Sentences with phrase «growing number of nations»

The upside for Bitcoin is as the greater global economy continues to spiral downward, and a growing number of nations begin a war on cash, as Middleton said earlier, people will slowly discover Bitcoin to be a valuable alternative, either as a currency or as an economic «safe haven.»

A growing number of nations are doing a better job than the United States in getting young people through high school and college, a study found.

Most Atlantic readers know that, although the U.S. spends more per student on K - 12 education than any other nation except Luxembourg, students in a growing number of nations outperform our own.

A growing number of nations that did these two things and did them well have gotten further and further ahead of the United States in both student achievement and equity, while the United States has only very poorly implemented its standards.

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In the U.S., the number of jobs started growing at a slower rate than the nation's productivity around 2000, a trend economists refer to as decoupling.

The departure of Britain's $ 3 trillion economy would embolden the EU's growing number of anti-euro parties — and mainstream voters — who view the EU's grand plans for integration as a threat to their nations» sovereignty.

Since then, the 18 - year - old business has grown apace (it recently made it onto the Inc. 500 list of the nation's fastest - growing private companies), thanks in part to Buschman's painfully learned lesson on the importance of comprehensive number crunching.

The gross domestic product grew by about 2.5 percent, which was slightly better than the nation has seen since the end of the Great Recession, and the number of jobs grew by about 200,000 a month.

PEP's interest in ACG underscores the growing demand for Australia and New Zealand - based adult education firms as growing numbers of migrants into the two nations seek to brush up on their English before embarking on university degrees.

John Lincoln is CEO of Ignite Visibility, one of the top digital marketing agencies in the nation and the number 698 fastest growing company in the USA in the 2017 Inc. 5000.

The number of women - owned firms continues to grow at a rate exceeding the national average, yet women - owned firms only employ 6 percent of the nation's workforce and contribute just under 4 percent of business revenues — roughly the same share they contributed in 1997.

I think most of the Americans are in lost... as most of them do not know who their father is and it is very unfortunate... even if they know who their father is, the mom has children from diff men outside of marriage... and while a child is being raised, watching what his / her parents do to enjoy their life... so things become normal when they grow up... like if you go back early nineteen century, women were not allowed to go to beach without being covered... and now it totally opposite... if you do not have a boyfriend or girlfriend before 15, the parents worries that their teenage has some problem... and lot more can be listed... And then you go to Church, what our children learn from there... they see in front of the Church an old man's statue with long beard standing with extending of both hand... some of the status are blank, white, Spanish and so on... so they are being taught God as an old dude... then you learn from Catholic that you pray to Jesus, Mother Marry, Saints, Death spirit and all these... the poll shows a huge number of young American turns to Atheism or believing there is no God and so on... Its hard to assume where these nations are going with the name of modernization... nothing wrong having scientists discovered the cure of aids or the pics from mars but... we should all think and learn from our previous generations and correct ourselves... also ppl are becoming so much slave of material things...

The gap between rich and poor has increased, the number of homeless is growing, the nation has come to accept 7 per cent unemployment as economic success, and the existence of a trapped underclass is perceived as normal.

A small number of farmers grow the food that feeds a nation and many other people around the world.

Not only policymakers but also the growing number of people, particularly those in religious communities, who are grappling with the role of religion in resolving conflicts and in nation - building in postconflict societies.

The idea that a nation comprised largely of Christian people would become a killing field where neighbors are slaughtering each other in huge numbers, where grown men who attend church regularly would pick up machetes and hack to death entire families, including the children, should strike us as utterly bizarre.

Over the three - day international trade fair, 180 exhibitors, including industry - leading organizations from a number of popular wine - growing nations such as France, Italy, Germany, Australia, South Africa, and Portugal poured their product, and award - winning spirits, ciders, and craft beer companies enjoyed a debut with over 2000 visitors in attendance.

Reducing sugar intake and increasing responsiveness to insulin is extremely important for the growing number of diabetes cases in the U.S. and other developed nations today, so goji berries make a much better snack alternative and sweetener to high - sugar packaged goods and sugar additives.

«Rawlinson and her daughters are part of a tiny but growing number of families in the United States, Canada, Germany and other modernized nations around the world that are ditching the diaper and embracing the way humans had raised their babies for millennia.»

The nation's largest professional organization for lactation professionals, the International Lactation Consultant Association, has become so alarmed by growing numbers of parents using Ezzo's «infant management program» with poor results that, at its recent international conference in July, the group offered a presentation to a standing - room - only audience on how to deal with «rigid approaches to care giving» in the clients that they see.

The growing cost of sponsoring championships and the dwindling number of veterans and posts are pressuring remaining posts to continue what has been the nation's oldest organized youth baseball league, which has spawned such greats as Ted Williams and Johnny Bench.

Mr Obama will be hoping more nations will get behind his new agenda for Afghanistan, the fight against the insurgency and the growing number of militants holed up in the border region with Pakistan.

«The number of people who recognize how serious the opioid epidemic is in this nation is growing,» said Trevor Tompson, vice president for public affairs research at NORC.

Just as a relatively small number of zillionaires are scarfing up more and more of the nation's earnings, a top echelon of scientific «stars» are scoring a growing share of scientific publications.

About 10 percent of Americans older than 65 have Alzheimer's, roughly 5 million people, a number that can only grow as the nation's population ages.

«While the number of uninsured Americans is going down across the nation thanks to the Affordable Care Act, the number of uninsured or underinsured patients seeking care at community health centers continues to grow,» says Feygele Jacobs, president and CEO of the RCHN Community Health Foundation.

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Across the nation, a growing number of parents, teachers, students, and organizations are questioning the tests» merits.

As a nation we require adults who can engage in a discerning way with sophisticated information about a growing number of complex societal and environmental challenges.

Between 1992 and 2000, math scores across the nation began to creep up; during the same period, a growing number of states began to adopt accountability systems.

Without extensive early - intervention efforts focused on the growing numbers of such children, the school chiefs said in a report to be forwarded to U.S. Secretary of Education Lauro F. Cavazos, the nation can not hope to reduce the dropout rate, improve student performance, or effectively compete internationally in the 21st century.

Although the number of charter schools in North Carolina and the nation has grown rapidly over the past decade, they still represent only a fraction of the total number of public schools and are likely to remain so for a number of years.

As our nation grapples with the social and political ramifications of this change, a growing number of children must cope with confusing signals of inclusion and exclusion.

Like a rapidly growing number of schools around the nation, Ms. Dubos said, hers is considering using portfolios as a way of measuring student performance in writing.

Backpacks Help Feed Hungry Kids All Weekend Long As the nations unemployment rate has grown so has the number of backpack programs.

Though the number of Catholics in the United States grew with the Louisiana Purchase, the nation and its schools were still overwhelmingly Protestant.

They grew rapidly and enrolled significant numbers of the nation's children; consequently, in the decades before the Civil War, there were still only about 200 Catholic schools nationwide.

But the nation's fourth - largest district, with over 350,000 students and an annual budget of over $ 5 billion faced a number of big challenges, among them, a growing principal shortage, a rash of underperforming schools, and a wide achievement gap between Miami - Dade students and students in other Florida districts.

Despite this, critics say that the curricula and methods at the majority of the nation's 500 - plus university - based principal preparation programs remain subpar and out of step with district needs.10 A growing number of districts have become more assertive with universities and other training providers about improving their offerings, because district leaders want enough well - prepared leadership candidates to meet local learning goals and to lessen the expense and damage of early turnover among poorly prepared novice principals.

Between 1970 and 2010, the number of employees in the nation's schools grew by a whopping 84 percent.

Since 2011, Indiana has shifted $ 520 million to their school voucher program, the largest in the nation and a growing number of voucher users in the state are from middle - class families, with growth the strongest among suburban families.

According to the report by GradNation, 52 percent of the nation's low - graduation - rate high schools are charter, virtual and alternative high schools, all of which have grown in number since 2000.

New analysis conducted for this report shows that under the ESSA definition, 52 percent of the nation's low - graduation - rate high schools are charter, virtual and alternative high schools, all of which have grown in number since 2000.

A growing number of parents are refusing to let their children take standardized tests this year, arguing that civil disobedience is the best way to change what they say is a destructive overemphasis on tests in the nation's public schools.

The programs are a small part of a growing national imperative: to increase the number of black men working in the nation's public schools, where «minority» students now constitute a majority.

The Honoré Center is one of a small but growing number of specialized programs aimed at boosting the number of black male schoolteachers, who make up roughly 2 percent of the nation's teaching force.

Now West Chester may be joining a growing number of districts around the country in eliminating class rank in its high schools — a high - stakes strategy that educators hold could help some of their students get into the nation's elite colleges, since those schools often overlook candidates who aren't in the rarefied percentiles.

The number of students receiving free or reduced price lunches has grown significantly, and in 2008 - 2009 44 % of our nation's students were eligible.

Their numbers are on the rise in most states and are expected to grow to 40 percent of the nation's school population by 2030.

But Amazon is far from just a digital store: it has grown the rest of its retail store relentlessly across a growing number of departments, platforms and nations, with the result that it now offers tens of millions of physical products in nearly every imaginable category.