Sentences with phrase «low quality efforts»

Not exact matches

When companies prioritize their sourcing efforts and direct their attention to the outlet that brings in the most qualified candidates, they waste less time and resources on screening lower - quality talent.

No amount of regularity and multi-channel efforts will disguise low - quality drivel.

«I've been making a concerted effort to avoid lower - quality companies that appear cheap in relation to the market by considering industry structure, long - term financial returns, and balance sheet for each company,» says Friedman.

Sarasota Herald - Tribune: Environmentalists Say The Changes «Were Tailor Made For Polluters Like Georgia Pacific, Just As Were Earlier And Failed Efforts To Reduce Water Quality Standards On The Lower St. Johns.»

They say the weakening changes were tailor made for polluters like Georgia Pacific, just as were earlier and failed efforts to reduce water quality standards on the Lower St. Johns.»

Is your B2B lead generation effort suffering from low quality sales leads?

But because it is a higher level that is comprehending a lower, the symbolic forms by which it is embodied will always have a quality of incomprehensibility about them that eludes our conscious efforts at mastery.

But real world class players would usually outclass the lower quality players, even if they do not play with their 100 % effort.

It goes like this: (1) we can't seem to carry possession into the O - zone, (2) so we dump and chase, (3) and then we have to go spend significant effort along the boards, (4) to try to get the puck back under possession in what is a 50/50 crapshoot, (5) and when we do repossess, (6) we have to re-organize to get a quality O - zone shot chance, (7) but we are tired because we just spent 50 - 60 % of our time working our asses off along the boards, (8) just to try to get the puck back and have a chance, (9) which said lack of energy results in actual lower quality chances (and maybe fewer penalties drawn and more penalties taken) and (10) we go back to the bench deflated because it seems like we are working really hard and getting nothing out of it.

Researchers found working out in a group lowers stress by 26 percent and significantly improves quality of life, while those who exercise individually put in more effort but experienced no significant changes in their stress level and a limited improvement to quality of life, according to a study published in The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association.

The greatest improvements occurred among the most medically complex quarter of patients, those with multiple illnesses who are the focus of ACO efforts to improve quality and lower costs.

Not to mention there is some inherent cheapness in the selfies; they don't require much effort, true, but on the other hand the picture quality is often pretty low.

I like many qualities of Lynn Shelton's work (Humpday, Your Sister's Sister) and her latest, low - key effort has particular promise because it has such a strong, well - chosen cast, led by Rosemarie DeWitt, Ellen Page, Scoot McNairy, Josh Pais, Allison Janney, and Ron Livingston.

State policymakers throughout the country deserve low marks for their efforts to raise teacher quality, according to a report card to be issued this week by the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation.

It argues that while members of the reform community continue to advance district and charter efforts, they should also support initiatives that make high - quality private schools accessible to low - income families.

When low scores on the 2000 PISA exams revealed the inequities in their education system, many German states began to make comprehensive efforts to improve the quality of their schools.

In response to longstanding concerns about the nutritional quality of school meals, five school districts this fall began using new menus and recipes in an unusual effort funded by the U.S. Agriculture Department to lower the amount of fat and sodium in school breakfasts and lunches.

Although quality improvements in existing programs and system - building efforts to coordinate services and enhance access are clearly important, they are unlikely to be enough to produce breakthrough impacts for children who face the cumulative burdens of low family income, limited parent education, and social exclusion.

Teachers may exert lower levels of effort for students whose parents are less vocal about quality of instruction.

Low - effort / high quality.

This study adds hard evidence that shutting down low - quality schools could better serve students» interests than endless (and fruitless) efforts to improve them.

This wasted effort is not because our teachers are lazy or of low quality.

Efforts to force teacher quality reform got a boost last year when the Los Angeles Times revealed the performance of the district's 11,500 elementary school teachers — by name — during its powerful, controversial and much - needed series on the low quality of the district's instruction.

Pre-K-for-all programs with research - based quality standards have led to larger enrollments of low - income children than targeted efforts and produced impressive outcomes regardless of family background.

Efforts to Improve Teacher Quality: New Hampshire's low grade is due, in part, to its scant efforts related to the professional support and training of teEfforts to Improve Teacher Quality: New Hampshire's low grade is due, in part, to its scant efforts related to the professional support and training of teefforts related to the professional support and training of teachers.

These efforts are premised on the notion that better data will push institutions to compete in ways that increase quality and lower costs.

Consistent with the TeachStrong coalition's ESSA guidance for state actors, these states are leveraging ESSA's flexibility to support efforts around recruiting teachers of color; improving the teacher preparation experience; providing induction and mentoring to novice teachers; increasing teacher pay; and creating or encouraging career pathways, with the goal of ensuring that all students — and especially students in low - income schools — are taught by high - quality, prepared, meaningfully supported teachers.2 The author also notes what other initiatives and actions policymakers and advocates should watch for and consider as they work to modernize and elevate the teaching profession.

As Chairman of the Senate Education Committee and later as Senate Speaker Pro Tempore, Jamie was a key leader in efforts to identify and support effective teaching, overhaul Tennessee's K - 12 education funding formula, raise academic standards for Tennessee students, turn around low - performing schools, and expand high - quality public charter schools in Tennessee.

As part of our community organizing efforts, we have talked to over 300,000 New Yorkers in predominately low - income communities and communities of color who are deeply concerned with the lack of quality schools and quality teachers available to their children.

We believe that focusing our joint efforts on attainable outcomes will lead us toward high quality schooling for our kids in the lowest performing schools.

Provides high caliber teachers specifically trained to staff urban charters schools and turnaround schools, augmenting the quality of charter school growth and contributing to the success of the critical turnaround efforts taking place within the persistently lowest performing schools, particularly in Greater Boston;

The consolidation approach in an effort to reduce cost is not clearly supported by research and is likely to suffer lower educational quality as trade - off.

«Pending approval from the State Board, these grants will strengthen our efforts to turn around our lowest - performing schools and ensure that we provide all students in New Jersey with a high - quality public education.»

According to the Harvard Crimson, «The effort is part of a larger national movement started by United Students Against Sweatshops that criticizes Teach For America, a nation - wide program that recruits college graduates to teach in low - income communities for at least two years, for undermining the quality of public education.»

* Assure a stronger focus on equity by (a) asking states not just about the amount of funding in education, but also about the fairness of its distribution to high - and low - poverty and high - and low - minority districts and schools, and (b) asking states to document their efforts (required under federal law) to address gaps in teacher quality between high - and low - poverty and high - and low - minority schools.

This has been an issue even for standards developed by states on their own even before Common Core was being developed; the political opposition to high - quality standards (which, oddly enough, Common Core foes are aiding and abetting in their own efforts) also explains why 38 states had science standards that earned a C or lower in 2011, according to the Thomas B. Fordham Institute in a report released last year.

That's why in recent years, GreatSchools has expanded data collection efforts in every state to include various types of school quality data broken down by student groups, including students from low - income families, diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds, and students with disabilities.

The implication here is that when you emphasize a numeric outcome, like graduation rates, and then provide incentives to raise those numbers, you're bound to produce more efforts to game the system and actually lower the quality of education.

More recent high - quality studies have provided evidence that schools improve their performance when they face sanctions (Ahn and Vigdor 2014), that principals and teachers focus time and effort in different ways that improve performance when their school receives low ratings (Rouse, et al 2013), and that teachers threatened with dismissal for an ineffective rating improved their performance (Dee and Wykoff 2014).

State Policies and Practices Supporting Child Care for Infants and Toddlers presents findings that highlight the relative importance of policies, practices, and regulations that state Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) administrators use in their efforts to increase the supply and quality of early care and education for children from birth through age three, with an emphasis on children from low - income families.

VW reportedly has benchmarked Suzuki's efforts, and is impressed with the quality of its offerings for a low cost.

How to Secure a Traditional Book Deal by Self - Publishing (Jane Friedman at Writer Unboxed): «It's not any easier to interest an agent or publisher when you're self - published, and since new authors are more likely to put out a low - quality effort (they rush, they don't sufficiently invest, they don't know their audience), chances are even lower their book will get picked up.»

Others around the debate suggested that loud, critical voices can encourage independent authors to rush publish too fast, resulting in the low - quality material that tends to mar too many non-traditional efforts.

Overall, their pricing sheet for essay writing indicates a fair balance between quality and affordability, which makes this British essay service one - of - a-kind in its efforts to bring quality at the lowest rates.

«I've been making a concerted effort to avoid lower - quality companies that appear cheap in relation to the market by considering industry structure, long - term financial returns, and balance sheet for each company,» says Friedman.

But with a little effort you can still accumulate savings steadily, find high quality professional investment management at low cost, and at retirement create a stream of reliable cash.

We perceive stable, high quality businesses as exhibiting lower risk, thus our research effort evaluates every company's competitive advantages and points of differentiation.

Your generosity supports our humane education and outreach efforts, and ensures that at - risk pets have access to needed services — such as our Pet Food Bank, low - cost community Pet Health Fairs and quality medical care at our Donor - subsidized Veterinary Clinc.

We are a proud sponsor of Austin Dog Alliance, supporting their efforts to provide quality veterinary care and low - cost spays and neuters for their foster animals.

As for responsible breeders: no human effort is 100 % successful, but responsible breeders» failure rate (measured in dogs or cats winding in shelters, or pet - quality anmals not being neutered, or animals winding up as breeders for BYBs or puppy mills) is vanishingly low.