Sentences with word «laggard»

Of course, it seems unfortunate that our schools are always among the last to learn and adopt anything new and there are still loads of laggards in the land of learning.

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.

GCP called out banks as laggards on zero deforestation, echoing campaigns that targeted financial institutions like HSBC and pension funds, which underwrite deforestation by lending to, and investing in, plantation and logging companies.

Coming to the points where the Elonex eTouch isn't as laggard as it might seem, the tablet is powered by a 1 GHz ARM 11 processor.

Its tall, gangly, inefficient architecture makes it an environmental laggard among plants, one that sucks up water and fertilizer while leaching out gobs of nutrients that run off in rainfall, polluting surface waters from the Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico.

«History will credit President Obama for turning the U.S. from climate laggard to climate leader, by acting at home and forging the international consensus for global action that is now coming to fruition,» said David Doniger, climate and clean air director at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Based on all the data on the depths of the nation's education crisis — including the fact that three out of every 10 fourth - graders are functionally illiterate as well as how traditional policies and practices keep laggard teachers in classrooms — you would think valid criticism, internal and external, would be welcomed.

Windows is still a big laggard when it comes to apps, with Microsoft boasting around 400,000 compared to more than a million for both Apple's iOS and Google's Android, but that's of course obviated somewhat by the Pro 3 running Windows 8.

But even in a hot sector there are a few unloved laggards with low - P / FFO ratios that are worth a second look.

So, in Q4, tech benefits as money managers shift money to winners and away from laggards before year - end.

When you see a horde of guards heading your way, it's a blast to pop out of the room you're hiding in, pick off a couple of laggards at the end of the pack, and then shift across the room without anyone spotting you.

In the S&P 500, Chesapeake Energy was by far the biggest laggard for the week, sliding 16.8 percent.

Law firms aren't laggards in business development, says Jeanne Hammerstrom, the chief marketing officer at Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP, which is headquartered in Cleveland and maintains seven offices including one in Shanghai.

Even banks look like laggards.

But the flurry of activity puts a new focus on market laggards given the stellar performance of Australian equities and the many fund managers scraping the barrel to find cheap stocks.

California is neither the most advanced nor the most laggard state when it comes to public - health protection, but because it is the most populous, its policies have great clout nationally.

An under - performing Tar Heel State school forced to restructure after six consecutive years of laggard performance improved did improve student achievement in math by six percent of a standard deviation.

Nebraska's adoption numbers in this second month, in addition to high adoption rates in states like Virginia, West Virginia and Alabama, indicate that rural states can not be broadly labeled as technology laggards.

Law firms look set to update their technology systems in a bid to steal a competitive edge over laggards who fail to see changing business needs

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

Once laggards on clean energy, cities and states across the Southeast are taking significant steps to develop smart, clean energy plans — with more than 47 Southeast cities and 2 states pledging to accelerate clean energy development to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement.

Girl Guides of Canada, meanwhile, will not be following the lead of its U.S. counterpart, citing the cost of setting up such a platform, as well as safety concerns — proving Canada to be tech laggard in e-commerce yet again.

Companies considered laggards in embedding and exploiting organizational purpose, on the other hand, report lower levels of customer satisfaction and employee engagement.

PB was a notable laggard at the beginning of the data, and slightly underperformed over the full period, but the composite was the better bet only 36 percent of the time.

Yesterday we talked about the importance of choosing market leaders over laggards.

Coal was the only laggard during the past half century, rising only 263 per cent from 33.7 to 122.2 quads.

Leaders who don't listen end up as losers and their companies become laggards.

Whether it's online presence, Internet services or research and development, Canada is in many ways a veritable technological laggard compared to peer countries.

«It's your country, Canada's going to do what it's going to do,» Nye said, making a point of referring to his own country's government as an environmental laggard.

The surprising laggard here is TD Ameritrade.

Both Samsung and HTC are seeing slower - than - expected sales of their latest devices, while perennial laggards Nokia and BlackBerry aren't doing any better.

Your editor has long criticized the law's Highly Qualified Effective Teacher provision for being a rather wishy - washy element that merely allowed states and districts to simply allow laggard teachers to keep their jobs by magically certifying them as high quality.

Top performers are promoted; laggards don't last long.

Laggards included the CRRC Corporation, a state - owned train maker whose shares fell 5.7 percent on heavy trading, and Ping An Insurance, which closed down 4 percent.

Applying the approach we pioneered in an earlier Leaders & Laggards report several years back, we calculated a state's ROI by dividing a composite measure of NAEP achievement scores by per - pupil expenditure (adjusted for the cost of living).

The worst laggards this past month were CVS Healthcare (CVS), falling from $ 83 to $ 68.

A bullish bias is based largely on Bond yields bottoming out, NOT TOPPING, along with Advance / Decline being back at new all - time highs while various former underperforming laggard sectors like Healthcare, have begun to outperform.

Ripple, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, Monero, and Dash failed to follow the leaders higher so far, and given the large number of short - term laggards, caution is still warranted until a broader short - term rally starts.

Our preferred investing strategy is called Fund Upgrading, and is based on the idea that if you are willing to regularly monitor your mutual - fund holdings and replace laggards periodically, you can improve your returns.

But ethnic diversity presents a more complex challenge: one that shows most law firms as laggards rather than leaders.

The horses break, and Silky Sullivan immediately assumes his characteristic laggard position.

That fraction of the innovation curve that Rogers calls laggards [12] and I will call traditionalists is still richly represented on most appointments and promotions committees, amongst peer reviewers, and on NIH study sections, NSF review panels, and the like.

Even for the veterans who want to advance any overhaul, there is the issue of subjecting your colleagues to the fire; the longstanding relationships can cloud personnel and operational decisions; the case of Indianapolis Public Schools Superintendent Eugene White (whose hamfisted reform initiatives have combined with his unwillingness to remove laggard administrators from his ranks) attests to this reality.

There are some notable laggards though.

The heavily - weighted financials and health care groups were the weakest performers, losing 0.9 % apiece, but no other laggard lost more than 0.4 %.

Aside from GE, it has been one of the few laggards in my portfolio during this continuing bull market run.