Sentences with phrase «made substantial achievement»

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In his final full report in July 2016, Orleans wrote that «Quinnipiac has made substantial compliance progress during the course of Decree,» noting the women's rugby championship in the 2015 - 2016 season as one example of the women's teams» «recent competitive achievements.»

It has been an honour to negotiate and then serve in the first coalition government of modern times which has substantial achievements both in reducing the economic dangers faced by our country, and in making progress with policies to tackle climate change and provide energy security.

«Over the last decade we have made substantial progress in narrowing the gap between children from disadvantaged backgrounds and the rest - the average achievement for those pupils has risen more sharply than for others,» she claimed.

That's not enough to make drivers jump for joy at the gas pump, but «it's really quite a substantial achievement,» he says.

It's no accident that the governments of both the Netherlands and Singapore, which already had educational systems that produce very high achievement, have both made substantial changes to their management of schools in recent years.

Indeed, the most common criticism of Boston's improvement — and Payzant's leadership style — is that there isn't more of it; the changes have been «incremental,» suggesting that he could have made more substantial, dramatic, or even radical changes, but instead made only small moves that produced marginal achievements (see Figure 2).

Making use of some of the remaining 80 percent of their time by exploring and enhancing learning in out of school time (OST) settings can make a substantial difference in learner's present achievement and future success.

While the authors note a lack of substantial evidence of positive effectives of Linked Learning on college enrollment or completion, they also describe several studies that have found positive results on high school student achievement and argue that blending academic work with career technical education (CTE) could make college an option for more students.

Edison's annual reports have repeatedly indicated that students enrolled in the firm's schools are making large and substantial achievement gains.

Moreover, international experience confirms that it is possible to make progress in closing these gaps: not only have two dozen countries made substantial progress in overall achievement, but 17 countries that exceed US performance levels also have a narrower gap among children of divergent socioeconomic backgrounds.

To make substantial progress on closing overall achievement gaps, policies to address disparities in outcomes within school districts are still needed.

Viewed in this light, Abts» achievement is substantial and arguably profound: she makes small - scale geometric abstraction deeply personal and implicitly private, and at the same time lets us in.