Sentences with phrase «grade by grade means»

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By secular reflation, we mean at least a decade in which short - and long - term interest rates stay habitually below nominal GDP growth and high grade bonds are not really bonds any more: delivering trend returns that are close to zero or even negative.

Deteriorating grades meant Galaxy had to mine 32 per cent more ore during the quarter and increase processing volumes by 3 per cent; yet production of spodumene concentrate was still 16 per cent lower than in the previous quarter.

That means, according to Shakeshaft, that «of the approximately 45 million students attending public and private K - 12 schools, more than 3 million will have been the target of physical sexual exploitation by an employee of the school by 11th grade.»

For Whitehead, mentality is by no means limited to those high - grade occasions that constitute souls.

By this he means that low - grade organisms receive and pass along sensa, which are for them emotional forms.

And by really small, I mean there were a total of twelve kids in my grade each year.

Produced by means of an all - natural, proprietary process, Oryzatein is available in various coarse grades, is beige (light to medium) in color, bland to sweet in taste, free - flowing and free of foreign material.

I believe if Le Prof can successfully concludes the signing of Thomas Lemar and try by all means to sign a top grade holding midfielder.

Changes in their behavior or grades could mean they're being bullied at school or unduly influenced by peer pressure.

Hospital - grade rental pumps are designed as a «closed system,» meaning that milk never comes into contact with parts that might be shared by other mothers.

My son was in the fifth grade, one of his best friends was being mean to him, culminating in his friend throwing my son's lunch box on the floor while my son was in the lunch line, taking my son's seat so that my son had to sit by himself.

Single user breast pumps or open system breast pumps are not meant to be re-used or shared by other moms.That said there are pumps which are Hospital grade or closed system which can be sold, rented and shared among other moms if some precautions are taken.

Hospital grade actually means that the pump can be used by multiple people.

NYC deli owners are furious the ban would apply only to establishments that are inspected by the city Health Department and receive letter grades, which means not «Big Gulp» king 7 - Eleven.

Klein's spokeswoman said his bill dropped the letter - grade provision because schools are required by law to correct any violations, meaning that if they were to mirror the restaurant system, only a «Grade Pending» or an «A» could be awarded.

The team notes that the results of their study suggest that current means of testing and approving food additives may not be adequate to prevent use of chemicals that promote diseases driven by low - grade inflammation and / or which will cause disease primarily in susceptible hosts.

What do you mean I wasn't defined by my quads, my grades, or my mile time?

It is important to note, however, that acidity is by no means the only difference between EVOO and other grades of olive oil.

Despite cinematographer Shelly Johnson's admirable attempts to ape Janusz Kaminski's lighting style — covered up by the color grading, which A.V. Club contributor Adam Nayman likened to camouflage meant to hide the fact that anyone had put any effort into this movie — this basically looks and moves like an over-heated fan film, and Montiel's tin - eared use of country music doesn't make it seem any less amateurish.

So if by unpredictable Guy means ignoring the Academy's perplexing grading system then I believe he is making a valid point.

«This means every ninth - grader has a big sister or big brother in each of the other classes.This vertical integration, as opposed to horizontal integration of grouping students in grade levels by age, fosters deep friendships across grades and promotes a feeling of family in our school community.

But, by teaching vocabulary — 10 and 12 word meanings a week in the primary grades — a child will be able to identify more words and meanings as they get older.

As states across the U.S. move to adopt standardized tests as a means to determine grade promotion and school graduation, new research presented in the Harvard Educational Review shows that sole reliance on high - stakes tests as a graduation requirement may increase inequities among students by both race and gender.

By fifth grade, children study Native Americans and the Civil War and must make meaning out of horrific historic events.

We observe the average score by school, year, and grade on each exam, which we scale to have a mean of 0 and standard deviation of 1 in each year, grade, and subject.

I can also be precise about what I mean by acting white: a set of social interactions in which minority adolescents who get good grades in school enjoy less social popularity than white students who do well academically.

And while that's not a real surprise, it's still a little shocking when you see it, because it means that a lot of where kids end up is already kind of baked in by the 3rd grade.

The assessment itself was first given in 1969, but the underlying political compromises meant that (a) students were tested by age, not grade level; (b) results were reported either as percentages of test takers getting individual questions right or (starting in 1984) on a psychometric scale that included no benchmarks, standards, or «cut points»; and (c) the «units of analysis» were the entire country and four big regions but not individual states, let alone districts or schools.

Although recent re-analyses have challenged the strength of the earlier findings, the fact remains that the influence of socioeconomic status on achievement is by no means uniform across nations, age / grade levels, gender, and subject matter.

Fifty three per cent of 11 - year - olds made the grade in reading, writing and mathematics in this year's primary school SATs, meaning 47 per cent of pupils are considered not to have made the grade in the three Rs by the end of their primary years.

Such attitudes usually mean that a pupil doesn't even attempt a question that they don't like the look of — yet a border - line student could make a vital difference to their final grade by attempting a «horrible - looking» exam question, even though they may not have had any initial positive reaction to it.

Those responsible for NCLB reauthorization, as they struggle forward, should first and foremost establish a clear and consistent definition of grade - level proficiency in reading and math, even if it means giving up the cherished but decidedly unrealistic goal of proficiency for all students by 2014.

«Experiencing two retentions by third grade means that these students, by definition, will be unable to graduate from eighth grade because they will turn 15 in the seventh grade and will have to go to Transition Centers [per Chicago policy],» the report stated.

The report succeeds by focusing on average test gains in grades within schools where mean value - added within a grade has been affected by the movement of teachers in and out of the grade.

In order to place the information from these tests on a common scale, we followed the standard practice of standardizing all scores by test, grade, and year to have a mean of zero and standard deviation of one.

Our analysis is limited to LSP voucher users who took the Louisiana state assessments in the 2010 — 11 school year, meaning they had to have reached the third grade by that time.

By following and surveying ninth - through 12th - grade students three times over a period of two years, and by using social network analysis, the researchers hope to develop a greater understanding of how we make friends and what that means for our identitieBy following and surveying ninth - through 12th - grade students three times over a period of two years, and by using social network analysis, the researchers hope to develop a greater understanding of how we make friends and what that means for our identitieby using social network analysis, the researchers hope to develop a greater understanding of how we make friends and what that means for our identities.

Continuously enrolled means, for grades 3 - 8, students whose latest date of enrollment occurred after the date prescribed by the commissioner on which BEDS forms are required to be completed and, for grades 9 - 12, students in the high school cohort, as defined in paragraph (16) of this subdivision.

Competition was also meant to discipline government schools by forcing them to up their game to maintain their enrollments, but it may have instead led to a race to the bottom as they too started grading generously to keep their students.

Did anyone at the conference even ask for «released» items after the «common tests» are given so we can see what is meant by a grade - level exam?

It might even provide an opening for communities to have greater diversity by socio - economic status knowing that since the balance on whole (the mean) was the grading criteria there would be room for greater deviation.

A math standard stating that by the end of second - grade students will know how to subtract one three - digit number from another three - digit number does not mean students will learn it at their own pace, with some mastering the idea in second grade and others taking two or three more years to learn it.

for all students in the eighth and higher grades, instruction in the history, meaning, significance and effect of the provisions of the Constitution of the United States and the amendments thereto, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the State of New York and the amendments thereto, as required by section 801 of the Education Law;

The research would piggy - back on federal data reporting requirements (using school - level and subgroup means by grade and subject rather than student - level data).

For the purposes of our analysis, scores were standardized by subject, grade, and year to have mean zero and unit variance in the population of students attending Massachusetts public schools.

The mean GPA across all math courses taken after freshman year increased by 0.14 grade points on a 4.0 scale.

The results suggest that the negative effects of entering a middle school are most pronounced in cities, but they remain sizable even in rural areas, confirming that the negative effects of configurations that separate the middle - school grades are by no means limited to urban school districts.

For assessment items that require human grading, standardization usually means that the assessment item is scored using a well - developed rubric by graders who are trained so as to have inter-rater reliability.

The gap in mean scores fell by eight points in fourth grade and by five points in eighth grade.

That means that black kids from pre-k level to 12th grade are not even close to being as represented by the adults who teach them as they should be.