Sentences with phrase «in grades as»

It reflects in your Grades as you start slipping on them.

A spokesperson from the FLDOE responded to our questions regarding the 2017 pass / fail rates with a month old press release that touted Florida student progress in some grades as most improved nationwide according to test results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

What matters for this analysis is not which student was assigned to which teacher within the grade, but how the movement of teachers has altered the quality of teaching in that grade as a whole.

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In order to come up with 10 names, we included six stocks with debt ratings as low as BBB +, which is still investment grade, albeit at the lower end of the scale.

Just as the streaming service can predict whether someone will enjoy a Judd Apatow movie, D2L's Brightspace platform can forecast the grade a user will receive in a biology course.

Just as the streaming service can predict whether someone will enjoy a Judd Apatow movie, Brightspace can forecast the grade a user will receive in a biology course and customize the learning experience to increase her odds of getting an A. Welcome to the future of school.

How it Innovates: While most competing teaching platforms offer the same features as they did 15 years ago (like delivering quizzes and publishing grades), D2L is already leading a major shift in the industry: It's harnessing data and analytics to become the Netflix of education.

Such factors include, among others, general business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties; the actual results of current and future exploration activities; the actual results of reclamation activities; conclusions of economic evaluations; meeting various expected cost estimates; changes in project parameters and / or economic assessments as plans continue to be refined; future prices of metals; possible variations of mineral grade or recovery rates; the risk that actual costs may exceed estimated costs; failure of plant, equipment or processes to operate as anticipated; accidents, labour disputes and other risks of the mining industry; political instability; delays in obtaining governmental approvals or financing or in the completion of development or construction activities, as well as those factors discussed in the section entitled «Risk Factors» in the Company's Annual Information Form for the year ended December 31, 2017 dated March 15, 2018.

Tracey Gordon, who taught Tsarnaev in fifth and sixth grade at a Cambridge school, described him as an exceptionally intelligent child who easily mastered English after arriving in the United States from Russia and «was eager to learn whatever school had to offer.»

As disclosed in its most recent NI 43 - 101 report measured grades at the SGX Ying mine are 845g / t for silver.

Just as you were taught in your second - grade English class, your presentation should have an obvious opening, a body, and a close.

Liew said that with the wide variations in credit quality across emerging markets, from non-investment grade countries such as Argentina and Venezuela, to single - A rated ones, such as Malaysia, GIC was looking for «idiosyncratic situations,» in emerging markets which were likely to converge with lower - yielding developed markets.

Brendan Kennedy, the cofounder of Privateer Holdings, which owns various marijuana companies like Marley Natural and Canadian pharmaceutical - grade cannabis producer Tilray, says his companies are expanding abroad while the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the Food and Drug Administration debate whether or not to treat the plant as a medicine or keep it in the same category as heroin.

With the scandal set to hurt profits and as funding costs climb, the debt load will likely increase beyond 5 times Ebitda, Mizuho Securities USA said Thursday in a note to clients, adding its internal credit rating on BRF is now three steps below investment grade.

Amazon has been an infrequent issuer in the investment - grade bond market, with only $ 7.8 billion of debt outstanding as of June 30.

That means companies in the U.S. have to say that they respect EU - grade privacy rules, even if their country as a whole does not.

«Particularly with oil prices hitting lows at some point in the first quarter... lots of sub investment - grade firms could be under a lot of stress, and for those with stronger balance sheets, those companies could take this as an opportunity to buy and acquire assets,» Deshpande said in a phone interview.

High - grade military explosives used to build the bomb were sent by air cargo from Turkey as part of a plot inspired and directed by the militant Islamic State group, police Deputy Commissioner National Security Michael Phelan said in August.

A previous report released in 2012 revealed a long history at UNC of classes in the Department of Afro and African - American Studies that never met, as well as a culture of changing and improving grades.

Beyond the requirements that liquidity and regulators impose on us, we will purchase currency - related securities only if they offer the possibility of unusual gain — either because a particular credit is mispriced, as can occur in periodic junk - bond debacles, or because rates rise to a level that offers the possibility of realizing substantial capital gains on high - grade bonds when rates fall.

When the team looked at these numbers — average rate of improvement between third and eighth grade in math and reading — many schools that are traditionally thought of as «bad» suddenly seemed good.

As such, we believe management's financial discipline in expanding by acquisition will be a key factor in maintaining the investment - grade rating.

Gorsuch's commitments to interpreting the law as «the words on the paper say» and not over-criminalizing innocent conduct were on full display in a 2015 decision in which he used «plain old grade school grammar» to determine the legal penalties imposed on defendants accused of using a firearm «during and in relation to any crime of violence of drug trafficking crime.»

When Barnett asked her what had gone wrong, she replied that she had suddenly felt as if she was back in 10th grade being scrutinized by her horrifying teacher.

Data visualization as a concept, of course, is hardly new (ask anyone who used crayons to color in a pie chart in grade school).

As I've stated before, failure happens to everyone — whether in grade school, our personal lives or our professional lives.

The high - grade bond market is springing back to life as corporations race to issue new debt and get out in front of a possible Fed interest rate hike.

The high - grade cocaine was hidden on ships harbored in the Black Sea port of Constanta and registered as 320 tons of bananas.

As a sixth grader, Daniele benefits from having the same teacher she had in grade five, one who already knows her strengths.

Through the years, the Kelley School has fashioned a reputation as a true MBA innovator, from being one of the few programs that give a single grade for the entire core curriculum to having a series of first - year academies that provide experiential learning, consulting projects and coaching to students interested in six core areas that range from capital markets and strategic finance to consulting and supply chain management.

Considering all this, if a Ph.D student submitted the CEA analysis as a term paper in public finance, I would be hard pressed to give it a passing grade.

In addition, while the Barclays Aggregate Index is dominated by Treasuries, it also includes agency mortgage securities as well as investment grade debt.

This grade was awarded as a result of the budget's focus on incentives to promote small and medium - sized businesses, improve gender diversity in business, and bolster national infrastructure.

The new kit is designed to work with the Schoolwork app that allows teachers to store assignments in the cloud, track student progress as they carry out their homework, and grade their works within the app, TNW reports.

A DMF invests primarily in investment - grade municipal bonds whose maturities are roughly the same as the end date of the fund itself.

In fact, as Graph 9 shows, high - grade corporates can borrow funds in the market as cheaply as banks themselveIn fact, as Graph 9 shows, high - grade corporates can borrow funds in the market as cheaply as banks themselvein the market as cheaply as banks themselves.

We see opportunities in dividend growth stocks, EM equities and debt as well as in investment - grade credit.

Western allies press Trump to maintain nuclear deal with Iran: Reuters US intelligence monitors Iranian cargo shipments into Syria: CNN A trade war is a major risk for China's debt - ridden economy: CNBC Federal judge orders gov» t must accept new DACA immigration applications: WaPo Unification of Koreas still unlikely as leaders prepare to meet: Reuters US Consumer Confidence Index rebounded in April after March decline: CB New home sales in US increased to 4 - month high in March: MarketWatch Richmond Fed Mfg Index turns negative for first time since 2016: Bond Buyer S&P Case - Shiller Home Price Index surged in Feb, up 6.3 % y - o - y: CNBC Federal Housing Finance Agency: US house prices continued to rise in Feb: HW Corp bonds with lowest investment - grade rating look vulnerable: Bloomberg 10 - year Treasury yield reaches 3.0 % for first time since 2014: CNN Money

More than 95 percent of NEARX is invested in munis that hold between an A and AAA investment - grade rating as of March 31.

Investing in high yield fixed income securities, otherwise known as «junk bonds», is considered speculative and involves greater risk of loss of principal and interest than investing in investment grade fixed income securities.

Indeed, if we look at projects that opened in just the last two or three years, we see that they're of lower grade, meaning they don't produce nearly as much as older, easy - to - mine gold deposits.

More broadly, he says that while corporate credit may benefit from aspects of tax reform (i.e., better earnings growth from the corporate tax cuts, modestly lower investment grade supply as repatriation becomes reality), he does not see tax cuts at this point in the cycle as a bullish driver of credit spreads.

In both ways, the Hussman Funds can contribute to a well - constructed, diversified portfolio that includes U.S. equities, international equities, U.S. Treasury securities, and as appropriate, precious metals shares, U.S. agency securities, investment grade corporate bonds, and Treasury inflation - protected securities.

«The mother told us that she sees Teddy [a CHP] as a kind of doctor to her and that she has known her for a long time because Teddy was her teacher in grade school.»

Wealth managers suggested reducing investment in government securities significantly, to 42.8 percent in November from 48.2 percent, while upgrading investment grade and high - yield allocations as they look for better returns.

Barely three years later he was named as a finalist for Fixed Income Manager of the Decade — a title that eventually went to Bill Gross — when, in a move that shocked the industry, he was summarily fired from TCW (makes you wonder about those stewardship grades).

Diamonds are another example; they vary too widely in quality to achieve the volumes of scale necessary to sell them as graded commodities.

Remember, the RootMetrics reports that rate T - Mobile so poorly include lagging grades for voice and text use, while in speed and data they show T - Mobile as a respectable third place.

Pending specific application of these proceeds, we expect to invest them primarily in short term, investment - grade interest - bearing securities such as money market accounts, certificates of deposit, commercial paper and guaranteed obligations of the U.S. government.

The Sabans met in seventh grade, were married by 21, and spent the next few decades moving — at least fifteen times — as Saban worked his way through the ranks as an assistant.