Sentences with phrase «laggards who»

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

Consider me as one of those laggards who has never purchased anything from you, if you like.

When you do encounter the occasional laggard who pushes back, incorporate the use of the model classroom as a professional learning goal or growth plan outcome for them.

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.

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

He is pictured as himself a story - teller in whose stories there is equally vivid harmonizing of contrasts: a father embracing a prodigal son, a tax collector praying for forgiveness; a heretic showing a compassion far surpassing that of the orthodox, an employer rewarding laggards with the same wages as those who have worked a full day.

One King who relishes the new attitude is the 29 - year - old Dionne, who is often applauded for his personal successes but has never been highly regarded as a team player, perhaps because his club has usually been a laggard.

But when policy intervenes to reshape the teacher's priorities, it is invariably on behalf of the laggards, for they are the beneficiaries of major governmental efforts — such as NCLB and IDEA — to advance the education of youngsters who face difficulties and to reward schools and teachers that accomplish this.

Today, as legislators see it, dual enrollment offers something for everyone: academic enrichment for kids who have maxed out the honors and accelerated classes their schools offer; a glimpse of college rigor for high school laggards; and a leg up on a career for those who enroll in trade programs.

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.

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.

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.

Given that defined - benefit pensions (along with near - free healthcare benefits, near - lifetime employment rules in the form of tenure, and seniority - and degree - based pay scales) have been proven to be ineffective in either spurring improvements in student achievement, are a disincentive in rewarding high - quality work by teachers (who get the same levels of compensation as laggard colleagues), and actually serve as a disincentive to luring math and science collegians into teaching, it is high time to scrap this and other aspects of traditional teacher compensation.

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.

As with the oft - rehashed posturing by traditionalists that reformers «bash» and «demonize» teachers, the claim that reformers don't listen to teachers is based on the unwillingness of traditionalists to admit these facts: That there are laggard instructors in our classrooms who shouldn't be there.

That the network might find it challenging to additionally support «the best BlackBerry ever» appeared not to be a concern for de la Vega, who additionally told the audience, noting the rise of smartphones and connected devices and the increasing prominence of fast broadband networks: «The U.S. was a laggard, but that's no longer the case.

When playing human opponents, those who fall to the rear are showered with the most useful power - ups — such that a leader, after executing a near - perfect race, can be pummelled with misfortunes of one sort or another until a laggard pips him at the post.

I wholly endorse Hansen's carbon tax - time and time again we have seen models that suggest that with the proceeds promptly refunded, a carbon tax will only hurt the laggards and fools who do no take common sense means to reduce their carbon footprint.

Timed to coincide with the jewerly - buying rush in conjunction with Valentine's Day, the ad also calls out retailers who are lagging behind these retailers; these «laggards» include Rolex, Wal - Mart, Fred Meyer Jewelers, JCPenney, Sears / KMart, Jostens, QVC and Whitehall Jewellers Inc.The No Dirty Gold campaign was launched two years ago; since then, more than 30,000 consumers have signed a petition urging mining corporations to clean up their act and produce gold more responsibly.

Once again, prophets insist that those who are not already into it are laggards, and by now we should all know what will happen to them.

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».

Laggards in October included the usual suspect The Gap -LRB--6 %), who announced recently they would close roughly a quarter of their U.S. stores to focus on overseas growth, J.C. Penney -LRB--2.6 %) which continues to lose market share to Macy's (+2.2 %) and Kohl's (+3.9 %), Wet Seal -LRB--9.7 %) and Bon - Ton -LRB--10.2 %).