Sentences with phrase «in national comparisons»

Massachusetts» standards are the «gold standard» for states, and make it clear why Massachusetts students consistently rank first in national comparisons.

While Alabama's higher poverty rate puts it at something of a competitive disadvantage in national comparisons, a deeper look shows it's not Alabama's demographics skewing the results.

In national comparisons of charter laws, Medler said, Washington ranks near the top in terms of following advice and preparing to create a quality system.

On average, these principals reported engaging in practices associated with instructional leadership and organizational improvement at higher rates than principals in the national comparison group.

Not exact matches

Expert Market, a U.K. - based product comparison site, calculated the pay gap between genders in all 50 U.S. states and Washington, D.C., using wage data from the National Women's Law Centre.

But she does not discourage a comparison of her plight to that of Nancy Kerrigan, the figure skater who had to withdraw from a national championship in 1994 after being clubbed in the knee with a tire iron.

We've conducted this survey in the same manner for more than 30 years, and because it's consistently done the way it is, it gives an accurate national apples - to - apples comparison.

NEW YORK — As part of a new initiative to examine communities in more detail and enable locational comparisons, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York today released an interactive tool that provides information about home prices, distressed sales, delinquencies and foreclosures at the national, state and county levels.

National insurers include, but are not limited to: GEICO, Allstate, State Farm, MetLife, Nationwide, and regional insurance providers such as Quincy Mutual in our rate comparison.

The chart below, prepared by staff in our Economic area, undertakes a comparison of corporate sector profits in the national accounts as a share of GDP, for the US and Australia.

In an increasingly competitive investment landscape, the ability to interrogate market data flexibly and consistently can allow apples - to - apples comparisons across global, national or even neighborhood markets, providing investors with the tools to uncover value where few others may be looking.

Comparison based on Alliant Credit Union 1.50 % APY as of 05/01/2018 vs. the bank national average savings rate of.08 % APY as of 2018-05-01 sourced from National Association of Federal Credit Unions in cooperation with SNL Financial and Datatranational average savings rate of.08 % APY as of 2018-05-01 sourced from National Association of Federal Credit Unions in cooperation with SNL Financial and DatatraNational Association of Federal Credit Unions in cooperation with SNL Financial and Datatrac Corp..

In comparison to the global frame of reference that was emphasized in the last half century, the national level will have prioritIn comparison to the global frame of reference that was emphasized in the last half century, the national level will have prioritin the last half century, the national level will have priority.

Now, in the further interest of National Security» or, in the Fast and Furious matter, for reasons that remain unjustified and murky» it pleases some on the secularist left (even those who once fiercely opposed the very «Patriot Act» that seems almost tame by comparison) to cultivate a quiet disinterest as the government accrues ever more power, without so much as a «do what, now?»

It does not speak well of the USA compared to other developed nations, of the South in a national context, of Southern Baptists in comparison to other religious traditions.

These often receive little support in comparison with major national charities which are able to mount expensive advertising campaigns.

Thus the G.I. Bill, the Public Facilities Act, the National Defense Education Act, and the various forms of student aid initiated in the 1960s — BEOGs, SEOGs, Work - Study, Pell grants, etc. — have subsidized the survival of many colleges and universities, but inexorably they have served as well to make the grantee institutions more anxious to observe the laws and regulations of the State than the strictures of the Church whose sponsorship is, by comparison, so intangible.

For comparison, neighboring Honduras has an estimated 86,000 nationals allowed in the US under the program, while Nicaragua has 5,000.

Janssen has hit 27 in 34 league games in his debut season for Alkmaar, was prolific for the Dutch U21s & has now made two appearances for the full national team - drawing comparisons with all - time great, fox - in - the - box Ruud Van Nistelrooy.

For comparison, National League favorites have received the majority of moneyline tickets in 76.5 % of all interleague games.

Armchair Analyst: Toronto FC fall on their face in first leg vs. Chivas MLSsoccer.com The obvious comparison that sprang to mind in the immediate aftermath of Toronto FC's 2 - 1 home loss to Chivas in the first leg of the Concacaf Champions League final was the US national team's loss to Trinidad & Tobago back in October.

Night and day in comparison with marketed sack choices in the major national brand stores here in our community.

This rate is similar to the National Birth Center Study and to the low - risk hospital births used as a comparison group in the same study of 1.3 / 1,000 (0.7 / 1,000 excluding anomalies).

Public Health England's Child Health Profiles provide a picture of child health and wellbeing for each local authority in England using 32 key health indicators (including breastfeeding initiation and rates at 6 - 8 weeks), and enables comparison at local, regional and national levels.

Removing nationals of developing countries or refugees is a lot harder in comparison, which is why it's strange that intra-EU immigration is such a large issue.

In 2012, by comparison, the national debt is a side - issue — talk of income inequality and economic opportuity dominates our political discouse, a direct result of the Occupiers and the ruckus they were able to raise in Zucotti Square and similar encampments across the countrIn 2012, by comparison, the national debt is a side - issue — talk of income inequality and economic opportuity dominates our political discouse, a direct result of the Occupiers and the ruckus they were able to raise in Zucotti Square and similar encampments across the countrin Zucotti Square and similar encampments across the country.

Corruption Trials and Two Reform Reports Make the Case for Action Now In light of the corruption trials of two former legislative leaders taking place this week and New York State's D - minus grade in how it handles issues of integrity from a national comparison study, New York's leading good government groups today called upon the -LSB-..In light of the corruption trials of two former legislative leaders taking place this week and New York State's D - minus grade in how it handles issues of integrity from a national comparison study, New York's leading good government groups today called upon the -LSB-..in how it handles issues of integrity from a national comparison study, New York's leading good government groups today called upon the -LSB-...]

In light of the corruption trials of two former legislative leaders taking place this week and New York State's D - minus grade in how it handles issues of integrity from a national comparison study, New York's leading good government groups today called upon the New York State legislature and governor to complete the job of reforming our laws governing public ethicIn light of the corruption trials of two former legislative leaders taking place this week and New York State's D - minus grade in how it handles issues of integrity from a national comparison study, New York's leading good government groups today called upon the New York State legislature and governor to complete the job of reforming our laws governing public ethicin how it handles issues of integrity from a national comparison study, New York's leading good government groups today called upon the New York State legislature and governor to complete the job of reforming our laws governing public ethics.

The group targeted Republican Glen Sturtevant, who in comparison raised about $ 56,000 from the National Rifle Association and $ 772,000 in total.

Powellism, the rise of the National Front in the late seventies, MargaretThatcher's swamping speech of the early 80s, the asylum seeker moral panic of the late 1990s - all these episodes pale in comparison with the dangerous forces that have been unleashed since June.

Dr. Bawumia, a former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana - turned politician, has often received public flak for virtually turning academic and economic presentations into a political platform where he always presents a saintly picture of the erstwhile NPP administration in comparison to the current National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration.

National UFT President Randi Weingarten said the comparison in the wake of the Newtown elementary school shootings is disgusting.

There's certainly evidence that upstate New York is struggling — for instance, Moody's has cited data that «indicate a stalling economic recovery in upstate New York» — but given the available statistics, it's hard to do a national, apples - to - apples comparison to determine what region is faring the worst in the recovery.

As far as I'm aware national equivalent votes are not a straight sum of the votes in contested seats, but a projection based on seats with all three main parties running, so this is not a direct comparison.

In addition, I commissioned a national poll featuring identical questions, in order to produce a direct comparison between Britain as a whole and the defensive battlegrounIn addition, I commissioned a national poll featuring identical questions, in order to produce a direct comparison between Britain as a whole and the defensive battlegrounin order to produce a direct comparison between Britain as a whole and the defensive battleground.

A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provided the first - ever comprehensive comparison of Earth's 27 megacities, defined as metropolitan areas with populations of 10 million or more.

The team measured the hardness of the beta form of the crystal in conjunction with colleagues at Texas A&M University's Turbomachinery Laboratory and at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University, Morosan and Svanidze also performed other comparisons with titanium.

In comparison to the influenza surveillance data collected by the National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) of the People's Republic of China, the data from iThermonitor and Thermia revealed influenza outbreaks an entire month earlier.

A group from the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) evaluated the live imaging system as a potential alternative to traditional methods of assessing investigative influenza vaccines and treatment in mice, which can be time consuming and require more study animals for valid statistical comparison.

In comparison to national parks in the United States or other high - income countries, these parks are difficult to access and very poorly staffeIn comparison to national parks in the United States or other high - income countries, these parks are difficult to access and very poorly staffein the United States or other high - income countries, these parks are difficult to access and very poorly staffed.

In 2007, Keith Baker of the US Department of Education made a rough comparison of long - term correlations between the 1964 mathematics scores and several measures of national success decades later.

«But it's critical that we move beyond making these comparisons solely based on national - level data in order to consider the role of confounding factors such as socio - economic status and segregated living environments.»

But enough is preserved to allow comparisons between the bones in the embryos and those of older pterosaurs also preserved, says Alexander Kellner of the National Museum at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, who helped analyze the fossils.

This week in Cancun, a researcher from Yale - National University of Singapore (NUS) College in Singapore is presenting a comparison between large - scale earthquakes and tsunamis in different parts of the world, illustrating how nearly identical natural disasters can play out very differently depending on where they strike.

Goethe University scored well again in national and international comparisons of universities and subjects in 2014.

What he could do: As Defense Secretary, Mattis would be in charge of implementing military strategy around the world (in comparison to Trump's National Security Advisor, who can only offer advice).

The study, recently published in the journal Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), details how NASA experts and their peers determined a stunning new way to conduct the normal «apples - to - apples» comparison between various forms of vegetation as a carbon sink.

The comparison of the relative size of the prefrontal region in primate brains is described in a paper titled «No relative expansion of the number of prefrontal neurons in primate and human evolution» by Herculano - Houzel and postdoctoral fellow Mariana Gabi published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences early edition.

Our natural study population in Amboseli National Park, Kenya is relatively undisturbed in comparison with the population in Pilanesberg National Park, South Africa that was founded from young orphaned elephants introduced during the early 1980s and 1990s, following management culls of adult and older juvenile animals in the Kruger National Park [21, 22, 25].

John Bowden of the National Institute of Standards and Technology discusses a new paper in the Journal of Lipid Research about a lipidomics comparison study performed by 31 labs in the U.S. and abroad.