Sentences with phrase «gains made by»

«Long - term declines could erase gains made by middle - class Americans since World War II,» The Wall Street Journal reports.

As outlined in Chapter 1, New Zealand Maori life expectancy over the past two decades can be usefully compared to the gains made by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to assess the latter's progress, as set out in Table 5.

Although comparisons could not be made with the control group at 4 - month follow - up, all gains made by PCIT treatment families were maintained.

Researchers estimate that the gains made by Spanish - speaking children are comparable to those made in the landmark Perry Preschool Project and the Abecedarian project, both of which have documented long - term gains for children throughout their life cycles, including reduced crime and teen pregnancy, higher earnings, and reduced participation in public assistance programs.

Gains made by the Early Start series in health, child abuse, parenting, and behavioral and related outcomes at 36 months were sustained over the 9 - year follow - up period.

Most of the gains made by the company were thanks to lower - end devices.

With the start of a new year is prompting investors to consider the cryptocurrency market as part of their portfolio re-alignment in light of the massive gains made by some of the cryptocurrencies, NEM is poised to continue its upward movement.

Investopedia is reporting that Goldman Sachs is now acknowledging the powerful gains made by cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum this year.

This additional cost to insure the vehicle actually offsets some gains made by the Corolla for lower maintenance, fuel and financing costs.

The inter-relationship between the way ss 86 and 87 (both as proposed to be amended) work for non-domiciliaries is another minefield: only gains made by the trustees of a settlor interested settlement which are remitted to the UK will no longer be able to give rise to liability in the hands of a beneficiary.

If 30 years of gains made by artists of color are not reflected in the constitution of the 2014 Whitney Biennial, does it stand to reason that the ethnicity exhibition is a space that is separate but not equal?

Since the average stock would not actually increase in value, most of the gains made by investors from stocks would be in the form of dividend payments.

Certain capital gains made by Australian companies on the disposal of their shares in foreign companies with underlying active businesses, subject to conditions

Although any gains made by the account should not be withdrawn until age 59 and a half;, he notes the contributions made to a Roth IRA can be withdrawn tax - and penalty - free any time after five years.

In this example, the holding period is more than 2 years (2018 - 2014), hence the capital gains made by you are treated as Long Term Capital Gains.

because the fees that are charged to the customer (you and me) wipe out some of the gains made by these funds.

Yes, many people are still fighting that war, on both sides of the debate, and it may well be some time before the most reluctant publishers realize that their cause is lost, but the gains made by self publishing have been so pronounced, so rapid and what is most important, so irreversible, that it's time to call it done.

G.F. Brandenburg and John Merrow deconstructed the NAEP gains made by D.C., pointing out that the trend lines were continuous with those that preceded Rhee and that D.C. continues to be one of the lowest performing districts in the nation.

Adding to a growing body of evidence of overall progress made by Newark's public schools and life outcomes for Newark students, two studies released this month by Harvard University and MarGrady Research reveal significant gains made by the school district.

«It's vital that the newly - elected Board works together to preserve the gains made by New Orleans public education and move forward to ensure each student can succeed through graduation and beyond.»

Our testing technology works much better when are comparing gains made by students of similar background and prior skill.

«Rather than roll back the gains made by desegregation over the last generation, or settle for that achievement, we should expand the commitment to go further, to do more.»

Research on preschool from around the country has shown that gains made by children in the early years can often fade out as they move into the elementary grades.

However, Superintendent John White says the reporting system does not fully reflect the gains made by many schools that are making great progress, particularly with low - achieving students.

Andy Smarick of the Fordham Institute, a conservative nonprofit education policy think tank, this week noted that, despite the gains made by Houston and the Broad finalists in raising achievement, students» overall performance in all those districts remained lower than many would hope.

In the wake of the 2016 presidential election, some advocates1 and philanthropists are shifting their focus and energy from the federal level to the state and local level in the hopes of maintaining the momentum of gains made by the Obama administration.

Alonso said the improvement among white students somewhat masks the great gains made by minorities.

al. reported similar results in an analysis of gains made by cohorts, eg.

Henry added that there have been notable gains made by Tennessee's «innovation zones» or «iZones,» a public school - steered method that allotted greater flexibility, funding and development opportunities for struggling urban districts in Memphis, Nashville and Chattanooga.

When comparing two years of growth under each district, the gains made by the LEA are actually greater than the ASD by almost 2 %, 7.75 % compared to 5.84 %.

Amid the intense debates about how much progress the nation has made in raising student achievement and whether federal investments in education have produced results, one important trend tends to be overlooked — namely, the notable gains made by African American and Latino students in reading and math achievement since 1971.

Jolita Dudaité, a doctoral student at Lithuania's Kaunas University of Technology, tried to answer that question by comparing the math - achievement gains made by that...

When we adjusted the gains made by students in each school to take into account a wide variety of individual and peer - group background characteristics, such as ethnicity, English language - learner status, family income, and student mobility rates, the yardstick's performance actually worsened.

In math, the differences in gains made by African Americans and Hispanics at AYP schools and non-AYP schools are 11 and 12 percent of a standard deviation, respectively.

Compared to gains made by students in other countries, «progress within the United States is middling, not stellar,» notes Peterson, Harvard professor and PEPG director, with 24 countries trailing the U.S. rate of improvement and another 24 that appear to be improving at a faster rate.

The patterns were similar in reading, though the relative gains made by schools facing voucher competition were smaller and sometimes statistically insignificant.

Another potential explanation for the exceptional gains made by schools facing voucher competition is that their extremely low initial scores are affected by a statistical tendency called «regression to the mean.»

To test for this possibility, we compared the gains made by F schools with the performance of an even smaller subset of schools whose 2002 test scores were similar but had never received an F (which we termed low - performing non-F schools).

Each of these results is statistically significant at a very high level, meaning that we can be highly confident that the test - score gains made by schools facing the actuality or prospect of voucher competition were larger than the gains made by other public schools.

While these relative gains made by schools using the literacy hour are suggestive, it is important to consider whether they may have reflected other differences between the two groups of schools.

In this podcast, Paul Peterson analyzes two new reports on Michelle Rhee's performance as D.C.'s Schools Chancellor and describes his new findings on the gains made by D.C. students.

I was concerned about whether test prep and manipulation were responsible for the exceptional gains made by low - graded schools that faced the prospects of voucher competition if their results did not improve.

We find that the gains made by retained students did diminish over time, as critics predicted, but these students still entered high school performing at higher levels in both reading and math than similar peers who were promoted on time.

Such studies, which compare the annual gains made by students in charter schools with the gains made by the same student while attending a traditional public school, draw only on the experiences of students who were tested for at least two years in the regular public schools before attending a charter school.

But skeptics warned that the academic gains made by retained students would diminish over time and that they would ultimately be less likely to complete high school: nationwide, students who are unusually old for their grade are far more likely to drop out.

The results presented here constitute the strongest evidence to date on the relationship between teachers» observed classroom practices and the achievement gains made by their students.

Teachers» scores on the classroom observation components of Cincinnati's evaluation system reliably predict the achievement gains made by their students in both math and reading.

Yet when compared to gains made by students in other countries, progress within the United States is middling, not stellar (see Figure 1).

For these teachers, we can test whether improvement over time in the practices measured by TES is related to improvement in the achievement gains made by the teachers» students.

This pattern provides strong evidence that the smaller gains made by these charter school students are indeed due to the quality of the schools they attend rather than to any unobserved differences between charter school students and students in traditional public schools.