Sentences with phrase «higher stakes races»

And 2013 could be a proving ground for Republicans trying to make the Vito Lopez scandal and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's poor handling of the case a political issue heading into the higher stakes races next year.

The Kingdom and Captain America: Civil War star plays the eponymous wheelman, a getaway driver thrust into a high stakes race - to - survive after a bank robbery goes terribly wrong.

He plays the eponymous driver, who finds himself thrust into a high stakes race - to - survive after a bank robbery goes terribly wrong.

But this is easily forgiven when the threat resurfaces near the end resulting in a page - turning high stakes race that rewards the reader with a very satisfying conclusion.

Drag your career into high stake racing.

Not exact matches

The stakes are high, with a space race for a new era viewed as a linchpin to help make life better here on earth.

The stakes are also high for Republicans in Congress, where Republicans on Tuesday night watched their party peers in state and local races get ousted in a string of election defeats.

«The stakes are so high, I really wish we would have red flagged the race, gone, reviewed it and gotten it right.

But for some pilots, like «FlyingBear», the total immersion and higher stakes makes the races that much more fun: «If I'm racing, it's a completely different mindset.

Assuming neither of the horses is scratched, ESPN will air SportsCenter from Saratoga on the morning of the race as well as a three - hour SportsCenter from there starting at 5 p.m. ESPN had slotted one hour for the Travers but expanded its coverage after the Belmont Stakes, which drew 24 million viewers on NBC — the highest - rated race in more than a decade.

HORSE RACING — GULCH ($ 3.20), Jose Santos up, won the first of the weekend's three Derby preps, the Bay Shore Stakes at Aqueduct, by one length over High Brite.

Arazi had already won three Grade I stakes in France — he was, by consensus, the finest juvenile to race in Europe in at least a decade — when the colt's American co-owner, Allen Paulson, took a high - risk adventure by sending him to Louisville to meet America's best juveniles.

But we serve neither ourselves nor our children when we think of either anxiety or high stakes testing as an arms race to be won, rather than an affliction to be avoided.

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New York State has agreed to adopt high - stakes testing and controversial teacher evaluation systems tied to Common Core State Standards for a one - time installment of $ 700 millions in federal Race to the Top grant money.

Befitting a high - stakes and expensive state Senate race with a lot on the line for both parties, the attacks based on familiar issues made by both sides were with high intensity.

* It's another night of high - stakes debates, with candidates facing off in the Ohio and Connecticut Senate races and in the California, Colorado, Minnesota and Hawaii gubernatorial contests.

It is a very tight race for high stakes, which the also - rans may well decide.

The stakes are high for Rep. Kendrick Meek (D), who has remained a distant third in recent polling; state Dems held a conference call today to push back against rumors that he's dropping out of the race.

New York is a big prize in the delegate race: New York has the nation's second - highest total of Democratic delegates (291) at stake, and fourth - highest total (95) of Republican delegates.

Voters head to the polls in New York and Colorado on Tuesday to cast ballots in some high - stakes races that are not to be missed.

With the balance of power in the Senate at stake, the 2012 Republican and Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate in Montana spent an average of $ 41.61 per vote — one of the highest of any federal race in the country.

On February 5, Senate Democrats sent out a fundraising letter that cited the race's high stakes.

The 19th district has been the site of several high stakes House races in recent election cycles, several of which featured candidates whose ties to the district had been criticized for being relatively new.

Despite the high stakes, the GOP is optimistic about their chances — especially after Democrats suffered a series of setbacks, as viable candidates were prevented from running or dropped out of the race.

Instead of high - stakes tests to define high - poverty schools as failing and to justify their conversion to privately - managed charter schools, we need to desegregate schools by race and class and provide equitable and adequate funding of all public schools.

Hawkins» opposition to Common Core and Race to the Top, as well as his platform to fully fund schools in an equitable manner has caught the attention of teachers and parents around the state who are distressed about the state of their schools due to high stakes testing, unworkable and narrow standards and a lack of funding.

About this Book: Rare: The High - Stakes Race to Satisfy Our Need for the Scarcest Metals on Earth Keith Veronese Prometheus Books, 2015

In the high - stakes race to realize fusion energy, a smaller lab may be putting the squeeze on the big boys.

With medical facilities potentially far away and no existing tools to prevent deterioration, medics are in a high - stakes race against the clock.

Rare The High - Stakes Race to Satisfy Our Need for the Scarcest Metals on Earth Keith Veronese Prometheus, Amherst, NY, 2015 Hardback: 270 pp., illus.

As athletes get ready to smash Olympic records in London, scientists are in a high - stakes race of their own to...

But when you toe the line for a big race or you're in the middle of a high - stakes game, are you able to stay connected with the present moment?

In highlighting the human element of the sport as well as the high - stakes, hair - raising reality of their exploits, debut director Richard De Aragues has crafted a film that transcends the bounds of traditional racing fans.

Two years later and fresh out of prison, Tobey is set on revenge with plans to take down Dino in the high - stakes De Leon race — the Super Bowl of underground racing.

• High - Stakes Rivalry — Racers are lone wolves out for their own glory; driving agile cars built for high speed racing and epic chaHigh - Stakes Rivalry — Racers are lone wolves out for their own glory; driving agile cars built for high speed racing and epic chahigh speed racing and epic chases.

More elaborately, Ficarra and Requa give huge scenes to veteran actors B.D. Wong, (Law & Order: SVU) as a high - stakes gambler at the (don't call it a Super Bowl, because the NFL wasn't licensed) AFFA League Championship, and Gerald McRaney (Major Dad) as security agent Owens, a push broom - mustached advisor to a European racing millionaire (Rodrigo Santoro) who has hired Nick to swindle a competitor and ensure his team's victory.

Dwayne Johnson joins returning favorites Jordana Brewster, Chris «Ludacris» Bridges, Tyrese Gibson, Sung Kang, Gal Gadot, Matt Schulze, Tego Calderon and Don Omar for this ultimate high - stakes race.

Summative assessments, or high stakes tests and projects, are what the eagle eye of our profession is fixated on right now, so teachers often find themselves in the tough position of racing, racing, racing through curriculum.

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.

With the increasingly high stakes generated by inclusion under the Race to the Top, people have intensively searched the existing research evidence — sometimes with the intent of understanding the potential impacts but perhaps more frequently with an eye to supporting one or the other political side.

Andy, who is credited with authoring a Brookings white paper that helped inspire RTT, points out that «In the case of Race to the Top, while it wasn't a disaster, there were enough problems that some people favorably inclined... are now asking if the federal government, with all the political and substantive constraints upon it, can really run a reliable high - stakes competition.»

High stakes testing, school choice / charter schools, Race to the Top, No Child Left Behind all fall into the failure arena.

Past federal policies, including No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, pushed corporate - styled, top - down reforms such as high - stakes testing and draconian accountability schemes.

In all, with the stakes high and changes already underway in public education, the governor's race has brought a clear choice between two distinct approaches as to how to improve and support the schools.

Race to Nowhere is a documentary that describes the troubled high - stakes testing emphasis in schools today.

The study found a significant number of students suffering fro both stress and anxiety in the race to succeed on high - stakes tests.

And, as I've said before, there is plenty of room to hold Obama accountable for «Race to the Top,» which follows on the same path as No Child Left Behind's era of high - stakes standardized tests.

In Reign of Error, Ravitch makes clear that, contrary to the statements being made about disastrous public school test scores and graduation rates, these figures are the highest they've ever been in history — and that dropout rates are at their lowest, this according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a no - stakes test for children of all races.

Obama's «Race to the Top» policy — the brainchild of Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, the former «CEO» of Chicago Public Schools — further codifies high - stakes testing by allocating scarce federal resources to those states most aggressively implementing these so - called accountability measures.