Sentences with phrase «much over achievement»

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As much as the fall of the Berlin Wall or the rise of social media, the astonishing decline in world - wide poverty stands as one of humanity's greatest achievement over the past quarter century.

Walking is the major achievement of kids this age and over the coming year they'll get much better at it.

There are times when it's just fine, like when you're truely bursting with pride over an achievement hard earned, but too much praise conditions kids seek that external approval again.

Citizens the world over were engaged by the astronomical achievement, and now the European Space Agency and NASA are eager to learn as much as possible about the critically important celestial body of ice.

It's not much of an achievement that co-directors Anthony and Joe Russo (held over from Captain America the Winter Soldier) make a better film than Zack Snyder... but it's worth noting that Marvel (corporation as auteur) have nurtured their characters (even in weaker films like Iron Man 2) to the point when they carry more screen weight than lasting icons Batman and Superman.

As much of an achievement as «Boyhood» is (and here's a link to that four - star review), shot as it was in pieces over a span of 12 years, I've always thought that a lot of the older and stodgier Academy members might find its approach just too unorthodox to support.

The film follows over two years of planning and months of exhaustive training for this unprecedented test of endurance, a challenge that would become much more than just a mark of personal triumph, it would be one of the greatest amateur sporting achievements in Irish history.

When teachers receive well - designed professional development, an average of 49 hours spread over six to 12 months, they can increase student achievement by as much as 21 percentile points (Yoon, Duncan, Lee, Scarloss, and Shapley, 2007).

But it can be hard for schools with high academic achievement (typically those with affluent populations) to show much progress over time.

Reville, who founded the Ed Redesign Lab as a way to rethink how we educate children, said that although much education reform work has been done over the past two decades in the United States to close the «achievement gap» created from income disparities, there is still a persistent, iron - clad correlation between zip code and destiny.

Similarly, while teachers report that developing students» capacity for care is more important than their achievements, youth are much more likely to view their teachers as valuing their achievement over their caring.

The scaling of high - performing CMOs provides one of the highest levels of return and leverage for philanthropic funds, particularly when you consider that CMOs tend to deliver much higher student achievement than the local district; these schools will continue to serve students in a high - quality way over time; and there are few investments in K — 12 that have consistently yielded this level of performance.

The connection is clear: Closing persistent achievement gaps between advantaged and less - advantaged students will require paying much more attention to what happens in the hours after school and over the summer.

Growth measures — like «value added» or «student growth percentiles» — are a much fairer way to evaluate schools, since they can control for prior achievement and can ascertain progress over the course of the school year.

The main reason there's been so little achievement gain over the past few decades arising from the reforms that so many of us have been pressing is precisely because neither curriculum nor instruction much changed.

Key to answering these questions is knowing how much influence teachers have over student achievement and what specific teacher attributes lead to higher student achievement.

Much of the debate over what constitutes appropriate reading instruction in schools is based on results of studies of reading instruction that by their nature are not designed to detect the effects of schoolwide mechanisms on reading achievement.

The report also points out that much of the research over the last ten years has been conducted by pro-voucher organizations, and yet these organizations have not conclusively shown higher academic achievement resulting from vouchers.

They find that there's much greater gain in student achievement in a school when people work collaboratively in teams and when teams of teachers stay together over a period of time and build their collective know ledge and collective capacity.

Looking over our academic achievement results, you'll be surprised how much better eAchieve Academy performs compared to traditional and other virtual schools in Wisconsin.

Much research has been conducted over the last four decades on school leadership's effect on student achievement.

Indiana did not make very much progress over the last 10 years in terms of raising student achievement compared to many other states that did make that progress.

In addition to complaints about high rent fees, Imagine has been criticized for exerting too much control over governing boards, poor services provided, low academic achievement, and mismanagement.

Each of those measures, the earlier papers stated, had positive and negative traits; some were more reliable over time but less predictive of how much teachers would improve their students» achievement.

Conducting meta - analysis of over 50 reading research studies, Stephen Krashen found that the single greatest factor in reading achievement (even above socio - economics) was reading volume — how much reading people do.

«It's important to have that third party verification of the students» achievement and career readiness,» said Hoffman, «and also that career - ready is weighted at a much higher value as an indicator over simply course completion, or even half the weight of completion in terms of holding schools accountable for the opportunities they're successful in providing students.»

including the now infamous «Vidmaster: Endure» achievement, as much as the five available Strikes are repeated over and over with varying levels of difficulty (and increasing rewards), I never got bored of memorising attack patterns of different enemies and spawn locations of certain mobs.

As someone who has fond memories of Firefight from ODST, including the now infamous «Vidmaster: Endure» achievement, as much as the five available Strikes are repeated over and over with varying levels of difficulty (and increasing rewards), I never got bored of memorising attack patterns of different enemies and spawn locations of certain mobs.

Nintendo is obviously taking a fairly hands - off approach to how developers use online features on Wii U. Contrast their stance with Microsoft's - they have gradually refined their list of TCRs (Technical Certification Requirements) over the life cycle of the Xbox 360, so that all developers must comply with certain rules and put certain features in their games before they can be certified e.g. they must have this many achievements worth this much gamerscore etc..

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Get ready: there are five continents, hundreds of destinations, over 700 achievements, dozens of affinity quests, hundreds of square miles to thoroughly explore, data mining probes, mech management and maintenance, art and skill upgrades, soul voices to swap out, characters to mix and match, and much much, more.

It points out that it has taken 50 years to create a vibrant arts culture in Britain that is the envy of the world and appeals to the government not to slash arts funding and risk destroying this long - term achievement and the social and economic benefits it brings to all.The artists acknowledge that reasonable cuts and efficiencies are necessary butthey fear that the 25 % cuts being proposed will destroy much of what has been achieved and will have a particularly damaging impact on national and regional museums and their collections.The campaign is being organised by the London branch of a national consortium of over 2,000 arts organisations and artists dedicated to working together and finding new ways to support the arts in the UK.

But with laser focus on what you want and a sense of which of your strengths are most important for your ideal role, it becomes much easier to filter through the achievements gained over decades of experience and know just what you should emphasize.

Performance Highlights / Achievements • Streamlined the college admissions process by incorporating a «record as you go» procedure, aimed at ensuring that all acquired information was correct • Proved to be invaluable to the college during a series of special events, by providing exceptional clerical and administrative support • Successfully managed over a 1000 calls in one day, during an admission marathon • Introduced a much safer and more accurate records keeping system than the one already in place

This study sheds much light on the actual effects of the No Child Left Behind Act despite speckled evidence that claim it helped improved student achievement over the last decade and a half.