Sentences with phrase «lose some ground relative»

Although the adjustment has been difficult, it has occurred over a longer period of time than the boom in commodity prices and, in general, Canada has not lost ground relative to other advanced economies.

But if you again look at the performance graphs I referenced earlier, you'll see that all of our Funds have endured periods, sometimes for several years, when they have either lost money or lost ground relative to their benchmarks.

If the importance of parental and environmental inputs grew as children age, black students would be expected to lose ground relative to whites.

We speculate that blacks are losing ground relative to whites because they attend lower - quality schools that are less well maintained and managed as indicated by signs of social discord.

That one in ten students is reading on grade level while students are losing ground relative to their peers (less than 50 MGP) should not qualify as good.

Not exact matches

As Chris Hanretty explained last week, the British Election Study shows that Labour support is weakening and Conservative support strengthening in Labour's own seats relative to other seats - in other words, the Tories are disproportionately gaining ground, and Labour losing ground, where it hurts Labour most.

Among schools where high - SES students neither gain relative ground nor fall back relative to their statewide peers, there are some schools where low - SES students gain around 0.05 standard deviation of relative ground, and others where low - SES students lose 0.24 standard deviations of relative ground.

Among schools where high - SES students fall back around 0.2 standard deviations relative to the state average between third and fifth grades, there are some schools where low - SES students lose only around 0.1 standard deviation of relative ground, and others where low - SES students lose nearly 0.4 standard deviations of relative ground.

Put another way, on average, Ohio's e-school students start the school year academically behind and lose even more ground (relative to their peers) during the year.

But once the data are adjusted for the effects of the key background characteristics identified above, black students appear to lose much more ground than they do in the raw averages, falling 0.16 standard deviations in math and 0.19 standard deviations in reading relative to white students (see Figure 1).

The patterns in the teacher assessments mirror those in the test - score data: black and Hispanic students start out substantially below whites, and black students lose ground over the first two years of school, whereas Hispanics maintain their position relative to whites.

Thus black students are losing ground not only relative to whites, but even more relative to Hispanics.

However, relative to the faster - moving train, I was losing ground.

Therefore, on the whole, these results show that relative to their peers in public schools, students in voucher programs are losing ground.