Sentences with phrase «grades over the portfolio»

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She held fast to that dream throughout high school, toiling over her art portfolio and racking up painting awards, all the while maintaining top grades, earning her grade 10 Royal Conservatory of Music certification for piano, and playing saxophone in seven different bands.

Back in 2007, before the financial crisis, a portfolio of investment grade bonds would have yielded comfortably over 5 %.

In the speech, delivered inside The Mall at Bay Plaza in Baychester, Diaz described the number of Latino and black students admitted to the city's prestigious Stuyvesant High School over the past few years as unacceptably low and called for the creation of new high schools in each borough that would use a portfolio of the students» grades and schoolwork rather than a specialized test to determine who gets in.

Over 850 colleges do not require test scores, Schaeffer notes, and they seem to do just fine relying on classes taken and grades earned, along with other elements of an application portfolio.

Thanks to Giroux and others, the contemporary classroom - even if it falls short of the critical pedagogues» ideal - increasingly is a block - scheduled site presided over by a teacher who, at least concerning academics, is the guide on the side, eschews grades in favor of portfolios, minimizes ability - grouping, and, rather than being a content provider, is a manager of peer editing, team building, and other processes.

The writing assessment was designed to be administered in grades 4 and 8 (in 1994 - 95, the writing assessment was moved to grades 5 and 8) and is comprised of two main components in writing: a) a portfolio of student work which includes a set number and specified types of pieces of writing collected over the course of a year, and b) a «uniform test» of writing (i.e. a standard prompt to which all students respond using standard procedures).

· Shares and shibboleths http://t.co/CspyJCNX The equity premium over a diversified portfolio of investment grade bonds is ~ 1 % / yr IMO $ $ Mar 19, 2012

This separately managed account is designed to offers investors a diversified portfolio of investment - grade taxable bonds1 that is designed to deliver income, while limiting risk to principal over the long term.

Back in 2007, before the financial crisis, a portfolio of investment grade bonds would have yielded comfortably over 5 %.

For investors willing to accept an incrementally higher level of credit risk with a portfolio of one - to three - year investment - grade bonds, CSJ offers a yield advantage of 56 basis points over SHY.

This separately managed account offers investors a diversified portfolio of investment - grade bonds and seeks to generate federally tax - exempt interest income, while limiting risk to principal over the long term.

Over 90 % of their portfolio is investment grade.

North American has greater than $ 13 billion in life and annuity reserves and over 90 % of their portfolio is considered to be investment grade.

The New York - based REIT owns a portfolio of over 690 properties, many of which are leased to sub-investment grade businesses.