Sentences with phrase «gap measure in its place»

Meanwhile the update will serve as a stop - gap measure in its place.

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The right panel shows that the gap between the American and Canadian unemployment rates is much bigger when a comparable Canadian statistic is used in place of the headline measure regularly reported by Statistics Canada.

The private sector has not filled the gap; we dropped to tenth place in the world in terms of research intensity — a measure of combined public and private spend on R&D as a share of GDP.

While this is a reasonable approach, given the high percentages of students from low - income families in CEP schools, such a policy tends to conflict with the heavy emphasis placed by the ESEA on measuring achievement gaps between students from low - income families and other students in establishing performance consequences for schools.

NCLB put in place measures that exposed achievement gaps among traditionally underserved students and their peers and spurred an important national dialogue on education improvement.

Arne Duncan, the federal education secretary, has said that while there are places where students are tested too much, regular assessments are crucial to measuring the gap in achievement between white and minority students, and that if states did not do enough to ensure high participation rates, his agency may intervene.

The latest, completely unsurprising development: A stop - gap spending measure, written by House Republicans, that would fund the government until Dec. 15, doesn't do anything to alleviate the cuts, which are slated to stay in place for a decade.

School boards also have a critical role to play in making racial equity part of their strategic plan and putting accountability measures in place for closing the various opportunity gaps.

«If there are no appropriate immigration measures in place when the U.K. leaves the EU, this EU contribution could decline, leaving a large gap in the veterinary workforce.»

That legislation, offered by Sen. Ferrell Haile, R - 18, was presented to the committee as a stop - gap measure to keep the program in place temporarily while stakeholders work this summer on a new bill to improve oversight of commercial dog breeding operations in the state.

What additional measures could be put in place quickly to close the gap in emission reductions within the next 52 months?

The Wildlife Picture Index will allow conservationists to accurately measure biodiversity in areas that previously have been either too expensive, or logistically prohibitive... we believe that this new methodology will be able to fill critical gaps in knowledge of wildlife diversity while providing much - needed baseline data to assess success or failure in places where we work.

And more on, «Oh, the places [our students will] go,» 15 as volume 21 continues the theme of how to best prepare law students to practice law, Jeremy Francis, Daphne O'Regan, and Ryan Black's article, «Designing Success: Motivating and Measuring Successful 1L Student Engagement in an Optional, Proficiency - Based Program Teaching Grammar and Punctuation,» 16 focuses on the lawyering skill — using correct grammar and punctuation.17 Responding to a gap between the entering students» grammar and punctuation skills and how to address those needs, the authors collected data18 in a five - year study of almost 1,500 students, who completed the first - year curriculum at Michigan State University College of Law, which includes instruction on grammar and punctuation.

With these two foundation elements in place, concerted special measures programs to address specific health issues facing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and eliminate the gap in health status with the non-Indigenous population are possible and sustainable.

The gap is measured against the number of jobs created, so in places where a lot of jobs have been created, like San Francisco and Denver, the gap can be huge, because housing permits just aren't keeping up.