Sentences with phrase «make slight gains»

Low - income students also lose more than two months in reading achievement, despite the fact that their middle - class peers make slight gains.»

Black students make slight gains in reading.

Each summer most youth lose about two months» worth of math skills, while low - income students also lose morethan two months in reading achievement despite the fact that their middle - class peers make slight gains over the summer break.

«We've been able to make some slight gains despite markets that remain challenging,» DiNapoli said.

In Greater China, stocks made slight gains.

Since 2005, U.S. high school seniors have made slight gains in both their reading and math skills, according to new data released by the U.S. Department of Education.

Major stock indexes in Asia including the Shanghai Composite made slight gains Friday but major indexes in Europe slipped into the red after beginning the day marginally positive.

Not exact matches

«While there has been a slight decline in participation, it does not reflect the measurable and positive gains we have made as a school district in making improvements to the nutritional quality of our school breakfast and lunch programs.»

You may notice a slight difference, and if you gain weight, the extra fat may go to your breasts, which will make them naturally bigger, too.

Although there was a slight drop in their share of the vote, they made significant gains at the expense of Labour.

It will destroy your entire hormonal balance and will prevent you from making even the slightest muscle gains.

Strength training improves fat loss not only by improving your resting metabolic rate (because slight increases in muscle mass will burn more calories than if that muscle were fat) and through a mechanism called excess post-exercise oxygen consumption (EPOC), which basically means that your body will continue to burn calories after your workout Though many distance runners may not be terribly concerned about fat loss specifically, they will nevertheless be heartened to know that any slight muscle mass gains from weight training will be balanced by a loss of fat, and fat certainly does not make ANYBODY faster.

Colorado students in 2014 took slight steps backward on the small academic gains made on standardized tests in recent years, part of a long - term trend of flat scores, results released Thursday show.

Second, the gains were larger for kids of color than for white students, suggesting that this could make a slight dent in longstanding test - score gaps.