Sentences with phrase «higher grades mean»

At the end of each battle, you're given a grade, and higher grades mean better rewards.

There are 4 grades of patellar luxation, and a higher grade means that the condition is more severe.

Not exact matches

Before long she told me she wanted to be a social worker, and not just any, but in a branch that needed a law degree, meaning law school (hence the desire for the high grade).

Just because you have been given a senior role with a higher pay grade and more responsibility doesn't mean that you have suddenly become an expert on every aspect of the organization you're running.

Asked to grade four key proposals on a scale of one to seven, with seven meaning «strongly agree,» the business leaders gave all the reforms a ranking of 5.5 or higher.

By secular reflation, we mean at least a decade in which short - and long - term interest rates stay habitually below nominal GDP growth and high grade bonds are not really bonds any more: delivering trend returns that are close to zero or even negative.

When there is a downgrade from investment - grade to high - yield status, this inevitably means managers with mandates permitting only investment - grade bonds will have to indiscriminately liquidate the downgraded bond.

This means our infrastructure has higher grade security than most, if not all, cryptocurrency service providers worldwide.

The fact that an eternal object can be treated as a logical individual and included as a term in another higher grade object means that the latter includes it in its «essence.»

Here's what I mean: The worst grade I ever got in high school was in driver's ed.

For Whitehead, mentality is by no means limited to those high - grade occasions that constitute souls.

In New York City, it is generously estimated that one out of ten poor children beginning first grade will graduate from high school prepared for a real college education --» real» meaning not majoring in «black studies» or some other pseudo-discipline, and not dropping out in the first or second year.

Our 100 % pure Himalayan salt blend of superior grade crystals means a higher quality, better tasting salt.

The games on Oct. 2 will mark the mid-season point of the high school football season, which means there's no better time to for a look at who is making the grade.

The new EPPP means that every football club running a youth academy will be graded from Category 1 to Category 4 (1 being the highest Category).

While even with a small cold your child may get a low grade fever, with a fever that strikes too high it can mean danger.

Featuring a clever suction base made from FDA approved food - grade silicone, Avanchy bowls and plates stick to high chairs and tables effortlessly, meaning there's less mess to clean up later.

This process begins with the hands - on experience of meaning in kindergarten, progresses through the exploration of meaning in the grades, and climaxes in the search for individual meaning in high school.

Most of these activities meant real hands - on experience, utilising the instruments in high - grade clean rooms, and wearing the full stylish attire of hat and boots!

In addition to being made form low grade meat, the floury bread roll is made from very refined wheat and all the mayonnaise, cheese and other condiments mean that while a burger is high in protein, it's also high in carbs and fat too.

We appear to get a chronic low - grade acidosis with advancing age because our kidneys start to decline, and because we may be eating an acid - promoting diet — which means a diet high in fish, pork, chicken, and cheese, and low in fruits and vegetables.

Many consumer - grade spigots that come installed on widely available beverage dispensers aren't actually brew - safe spigots because they are made with toxic materials not meant to interact with the high acidity of Kombucha.

They are both medical grade honeys, which means that they have particularly high amounts of beneficial substances.

I'm Abby and I'm 30??? WHHHAAAA, where has the time gone?!!! I remember crying in 5th grade because I didn't want to go to outdoor camp in 6th grade because after outdoor camp meant middle school, then high school, then college, then marriage, then you're 30!!

For example, when I was prompted to look at the top women on The Grade, they all were white thin women with the «highest grades,» which meant special perks over the «lesser» members.

Entertainment One Canada's 2.40:1 Blu - ray is pretty much a direct port of the Summit release in the U.S. and that means we get a high grade image that captures the film's muted look quite accurately.

That's roughly equivalent to two grade levels, and means that students are coming into high school much better prepared than they were two decades ago.

English teacher Suzanne L. Schmitt shares a win - win strategy that allows students a chance to turn in a paper, participate in a quick review, and then swap that paper with a revision that improves on the first — and may even mean a higher grade.

As states across the U.S. move to adopt standardized tests as a means to determine grade promotion and school graduation, new research presented in the Harvard Educational Review shows that sole reliance on high - stakes tests as a graduation requirement may increase inequities among students by both race and gender.

In contrast, school populations closer to the high end of the performance spectrum were only about 5 percent African American, 10 percent Hispanic, and 16 percent poor, with a mean cohort size of only 114 and a mean pass rate of 84 percent on the 8th - grade math exam.

In the third grade, I learned what it means to «take the high road.»

Half the kids were somewhere between first - and third - grade reading level coming into high school, which means for eight years, they've been in heavy neglect.

When a high school is producing seniors who read at an 8th - grade level, it means everybody is moving on at the same time, whether they are ready or not.

Moreover, children who fall substantially behind in reading in the early grades are unlikely to catch up — meaning that the long process of dropping out of high school often starts in the early years.

This means higher grades and happier students (and teachers)!

«This is likely to mean that the percentage of pupils achieving higher grades as a percentage of the total, will be lower.»

In practice, this means that high school teachers will set the «college - ready» bar every time they give students a grade of B - minus or better.

As Porter et al. note, «Whether these differences between Common Core and Massachusetts mean that Common Core represents a better curriculum is difficult to judge, although at least at grade 7 in [English language arts], there is a shift in the Common Core standards toward greater emphasis on higher cognitive demand.»

Using the most conservative 4 % voucher advantage from our study, that means that the 801 students in ninth grade in the voucher program in 2006 included 32 extra graduates who wouldn't have completed high school and gone to college if they had instead been required to attend MPS.

The second is that the Common Core movement muddles through, meaning that we end up, eventually, with a nearly national set of standards for what students need to know and do at each grade, high quality assessments aligned to those standards, cut scores for proficiency on those assessments that are challenging and equal across the nation, and a set of meaningful carrots and sticks for holding educators accountable for preparing all their students for success.

When I was a junior in high school, our teacher's union declared an order for all the teachers in the district: they were to «work to rule,» which meant that they would not spend any time beyond the 40 hours indicated in their contract helping students or grading assignments.

He was lucky to have been the beneficiary of «outstanding» educators in his private K — 6 school located within the beltway of Washington, D.C., and the fact that his new school spanned grades three through 12 meant he would avoid making another transition once he reached high school.

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.

Solomon admits that BTR's commitment to high - need areas such as math and science means rejecting many candidates with impressive grades and leadership experience.

«Paper Swap» Strategy Helps Students Learn English teacher Suzanne L. Schmitt shares a win - win strategy that allows students a chance to turn in a paper, participate in a quick review, and then swap that paper with a revision that improves on the first and may even mean a higher grade.

Continuously enrolled means, for grades 3 - 8, students whose latest date of enrollment occurred after the date prescribed by the commissioner on which BEDS forms are required to be completed and, for grades 9 - 12, students in the high school cohort, as defined in paragraph (16) of this subdivision.

In a troubling picture of performance, the vast majority of Illinois students failed to reach the high academic bar on the new state PARCC exams, meaning they weren't on track academically for the next grade level, let alone for college or careers.

As the percentage of students reading at grade level changes little between 8th and 12th grades, it means that more than 90 percent of Black students in these states are unlikely to graduate from high school college - and career - ready.

Accountability groups shall mean, for each public school, school district and charter school, those groups of students for each grade level or annual high school cohort, as described in paragraph (16) of this subdivision comprised of: all students; students from major racial and ethnic groups, as set forth in subparagraph (bb)(2)(v) of this section; students with disabilities, as defined in section 200.1 of this Title, including, beginning with the 2009 - 2010 school year, students no longer identified as students with disabilities but who had been so identified during the preceding one or two school years; students with limited English proficiency, as defined in Part 154 of this Title, including, beginning with the 2006 - 2007 school year, a student previously identified as a limited English proficient student during the preceding one or two school years; and economically disadvantaged students, as identified pursuant to section 1113 (a)(5) of the NCLB, 20 U.S.C. section 6316 (a)(5)(Public Law, section 107 - 110, section 1113 [a][5], 115 STAT.

for all students in the eighth and higher grades, instruction in the history, meaning, significance and effect of the provisions of the Constitution of the United States and the amendments thereto, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the State of New York and the amendments thereto, as required by section 801 of the Education Law;