Sentences with phrase «growth from year to year»

An annual meeting or convention fades from members» consciousness during the intervening months; holding online events in the interim can keep members involved and build organic growth from year to year.

Help your students achieve vocabulary growth from year to year.

That personal involvement has helped Christel House keep its student turnover low - a key factor in helping students show learning growth from year to year.

Growth rates for students — not absolute proficiency levels but growth from year to year — are consistently higher than the state average.

Yearly testing will allow states to make sure that all student subgroups are demonstrating academic success and will make it easier to identify low performing schools and schools that demonstrate measurable growth from year to year.

This rich dataset allows us to study students» math and reading test - score growth from year to year in grades four through eight (where end of year and prior year tests are available), while also taking account of differences in student backgrounds.

New empirical work, using better data (e.g., that enable researchers to estimate the relative impact of factors affecting student achievement growth from year to year) and more - sophisticated statistical techniques has, in broad terms, reinforced the Coleman Report conclusion that teacher quality is the most important schooling variable.

Because NCLB doesn't call for measuring students» growth from year to year.

Almost all of the schools whose students under perform are students at a «bad» school by the other two measures, and experience minimal or negative academic growth from year to year.

Not exact matches

The number of active Corporate VCs — which serve as the investment arms of giant firms and include Intel Capital, Bloomberg Beta and GE Ventures — has grown by 15.5 percent year - over-year between 2011 and 2015, compared to a growth rate of 12.8 percent overall for VCs of any type in the same period, according to data from CB Insights.

Earnings growth is expected to go from 20 percent this year to «only» 10 percent next year.

To be sure, * The Magic of Thinking Big * was not written strictly for entrepreneurs — I'm not sure the word was well - known in the 50s... but applying the principals from this book has contributed to the enormous growth my public relations agency has enjoyed each year of our existencTo be sure, * The Magic of Thinking Big * was not written strictly for entrepreneurs — I'm not sure the word was well - known in the 50s... but applying the principals from this book has contributed to the enormous growth my public relations agency has enjoyed each year of our existencto the enormous growth my public relations agency has enjoyed each year of our existence.

«While we do not believe that either of these new sweeteners / flavoring agents will be the natural, great - tasting and calorie - free «silver bullet» that the industry has been waiting for, we believe it is possible that they will be able to drive interest, engagement and potentially sales growth because of the massive consumer / societal need to reduce sugar and enhance healthiness,» Ali Dibadj, an analyst at Sanford Bernstein, said in a note last December that previewed sweetener innovations expected this year from Coke and Pepsi.

Barrick is in a stronger position now to focus on growth opportunities following two credit upgrades from rating agencies in the first quarter of the year.

Previously, same - store sales growth represented the estimated percentage change in sales of all restaurants in the Company system that have been open for one year or more, and the base stores changed on a rolling basis from month to month.

Thanks to strong segment growth, Apple's services business accounted for 12 % of trailing -12-month revenue, up from 9 % two years ago.

According to Congress's Joint Committee on Taxation, the Tax Cuts act, signed in December, will decrease expected revenues by a total of $ 1 trillion over the next 10 years, an average of $ 100 billion annually, even after any boost to growth and incomes from lower taxes.

Sometimes that trouble makes for a grim longer - term outlook: General Electric, for example, has seen its stock fall 51 % in the past year, but stalled growth and a tangled web of liabilities from its former GE Capital unit make it a stock to be wary of.

For oil - importing countries we expect growth this year to be 4.7 percent, coming up from 4.2 percent last year.

Their newest paper uses historical data from multiple countries to show that an increase in the ratio of household debt to gross domestic product over a three - to - four - year period predicts a decline in economic growth.

The Fed permitted the quantity of money to decline by one - third from 1929 to 1933, just as the Bank of Japan permitted monetary growth to be low or negative in recent years.

Exports of goods and services were the biggest contributor to growth, advancing 2.3 percent from the previous quarter, the biggest increase in three years.

The global smart transportation sector is expected to grow to US$ 138 billion by 2020, up from US$ 46 billion this year, at a compound annual growth rate of 24 %, according to analysis firm Markets and Markets.

A positive sign: The firm, founded in 2006, has accelerated its growth in the last year, with its customer base up about 22 % from a year earlier, to 950 customers (that growth was about 9 % from a year before that).

Judged by monetary growth, they were too little too late, raising monetary growth from 1.5 percent a year in the prior three and a half years to only 3.25 percent in the next two and a half.

We first scouted out industries with great growth potential and solid sales figures from recent years before culling out any industry with a highly prohibitive barrier to entry, be it cost, skill set, or market saturation.

A year and a half ago, J.Crew's CEO Millard «Mickey» Drexler was quoted as saying «I don't know what the rush to be big is for, to be outside the United States,» and noted that growth outside the U.S. can distract from initiatives within the American marketplace.

P&G backed its sales forecast for the year but raised its estimate for core earnings per share growth for fiscal 2018 to a range of 5 percent to 8 percent from a prior range of 5 percent to 7 percent.

China «s official unemployment rate has been around 4 % for years, despite the rapid slowdown in the economy from double - digit growth to quarter - century lows last year of less than 7 %.

Warren retired from eHarmony in 2007 but came back as CEO after five years to turn around the business, whose growth was slowing in the face of increasing competition.

Dollar stores saw the largest growth in occasional meat sales among alternative sources, beating out farmers» markets, online stores and directly from farms, according to a survey this year from the Food Marketing Institute and the North American Meat Institute.

Six years ago I founded the Kairos Society, an organization to help young entrepreneurs from around the world start high - impact, high - growth companies.

Hence the question: Is it reasonable to expect that marginally looser policies would now lead to more than tripling of the growth rate (to 1.5 - 2 percent) over the next two years, while raising the inflation rate from -0.3 percent to 2 percent — as the Bank of Japan is promising?

For somebody who had never been to New Orleans, but moved there initially to teach and then a year later left the classroom to start a company, I've seen firsthand just how much the community has invested in bringing in and retaining young people who really want to contribute to rebranding the city, bringing it from, old oil and gas and just tourism really into the 21st century with lots of high - tech, high - growth businesses.

In the U.K., economic growth slowed to a one - year low of 0.3 percent from 0.7 percent in the last three months of 2016, the Office for National Statistics said on Friday.

In its spring forecast, the European Commission said it expects economic growth across the 28 - country EU to dip to 2.3 percent this year, from last year's decade - high rate of 2.4 percent.

This year her haul has likely been even larger, thanks to beefed - up ad campaigns from some of her sponsors, the growth of her candy company Sugarpova, and the launch of her own mobile app.

We compared the average viewership for each from January 1, 2016, to February 26, 2016, against the same dates in 2017 to see who had the most growth in viewership year - over-year (and who's been declining).

The 20 - year period from 1977 to 1997, as this encompasses a variety of macro-economic conditions: five years of stagflation and two back - to - back recessions (1977 - 1982), strong growth from 1983 to 1990, a mild recession in 1991, and growth from 1993 to 1997.

DTS earnings before tax of $ 13.1 million increased 16 % compared with $ 11.3 million in 2017, due to revenue growth and operating performance, as well as favorable developments related to self - insurance claims from prior years.

All of which encouraged Barclays to nudge up its 2017 call for global growth to 3.5 %, from an expected 3.1 % this year.

The company ended last year with about 12 % of sales from products launched the previous five years, so essentially Hormel wants innovation to play a bigger role in future growth.

Traders are suddenly worried about interest rates (although anyone older than 30 has to be amused that 2.85 % on the Treasury 10 - year is a source of panic), worried about inflation (although after the last decade of stagnant wages, Friday's 2.9 % rise should be cheered, not jeered), and worried about a tax - fueled spike in growth (with this report from Powell's Atlanta colleagues leading the way.)

What I have learned from many years of working with tech - enabled growth companies; on both sides of mergers and acquisitions; and angel, private equity and venture capital investments, is that accretion of IP value is the key element to supporting overall enterprise value — representing scalability in phases of rapid growth and supporting attractive multiples during the fundraising and exit phases.

While that's more than the $ 196 billion Chinese business travelers spent last year, business - travel spending in China grew 13.2 percent — three times the 4.4 percent growth rate in the U.S.. By 2016, Chinese business travelers are expected to spend more than those from the U.S., according to the report.

Growth last year sunk to only 1.3 %, down from the 7 % to 8 % rates experienced a decade ago.

GDP was so strong to start the year that the Bank of Canada likely will have to raise its growth estimates for the first quarter from the current 1 % to as much as 3 %.

Add an anemic projected economic growth of 0.5 % next year, due to the weak rube, and Ukraine - related sanctions, and Russian consumers may be pulling back on everything from Pepsi to Hugo Boss suits.

From his point of view, earnings growth for the year will be moderate and a choppier stock market could hurt the stock, which is sensitive to economic ups and downs.

«The global M&A frenzy from last year, along with all the bitcoin hype, really pushed these stocks into the stratosphere, to the point [of] five - year earnings growth forecasts of 25 percent.