Sentences with phrase «in reading performance»

For years, leaders of both parties had poured more and more money into federal programs for disadvantaged students, at a rate greatly exceeding the increases in inflation; yet the improvements in reading performance, for the student population as a whole and for disadvantaged students in particular, had been modest or flat.

New York City, for its part, had some reason to celebrate last week when the state released test scores showing that city schools for the second year in a row surpassed state averages in reading performance.

Among the seven countries with the highest level of internet use in school, it found three experienced «significant declines» in reading performance - Australia, New Zealand and Sweden - and three more had results that had «stagnated» - Spain, Norway and Denmark.

This downward curve can largely be traced to deficits in reading performance beyond the elementary grades.

For example, the NAEP data reveal that charter fourth - graders in California and Arizona, representing fully a third of all charter schools, do better than their traditional public school counterparts in reading performance.

Although there was limited good news in the most recent NAEP data, long - standing and unacceptably large differences in reading performance related to student poverty levels were also documented.

For example, the National Assessment of Education Progress» (NAEP) reading report card shows very little change in the reading performance of fourth graders since 1992, and a decrease in performance by eighth graders (National Center for Educational Statistics, 2006).

For example, one study found that students in 6th grade registered a 42 percent increase in reading performance and a 63 percent increase in math learning between 1991 and 1996.

Unacceptable gaps in reading performance persist between children in different demographic groups.

There's been a comparative drop in reading performance.

But, he noted, when you upgrade from the 5400 RPM (rotations per minute) hard drives that were standard a few years ago for today's higher - performance 7200 RPM drives, that's only a 33 percent boost in read performance.

Not exact matches

China's testing was limited to Shanghai students, a narrow scope Lusardi likened to the U.S. testing only students in Washington, D.C. Still, China and other Asian countries typically rank among the top five for other school subjects — and OECD data showed some positive correlation between financial literacy skills and high performance in mathematics and reading.

In 2009, for example, the German government amended its rules so that inspections of emissions performance would be based solely on readings from a car's own «onboard diagnostic» system, effectively ceding total control to the automakers.

The best - selling book about baseball stats is a must - read for anyone interested in corporate ethical performance.

The company's AI product, Quill, can essentially turn numbers into stories: The box score from a baseball game becomes a written report of that game, for example, detailing player performance as if you were reading a sportswriter's coverage in the newspaper.

«The performance - based environment at the company, where challenging targets were set and achieving those targets was a key performance expectation, may have been contributing factors resulting in the company's improper revenue recognition,» read Monday's release.

A better - than - expected reading on GDP was accompanied by the weakest performance in consumer spending in nearly five years.

He mentioned he had just read one of my articles (one of the first ones I had written for this column) and was fascinated by the correlations I made between the culture of the U.S. special - operations community and building high - performance teams in the business world.

Lemmy not only introduced Twisted Sister to the crowd of 80,000 metalheads in their performance at the hugely important 1982 Reading Rock Festival, he also joined them onstage in a widely seen national TV performance on the popular music program «The Tube».

Not only did I do extensive research and consult with other top professional reviewers (you can read more about that below), but I also hold a bachelor's degree in both music performance and audio production from Ithaca College.

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Reading Time: 4 minutes The U.S. stock market is in a 9 year bull market which makes many investors skeptical of the continued likelihood of market out performance.

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Also on Friday, Germany's Economy Ministry said that industrial production was down 2.6 percent in October compared with the previous month, a far worse performance than the flat reading economists expected.

The chapter on time in St. Augustine's Confessions, for instance, which I read 35 years ago, still guides me in understanding why past performance doesn't predict future success.

Similarly, the virtuosic exegetical performances offered by Hays in this book will, I think, inform and illuminate their subsequent readings of the Gospels and provide fresh inspiration to read and reread the Old Testament.

The persuasive way to read Pascal's original is as a performance argument and a prayer, but, taken as a flat set of logical possibilities, it has an answer in the extremely unlikely possibility that God rewards disbelief or that God punishes belief.

Not the other as a psychic life that is to be re-experienced and reconstituted, but the other as a vision or a truth conveyed by the speech performance of an author in terms of a potentiality structured in the text that can only be actualized through the process of reading.

Amos Wilder adds a piece to our understanding of what these performances might have been like: When we picture to ourselves the early Christian narrators we should make full allowance for animated and expressive narration... oral speech also was less inhibited than today... when we think of the early church meetings and testimonies and narrations we are probably well guided if we think of the way in which Vachael Lindsay read or of the appropriate readings of James Weldon Johnson's God's Trombones (56).

Like all texts prepared for public reading, the letter achieves its entelechy in oral performance.

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The maximum difference between load cell output readings for repeated loadings under identical loading and environmental conditions; the ability of an instrument, system, or method to give identical performance or results in successive instances.

One of the most sensible comments i have read here, Wenger is hiding from the fans and can't face the fans... Almost every manager has a very good relationship with there fans but not at Arsenal... He will always blame the fans and not himself for poor performances, as for me i have accepted my fate, 2 more years of Agony and unhappiness watching my beloved club but i know Kroenke, Wenger, Gazidis will not be at arsenal forever because like it or not someone will come and save the club from there hands in the NEAREST future and guess what?

Sanchez did well in taking his goal but was awful in the first half losing the ball 21 times (I read somewhere else) though it wasn't he's fault he was played out of position, even so it wasn't a MOTM performance.

«Between performances they are expected to read in their notebooks.

«The NFL found no credible evidence that Pittsburgh's James Harrison and Green Bay's Clay Matthews and Julius Peppers were provided with or used substances prohibited under the NFL - NFLPA Policy on Performance - Enhancing Substances following a comprehensive investigation into allegations made in a documentary by Al - Jazeera America, it was announced today,» the league's statement read.

Pogrebnyak won plaudits for his performances for Fulham last year after joining the Cottagers on loan and that persuaded Reading to invest significant funds in tempting the player to the Madejski Stadium.

Flick through the pages below to read our full list of ratings for Liverpool's performance against Tottenham in their Premier League clash.

The headline reads «Aaron Ramsey is the best midfielder I've seen», yet in the article Coleman says «I would say that some of his performances are the best I have seen from any Welsh midfielder in my time as a manager».

Mertz should never have been our captain in the first place... who has ever heard of a team that makes 11th hour transfer buys (Arteta & Mertz) then seemingly places those same individuals into prominent leadership positions from the get - go... indicative of the problems that have permeated our clubhouse for the better part of 7 years under the Kroenke & Wenger... what is wrong with the players chosen and / or the management style of Wenger that doesn't develop and / or encourage strong leadership from within... Mertz was the fine collecting lackey from year one... this is what happens when you don't get world - class players because many times they want to have a voice on and off the pitch and this can't happen when you play for a fragile manager who has developed a coddling wage structure where everyone is rewarded for simply wearing the shirt and participating in the process... not enough balance between performance and pay, combined with the obvious favoritism shown to some players regardless of their glaring lack of production... remember that Ramsey has played in positions that make no sense considering his skill - set (out wide) and has forced other players off the field or into equally unfamiliar positions with little or no justification (let's remember when you read articles about how Ramsey's goals this upcoming season being the potential X-factor for our success that this is the same individual who didn't score a goal until the final week last season)... this of course is just one example of many... before I hear another word from Mertz I want this club to address the fact that no former player of any real consequence has any important role in the management structure of this club, yet several former Gunners have expressed serious interest in just such an endeavor (Henry, Viera, Adams, Bergkamp... just to name a few legends)... there is only one answer: an extremely insecure manager!!!