Sentences with phrase «in most other»

What's especially encouraging is that Hispanic students, who make up a larger share of the student population in Texas than in most other states, demonstrated some of the biggest gains.

In New York, as in most other states, pensions are based on an employee's years of service and final average salary, and teachers, principals, and superintendents all participate in the same retirement system.

I learned more in that electrifying and bizarre class than in most other classes because he taught us with all the enthusiasm and love for the subject he possessed.

American 4th graders, meanwhile, did not show progress, despite spending more time on reading lessons than their peers in most other countries.

But in a new article for Education Next, Michael J. Petrilli and Brandon L. Wright of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute show that «absolute» poverty rates in the United States do not exceed those in most other industrialized nations.

Figure 1 shows that the school year in the U.S. is shorter than in most other countries for which the OECD collects data.

The spread of the high school was considerably faster in most other regions of the country, and graduation and enrollment rates were higher.

In California, as in most other states, alternative certification was created primarily to address teacher shortages.

The monopoly status of public education has insulated it from the difficult adjustments occurring in most other sectors of the economy, including many sectors that rely on unionized labor.

But even if this were true, it would not explain why in Finland students learn better in their schools than in most other places in the world.

Just a year ago Common Core was untouchable in Indiana, as in most other places.

He did not specify how long that school year should be, however he noted that U.S. students attend classes, on average, about a month less than children in most other advanced countries.

Welcome to the state of Idyllia, a community in which — as in most other communities today — student performance is closely monitored.

So, there was an assumption being made that because the attrition of early career teachers was high in most other countries that were a part of this study, therefore it must also be the case in Australia.

More than 1,200 teachers have graduated from the program, and an ongoing assessment reveals that only 10 percent of graduates leave teaching after three years, compared to more than half in most other urban schools.

Students in the United States spend much less time in school than do students in most other industrialized nations, and the school year has been essentially unchanged for more than a century.

Take special education, which at more than $ 24,000 per student is far more expensive in New York than in most other states.

Even so, the state ranks ninth out of the states on both the coefficient of variation and the McLoone Index, suggesting that the finance inequities across districts in North Carolina are less than in most other states.

Elementary, middle, and high school students in Utah are less likely to attend small schools than are students in most other states.

The fact that Texas is a right - to - work state also meant that the union had less leverage than in most other large districts.

Moreover, the statewide schedule is typical of teacher compensation in most other public school systems nationwide.

On the tests administered by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, known as the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), the math performance of U.S. 15 - year - olds trails that of their peers in most other industrialized nations.

Whether measured on a per - pupil basis or as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product, support for public schools is stronger in the United States than in most other nations.

The report also found that teachers are working longer hours with bigger classes than in most other developed countries.

We have deep, persistent achievement gaps, larger than in most other states.

As in most other school districts, the teachers in higher - poverty schools in our sample have fewer years of experience than their counterparts in lower - poverty schools (11.8 years vs. 14.0 years).

A higher percentage of students in West Virginia attend small schools at all three levels — elementary, middle, and high school — than in most other states.

As the recent comparative studies have shown, these results pale in comparison to Boston's high - performing charter sector but are stronger than those in most other urban public school systems.

Louisiana ranks 10th out of the 50 states on the McLoone Index, and eighth on the coefficient of variation — two other measures of finance equity that show the state has smaller funding disparities across districts than in most other states.

Nonetheless, the gains among initial 3rd graders were very substantial, about 0.36 standard deviations between 1998 and 2009, and more than enough to justify Florida's claims that its gains have outpaced those in most other states.

In most other cases, the role fell to the Head Teacher, Deputy Head Teacher or business manager.

This will give fodder to the crowd that claims that defined benefit plans do a better job of retaining employees than 401k - style defined contribution plans and support those seeking to preserve the status quo in most other states.

I've highlighted quality writing in all of these entries (because I think that is a major factor) but with Deus Ex it's a bigger feat than in most other cases due to the ease with which the topics it discussed could have pushed the game into pretentiousness.

While the locale work, tech specs and ensemble of well - known actors elevate the material, it sure does feel like a TV movie in most other respects.

(My predictions in most other categories can be found at GoldDerby.com.)

One terrible portrayal is that by Thandie Newton (Run Fatboy Run, Norbit), who is a pretty appealing actress in most other roles, as Condoleezza Rice.

It's a shame that the violence does mar the film, as it is mildly enjoyable in most other respects, with fun characters and interesting toys for Richie to play with.

But — as usual — they deviated in most other ways.

And Dominik somehow maintains a paradoxical tone in which every scene is at once intensely heightened and utterly realistic — the stick - up, in particular, makes armed - robbery scenes in most other movies look false by comparison, without sacrificing tension.

He's his usual smarmy self, but with a poorly written or poorly acted (it's hard to tell the difference) flare thrown in where he's not the playboy he is in most other movies.

Quiet music, generic sound effects, and gentle engine whirring are nowhere near as satisfying as the audio in most other similar games.

Similar issues of remediation arise in most other art forms — think of audiobooks, live music vs. recorded music, an original painting vs. a reproduction, and so forth.

Nevertheless, Knightley owns the role in most other respects.

It's a shame too, because the four principal actors, Christina Ricci, Johnny Depp, Cate Blanchett, and John Turturro would cast an imposing presence in most other films.

The film's sequel Pacific Rim: Uprising offers some of the same visual concepts but lacks in most other areas.

It happens in most other forms of entertainment, whether relevant or not.

The furniture, in this game moves with more personality (and is less wooden) than the people in most other 2011 games.

But in most other cases, your favorite character will get some business to do.

Last year its choice for best actress was a tie between eventual Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence for «Silver Linings Playbook» and nominee Emmanuelle Riva for «Amour,» but its three previous best - actress winners were Yoon Jeong - hee for «Poetry,» Kim Hye - ja for «Mother» and Yolande Moreau for «Seraphine,» all of whom went unmentioned in most other year - end awards.

This does sound more overtly plotty in a trivial comic book way than other recent Marvel films, and a more epic sweep is promised, but we hope that Taylor retains the better parts of the first film too; the humor, and the romance, which worked a little better than in most other Marvel pictures.