Sentences with phrase «less progress from»

Despite the historic nature of the new standards, they earned criticism from environmental groups, who argued that they require less progress from plane manufacturers than market forces would produce anyway.

The reports demonstrate that federal accountability rules have derailed state reforms and assessment strategies, that the requirements have no common meaning across state lines, and that the sanctions fall especially hard on minority and integrated schools, asking for much less progress from affluent suburban schools.

Not exact matches

I tend to do conventional sets and reps, usually in a pyramid fashion (going from less weight / more reps to higher weight / fewer reps.) But your body adapts to anything, and making progress gets tougher.

But by integrating data from the vast open network, you can make an industry less resistant to progress.

The Mozilla meeting quickly moves from software progress reports, which don't seem to ignite much interest, to a discussion of what Mozilla can do to create closer ties to the thousands of volunteer programmers around the world who are largely responsible for developing Firefox and Mozilla's other, lesser - known products.

The company has made progress when it comes to making unhealthy products less so, removing some 400,000 tons of sugar from its drinks since 2006, and reducing the salt and saturated fat in Lay's and Ruffles chips.

I merely wish to record that from about the middle of 1999, markets around the world began to recognise that the accommodative stance of monetary policy by major central banks that had been so appropriate for 1998 and early 1999 was starting to look less appropriate as 1999 progressed and strengthened.

Danny has made nothing less than groundbreaking progress in a very short amount of time with Search Engine Land and from all accounts, the SMX conference.

On the face of it, this simple fact would appear to confirm the common tale of Western progress from medieval religious barbarism to modern, more secular and therefore less violent, civilization.

but as it is, you are erecting a straw man that actually hinders BOTH sides from having honest discussion, much less progressing toward your desired «middle ground.»

... [Americans] have become a nation that may defy every foe but that most dangerous of foes, herself, destined to a majestic future if she will shun the excess and perversion of the principles that made her great, prate less about the enemies of the past and strive more against the enemies of the future, resist the mob and the demagogue as she resisted Parliament and King, rally her powers from the race for gold and the delirium of prosperity to make firm the foundations on which that prosperity rests, and turn some fair proportion of her vast mental forces to other objects than material progress and the game of party politics.

Our calling is to invite all to turn from gods which are even less than human, and from idols like power, profit, property, creed, class, caste, language, race, success, technocratic progress, managerial efficiency and the ego, and thus experience the fulfilling realization of God's Reign which consists in justice, freedom and fellowship, tender love, universal compassion and equitable sharing of resources.

Progress means stepping from a less satisfactory state to a more satisfactory one.

Pope Benedict XVI has been in office for less than a year, and already there are rumblings of dissatisfaction (in some quarters of disquiet, in others of impatience), aroused by the — so far — slow progress of what everyone seems from the beginning to have assumed will be one of the new pope's priorities: the reform of the Roman Curia.

The point was enough to allow Arsenal to progress through to the knockout stages of the Europa League with two games to spare but the performance from the Gunners was less than impressive.

Maybe it's because we are a bit further from our loss, a little less desperate to have it acknowledged, more quietly accepting of our pain, or that progress feels too slow and you find yourself wondering «why didn't this happen before my baby died» or perhaps you are crushed by the overwhelming responsibility an awareness week gives you.

Parents and children take turns to read from the page (the text clearly marked for who should be reading) and as the books progress in the series the adults read less and the child more.

As time progressed, Elizabeth seemed less like a do - gooder from the outside trying to help, and more and more part of their tight family unit as she slowly got these men to talk and come out of their hard shells.

«This progress is happening in part because we learned the lessons from the difficulties of the early years — that it is better to focus less on the monumentalism of a project and more on hard and fast decisions like pragmatic design, construction milestones and budgets,» said Ward, in the speech.

Approximately equal numbers of women and men enter and graduate from medical school in the United States and United Kingdom.1 2 In northern and eastern European countries such as Russia, Finland, Hungary, and Serbia, women account for more than 50 % of the active physicians3; in the United Kingdom and United States, they represent 47 % and 33 % respectively.4 5 Even in Japan, the nation in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development with the lowest percentage of female physicians, representation doubled between 1986 and 2012.3 6 However, progress in academic medicine continues to lag, with women accounting for less than 30 % of clinical faculty overall and for less than 20 % of those at the highest grade or in leadership positions.7 - 9 Understanding the extent to which this underrepresentation affects high impact research is critical because of the implicit bias it introduces to the research agenda, influencing future clinical practice.10 11 Given the importance of publication for tenure and promotion, 12 women's publication in high impact journals also provides insights into the degree to which the gender gap can be expected to close.

Many abusers start with «less severe» violations and progress from there.

Gillespie, working from a script by Steven Rogers, does an effective job of painting a somewhat less - than - flattering portrayal of the protagonist's hard - scrabble existence, with the strength of the film's opening stretch standing in sharp contrast to a middling midsection that grows less and less interesting as time progresses.

How, for instance, does Jean Valjean progress in less than a decade from being a ragged prison escapee to not only a leading industrialist, but also mayor of a good - sized city?

One could look at «Happy Christmas» as a step backwards from the commercial progress Swanberg made with «Drinking Buddies,» but in truth it's akin to a less - successful lateral move.

From there, XX progresses into a midsection containing a pair of equally less - than - impressive installments: Annie Clark's The Birthday Cake and Roxanne Benjamin's Don't Fall.

Disadvantaged children in areas of low social mobility made 20 months less progress than their wealthier peers across England in 2015, according to research released today from Ambition School Leadership.

According to a 2014 Center for American Progress report, high school teachers believe that high - poverty, black, and Hispanic students are 53, 47, and 42 percent less likely to graduate from college compared to their white peers.

From Cradle to Classroom A troubling finding emerged from a series of studies in the late 1960s: children who were less well prepared for kindergarten tended to fall further behind as they progressed through the graFrom Cradle to Classroom A troubling finding emerged from a series of studies in the late 1960s: children who were less well prepared for kindergarten tended to fall further behind as they progressed through the grafrom a series of studies in the late 1960s: children who were less well prepared for kindergarten tended to fall further behind as they progressed through the grades.

A troubling finding emerged from a series of studies in the late 1960s: children who were less well prepared for kindergarten tended to fall further behind as they progressed through the grades.

Moreover, 4th and 8th graders in West Virginia are less likely than their peers in other states to attend schools where more than half of parents attend parent - teacher conferences, based on data from the background survey of the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

In order to qualify for the funds, schools have to meet certain criteria such as an «inadequate» rating from their most recent Ofsted inspection, receiving a warning notice during the past three years, or having an overall Progress 8 score of less than -0.25.

Yet the more recent findings from the National Assessment of Educational Progress have garnered much less attention and analysis than the 2003 results.

Alan Milburn, chair of the Social Mobility Commission, said: «When low income young people from the same area with the same school results are progressing less than their better - off classmates, that is not about lack of ability.

More alarmingly, even when we compare students from these two groups who performed equally well in Year 3 NAPLAN, the disadvantaged students make between 1Y 1m and 1Y 9m less progress than the advantaged students.

• Representing Numbers • Counting and Multiples • More or less • Compare and order • Rounding • Roman Numerals • Negative Numbers These 7 themes cover all the learning objectives from Year 1 — 6 and show how learning progresses across the years.

To the contrary, rural students consistently do less well in college on a variety of outcomes (readiness for credit - bearing courses, grades, rate of progress, graduation) than urban students from similar income groups.

Its rate of recent progress may be slower than some countries, but they've started from farther behind — Massachusetts literally has less room for improvement.

Expanded learning opportunities, such as «inter-sessions,» longer school days, after - school programs, and longer school years, should be used to help disadvantaged students not only in cities but also in rural areas, where students from low - income families are even less likely to complete high school, says a report from the Center for American Progress, a Washington - based...

Adjustments counter the impact of errors in measuring key stage two scores (based on reliability estimates from Ofsted), which can result in pupils appearing to have made more or less progress by key stage 4 than they actually

The notion that students with disabilities in some states are due only «de minimus» (just more - than - trivial) progress or in other states «some educational benefit» from their public schools reflects and perpetuates the belief that having a disability makes you less worthy of an education than your peers without disabilities.

And while there have been some signs of progress — the number of apprenticeships inched up from 360,000 to 450,000 over the last year and a half, according to the Department of Labor — still less than one - half of 1 percent of the nation's workforce was engaged in an apprenticeship program in 2015.

That overall finding is critically important now as Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos seems intent on the Department doing less rather than more to protect children from discrimination in suspensions and expulsions and other areas and reversing what progress has been made.

LAUSD General Counsel David Holmquist told LA School Report that the guidelines issued by Superintendent Deasy on Friday do not prohibit school principals from making student progress count for less than 30 % of teacher evaluations.

In order to qualify for the funding, schools must meet certain eligibility criteria including an «inadequate» rating from their most recent Ofsted inspection, receiving a warning notice during the past three years, or having an overall Progress 8 score of less than -0.25.

«Overall, findings from this study reveal that collecting CBM - R data less frequently than weekly may be a viable option for educators monitoring the progress of students in Grades 2 — 4 who are at risk for reading difficulties.»

So, the safe discussion to have is about gains... gains from pathetically, embarrassingly failing to less - pathetic, less - embarrassing failure, kind of like half - drowning but trying to pass it off as progress toward competitive - swim quality:

«We're not going to spend the same on students from disadvantaged backgrounds as students in the suburbs,» says Ulrich Boser, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress who recently led a study called Return on Educational Investment, «but when you look across the U.S., we see that some schools are able to do more with less.

None the less in the same reporting period, a greater percentage of NAHT Aspire / EdisonLearning partners previously judged to be «Requiring Improvement» (RI) have progressed to become «Good», 70 % versus 64 % nationally, with a further school jumping from «Inadequate» to «Good».

The six - speed» box has a stringier, less satisfying action than the old five - speeder, but in every other way you can feel the progress made from Mäkinen to IX MR.

In an account better than spy fiction, Jennet Conant shows Dahl progressing from reluctant diplomat to sly man - about - town, parlaying his morale - boosting wartime propaganda work into a successful career as an author, which leads to his entrée into the Roosevelt White House and Hyde Park and initiation into British intelligence's elite dirty tricks squad, all in less than three years.