Sentences with phrase «longer than math»

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Moskovitz thinks we can, provided we start looking at the real costs of our work — that is, the long - term impact on employees and their ability to contribute meaningfully — rather than just doing the math on short - term metrics like revenue per man - hour, etc..

I don't know exactly what's going to happen, but simple math based on the current level of interest rates leads me to believe that these risk premiums will be much wider in the future over longer time frames than they've been in the recent past.

Neal and Taylor's argument was rooted in math: there were more consumers than there were IT users, which meant that over the long run the rate of improvement in consumer technologies would exceed that of enterprise - focused ones; IT departments needed to grapple with increased demand from their users to use the same technology they used at home.

In spring 2015, an estimated 200,000 students statewide — more than 70,000 of them on Long Island — refused to take state tests in English and math, the largest such boycott in the nation.

More than 71,000 elementary and middle school students refused to take the state Common Core math test yesterday in 80 of Long Island's 124 school districts that responded to a Newsday survey — nearly 53 percent of those eligible for the exam in those systems.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

The Republican primary will hand out three delegates per district (plus 14 more for the statewide winner), but the math is more complicated: A candidate who pulls in more than 50 percent of the vote in a given district will take all three; if the winner gets less than a majority, one delegate will go to the column of the second - place finisher, as long as that candidate receives at least 20 percent of that district's vote.

A long - standing maths puzzle has 1223 new solutions, more than doubling the number of possible paths three objects can take as they orbit one another

In fact, more frequent use of the app (more than twice a week) did not result in any significant value added, suggesting that just a little bit of math interactions at home can go a long way for math - anxious families.

After two years of work, a Web - based network of more than 60,000 math enthusiasts has uncovered the largest known prime number, a staggering 6,320,430 digits long.

For example, in math, extra credit might require doing four more problems than assigned, or, in spelling, it might require sentences that are 10 words or longer.»

In a 2015 report, Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) found that the average charter - school student in the Bay Area attained significantly more growth in reading and math than similar students in nearby district schools — and that this difference increased the longer he or she stayed in a charter school.

RAND concluded that 50 percent of the schools with these reforms outperformed the control schools in math and 47 percent outperformed the control in reading, although these schools had been operating for a substantially longer period of time than the schools using the TAP.

Yes, I know, there are other factors that contribute to their better score on the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)-- longer school days, advanced science and math starting earlier in elementary school rather than high school, extra tutoring in Korean hagwons, less to learn with a more focused curriculum, no non-essential learning activities such as sports, home ec or computer applications courses.

She added that when math becomes an elective, more than 50 percent of high school students elect not to study it any longer.

In many states, the new Common Core - aligned tests of reading and math that have recently reported student and school results from 2014 - 15 have set a higher bar than ever before, and — if accurately and honestly reported to parents — should go a long way to deflating the «proficiency illusion» under which many schools have sheltered.

So rather than focus on year - year - changes or commit other sins of misNAEPery, I'm using data from the NAEP Long - Term Trend data series, which goes back to 1971 for reading and 1973 for math.

NAEP's 2012 long - term trend assessment shows that students in the two younger tested groups — 9 - and 13 - year - olds — scored significantly higher in reading and math than these age groups did forty years ago in the early 1970s.

This was the conclusion reached by one study that analyzed the math scores of more than 4,000 children in the United States (ages 10 — 12) and the United Kingdom (age 10 only) to identify the types of mathematics content knowledge that best predicted students» long - term learning.

Cohort One — 2014 - 2015: LEAP launched pilots with six edtech literacy products in 15 traditional, charter and parochial schools, K - 8 Cohort Two — 2015 - 2016: More than 50 products applied to pilot in the 2015 - 2016 school year and LEAP launched pilots with eight edtech literacy and math products in 14 traditional, charter and parochial schools, K - 8 Cohort Three - 2016 - 2017: 7 math and literacy edtech products were piloted in 20 Chicago traditional, charter, and Archdiocese schools, K - 8 Cohort Four — 2017 - 2018: 32 Chicago traditional, charter, Archdiocese and suburban schools k - 12 are beginning their year long pilots of 12 math, literacy, and «Learner Demonstrated» edtech products Cohort Five - 2018 - 2019: 44 Chicago traditional, charter, Archdiocese and suburban schools K - 12 are designing their personalized learning models this Spring and undergoing a matching process with math and literacy edtech products

On Long Island, which has 124 school districts, more than 20,000 students did not take this spring's English and math exams.

Yet, pre-kindergarten programs are critical to children's long - term success, and experts at NIEER have documented that children who have been enrolled in high - quality pre-kindergarten programs enter kindergarten with better vocabularies and more advanced pre-reading and math skills than children who don't have access to these programs.

In math, only San Bernardino and Long Beach improved at a faster rate than LA Unified compared to last year.

While it is true that when Green takes off his journalist hat and puts on his columnist one he is no longer under any obligation to describe things accurately, he is being more than a bit disingenuous to suggest the «Commissioner's Network» (Section 18 of Senate Bill 24) simply means «longer days, year - round school, more social services, better pay for sought - after science and math teachers — without the constraints of restrictive labor contracts.»

More than half of rural districts and a third of high - need districts report not having enough teachers or staff, despite years of investments in teacher induction and support programs (Legislative Analyst's Office 2016).10 In the long run, the state should continue and expand its current programs to prepare, recruit, and retain high quality math teachers, particularly in hard - to - staff areas.

New Haven, Conn. — Connecticut's fourth - and eighth - grade students continue to score higher than their national peers in reading, and have made modest long - term gains in math based on 2017 results from the Nation's Report Card — but our current rate of progress means The Constitution State would need a century to close the achievement gap.

This year, math scores reversed a long, upward trend with both grades testing lower than they did in 2013.

High - quality preschool improves students» social, cognitive and developmental readiness for kindergarten, putting them on track to long - term success in school.5 The benefits are especially critical for low - income students, who typically hear 30 million fewer words spoken than their wealthier peers by age 2 and face an uphill battle to early literacy and math proficiency throughout their education.6

We currently have over 100 educators, with more than 1,000 years of combined experience in the classroom, working collaboratively in teams to review year - long instructional materials in math (grades K - 12) and English language arts (grades 3 - 8).

Over the longer term, more states show continual improvement in grade 4 than in grade 8, with fourth - grade math showing the most continued progress.

Today, we're in an information age, information is doubling faster than it ever used to and our math teachers no longer have the luxury of assisting us to learn the times tables.

In an interview, Chief Deputy State Superintendent Richard Zeiger said that the state will offer a shorter form of both the math and English language arts field tests that together take 3 1/2 hours — no longer than the full field test in either subject.

In the five largest school districts other than Los Angeles, namely San Diego, San Francisco, Long Beach, Oakland and Fresno, researchers found that class size reduction raised the proportion of third graders who exceeded the national median by 10.5 percent in math, and 8.4 percent in reading, after controlling for all other factors.

If you take the writing side out for an indie publisher, it is clear from the math that writing shorter novels is better than longer novels and writing short fiction is the best when looking at only income.

If you look at the math behind retirement, you can see why most of us stick around the office a bit longer than we might like.

Hi John - thank you again for your recent response to my earlier letter... I believe I read somewhere on the site that you are a retired engineer, so let me speak for a second in math terms... more of a hypothesis than anything empirical yet, but it SEEMS to me that the partial derivative of the «ideal» stock allocation (let's assume for now this means the equity allocation that maximizes the SWR) with respect to changes in PE10 is less sensitive to changes in PE10 the longer your time horizon and / or the higher your target terminal balance....

When discussing whether to pay of debt first or to start investing, the book says «Yes, the debt's interest is likely higher, however, I really, truly hope that the interest on your savings will be compounding for a much longer period of time than the interest on your debt will be, which makes the math favour the savings plan.»

But as you can see in the demos that do this math, Roths end up making less money over the long - term than traditional tax - wrappers.

If my math and physiology is correct, breathing puts out way more, about 200 times, CO2 than Mark's 4 cans of soda per week — and it is a net add from long sequestered carbon (though most not near as long as fossil fuel).

In an article published this week in Business Insider, Hannah Fry, a math whiz who works for at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis in London, breaks down happily ever after in this formula, developed by another mathematician based on research at The Gottman Institute: The longest - lasting couples felt they had more positive interactions than negative ones on a daily basis, while those with the least longevity generally feel their negative interactions are more common than happy ones.

Research indicates that math skills, in particular, serve as a better predictor of long - term school success than literacy.

An evaluation of the long - term impact of the Chicago Child - Parent Centers, for example, showed that children attending the program for a full day scored better on measures of social - emotional development, math and reading skills, and physical health than similar children attending the program part day.Arthur Reynolds et al. «Association of a Full - Day vs. Part - Day Preschool Intervention with School Readiness, Attendance, and Parent Involvement,» JAMA 312, no. 20 (2014): 2126 — 2134.