Sentences with phrase «found substantial gains»

A study of Oklahoma's preschool program found substantial gains for children on pre-literacy and problem - solving skills.

A study of Oklahoma's preschool program found substantial gains for children on preliteracy and problem - solving skills.

A study of Oklahoma's preschool program found substantial gains for children on preliteracy and problem - solving skills.

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In a study that looked at U.S. regions where at least 80 percent of workers commute, Goldman found uneven results: Improving labor markets and declines in mortgage delinquency, but not enough to translate to substantial retail spending gains on a national level.

Such risk, moreover, is exacerbated by the very fact that the products tend to attract issuers that have substantial debt and have previously found it difficult to gain access to traditional lending channels such as bank loans.

The firm was founded in 2009 by Christopher Cole, CFA following verified and substantial proprietary account gains realized during the 2008 financial crisis.

Matched pre - and post-tests found substantial learning gains and a cumulative effect that lasted over several years (Lee, Buxton, Lewis, & LeRoy, 2006).

While the gains among these initial 3rd graders are not as dramatic as the 4th grade gains which had captured national attention, Winters found «the gains among initial 3rd graders were very substantial,» about 0.36 standard deviations between 1998 and 2009, or roughly a full additional year of academic progress.

A leading test publisher, aiming to refute charges that standardized - test scores are inflated, has found in a new study that elementary - school students registered substantial gains in basic - skills achievement over the past decade.

Black and Wiliam conducted a review of 250 book chapters and journal articles, finding firm evidence that innovations designed to strengthen the practice of formative assessment yield substantial and significant learning gains.

Inquiry - science intervention; measured impact of an urban instructional intervention in grades 3 - 5 using matched pre - and post-tests found substantial learning gains and a cumulative effect as students participate over several years.

But states find it difficult to gain consensus on a coherent set of substantial and ambitious academic standards, to align their tests with those standards, and to get strong accountability systems working.

The findings were striking: «Charter school takeovers in the New Orleans Recovery School District appear to have generated substantial achievement gains for a highly disadvantaged student population that enrolled in these schools passively.»

Analyzing more than a decade's worth of data from Chicago Public Schools, they found that schools where adults demonstrate a shared sense of responsibility for student learning are four times more likely to make substantial gains in reading than schools without strong professional ties.

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Researchers found that a year of WV Pre-K produced substantial gains in print awareness at kindergarten entry.

«This year, it could be substantial,» says Graff, who recommends reviewing your investment portfolio to find potential losers that could be sold to offset the 15 percent capital gains tax.