Sentences with phrase «greater than grade»

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The grade control work is targeting a wide corridor of the highest - grade titanium mineralisation that exhibits greater than 30 % titanium dioxide.

High yield / non-investment-grade bonds involve greater price volatility and risk of default than investment - grade bonds.

The Senate version is more onerous: It would affect a small portion of the investment - grade market, but would have a much greater impact than the House version on the high - yield market.

High yield fixed income securities are considered speculative, involve greater risk of default, and tend to be more volatile than investment grade fixed income securities.

Investing in high yield fixed income securities, otherwise known as «junk bonds», is considered speculative and involves greater risk of loss of principal and interest than investing in investment grade fixed income securities.

Default risk Historically, the risk of default on principal, interest, or both, is greater for high yield bonds than for investment grade bonds.

Floating - rate loans» low credit ratings indicate greater potential risk of default relative to investment - grade bonds (though default rates for floating - rate loans historically have been lower than on high - yield bonds).

High Yield bonds involved greater risk of default or downgrade and are more volatile than investment grade securities, due to the speculative nature of their investments.

From the turn - key access in AAA - grade office space right downtown, to the great community of other high tech companies in our building, and not to mention the flexibility to grow faster than we had originally planned, Our company's space in LaunchPad was the key to establishing our new business quickly and professionally on PEI.»

Greater Vancouver ranks seventh overall in the Social category with a «B» grade, placing it higher than all its Canadian counterparts except Toronto.

What percentage of that 2 billion have had greater than a 3 - grade education?

(35) Ringe found that those with a twelfth - grade education or less preferred traditional religious programs, while those with greater than a twelfth - grade education preferred more novel programs.

With a color and maple flavor more intense than Amber / Rich, this versatile grade is great as a topping and for cooking.

Latte - grade Encha is a great versatile value choice for 1st - harvest pure organic matcha from Japan, much cheaper than other 1st - harvest organic matcha.

If Pritchard makes Poch's grade then the Spurs first - team next season will likely be more than half - full of academy players, which is a great feather in our cap as no other top Premier League team can even come close to that.

If your child is spending a great deal of time on their homework each night, more than 10 minutes per grade level, talk with your child's teacher to see if the work needs to be reduced or if there is a different approach to doing the work that your child needs to try.

However, I'd be much more willing to overlook something like the candy reward for a great grade (as misguided and repulsive as I think it is), than to overlook a daily snack policy that so clearly impacts every child's day - to - day life.

Students whose teachers have not switched grades show greater improvement in test scores than students in similar classrooms with equally experienced teachers who switched grades frequently.

A pre-surgery tumor size of greater than three centimeters was associated with worse LC, but local recurrence was not significantly affected by the number of brain metastases or the patients» histology or graded prognosis assessments.

Of the approximately 4,000 who were identified as at risk for mental health problems and offered the ten - session group intervention during second grade, those who participated in a greater number of sessions showed significantly greater improvements in third - grade outcomes than did the at - risk students who participated in fewer sessions.

Argonne's process delivers a gas that is close to pipeline quality (greater than 90 percent methane) and generates fertilizer grade byproducts as the byproduct of anaerobic digestion (a series of biological processes in which microorganisms break down biodegradable material in the absence of oxygen).

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have become the first to 3D print aerospace - grade carbon fiber composites, opening the door to greater control and optimization of the lightweight, yet stronger than steel material.

Moreover it remains unclear how β - cells can generate a graded response to insulin or even remain sensitive to it, conceivably being exposed to far greater concentrations of the hormone than other cell types such as adipocytes or muscle cells.

The findings also claimed that obesity becomes less dangerous with age, and obese adults with a grade 1 obesity BMI of 30 to 34.9 did not have a greater mortality risk than someone of a healthy weight.

Great scents calm me down and make me feel like I'm at the spa rather than grading or planning.

Schools that had received D grades and were close to the failing grade that could precipitate vouchers» being offered to their students, by contrast, appear to have achieved somewhat greater improvements than those achieved by the schools with higher state grades.

Troubling, though, is the fact that 35 percent of the climate grade depends on having classes smaller than 25 pupils, which means that QC has taken sides in the great class - size debate, notwithstanding the rivers of doubt that Hoover Institution economist Eric Hanushek and others have poured on the notion that smaller classes are an efficient means of boosting achievement.

The grade attainment and improvement rates of Maths Doctor students are greater than 90 %.

Although African Americans with GPAs as high as 3.5 continue to have more friends than those with lower grades, the rate of increase is no longer as great as among white students.

The Aspen report provides examples from grades K through 12 of how, as they put it, SED and CCR are reciprocal in benefit to students and set up a virtuous cycle of greater accomplishment than one would get from either approach in isolation.

A fourth - grade question asks, «In the number 344,586, how many times greater is the value represented by the 4 in the ten thousands place than the value represented by the 4 in the thousands place?»

The increase in peer prior achievement from 5th to 8th grade at KIPP schools was 0.15 standard deviations greater in reading and 0.19 standard deviations greater in math than for students who attended feeder elementary schools (see Figure 4).

Other critics point to greater gains in word recognition than in reading comprehension and to diminished gains in the later grades, as in the so - called 4th - grade slump.

Cambridge, MA — A new study finds that 8th grade students in the U.S. score higher on standardized tests in math and science when their teachers allocate greater amounts of class time to lecture - style presentations than to group problem - solving activities.

He counts how often NAEP gains were greater in the decade before the act's adoption than in the decade after for different grades, subjects, and subgroups.

First, elementary and middle schools may have more of an incentive to respond to competitive pressure than high schools because the scholarships cover a greater share of private school tuition and fees in the early grades than they do in the high school years.

Because cloud - based applications are bought as a service rather than purchased, it's a great way of providing affordable, high grade solutions for schools.

Research shows that minorities accrue greater premiums from educational credentials that signal high achievement than whites, which means that watering down these signals through grade inflation, abolishing external exams, and lowering standards depletes a key resource for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

D schools also made greater gains than C schools, perhaps reflecting the fact that D schools were not far from earning a grade of F and thereby facing the threat of vouchers.

In Montana, among kids in grade 8 in larger districts, the power of poverty over achievement was 2.5 times greater than in smaller districts overall and three times greater in elementary - only districts.

There are FIVE clues to crack to solve the case: Clue 1 - Area with Rectangles (Multiplying with numbers greater than 12 required in this version) Clue 2 - Area to determine cost (Multiplying double digit by single / double digits required in this version) Clue 3 - Area Missing Side Lengths (larger numbers than the 4th grade version) Clue 4 - Area Word Problems (Multiplying with double digits and single digits) Clue 5 - Area of Complex Figures (two or three rectangles / squares together, larger numbers than the 4th grade version) This 5th grade version is similar to the 4th grade version of this math mystery.

And our overall growth over the last decade is greater than any other state or district: seventeen scale - score points in fourth grade math, nineteen in fourth grade reading, and twelve in eighth grade math.

But also note: The red line in this picture is above the blue line, meaning that a greater proportion of black high school graduates completed college than tested at a college - ready level in twelfth grade.

Likewise, low - achieving students in classes with many strong students run a greater risk of receiving a low grade than they do when in low - achieving classes.

In a few short years, middle schoolers would go from Growing Up Forgotten, the title of a 1977 report by the Ford Foundation, to being what David Hough, then director of the Institute for School Improvement at Missouri State University and managing editor of the Middle Grades Research Journal, described as «studied, researched, and analyzed with a greater degree of exuberance and sophistication than ever before.»

The purpose of the present study was to examine the instructional and organizational factors that might explain how and why some schools across the country are beating the odds by attaining greater than expected primary - grade reading achievement with populations of students at risk for failure by virtue of poverty.

We used quantitative and descriptive methods to examine the programs and practices in 11 moderate - to high - poverty schools selected because of their dual reputation for implementing recent reading reform and for beating the odds by promoting greater than expected primary - grade reading achievement.

The results show that students in high - accountability states averaged significantly greater gains on the NAEP 8th - grade math test than students in states with little or no state measures to improve student performance.

In America, no educational issue is of greater national significance than ensuring that all children learn to read — fluently and with comprehension — in the primary grades of elementary school.

According to NAEP results, released by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics, Alabama is one of four states to show significant gains in fourth - grade reading, and over the past eight years has shown a greater increase in scale than any other state, moving from 207 in 2003 to the national average of 220 on a 500 - point scale in 2011.