Sentences with phrase «made lesser gains»

Performance Trends of Top Students» by Robert Theaker and his colleagues, and elsewhere — have shown that high achievers made lesser gains in the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) era than did low achievers.

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.

Not exact matches

Vaden says, «When you ask yourself that question, you will find that you immediately feel less pressure to only focus on the urgent things that are pressing today or this week and you instead gain a perspective to start thinking about what you can be doing now to make a positive impact on the future.

For those leaders willing to make the shift, it's useful first to change your mindset: think of it less in terms of losing control and more in terms of gaining knowledge, experience and leadership from others who will help your company grow.

Founders of new high - potential businesses will find access to capital more challenging since higher capital - gains taxes will make investing in start - ups less attractive.

Since then, however, the rosy view on mergers has all but disappeared amid the administration's chaotic tenure and the increasing likelihood that Democrats will make gains in the 2018 election, Niknam wrote on Tuesday, citing «the risk that more populist / less corporate - friendly sentiment may become more pervasive in DC.»

They are willing to make less money to gain freedom and flexibility.

Not bad for an app that nearly tanked less than a year after it launched, only to survive by the skin of its teeth with an app launch party that gained it the much - needed users that make it now one of Silicon Alley's hottest startups, and an incredibly viable competitor to Tinder.

If one assumes Mr. Rosengren allows the economy to hum along at the current levels (a big if since he wants to raise rates), a average 2.5 % wage gain less 2 % inflation makes you wait three more years to get back to 2007 (a lost decade plus two) and five years to party likes it's 1999 (two lost decades, plus one).

Lower tax rates on dividends and capital gains may make the taxable investment more favorable and the difference between taxable and tax - deferred ending balances less.

All 4 of your picks would have been great if I bought them in 2012 but aside from TSLA would you say these companies are now «young adults» with the big gains already made and less upside growth?

What is to stop U.S. banks and their customers from creating $ 1 trillion, $ 10 trillion or even $ 50 trillion on their computer keyboards to buy up all the bonds and stocks in the world, along with all the land and other assets for sale, in the hope of making capital gains and pocketing the arbitrage spreads by debt leveraging at less than 1 % interest cost?

-- Goethe What is to stop U.S. banks and their customers from creating $ 1 trillion, $ 10 trillion or even $ 50 trillion on their computer keyboards to buy up all the bonds and stocks in the world, along with all the land and other assets for sale, in the hope of making capital gains and pocketing the arbitrage spreads by debt leveraging at less than 1 % interest cost?

The funds were from Y Combinator's new Continuity Fund, which supposedly would be making pro rata investments at < $ 250 million valuations in all of Y Combinator's startups gaining additional funding, but the question as to whether or not Y Combinator has reversed its previously stated policy for the fund is less interesting than the fact the firm is also moving up market.

Over 80 % of the gains over the past five years in this example came from the contributions made in the red shaded area of the chart (underwater) while less than 20 % came from the green area (aboveboard).

... I've made my biggest gains when investors are terrified and things are stealthily getting less bad.

«Some companies that have shined in 2009 are expected to earn less next year than they did this year, which makes their 2009 stock gains suspect.»

Formally called the Gain / Loss Calculator, the tool can make preparing to file an income tax return a lot less work — as long as all cryptocurrency transactions were conducted on Coinbase.

Finally, GM's quick repayment of the loans has whetted the appetite of some commentators (including DeCloet) for the ultimate repayment of the full government contribution. That would occur through the issuance of public equity by GM and Chrysler, creating a market for those stocks into which the government would presumably sell its shares. There is even some nefarious language in the rescue packages requiring the government to sell off its shares within specified, relatively aggressive timelines. The more I think about it, the less this makes sense — neither for the auto industry, nor for taxpayers. Why not hang onto the equity stake? If the companies recover and the equity gains market value, then the government will be able to claim that on its balance sheet (hence officially recouping the cost of its written - off contributions and creating a budgetary gain).

The extended sideways action of the market on low volume has made it very difficult to gain traction from any specific theme, much less from general areas of favorable valuation or market action.

They commit acts of violence in the name of God (nutjob anti-abortion groups), commit acts of fraud in the name of God, use God's name for political gain, and then turn their backs on the core principles of Jesus — caring for one another, compassion, helping those less fortunate, giving of yourself to do good, to make things better.

Freedom is not meant to pass the time but to gain eternity, because God is made present through the Yes of freedom, regard - less of whether this free act knows it or not.

It is a professional stance which puts less emphasis on «gaining insights» and «making adjustments» while putting more emphasis on a supportive «standing with.»

Sharing the recipes too but also making something like this into a business, not for personal gain necessarily, but because I think most people eat less healthily because they don't have enough time to cook.

The biggest and most significant change the company is undertaking overhauls its processes and prepares it to gain national presence, but there have been some smaller but no less important adjustments made by Pellerito Foods in the last few years, and all of them are adding up to one growing and thriving company.

eat more salads less meat, no beef try to stay on like fish baked not fried stay away from fast foods, make soup with salads add little baked chicken if you want but try to stay away from beef, eat beans, thats fiber make homemade soup and can it, do some yoga, that helps theres u-tubes for yoga, but stay away from fried foods it really will help alot and stay way from bread that is so weight gaining bread

The biggest and most significant change the company is undertaking overhauls its processes and prepares it to gain national presence, but there have been some smaller but no less important adjustments made by Pellerito Foods in the last few years, and all of them are adding up to one growing and thriving company.

We win huge upside we lose respectable say less than 7 - 9 points make it a game we gain cred.

My fellow gunners Wenger is a failure either you admit or not, though this is a preseason match which is less important just to make the players gain fitness, before the competitive matches commence, but at the same time Wenger's tactics and formation should be questioned especially against big teams, he had conceded numerous goals against big teams in which today's match is a reflection of what we are talking about, his old and out dated philosophy is no longer valid in modern football, no wonder Alexis Sanchez can't confide in his plans to propel the team in winning major honours, Wenger still believe in some of the bunch of fringe players he should have gotten rid of in the team and replace them with world class players or players that are hungry for success like Alexis, anyway there is still much time in the transfer window presently to do that, if he can change the hands of time and stop being too stubborn.

Less than two weeks into spring practices, Michigan players are gushing about the gains they have made in working with Herbert.

Switzer made less of an impact than Lucky Whitehead on offense, but he showed his value as a return man, with a TD return against Washington, and several other returns that gained Dallas valuable field position.

Whether you want to do something that will advance your career once you return to work, something that you find interesting and gain new skills from, or something that can even bring in some extra money, putting the hours in your schedule when your child is napping, watching cartoons or playing by themselves to work can also make you feel less like all you do is housework and playing with a toddler — preserving your sanity!

These infants «have less neurological development and attain a lower IQ during childhood and adulthood,» he says, adding that parents, until further research provides conclusive answers, should work closely with their pediatricians to monitor their babys» weight and make sure they don't gain too much or too little.

Perhaps when women stop judging each other and making others feel less than they are because of the choices they make, and work together, we will more quickly gain equality.

The first pediatrician made me feel like I was a «bad mother» for her less - than - a-formula-fed baby weight gain, when in fact, I was told by her new pediatrician she was perfectly normal and healthy for her age at that time.

It's not the only tool to use because it's not a 100 % accurate but it definitely can give reassure a mom who thinks maybe she's not making enough milk and then baby gain five ounces in the less 15 minutes.

Learn how to know if baby is getting enough milk, peeing and pooping normal amounts, expected initial weight loss and gain so you can avoid the cycle of not thinking baby is getting enough, supplementing and making less breast milk

If she gains more seats in the upcoming election, May is much less susceptible to rebellions from her own MPs, and she will find it easier (though not necessarily easy) to pass any agreement that she makes in Brussels.

It's worth pointing out that a substantial minority of Lib Dems are very keen on ideas such as Land Value Tax which would directly address many of the problems arising from asset inequality, in particular the fact that land owners can often make substantial gains in wealth as a result of public works funded out of the income and consumption taxes paid by those of substantially less wealth than themselves.

Part of making politics more sophisticated is admitting that when your party is in power as a junior partner in a coalition government, that it may have to support things that as a party it doesn't corporately agree with to gain influence on less palatable elements of the bigger partner's agenda and to implement at least part of its own.

«In other words,» Hawkins said, «half of American workers now make less than the 1968 minimum wage had the minimum wage kept pace with productivity gains.

We must not only effect profound changes in our fight against corruption, but must also overcome the more or less open resistance from individuals or organised interests who make gains from this evil status quo.

I expect Labour to make losses in the European Election, and UKIP to hold their position or make gains, and to make huge losses in the County Council Elections, but then again different types of elections seem to bare increasingly less relation to each other.

the Tories have most to gain from a Lib Dem collapse: whether the vote is by AV or not may make a lot less difference.»

But after the Clegg surge, those potential gains from the Lib Dems look far less likely, meaning that the Conservatives probably need to make 120 gains from Labour and fight the Lib Dems to a draw, thereby still securing enough seats for an overall majority.

Science gains from a long - standing «20/20» rule: To get a meteorite name and an official classification — which makes a stone more valuable — a dealer or collector must hand over to a scientific institution 20 grams or 20 % of the weight of the stone, whichever is less.

With the gain in knowledge from [this trial], it may be possible to make the recruitment of patients less restricted, to incorporate education about self - measurement as a standard procedure and focus on which scheme for titration to use, or to study the timing of the home blood pressure recordings.

But many of these men use their bikes for exercise, and since they gain less training effect from the electric bike, it makes up a poor alternative,» says Fyhri.

They then played an economic game in which player A has to make a decision about whether to cooperate with player B for less individual gain (but more collective gain) or to adopt a selfish strategy which leads to greater individual gain at the cost of collective gain.

Despite recent gains, a wide educational attainment gap remains for these students, making them less likely than Caucasian and Asian pupils to complete science coursework in school and pursue STEM careers.