Sentences with phrase «improvement efforts produced»

The research literature suggests that prior school improvement efforts produced mixed, and often disappointing, results.

Cullman County, Alabama Cullman County Schools, like all school districts, needs to ensure that improvement efforts produce gains in teaching and student outcomes.

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Its present success is due to the fact that the collective effort and strong centralized authority associated with it are producing dramatic improvements in the economic, political, and military position of nations hitherto impeded by traditional systems unsuited to industrial civilization.

Along the way, certainly, those efforts have produced individual successes — schools and programs that make a genuine difference for some low - income students — but they have led to little or no improvement in the performance of low - income children as a whole.

This project will discover genes that control cuticle development and function in corn, evaluate the potential for improvement of the leaf cuticle to help produce crops with increased drought tolerance and resistance to diseases, and generate tools to guide these efforts.

Although quality improvements in existing programs and system - building efforts to coordinate services and enhance access are clearly important, they are unlikely to be enough to produce breakthrough impacts for children who face the cumulative burdens of low family income, limited parent education, and social exclusion.

RELs produce relevant and useable research, develop tools for educators that reflect the best available research findings, and offer training and other supports to states and districts to aid their school improvement efforts.

The RELs produce tools for educators that reflect the best available research findings, as well as provide training to states and districts to aid their school improvement efforts.

Beginning with Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, nationwide efforts to dismantle segregation and integrate schools through anti-discrimination lawsuits, although modestly successful on occasion, have ultimately foundered, producing neither dramatic racial integration nor significant improvements in academic outcomes for black students.

He describes how administrators in urban districts like Cincinnati, Ohio; Springfield, Massachusetts; and Hillsborough County, Florida, have reached out to teachers and teacher unions to develop collaborative school improvement efforts that have produced impressive results.

One of the largest efforts was put into ePUB export: Not only do we get fixed layout ePUB3s, but there have been many improvements to tables [stroke, fill, and more]-- especially in fixed layout where they can output virtually anything InDesign can produce.

«Our early efforts to generalize our climate model for other planets have identified several such problems and allowed us to go back and make improvements that produce a better Earth model.»

MarketingSherpa speculates that the reason for broader testing is that «tweaking» elements based on testing can produce dramatic improvements in campaign results and has proven to be well worth the time and effort required.

Virtually every recent innovation in the legal services market — from automation to process improvement to multi-sourcing — has operated to reduce the amount of time and effort required to produce and deliver legal services.