Sentences with phrase «made less progress»

According to SAS — the group that created EVAAS — Level 1 means «least effective: significant evidence that the school's students made less progress than the growth standard.»

Reform suggested some pupils made less progress when supported by teaching assistants, compared with others of similar ability without support.

Brown noted the progress of several states around the above goals, noting rapid progress on strengthening the alignment and standards, but noting that states have made less progress in the area of creating effective accountability systems.

On average, pupils participating in the programme made less progress than those who did not.

In fact, they made less progress than the state's average school at the elementary - and middle - school levels.

National Policy, Programme and Coordination: Countries without a comprehensive policy on infant and young child feeding, spearheaded by a national coordinator, make less progress.

Findings show that since 2012, poorer families have been making less progress year on year, in comparison to those that are more well - off.

In the case of the SGP approach, this reflects the fact that low - SES students make less progress, on average, than high - SES students, even after conditioning on prior test performance.

Compared to secondary school children in the South, those in the North and Midlands on average make less progress in English and maths, perform worse at GCSE and attain fewer top grades at A-level.

Pupils studying at university technical colleges are making less progress than they did a year ago.

Sally Copley, head of UK policy at Save the Children, said: «It's simply wrong that, at every stage of schooling, the poorest children do worse and make less progress than their better - off classmates.

For example, the brief describes how data — specifically, data that showed Highline Public Schools was making less progress than neighboring districts on closing equity gaps — ultimately created a sense of urgency that supported efforts by district leaders to change policy, practice and culture within the district.

Mr Courtney said: «Despite the spurious claims that free schools raise performance among lower performing schools that are closest to them, the authors are forced to concede that, «higher performing schools make less progress and the very highest drop back».

Sites in the leadership network category were deemed to be making less progress on creating aligned systems.

By spreading yourself thin, you may get frustrated and make less progress than if you prioritize and handle your most pressing concerns first prior to putting your hard - earned cash at risk in the markets.

New analysis published today reveals how far Children in need fall behind their peers from the early years, making less progress throughout school.

Not exact matches

The Whitehorse «progress report» was the latest in small adjustments to Bank of Canada's communications policy that is making the institution less a black box.

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.

The longer you wait, the less progress you make.

That has contributed to a gap between those working in the sectors that have made more progress in digitizing — tech, media, finance — and those that have made less — government, health care, education, hospitality, construction, small manufacturing.

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

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.

Spending less than 1/5 of that time making progress against my most important tasks is well worth it.

All of a sudden, it feels less like I'm learning a new product and more like I'm making progress on Level 1 of Dropbox!

[2] Indeed, to my mind, the value of these initiatives has been less the «integration» aspect than the progress made in enabling eight local bond markets to function more effectively for foreign and domestic investors and, not least, for the governments and other borrowers of those countries.

Yet as the story progresses, she proceeds to do a number of terrible things in her conviction about the righteousness of her cause, in a way that makes her less sympathetic.

Kretchmer went to work on the product, social media software for publishers and brands, and when Kalanick thought it had progressed enough, he made 45 introductions to other angel investors in less than a week and agreed to invest in the company himself.

The company changed «in response to a rather prominent and visible legal action, but when you look at what it has been able to do and how much progress it has been able to make, I would assign Denny's less credit than others.»

However, considering the standards that Cardano set for itself, there's no surprise that progress moves more slowly than the less scrutinized blockchains that make up the rest of the top ten.

Filing separately won't make sense for all borrowers as it means they will make much less progress on paying back their student loans.

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.

The book, «Mutav Lehizaher K'dei lo Lehitzta'er» (which translates roughly as «Better Safe Than Sorry»), published privately by Ella Bargai and Nitai Melamed, appears to be making significant progress in making the issue less of a taboo topic within the Haredi world.

Kant's approach may hold at bay the antihumanism of modern science (we are just clever animals in an insignificant corner of a vast cosmos), and it may serve as a bulwark against the ruthless rationality of economic efficiency and the putative demands of progress, but Michalson concludes that Kant's approach to the question of God makes theology less and not more plausible.

Making a crappy place less crappy is still progress.

Maybe we could make progress on finding ways to make abortions less common, and to care for those who are highly vulnerable in our society.

... [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.

In line with concerns already seen, Wieman noted Whitehead's acknowledgement of the mutually exclusive character of many great values and concluded that «Therefore the chief problem of progress is to organize the world in such a way as to make less mutually exclusive and more mutually inclusive the best that men can experience and the best that can ever occur» (JR1O: 138).

Among them: determining what constitutes acceptable state tests; establishing criteria by which to approve a state's school accountability plan; defining «qualified» teachers; and deciding how broadly to interpret a clause that lets schools avoid sanctions if their students make lesser gains than those required under the bill's «adequate yearly progress» provision.

«Over the past decade the industry has made significant progress with lightweighting, which is about using less plastic to make the bottle,» Parker says.

The team has already made amazing progress under her leadership in less than a term and thanks to her we have a whole new set of fresh faces eager to play.

McLaren and Honda made decent progress in 2016 but despite more focus on aero and less on the power unit in 2017, it seems unlikely McLaren will replace Mercedes as the truly dominant force in F1.

But we have made progress, not a season of progress, but since the new year we've become a lot more solid at the back, more exciting going forward, less dependant on Alexis and we've had the revelation of Coquelin.

These two teams have split their last four contests, all of which were decided by a touchdown or less, but Seahawks coach Pete Carroll believes that his team is making progress after some difficult games.

I would like to think we are making some progress on the safety front, but less stressful?

I'm hoping we can make more progress this summer while we have less distractions in our home.

These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

But auditors — and Children's Centre staff themselves — felt they needed to do more to identify and provide outreach services to families with high levels of need, and the NAO found that «less progress was being made in improving services for fathers, parents of children with disabilities, and for ethnic minorities in areas with smaller minority populations».

You may begin to feel that you are making no progress, pushing can take time and there is no proof that it is safer for a healthy baby to be pushed out in less than two hours than it is for the healthy baby to be pushed out in four hours.

UKIP made progress, but less than it hoped, and the Greens flatlined.

«This, in one strike of the pen, will reverse all that progress, raise taxes for individuals and make us much less competitive for businesses,» he said.