Sentences with phrase «headline measures of»

Grade 5 and above is recognised as a «strong pass» — this will be one of the headline measures of school performance.

Energy prices contributed to the increase in the headline measure of consumer inflation, climbing 6.9 percent over... Read More»

The aim of Progress 8 is to replace the percentage of pupils gaining five good GCSEs as the headline measure of school accountability, instead judging schools on «value added» through the duration of a pupils time there.

Not exact matches

Alternative measures of inflation that adjust for the more volatile components of the price basket, such as gasoline, were moderately higher than the headline number.

At the beginning of 2016, before the U.K. voted to leave the European Union, the headline confidence measure was +8.6.

The headline unemployment rate, which measures the percentage of the British workforce who want a job but don't have one, fell from 4.3 % to 4.2 %.

Although a number of temporary factors are keeping headline inflation near its 2 per cent target, our measures of core inflation are in the lower half of the target band and have been trending downward in recent quarters.

The Parliamentary Budget Office has released a report (pdf - h / t to Kady O'Malley) that makes note of the distinction between Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Gross Domestic Income (GDI), and shows that by the latter measure, the fourth quarter of 2008 was even more dreadful than the GDP numbers that made all the headlines.

A version of this article appears in print on February 23, 2010, on Page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: 5 Republicans Help Advance Jobs Measure.

In other words, headline measures are being distorted lower by declining energy and food prices, declines that aren't reflective of any economic shortfall.

We have selected these three measures so that they will give us an unbiased view of what might be happening to headline inflation, the underlying inflation.

What you are seeing now with core inflation measures that are below headline inflation, and where they have been drifting down, is just a reflection of the excess capacity we have had over the last year.

The right panel shows that the gap between the American and Canadian unemployment rates is much bigger when a comparable Canadian statistic is used in place of the headline measure regularly reported by Statistics Canada.

The headline measure is of most value in charting the direction of change, but even with this objective it is important to understand whether employment or labour force participation decisions are the drivers.

He measures daily aggregate unscheduled firm - specific news sentiment as an average of scores calculated by the RavenPack news analysis tool for articles with headlines specifying S&P 500 stocks published for the first time that day on the Dow Jones news wire and in the Wall Street Journal.

Word counts and article tallies are not everything, but they represent two simple ways of measuring what even casual news consumers undoubtedly feel — that last week's shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High is not fading from headlines as rapidly as similar events have in the recent past.

For some perspective on this, recall that the main measures (headline CPI, core CPI and core PCE) have all been below the Fed's target of 2 % for some time.

Statistics Canada data this morning showed that headline inflation in Canada slowed last month, while measures of underlying prices strengthened to their highest level in -LSB-...]

Most of them would have been tightening policy in a measured fashion in response to rises in headline inflation over the past couple of years.

Data through June 2012, released today by S&P Dow Jones Indices for its S&P / Case - Shiller Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, showed that all three headline composites ended the second quarter of 2012 with positive annual growth rates for the first time since the summer of 2010.

This profile is broadly in line with that presented in the February Statement on Monetary Policy, though recent movements in world oil prices are likely to introduce a divergence between headline and underlying measures of inflation in the short term.

The various measures of underlying inflation recorded slightly lower outcomes in the quarter, although on a year - ended basis they show inflation at a similar rate to the headline measure (Table 14; Graph 71).

At the LSE event, most of the panellists argued that a degree of indicator continuity is essential to measure government performance or to track headline public spending numbers.

Even without investigations dominating the headlines, lawmakers were likely to contend with growing calls for ethics and campaign finance reform measures following the sentencing of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to 12 years in prison.

On the headline measure, the IFS forecasts that the number of children in relative poverty will increase by 1.1 million between 2010 - 11 and 2020 — 21.

At the same time, the governor's office was working behind the scenes to whip up support for the governor's headline - generating proposal, reaching out to members of the public universities and dispatching staffers to campuses to sell presidents on the measure.

One of the headline measures, Help to Buy, invoked memories of Thatcher's successful Right to Buy scheme.

The rally, headlined by Sen. Terry Gipson, Senate hopeful Justin Wagner and Assembly candidate Andrew Falk, comes after a half - dozen candidates for state Senate failed to qualify for the Women's Equality Party, the new ballot line formed this year meant to boost the package of measures proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2013.

Addressing business leaders at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), Mr Darling said: «That response must be open and measured; perhaps not always the stuff of headlines but certainly the best basis of solutions.»

David Cameron has belatedly realised that Michael Gove's ideological drive is no substitute for measured, pragmatic reform of the education system.Time after time he has chased newspaper headlines rather than engage with teachers.

«It is a measure of how contorted and constipated the debate is that it has become a headline issue,» he said.

I briefly considering the headline: «Department of Desperate Measures»... but then I thought that might be too mean, even for me.

A supermarket food price war and lower petrol price inflation are expected to have brought the headline consumer price index measure of inflation down for the sixth month running in March.

According to Okonjo - Iweala, «People are happy to see the symptoms being taken care of, punitive measure, you know it makes big headlines when people are hauled off to jail and the media blasts the story, which is good, there ought to be consequences and punitive actions but it's not enough.

«While the headline crime rates are very low and murder rates are down, the 311 calls to police are drastically up... and that is a true measure of our quality of life,» Malpasse said.

Simply because the headline figures measure the stock of jobless people.

When a new species comes to light, its effect on the arrangement of its family tree might be better measured by statistics than by headlines.

By using fMRI, the researchers were able to measure people's brain activity in real time as they viewed the headlines and abstracts of 80 New York Times health articles and rated how likely they were to read and share them.

«Low - Calorie Diet Slows Aging in Mice in Study,» claimed a recent headline.17 According to the article, «Putting elderly mice on a very low - calorie diet for as little as four weeks reversed many of the changes in the activity of various genes that had occurred during normal aging...» The resesearchers were not looking at actual signs of disease, nor were they measuring lifespan, but instead focused on the analysis of 11,000 different genes using a method called microarray technology in which Spindler has large financial holdings.

While there are many ways to link teacher instruction to student achievement, one family of methods — Value - Added Measures (VAMs)-- has generated national headlines (such as this article about Los Angeles teachers).

The report, part of a book of essays entitled «The Future of Assessment: 2025 and Beyond», suggests that current trends in the education sector are «narrowing the curriculum and focusing on those students whose performance has the greatest impact on the headline accountability measures».

It also looks at what impact using new headline measures has on the composition of the top 500 comprehensives, and considers the implications of the new accountability system for comprehensive recruitment in the future.

Christodoulou, who used to be head of assessment at Ark Schools before moving to her new post this summer, said the purpose of the tests was to give teachers a way to measure the «absolute» progress of their individual pupils over the year — rather than be stuck with their «relative» progress against the rest of the nation as shown by the government's headline progress measures.

Not having knowledge of these headline measures tomorrow will be massively annoying for school leaders trying to work out how well they did nationally.

So it is no accident that the release of the third and final round of reports from the Gates Foundation's Measuring Effective Teachers project was greeted with the following headline in the Washington Post: «Gates Foundation study: We've figured out what makes a good teacher,» or this similarly humble claim in the Denver Post: «Denver schools, Gates foundation identify what makes effective teacher.»

Since school spending per pupil has been relatively stable in real terms for the last seven years, allocating extra curriculum time and resources to teaching EBacc subjects may have often implied diverting them from non-EBacc subjects that offer less benefit in terms of school performance, as evaluated by the new headline measures.

Looking at the rest, though, you can look at the headline measure: the proportion of pupils who get at least five GCSE between grades A * and C including English and maths.

Schools and colleges will be measured on the results of their poorest pupils under a new «disadvantage» league table headline measure this year.

By using performance metrics that actually measure academic achievement and cost - effectiveness and by observing student outcomes, the documentary shows clearly that a headline «87 percent of students earn high school diploma, «even though correct, should be rewritten «given high school diploma»:

Last year, Schools Week revealed how school network partnership PiXL encouraged the use of obscure qualifications to boost pupil attainment and headline performance measures.