teachers said they'd love a gift card, even one for just a few dollars at a local restaurant or spa.

1) Fifty percent of TFA teachers leave after two years; eighty percent by the end of the third year.

Fifty percent are below grade level in reading and math.

Fifty percent of the children here started the year below grade level in reading and math.

Fifty percent of a teacher's or principal's assessment will be based on student performance.

«Fifty percent of our students graduate in four years,» Cahill says.

The bipartisan bill would retain the current fifty percent whole grain requirement for lunch and breakfast, and prevent federal mandates for further reducing the sodium levels for school meals beyond the July 1, 2014 Target I level.

Fifty percent may place too much weight on test scores that are aligned with course content, but isn't zero percent — the result of Cuomo's moratorium — too little?

As a result, fifty percent of teachers were leaving the profession in the first five years.

Fifty percent of those surveyed gave their local public schools the top two grades compared with 27 percent.

Fifty percent of new teachers leave the profession within three years.

Fifty percent of my performance label was based on school test scores (not on the test scores of my homeroom students).

Fifty percent of students at Opportunity Charter have IEPs.

At Union County Teams Charter School, one of the city's five charter operators, fifty percent of students attained proficiency on standardized language arts tests last spring.

Something is wrong when forty to fifty percent of new teachers leave the profession sometime during their first five years in the classroom.

Fifty percent of white students passed English and 45 percent passed Algebra I.

Fifty percent of districts say they have provided data coaches for at least some of their schools, and 32 percent say that they have done so for all of their schools.

Teachers have heard the statistic often: Fifty percent of those who enter the teaching profession leave within five years.

Fifty percent of the programs funding comes from a 21st Century Community Center grant, a federal program administered through the Vermont Department of Education, and the other half comes from the school budget, donations, other grants and community partnerships.

Fifty percent of those in the states with Common Core said they were «unsure» and 56 % in the non-Common Core states gave that same response.

One, I think we were clear that measurable student academic growth would be the main measure of impact, fifty percent, and then we spent a lot of time explaining how our student - growth model works.

Fifty percent of Finnish students receive academic interventions before 10th grade, adolescents study courses in social needs, all grades break for physical activity after 45 minutes of instruction, all school meals are free regardless of income.