Sentences with phrase «laggard performance»

The consequences are evident in the low quality of instruction among those who have managed to gain tenure in three years in spite of their laggard performance.

Some of that laggard performance can be attributed to expectations that the Federal Reserve will...

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Their support will only return if the economy provides them with decent, well paid jobs that offer security and prosperity, which requires a hard - headed assessment of the weaknesses of the pedestrian, laggard sectors of the UK economy and the failure of skills and innovation policy to shift their performance of the last decade.

Witlin also argues that L.A. Unified has also failed to provide its teachers provide meaningful and specific feedback on performance, and help laggard teachers improve their instruction.

More than likely, laggard teachers and school leaders who realized they couldn't hack it under increased scrutiny of their performance decided to take the easy way out, and in the process, cheated children out of accurate assessment of their knowledge that they need in order to get the remediation they deserve.

A new report, Leaders & Laggards: A State - by - State Report Card on K - 12 Educational Effectiveness by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce attempts to affect change by ranking states on their performance and policy environment.

In 2007, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce launched an effort to dig into national statistics and available rankings of state policy environments to see who the national leaders in educational performance were — and who were the laggards.

More importantly, it is unfair to high - quality teachers, especially younger teachers, who don't get immediate reward for their performance, have to wait 20 years or more to reap the full benefits, may not get the full benefits if they leave the profession (which is possible in an age in which one can change careers at least three times during their working lives), and must deal with laggard colleagues being paid equal pay for less - than - stellar work.

Witlin also argues that L.A. Unified has also failed to provide its teachers provide meaningful and specific feedback on performance as required under Stull, and help laggard teachers improve their instruction.

When you consider that teacher salaries are based on attaining additional degrees (which is often funded by districts and states) and not on performance, the costs of laggard ed schools borne by taxpayers are even greater.

The Bottom Line The 2008 Porsche Cayenne Turbo is a performance powerhouse but a cabin - tech laggard, and while its off - road credentials are unquestioned, it is unlikely they will ever be used.

The 2008 Porsche Cayenne Turbo is a performance powerhouse but a cabin - tech laggard, and while its off - road credentials are unquestioned, it is unlikely they will ever be used.

The performance records of the five laggards will get buried along with their names, never to be mentioned again, at least publicly.

Leapfrogging is a form of momentum investing where investors jump from one stock to another, routinely switching out of the laggards in their portfolio and into funds with better performance.

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

the performance of a portfolio based around a few high fliers can be dragged down by the laggards.

In mid-March, ISI Total Return U.S. Treasury Fund (TRUSX) and North American Government Bond Fund (NOAMX, which had 15 % each in Canadian and Mexican bonds) reorganized into Centre Active U.S. Treasury Fund (DHTRX, which has no such exposure to explain its parlous performance); ISI Strategy Fund (STRTX, which holds a 10 % bond stake) merged into Centre American Select Equity Fund (DHAMX, which doesn't but which still manages to trail STRTX, its peers and the S&P 500); and, finally, Managed Municipal Fund (MUNIX, which was also a substantial laggard) was absorbed by Centre Active U.S. Tax Exempt Fund (DHBIX).

Thus, the table not only lays out two decades» worth of performance history for a broad swath of investments, it also allows you to see which of those investments have been leaders or laggards from one year to the next.

Though traditionally considered laggards when adopting new technology, law firms have recently started to explore new tricks to fortify performance across their organizations.

Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks: Business Process Management and Law Firms By Zachary Beauchemin and Alisha DiGiandomenico Though traditionally considered laggards when adopting new technology, law firms have recently started to explore new tricks to fortify performance across their organizations.

«The metro has the potential to move from performance laggard status to star positioning very quickly.»