Sentences with phrase «large gains in»

Large gains in pending home sales in the Northeast and West helped to offset small decreases in the Midwest and South.

Most of the major cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin and Ethereum recorded large gains in the past two days.

Moreover, institutional and political factors contributed to Africa's near exclusion from the large gains in improved agricultural productivity of the first Green Revolution.

Scaling up their application to large forested areas, such as in Western USA, Northern Canada or Russia, could lead to large gains in the conservation of existing carbon stocks (Sizer et al., 2005).

Long - term sustainability for the maximization of human survival has been eclipsed by global business for the expediency of large gains in short - term periods, where mostly tactical activities predominate in both emerging and developed markets, instead of focusing on strategic alternatives and activities that would sustain life on earth in a symbiotic, negentropic relationship between global business, Nature as Earth, government, and consumers or the general public.

Ben shares some ideas on options for investors who are sitting on large gains in their portfolio, with a focus on position sizing (rebalance when something gets larger than your targeted asset allocation), avoiding concentration in a single stock (specifically employer granted stocks), the benefits of diversification, and «reverse dollar cost averaging», whereby you gradually reduce your stake in highly valued equity by regular sales over a course of several months.

Tax - free savings accounts, created just five years ago by the Harper government as a tool that would allow Canadians to grow retirement investments while sheltered from capital gains taxes, are increasingly being challenged by Canada Revenue Agency auditors targeting investors that show large gains in their account.

And the benefit certainly isn't guaranteed: the funds paid very substantial distributions from 2005 through 2007, when the S&P 500 and MSCI EAFE indexes saw large gains in Canadian dollar terms.

Allowing the value of a home to grow over a long time period (even at a low rate) coupled with paying down a mortgage produces large gains in a home's equity.

A peer - reviewed study of academic gains in New Orleans, conducted by Tulane economists and glossed over in the Times piece, compared the performance of New Orleans students with that of other hurricane - affected students, concluding that «we are not aware of any other districts that have made such large gains in such a short period of time.»

However, the district has predicted large gains in A-G completion last school year due in part to a $ 15 million credit recovery program, and preliminary data show the graduation rate will be 75 percent.

A randomized study in Chicago also found large gains in math test scores from implementing mandated, intensive tutoring.

The report shows that the charter network has positive effects on students» academic success in math and reading, and that elementary and middle schools in particular show large gains in achievement.

Although it is not conclusive whether cross-cohort improvement was entirely attributable to the standards reform, we found that students made large gains in proficiency in the years immediately before and after the transition.

In line with the earlier literature, we find that schools that adopt an intensive «No Excuses» attitude towards students are correlated with large gains in academic performance, with traditional inputs like class size playing no role in explaining charter school effects.

«Good teachers are ones who get large gains in student achievement for their classes; bad teachers are just the opposite,» explained Hanushek, who said he uses a simple definition of teacher quality.

In order to support the large gains in reading and literacy required to put all students on track for college and career success, Rowan - Salisbury Schools launched a 1:1 initiative for grades three through 12.

Though most practitioners would argue that little harm is done to the student who receives an intervention that was not absolutely necessary, a recent meta - analysis of research on reading interventions for students in grades K — 3 indicates that moderate to large gains in reading achievement were achieved when teacher - to - student ratios were no more than 1:5, and most interventions used groupings of 1:1 or 1:3 (Scammacca, Vaughn, Roberts, Wanzek & Torgesen, 2007).

«Schools that adopt an intensive «No Excuses» attitude towards students are correlated with large gains in academic performance, with traditional inputs like class size playing no role in explaining charter school effects,» researchers write.

Many of these techniques require only subtle changes in practice, yet research on the underlying strategies suggests that they have a high «gearing» — meaning that these small changes in practice can leverage large gains in student learning (see Black & Wiliam, 1998; Wiliam, 2005).

That brings us to an indispensable tenet of educational romanticism: The public schools are so bad that large gains in student performance are possible even within the constraints of intellectual ability.

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, who described overall performance as modest, credited those particularly large gains in some states to the introduction of the new, more rigorous «Common Core» standards and other initiatives the Obama administration has promoted, including new teacher evaluations.

We find that increases in private schooling produce considerably large gains in student test scores and living standards.

As testing opt - out loses steam and students make large gains in reading and math, advocates of the Common Core State Standards have greater confidence that more students are achieving to higher standards.

For example, Maryland, Massachusetts, and New Jersey posted large gains in student performance after boosting spending, but New York, Wyoming, and West Virginia had only marginal test - score gains to show from increased expenditures.

Conversely other types of charter and private schools in choice programs fail to improve test scores but yield large gains in later life outcomes.

Such low scores indicate that the majority of students will have to make large gains in achievement before they are able to pass the test.

Research by Marty West and colleagues of no excuses charter schools in Boston found large gains in test scores but also significantly lowered student performance on noncognitive measures.

Schools can win a Blue Ribbon award without demonstrating high levels of reading and math achievement or attaining large gains in these subjects.

However, I would caution that we should not expect large gains in student achievement from universal pre-K.

It is possible that the disproportionately large gains in test - score performance in the states with genuine alternative certification were due to some other factor, possibly other education reforms those states were introducing at the same time they were widening the door to the teaching profession.

This year, the state of California distributed $ 100 million to teachers in schools that started with test scores in the bottom half of schools in 1999 and achieved large gains in performance between 1999 and 2000.

Instead, schools should work to keep those teachers who are producing large gains in student achievement and remove those who are not producing gains.

A study of test scores from 2010 through 2014, by economists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Duke University, found that Denver's charters produced «remarkably large gains in math,» large gains in writing, and smaller but statistically significant gains in reading, compared to DPS - operated schools.

If children receive effective instruction early and intensively, they can make large gains in general academic achievement.

... [There] are some bright spots, but the reforms didn't deliver the large gains in learning that would make us more competitive in international comparisons.»

The general pattern among them is that programs producing large gains in achievement test outcomes are producing little or no increase in educational attainment.

Escondido and Canby classrooms are seeing large gains in the speed of student reading, one part of reading fluency.

Research has demonstrated that students just below the bar were most likely to make large gains in the NCLB era, while high achievers made lesser improvements.

Eccentric training is a very popular training tool for athletes, because it is very effective for producing large gains in maximum strength, increasing muscle fascicle lengths, and reducing the risk of muscle strain injury.

It feels like the «UKIP fox is in the Westminster hen house», Nigel Farage has told reporters, after his party won large gains in England's local elections.

As Squadron mentioned, Democrats are looking to 2016, when a presidential election year with the potential of Hillary Clinton at the top of the ticket will deliver them large gains in the Senate.

From 1980 — 1 relations with local government became increasingly confrontational, as Labour made large gains in local elections, with a new generation of council leaders such as Ken Livingstone in London and David Blunkett in Sheffield seeking to generate employment through their councils.

Jeremy Corbyn and his party performed poorly elsewhere in the 2017 local elections and with a large Conservative poll lead, the Tories expected to make large gains in the area at the general election.

Along with the two larger Lutheran groups, the United Lutheran Church and the Missouri Synod Lutheran Church, they made large gains in membership.

The short term consequences are clearly adverse but large gains in productivity can be expected as production picks up; these too will help to hold down price increases.

Even during the severe 2007 — 2009 bear market Hasbro managed to deliver large gains in the seasonally strong phase.

Despite recent highs in the technology sector and some large gains in selected names, investing in this sector has been a roller coaster.

American manufacturing output is at the highest level in history and employment has fallen because of large gains in efficiency, a trend that is unlikely to reverse.

U.S. consumer prices increased in January, with a gauge of underlying inflation posting its largest gain in 12 months, bolstering views that price pressures will accelerate this year.