Sentences with phrase «high data read»

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China's testing was limited to Shanghai students, a narrow scope Lusardi likened to the U.S. testing only students in Washington, D.C. Still, China and other Asian countries typically rank among the top five for other school subjects — and OECD data showed some positive correlation between financial literacy skills and high performance in mathematics and reading.

He explained that some time ago he was conducting an empirical study of street prostitutes in the city of Chicago, and, through a connection at a company he was consulting with, met a high - end call girl who had read «Freakonomics,» and who was willing to help him with his study by providing data.

So we hired a computer analyst that could help us you know mine through data and we came up with some very simple metrics for good, you know, what's a good business, and if you read through Buffett's letters, it's very clear, he is looking for businesses that earn high returns on tangible capital.

Russia's oil production held onto an 11 - month high in April, flat compared to March and above its quota under the OPEC / non-OPEC deal for a second consecutive month, according to data Continue Reading

Wages are grinding higher and one - off factors, notably an adjustment to how wireless data costs are measured, will wash out of inflation readings.

The Pound got some relief from UK construction data, with a solid rebound from March's 47 reading to a 52.5 print last month, well ahead of expectations and the highest reading since November last year.

Using Thomson Reuters news sentiment scores for over 3.6 million high - frequency news articles applicable to the U.S. stock market and monthly data for the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) and LEI spanning 2003 through 2010, he finds that: Keep Reading

That is the highest reading since the agency began compiling the data in 1990.

Continue reading «Francis Maude MP: Our plans for government transparency continue apace - but we must uphold the highest possible standards of personal data protection»»

Toward High School Biology is designed to align closely with a new set of science education standards, called the Next Generation Science Standards, which were developed with help from 26 states and organizations like AAAS and the National Research Council, in an effort to teach students to read scientific texts, analyze data and construct coherent explanations of scientific phenomena.

«For chloroplast genome recovery from total DNA sequence data, the deliberate identification of reads that represent chloroplast DNA inserts into the nuclear genome allowed us to attain a higher - quality chloroplast genome assembly in a time - and cost - effective way,» Garaycochea explains.

The device provides readings of daily glucose highs and lows, and it also integrates trends in the data, which can then be downloaded onto a computer.

It scans a very broad area of the genome (508 genes and more than two million base pairs or letters of the genome, i.e.. A, T, C, and G) with high accuracy (each region of the genome is sequenced or «read» 60,000 times), yielding about 100 times more data than other sequencing approaches.

«Clinicians should use as many data points as available to identify and document the presence of malnutrition... A standardized diagnostic approach will also inform the prediction of the human and financial responsibilities and costs associated with the prevention and treatment of undernutrition in this vulnerable population, and help to further ensure the provision of high - quality, cost - effective nutrition care,» the statement reads.

We have recently developed hybrid assembly methods that use a combination of short and long reads to produce remarkably high - quality assemblies from whole - genome shotgun data.

If you are new to this saga make sure you read Tau II Abstract: The successful detection is reported of radial - velocity variations due to orbital motion of the substellar companion of the star tau Boötis, from data obtained with a small aperture (0.4 - m) telescope and a fibre - fed high resolution spectrograph.

The R&D 100 award - winning Empyrean X-ray Diffraction (XRD) System combines ease of use with permanently aligned optics and stages, highest data quality and ultimately flexibility to perform the most types of diffraction and scattering ex... Read more...

Modern memory chips have many requirements: They have to read and write data at high speed and hold as much as possible.

New holographic data storage medium could enable wearable technology that captures and stores detailed 3 - D images As we generate more and more data, the need for high - density data storage th... Read more

As a member of the Recoilers, your mission is to travel through time by way of wormholes, collect data or high value targets, and bring them back to HQ while merking any fool... [Read More]

Microsoft Excel required A new set of data every time the file is opened 7 different topics of data ideal for making line and column graphs Plant growth, Daily temperatures, Pages read, Favourite colours Favourite food, Favourite board game, Favourite footbal team Use the data also, to create your own problem solving questions: highest, lowest, ordering... Project on the whiteboard or photocopy and distribute A versatile and visual resource which the students really enjoy working on

Since the mid-1990s, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) has required all districts to submit data that include demographic information, attendance rates, and behavioral outcomes, yearly test scores in math and reading for grades 3 through 8, and subject - specific tests for higher grades.

High - quality implementation data will be collected in all three phases to ensure fidelity of implementation, understand how key stakeholders use data in making decisions about expansion, and understand how a non-profit organization like CIS can successfully facilitate scale - up of READS across districts.

The data shows that 10 - year - olds who enjoy reading have a reading age 1.3 years higher than their peers who don't enjoy reading, rising to 2.1 years for 12 - year - olds and 3.3 years for 14 - year - olds.

Like reading for pleasure, an enjoyment of writing has been linked to higher student achievement, but new data from the UK show children and young people's enjoyment of writing is declining.

If one looks at the data for elementary and middle schools separately, however, it appears that in the higher grades, charters have a positive impact in reading on higher - income students relative to the district schools.

Data also show that students in the reduced - size classrooms had higher standardized test scores in reading and mathematics than did students in the control group.»

Data from 22,000 children involved in this study of the kindergarten class of 1998 — 99 show that, after controlling for family income, children who attended more academically oriented preschools had significantly higher scores in reading, math, and general knowledge when tested in the fall of their kindergarten year than children in preschool settings without academic content.

High - poverty schools can meet student, professional, and system learning agendas by strengthening instructional framework, targeted interventions, reading proficiency, reflective practice, and data - based inquiry.

West's data on Florida includes annual FCAT math and reading test scores as well as two behavioral outcomes: days absent and a measure of whether they dropped out of high school by grade 10.

And the NAEP data are clear, if not as dramatic as some selected state data: boys, on average, perform less well than girls on tests of reading and writing skills and low - income boys do less well than higher - income boys.

Newly built to support college and career readiness standards, the bank spans grades 1 — 12 in reading and math and helps districts build assessments that produce high - quality data about student performance and match the level of rigor and item types found on statewide assessments.

In Duval County, Florida, posting scores in a data room helped school officials see the need to focus more on high school reading skills.

Maryland's scores on a national reading test may have been inflated because the state's schools excluded a higher percentage of special - education students than any other state, according to data from the U.S. Department of Education.

Since 2005, U.S. high school seniors have made slight gains in both their reading and math skills, according to new data released by the U.S. Department of Education.

Our Response to Intervention (RtI) Team and Behavior Instructional Leadership Team (BILT) paid close attention to individual student data through our school's RtI framework, providing flexible, «just in time,» high - quality, math, reading and social emotional learning interventions implemented with fidelity.

A friend of mine, a professor at Ohio State University, read one of those reports that used federally - produced statistics on high school completion and warned me against using such data.

It also doubled down on high stakes testing, teaching to the test, grinding the curriculum down to math and reading, disrespecting teachers, data mining and shaming schools whose students struggle daily with poverty by labeling them failures.

Data - driven decision - making within a professional learning community: Assessing the predictive qualities of curriculum - based measurements to a high - stakes, state test of reading achievement at the elementary level.

The program helps districts improve reading, writing, and math instruction and use data systems to identify students who are at - risk of dropping out of school, enabling students to improve their performance, stay in school, and put themselves on a path to high school graduation and beyond.

The idea, I suppose, was that our reading achievement data wasn't as high as we wanted it to be.

Delaporte pointed to Department of Public Instruction data that shows less than 40 percent of Madison students have tested proficient in reading in recent years — slightly higher than the statewide average.

It was the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) that required schools, for the first time, to report truancy data to the federal government, alongside annual test scores in reading and math, as well as high school graduation rates.

Reading achievement data for those homerooms that year were high, and the teachers gave much of the credit to the program.

As part of a high school reform initiative, 10th grade English language arts teachers and literacy coaches worked with a data coach to define essential questions about students» reading performance.

Students attending private schools receiving taxpayer - funded vouchers in a new statewide program did not score as high overall as public school students on state tests in reading and math, according to data released Tuesday by the Department of Public Instruction.

The descriptive analysis of the data reveal that GE Model Schools maintain the higher mean pass rates in third grade math and reading despite higher student to teachers ratios, teacher to administrator ratios, and special education populations as well as lower rates of spending on instructional supports.

A new data study shows that third graders who can't read proficiently are unlikely to graduate from high school in New York City.

We must take care that the ready availability of data on reading and math scores for grades 3 through 8 or on high school graduation rates — all of which provide useful information — do not become streetlights that distract more than they illuminate.

The newest data find Kentucky students already in the Top 20 in reading, science, graduation rates, and completion of associate degrees, and on track for top 20 in fourth grade mathematics and high school graduates going on to college.