Sentences with phrase «look at the rating system»

While the cover is the first impression of the book, I also look at the rating system, the publication date and the synopsis (in that order).

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In other words, one can not simply look at tax rates and conclude that because a two - earner family pays less tax than a single earner family with the same income the tax system is treating people unfairly

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It means looking at the complete tax system (the rate structure, the child care expense deduction, the working income supplement, the child tax benefit, among others) and how it penalizes low - and middle - income families with high punitive marginal tax rates.

Look at countries that have less people identifying themselves with religion and you will find higher acheiving education systems, better social services and lower crime rates.

«We were looking for an in - line machine that could work at high speed with first - rate reliability and, unlike conventional systems, would be capable of picking out individual packs,» says Rochus Liniger.

And that's why they've recommended — which again we're not wedded to this as a system at all, but it's an interesting one to look at, there's a couple of others around at the moment — it uses the energy rating system that we currently are familiar with on our whitegoods, it uses that star system, and so the better you food is the more stars it gets.

@ larryking listen jock wenger could never coach anyother club because no big club would go six season without a trophy there is no way wenger could go to madrid and go two season without a trophy no way in hell he would be fired in no time bmunich fired klinsman less than half season look at the real madrid coach grave yard pelligrinie made 95 + points last season that amount would win the league in almost any country yet he got fired i can go on if fergi goes two seasons without a trophy am sure he gone i love arsenal but football is about winning trophies wenger has hypnotize you i do nt care arsenal have gone five years without a trophy and six witout the league not even a carling cup or fa cup and loosing all our best players all for money all this talk about wenger and his youth policies i can count on both hands all the players that came through arsenal youth system that went on to be world beaters look at the current crop walcott nasri diaby denilson bedtner clichy none of these are world class they have improve minimal @ arsenal compare that to barca their youths pedro and co are world beaters event the great vanpercy who we rate he would never leave arsenal because all that chance wenger gives him he would» t get at other big clubs this does not make sense we buy young players they take ages to develop most do nt» t then we sell them or they leave because they want to win things that how you grow pretty soon that top four will become very hard to stay in if we get out of that then what i wish all you wenger fans luck am all out of patients with him last chance this year................

Simply taking one look at the maternal mortality rate in non-whites gives a clear and horrible picture of this undercurrent in our maternity care system.

The agency also says Monday a new panel will look at future rates, potential discount programs and other aspects of the system's financing.

For example, he says, although the new study found no overall change in the rate of melting at Totten Glacier over the last couple of decades, the large variability in melting rate within those decades warrants a much closer look at the region's complex topography, among other factors, in order to anticipate how the system could actually change in the future.

«Recovery of these reefs has been quite well documented but this is the first time we have looked at the rate of carbonate being produced in these isolated systems,» added co-author, Professor Nick Graham of the Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University.

But when Demos Kazanas at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and his colleagues looked at 18 years» worth of X-ray observations of neutron stars in binary systems in the Small Magellanic Cloud, they found that half were slowing down — at the same rate as the others were accelerating.

We have only to look at the divorce rate — 41 % for first marriages, 60 % for second and 73 % for third — to know that many couples have systems that don't work.

From understanding how growing older impacts various bodily systems to the biological differences in the way aging effects men and women; the latest science on telomeres and slowing the rate of cognitive decline to how meditation heals us and why love, friendship, and laughter matter for health, The Longevity Book offers an all - encompassing, holistic look at how the female body ages — and what we can all do to age better.

So, while your heart rate will still respond as you expect it to (because it is responding to levels of stress hormones and innervation from the central nervous system), your metabolic rate and energy metabolism will look somewhat differently from what you would expect by looking at your heart rate.

The company recently bought popular female - centric dating app Lulu, where women rate the men they date for other women, as a referral or warning system, depending on how you look at it.

Arne Duncan has also espoused the wisdom of looking at progress over time, yet his ESEA waiver rules require state accountability systems to take proficiency rates into account — those are expected to be the drivers in identifying «focus» and «priority» schools.

We looked at differences among the states in terms of their placement rates into special education — often one way to exclude students from state tests — and at whether these differences were related to the introduction of state accountability systems.

Typing speed and accuracy rates are also tracked by the Ultimate Typing ™ 2015 system and displayed in charts and graphs that the user can look at any time.

Chronic absence is feasible for inclusion in California's accountability measurement system using the state's approach for rating school achievement based on outcome and improvement, or alternatively through an approach that simply looks at performance in a given school year.

«How Should States Design Their Accountability Systems,» a forum in the Winter 2017 issue of Education Next, looks at the pros and cons of different ways of rating schools.

(Florida also found a race - neutral way to design its system, looking at growth rates for its lowest - performing students, most of whom happen to be poor and minority.

So under the new evaluation system, superintendents who have conducted only a handful of reviews each year to look at school - wide issues will have to conduct dozens of them for the purposes of rating principals — and they'll have to do each of them twice.

Panel Moves to Include Grad Rates As Part of the API A state advisory panel got its first look Tuesday at a new formula that will integrate graduation rates into the state's school accountability system but asked staff to circulate the proposal among stakeholders and bring it back before they will contemplate a final recommendation to the LegislaRates As Part of the API A state advisory panel got its first look Tuesday at a new formula that will integrate graduation rates into the state's school accountability system but asked staff to circulate the proposal among stakeholders and bring it back before they will contemplate a final recommendation to the Legislarates into the state's school accountability system but asked staff to circulate the proposal among stakeholders and bring it back before they will contemplate a final recommendation to the Legislature.

The new system will rate teachers by looking at student test score data, as well as the scores teachers receive from observations conducted by administrators.

According to PEAC members, some of the issues that PEAC and state officials should look at include the requirement that statewide test data be included in evaluations, the strict formulaic approach of the system that limits judgment and takes an inordinate amount of time away from teaching and learning, specified teacher rating categories that interfere with improvement, and evaluator training that may not ensure calibration.

These efforts got a boost in October when independent researchers from Stanford University and the University of Virginia looked at a similar teacher tenure and rating system that's been in place for a few years now in Washington DC.

«I think the real difficulty is that it's very hard in any system to catch the full complexity and reduce it to a single grade rating, also you're looking at year to year variations, rather than looking at trends over time.»

Specifically, they looked at the Washington, D.C., public school system from 2011 through 2013, after a new ratings - and - firing policy had been put in place there.

In her public testimony during Connecticut's 2012 education reform bill, Jennifer Alexander of ConnCAN testified that too few teachers were being dismissed for poor performance: «When you look at the distribution of ratings in those systems, you again see only about two percent of teachers, maybe five max, falling at that bottom rating category.»

It also accounts for graduation rates, suspension rates and absenteeism, all in an effort to give schools «the ability to take a more complex, comprehensive look at what is going on in their school,» John McDonald, a consultant to CORE, said when the system was unveiled.

Under the new system, state education officials will still look at the rate at which students passed standardized tests when issuing a school a letter grade rating.

In particular, this paper looks at the Chicago Public School system's School Quality Rating Policy (Chicago Public Schools, 2016f).

Easy to read dials, the extensive use of squidgy soft - touch plastics and a first - rate infotainment system are particular highlights, but despite these gains in quality, the interior has an air of blandness — the Nissan Qashqai and Renault Kadjar have dashboards that are more interesting to look at.

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The concept was fitted with a four - cylinder turbocharged engine rated 211 PS (155 kW; 208 hp), front wheel drive system, dual - clutch automatic transmission, diamond - look grille from the 2011 Concept A-Class, Alubeam body colour, headlamps shining red at standby mode, indicators with individual points of light up in succession, 21 - inch wheels with perforated pins on the spokes, frameless side windows, panoramic sunroof, metallic - red colouring taillights, instrument panel upholstered in white nubuck leather, anthracite - coloured Alcantara on the upper section of the instrument panel, suede on the sports steering wheel, chrome trim elements and control panels in black anodised finish, surfaces around the HMI control panel in glossy shimmer of black anodised aluminium, four integral bucket seats with four integrated head restraints from Sport version of the W176 A-Class, and air vents in the instrument panel from the 2011 Concept A-Class.

«What I can talk to about now is that we have changed our guideline in that we are looking more at having ESRB or ratings systems determine what is appropriate or not, instead of Nintendo looking at, «Is this approved or not approved?»

Second, to see how the states» school systems stacked up, we looked at the rates of high school graduation collected by the U.S. Department of Education.

We looked at many iterations of fund universes, momentum formulas, and other tweaks with an eye on (1) keeping the frequency of trading reasonable, and (2) being reasonably confident the system could succeed regardless of whether interest rates rose, fell, or stayed flat.

There is so much more to your loan than looking at some low teaser rates through some automated web site quoting system!

Looking back at why this trading course worked for me, I believe a lot of my success came from the fact that Barry's method is a high strike - rate trading system.

(The order of these cards is purely determined by an internal rating system used by Upgraded Points after looking at the sign up bonus, annual fee, bonus categories and more).

90 percent of WiiWare games are all third party and if you look at a game like World of Goo, from 2D Boy, you know, this game was made by a couple people, basically, and made for around $ 10,000, and it's one of the highest - rated Wii games on the system.

to use rating system as if you somehow can't get refund is just an ridiculous idea just look at the retail industry.

It's a system that other games could actually do with taking a look at, however the rate at which you unlock items wasn't that quick in the Beta, nor were there enough unlocks to actually get to try everything out.

The system also looks like it will probably lower in cost at a more reasonable rate than the 360 / PS3 did, so you can actually look forward to the PS4 dropping in price more often than the PS3 did.

lol try it u may like it and the wii u sales will pickup when the games come out and when mario kart comes out that is what is called a system seller wii u consoles will move millions it doesn't matter if it doesn't have a attach rate at the moment once it comes out people will buy the wii u like hot cakes and too your point windwalker only sold 4 million units on game cube how many franchises does playstaion or xbox has that sells 4 millions of units of one game release lol not many that's why nintendo attach rates with there first party are so high look at wii sports 82 million copies top that lol remember the golden rule of gaming software sells consoles not specs lol and remember wii u has almost a 4 million unit lead not pre orders lol

While the Pro is advertised as being capable of faster frame rates, the developers I spoke to at the PlayStation Meeting gave me the sense that Sony's new system is designed mainly to make games look better, but not necessarily run better.