Sentences with phrase «largest percentage point drop»

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Monday was all about superlatives: the largest one - day point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the biggest one - day percentage change in the VIX Index.

English and Maths saw some of the largest falls, with the proportion of pupils gaining A * - C in English falling 5.2 per cent to 60.2 per cent and maths dropping 2.3 percentage points.

At first glance, our survey data would seem to confirm those fears: Support for charter schools dropped by 12 percentage points between 2016 and 2017, the largest change in opinion we observed on any item (Figure 1).

The largest drop in first - preference offers between 2011 and 2016 was Blackpool, with a decline of 19.6 percentage points.

When we asked this question in our 2015 EdNext poll, 41 percent of the public thought the federal government should play the largest role in setting standards — which means we saw a 5 percentage - point drop from 2015 to 2017.

When presented with research evidence that claims «students learn no more in private schools than in public schools,» support for school vouchers dropped by 10 percentage points, an impact almost as large as the President's.

The largest drop for re-mark requests was English reading, which dropped 1.2 percentage points, from 3.8 per cent last year to 2.6 per cent this year.

«But that 12 percentage point drop,» said Martin R. West of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, «is the largest we see on any survey item between 2016 and 2017, and one of the largest single year changes in opinion that we've seen over the 11 - year history of the Education Next survey.»

It also had the largest drop for overall preferences, down eight percentage points.

Interestingly, despite Android taking such a large part of sales in smartphones today, it actually dropped in terms of its developer interest to 83 percent, a fall of four percentage points.

The fund is not too dependent on any one country, so even if Brazil, the largest holding at 16.8 %, were to default on its interest payments, it would only drop the yield of the entire fund by less than 2 percentage points.

If you have a 401 (k) plan through work, try upping your contribution percentage by a few points, or if you are expecting a large bonus maybe you think about contributing a much larger percentage for a few weeks and then drop back down after the New Year.

The under 35 and 55 - 64 householder cohorts saw the largest declines, with each showing a 1.7 percentage point drop - off in the homeownership rate compared to a year ago.