Sentences with phrase «just laggards»

«We are just laggards when it comes to voting rights,» Schneiderman said at a news conference in Albany at the Capitol.

Just a laggard though, not a disaster like GE.

Not exact matches

If you look at the company and say «I want us to be a great place to be,» than you need to eliminate the slackers, the laggards and the people who are just putting in his or her time.

But, today, I just want to point to three measures from Leaders & Laggards that help to offer a more holistic take on the quality of a state's school system.

It's just a misunderstanding of accountability that it is just about punishing the laggards.

The plights of legendary math teacher Jaime Escalante, famed instructor John Taylor Gatto, are just the most - visible examples of what happens when good and great teachers either shine too brightly, or challenge the views of laggard teachers and school leaders who would rather hide in plain sight.

The average low - performing teacher in math in a Florida school serving mostly - middle class kids is just two - hundredths of a standard deviation better than an equally laggard peer in school serving poor kids, according to a 2010 study from the National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research.

The most notable laggards in 2013 were the iPad mini Retina display and the Microsoft Surface 2, both with just 63 % of the standard gamut.

During the first 11 months of 2009, for instance, the price of crude oil surged some 73 %, yet the S&P GSCI, with its heavy target weighting to oil, was a laggard — increasing just 46.88 %.

After nearly 3 years of launch, if i look at its performance, it stands out among the laggards with just 9 % annual return.

Stocks should not be picked just because their price is cheap, they could be cheap because they are laggards.

Just as you never know which timing model will be the star performer in a given quarter or year, you never know which asset class will be the overachiever and which will be the laggard.

Makers of sugar, spice, and everything nice, McCormick & Company (MKC) was a laggard gaining just 3 % for the year.

Conversely, you may not want to walk away from a laggard just yet.

Susann Scherbarth, climate justice and energy campaigner, Friends of the Earth Europe said: «The EU should not just criticise climate laggards, but act as an example and commit to ambitious action, now.

Correcting papers by A-students is a breeze, while for the laggards I would often just give up.

During any period of change there are informed leaders, zealous evangelists, early adopters, many laggards, a number of doubters and a few people who just stick their head in the sand, covering their eyes and ears saying things are just «fine the way they are and there is no need to change».